"I got one line on The Sopranos..."

"...and that makes me more gangsta than you."



Hat tip: Chap

Billy Preston - "Will It Go Round In Circles"

Playing live on the Midnight Special, 1973. Ferocious funk.

So, so wrong.

But so funny:



Hat tip: Scott (site comprehensively not safe for work unless you work for gay pornographers or your office has very relaxed Acceptable Use policies... in which case, click away!)

Warren Zevon, of blessed memory, unplugged

Just because. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" sure sounds different on solo 12-string guitar.

Conveyor belt vérité

What if dinner watched you?

A patron of a kaiten-zushi restaurant in Japan (in which the sushi dishes on offer slowly cruise by each dining position on a conveyor belt... imagine an airport luggage carousel in miniature, loaded down with raw fish) puts her video camera on said belt, pointing at the diners.



Hat tip: Wehr in the World

Pick me

As James Fallows observes, "These people are different from the rest of us." [ed - link to original post removed; see update below.]

And how.



Update: This is, um, enhanced - and Fallows has removed the original link from his blog. ;-)

Thinking big thoughts is thirsty work

For no reason at all

...except maybe you aren't getting enough cute in your life:



Hat tip: grapefruitmoon@MetaFilter

Kawaaaaaaaaaii!

I, for one, welcome our new dog-walking chimpanzee overlords.

(via Metafilter, where there are many other links to Pan-kun's antics)

You gotta get hot to play real cool

Okay, now.

If you are a small child, or if you are a jazz fan, or dear sweet Mother of God, if you are a jazz fan with small children, you need to watch this classic Looney Tunes short.

Right. Now.

It's called "The Three Little Bops," and it just goes to show you what can happen when you give three hip cats like Friz Freleng, Shorty Rogers and Stan Freberg a sufficient budget. (Full credits here, courtesy of IMDB.)

Real gone, man.

Hat tip: Pistol Wimp.

Update: And Chap hips us (in the comments) to a link to the Tom and Jerry classic, "Solid Serenade," from the 1940s.