Just in case you didn’t know that Jerry Orbach, gritty NY Detective of Law & Order fame, was in fact a broadway actor and the voice for Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. Yes, he actually sang the role. As if Major Charles Winchester as the Clock wasn’t enough!
Random Dribbling
A poptart cat farting rainbows. To Techno.
If you haven’t already seen this, you’re obviously (a) living under a rock or (b) avoiding memetic infection. Either way, this is Nyan Cat. I was going to write a pithy post about the post-modern implications that Nyan Cat has on consumer culture, but… eh. It’s a techno-kitty, it’s catchy dance music, and OMG POPTART [...]
IKEA Does April 1
This is GOLD
Owl City – Fireflies
Because everyone loves some electropop.
I want to be this guy.
He’s not a professional musician – he’s a Pixar animator. And his falsetto! Oh my. /Jawdrop Check out his YouTube Channel for covers of pop songs etc.
Super Mario Brothers – the Tony Bennett Version
It’s swung, it’s played by the boston symphony orchestra, and I keep epxecting Tony Bennett to break into song. Oh, and just for funsies:
Your feet, they are comfies.
My dog likes to find small spaces and curl up in them. Tonight’s location of choice is between my feet on the doona. At least she’s not in my armpit tonight.
An Affair with Kipling
I bought a slim volume of Modern Poetry (in the literary sense, not in the “written-last-week” sense) when I was in Melbourne and read some on the train from Prahran to Sandringham. I discovered that Kipling, whom I have always associated with The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories, was also a pretty sweet [...]
The lion and the unicorn
…were fighting for the crown.
