Tex Avery - The Farm of Tomorrow

The future will rule.

Happy Thursday

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It's like sailing, but in the winter

Since Minnesota has more than 10,000 lakes, and winter is usually cold, this seems like the perfect past-time. We can start giving rides as soon as we finish mounting homme's catamaran on ice skates. Won't take too long now…

Win $100,000!

That's right! You! Could WIN! If you watch these videos I made, learn the tips, and then play! Woo-hoo!

These are a series of 4 promos I made for The Sopranos A&E Connection Game online. They're being hosted on YouTube right now, but will soon be popping up in different places around the web. We need views! So go watch them, enjoy, send them around, and even play the game if you want. It's actually pretty cool.

Tom's Tips #1

Tom's Tips #2

Tom's Tips #3

Tom's Tips #4

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There are many traces of Three Times One Minus One in this, which will never be topped, but it's still funny.

A New Era Dawns...

Hello all. It's the beginning of a new Best of the Blank that will take us into the new year and beyond. Authorship, people. It's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about having you, my valued readers and contributors, help shape what Best of the Blank will become and has always been. This morning I sent out two invites to a couple of regular readers and contributors, and I'm looking to send out some more. If you think you might be interested in posting on this hallowed blog and taking it's name into the stratosphere, let me know. Best of the Blank can only achieve the greatness it deserves with a little help from my friends. Won't you help?

email me at: kylebc <> gmail <> com

When Detective Green dies...

and joins Lenny Briscoe, we know who will replace him:

All My Friends Are Famous

My 100th Post!

Milestones, ladies and gentlemen. They mark the passage of time with points of greatness. In looking forward to what lies ahead, it is helpful to also look behind. And it is with that in mind that I present to you the following.

This is probably my most favorite thing on the net at the moment. I highly recommend that everyone do this and send me your results.

Heart-warming Anti-capitalism

The New York Times today had an amusing piece on the meeting of Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist.org, with a bunch of big-money assholes. At the UBS global media conference, Buckmaster fielded questions about how Craigslist plans on "monetizing" its operation, and faced blank stares at his response of "fuck you and your money." I'm sure more than one banker lit himself on fire at the mere thought of such a thing.

Wendy Davis of MediaPost describes the presentation as a “a culture clash of near-epic proportions.” She recounts how UBS analyst Ben Schachter wanted to know how Craigslist plans to maximize revenue. It doesn’t, Mr. Buckmaster replied (perhaps wondering how Mr. Schachter could possibly not already know this). “That definitely is not part of the equation,” he said, according to MediaPost. “It’s not part of the goal.”

This is very refreshing. I know I'm a big ol' Commie and everything, but wow! How unique! Putting your customers and their needs before everything else! Why is that such an outlandish thing? Could other internet ventures be heading in this direction? Probably not.

Read the article here.

Bah humbug.

Doesn't Larry King look like everybody's confused grandpa here?

Larry: The elves stole my medicine!
Security guard: Sure they did grandpa. Sure they did. Now let's just put you over here, next to these gumdrop trees...
Larry: I hate gumdrops and I hate you.

No wait. THIS is scary.

This is one of the most brilliant trailer-recuts I've ever seen. Prepared to have a childhood joy turned to a childhood terror.

So Scary.

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Originally uploaded by asobitsuchiya.