Laura Lippman on Craig Ferguson's show

She and Craig talk about their "bad urges." I can't wait to get her new book (can't believe I don't already have it). Should I get a print copy or ebook? I'm leaning toward the hardcover. I hope I like the jacket.

Vladimir Nabokov discusses “Lolita" - Boing Boing

Vladimir Nabokov discusses “Lolita" - via Boing Boing



Part 2:

Old Man Stewart Shakes His Fist at Twitter

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Twitter Frenzy

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things With Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Joke of the Day

From the Typewriter to the Bookstore: A Publishing Story

Hilarious. Well done, Macmillan digital marketing team.



via BoingBoing

I Love Mark Ryden

Sweet Wishes by Mark Ryden and Marion Peck

Magazine Page Design Video

From magCulture.com

Matt Willey recently recorded his decision-making on a feature design for the Royal Academy magazine. It provides a very useful insight into how page designs get arrived at, one that anyone who’s ever designed a magazine will recognise.

Book Launch 2.0

This video is great. It's Dennis Cass, author of Head Case (a book I really need to get. He did a signing at Lee's a while back that I'm very sorry I missed).

What does this say about me?

I actually like almost all of the songs on Hell's iPod. I'm not saying they're good, just that I like them: Muskrat Love, Chevy Van, Billy Don't Be a Hero, and Seasons in the Sun!

Notable exceptions:

• Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" which, if you really listen, is quite clearly a man confessing to murdering his wife

• everything and anything by Rupert Holmes. Holy mother what a creep.
  

Prince can do anything

Prince covered Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella



Dooce says:

It is the audio equivalent of a Reese's peanut butter cup: two great tastes that you didn't think could get any better, and then some genius comes up with the idea to eat them both at the same time.

Oh, how I love Prince. I saw him a couple of years ago in Omaha on the Musicology tour (thanks again, Jonelle!). When he appeared on stage I just about lost it. I was truly on the verge of some kind of hysterical freakout—like those girls you've seen in the old Beatles footage.

"Where is my mind"

Ballet performance to the Pixies:



Thanks, boing boing.

I'm about to make a childhood dream come true

I was obsessed with this commercial when I was a little kid and I begged my mom to buy some Tarn-x. She just said no and looked confused. But today I purchased some for myself! I have high hopes.


I was also obsessed with a certain Contac Cold Medicine commercial back in the 1970s. The one where they break open a capsule and the little medicine balls fall out in slo-mo. This isn't the same commercial, but watch the right side of the screen and you can get a sense of how mesmerizing the original was.


I was maybe a little odd as a child.