Thursday, May 20, 2004

  • The hiatus is back off: "the album explodes, front-loaded with eye-rolling puns, throwback vocab, messages about peace and humanity and an overall sound that reveres hip-hop’s golden era". More Beastie goodness, here, here, and (awesome beat boxing sushi and edamame promo) here.

  • Giant Gabonian rats detect landmines in exchange for bananas.

  • Berlin Pet Store entirely for budding ant keepers. You know ants are the chic pet du jour.

  • Supposedly Andy Kaufman has returned, 20 years after "faking" his death, and he has a blog. There's been one mainstream news article confirming that it really is Kaufman. The blog has borrowed pictures of Bob Zmuda appearing as the odious Tony Clifton at the Bunny Ranch. I remain entirely unconvinced, the blog is strikingly unfunny, and faintly offensive to Andy's memory in its inability to re-create his dadaist genius. If you want to make up your own mind I recommend "I'm from Hollywood". It is ostensibly a documentary of Andy's attempt to become World Trans-Gender Wrestling Champion in the run up to his tragic death. Elsewhere on the web, in what might have been my first ever contribution to the internut, I wrote that the movie "deconstruct(s) the wrestling myth as a paradigm of the American dream". Brilliant. (Update: Snopes has really comprehensively trashed the blog as a transparent pathetic attempt to cash in on the Kaufman myth)

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