Category Archives: The Funny

The Funny, Tuneage

A Dumb Internet Meme I Can Get Behind

A recent tweet from Ted Leo alerted me to the latest intertube craze: making fake album covers. Apparently, it goes like this: you get an artist name from a random Wikipedia page, an album title from a random quotation, and a cover image from Flickr’s “explore last 7 days” page. It’s about as stupid and addictive as it sounds.

I gave it a shot and came up with two decent LPs. This one’s from my side project with PJ Harvey:

fakealbum2.jpgAnd this one’s from my industrial/goth group:

fakealbum3.jpg

Update: Ted just posted another example, far superior to mine. He’s just as good at making fake albums as he is making real ones.

The Funny

Diamonds in the Jersey Rough

bestshowgems.pngI’ve posted loving tributes to The Best Show on WFMU on this site, and referenced it many times, because it is awesome, and I like to talk about things that are awesome. But I also realize that not everyone has the stamina or the time to devote to a 3-hour show.

For those of you who fit into that sad category, please investigate Best Show Gems, a bi-weekly podcast of the show’s funniest moments in bite-size chunks. It just launched yesterday with a worthy bit, wherein Tom gets a call from the owner of the insanely over-booked Club Pizzazz.

Subscribe via iTunes here. You shan’t be disappointed.

The Funny

Messing with the Mess-With-Able

I hate to post about another thing I discovered on the Friends of Tom forum…

Wait, no I don’t. Because I’ve found some awesome things in its depths, like the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum. My latest (third-hand) discovery (via Erik in Portland): Craigslisting, a site wherein one man jerks around the denizens of the eponymous online classified site.

I’m not big on Big Public Pranks anymore. I used to be very much into them, but now I don’t like it when more-or-less innocent folks are subject to the jackassery of random strangers. I feel like pranks should be directed at people who deserve them, not, say, Best Buy employees who are just trying to do their jobs.

But the victims of the Craigslisting pranks go so willingly into the woodchipper that you can’t help but think they deserve it. Like the guy who wants to trade an Outback gift certificate for a pack of smokes, and who actually seems to believe that Outback has their own brand of cigarettes.

I won’t spoil any of the rest. Just read and enjoy.