"it may be profligate -– but is it not LIFE, and is it not THE THING?"

[larryhammer]

A graduation film: "Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux". Influences by Miyazaki are worn on the sleeve, in a good way. One influence missed, though, is that the protagonist is supposed to be the girl. Ah, well. (via)

Your earworm for the day, with bonus hysterical laughter: "The Björk Song" by Lore Sjöberg. (via)

Your hysterical laughter of the day: 2015 Lyttle Lytton contest winners. (via all over)

The bastard mayor tossed the money to his criminals. “Heh heh heh,” everyone said.

---L.

Subject quote from a letter by Byron to Douglas Kinnaird dated Octr. 26th. 181[9].

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I loved "They had the mettle of men but they ate the biscuits of dogs."

[larryhammer]

That's one of the best of the year.

---L.

[sovay]

Your earworm for the day, with bonus hysterical laughter: "The Björk Song" by Lore Sjöberg.

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH THAT I ACT LIKE A DORK OH BJÖRK OH BJÖRK OH BJÖRK

. . . Sorry, I heard that song exactly once in college (2001, I think) and apparently it embedded itself into my neurons. It is an excellent earworm. Wow.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

Off-topic: The Doubleclicks have a new origami-inspired music video, Tiny Paper Elephants (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDp-fdZc9A).

[larryhammer]

It embeds so easily. Leaving us the question of HOW?

---L.

[larryhammer]

That is awesome. Also lovely.

(I recognize one of the elephant models. I think that makes me geeky in the exactly way they are talking about.)

---L.