Monkey Jell-o New Year’s

Zoo animals get bored, so keepers think up enrichment activities to keep them entertained. This year the squirrel monkeys at the Bronx Zoo encountered a brand new thing for the holidays: a Jell-o mold full of blueberries. Watching the video below (hit HD when you watch it, by the way, it’s nice quality) reminds me of my wishes for all of you for 2010:

May your life be enriched and interesting every day.

May you encounter new treats with old friends and delight.

And, once in a while, may you find yourself with a sweet mound of quivering jelly to slap.

Happy New Year’s everybunny!
xo

DJ Earworm: Top 25 Pop Songs 2009 Mashup

I really like the overlapping Beyonce and Miley part at 0:48-1:00.

Full list of all 25 songs hidden here:

Two songs I like

“Horchata”, by Vampire Weekend, which Hill just showed me, which reminded me of “Sleep”, by This Heat, which was in a plaay I did a long long million time ago. So there. They sound kind of alike, these songs, and I like them a lot!

Thanks to Hill for the t(r)ip (down memory lane).

Just so you know

David Shrigley. Thanks to Jess for the tip.

Leonard Nimoy’s Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Remember all those years when Xmas day meant going to see Lord of the Rings after dinner? Here’s a little throwback to that time. It involves Leonard Nimoy with the Spock haircut and a gaggle of girls in neon sweatshirts wearing the Spock ears and I don’t understand what it is at all, but damn if I’m not gonna be singing it for days now.

Merry Xmas if you lean that way; enjoy your Chinese food if you don’t. I’ll be doing both.

Coyote catches Roadrunner

Thanks to Sean Dixon for the tip.

Gwen Stefani’s Test Pattern Jacket

Heart this. Would not wear this, probably, but heart this. Well maybe
I would wear it, but I’d have to carry some kind of alarm in my pocket that would go EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
for one minute at a time. (If my TV speak is too esoteric because you live under a rock in Pingzakhistahn, first of all congrats on your amazing skillz with the interweb, and second of all you can look at Wikipedia’s article on Bars and Tone for clarification).
Via Go Fug Yourself.