I'm Thankful that I'm from the Future

Amidst the wild flailing of the holiday season, we will somehow find time to post regularly. For now, though, gorge yourselves on this: a short installment of this our internet, with an eye towards giving thanks. I get a lot of my daily kicks from the internet, from some very talented artists and entertainers, and nearly all of it for free, and that is absurd. In lieu of dollars (which are expensive), I'm offering these tiny pieces of genius a "shout-out", one apiece, which I gather are redeemable at the local market for various sundries.
I've chosen only things that are new to me from this year, and I tried the vary the range of categories. Go ahead, pinch yourself.

Do you like your comedic british soap operas in graphic format? Do you find the occult funny? Scarygoround is for you, and boy howdy is there a lot of it. Start here, maybe. It won't make any more sense at first, but it is a funny strip.

Basketball fans: do you wish talk radio were less terrible, and had no commercials, and that sports radio personalities watched as much basketball as you did? Bam. If you hate the new video format (like I do), they still put the audio version up on itunes.

Do you like cats, and maybe annoying them a little? Awww. Frankly, the alternative is ridiculous. If this is a meme that makes no sense to you, maybe salon can straighten it out for you.

Lastly, awkwardly: you're always welcome to enjoy the things that I have found. Mitchell.

This Our Internet

The facts are certainly on my side here, so I say this boldly and with confidence: the internet can be pretty great. Sure, it can be a strange place with some dark corners (youtube comment threads are generally a mental cesspool), but that's the nature of places, really. No medium of cultural dissemination has grown this wild and unstructured since the early and unregulated days of radio, and, although I was about negative sixty years old when that was happening, I suspect that the proliferation of the internet has been even wilder. And because there are so many great things out there, and we're all here, anyway, we might as well share what we find. I'll toss out a link on this bliggity blog approximately whenever I feel like it, and feel free to send me anything you find that's great. Here's a few old favorites to get you started, and you can pick and choose based on your interests. The theme today is music. Music...in video format. A few of these have some salty language, which get the customary "nsfw" tag. You've been warned.

Hilarious fictionalized history of a bygone musical era? Yacht Rock. (nsfw)
Beautiful music made with a game boy? David E Sugar. (Bonus awesome stop-motion animation)
Mocking an A-ha video, making it better. Take On Me, the definitive version.
American history, Brad Neely style: JFK. (nsfw)
Ever wish life was more like musical theater? Prangstgrup has your back.


If you've got your own favorites on this theme, I encourage you to hit the comments, with gusto.