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Hey fellow bloggers and web masters/mistresses,
This November 4th, let’s try not to add to the distractions. Instead of blogging, let’s help all those blog readers and lurkers remember their civic duties and encourage them to go out and vote. Instead of posting that funny anecdote about your experience at your polling place or that cute [...]

Okay, so I am chiming in here despite the film festival going on. I just had to “spread the wealth” of these links…
First up, check out the hot dames I was partying with at last night’s VIFF opening party and awards ceremony…

Those are the sisters of the House of LeMay, who’s film Slingbacks and Syrup, [...]

I saw the image on the bottom at RCS today and immediately recognized it from Don Herzfeldt’s hilarious and surreal animated short, Rejected (the frame it’s recreating is the one on top).  Snow is the perfect real-world millieu for 3-D scenes from this short, which features simple round-bodied characters with stick limbs on a white [...]

This might be a new category at Candleblog.  I could write posts about Christopher Hitchens, Tom Waits and Chris Matthews in that category.  Here’s an entry:
Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, co-writers of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, had some drinks on Labor Day weekend and sang songs about food to their webcam in their bedroom.  I [...]

At Smoothie’s first bachelor party in 1993 or 1994, AlexCh rented a video that included one of the characters — a woman — asking her male companion the following question:
Amüsierst du dich, Huhnficker?
10 points to the first reader who correctly guesses the activity the man was engaged in at the time.

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I don’t normally link to the often-brilliant XKCD strip because all of the other, cooler bloggers get to it before I do.  I’m linking to this one though because of its extra awesome-osity.  It’s too big to show you the whole thing in this post, but here’s a detail…

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I missed Helvetica when the Vermont International Film Festival presented it at the Book Festival a couple of weeks ago, but here are a couple of cute videos about a similar type of subject…
See also, Type is Art.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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Emily and I were watching MSNBC on the first night of the DNC and we saw this…

“Bring back Crystal Pepsi!” Dear S found the screen grab and posted it. That’s art, man. Protest art.

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Back in the 80s my friends and I used to occasionally fight our teen boredom by prank calling the live Robert Tilton religious telecast, Success-N-Life.  Tilton was such an obviously craven mountebank that our disdain for him provided a quick laugh now and then.  He would even speak “in tongues” by basically spouting gibberish when [...]