Why I Love the Internet: Reason #413

Where else can you watch Filipino inmates reenacting the "Thriller" video?

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The Most Brilliant Waste of Time … Ever

I started my day with this beauty, sent to me by the cousin Marni (who's psyched that she scooped me on an R.E.M. original):

LEGO’ed R.E.M.

From left: Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe, Bill Berry

There’s a gallery of musicians. Some of my favorites:

The classics:

The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Led Zeppelin.

The new guard:

Sonic Youth, Nirvana, The Decemberists, Rilo Kiley, Death Cab for Cutie, the defunct Sleater-Kinney

Even The Village People!

Sorry, Brat, but there isn’t a LEGO’ed a-Ha; maybe you can work on that this weekend. And, Haahnster, they could use a Neil Young.

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A Jackson Pollock Friday

Who wants to waste a steamy Friday using brain power and checking off tasks when you can be Jackson Pollock for a day? I discovered my inner artist at Write Procrastinator’s spot, and have thus far wasted 15 corporate minutes painting my own Pollock. [Hint: Click your mouse to change colors on the canvas.] Go forth and create, dear readers … and check back this weekend.

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Cool Puffy Cafe

Write Procrastinator turned me onto this week's bloggerific game: Sternest Meanings' auto-anagram. Type in your blog name or your favorite phrase, and it spits out an anagram.

• A Cup of Coffey anagrams into Cool Puffy Cafe (I'd go there for my morning extra-shot latte).
• Drop the "A" and you get Occupy Feoff (you occupying types better stay off my feoff!).
• Radio Free Europe? Adore eerier of Up (so true!).
• Gordon and Stella rather appropriately turns into Gallant or sodden.
• I'm a uniter, not a divider becomes I'm a deviation intruder.

You get the idea. Let me know what you come up with.

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