November 2009

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #219

11/30/2009 - 8:00am

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #219

al in la

Submit the worst possible caption for this New Yorker cartoon.

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Last week's results

Rules and tips

Winners

First Place
"Of course not, Mr. Bond, I expect you to dance."--TG Gibbon

Second Place
"We're making remarkable progress on our Pianos for Little Asian Prodigies Program. What basketball did for the ghettos, pianos will do for Shanti towns everywhere"-- RL

Honorable Mentions
"I'm glad there are no white keys here to see this."-- LV

In mother Russia, piano plays you!"-- Harry

"I like my pianos like I like my men: big, black, and hard ... and scattered randomly about my salon, passively waiting for me to play them."--J.D.

"More Cowbell."-- Pandyora

 

And to think people used to complain about CliffsNotes

11/24/2009 - 8:00am

And to think people used to complain about CliffsNotes

Jesse Lansner

Some forms of satire get old quickly. The Facebook Haggadah was great. Barack Obama's Facebook Feed on Slate is generally amusing. Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook is a crime against literature, humor, satire and even Facebook itself. What's next? Rewriting classic literature in PowerPoint?

Worse, actually – Twitterature.

That's what she said

11/24/2009 - 8:00am

That's what she said

Jim Donahue

The Daily News ponders the root of the universe:

Given the phrasing of the question, I'd say it's a toss-up between the first two choices.

UPDATE: 24 hours later, and the Daily News' poll "Hardon" remains up. Someone should really call a doctor.

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #218

11/23/2009 - 8:00am

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #218

Harry Effron

Submit the worst possible caption for this New Yorker cartoon.

•Last week's results. •Rules and tips.

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First Place:
"I hate jail." -- andy

Second Place:
"White people find jokes about the American judicial and penal system quite humorous." -- J. D.

Third Place:
"I don't fit in the bed. I haven't slept in years." -- Johnny B


Honorable Mention:
"Just let me know if you need some caulk." -- mypalmike

"Why is there a casket in here?" --David

Sucking up to the judge's ego award:
"The sexual assault and sodomy which can go on for hours here are obscene." --Steve_O

Runner up: "Yes, I, too, also prefer a bath. The showers here are obscene." --Tim H

Perhaps going after that ever-elusive Manson Family audience?

11/22/2009 - 8:00am

Jim Donahue

This banner ad keeps turning up on StatCounter as I obsessively check out how many hits my blog is(n't) getting:

I guess my question is ... what the hell?

The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #217

11/16/2009 - 8:00am

al in la

 

Submit the worst possible caption for this New Yorker cartoon.

Rules ands Tips

Last Week's Winners


WINNER
"Look on the bright side. With all the tears of our laid-off colleagues, I created a great salt water pool."-- Richard H

HONORABLE MENTIONS
"It's your wife's Today sponge. I'm going in to try to find my buddy's car keys."--gary

"I don't know who draws this shit, but my snorkel is gonna fill my lungs up with water, and you're wearing a double-breasted pullover. Totally fucking lame."--MAtt

CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
(New category: Anti-Caps that shamelessly reference judges and/or contest.)

"For my next trick, I will judge last week's anti-caption contest! . . . Ha ha! Just kidding! That would be insane! I'm actually just going to dive into the piranha pool."--Joshua

I guess the jig is up. No, I'm not actually working for the Daily Show. I've been away from the blog working on my form to enter the diving competition at the Christian Olympics.-- The Confidence Man

"I'm sorry, but after I referenced Bob Dylan, my innards AND the Anti-Cap Contest in one sentence, I decided to end it all. Or, take a dip. Either way." --Tim H

"Last one in is an al in la!"--Kathy H

Radosh.net: "Waiting for Pitchfork to catch up since 2005"

11/16/2009 - 8:00am

Radosh.net: "Waiting for Pitchfork to catch up since 2005"

Daniel Radosh

rubyblue.jpg It's official: Sleigh Bells is over... now that the band has been discovered by The New York Times.

"The band has already found an audience. For weeks now -- weeks! -- Sleigh Bells has generated blog fervor thanks to a handful of shows and demos. The band isn't even a dozen shows into its life span and it's already an Internet nano-phenomenon."

Well, it's true that some of your lesser music blogs have been buzzing about the Bells for weeks, but faithful readers of this site first heard about "dynamo" lead singer Alexis Krauss four years ago when I told you that the former RubyBlue singer was Huckapoo's vocal coach. (To save you the trouble of clicking that link, and since you probably didn't read that far into the post at the time, my comment was indeed, "Yes, Huckapoo has a vocal coach. Fuck you.")

Huckapoo in fact recorded two songs previously recorded by RubyBlue, and had no better luck in turning them into the hits they should have been. (That honor went to No Secrets.)

In other words, the whole time Huckapoo svengali Brian Lukow was trying to manufacture the next big music thing... the real next big music thing was quietly toiling behind the scenes and he never knew it. They should make a movie like that. Huckapoo can do the soundtrack.

That's what they get for opening a Blockbuster in a prison colony

11/16/2009 - 8:00am

That's what they get for opening a Blockbuster in a prison colony

dean @ t.a.m.s.y.

Australian author David Thorne finds a long way around DVD late fees.

Why not Bil Keane?

11/16/2009 - 8:00am

Why not Bil Keane?

Daniel Radosh