MUSIC FROM SPACE: Galaxie 500 - FOURTH OF JULY

Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July - Music - More Music Videos

And if you want that feeling of wistful nostalgia to descend into a full-blown depressive episode, here are a bunch of 8-year-olds reviewing Galaxie 500's Fourth of July.








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Drawings by famous writers

Salon.com has posted a fascinating gallery of drawings done by celebrated authors. Some of them are rather amateurish, but a few are startlingly good. Seen here, an uncharacteristically cheery collection of paper dolls, designed by a young Ms. Sylvia Plath. (Note that the article has problems loading in my browser. It gets screwy toward the bottom of the page, with text doubling up and running over the pictures. Hopefully you'll have better luck.)

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Interview with the guy who builds the props for THE COLBERT REPORT

In a recent interview on the Martha Stewart Living blog, Brendan Hurley describes the process of creating all the props on The Colbert Report. On any given day, Hurley might be tasked to create everything from the sinister products of Prescott Pharmacuticals to Drinky, Colbert's 44 gallon pet soda. On one memorable occasion, he even put together a banana guillotine.

"Stephen wanted to have a banana that had a condom on it, that he puts in a guillotine. There was one place I remembered seeing a mini-guillotine, but it closed down. So I just made one using scrap wood, aluminum railing and a butcher’s cleaver. I waxed the rails so the blade would slide down faster, but it had trouble penetrating both the condom and the banana. So I had to add weights to give it as much force as possible, plus I had to keep sharpening the blade, but it finally worked. And considering we made it in probably an hour and a half..."

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