It is unfortunate that those of us who went to university in the late 80s and early 90s probably know Clarence Carter for that painfully cheesy number, Strokin’, a big hiot at every “meet market” dance club of that era.
Here’s a better one that still has all the dirty-dirty bump ‘n’ grind: Backdoor Santa. Yes, I’m snickering too.
Clarence Carter: Backdoor Santa (2.0 MB MP3)
If you regularly read Robert Scoble’s blog, you’ve probably seen his entry on the traditions surrounding the Dutch version of Santa Claus, Sinterklaas. Here’s a treat for him (and you) — David Sedaris explaining the Sinterklaas tradition, in a spoken-word piece titled Six to Eight Black Men.
David Sedaris: Six to Eight Black Men (7.2 MB MP3)
Today on Blogware Mechanic, my ongoing series on Blogware customization in the Tucows Blog, I’ve posted Part 2 of my articles on basic Blogware customization: editing the layout of components in your blog’s sidebars, header and footer.
People actually attend this musical? And pay money?
(For those of you who are going “Adrian who?“: he was the young sidekick in T.J. Hooker.)
I can only come to this conclusion: Musical theatre must be destroyed. Who’s with me?
Update: Hey, BenQ’s yanked the site! Serves me right for not blogging it this weekend.
Here’s something that they fail to mention in university: cultural insensitivity isn’t the sole domain of mighty whitey. Check out the promo site that Taiwanese electronic manufacturer BenQ set up for their MusiQ MP3 player:
“What, too soon?” Screenshot of BenQ’s site for the MusiQ. Click to see it at full size.
The text translates as “Even if the world is destroyed to dust, I still believe in music.” That’s just silly.
The real problem is the background image. It’s been darkened and they’ve photoshopped some spotlights in, but that’s unmistakably the rubble of the World Trade Center in the background.
That’s about as appropriate as these ad concepts I whipped up…
“Social justice,” writes my sometime blog sparring partner Kathy “Relapsed Catholic” Shaidle, ” is the endless concoction by incompetent people of unworkable solutions to imaginary problems.”
It’s also an apt description for the people currently behind U.S. policy, foreign and domestic…
Click to see the comic on its GoComics page.
Over at Catmas.com, I’m posting a cat picture every day from now until Christmas. Enjoy!
