Rooster Crow

[gifak-net]

video: Amazing octopus camoflage

[tinydeskcontest]

Tiny Desk Contest Entrants: Stefanie Santana, Steve Tirozzi and Jack Burg

City: Columbia, S.C.

Original Song: ”Starfish Song (That’s What You Get For Living In A Tidal Pool)”

Every day we share some of the Tiny Desk Concert Contest entries that stood out to us. To be clear: if your video doesn’t appear here, don’t panic — your entry is still eligible to win (as long as it follows these rules)!

[michaeltrent]

Brussels be trippy (at Hotel Bloom!)

[theparisreview]

In the age-old battle between book and bath, man has tried many things: the reading tray, the conveniently placed towel, the waterproof page. An eight-year-old has gone one better.

[yeahwrite]

THIS IS GENIUS

[dutchster]

[bestrooftalkever]

One gif to rule them all

[perpetua]

The early rounds of American Idol feature inappropriate contestants with little or no talent who are intentionally let through the cattle call weeding process. This represents an ugly and compelling entertainment spectacle that allows viewers to enjoy the drama of a few elite upper class celebrities verbally torturing some unfortunate neurotic caught in their web. These early scenes are job interviews designed to go horribly wrong. The hopeless contestants seem to deserve this fate because their grotesquely delusional overestimation of their talents and complete lack of understanding of what is expected of them by their prospective employers violates some primal sentiment of self-preservation in us. What they are really being punished for is not a lack of talent. They are being punished for being socially maladapted. Sadistic spectators at a ritual enforcement of conformity, we enjoy watching these sickly deer being culled from the herd. In the later rounds, when we root for the talented underdogs who have made it through the culling process, our sentiment shifts: now we’re thrilled at someone else’s success. But we’re also connecting with our own desire to sell out. Can this person hold on to a vestige of their humanity and individuality while achieving the extreme-sports version of selling out? American Idol openly and engagingly celebrates the triumph of commercialism over art. As viewers, we are rooting for the corporate machine that manufactures these celebrities as much as for the contestants themselves.

KILLER KARAOKE: Reality Television and the Death of the American Middle Class | Press Play

Please go and read this extremely intelligent take on how reality tv contest shows reflect the conditions of our awful economy.

(via perpetua)

[4gifs]

[manchannel]

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via manchannel)

[sinnermarie-deactivated20230211]

[bunnyfood]

Dog brings the cat inside (via  gumbootiner)

[oliveargyle]

At first I was like “what” and then I was like “LOL!”

and this

[cheese24k]

Working dog’s morning routine

[michaeltrent]

this stuff gets me every time

[adamcblake]

New album by my main man, Kenneth Aaron Harris is out now.  Congrats Kenny!

[themadeshop]

Super excited for this one.

[thatscompletelyerelephant]

[michaeltrent]

every blog must have an elephant on a trampoline

I needed this

[nprmusic]

What are the 5 songs public radio can’t stop playing? Download 5 songs from the likes of Yeasayer and folk up-and-comers Shovels and Rope, courtesy of KCEP-Power 88, Iowa Public Radio, KHSU, WUMB, and WTMD.

[fuckyeahdogs]

[bunnyfood]

(via fuckyeahdogs)

[michaeltrent]

Yes

[michaeltrent]

Representin'

[9gag]

Outside the liquor store