Nerd Culture from the Right Side of the Brain....

May 2009

Firefly vs. xkcd: “The Race”

Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 23:00

Happy June, everyone.

Recently the web comic xkcd did a small, but pretty funny Firefly-based arc. The thing I liked about it (Aside from it actually being funny) was that they actually kind of caught the characters’ voices from the show and the overall feel of the space cowboy patois they spoke with in the show. It’ll take you less than five minutes to read it, and it’s well worth your time.

Part 1 is here: http://xkcd.com/577/
Part 2 is here: http://xkcd.com/578/
Part 3 is here: http://xkcd.com/579/
Part 4 is here: http://xkcd.com/580/
Part 5 is here: http://xkcd.com/581/

SONG OF THE DAY: "Eldorado to the Moon" by Mike Nesmith (1981)

Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 23:00

Yes, *That* Mike Nesmith:

I'm not absolutely sure about when this was written and/or filmed. Originally it turned up on a Music Video compliation that Nesmith did called "Elephant Parts," which was published in 1981, but it may well have been older, and I'm not sure this song ever turned up on one of his albums.

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Underwire Reports Vaguely Neutral Things About Us

Submitted by Republibot 1.0 on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 09:41

Imagine our surprise waking up this morning and seeing an article on Wired.com about our lovely little conservative home on the ansible here. And additionally, to see that the article was relatively even handed if not a little lite on specifics about us. It is always so very nice to be acknowledged by the bigger boys - we wait patiently now for the popular kids to start to swing by and give us swirlies and do that thing where they try to pull our underwear up really high from behind and ridicule us in front of all the pretty girls.

INTERVIEW: Ron Miller, Artist

Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 07:31

Our guest today is Ron Miller, noted artist and author.

Foggy Valley on Mars, by Ron Miller, used by permission

SONG OF THE DAY: "Beep Beep" by Louis Prima (1959)

Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 23:00

Sorry there's no actual video for this, but it's still worth a listen

This is a quick little novelty song - one of literally hundreds - that came out in 1957/1958 after the Soviets launched Sputnik.

It's kind of amazing to me that even a little written-in-ten-minutes blow off song like this is great when it's by Swing and Vegas legend Louis Prima. The man could sing the phone book, and make it great. Then he'd give Keely some harmonies to sing, and it'd be greater still!

Crazy, man!