The stolen election
“Persepolis” cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi says Iranians were robbed of their votes. Along with renowned filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Satrapi asked the European Union not recognize President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election. Satrapi read from a paper allegedly from the Interior Ministry in Iran that stated opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi had received 19,075,723 votes compared with 5,698,000 […]
New Yorker Animated Cartoons
Rod introduced me to the New Yorker Animated Cartoons podcast. Here are a few: You can get the New Yorker Animated Cartoons as a podcast on iTunes. The iPhone app http://www.RingTales.com/iPhoneNY on my iPhone sometimes stalls – pity! But the podcast is better anyway.
Rugby Lions Training
Ok, lads, you’ve got a big game coming up, so get your heads down and get some rest.
Mitchell & Webb, Armstrong & Miller: WWII Pilots
More on heroism on Memorial Day. This is just the intro – excellent full feature here. (Forgive me for going on about this, but I think they are just so good and funny.)
Lev Ylmaz: Procrastination
This is pretty much exactly how my day went yesterday, except that you can replace “shopping” with “lining up the apps I need” and “watching the Twilight Zone marathon” with “playing all of my favorite music to Helmut”. So I’ve got to buckle down and really get my stuff done today. From Levni Ymaz’s “Tales […]
Eddie Izzard on the history of the English language
Found on mPulse, the new Macmillan Dictionary blog, posted by Jonathan Cole.
Pink Frank
Funny fashion for a cool and hardworking dude. Thank you, Frank. Better luck next time. – But honestly, guys, you wouldn’t be caught dead wearing pink !?!
