Stupid Nerd Podcast: Assassins 2011 (Now With part 3!)
Now you can listen to all 3 parts of the EPIC Chicago Improv Assassin showdown!
Arnie Niekamp’s Stupid Nerd podcast (which is awesome, listen to more episodes) devoted 3 whole episodes to the recent iO/ComedySportz Assassin game. This will likely only be fun for people in the Chicago Improv community who know the folks involved, but man, it is way way way fun.
Seth and Kellen!
[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
You guys. This is an actual television commercial I saw on an actual television last night.
What. What is happening. I do not understand.
What.
(Jeff was so amazed, he ripped this video from our TiVo because we needed to share this genius with the world.)
Today I finally switched my ID over from MA to IL. It’s nice to see this commercial and feel vindicated in my new *official* home.
(via thisistheglamorous)
And here’s the result of the Reddit “Shit Chicagoans Say” thread from Monday. <3 if you like it better than the other one we wrote about this week.
Hey! Improvisers! Catch Marie Maloney (from the above) in playing with Vegetable Demon tonight at Sick Adventure!!!!
Mullaney: Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea
Clay Shirky makes some great points about some of the terrible side effects which are likely if something like SOPA is passsed.
I know this may feel like this problem is over. But it isn’t.
I know you may think this fight is about piracy, it is in part. But really it’s…
This is the best explanation of why SOPA should go away forever that i’ve come across. Once again Clay Shirky demonstrates his masterful ability to put technology and the internet into an approachable context.
His 2008 book “Here Comes Everybody” already feels a little dated due to the specific examples he uses, but it’s the the best example of examining the Internets simultaneously disruptive and unifying nature. I highly recommend checking it out.
The Books - Smells Like Content
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Terrence McKenna was my senior year yearbook quote:
I regard science fiction as the entry drug into the psychedelic world. If by nine, ten, eleven or twelve, you’re reading science fiction, then you’re probably lost to normality.
Terence McKenna’s Final Earthbound Interview
(Source: realitysandwich.com)
This is great!
Formerly a distant suburb of Chicago, Andersonville saw an influx of Swedish immigrants during the 1850s that came to live and work on the farms that covered much of the area. While many of these Swedes moved out of the area during the Depression and post-war periods, the Swedish influence in the neighborhood has remained strong throughout the years. Andersonville is home to the Swedish American Museum, the Swedish Bakery, a handful of other Swedish shops, and the Swedish-themed summer festival, Midsommarfest, all the while making the neighborhood one of the most concentrated areas of Swedish culture in the country.
(via Chicagoist)
