Big Phoot: Wildlife photographer Todd Marrone took a  Polaroid of a phanatic in its unnatural habitat.

Perspective: infoMania’s Ben Hoffman chimes in on the new Facebook:  F*ck My Facebook!

Top-notch Time Waster: “The 10 Best Aqua Teen Hunger Force Episodes” selected by the show’s creators.

This American Life – Live! Our pal Dave Hill will be performing with everyone’s favorite smart guy Ira Glass on April 23rd.

Ira Glass will host an actual episode of the radio program, performed onstage by some of our favorite contributors. Dan Savage, Starlee Kine, and Mike Birbiglia will tell stories. David Rakoff and Dave Hill will conduct a ‘special investigation.’ Plus a new cartoon by Chris Ware, additional visuals by Arthur Jones, and a very special appearance by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer! The performance will last around two hours. We’re going to capture the whole thing with a bunch of HD cameras, and send it live* to movie theatres all over the country.

More details from Dave>

Loving: Stephen Colbert Rips Apart Glenn Beck

The Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show! Join Dave Walk and some very funny comics for a night of engaging and hilarious stand-up comedy on Monday, April 6h. Brought to you by the Philly Improv Theater and ComicVsAudience.com. More Info>

Bob Mould is Sad Again: “Ripped Out And Displayed, The Heart Of A Heart.” Sad stuff, but it makes for great music. Check out tracks from his latest  CD “Life and Times” he recorded for his Daytrotter session (Free downloads!). Sparse, acoustic brilliance. Bob is Philly: April 03, 2009, Philadelphia, PA @ North Star Bar. TIX here.

Louis C.K. USO Blog: Riveting words from a very funny man and an impressive photographer. He uses a Leica MP 35mm Rangefinder film camera. Nice.

The Big Picture Rarely Disappoints: Signs of Spring

Sehr Gut: German retro-futuristic group-dancing

Highly Recommended: Oh Canada! Sloan rocks.  I’ve been hearing about these power-pop lovin’ fellas for a long time but I never followed up and took a good listen until I heard them played twice on the Best Show on WFMU.  Thanks @scharpling for the enlightenment. Here’s a good start: “A Sides Win : Singles 1992-2005″

Nice Bit of Music: Iron Maiden’s  “Run to The Hills”  in 8-bit (via geekadelphia)

“King of Kong” Redux: Gaming champion Steve Wiebe will try to reclaim the Donkey Kong record on June 2.  (via popcandy)

Shush Shepard Shush: I think the more Shepard Fairey talks, the more he hurts his case.

TV Guideless: That unwatchable channel, made a little less unwatchable.

Gloom and Doom Break: Dog Makes Friends With Duck (via @waltpsu):

Currently Digging Hard: I cannot stop playing “Human(e) Meat” by the  Propagandhi (the entire album “Supporting Caste” is outstanding, might be their best yet). I sincerely well up when listening, the heartless slaughter and manufacturing of animals boggles my mind and boils my blood. Sorry, I try not to preach, but good lord…

… and don’t forget the “Cool Black Guy!”

Website: http://www.92YTribeca.org

Comedian Mike Birbiglia brings his new show “Sleepwalk with Me” to Philadelphia’s Zellerbach Theatre this Friday, October 10th. This is a sneak peak performance before his big off-Broadway debut at the Bleecker Street Theatre in NYC starting October 17th. Mike is hysterical, so see him now before Big Time Fame snatches him up and forces him to make a bad movie with Jessica Alba.

Jeff chatted with Mike via cell phone as he trekked through the busy streets of Manhattan, dodging cars, taking taxis and dropping impressive names in his wake.

Play Now: http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/Birbiglia_Interview.mp3

Subscribe: iTunes

Tickets: Some tickets still available for Philly, get them here. New York shows, get tickets here.

More Mike:

• www.birbigs.com
• sleepwalkwithmike.com
• www.myspace.com/birbigs
• My Secret Public Journal

Podcast Website: www.usedwigsradio.com

UsedWigs fave Mike Birbiglia brings his high energy, in-your-face, crowd-pleasing comedic stylings to Philadelphia’s Zellerbach Theatre on October 10th. We love Mike, his last Comedy Central special was beyond hilarious and he was kind enough to talk to our giant tape recorder a while back. Get Tix Now!

This Just In:

• Chris Matthews Throws Bottle at Mike!
• Mike sleepwalks his way through This American Life!

Video:

CBS Green-lights My Secret Public Journal! We’re big fans of comedian Mike Birbiglia (that’s “Birbigs” to those in the know) and his secret public journal.

He’s got himself a big network show, hopefully he’ll say no to the laugh track and won’t have ancient comedians guest star as his parents… at least until season 4. Here’s the skinny straight from the low-key comic himself:

I have great news. The secret public journal emails you’ve been reading for the last 20-25 years are being made into a comedy pilot (and ideally a series) for CBS!!! Maybe it was the 93 comments you wrote after my last entry or Ted Kennedy’s endorsement, but they’ve decided to let me and my friend Andy Secunda make a show about a guy who does comedy, writes a journal, and kills polar bears for sport (not true). More>

Listen: Our Interview with Mike from 2007.

Who are the Cylons Again? Chief? What the Frack? Enjoy a very funny and informative 8-minute video recap of seasons 1-3 of Battlestar Galactica. The show can be exhausting (please please please kill Gaius Baltar and his annoying blonde Amazon), but it’s still pretty damn good. Watch now:

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=RcFNqvHPQQc[/youtube]

Gradual Engagement: Web usability guru Luke Wroblewski stares at web forms and ponders the boring nuts and bolts of the Internet so you don’t have to, and makes the experience better for everyone in the process. I saw him speak over the summer and he made it all sound very interesting. Read why he says, “Sign Up Forms Must Die”. You will most certainly agree.

Happy Birthday: Winslow!