Massive Marionettes! The Big Picture photo blog never disappoints. Enjoy these larger-than-life photos of France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company celebratining the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The show featured “two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess.”

Jazz Up Your Wall: The Jim Flora website  is offering three hand-printed 2010 calendars.

Stay With It, Fun Payoff: Roland Emmerich’s 2012 With the Special Effects Removed.

Patton Podding: Took a long drive down to Delaware recently to visit the Dogfish Head Beer HQ for a little race and I loaded up my iPod with some time-passing podcasts. (FYI, Milton DE is a little over 2 hours from Philly at 5am in the morn.)  I listened to the Todd Glass podcast “Comedy and Everything Else…” for the first time and I enjoyed it. Check out this exceptional episode with the great Patton Oswalt as he tells some great war stories about being a comedian and gives solid advice to the the new crop of funny people like, “You have no excuse to not succeed!”

Make My Logo Bigger! And while you’re at it, get me some White Space Eliminator.

Baby Cage! And 30 other Dumb Inventions of The 50s and 60s.

Yakov 2.0: RussianPaul is all aTwitter and he makes some excellent points:

“dogs are mean yes i know it. in Russia we say it ‘do not be mean to friends or bears will foop in your boots and eat your hands together’.”

“have you seen the Mr. Phil show? it is so dumb and he is yelling at people and saying how they need to be fixed! he should wear a hat.”

“beef hunglers are for making you happy after hard days. you can frye them when listening to GORKY PARK for extra ecxiting times! volga boatm.”

Fanatictastic! Big Phoot

Art: Phoning It In: David Hockney’s iPhone Passion

Food Gawker: Vegetarian

Need New Music? Follow @FreebieMP3 for free, legal MP3s from Mission of Burma, Glorytellers, Of Montreal, Aimee Mann, Strung Out & more.

Scarier Than Birthers? Really?: 10 insane doomsday cults that still exist

It’s a Graveyard Smash: Get your paws on some Monster Mash Putty!

Despite the horrific display, nearly two-thirds of those who were on board the Hindenburg survived its 1937 mishap. More Amazing Random Facts here.

Wrapper’s Delight: Making your horrible bus commute a little more bearable.

Fight! Smash! Win! Tom Morello + Boots Riley (The Coup) = Street Sweeper: www.streetsweepermusic.com

Watch Out! 104 Ways to Hilariously Ruin the Watchmen Movie [via Geekadelphia] (Congrats to Eric and his new pet, Attila The Bun.)

Are We in The New Silver Age of Television? Patton Oswalt thinks so. (He had me up until “Dollhouse,” which is puzzlingly bad.)

New Tech Always Becomes Old Joke: 12 “Dead Technology” Advertisements

Sarah Haskins on Doll Sex: Barbie’s Little Secret

In Between Tokes: Doug Benson (@DougBenson) just discovered Twitter and like a young teen boy who has found his special purpose, he can’t stop (thankfully he’s a hoot.)

Tom Waits Wednesdays: “The Piano Has Been Drinking” – Brian Seymour plays the songs of Tom Waits – Wednesdays 10pm/Late Happy Hour at Time Restaurant – 1315 Sansom St., Philly.

We Save Money for You at Two Guys, Naturally! This is for my brother. When we were kids my parents bought everything for us at this Neptune City, NJ department store (good memories.):

Free Mp3 Download: “Thrill Me” by  The Soundtrack of Our Lives [via brooklynvegan]. Sounds Like: If Bachman-Turner Overdrive was Swedish and good.

We all know Eugene Mirman is hilarious, but did we all know he has a new book?

We do now:  “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”

As you would imagine, this book rules and will change your life for the better. Remember kids, after high school sports don’t really matter,  “There aren’t a lot of lacrosse jobs after high school…”

Website: www.eugenemirman.com and www.thewilltowhatevs.com

Cover:

Praise:

“I laughed out loud reading this. I was reading it in public. Three cute girls at a nearby table laughed at me. I swear one of them mouthed the words, ‘fat loser’ to her friends. I now hate Eugene Mirman.”
– Patton Oswalt

“This book is good, and not just because it was free. Knowing what I know now about the quality, I would have paid at least nine thousand dollars.”
– David Willis, co-creator Aqua Teen Hunger Force

FAIL? No Win! It was only a matter of time before these real-life loser reminders hit the streets, I mean cubicles: www.FAILsticker.com. Pretty funny… now, but like most things, we’ll tire of them and find another type of snarky sticker to put on top of our old lame FAIL stickers.

Get Watchin’! Two new extended clips (3:17 minutes worth!) from the beginning of the highly-anticipated Watchmen movie:

Ol’ Dead Legs is Back: According to these previews for the new “Lost” episode, when Locke leaves the island so does his ambling ability.

“Gay-tham for Statham” Looks like Patton Oswalt has a bit of a man crush. They’d make a cute couple. (via @Agent_M).  Speaking of “Fatatouille” (Zach G’s term, not mine), he’s joining @scharpling tonight on The Best Show on WFMU, should be spectacular.

I Love Me Them Red Envelopes! What Would Netflix Do?

I’ll Pass: The trailer for “Inglorious Basterds” seems like a parody of a Taratino movie, sadly it’s not.

Neat! See A Fish With A Transparent Head (via metafilter)

D-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s:  Cheez-It Introduces Scrabble Junior Crackers

Solveig, a girl graffiti artist, aged 10, is the female Banksy! No, she’s really not. Let’s calm the eff down.

iRumor: CMDA iPhone for Verizon

More New Free Super-Rad Band Names for Those of You Needing Band Names:

• The farTenders
• Hungarian Forkfight
• Peru McClanahan
• Gee Male
• The Draculovers
• More>

Animal-less: There are lots of “abandoned amusement park” sites (always creepy), so here’s something different, an “abandoned zoo” story… sad.

Get Some! Fred Eltringham (drummer extradonaire for The Wallflowers,  Dixie Chicks, Tears for Fears, Ben Kweller, Gigolo Aunts, Juliana Hatfield, Rivers Cuomo, etc.) and Brian Howell (Pico vs. Island Trees) have formed The Get You and posted some new tunes on the MySpace. It’s very different (Sebadoh-meets- King Crimson?) and very good! We played these boys back on Podcast 57, remember? You loved them.

• Download Free MP3! “Wheels on the Bus”

Must Read: Patton Oswalt gave an inspiring speech at the graduation ceremony of his old high school. It is quite awesome: hysterical and heartfelt.

“The week before graduation I strangled a hobo. Oh wait, that’s a different story. That was college.  I’m speaking at my college later this month. I’ve got both speeches here.  Let me sum up the college speech – always have a gallon of bleach in your trunk.”

World’s Worst Dad with a Camera: “Hi Doctor, I guess it all started when my dad got a camera, some horror movie props and wanted to get noticed on the Internet… yes, I have about 10 bloodcurdling nightmares a night… and in the day too… pretty much around the clock.”

Beijing Tour Guide: “If you look to the right we have totalitarian oppression and lung-collapsing smog and if you look to the left, we have pretty gardens!”

Low-Tech Googling: The kids at Geekadelphia are having some old-time crafty DIY fun with Google Image Search. I can’t wait to take one of these nifty templates to an Eagles/Dallas games when the Birds are getting crushed and the fans are getting a tad unruly. I bet I’ll get some swell pix.

New Mogwai! A nice departure from the heavier stuff, “sunny” I dare say! Free MP3: “The Sun Smells Too Loud” {via Stereogum}