OK, so it’s a month old. I haven’t been keeping up with mass culture like I ought.

Via Craig, indirectly.

[Update] Special bonus musical feature: Frontiers in Tuvan throat-singing.

[Even later new and improved update, now with chat transcript]

Chris Clarke
>>so you know when you’re playing with a puppy, and it’s like eight weeks old
>>and it gets kinda cocky and full of itself and it sees something it doesn’‘t understand, and it growls

MalkinWatch
>>yup

Chris Clarke
>>and it’s trying to look threatening and tough, but you just want to pick it up and squeeze-hug it, chuck it under the chin and tell it how cute it is?
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaxwDbfCZto

MalkinWatch
>>heh
>>HOLY CRAP
>>it’s the 1950s!
>>in Finland!

4:57
Chris Clarke
>>except with worse dancers

MalkinWatch
>>yeah

Chris Clarke
>>WAAAAY worse
>>there’s a couple up front about halfway through.
>>damn

MalkinWatch
>>holy crap
>>I can’t believe this
>>I’m trying to imagine this band showing up on stage at an american club today
4:58
>>they’d be killed immediately.

Chris Clarke
>>lol

MalkinWatch
>>two of them shirtless!

Chris Clarke
>>they are technically proficient. I’ll give them that.

MalkinWatch
>>it’s like the germs meet buddy holly!
>>yeah, they are.

Chris Clarke
>>is Amanda still sick? This might cheer her up.
>>or kill her

MalkinWatch
>>heh
>>are you guys incommunicado?
4:59
>>oh my GOD THE CLAPPING

Chris Clarke
>>I’ve been outside today
>>yeah, the clapping

MalkinWatch
>>she seemed to be more upbeat
>>it’s like the Reverend Horton Heat without irony.

Chris Clarke
>>It’s the Reverend Horton Hears a Who

MalkinWatch
>>hahaha
>>very good

Chris Clarke
>>thank you, thank you.
>>try the veal
>>tip your waitress
5:00

MalkinWatch
>>frankly, you should post that video just because of that joke

Chris Clarke
>>I’m gonna just cut and paste this chat.
>>like the young kids do nowadays.

MalkinWatch
>>yes indeedy
>>leave out yes indeedy

1. 
   craig 2006 08 18 at 4:26:01 pm

   I’ve been fascinated by Tuvan stuff lately… Scythian art, mostly. Been buying big books full of it.

2. 
   the_bone 2006 08 19 at 2:07:13 am

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3. 
   bdaggerlee 2006 08 22 at 1:46:54 pm

   My gay nanobots are spreading.

   yrs, B.Dagger