Norm Macdonald Live
Remember Norm Macdonald? I love Norm Macdonald. Some people don’t think he’s funny, but I do. If you liked him as the host of "Weekend Update" on Saturday Night Live, seen the film Dirty Work, or are interested in deadpan interviews with celebrity comedians including Gilbert Godfried, Super Dave, Larry King(?) Andy Dick, and Russell Brand, you should watch the video podcasts on YouTube. He seems like he is intentionally losing sponsors, so watch it while you can before it abruptly ends (like his two short-lived TV shows.
-Mike, Reference
ThinkGeek: Stuff for Smart Masses
Do you have any smart masses in your life? Is your home overrun with smart masses? Is your office mate a secret smart mass? Does your best friend exhibit latent smart mass tendencies? Perhaps, when you look in a mirror, there’s even a smart mass staring right back at you?! Well, fret not! We, er, I mean they (yeah, they, uh huh, them…those ones, over there) aren’t dangerous. Smart masses are just shy, misunderstood creatures yearning for connection and meaning and any number of the most craptacularly stupendous oddities ever created or collected by humankind.
I’m here to tell you that today is your lucky day. They made a place for you to find everything you need to calm, distract and befriend any and all smart masses you may find wandering through your life. ThinkGeek.com has everything (yes, EVERYTHING!) you could ever imagine imagining. But, I must warn you, once you enter the emporium of geek, you may lose all concept of linear time. You didn’t realize it but up there, right around the time I typed ‘EVERYTHING’, you lost me for a good thirty minutes as I was sucked into the vortex of awesome oddness. But, I fought my way back to you even though resistance is, indeed, futile. I can feel the pull right now…it’s waiting for us. So, take the quantum leap into a world filled with things you never knew you wanted to want, needed to need or loved to love…join me in Nerdvana.
- Danielle, Tech Services
Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya
Gary Kamiya riffs on San Francisco's beauty, eccentricities, and cyclical cataclysms in this new book. First, the specs: this seven-by-seven mile square sits on a craggy peninsula on the edge of the continent and hosts seven unpredictable microclimates. It was built by the feverish Gold Rush of 1849, then survived earthquakes in 1906 and 1989, the sudden emptying of Japantown due to Executive Order 9066, the AIDS epidemic, and the silly exuberance of the dot-com boom and its acrid bust. Kamiya, a former cab driver, is a masterful guide who combines a fluid, encyclopedic knowledge with his own madcap experiences. Cool Gray City of Love is wonderful, and it's available from SWAN.
-Megan, Reference
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