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So True Detective ended last night. I hope the finale lived up to everyone's expectations (though I'm not sure how it could with the hype it had going into 9:00. Anyway, now we can have some fun going back and looking at some of the more absurd theories about the Yellow King. There are obviously write-ups all over the web about the finale and show in general. If you want to kill a Monday, I'll get you started with this one and then this one. I'm sure you can find a few others.

One show ends, another one begins. I missed the new version of Cosmos last night, but still get excited at its prospects when I read these Neil deGrasse Tyson quotes about science.

How do things like films, 25 minute short films that roll before The Empire Strikes Back, get lost? This article doesn't answer that question necessarily, but it does uncover that the film has been found again. And people are excited.

In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11 dimensional hyperspace.

Michio Kaku, explaining the universe? Something else? Everything all at once? I might get that quote as a tattoo! You can read some his thoughts on where we, as a species, may be headed into the future here.

Lego Jawa Sandcrawler! And it's only $418!

The insane life of Matt Taibbi, former Rolling Stone correspondent/journalist/gonzo writer.

Cool Shit 2/11

Matt Taibbi, writer for Rolling Stone (and one of the better investigative journalists out there, in my opinion, reporting on the sins of the government), did an AMA on Redditt. (For those who don't know - an "AMA" is "Ask Me Anything.")

I don't know, do you want a list of songs about one night stands? Because one exists. And here it is. Of course, it doesn't include Norwegian Wood, by the Beatles, which I thought was about a one night stand John Lennon had. Hold on one second as I go wiki it in real time...ok, so it seems, the song isn't about a one night stand, but about an affair - though the description of its meaning by both Paul and John is a little vague on the details, so I'm going to pull an audible and say it WAS about a one night stand, possibly changing the canon of the Beatles in doing so, but hey - where were we?

(A lot of the above might have to do with the fact that I'm currently listening to Tame Impala, a band that some might suggest sound like some of the trippier Beatles catalog, myself included. Listen for yourself...



Quick - get the Weathergirls back together. I smell a new hit (though rhyming anything with "spice" and making it work is going to be difficult. Also, raining spiders might be the next title of my nightmare.)



Movie trailer for Leviathan - a documentary about commercial fishing off the New England coast...though there are many television shows that depict this lifestyle, this movie looks to perhaps take a different visual approach to it. So if you ever thought Deadliest Catch wasn't visual enough to give you the whole picture of what it's like to go out to see for weeks on a fishing boat, this movie is for you. (Warning, if you get seasick easy, this might not be for you):



And then there's this most awesome thing of taking a love of Legos and combining it with a passion of curling, to make this.

Podcast 13.01 – Wang Oscar Frazier

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on you.  Seriously, I’m not taking the fall for this.

What was I talking about? Oh yes, we done did it again.

We squeezed out another steaming pile of podcast.  Roll around in it and as we like to say in the biz, enjoy yourself.  Just don’t get all demanding and expect us to have seen the Oscar-nominated movies we wax rhapsodically about.

Also, if you’re a dude and bored of euphemisms for, then this podcast came along at EXACTLY the right time.

After the jump a bunch of tangentially related ephemera.

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• My “The Best” is the NotWaltFrazier Twitter account that may only amuse me. But it amuses me A LOT.
  • The obvious pairing of Walt Frazier with Norm Crosby to sell light beer. Also, I think the 3rd actor is the nerdy guy from Bachelor Party who negotiated with the pimp.
    
    
  • A slightly more urban take on Walt “Clyde” Frazier
    
    
    
• Goose’s “The Best” was Matt Taibbi’s “Griftopia”.  Here’s a clip of him shilling another book on The Daily Show.
  

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• Oscars
  • The Fighter is the only Oscar movie I’ve seen so far, and I loved Melissa Leo’s performance in it. So here is her slightly nutty acceptance speech from The even nuttier Golden Globes:
    
    
    
    
  • And her getting hit on, HARD, SORTA, by Ned Beatty in her younger days on Homicide:
    
    
    
    
• Thankfully neither of us saw this video of penis names set to the tune of “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
  
  
  
  
• This is part of the very NSFW clip from Havoc that James Franco better make reference to on Oscar night.
  
• Given the chance to narrowly target one potential listener, Goose chose Obama (or “that guy in Egypt”). I chose Alison Brie. You tell me who made the right call:
  
  
  
  
• Weird that Goose didn’t want this kind of scene to potentially break out if we recorded around the piano:
   
  
  
  Or it could get cleverly raunchy like this scene:
  
  
  

• This clip mentions “penis”, but doesn’t show his leg. Hmmm….
  
  
• John Goodman does what he does best. Sing.
  
  
  
• Anne Heche her first (saucy) scene on Another World with a “That Guy” character actor,