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Popup Fiasco is Ian Haigh’s personal blog, for all things I find interesting but not too geeky (see how I switched from third to first person there?). This blog is tall and skinny. Like me.
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Category Archives: amuse
Tour De Gall
Truly awful reviews are delightful. I remember one in Empire magazine, years ago, for a wretched film that the reviewer described as being “about as gripping as KY Jelly”. Another favourite comes from the great New Yorker film critic Anthony … Continue reading
Regarding The Stupid
Bertrand Russell was a smart guy. I stumbled upon this quote of his, and I rather like it: The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Which is so true, … Continue reading
Barbra Streisand.
This musical video is much fun – and it has famous people. What more you want? HUH?
The Tea Party Takes Over the Comics Page.
The Boston Globe imagines what the comics page would look like if the Tea Party got their right wing anti-government mitts on it. Featuring Teanuts, Calvinist and Hobbes, and The Far Left Side.
Jason Schwartzman Demonstrates the New Yorker iPad App.
That nose swipe sure is nifty.
Man vs Toddler
47 seconds of nail biting intensity – Man! Versus! Toddler!
Ricardo Bomba
Peggy Black won a competition to create a new character for The Simpsons: In pondering her contest entry, Black decided there was a void on “The Simpsons” and that Springfield needed “something like a Casanova,” she said. [Ricardo] Bomba, a … Continue reading
No First Date
From the site intro: What happens when a 28 year old guy makes a profile of a hot girl on a free dating site? A bunch of WTF. No First Date: actual laugh-out-loud goodness.
To Catch a Banker
Tom the Dancing Bug illustrating just how the banks have been punished in the wake of the global financial crisis. It’s funny until you realise there’s nothing funny about it, at all.
Luv Deluxe
If you were to cross Smack My Bitch Up and Run, Lola, Run, you’d end up with something like this. Via MacTalk News, delightfully.