The internet provides no greater thrill than a leaf through a detailed and well-written Wikipedia page. Here are some of my favorites:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (fairly rudimentary but some surprisingly insightful character analysis)
List of neologisms on The Simpsons (a glorious list of all the great phrases or fictional titles coined by The Simpsons)
Internet Troll (everything you could possibly want to know about the history and critical response to the Internet Troll phenomenon)
Duran Duran (the band given a surprisingly fully-fleshed bio, plus much deserved sections on their importance and influence)
List of Number One Hits (your quick one-stop guide to the history of the #1 US single. See also: List of Number One Hits (UK) and List of Number One Rock Hits)
any other personal favorites here?
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beautiful thread.
the massively detailed analysis of gwen stefani's
hollaback girl is pretty hilarious.
the massively detailed analysis of gwen stefani's
hollaback girl is pretty hilarious.
There are some surprisingly good entries on individual mid-'60s Beach Boys albums. The contrast in style between Today and Summer Days & Summer Nights is explored in great detail.
It still needs some cleaning up but Karl Pilkington is a good read and I really must make an effort to finishing editing it.
The pages for Johnny Cash and This Charming Man are pretty great.
It's still there
The pages for Johnny Cash and This Charming Man are pretty great.
It's still there
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It still needs some cleaning up but Karl Pilkington is a good read and I really must make an effort to finishing editing it.
The pages for Johnny Cash and This Charming Man are pretty great.
It's still there
I started a userpage for you.
i was glancing at this one on the Colbert Report the other day and noted a few things that I hadn't known before including...
~"The Colbert character has an unexplained phobia of bears, which he refers to as "godless killing machines without a soul". In an interview on the NPR program Fresh Air, Colbert said that his character's fear of bears is based on his real life childhood nightmare of bears mauling him in his sleep."
~"Colbert frequently refers to O'Reilly as his mentor and calls him "Papa Bear" in an endearing manner — a nickname with an ironic double-meaning, as Colbert frequently states that he considers bears to be the number-one threat to America today."
~"The Colbert character has an unexplained phobia of bears, which he refers to as "godless killing machines without a soul". In an interview on the NPR program Fresh Air, Colbert said that his character's fear of bears is based on his real life childhood nightmare of bears mauling him in his sleep."
~"Colbert frequently refers to O'Reilly as his mentor and calls him "Papa Bear" in an endearing manner — a nickname with an ironic double-meaning, as Colbert frequently states that he considers bears to be the number-one threat to America today."
QUOTE(Hewletts Daughter @ Mar 29 2006, 08:25 PM) [snapback]52488[/snapback]
i was glancing at this one on the Colbert Report the other day and noted a few things that I hadn't known before including...
~"The Colbert character has an unexplained phobia of bears, which he refers to as "godless killing machines without a soul". In an interview on the NPR program Fresh Air, Colbert said that his character's fear of bears is based on his real life childhood nightmare of bears mauling him in his sleep."
~"Colbert frequently refers to O'Reilly as his mentor and calls him "Papa Bear" in an endearing manner — a nickname with an ironic double-meaning, as Colbert frequently states that he considers bears to be the number-one threat to America today."
This was pretty good.
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Internet Troll (everything you could possibly want to know about the history and critical response to the Internet Troll phenomenon)
I spent the last hour or so reading this and other articles that were linked from it.
Some of particular interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klerck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nigger_As...tion_of_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21_trolling_phenomena
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue1/baker.html
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i think the Schmidt Sting Pain Index is pretty funny. well, actually just the description of Schmidt.
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i think the Schmidt Sting Pain Index is pretty funny. well, actually just the description of Schmidt.
That is AWESOME.
QUOTE(kalmia @ Mar 30 2006, 12:51 PM) [snapback]53115[/snapback]
OK, Bubba, lay off the wikipedia user pages.
nevermind!
QUOTE(Freddie Freelance @ Mar 30 2006, 03:09 PM) [snapback]53126[/snapback]
OK, Bubba, lay off the wikipedia user pages.
you didn't like yours?
the arrested development wiki kept me entertained for a good six hours or so
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development
QUOTE(Hewletts Daughter @ Mar 29 2006, 09:25 PM) [snapback]52488[/snapback]
i was glancing at this one on the Colbert Report the other day and noted a few things that I hadn't known before including...
~"The Colbert character has an unexplained phobia of bears, which he refers to as "godless killing machines without a soul". In an interview on the NPR program Fresh Air, Colbert said that his character's fear of bears is based on his real life childhood nightmare of bears mauling him in his sleep."
~"Colbert frequently refers to O'Reilly as his mentor and calls him "Papa Bear" in an endearing manner — a nickname with an ironic double-meaning, as Colbert frequently states that he considers bears to be the number-one threat to America today."
I have contributed to this page, but I think it needs to be split because it is getting too large.
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QUOTE(Hewletts Daughter @ Mar 29 2006, 09:25 PM) [snapback]52488[/snapback]
i was glancing at this one on the Colbert Report the other day and noted a few things that I hadn't known before including...
~"The Colbert character has an unexplained phobia of bears, which he refers to as "godless killing machines without a soul". In an interview on the NPR program Fresh Air, Colbert said that his character's fear of bears is based on his real life childhood nightmare of bears mauling him in his sleep."
~"Colbert frequently refers to O'Reilly as his mentor and calls him "Papa Bear" in an endearing manner — a nickname with an ironic double-meaning, as Colbert frequently states that he considers bears to be the number-one threat to America today."
I have contributed to this page, but I think it needs to be split because it is getting too large.
Sorry, I meant this one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Colbert_Report_episodes) neads to be split.
I always thought PappaWheelie was just some random ILM dude with the most sexy of file archives that I shanked stuff from on Soulseek.
I really like the Baha Men controversy bit.
God Bless Wikipedia... shedding light on parts of my life that I took for granted entirely.
I really like the Baha Men controversy bit.
God Bless Wikipedia... shedding light on parts of my life that I took for granted entirely.
wow, yeah, I didn't know any of that
QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 4 2006, 04:06 AM) [snapback]257994[/snapback]
Just in case it's gone back
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=91856231
lol
Except for saying that Allan Sherman played guitar (he couldn't play a note), this is a suprisingly extensive and accurate look at Weird Al.
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Wow.
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QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 4 2006, 04:06 AM) [snapback]257994[/snapback]
Just in case it's gone back
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=91856231
did you do that?
QUOTE(scarymuppet attacks @ Dec 4 2006, 09:32 AM) [snapback]258188[/snapback]
That was a pretty excellent wiki entry. Good god, scientology is just so evil. It's almost absurd.
QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Mar 28 2006, 11:26 PM) [snapback]51851[/snapback]
Internet Troll (everything you could possibly want to know about the history and critical response to the Internet Troll phenomenon)
Wow, did this article ever get revised since I first read it. It used to be four or five times as long as this, I'm sure.
Godzilla! More info about G than you probably ever needed.
Gotta dig careful insight like this:
"Shake has been charged with Driving under the influence on at least one occasion. Its unlikely that he ever had a drivers licence."
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I like this pretty extensive list of "internet celebrity phenomena"... the "non-celebrity" section especially has some bizarre links.
"Shake has been charged with Driving under the influence on at least one occasion. Its unlikely that he ever had a drivers licence."
...
I like this pretty extensive list of "internet celebrity phenomena"... the "non-celebrity" section especially has some bizarre links.
Category: Mysterious people
Strange category, and some great articles in the category. I especially like June and Jennifer Gibbons.
Strange category, and some great articles in the category. I especially like June and Jennifer Gibbons.
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In Jennifer's The Pugilist, a physician is so eager to save his child's life that he kills the family dog to obtain its heart for a transplant. The dog's spirit lives on in the child and ultimately has its revenge against the father.
amazing
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wow. a lot of these are fascinating. some i wouldn't necessarily call mysterious, though.
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In Jennifer's The Pugilist, a physician is so eager to save his child's life that he kills the family dog to obtain its heart for a transplant. The dog's spirit lives on in the child and ultimately has its revenge against the father.
amazing
I think there was an episode of Eerie, Indiana or Are You Afraid of the Dark? with a similar concept (except the murdered dog was a person who died in an accident. and i don't think any revenge occured. just started acting exactly like the person who died. so really, not all that similar).
This...
made me think of this....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Man
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made me think of this....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Man
look at those low rates
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I definitely don't remember a badly-animated egg coming out of him like that. You'd see him squat, then the camera would cut to a close-up of his chest, panning down his body to reveal a big egg beneath him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_Girl
I don't know if this is true but it reads pretty funny. This is in regards to the Factory Girl movie about Edie Sedgweick.
Don't know if it's been posted. It really deserves a thread of it's own.
I don't know if this is true but it reads pretty funny. This is in regards to the Factory Girl movie about Edie Sedgweick.
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The film has also sparked up news as Lou Reed, a member of the Velvet Underground and friend of Edie's, has publicly told the New York Daily News, "I read that script. It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen - by any illiterate retard - in a long time. There's no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money", as well as "They're all a bunch of whores." Despite this diatribe, Reed agreed to license his song "Heroin" to the producers for the price tag of three hundred thousand dollars.
Don't know if it's been posted. It really deserves a thread of it's own.
QUOTE(Be My Demon @ Jan 3 2007, 10:18 PM) [snapback]280869[/snapback]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_Girl
I don't know if this is true but it reads pretty funny. This is in regards to the Factory Girl movie about Edie Sedgweick.
Don't know if it's been posted. It really deserves a thread of it's own.
I don't know if this is true but it reads pretty funny. This is in regards to the Factory Girl movie about Edie Sedgweick.
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The film has also sparked up news as Lou Reed, a member of the Velvet Underground and friend of Edie's, has publicly told the New York Daily News, "I read that script. It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen - by any illiterate retard - in a long time. There's no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money", as well as "They're all a bunch of whores." Despite this diatribe, Reed agreed to license his song "Heroin" to the producers for the price tag of three hundred thousand dollars.
Don't know if it's been posted. It really deserves a thread of it's own.
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Credited Cast
* Guy Pearce .... Andy Warhol
* Sienna Miller .... Edie Sedgwick
* Hayden Christensen .... Billy Quinn
* Jimmy Fallon .... Chuck Wein
* Meredith Ostrom .... Nico
* Beth Grant .... Julia Warhol
* Mary Elizabeth Winstead ... Ingrid Superstar
Say no more.
* Guy Pearce .... Andy Warhol
* Sienna Miller .... Edie Sedgwick
* Hayden Christensen .... Billy Quinn
* Jimmy Fallon .... Chuck Wein
* Meredith Ostrom .... Nico
* Beth Grant .... Julia Warhol
* Mary Elizabeth Winstead ... Ingrid Superstar
I am loving these. In some ways, it goes back to Time's person of the year nomination.
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