Linkspam and Külness

[matgb]

Via baseballchica03, The world's first and only stand-up economist gives us a translation of Mankiw's Principles of Economics (written version).

Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown 2007 - Jarvis will be the director of this years Meltdown Festival at the SouthBank centre. Y'see this? This is a Mat very happy he moved to London.

YouTube - Unicorn vs. Narwhal. Via tyrell and kobold almost at the same time; very very cool.

Man cleared of murder by TV comedy gets LA pay-off - seriously, his alibi was proven when his lawyer went through some crowd scene out takes after five months in jail.

And via Debi and Katy, again right next to each other on the friends page, Shaggy Blog Stories: a collaborative blog-stunt for Comic Relief. Go through your archives for a funny post from the last year, and send a link to it to Mike, or re-write it, edit it up, and send it. He aims to have an entire book ready to go to print by next Wednesday. Yes, the man is mad, but, y'know...

And finally, some good suggestions in my poll of yesterday, a few more and I'll do a run off. Ruling out raggedhalo's suggestion though, chickenyoghurt did that one already...

Comments

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

I'm so derivative.

*sob*

[matgb]

Yeah, you independently came up with the same idea as one of my favourite satirists, you unoriginal unfunny man you.

I'm very temtped by 0ct0pus's 'Mark Thomas not funny any more' suggestion, because that'd be silly.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

Silly...but awesome!

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Woe! Silly Jarvis clashes with the FFW!

[matgb]

FFW?

Is this soething I should be remembering and failing miserably at?

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/fantastic/2007/

LOL possibly I've not mentioned it to you. I go every year, and there's a bunch of people coming to visit and stuff...

Still, there's only a couple of days overlap. Because, you know, I'd quite like to see some of Jarvis's artistic directions too.

[matgb]

Ah yeah; I think you may actually have mentioned it, in a "you must come visit" kinda way, when we were in Camden. It does look like something worth trying to get up for.

I'd quite like to see some of Jarvis's
This much we already knew
artistic directions too.
Oh, so that's what it's called now is it ;-)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Well, I got right to the front in Hull and he sang most of Mishapes right into my face and then blew me a kiss, but I'm not sure he'd remember me...

something worth trying to get up for

I'm sure I could squeeze you in somewhere ;)

[tyrell.livejournal.com]

That stand-up economist is all kinds of awesome.

And yeah, I got the Unicorn thing from kobold :)

[matgb]

I wondered, but the posts were right next to each other on my friends list so thought it could be random chance. And yes, economist very cool, nearly forgot about it, this post was due two days ago when the router crashed :-(

I'm thinking London internet connections are jinxing us...

[susanne-est-moi.livejournal.com]

Hi! Sorry! I'm investigating via SB's journal.

I just find the Mankiw thing rather hilarious. Mankiw was my economics prof last semester and it's just so true!

*little snicker*

[matgb]

MY economics knowledge is mostly secondary, I learnt the basics when learning game theory/rational choice as part of my political theory BA, but yeah, it's a pretty good summary; I check his blog out every so often, but there are so many out there.

I'm guessing I should expect to get used to drive by comments from her friends lis if she keeps saying nice things about me; 'tis all a bit weird. Nice, but weird.

[susanne-est-moi.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's a fact. Especially if they're all college students like me, always searching for more ways to procrastinate.

As for Mankiw...his blog is beyond hilarious. His car's license plate is "Ec 10" (our intro-to-economics class) and he brought his son to lecture once. HILARIOUS. Much too conservative, of course (as most economists are), but HILARIOUS nonetheless.