Dylan Cue Cards

Same old story r.e. not blogging that much -- Work is mega-busy, and I've been trying to get some stuff done around the house. I now have four bookshelves in my office, one of which holds my new flat-screen TV (much more efficient than the museum piece I had on a TV cart until recently). I actually have a big, open, unencumbered patch of floor now that provides access to my closet!

I thought these were fun:

• Bob Dylan was the subject of the classic D.A. Pennebaker documentary Dont Look Back. In it, he holds up a whole bunch of cue cards during the Subterranean Homesick Blues segment while Allen Ginsburg hangs around in the background. The cue card thing has been much imitated, and now you can have Dylan use your own messages!
• Here' s Weird Al's parody of the above, "Bob":
  

Additional Items

A few more things from around the Internet:

• I might want to check out this book by Constantine Verevis, Film Remakes. Senses of Cinema review excerpt: His approach is nothing if not ecumenical, drawing on an almost bewildering range of views on the matter as he pursues the central question, “What is film remaking?” which he properly asks in his opening paragraph... ...He canvasses the kinds of taxonomies that have been proposed: these include Michael B. Druxman’s categories of the disguised remake (sometimes involving generic shift), the direct remake (which makes clear its source) and the non-remake (same title, new plot); and Harvey Roy Greenberg’s acknowledged, close remake (near-replication), acknowledged, transformed remake (substantial variations) and the unacknowledged, disguised remake (e.g. studio-era remakes).
• Ann Althouse on how some words are funnier than others. Excerpt of Wikipedia excerpt of 1948 New Yorker article: H. L. Mencken argues that "k words" are funny: "K, for some occult reason, has always appealed to the oafish risibles of the American plain people, and its presence in the names of many ... places has helped to make them joke towns ... for example, Kankakee, Kalamazoo, Hoboken, Hohokus, Yonkers, Squeedunk, and Brooklyn."...
• Communicatrix on the visual communication ideas of Edward Tufte. This is a guy I've been meaning to learn more about for a while. For instance, here are some of Prof. Tufte's comments on mapped pictures/image annotation.
• I would have thought I would have scored a little bit higher... Via Random Abstract:

How White and Nerdy Are You?

White and Nerdy / Ridin' Dirty Next to Each Other

White and Nerdy played next to Ridin' Dirty:

And, the two videos with their audio and video flip-flopped:

Everybody Watch "White and Nerdy"

I've been telling everybody to check out Weird Al Yankovic's White and Nerdy video. It kicks ass! Here's its Wikipedia page. (And, here's the Wiki page for Atlantic Records, referenced in the video.)