Sunday Groove: Nancy Sinatra nutshells the publishing industry with "This Town"

Nancy Sinatra nutshells the publishing industry: "This town is a love you town and a shove you down and push you 'round town... This town is a use you town, and abuse you town until you're found town."

Got 5 minutes? Brush up on your music history with Pentatonix!

Chance: "Toy Cows in Africa" (Remember this from Northern Exposure?)

Grooving with Astroids Galaxy Tour: "The Sun Ain't Shining No More"

Sunday groove: Florence + the Machine "Cosmic Love"

Happy Birthday, Scorsese! (Brilliant "Goodfellas" steady cam scene)

One of my all-time favorite movie scenes. Simply brilliant down to the tiniest detail.

Astonishing plastic art rescued from the flotsam

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang of San Francisco’s Electric Works gallery have created an astonishing array of sculptures, installations and sundry objet d'art from bits and pieces of plastic debris they've collected on Kehoe Beach in Point Reyes, California.

"We're not cleaning the beach. We're curating the beach."

The Illustrated Gaff (my favorite binder memes)

Last night in the presidential debate, Mitt Romney's handlers must had experienced a collective palm-to-forehead gasp when he said that his request for women candidates for his cabinet yielded "binders full of women." First of all, is it really such an ordeal to come up with qualified women for those positions? He gets special credit for the afterthought that it would look good to have some women on his staff? It would be easy to get serious about the subtext of the gaff. But it's a lot more fun to just hold it up to ridicule.

A few of the greatest hits:

Inside Out Art: Halvor Aakhus' BOOK OF KNUT

Okay, how brilliant is The Book of Knut? Answer, based on what I've seen: Very. The book comes from Jaded Ibis, a tiny publisher that's recently won me over heart and soul.

The premise, according to an interview with author Halvor Aakhus: "A mathematician finds a novel (Book) written by her dead lover (Knut Knudson) and subsequently transforms it into an annotated mathematical textbook, complete with homework problems. Aside from oil paintings, musical scores, mathematical graphs, etc., it’s got 216 footnotes."

Padgett Powell (author of The Interrogative Mood) says: "Halvor Aakhus should be paralyzed from depression and knowing too much. He has two or three doctoral dissertations, never consummated, in his head. The truly arcane stuff in Book of Knut is from his memory. This book won a prize getting to this point, and the judge said it was so outrageously complicated he could not not give it the prize. The reader should gird his or her loins if loins can be in one's head."

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"All art is erotic." ~ Gustav Klimt

Happy 150th Birthday, Gustav Klimt!

YES! Mr. Rogers "In the Garden of Your Mind" autotune remix

When my kids were little, they thought Mr. Rogers was their grandpa.

YES! Mr. Rogers "In the Garden of Your Mind" autotune remix

When my kids were little, they thought Mr. Rogers was their grandpa.