Link. Thanks to Jessperson for the tip.

“And if we freeze on frame 138, we distinctly see a puff of blue hair coming from the grassy knoll.” – Prof. Frink

A gente sabe que Marc Jacobs arrasa nas roupas e tem o dedo de midas fashion, porém quando o assunto é tattoo… Sorry MJ suas tattoos não rolaram, hahaha!

Zoek het NON-Simpson karakter.

Hoy tengo el día especialmente freak:

Voy a amar a solas, deprimido
no sabrán jamás que sueño hallarte,
perímetro difícil, escondido
que en mis neuronas late…
Oscuro el camino para ver
los secretos que tú ocultas
¿hallarlos podré…?

Estos versos esconden una rara, friki y curiosa (y quizás banal) regla mnemotécnica para los 32 primeras cifras de Pi (a.k.a. π). El método en cuestión radica en que el número de letras de cada palabra es en realidad cada cifra del célebre número irracional… Podéis encontrar algún ejemplo más en su artículo de la Wikipedia.

Por cierto que tanto Dios como el Profesor Frink no se complican la vida memorizando tanto decimal… Más bien afirman que Pi es 3 exactamente.

"¡Pi es tres exactamente!"

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“Springfield has come down with a fever . . . football fever, brought on by the biggest game of the year, the pigskin classic between the Shelbyville Sharks and our own Springfield Atoms.  If you have the fever, there’s only one cure.  Take two tickets and see the game Sunday morning.” – Kent Brockman

“Warning: Tickets should not be taken internally.” – TV Announcer

“See, because of me, now they have a warning.” – Homer Simpson

“How did you get this number?” – NASA Guy

After each week’s Zombie Simpsons there’s always one or two (usually one) lines that people begin quoting incessantly on Twitter.  This week there were several people quoting “Hello, you are getting cozy with Sarkozy” from that sloppy ending when Homer calls the French President for some reason.  This afternoon it started cropping up again (mostly in French language tweets).  It took almost a week, but apparently that line made it to France:

Their cameos passed largely unnoticed in France until Friday, when news websites started linking to pirated clips of the episode, creating a buzz which saw more than 117,000 fans linking to the DailyMotion site alone.

I understand that the French, even if we grant them their reputation for good taste, might get suckered in by seeing their president mentioned on Zombie Simpsons.  But that line is yet another example of a more or less humorless reference masquerading as a joke.  The line rhymes, sure, but even if we set aside the fact that Homer has Sarkozy’s number it still doesn’t make any sense.  “Cozy” is simply not a word that has anything to do with answering a telephone.  There’s no joke, no thought, it’s not even a pun.  All it does is rhyme (and not even that well). 

And that’s if we set aside the whole “Homer can call the president of France” thing, which we shouldn’t be doing anyway.  Even when you cut this show some slack it still sucks. 

Alright Econo Save, you just made the List.” – Homer Simpson

We’ve got a couple of people with best episodes lists this week, plus a list of cartoon deaths, and a list of random thoughts and other lists as well.  Lists for everyone, hooray!  There’s also some strange art, one piece of excellent beer related usage, some love for The Critic and some trivia about Simpsons’ middle names. 

Enjoy.

Milhouse of The Simpsons Gay? – I don’t know whether or not Milhouse is gay.  I don’t think it has anything to do with how Matt Groening refers to himself (see the comments at that link).  I do know that he has many flamboyantly homosexual tendencies. 

Lisa Simpson & Grooveshark? – Lisa carved into a sidewalk, possibly in Gainesville, Florida.  Continue with your day. 

‘Simpsons’ character contest winner is the Bomba – Zombie Simpsons outsourced its creative process and came up with . . . a Latino dude.   This is me not caring. 

Miller Heavy – Discussing the awesomeness of beer he quotes Reverend Lovejoy.  Excellent usage.

Gone Too Soon: The Critic – That show was ahead of its time.  Oh well, we’ll always have “Rubik’s Cube: The Movie”. 

My Top Ten Simpsons Episodes – This is an outstanding list.  The youngest episode on here is “You Only Move Twice”.  Even at the end, when he runs through all the episodes he didn’t pick, it’s all old ones (with one Fierstein hated exception). 

My Top 5 Episodes Of The Simpsons – I wouldn’t put “Hurricane Neddy” anywhere near this high up, but other than that I have no complaints. 

Light the Candles! – Blog birthday celebration with several video clips, including the always sweet “Lisa It’s Your Birthday”.

Nine Cartoons with Seriously Sad Deaths – Maude Flanders is number nine, but no mention of Bleeding Gums Murphy, Dr. Marvin Monroe, or Frank Grimes.  (via Springfield Springfield’s Twitter feed)

I Have Created Art – I don’t get this, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t oddly compelling.

Dan Radcliffe to do Simpsons Twilight Spoof – We mentioned this briefly on the Twitter feed, but for posterity’s sake I guess it should go here too.  The dude who plays Harry Potter is guest voicing in next year’s Zombie Simpsons Halloween special.  Yawn.

The Simpsons Cupcakes – These are so incredibly detailed and awesome I had to scroll through the Flickr gallery to convince myself they were real.  They are.  Wow.  (via Cupcakes Take the Cake)

Harry Shearer Speaks at the Byrd – Shearer will be at the Byrd Theater in Richmond, Virginia this Sunday.

Happy 50th Birthday, Rocky & Bullwinkle! Moose and Squirrel Through the Years – I didn’t know this:

"I think it’s actually more popular today than it was when it was originally on the air the first five years," says Ward, Jay Ward’s middle child and only daughter, who now serves as the president of Ward Productions. "It had its followers but it wasn’t a huge hit."

Those followers were a devoted bunch, though, and turned out to include many future creative forces in Hollywood, particularly ‘The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening.

"Matt [Groening] grew up saying he wanted to do his own version of ‘Rocky & Bullwinkle,’ he was such a fan," says Ward. "So he created the Simpsons and gave [Homer, Bart and Grandpa Simpson] each an initial J in their names as an homage to my dad Jay Ward. I think the show would have been a primetime hit [today]. In 1959, it was just ahead of its time."

Educational.

More skate spot pics – Skate park graffiti includes a well done, and very pissed off looking, Homer.  Click for image.

Day old antiques…I’m confused… – Weird signage combined with a link to the old man that sells cursed frogurt is highly cromulent usage. 

Top 5 Fridays – Moustaches – Flanders is #3. 

Lame…I Know! – It’s the lyrics to “See My Vest” complete with audio via YouTube.  What on earth is lame about that?

The Simpsons Nail Design – A remarkably detailed nail polish application that has all five family members.  Bravo. 

My Minnesota Home: The top 10 reasons it rules to be from the land o’ lakes – Points out that it was the University of Minnesota that made Flanders what he is today. 

Just a Thought . . . Part 2 – And finally, a list of random thoughts and observations including, gloriously, this one:

-A headline I wished I had read 10 years ago: “The creator of ‘The Simpsons’ announces: ‘We’re going to quit while we’re ahead.’”

Me too. 

via misterhonk.de

Homer Simpson et son pote Carl à Paris, ça balance. Une Carlita chaude comme de la braise – raccord avec les “rumeurs” circulant dans certains milieux (médiatiques notamment) basées sur des indiscrétions sur les coulisses élyséennes  -, et un Sarkozy en petit  standardiste du château, le camembert à portée de main. Rajoutez la clope et le rouge, et le tour est joué. L’épisode des Simpsons diffusé ce 15 novembre aux USA propose une caricature plus parlante (et fidèle) que certaines analyses sur les coulisses du pouvoir au Sarkoland et les images mises en avant au service de sa stratégie de com’ (on attend un enfant pour 2011 non ?).

Nicolas Sarkozy et Carla Bruni dans les Simpson !
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Formado em 1999, o Evergreen Terrace, quinteto de Jacksonville/Florida, mostra que é possível misturar hardcore melódico com metal sem causar estranhamento.

Para comprovar, é só dar um play no vídeo abaixo, Sending Signals, presente em seu mais recente álbum Almost Home, que saiu em setembro pela Metal Blade Records e que traz 11 faixas e participação de Tim Lambesis (As I Lay Dying).

Vale dizer que em breve eles entram em turnê pela Europa ao lado de Ignite, Biohazard, Agnostic Front, Death By Stereo, Walls Of Jericho e No Turning Back; e que o guitarrista que divide os vocais do ET com Andrew Carey é Josh James, que também é vocalista da banda straight edge Casey Jones.

Quem quiser ouvir um pouco mais do Evergreen Terrace — que provavelmente tirou seu nome da vizinhança dos Simpsons — é só clicar aqui!

E aí, Simpsonscore ou Karate Kidcore?

Todavía no hemos terminado de disfrutar del halloween (en serio?) cuando ya sabemos las noticias de lo que quieren planear para el siguiente programa de “Los Simpsons” en su especial de Halloween. Según nos cuenta Entertainment Weekly, el actor de Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe pondrá su voz para la versión en inglés de este programa.

Si no fuera suficiente, el mismo Radcliffe trabajará en la parodia de Twilight para los Simpsons, donde hará la voz de Edmund, un joven vampiro que le gusta a Lisa. Las tensiones subirán de tono cuando Drácula, el padre de Edmund, junto con Homero, tratarán de separar a la joven pareja.

“Daniel estaba muy emocionado de hacer Los Simpsons” nos cuenta el productor ejecutivo, Al Jean, quien puso la noticia en la página. “Y estuvimos dale y dale preguntándole por detallitos sobre su siguiente película de Harry Potter, hasta que nos dimos cuenta de que estaban todos en los libros”.

This clip from The Simpsons is the background behind the working title for my new blog.  I have started this blog because I am in my first semester of Grad school and we are learning to be reflective practitioners.  Truthfully I do not yet fully understand what that means, but in step towards being more reflective, I am choosing to write down my thoughts in this medium.

I am a student at George Mason University in the Organizational Development and Knowledge Management program, so you can expect to read reflections about organizations, change management, group dynamics, etc.  I am also an employee at Volunteer Arlington and am passionate about volunteerism and building community so you can also expect to read reflections about those topics.  The views I express are my own, I am not speaking on behalf of Volunteer Arlington or Arlington County in this blog.

So, lately i’ve been getting addicted to pretty much anything that Matthew Inman has created. I mean everything. This guy is pumping out random comics that I just adore. Which is good, as I’m very hard to please when it comes to comics.

I need them to be senselessly stupid and drenched in inside humor. I like making other people be like: “uhh, I don’t get it”, which can only make something even more funny.

As it stands, I’ve been talking alot about stupidity lately. The most recent incident being last night, where I pointed out that I love stupid people doing stupid things to other people, but the second that they try to say or do something stupid to me, I murder them in my mind.

“YOU ARE DEAD TO ME“, I yell in my most he-man voice possible given the female vocal chords I was cursed with at birth, “DEAD!!!!”.

But the fact remains, when it happens to someone else, everything is fine and dandy and perfectly hilarious. That’s why I liked Homer Simpson for the longest time. And Peter from Family Guy was funny for a while too. Of course, they got old and things began to annoy me.

Now, don’t hate me, I still watch and enjoy the shows, just not as the full extent as I used to. I try not to watch them often enough for me to want to gouge my eyes out. It’s getting easier.

Well, that’s it for today, mostly. I’m in my American Sign language class and i’m pretty sure i’m going to have to make a lame excuse as to why I’m not going to be here next next Monday.  The real reason is that I’m going to be in Austin visiting with friends. The lame reason will be some kind of graduation for a family member or an interview for a summer internship.

perhaps that will work. =]

Last week international relations between the US and France took a knocking when a new episode of the Simpsons was broadcast.

The episode entitled “The Devil wears Nada” brings Homer to Paris where he meets the First Lady of France.

Carla Bruni is depicted as a wine-swigging chain-smoking man-eater (”I want to make love. NOW!), whilst the President is shown eating Camembert with a spoon.

As always, the dialogue is hugely witty, the best moment surely being Monsieur Sarkozy answering the phone: “Allo, you are getting cozeeeeee with Sarkozeeeee.”

Clichéd? Yes.  But hilarious.

The video is already a YouTube hit in France where Sarko’s popularity is waning and les jeunes adore USA culture.

I imagine it has probably gone down less well at the Élysée Palace, especially as the episode was broadcast in the same week that Sarkozy’s new toy/jet “Carla One” was mocked for being overly bling and a loser in the “my plane is bigger than your plane” competition with Obama’s Air Force One.

But perhaps I underestimate Sarko’s sense of humour and a little bit of me hopes that he has snuggled up to Carla this week with a chuckle and the preamble “You are getting cozeeeee with Sarkozeeee.”

The say, “write what you know”. While I’m sure I’m not the first, I tend to agree. On the surface – of course – this seems quite obvious as writing about something you know nothing about would be a tremendously difficult task. But as with any great pearl of wisdom, the true meaning is tucked away.

For me, “what you know” is not necessarily what you know, but rather what you feel and who you are. To me, if you’re not writing – or less specifically, creating – “what you know”, then you don’t stand a chance of creating anything of great meaning. It is from this “what you know” that great art is spawned and that unique voices are born.

And it doesn’t matter what you’re creating: music, sculpture, dance, math and advertising all require that unique voice to be heard. What sets the masters apart in any of these fields is that at one point it was like they were speaking their own language.

Sometime in the ’60s, (I say sometimes because it’s nearly impossible to get exact times with this guy, but I digress) Jim Morrison wrote:

I wanna tell you about Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Soft-driven, slow and mad, like some new language

These words have stuck with me since I first heard the songs, but it wasn’t until I read Ignore Everybody, by Hugh MacLeod, that I really found the right context for them. One of the many topics that MacLeod explores in this brilliant book is the idea of a new a language from the point of view of the young artist, creating, without pressure or expectation, and establishing “a new language that other people could also speak to the world with”.

What Morrison is describing is a feeling that I’m sure most of us have experienced. That feeling when you hear a song for the first time and something about it stops you in your tracks. It’s happened to me countless times, but one of the most vivid was hearing Kurt Cobain perform “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” on Nirvana’s Unplugged record (see below for the clip). It was a tape at the time, so I had to stop and rewind again and again because I couldn’t get enough. There was intensity and pain in his voice that I’d never before encountered. His somewhat-flawed vocals spoke to me and yet I couldn’t really understand them. It was truly like as if he was speaking a different language.

And in a sense, he was. Like him or not, Cobain changed the way the language of music is spoken. Just like Lennon & McCartney and many others did before him. And the way the Simpsons writers changed comedy, the Google guys chaged search algortihms and Lee Clow changed advertising.

They didn’t, necessarily, do it by being better than their competition. They did it by writing what they knew in a language that was all their own, but would soon become the language that the audience – and the world – spoke with them.

Please, take the time to check out this clip of Nirvana’s performance, as you can watch the transformation occur in Cobain. Pay close attention at around 4:46. It’s as if he slips out of the trance for a second. When he opens his eyes, either he’s looking at your soul or you’re seeing his. Either way it’s a very intense moment.

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 Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user joelogon.

“Dad, who’s watching teevee at 3:17am?” – Bart Simpson
“Alcoholics, the unemployable, angry loners . . .” – Homer Simpson

.D’oh ! On savait que le couple Sarkozy, un homme politique deux fois divorcé et une ex-mannequin devenue chanteuse, excitaient les curiosités aux Etats-Unis. Les voilà seconds rôles dans un épisode des « Simpson », série créée en 1989 et qui fait désormais partie du patrimoine américain.

L’épisode concerné, le cinquième de la 21e saison, a été diffusé le 15 novembre aux Etats-Unis et s’appelle « The Devil Wears Nada » (« Le diable s’habille en nada », référence au titre du roman de Lauren Weisberger, « Le diable s’habille en Prada », adapté au cinéma avec Meryl Streep).

Carl et Carla ont joué à « cache la baguette » ensemble !
Homer Simpson est en voyage à Paris, comme assistant de Carl Carslon, son ami d’enfance et collègue de travail. Lors d’un cocktail, ce dernier se fait aborder par une vamp, qui jette rapidement son dévolu sur Carl.

Homer découvrira un peu plus tard qu’il s’agit de Carla Bruni. De retour à Springfield, il menace Carl de révéler à Nicolas Sarkozy avec qui il a joué à « cache la baguette ». Et converse brièvement avec le président français. (Voir la vidéo)

L’épisode est une bonne occasion pour les scénaristes de jouer avec tous les clichés sur la France : l’accent, le fromage, la bise entre hommes, la nymphomanie des Françaises…

« Bande de singes mangeurs de fromage qui se rendent face à l’ennemi ! »
Ce n’est pas la première fois que la série brocarde le « plus vieil allié » des Etats-Unis. Les références abondent au fil des épisodes, me rappelle Pascal Riché, grand fan des aventures de Marge, Homer et Bart, Lisa et Maggie.

Alors que Jacques Chirac et George W Bush s’affrontaient sur l’opportunité d’intervenir en Irak, un épisode montrait ainsi l’un des personnages, un Ecossais chargé d’enseigner le français, commencer son cours par un tonitruant « Bonjourrrrrrrrr, yah cheese-eatin » surrender monkeys ! » (« Bonjour, bande de singes mangeurs de fromage qui se rendent face à l’ennemi ! »). L’expression avait fait florès.

Selon l’AFP, « l’Elysée s’est refusé à tout commentaire sur cette prestation. » Nicolas Sarkozy et Carla Bruni entrent en tout cas dans le club très VIP des « guest-star » de la série créée par Matt Groening, de Mick Jagger à Pete Sampras en passant par Bill Clinton.

Sauf oubli dans la liste de Wikipédia, ce sont les premiers Français à y figurer. De Gaulle et Tintin peuvent bien être aperçus, comme le relèvent Jck et Michaelski dans les commentaires de cet article, mais le premier n’apparaît que très brièvement et dans séquence d’archives, et le second est… belge.

URL : http://www.flashgame-girl.com/Puzzle-board/Tiles-of-The-Simpsons.html

Game description :

Click groups of the Simpson icons on the tiles to make them disappear.

Game controls :

Use Mouse to interact.

Bart is Marge, Marge is Homer, and painfully trite exposition can take up a lot of time if you don’t care in the least about the quality of what you’re doing.  I don’t mind pointless meandering narratives from elderly relatives (the holidays are coming up and I’m 100% ready), but, rightly or wrongly, I expect more from $5,000,000 television episodes.  Making a teevee audience suffer through a 22-minute after school special about the horrors of being a slacker when they could be doing almost anything else is an outright disgrace.  Less unfunny alternatives include waiting for downloads to finish, masturbating when you aren’t horny, and watching television programs that are well paced, written with a semblance of care, and not 100% composed of suck.

This post has no ending because the Zombie Simpsons episode in question didn’t have one either.  That is all.

O vídeo do episódio em que “Os Simpsons” brincam com Nicolas Sarkozy, presidente francês, e a mulher, Carla Bruni, está a fazer sucesso em sites de partilha de vídeos como o YouTube (quase 50 mil visitas) ou o Daily Motion (com mais de 519 mil visitas).

No episódio, Carla Bruni é retratada como uma femme fatale e Sarkozy como um presidente cheio de sentido de humor. As vozes, ao contrário do que aconteceu com Tony Blair, não foram feitas pelos próprios. E o Palácio do Eliseu nem comenta o episódio, intitulado “The Devil Wears Nada”. Para ver aqui.

É a nova sensação da internet. O vídeo do episódio em que “Os Simpsons” brincam com Nicolas Sarkozy, presidente francês, e a mulher, Carla Bruni, está a fazer sucesso em sites de partilha de vídeos como o YouTube (quase 50 mil visitas) ou o Daily Motion (com mais de 519 mil visitas).

No episódio, Carla Bruni é retratada como uma femme fatale e Sarkozy como um presidente cheio de sentido de humor. As vozes, ao contrário do que aconteceu com Tony Blair, não foram feitas pelos próprios. E o Palácio do Eliseu nem comenta o episódio, intitulado “The Devil Wears Nada”. Para ver aqui.