on the difference between flying lizards, purse rats, and the higher life forms

Here you go, bird enthusiasts: absolute proof of the difference between highly evolved, sophisticated life forms and your inferior little pets. Check out that music selection!

Backstreet Boid from Cute Overload

And here’s more or less the same thing, with a Purse Rat.

there’s one in every crowd

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Banksy vs the Streets

Longtime readers of the ol’ raincoaster blog are familiar (perhaps too familiar) with my adoration of Banksy, the Birmingham Bristol street artist who is #1 on my list of “men whom I have no idea what they look like but, whatever, they could have me anyway. in daylight. on Sunday.

And they are equally familiar with my fondness for mashups and radical YouTubeification, so the fact that I’m posting the following video, which combines all of the above, should come as no surprise to anyone but nOObs, and they should just hang out and read and watch what I tell them, dammit!

Banksy vs the Streets remix

folk you

Truly has the great prophet of old, Tom Lehrer, said that the reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people. Yet, verily, we have found one which transcends the acoustic mire to stand proudly alone, foremost or perhaps in this case hindmost among them all. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Jonathan Coulton, performing his acoustic version of Baby Got Back:

via Newscoma

Latest U2 Video! Exclusive!

Yes, we at the ol’ raincoaster blog have a world exclusive, the very latest from the greatest rock band the Universe has ever seen except maybe the Beatles and don’t give me that Rolling Stones crap, you just say that because you wanted to sleep with Keef when you were a tween.

Behold, the very latest U2 video, Check Out My Pubes:

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