So my bathroom in my awesome new bedroom is nautical-esque. I hate the cheesy 'Oh look a basket of seashells!' kind of nautical bathroom, so I went a little more manly-ish? It's perpetually a work in progress.

Toilet squid!

Porthole mirrors and a pineapple yellow towel!

Ocean blue towels and a little sailboat curtain (with a pineapple yellow backing)!

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I wish Ringo would remember more things.

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I mean, the song's good, but it could really use more bass...

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Everybody should buy Kanye's new album, but also, you should watch this remix. This is the very definition of spitting flow. Also, as usual with rap, strong profanity warning for my younger viewers.

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You know my generation would go see this, and would eat it up like crazy. So make it happen, Nickelodeon.

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The best part is at about four minutes in, where he plays piano so hard his hair falls out.

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I've recently started to fall in love with Alt Country. Not regular country music, but country-esque music with some distortion. Things with heavy fuzz and all that. Stuff sorta like this:

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This is the voice of middle America.

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Ironically, one of the only good things to come out of the Superman Returns movie was Kevin Spacey's absolutely insane Lex Luthor impression. Turns out he didn't stop doing it when the cameras stopped rolling, which makes it even better.

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Sometimes I feel like we've already done all the cool literal exploring. The advent of satellite imagery on handheld devices takes some of the mystery out of the process, but on the other hand, there are still frontiers we have yet to break into. This TED talk is, like every other TED talk, totally awesome.

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So I was thinking today about how much I really enjoyed Alan Wake, and how I wish it was a TV show I could actually watch. This music video for Poets Of The Fall's 'War' is as close as I'll be able to come... until then, I'm gonna go rewatch Twin Peaks.

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Incidentally, the singer here is newsman Brian Williams' daughter, Allison. I'm basically in love.

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Well hey guys, long time no talk!

OK, in my defense, it's been a busy month or so. With the holiday season, and moving and everything, I've been pretty busy. Things are going good though!

• I personally am almost entirely unpacked. My only problem is, I haven't unpacked my clothes, mainly because I have no idea where the hell to put them. I have five big boxes of clothes (ranging from jackets to pants to sweaters) and a closet that's a generous five feet wide. So, really, I have nowhere to put them. All my shoes are on my shoe rack though!
• My music room is set up, although my rock posters have the unfortunate habit of wanting to fall off the walls. I had used Command Strips to stick them up, but I should probably do nails, I guess. I hate putting holes in walls, though.
• My bathroom is coming together nicely. It's got this faux ocean thing going on (portholes on the wall, for instance) that's kinda nice, but not overpowering or goony in the 'my bathroom is like the ocean' way.
• Speaking of goony, what was up with that apocalypse blizzard they warned us about on Wednesday that ended up to be some moderate snowfall combined with some strong winds? They way they hyped that up, you would have thought it was some life-endingly dangerous storm that was ready to kill our moms... instead it was just some heavy snow. Come on, guys, we live in a place renowned for its snow. Let's get serious.
• Speaking of serious, a whole bunch of BBC shows on Netflix Instant View expire on December 1st. Get started watching now, guys, because stuff like the first couple seasons of Doctor Who may disappear.
• Got the latest season of Doctor Who on Blu-Ray... it's so good. Envy me.
• I think I'm gonna watch a horror movie this morning. I go on these binges where I like different kinds of movies, and I just came off an artsy 60's Italian phase and I'm feeling particularly gory. I'll have to see what Netflix can offer me this morning.

Anyway, things are fine. I'll try and get back on a regular schedule again, so please, don't stop reading my two frequent readers.

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I don't really go out for all that paranormal stuff, but I do love a good unexplained mystery. And the caller on this sounds just desperate enough to make me believe that he might have actually seen something.

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Awkwaaaaaaard. She should have probably Angle'd and just walked off.

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Don Draper has a 'What?' from every occasion. Sometimes it's fun to watch this video three seconds at a time and guess what he's perplexed about based entirely on inflection.

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This can be a stupid country sometimes. I'm glad that the argument implicit here is that animal abuse is patriotism, and treating animals well is communism. Awesome job, America.

Also, look at those numbers. Like 48% of people voted AGAINST treating animals humanely? Ugh.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Tags: The Daily Show: Big Red Dogs, COMEDYCENTRAL

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Hey what's that over there? A package for me?

WHAT'S IN THE BOX MAN WHAT'S IN THE BOX...

Gwyneth Paltrow's head! Oh no! Oh, wait, also, there are...

OMG MY ZISSOU SHOES!

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Jeff Goldblum just became 100x cooler than he previous was (which was already pretty cool).

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There is something fantastically creepy about abandoned parks. Maybe it's the juxtaposition of places where people should be having fun and the sheer empty expanse, but it's somewhat unsettling. In that spirit, let's watch this!


One correction, the park isn't currently scheduled to be torn down.

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We've been cleaning out the house in preparation of the big move, and while cleaning out my closet (which I haven't been all the way inside of for at least six or seven years), I found a bag of old pieces of paper. And inside was a short essay that I wrote in fifth grade.

Names have been censored to protect people I haven't seen in a decade.

The text reads:

"In 20 years I will be a scientist working for a major company. I will be working on the cure for AIDS, the theory for cold fusion, and the cure for the common cold. I will have aw wife and 2 kids and also live in a big house. My income (once I write my book) will be $75,000 a year. I will live next door to ___, across the street from ___, by Bill Gates."

Kathy laughed at my estimation of income, but to be honest, $75k is pretty decent for a scientist. Don't think I could get into Bill Gates' neighborhood, though...

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So, my pair of favorite-est Adidas Archers have finally met their end. I was at work a couple days ago when I realized I had a small rock in my shoe. I took it off quick to dump out the rock when Marci, who sits next to me, said, "Gross, what did you put in your garbage?"

Turns out, wasn't garbage at all. It was my shoes. My wonderful, rainbow-colored shoes. So I became tasked with finding a new pair. But what pair?

The answer quickly became apparent. A few years ago I had hand-painted a pair of Adidas Zissou shoes; they looked close, given the stock model, but they weren't perfect. Well, not anymore. Turns out Adidas now has a 'make your custom shoe' feature on their website, and they even offer the equivalent model of the Zissou! So I customized that bad boy. Should be here in three or four weeks, just in time for it to be too snowy to actually wear them.

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Man, sometimes you just don't feel like hittin' the old cowbell anymore.

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Normally I hate Jimmy Fallon and his inability to do anything without looking directly into the camera and giggling. But arm safety is too important an issue to let go undiscussed.

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Take a look at the gentleman to the right of this wall of text. That's the face of the last truly honest senator who, as of last night, has been voted out of office.

Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin)

In the midst of an insane Midterm Election, the people of Wisconsin voted against Senator Feingold, who has been serving them since 1993. They instead voted for a man named Ron Johnson, a plastics manufacturing CEO who public and vehemently opposed a bill making it easier for sexual assault victims to sue their attackers. And he called global warming 'crazy'. And accepted government stimulus money while complaining that the government shouldn't be giving out stimulus money. The dude's a nut.

Mr. Johnson won by painting Senator Feingold as an elite, out of touch with the common man, and opposed to the needs of the people of Wisconsin. Did Wisconsin forget that Feingold holds meetings in every single county in the state to talk to the people? Heck, the man gives interviews and speaks with basically anybody interested in talking to him.

This isn't a partisan thing, and it's not about a Republican beating a Democrat. Honestly, last night, finding out that the people of Wisconsin voted out Russ Feingold was like being punched in the stomach. Feingold has always, ALWAYS been the gold standard of what it meant to be a great senator. We used to have Ted Kennedy to stand up for the little people, and then he passed, leaving Feingold as the only remaining senator I can truly say was 100% concerned about the needs of his constituents over himself.

What made Senator Feingold such a badass?

Well, let's talk money. That seems to be everyone's big concern nowadays, so let's begin there. Did you know that Senator Feingold hasn't accepted a single salary raise while in office? OK, how about that he routinely gives back large amounts of his annual budget because he can't justify spending for the sake of spending. How many senators would author and sponsor a bill to reform campaign finance and make elections more fair and equal? I'll give you a clue: not many.

Is the guy smart? You bet he's smart, he's a Rhodes Scholar, baby. Oh, and he has impeccable judgment. Who was the sole person to vote against impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, knowing that it was all a B.S. sideshow that didn't really matter in the long run? Oh, that was Russ Feingold. Who was the only senator to vote against the U.S. Patriot Act back in 2001? I'll give you a clue -- his name was Russ Feingold. Who voted against the War in Iraq? Feingold. And who was the first one to call for American removal from Iraq once we went in there and messed stuff up? Oh, yeah, Feingold again. And any time a piece of legislation comes up which might infringe your civil liberties, guess who has been there getting pissed off on your behalf and fighting it tooth and nail.

Would you like Universal Health Care? Russ Feingold was huge in pushing it. Want gays to marry? Feingold was so pissed that the Senate Judiciary Committee wanted to ban same-sex marriage that he left in the middle of their meeting. He's even been the keynote speaker at the annual Human Rights Campaign gala.

Of course, no person is without fault. I disagree with some of Feingold's record on weapons control, and his involvement with United States policies in Zimbabwe, but for the most part, I feel like Senator Feingold has been the best representative of sane America in politics. And now he's been voted out.

I know you're somewhere out there, Senator Feingold, fighting the good fight. Keep it up. You're a good man, and you've done all Americans a great service during your years in office.

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Scott, I know you're having computer problems today. Maybe this helpful tech demonstration will teach you something useful.

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