Via James Wolcott and Jane Espenson, a pilot for a sitcom called Depressed Roomies by Charlie Kaufman.

Funny stuff.

Via Dependable Renegade, it's Cheney playing Folsom Prison. (Not work-safe.)

Via Amer­i­ca­Blog, it's ` Brokeback to the Future <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfOD­SPIY­w­pQ>`_.

The Onion interviews Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report, politics, and improv.

Bill Shatner doing Elton John's Rocket Man. Be sure to watch the last 30 seconds or so.

Via DailyKos, the 25 Dumbest Quotes of 2005. Includes such gems as:

• 13) "If you'll look at my lovely FEMA attire you'll really vomit. I am a fashion god… Anything specific I need to do or tweak? Do you know of anyone who dog-sits? … Can I quit now? Can I come home? … I'm trapped now, please rescue me." --Ex-FEMA Director Michael Brown, in various emails to colleagues and friends in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
• 2) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" --House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005

As the Twelve Days of Christmas approach, it's time once again to make fun of them. Strictly speaking, we can't start until December 25th, the first day of Christmas, but the Xmas season starts earlier every year.

My favorite has long been Frank Kelly's Christmas Countdown, which was a big hit in Ireland and Britain in the early 1980s. It's couched as twelve in­creas­ing­ly ex­as­per­at­ed letters from Gobnait O'Lughnasa to his friend Nuala. Here's Day Six:

Nuala,

What are you trying to do to us ? It isn’t that we don’t appreciate your generosity but the six geese have not alone nearly murdered the calling birds but they laid their eggs on …continue.

Via del.icio.us/popular, it's dozens of Bunny Suicides! Very twisted.

Update: Apparently, these are pirated scans from The Book of Bunny Suicides.

My friend Raven knows far too much about prostates. She sent me this the other day.

Don't forget that conducting regular testicular self-exams (or getting someone else to do it for you :) is a very important part of keeping healthy. If detected early, testicular cancer is very curable:

http://tcrc.acor.org/tcexam.html

But you need to commit to doing it regularly, not to just doing it every once in a while, or when the mood strikes you.

Because as everyone knows, sometimes you like feeling nuts; sometimes, you don't.

And, on a not completely unrelated note, males with big testicles have smaller brains -- at least in the case of bats.

Via Larry Osterman, Triumph the Comic Dog delivering the weather forecast in Hawai`i. Very apropos, after yes­ter­day's snow in Seattle.