this is a great compendium of comics dealing with the douchebaggery of hecklers:

(from EasyJo)

racing technology == like whoa. the fact that Stephane walked away from this is unbelievable.

(h/t jalopnik, duh)

Pulp Elizabethan Fiction:

J: Your pardon; did I break thy concentration?
Continue! Ah, but now thy tongue is still.
Allow me then to offer a response.
Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray.
B: What?
J: What country dost thou hail from?
B: What?
J: Thou sayest thou dost hail from distant What?
I know but naught of thy fair country What.
What language speak they in the land of What?
B: What?
J: English, base knave, dost thou speak it?
B: Aye!
J: Then hearken to my words and answer them!
Describe to me Marsellus Wallace!

Much more here.

in case you haven’t been privvy to “ghost-riding the whip”, for background, here’s the original source of inspiration, my personal favorite interpretation (ghost ride the delorean), and now, ghost-riding the MRAP (via jalopnik):

Favorite comment from this thread:

“OK, soldier, so at the time of the IED detonation, where did you say Major Evans was?”

“He was krumping sir. Or possibly clowning. I’m not positive. It was dark.”

A sampling of the finest in robot writing:

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Not tonight honey, I’m heterosexual, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

Hey!, was searching Google for bleached blonde hair and your blog regarding a scientist reviews godless looks really interesting for me. I will definitely bookmark it and come back for more cool postings to read! Cheers!

Your Website contributes swell stories about people more awesome than r, part deux! You should know this amazing data is greatly precise.

ohmigod. this is one of the funniest things I have ever read.

Craigslist ad for $1 cement blocks: “You want the blocks? Come get the fucking blocks and give me one dollar for every block you take. How fucking hard is that? You don’t have to tell me what you’re building. I don’t give a fuck.”

Click here for the whole thing.
(via Daring Fireball)

trent reznor is an exotic bird

my favorite part is the recorder…

sometimes when I consider the complete tragicomedy of a person michael jackson has become, I forget that he was once actually a very talented and brilliant musician (and apparently beatboxer):

but what i didn’t realize until I saw this video was that he used his own beatboxing as a basis for many of his beats:

that said, he still doesn’t have anything on Scratch or this guy:

so, you’ve all seen the OK GO video for here we go again. now check out these badass kids mimicking it to a tee:

in other badass news, check out this video of KJ Sawka playing drum and bass live:

Weird Al Yankovich on his recent first-ever top-10 hit:

“As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.”

oh. my. god. for all you metal heads out there– wait for the breakdown:

Now, I know all of you guys are so fucking cool that you totally knew about this like back in college before the internet was even invented. You had the pandora.com limited edition picture disc 7″ that was printed in Germany and only distributed via the underground railroad.

– corporate-casual on Pandora