What if Mario and Luigi formed a punk rock band after rescuing the princess and teaching her how to play bass? Photo of Ex-Education in costume at an Oct. 31 show at the Chameleon Club’s Lizard Lounge in Lancaster, Pa.

It was hard to watch then:

And it’s just as hard to watch now:

There aren’t too many things stranger or more oddly entertaining than a Hungarian Ventrilochoir singing “Yesterday” are there? Maybe it’s not such a bad thing John Lennon never lived to see his already hokey song made about 10 times hokier by this Hungarian Ventrilochoir. Hungarian Ventrilochoir has a nice ring to it doesn’t it?

Daniel Smith explains the rules of a really fascinating family game in a video that gives a glimpse of Danielson in the studio. (Via Sounds Familyre Blog)

WV Project Series 2009: Danielson from Weathervane Music on Vimeo.

Philadelphia band The Swimmers have a new record called “People Are Soft” coming out Tuesday, Nov. 3. Their video for the song “What This World Is Coming To” is below and you can download the single “A Hundred Hearts” and listen to the new record HERE.

What This World Is Coming To from the swimmers on Vimeo.

From experience, I can tell you that a visit to this urgent care clinic in Louisville won’t result in an immediate need for a tombstone. Still, the symbolism seems appropriate given the ongoing discussion of health care reform and the fact that I now have a pre-existing condition following my visit to this clinic that is making it a bear to insure myself.

Are you sick of unwatched pots boiling over while you’re trying to cook? Well, has QVC got the product for you. It’s called a Boiling Minder and I’m convinced it’s one of the dumbest inventions ever. I stumbled across a whole shelf of these $19.95 tragedies of the free market while visiting the QVC (junk shop) outlet yesterday with my always entertaining in public father.

It wasn’t until I went to the Web site and watched the YouTube video below that I even understood what usefulness this object resembling a breath-a-lyzer could actually have.

Of course, now I’m even more convinced the product has no real usefulness other than as a sign of an impending apocalypse. But I’d take it over the $87 painting with busted out glass/beat up matting, the $45 manger (My dad: “Anyone who puts the Christ child in that thing deserves to be zapped) or any of the furniture my dad called “the greatest collection of particle board” he’d ever seen in the store any day.

Improv Everywhere is at it again, busting out into random musical numbers in a Queens grocery store in the video below. The “Let’s Squish Our Fruits Together” isn’t quite as catchy or dramatic as “Can I Get A Napkin Please” being sung in a mall food court, but it’s still quite brilliant. How cool would it be to actually be in a place to witness Improv Everywhere agents, to quote one guy at the grocery store, “turning life into a musical?”

“I enjoy and love what I do…It’s not a job, it’s a calling…. I’d do it for nothing.” -Franklin Graham

I’d say $1.2 million - what Billy Graham’s son makes double-dipping a full-time salary from Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association - is quite a bit more than nothing for a job he is “called” to do. 

I wonder how many shoe boxes he could fill for $1.2 million. 

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Robert Deeble, the mastermind of a storyteller that he is, explains the story behind his song “Clowned,” through the video below using cartoons by Brad Beshaw and photos by Jeanné (Travis) Ellenby. The song “Clowned” is from his latest release, the “This Bar Has No One Left” EP.