Hot Chip achieves the musical aspect of this to better effect, but the men themselves can't be matched.

Oh, my god, I had forgotten the Skatt Brothers entirely— I saw the video online years ago, and have fruitlessly tried to search for it a couple of times since, but couldn't remember enough of it. Bless you, Cyriaque Lamar.

You're right; I'm not as informed as I thought I was and I missed a lot of the nuance to the issue. My apologies. (I do know a little about racism in Australia, though— I have friends who keep me posted on the lovely phenomena like this)

I jumped the gun on mentioning gay marriage, it seems from the replies to my post. Nonetheless, it's dismaying.

That is depressing. The friend of mine who connects me to most of my Australian news is a progressive/humanist/capable-of-both-basic-empathy-and-foresight-ist and he mentions sometimes how it just kills him to live in a fantastic country that is nonetheless an environment where the "tough on foreigners" gestures are…

I think Australia is awesome— my friends love it there, and the facts back them up. I may be a little biased on this, as the friend who informs me the most on Australian politics is a stringent leftist who votes Green, and his perspective is that Australia is constantly toeing the line of being governed by people…

Much as I support Gillard for taking Tony "Shitlord" Abbott down a peg, it's a tentative support because of the lovely things I've learned from my Australian friends about her government: Refusing to pass gay marriage, for example, or interning refugees fleeing horrific warfare in island prisons.

If I recall correctly from Ken Mandelbaum's terrific Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Flops, there were multiple attempts at doing this exact thing (a direct musical adaptation of Capote's book) that were hideous failures. I can't recall if it was in the chapter for "ruined by the execution", "terrible…

The term "chode" (or "choad" as some of my fellow Millennial hellspawn spell it) has been on my mind a lot, and I've been trying to figure out how I'd want to actually use it.

The Aunt Who Always Has Too Much Wine At Thanksgiving Red.

I can't be the first to notice this, but... "Shrimp and Blocoly Tase Special so Nice"?

Did I say he wasn't?

Thank you for completely misreading my post, and also not bothering to read my replies to the other responders on said post. I enjoy KC Green's work. He writes and illustrates brilliant, touching comics that produce meaning from unexpected material. His sense of humor strikes a chord with me. But that doesn't stop me…

I know he's a great guy; I've actually spoken to him on Twitter and he's super chill, in addition to the nice things my friends who have gotten stuff from him at cons have to say. He just gives off signals sometimes that remind me a lot of friends of mine, and they've suffered from depression similar to the kind he's…

His Twitter is a pretty varied blend of personal bits, non-facetious updates, the particular kind of widdershins humor belonging to "Weird Twitter", and some of his updates blend the first and third in a dark way that makes me worry for him.

I love KC Green's work, but I get the uneasy feeling sometimes that he's wrestling with mental illness, worse than just the depression he's openly discussed.

These kind of things always look nice; it's a shame I don't have a need for one at the moment, or that there isn't something similar-looking with a different purpose I could turn into functional desk/shelf adornment.

Oh, and don't even get me started on the totally non-problematic genre of "quirky white people covering what white people perceive to be nonwhite music, for white people who don't like that music in its original form" from which Karmin sprang on YouTube.

I went to a Karmin concert a few weeks ago because as a new college student of the social-media-integrated-ingrates-from-hell generation I wanted to meet people, and it left me emotionally numb on multiple levels, from the fake Trinidad-y-Tobago/Berklee-graduate-idea-of-"ghetto" patois that Heidemann uses on every…

I have one of Samsung's Android personal-media-player-totally-not-a-tablet Galaxy Players in the 5-inch variety, and the portability is a strong advantage.