Fair enough—probably what I meant was that *I'm* not cool or relevant anymore. Elliott Smith is still the fucking man.

My preferred joke was to post a link to the Elliott Smith song with the caption "LOL Check out this crappy Gotye Cover!" following which I chuckled smugly to myself while trying not to think about how all the stuff I liked in high school isn't cool or relevant anymore.

Don't know about the braille ones, but the audiobook versions of these were brutal.

I mean, yeah, it's kind of crap, but it doesn't mean there wasn't a legally tenable claim going on necessarily. The entity that owned the rights to Fogerty's earlier song sued him for writing and publishing a similar new song. Fogerty won I think, but it's not that crazy of a lawsuit if you think about it. If I…

There's a couple of well-known cases like that involving established artists. John Fogerty even got sued one time for allegedly copying one of his earlier songs. I think it goes to show that even pros aren't immune to having their creative mojo occasionally hijacked by some long-forgotten ear worm.

Even the Beatles didn't wake up early enough for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Totally true, but here they were assessing similarity under copyright doctrines, rather than absolute, objective similarity. Not that the latter doesn't sometimes make its way into the former, but they're different analyses, as evidenced by all the numerous wacky famous outcomes in copyright infringement cases.

From an acquaintance who works at Buzzfeed, I gather that they're very aware of Clickhole's existence and occasionally go out of their way to produce content designed to out-Clickhole Clickhole.

It's from this SNL sketch making fun of Seinfeld's stand-up (with Seinfeld hosting): http://snltranscripts.jt.or…
Unless there's some earlier reference further down the rabbit hole.

Analog clocks aren't inherently any better than digital ones. Both are just graphic displays to represent the same information, only one of them you can't use effectively unless you've got a really good grasp of your five times tables.

What is your social security number?

Relax. She said one guy played drums on a song, but actually it was a different guy. It isn't like she's handling death row appeals.

That's a typo.

I always hear that as "use a male chimp," which typically makes that the most disturbing part of the whole podcast.

Agreed re the Seahawks game. There was so much collective internet hype about Chip Kelly's offense last week, only then to see it in action against Seattle kind of felt like "Yeah, well, at least they played those *three* downs really fast…"

Bandicoot Cucumber

Don't forget Toy Story of Terror, which has a plot basically ripped verbatim from Toy Story 2. Nothing good can come of this.

Conceded: Michael Shannon does, in fact, rule. I can only hope he can bring this project to the level of bat-shittiness that the version I imagined in my head just now reached.

Anyone else initially read that as "Molly Shannon," then get really excited, then disappointed when you realized what it actually said?

I would suspect the opposite actually—that is, that Hollywood Said No works better on the page. I can at least confirm that the audiobook version was surprisingly light on laughs (for me anyway). Still not sure why it wasn't funnier than it was.