One More Reason...

... to love Rhino Records:

The Office Ghetto Run-Through!

2004: A Space Ought-To-See?

It's not a large, opaque monolith, but it's an arresting headline nonetheless.

Opportunity explores mysterious spheres in Martian trench.

p.s. Cow! Kubrick! Cowoobrick!

Traffic Was Crazy!

Some interesting results from my Sitemeter weekly report:

4 weeks ago:
Average per Day .................. 5
Average Visit Length .......... 0:06
This Week ....................... 38

3 weeks ago:
Average per Day .................. 6
Average Visit Length .......... 0:09
This Week ....................... 41

2 week ago:
Average per Day .................. 7
Average Visit Length .......... 2:13
This Week ....................... 47

Last week:
Average per Day ................ 116
Average Visit Length .......... 0:24
This Week ...................... 812

[screeeeech]

812!
Eight-hundred and frickin' twelve!

So much for my small but dedicated cult following.

Hmmm. An average of 116 visits per day. Average visit length of only 24 seconds. I'm wondering if it was the Jessica Simpson thing?

Checking the more detailed stats, it looks like a lot of people found their way here entering search terms for spongemonkeys, but traffic also peaked on Wednesday, when I posted about that "Jessica" song. [shrug]

Classified Ad Of The Week

This ad for THE WORLD'S UGLIEST COUCH definitely puts the 'class' in classifieds.

Courtesy of Craigslist.

Song Of The Week

This week's Song Of The Week goes to...

Adam Green for "Jessica".
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This clip also wins the award for Best Use Of Ping-Pong In A Music Video.

Spongemonkey Sandwich

Our pal Vern brings this rather interesting development to our attention. Seems the people at the Quiznos sandwich chain have recruited our much beloved spongemonkeys for a web promotion.

We're not sure how to feel about this. It's often disturbing to see a favoured expression of wacked creativity from the margins get appropriated by large-scale commercial interests. On the other hand, begrudging kudos must go to Quiznos' marketing/ad people for daring to use the spongemonkeys, and for generally having the, uh, "quiznos", for such a strategy. There aren't many marketing strategies out there that are willing to recognize the role of web culture in the popular consciousness.

Either way, we here at jimbuck2 heartily applaud any punnerific use of the word 'buck', especially as used in the 'buck off' header on the promotion's web page.

It's also worth a trip over to rathergood.com to check out some of the new installments. We especially liked "When Biscuits Go Wrong" and The Zoology Dragon.

"COW! CUBE! COWUUUBE!"