The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep

There hasn't been a collection o' links here in a while. That's no excuse. Nevertheless, here's a bunch of stuff, mostly Metafilter/YouTube in nature. Happy browsing.

Gimme Gimme Octopus. My favorite is the one is the child-care-themed episode.

Pitchfork's "100 Awesome Music Videos". Some of these are pure 80's nostalgia, some purely fascinating in their own right, some pure camp. If you don't know this one by now, you will never, never know why it's so awesome.

Rory says that the new album from The Divine Comedy is great, and he's right. I'm going to have to go back and find the earlier CDs, now. Warning: once "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World" gets in your head, it's stuck for 3-5 days minimum.

It was a while ago, but our pal KF was interviewed about her new book on Wisconsin Public Radio's To the Best of Our Knowledge.

No, not Playboy Bunnies. PLAYMOBIL BUNNIES. (We have this one, but I kind of want them all).

Recommended reading: Alison Bechdel's wonderful Fun Home; Alan Furst's The Foreign Correspondent; Douglas Brinkley's harrowing The Great Deluge.