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He’s Got the Music In Him

This guy really enjoys his job. (HT2 AJM) Note that he takes the glasses off during a performance.

Football Trick Plays

I’m not even sure how I ended up watching these things. But if I can’t get my work done, no one else will either!

BP Spills Coffee

A former student, Heidi Lange, sent me this. Like a good Onion article, they fill it with good elaborations on the initial (funny) premise. Be careful though, there is one naughty word near the end.

As I clicked on his blog today–my favorite thing to do with my morning cup of tea–I started humming, “Kru-u-u-gman” to the tune of The Buckinghams’ song, “Susan.” So of course I pulled up the song to see it’s parody potential. It was better than I hoped. Just listen to the first 30 seconds to […]

Culture Shock: Colm Wilkinson in Les Mis

I was forever spoiled when my mom took me to Les Miserables as a young lad. Years later, when I was in grad school at NYU, I saw Les Mis on Broadway, but whatever punk they had playing Valjean was nothing. I wanted to yell out, “Hey man, do you even care that you’re facing […]

Role Model for White Boys

I am introducing a new category of blog posts that I hope I will not abuse. Sometimes I come across fairly random YouTube clips that are the perfect length–just long enough to make sure you don’t get back to work, but not long enough to scare you away from clicking Play. Some economists might post […]