Round 2 of the Masters of Song Fu Songwriting Challenge has officially begun, and it’s going to be a fun one…
Coulton and we are going head to head this time around in a special "Masters Challenge:" each of us is tasked to write a song in the style of our opponent. We’re not sure what [...]
THANK YOU to everyone who voted for our theme song in round one of the Song Fu challenge at Quick Stop Entertainment, earning us the privilege of moving on to the second challenge! You have our eternal gratitude.
It was neck-and-neck-and-neck all the way, and though his Fu was strong, we are proud to have edged [...]
Here’s what’s on the slate this month:
Thursday June 5 at 8 PM
20th Century Theater (Cincinnati, OH)
With Jonathan Coulton, All Ages
Tickets: at box office or (513) 731-8000
www.the20thcenturytheatre.com/
Friday June 6 at 9 PM
CBR’s (Columbus, OH)
With Jonathan Coulton, 18+
Tickets: at box office only
www.cbrbar.com/
Saturday June 7 at 7 PM
Club Cafe (Pittsburgh, PA)
With Jonathan Coulton, 21+
Tickets: xrl.us/bmf2a
www.clubcafelive.com
Saturday June 21 at [...]
Many of you have e-mailed, texted, posted, teletyped, smoke signaled or flapped your arms around willy-nilly to tell us about the latest food industry hero to leave us. Yes, we’re talking about Dr. Fredric J. Baur, inventor of the Pringles can. Of course the most salient detail of the story is not the breadth of [...]
During our time at New York Comic Con a few months ago (where we recorded our Superfriends! video), we sat down for an interview (well, technically, we stayed standing, but that’s not the vernacular) with the Geeks with Issues podcast. At long last, they’ve posted it…here’s the link. The segment about our panel and the [...]
Well, it’s in the can and submitted: our first entry in the Quick Stop Entertainment Masters of Song Fu contest. (Click here for an explanation of the contest) Our task for this opening round was to write a theme song for ourselves, in the style of a classic television show. (That is, as if there [...]
The Associated Press reports that Earle Hagen, composer of the theme to "The Andy Griffith Show"—and also the man whistling the melody in the opening credits—passed away this past Monday night at the age of 88. Hagen wrote many other memorable TV show theme songs, including the themes for "That Girl", "I Spy", "The Mod [...]
A number of new pictures are up on our flickr photostream lately. To wit:
- New Set: Snack Foods That Sound Like Sex Acts. We came to this realization in a gas station convenience store somewhere in Wisconsin a couple weeks ago, and now we’re obsessed with it: lots of snacks are given names that, when [...]
Gosh and heck, Left Side of the Country: that was one whiz bang of a weekend. Too many neat things to list in detail, but here’s at least a few of the keener moments:
Thurs. 5/15 - Phoenix
- Whatever chemicals are in the air there, they appear to facilitate broken guitar strings.
- We discover the [...]
Thanks to fan Javier, ever vigilant in the search for Nun Fight-related news, for bringing our attention to this article in the Daily Mail. From the article:
The duelling pensioners at Melbourne’s Catholic Homes Corpus Christi, most of whom are former priests and nuns, have spent nine months learning to lunge like Zorro - with [...]
