Avast ye! In honor of the one day each year when geeks of every stripe lift their voices together and assault their families, co-workers, barristas, and other landlubbers with a hail of “arrrrr”s, we’re offering our pirate anthem “The Captain’s Wife’s Lament” as a FREE DOWNLOAD. Or, if you’d prefer, we can tell ye that [...]
Because there just wasn’t enough going on at PAX already, we decided to make a video featuring ourselves, 68 last-minute volunteers, five geek superstars, and a bottle of water. So maybe it’s not exactly OK Go!, but we’d like to see what they could pull off with an aggregate of about six hours to come [...]
On the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, we offer you a FREE! FREE! FREE! thematically-appropriate song: Elvis Died Today. Try not to cry today, and please share it with your friends and frenemies. Long live The King. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Elvis Died Today (click to download, [...]
Here we go again! We’re pleased to announce that we’re bringing our travelling circus back to the nest, with w00tstocks 2.5 and 2.5.1 coming to the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA, on Thursday & Friday , September 16 & 17, 2010. Guest acts and other mayhem TBA, but it’s guaranteed to be [...]
Yes, it’s true: Paul created the #kanyenewyorkertweets Twitter hashtag meme. We’re seriously thinking about changing the name of our act to The Meme Brothers. Hot on the heels of Storm’s #wookieeleaks juggernaut, Paul’s insomnia and subsequent Twitter exchange with Josh Cagan led him to launch #newyorkerkanyetweets, a mashup of New Yorker cartoons and Twitter n00b Kanye [...]
Yes, it’s true: Storm started the #wookieleaks / #wookieeleaks hashtag meme that smoldered on and on like the Centralia Underground Coal Fire. It’s frankly a bit mind-blowing how far it’s spread. Here’s a sampling: Wired.com e-mail interview with Storm from Wednesday about how he thought of it and spread it, with the help of @shanenickerson [...]
Sometimes you order a large barrel of Awesome and they accidentally send you the DELUXE MEGA-ECONOMY SIZE. That is precisely what happened at w00tstock 2.4 SDCC. An SRO sellout crowd of around 800 was utterly rocked by each and every performer, as well as a handful of surprise guests. And we know that this comment [...]
You asked for it; you got it. And since we created a whole website with Jonathan to describe it and answer all your questions, we’ll just say this… Booking starts now for JoCo Cruise Crazy, a 6-day Eastern Caribbean cruise on Holland America’s ms Eurodam, with music and comedy performances from Jonathan Coulton and friends, featuring John Hodgman, [...]
In our most recent podcast, a passing comment about a pie fight led to a lengthy discussion of opening a “pie fight” franchise. The more we’ve thought about it, the more we like it. Well, now, thanks to our good friend Len Peralta, we’ve got a logo. (see right) — which is now available as [...]
In celebration of our nation’s birthday, we offer you a FREE! FREE! FREE! thematically-appropriate song of explosives safety—or the lack thereof: Ten-Finger Johnny. (We’d call it a “ten-finger discount,” but that would be incredibly lame) Please share it with all your patriotic friends. Have a safe and happy 4th! [Audio clip: view full post to [...]
