Jonathan Coulton

Deane sends me this thesaurusized version of the opening of Baby Got Back (as inspired by Chris Falvey on McSweeney’s):
Oh my supernatural being, Becky, look at her fleshy mounds above her legs
it is so extensive
She appears to be one of those spoken rhyming vocals guys romantic and/or sexual involvement
Who can explain the nature [...]

Old news, but if I haven’t seen it, it’s new to me: Barney vs. 2Pac

I don’t know what’s going on here, other to say that the gentleman in this song likes his car very much and doesn’t speak English that well. This is mostly a sketch at this point, it could stand to be dressed up quite a bit, but studio time was hard to come by this week [...]

From Billboard via BoingBoing, a little good news from the front. A guy named Walter Ritter created a free application called Pearlyrics, which displays the lyrics of the song that’s currently playing in iTunes. If there are lyrics in the mp3, it displays those, otherwise it searches a few lyrics websites and saves what it [...]

The bigtime has finally found me - a couple of people have written to tell me that Baby Got Back got a nice mention in the Onion AV Club this week, under Great Cover Songs of 2005. Thanks Onion! I like the designation “humorist,” I’m going to start putting that on business cards.