Jonathan Coulton

Just an update on some things in the pipeline. First the stuff I know for sure:
Thursday 6/21:
I’ll be a guest at Dave Hills’ “The Dave Hill Explosion” at UCB in New York. I don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing yet, probably playing some music and pretending to be funny like Dave Hill. Word [...]

The makers of the game Guitar Hero are looking for suggestions of songs to include in their new game Rock Band. I don’t know much about the game, but I’m sure it would be about a thousand times better if it had a great song in it like Code Monkey. I’m just saying.
Monkeys: attack!
http://www.rockband.com/index.php?do=/public/

Also, I keep meaning to post to these other things that make me laugh: captions written on SkyMall ads by my friend Melissa. There are these and also these others.

Saw this on Waxy – LOLCODE, a coding language based on LOLCats. My favorite example is this HelloWorld routine:
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE “HAI WORLD!”
KTHXBYE
Why in the world is this so funny to me?

Just to wrap up this Canada story: I was unable to get to Toronto at all this weekend. So the clever folks at NXNE had the idea to do the interview anyway via webcam. I sat in my Brooklyn studio in front of my iSight camera and did the Saturday afternoon interview with Clive who [...]