Jonathan Coulton

I don’t often pimp things here on this blog, but I will make an exception this time – mark it well. I do it not only because Darin Strauss is a good friend and a former member of the fantastic (not really) proto-JoCo band Supergroup, but because he is an exceptionally talented writer of fiction [...]

The Song Fu challenge has bid adieu to Doc Hammer and several non-master contestants, and the rest of us are moving on to round 2. And I quote:
The following challenge applies to our Masters of Song Fu only. As Masters, it is expected that they have achieved a musical voice all their own – but [...]

Len sent in this Washy Ad Jeffy poster – Coolidge kind of looks like Hodgman, don’t you think? And check out the X’s in Harrison’s eyes…

In my continuing quest to do everything that Brad Sucks does, I’ve used all the lyrics from Thing a Week to create this most excellent word cloud at the even more most excellent site Wordle.

In the Wordle gallery I’ve also saved the clouds for the individual Thing a Week albums One, Two, Three, and Four.
And [...]

When I was a wee lad my father taught me the greatest mnemonic device in the history of mnemonic devices. It’s called “Washy Ad Jeffy” and it’s a little jingle/rhyme thingie that helps you remember the order of all the US presidents and how many terms (or partial terms) they served – the number of [...]