Wednesday various

  • John Scalzi’s Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Winter, I Learned From Science Fiction Movies column is nice, but it really just makes me want to watch The Thing again.
  • “Let’s get the reformed alcoholic punk-rock 45-year-old drummer from another country with a broad accent — that’s the way to go in the late-night world.” I’m starting to think I really should be watching Craig Ferguson’s show more often. Apparently, he just aired an hour-long, audience-free conversation with Stephen Fry. He’s slowly morphing into an antic Tom Snyder with puppets, and that sounds very intriguing to me. [via]
  • Ever wonder how to pronounce an author’s name? It’s an incomplete list, obviously, but it’s a terrific concept. [via]
  • Inside the Antiques Roadshow [via]
  • And finally, Stephen Merritt on the perverse art or love songs:

    You know, most love songs are not cheesy and corny. Most love songs are complaints, I think. Or about unrequited love, coming at it from some oblique angle. Only the ones that say “I love you” over and over are the cheesy, corny ones that people complain about. At least half the songs people hear in the world are love songs. I feel like my love songs, probably none of which just say “I love you” over and over again, are in the mainstream of that tradition of being a little off.

    I also like his thoughts on clichés and how he felt the need to clarify that by “Oprah” he was referring to “the TV show starring Oprah Winfrey.”

2 thoughts on “Wednesday various”

  1. Craig Ferguson is the bomb. A little different than what you’ve come to expect in a late night show, which might take a little getting used to, but in a good way. I’ve heard a lot of great things about the Stephen Fry interview, but it’s still sitting on my DVR because I haven’t had time to watch much of anything lately. Must remedy that soon.

    Anyway, there’s a great clip of him on YouTube from a couple years ago doing his monologue about his history of alcoholism; it’s both hilarious and very poignant. And you can also find him on Twitter @CraigyFerg, where you can learn the full extent of his Mythbusters obsession.

  2. I’ve seen that monologue (and others), and I’m following him on Twitter. I’m just more and more thinking I need to be watching him with real regularity.

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