This post is the promised continuation of How to promote your favorite artistic experiment as a masterpiece in 3 easy steps. It is a useful skill for writing longer and even more pretensious museum labels, being disarmingly snarky at boring coctail parties, or getting people to move large trash (like old servers) out of the [...]

Hugh Laurie’s singing abilities don’t often get much press but they add a lot to his ‘best’ work. These songs are less well known than the Jeeves and Wooster clips. And if that didn’t give you enough to go on, here’s the sequel:

I hate to say it but this a-ha video was always better than the original song.  But then it was the ’80′s when a lot more money and time went into the videos than the songs.  So now the famous video is back but with a new narrative voice, which was probably what it needed [...]