Something Burning

Month: October 2009

  • Hitler Finds Out About The Windows 7 House Party

    My friends at Microsoft sent these to me. They too can’t believe someone thought this was a good idea. Despite how painful it is to watch these, Windows 7 is actually good, and I admit I just downloaded it.

  • My Twitter Attacked By A Colon-Cleansing Spam

    At 5pm today, my assistant ran into my office, screaming that my Twitter account was under attack. Attack? Yes. Someone (or some robot) figured out my twitter password and began spamming everyone I know with messages about how much I love a new colon cleansing product. Colon cleansing! So if you got spammed by me…

  • The Wall Street Journal Reports Iranian Simin Behbahani Will Follow John Ashbery As mtvU’s Next Poet Laureate

    Tonight, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that we’ve named mtvU’s new Poet Laureate. As the Journal’s Kamau High reports, it’s 82 year-old Iranian poet Simin Behbahani. Beginning Monday, mtvU will broadcast 19 short films featuring Behbahani’s poems, translated by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, and produced by Sophia Cranshaw. mtvU will also be…

  • Amazing Video On Social Media From Socialnomics

    I haven’t read Erik Qualman‘s book, SOCIALNOMICS, yet, but I’ve watched this video about five times straight tonight. I’m going to put it on a loop in the office today… And check out Erik’s blog, too. I feel like we should be paying him for these insights. Shouldn’t we? Oh yeah, we should, so I’ll…

  • Oops — Seth MacFarlane, Bill Gates, etc.

  • Guggenheim This Thursday Night

    My good friend, Nancy Spector, is doing another breakthrough idea at Guggenheim tomorrow night. It’s the ART AWARDS by artist Rob Pruitt. Great coverage in ART IN AMERICA and pretty much everywere else. Go if you can!

  • Moby: California Just Did WHAT?

    We’ve gotten a chance to work quite a bit with Moby, who always surprises me with how funny and irreverent he is, not to mention his candor, passion for music and art, and extreme support for the causes he believes in. Recently, Moby read that California completely cut funding for domestic abuse programs, and he…

  • Sergey Brin’s Donation Might Help Us Find Bolislav

    Did you read the NY Times story about Sergey Brin’s $1MM donation to the organization that saved him and other Jews from death at the hands of Russian anti-semites? Maybe the money I sent to Bolislav Vainman, my “Russian Twin,” in 1986, did find its way to him, after all. Maybe my mom was wrong,…

  • Russian News Anchor Joins Search For Bolislav

    She asked that I not reveal her identity because she works for a TV station and is well known in Russia and elsewhere. She’s been reading about my search for Bolislav Vainman on SomethingBurning — how it began when I sent him some money, how my mom weighed in, how Greg Clayman joined the search,…

  • “It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers”

    My wife’s friend, Rie, just sent this to her. It’s from McSweeney’s… IT’S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS. BY COLIN NISSAN – – – – I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit…