This trailer is anything but horrible

Felicia Day passes along the trailer to Joss Whedon’s internet-only comedy Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It’s kind of the best thing I’ve seen in a long time.

LOTD: 6/23/08

• Adweek’s Alan Wolk posted a great item about how brands can be “relevant” to people within the social networking world, and effectively asks the question whether non “rock star” brands can have success there. [via Ian Schafer on Twitter] (TB)
• You might have noticed that Gary Vaynerchuk’s consistently-awesome Wine Library TV has a new home, Revision3. Check out the standard fare here, and a new, five-minutes-or-less version, Wine Library Reserve, here. Kudos on Rev3 picking up this awesome video podcast and to Gary for the new digs! (TB)

We’ve lost a master

Most people, when discussing the untimely passing of George Carlin, are focusing on how he pushed the boundaries of comedy with his use of vulgarity in his routines. While that might very much be true, I always thought it wasn’t the words he used but how he used them. He seemed incredibly aware of words, language and their usage and used them for maximum impact. Anyone can use a dirty word but unless you know how to turn a phrase while doing so then it’s a cheap laugh. Carlin, though, wove those – and every other word he had at his disposal – into a tapestry of societal commentary.

Nowhere was this more evident than in my favorite routine of his, the Airline Safety Announcements from the “Jammin’ In New York” special. (Part 1 and Part 2)

“WHY ENTRY NOT POST?”

This fictional conversation between a bunch of Marvel Comics’ recent movie-fied characters via Twitter is funny on a level I’m not completely comfortable with. You think it’s about petered-out but then the writer slips in a reference to the recent “One More Day” storyline in the Spider-Man comics and it takes on a whole new level of funny.

Moo

more graph humor and song chart memes

LOTD: 6/12/08

• Josh Hallett has what might be the strongest response to Tom Foremski’s legitimate issue about social media PR folks who aren’t themselves blogging or otherwise interacting with others, saying it’s really the work that matters. While we all might not be able to talk about specific programs that have been run like some people are that is what’s most important, that we’re doing good work for our clients. If we’re meeting that goal then word will spread and a solid reputation built on that whether or not you’re all about FriendFeed or whatevs. (CT)
• Mike Manuel must be crazy because he thinks we need to reign in our perceptions that everyone on the interwebs with an opinion is worth paying attention to. I don’t know where he gets these ideas. (CT)
• This list of newspapers that are on Twitter is interesting, but a quick look at a handful of them show almost no actual conversations going on. The papers are just using Twitter as another distribution channel, which is alright I suppose, but it’s still a little disappointing that there isn’t more interaction with readers, something that builds the sort of loyalty papers seem to be in desperate need of nowadays. (CT)

BRS

This screengrab from WaltMossbergSays almost had me shooting coffee out my nose.