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Wed January 2, 2013 at 7:44 PM
As part of a pilot program, The You Look Nice Today Foundation (a Delaware corporation) has recently undertaken a groundbreaking new outreach initiative to provide comfort to those in theoretical need.
So, YES: we will sell, lend, or lease you a built-to-purpose condition along with its appropriate consolation.
But, NO: we’re absolutely not Santa Claus. So, get real, you big fakers.
In any case. Get well soon, and here’s that brief bedside visit from the late Sargent Shriver you never actually requested.
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Sun December 2, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Welcome to the global premiere of the International You Look Nice Today Conference & ExpoT!
Get ready for an epic showcase of big-idea ideations and tactical tactics to be held in the picturesque Los Altos Community Centre, December 2nd 2012!
Join old colleagues and make new friends in an immersive networking environment of blue-sky solutioneering and overcoats! Experience a wide-ranging and impactful offering of Keynotes, Panels, Super-Panels, Breakout Sessions, Birds-of-a-Feathers, Hands-On...
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Thu October 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Hop in our decommissioned World War II tank that has been outfitted to look like the Liberty Bell. The You Look Nice Today Tour of Philadelphia Hotspots starts in 5 minutes!
For just a few dollars we’ll take you on an all-day tour of The City with a Nickname. Some highlights:
Discuss fonts n’ ligatures with Merlin Mann at the Benjamin Franklin Museum’s authentic replica printing press.
Stroll briskly through “transitional” neighborhoods with YLNT Gentrification Ambassador...
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Wed December 24, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Many have asked, so here is the full story:
Our opening theme music is a track called ?Pony Gallop (Morning Surprise),? by the Five Senses. They were a mostly-ukulele jam band out of Montréal, famous for their 4 hour sitar/uke trance sessions and subsequent pancake breakfasts. Sadly, their CD?s were deemed ?obscene? by US Customs (a clerical error, one must assume), and all copies were destroyed at the border. Worse, the band had forgotten to hold on to the original recordings.
The Five Senses...
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Wed December 10, 2008 at 5:35 PM
1930’s wandering troubadour Trinket Pills (? - 1939) scored a brief hit on the Wichita charts with his plaintive Ballad of Joey Nickelpuss:
Th’ evil alley boys taunted him,
But ole’ Young Joe made his way.
Terrible crash of bowlin’ pins
Th’ sound of a long long day.
Rags to riches to rags it went,
Th’ boy would rage and cuss.
“Mama ain’t mama for me no more,”
Spit poor little Joey Nickelpuss.
We’re bringing back ‘ole Young Joey...
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Wed December 10, 2008 at 5:35 PM
1930’s wandering troubadour Trinket Pills (? - 1939) scored a brief hit on the Wichita charts with his plaintive Ballad of Joey Nickelpuss:
Th’ evil alley boys taunted him,
But ole’ Young Joe made his way.
Terrible crash of bowlin’ pins
Th’ sound of a long long day.
Rags to riches to rags it went,
Th’ boy would rage and cuss.
“Mama ain’t mama for me no more,”
Spit poor little Joey Nickelpuss.
We’re bringing back ‘ole Young Joey...
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Wed December 3, 2008 at 2:00 AM
If “penultimate” meant “last,” this would be the penultimate episode of our VSOP series. Thanks again to John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the sturdy padlocks on the studio doors that prevented their escape.
This episode will be more interesting than average for: farmers, Québécoises, basket weavers, camp counselors, small business owners, and a capella aficionados.
This episode will be less interesting than average for: dancers, hair stylists, carnies, Renaissance buffs,...
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Wed December 3, 2008 at 2:00 AM
If “penultimate” meant “last,” this would be the penultimate episode of our VSOP series. Thanks again to John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the sturdy padlocks on the studio doors that prevented their escape.
This episode will be more interesting than average for: farmers, Québécoises, basket weavers, camp counselors, small business owners, and a capella aficionados.
This episode will be less interesting than average for: dancers, hair stylists, carnies, Renaissance buffs,...
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Mon November 24, 2008 at 3:20 AM
YLNT VSOP, Part II! The drugs* have kicked in, and we have reached cruising altitude. Stay tuned for the final, gripping conclusion to the VSOP series next week. Or so.
A partial list of works referenced in this episode, and their creators:
“Colonel Heimlich Grows a Beard” (Graham Greene)
Mall, Mini-Mall, Strip Mall (M.C. Escher)
Shut Up, Hick! (George Carlin)
LEGO Group v. Linden (U.S. Supreme Court)
Carnival Displacement (Damien Hirst)
Dream of an Undiscovered Room (René Magritte)
Resuscitation...
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Thu November 13, 2008 at 10:16 AM
It’s YLNT VSOP, Part I! We convened a special session in San Francisco, featuring guests John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton. Aided by Hodgman’s expertise and Coulton’s hatred of poetry, we finally got to the bottom of our most lingering questions:
Why is Kevin Bacon famously uncomfortable around FAX machines?
How does Adam save the world by not wearing shoes?
What are the slam poet’s secret romantic techniques?
Why are short films so long? And also: vice versa?
Why do alfalfa...
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