John Coltrane in Belgium, 1965.

We made this tonight and it was the bomb.  Try it sometime, way easy. 

Apparently David Foster Wallace has killed himself.  Sad news.

I'm sorry that this thing is so heavily dominated by politics, but I can't help it right now.  I like Barack's delivery in this video.  I thought I'd share.

What would Don Draper do?  Via kottke.

Described as the biggest and most expensive science experiment in history, the Large Hadron Collider of Cern has been turned on.

Perhaps in response to the sickening political scene of the last 48 hours, Milenko demanded a screening of E.T., a sort of cinematic comfort food.  I only watched a bit of it but hot damn what a great movie.  I've forgotten more about it then I remember.  This video's pretty wild - on the set with Spielberg in all his movie brat glory.

Voice over legend Don LaFontaine has died.  According to CNN his favorite work was for David Lynch's wonderful film, The Elephant Man.  Here's the trailer.