Last week, Boing Boing posted two videos that I wish I made. This hilarious re-make of the Abbot and Costello routine “Who’s on First?” by the Zellner brothers (directors of “Goliath” from this year’s SXSW) and this absurdist re-cut of Charlie Rose:

Sunday, Fi took me to a screening at the Billy Wilder theater at the Hammer Museum (part of the “The Talking Pictures of Manoel de Oliveira” series). Made in 1942, the film is wall-to-wall with syrupy music and well-timed mugging between members of its young cast. Boy looks at girl, eyes go wide, boy is rejected, bottom lip juts out in clown sadness. The film is constructed entirely of these moments of oh-aren’t-they-cute-ness, but manages with only a tinge of darkness at its core (a child is …

I made it into Rick’s Picks on jackass world. Who is Harris? Who cares. Art school pays off.