Mumbo & Jive

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

2012-02-14T20:51:00.001-08:00

...the maple kind, yeah...

2012-02-06T22:55:00.000-08:00

Animal Difficulties Interlude: A Cat Tries to Use an iPad

2012-02-06T22:45:00.000-08:00

Does the braun man have a pair?

2012-02-01T17:06:00.000-08:00

Just checking in with Richard

2012-01-13T13:27:00.000-08:00

Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual

2012-01-09T16:36:00.000-08:00

Hamster powered submarine

2012-01-09T15:48:00.001-08:00

Madison man runs afoul of the law

2012-01-09T14:28:00.000-08:00

Retro Thursday: What were we laughing about in 2008?

2011-12-29T14:16:00.000-08:00

Unfortunately, Paul Eugene took down the original Gospel Groove Aerobics video featuring the Sanctified Slide and his backup dancer Frank, with whom we all quickly fell in love. All I could find was a low res picture from this website. Apparently, Paul Eugene was on Soul Train in the 70's even though he had no dance training whatsoever. What a fucking bad ass.

Walk in the spirit,
Shake the devil off,
Stomp Satan lower,
Dance like David danced,
Stomp the devil down.

Love it. Miss you so much, 2008.

Mumbo & Jive Proudly Presents: Part One of Our Interreligious Dialogue Series

2011-12-27T23:30:00.002-08:00

With apologies to my new favorite band

2011-12-25T22:29:00.000-08:00

If Mumbo & Jive were a novel of the life and times of el Krecko, this would be the chapter where the main character realizes that he is no longer a young man. In this post, I failed to notice that LMFAO is not a serious band. They are a joke act.

Dearest Mumbo & Jive readers--does nobody have el Krecko's back?

There is a contact tab. There are comments. Yet no one has (as of press time) commented on my mistake or notified me otherwise.

Thanks to finally watching the video in question, I now know that LMFAO is an ironic band of finest quality:

I was persuaded to watch this video, and another video, which will dispell all lingering doubts (is LMFAO really a joke?), by a long-lost gentleman from many of our readers' past. But that is for another post:

I hope you all noticed the dance move champagne showers. Not the end where they defeat the horde of vampire bitches with holy champagne on the advice of Beats by Dr. Dre-sporting white Jesus. The one where they're all out on the dance floor, before they realize all the women are vampires. Best dance move ever. Watch it again. All I can say is that the next dance party I attend will have plenty of champagne showers to get back at the world for not telling me that LMFAO is a joke band. I could have been enjoying them for at least a year and a half now.

It's a bit like a man I know. He one day turned on MTV, and realized that he could not understand what anyone was saying. It would have been as difficult to understand them had they been speaking Guarani, Uzbecki, or Karen. Not Klingon, however. This gentleman fell in with a crew in high school that was not unable to speak paragraphs in Klingon. So, at least with Klingon, he could have gotten the general idea. Jesus Christ, he said, I must be getting goddamned old. But then he realized that he was 18 years old, and those people are idiots. That person was me. And I'll be 25 for three more days still.

I would also like to apologize to the group where we had to do ice breakers a few months back. Our ice breaker was to name our favorite genre of music. I explained that my favorite genre was "cock rock" and cited "The Darkness," "Electric Six," "Cealed Kasket," and "Tenacious D." LMFAO belonged on my list of favorite bands. So while I apologize to LMFAO, I also need to let this group know: If you didn't feel like you had gotten to know me after the two minutes we spent on ice breakers, it's my fault, not yours.

I work out!

And since I'm writing on Christmas Day*, I might as well tie everything together with a Christmas music video that goes all out, The Darkness' Christmastime (Don't Let the Bells End).

I'm certain that penis joke was unintentional.

*...using the worst Internet service in America, so I couldn't actually post this until several days later

Part Two of the Christmas Trilogy: A Sub-Trilogy

2011-12-19T23:03:00.000-08:00

I only got a 40% :(

2011-12-19T17:35:00.000-08:00

Something to get you in the mood for Christmas

2011-12-18T18:07:00.001-08:00

Retro Thursday: What were we laughing about in 2008?

2011-12-15T00:39:00.000-08:00

Don't forget to listen to the music now.

Just push play...don't ask why

2011-12-15T00:35:00.000-08:00

Nothing Suspicious Here

2011-11-29T09:42:00.000-08:00

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/eug/1965721396.html

Woman texting does not realize down escalator is not the stairs

2011-11-17T17:58:00.000-08:00

Technical difficulties lead all fireworks of 30 minute fireworks show to go off in under 60 seconds

2011-11-07T10:13:00.000-08:00

A Bike of Hornets!

2011-11-04T15:19:00.000-07:00

An unkindness of ravens! A shrewdness of apes! A cowardice of curs! A labour of moles! A stuck of jellyfish! A flotilla of swordfish!

What you should be afraid of and what to call it.

Governor Scott Walker is Dr. Evil

2011-10-30T22:59:00.001-07:00

From here

Who's hungry?

2011-10-14T21:13:00.000-07:00

This man has broken the record for most beer bottles unicycled over

2011-10-05T11:56:00.000-07:00

Something haunting about this...

2011-10-03T22:44:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite songs.

This is not doctored in any way

2011-09-17T09:51:00.001-07:00

This is not ironic. LMFAO really did this. I walked by when Ellie was watching this Lady Gaga video. It looks like it can't possibly serious...but it is...like it should be an ad for a John C. Reilly movie...but it's not...

Baguette Vending Machine

2011-08-15T15:20:00.000-07:00

24-7

Best News Graphic Ever

2011-08-15T11:34:00.000-07:00

Your Dad's a Hipster!

2011-04-25T20:42:00.000-07:00

dadsaretheoriginalhipster

Winning the Erection

2011-04-21T14:30:00.000-07:00

This seriously happened, & judging by the wording, it is entirely possible that this is a wonderful living pun:

"a continuous shrinkage of the private sector"

New Blog

2011-03-16T00:35:00.000-07:00

If you watch SHOWGIRLS backwards, it’s about a girl who comes to Vegas, tries on a bunch of clothes, and leaves.

If you watch Pokemon backwards, it’s about rehabilitating victims of legalised animal fighting and releasing them into the wild.

If you watch Superman backwards, it is about a guy who flies around, putting people into precarious situations, then hiding.

If you watch Saw backwards, it is a truly amazing and touching story about one man providing countless limbs for the disabled.

Forever Lazy

2011-02-22T21:02:00.000-08:00

Indeed

Ghost Signs of Chicago

2011-02-16T23:05:00.000-08:00

Hide ya kids, Hide ya grandkids

2011-02-01T16:23:00.000-08:00

gypsy

^[Mom in Spain Happy Her 10-Year-Old Daughter Gave Birth]

Self Portrait

2011-01-20T16:42:00.000-08:00

Automato 4: The worst ketchup-dispensing robot in the world

2011-01-12T12:31:00.000-08:00

Ghost Town

2011-01-09T22:29:00.000-08:00

untitled

2010-12-15T22:42:00.000-08:00

Does this camera have a zoom?

2010-12-13T23:27:00.000-08:00

source

Blog love for Vermin Supreme

2010-11-30T22:00:00.000-08:00

2004 and 2008 Presidential Candidate Vermin Supreme:

Yes, that is a boot on his head. What other candidate has a boot on his head?

His blog (it's a Wordpress) and here's where he posts four Tea Party videos, encouraging readers to play all four videos at the same time "for the full Tea Party experience."

Roided Out Rambo Jesus

2010-11-23T12:31:00.000-08:00

(click on image to go to source and see close-up picture of First Blood-style Jesus' massive, rippling pectorals. i'm guessing he dropped his uzi's because he ran out of ammo and now has to kill motherfuckers with his bare hands)

Judge Judy at Half Speed

2010-09-15T12:47:00.000-07:00

Everyone looks and sounds shitfaced!

The jackass who made it doesn't want it embedded for some reason, so you'll have to follow the youtube link to see it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGdUMpusCtc&feature=player_embedded

Philip Johnson left an indelible mark on EVERYTHING

2010-09-10T12:37:00.000-07:00

Once again, only the cream of a dismal crop

Winner

2010-09-10T12:32:00.000-07:00

No Link, just shutting down blogs, & transferring the good stuff over here

Favorite

2010-08-22T15:58:00.000-07:00

Don't Watch This

2010-06-25T16:05:00.000-07:00

(via the daily wh.at)

If you ever wanted to know how to do the "Country" running man, this video's for you.

It's simple, take any good dance move, turn it into a line dance for uncoordinated folk.

Dream Green

2010-05-28T22:25:00.000-07:00

I want to make this kids dream a reality.

Natural Hyfee

Tripenis

2010-05-24T06:46:00.001-07:00

Tripenis, originally uploaded by briancolella.

So, Korea pretends to be all prim and proper but then you go to a random folk village in the middle of nowhere and before you know it you're standing in a field of penises.

Tasty

2010-05-12T23:06:00.001-07:00

FCK BTCHES, GET MONEY

2010-05-05T01:00:00.000-07:00

Good to Know

2010-04-26T09:33:00.000-07:00

If a two certain gaps in facial hair don't grow in soon, I'll have to abandon this endeavor, merely because I don't want to come off as "Dangerous"

2010-04-25T18:15:00.000-07:00

this song, in any medium causes me to act like I'm on ecstasy

also, I'd like these guys to play the Old Town School of Folk Music some time next year.

Tacky

2010-04-21T11:45:00.000-07:00

it all looks so... tacky

But Rich and I were geeking over these:

Lessons Learned

2010-04-11T12:51:00.000-07:00

All up in yo 8 bit-ness

2010-04-08T21:54:00.000-07:00

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
envoyé par onemoreprod. - Futurs lauréats du Sundance.

this animation is truly imaginative, surreal, and culturally referential

I LOOOVE it

Hi my name is Betty...Welcome to Salerno's

2010-04-07T16:29:00.000-07:00

like most of the Cicero residents she robbed while their "president"

Betty Loren-Maltese will be working for Oak Parkers.

I just hope she continues to wear the obnoxiously large glasses

Ununseptium

2010-04-06T16:52:00.000-07:00

In honor of the possible discovery of yet another element...MR. Tom LEHRER!

yes, I know I'm a nerd

The pavement was his enemy

2010-03-31T13:47:00.000-07:00

Scarface... Bugsy Malone style

2010-03-30T13:31:00.000-07:00

Someone's getting fired for being an irresponsible white person

WTF!

2010-03-29T20:25:00.000-07:00

via nickholmes

Who's Gmapping the freeway?

2010-03-29T10:36:00.000-07:00

Kimba vs Simba

2010-03-27T12:25:00.000-07:00

Healthy Food RIP

2010-03-23T13:59:00.000-07:00

Sky Full of Bacon 14: The Last Days of Kugelis from Michael Gebert on Vimeo.

I mourned my not arriving in Chicago until a few days after the final meal served, back in December. I would've rescheduled my trip if I had known of it's closing earlier than a week before.

My dad is part Lithuanian, so I've gone here often, usually before a Sox game, or when my grandmother was in town.
(Imagine the waitress, only from Philadelphia, and not needing prodding to uncover her feelings)

Sign me up for a Super Breakfast of Champions in the sky.

the blog this is from probably would not be of good use for Zay

Secret ingredient

2010-03-23T11:11:00.000-07:00

I'm coming for that ass

2010-03-19T12:31:00.001-07:00

WANT

2010-03-16T14:16:00.000-07:00

this to happen sooner!

Trailer

Peanut Butter Jellotime!

2010-03-15T23:28:00.000-07:00

Oh what we choose to spend our bytes on.

Wanna Know More About Dr. Pepper Than Anyone Should?

2010-03-14T20:45:00.000-07:00

source: bnpositive

From freenewyork.net/dpfaq.html:

"1.6 What's the connection between the JFK Assassination and Dr Pepper?

I tell you, I never in a million years expected this question to show up. I mean, I admit it's a pet theory of mine that almost everything in the United States has some sort of Kennedy Assassination connection to it, but after seeing this one I might have to remove the "almost" from the theory!

'Okay, smart guy, what is the connection?'

In the book, Conspiracy Of One (Fort Worth, Texas: The Summit Group, 1990), author Jim Moore presents a variety of reasons why he believes Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. One of those reasons is on page 53, detailing the period immediately after the assassination when Oswald was spotted in the lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository:

Oswald...put a nickel in the soda machine and selected a Coca-Cola. It may be that this single action on Oswald's part holds the key to his guilt. Oswald habitually drank Dr Pepper. There can be only one realistic explanation for a miser like Oswald to fail to select his soft drink of choice--he was nervous. Three other possibilities exist, all unlikely:

1. Oswald really bought a Dr Pepper and every witness questioned recalled it as a Coca-Cola.
2. The soda machine was out of Dr Pepper.
3. The soda machine--a Coca-Cola product, malfunctioned in favor of its manufacturer.

Next to one of those sentences was a footnote, citing The Day Kennedy Was Shot (1968, Funk & Wagnalls; 1992 HarperPerennial) by Jim Bishop. Sure enough, on page 183 of Bishop's book, there is a less verbose description of the same event:

Oswald dropped a coin in the soda machine. He got a Coca-Cola. This was nervousness because he invariably drank Dr Pepper.

Who knew he wanted to be a Pepper, too?"

Run this Development

2010-03-13T11:19:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry New York developers/politicians, but not only aren't you as well dressed as Mr. Carter. You also don't know how to make a ground breaking look casually gangsta

Wake up in the morning feeling like Liz Lemon

2010-03-13T01:50:00.000-08:00

Everyone loves 30 Rock

...including sex offenders

Break it Up now!

2010-03-07T18:31:00.000-08:00

play this at the club, especially from 1:30 on, mix it in and make me proud

The early bird gets no fame.

2010-03-06T11:41:00.000-08:00

This guy predates trololol, yet proves a helpful lesson. If you try too hard, you won't become a meme nearly 1/2 a century later.

Sweet Cinderblocks

2010-03-05T12:47:00.000-08:00

WANT

2010-03-05T11:39:00.000-08:00

Europeans: the cool ones stayed put.

Frightening

2010-03-04T00:59:00.000-08:00

Sent this to Willster and MB a while ago.
Thought sharing it with anyone else would just be mean.
You know, with the nightmares and all...

What changed my mind?

WANT

2010-03-03T23:04:00.000-08:00

Only I would design for twice the width...

although this seems to just be a closet with an integrated roof access...

This probably isn't to code, or wouldn't be if it was actually a means of egress.

Poop. Sorry for the lack of clickability

You got the iTouch! You got the sleepin!

2010-02-18T20:13:00.000-08:00

So how long before someone iTouch-es themselves or other inappropriately under these covers.

It's true

2010-02-17T16:10:00.000-08:00

Why Charlie is my hero.
[D.Devito close second]

what's wrong with this picture (caption)?

2010-02-16T03:29:00.000-08:00

You're probably gonna have to click on it.

Don't stop believin'

2010-02-13T12:44:00.000-08:00

No Words

2010-02-10T08:07:00.000-08:00

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

Wowza

2010-02-09T12:48:00.000-08:00

Oldie, but goodie

2010-02-07T19:07:00.000-08:00

Don't know why this has been rattling around in my brain, but it has, so I wanted to share it

The most disturbing anti-smoking ad I've ever seen, and the last comment on youtube is pretty great as well.

I think the whistling at the end is just plain haunting.

My childhood is back

2010-02-07T03:07:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Ninja Pizza one of the most obscure things from my childhood has been uncovered from who knows where. Listening to this brings back memories of sweatpants, red rubber boots, and pissing the hell out of everyone by kazooing all over (although that didn't actually end with the end of my childhood). What could be better for a young boy than TMNT and kazoos? I don't know either. Check out Ninja Pizza for the full thing, or just check out the link below for a sample.

TURTLE Power

Thank you, internet.

Tom Selleck + Waterfall + Sandwich

2010-02-04T17:59:00.000-08:00

Thank you, BoingBoing.

By the hammer of ZumTHOR

2010-02-03T15:48:00.000-08:00

They didn't realize the architect was making a joke, even if they had, they wouldn't have laughed.

A blog specifically for me.

World Cup 2010 pt. 1

2010-02-02T18:11:00.001-08:00

uhhhh...speechless I guess

I have no reason to hate Santa

2010-02-01T22:28:00.000-08:00

One of my faves from his 7month run

Shut the door, have a seat

2010-01-31T19:19:00.000-08:00

Coco is nomo

2010-01-26T21:44:00.000-08:00

In honor of the great coco's passing; sorry in advance about the quality.

Part 1:

Siskel vs Ebert

2010-01-26T19:20:00.000-08:00

Straight gunnin'

They had been crazy... since childhood

2010-01-25T23:53:00.000-08:00

2010-01-24T21:46:00.000-08:00

bonjour,
mon nom est Omnomnom

et j'ai un penchànt a memes

WANT

2010-01-23T11:00:00.001-08:00

Only I'd like it in a Large

Can we do the late 80s / early 90s over again?

2010-01-20T13:44:00.000-08:00

Also be sure to check out that awesome David Bowie.
Cameron, take notes.

2010-01-20T11:06:00.000-08:00

So, in the spirit of the quick road down from classy fedora to assy performa, I'll introduce you to what Nick Holmes calls an "Amazing ninja!"

Note: He gets ten times more amazing when he turns around.

Whoops

2010-01-20T02:11:00.000-08:00

Thanks Jake for classing it up around here.
Made it easier for me to post something like this

Buongiorno

2010-01-19T16:34:00.000-08:00

I figured my first post should be all about style and class, the following video oozes both

The two tilts from Michael Alden on Vimeo.

First Person Tetris

2010-01-14T13:04:00.001-08:00

Matt: http://firstpersontetris.com/#

me: oh my god

think i'm gonna be sick

Matt: isnt that great

me: that was the worst thing ever

Matt: best

This racism is killing me inside

2010-01-12T17:59:00.000-08:00

Netflix queues by city/zip code.

Will it waffle?

2010-01-12T13:45:00.000-08:00

My wish has been granted!