I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

  • $19428857

    I swear. This is like the eighth time in the past year a video I posted on my Facebook has shown up here within a week after. The synchronicity is strong in this one.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Walsh/100001992361976 Michael Walsh

      The Force is strong in you, Sabletodo.

  • http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai

    Shoot, that sounds EXACTLY like Amy Poehler!  Looks like her a little, too.  A believable rumor!

  • aperturehead

    It’s fun to see and hear Buckley’s boisterous banter with Groucho (easily his intellectual match)

    Here’s a slightly more seasonly-appropriate Lord Buckley doing his faster-than-the-speed-of-light Be Bop synopsis of “Scrooge”

    Lord Buckley – Scrooge
    http://youtu.be/xOLrZar3XRE

    PS – out of context it makes little sense, but my favorite LB vocal fragment is “WHO WAS DRIVING WHILE YOU WERE GONE?!”

  • Drew Smith

    It’s not likely to be Amy Poehler’s grandmother.  Amy’s mother was born Eileen Frances Milmore, not Chapman.

  • Matisse Enzer

    Did they go for the 2000? Did they win?

  • jimh

    “You look like a very wealthy, and successful, confidence man.”

  • amarx

    Groucho was my grandfather and I still remember, having landed myself a summer job in 1973, archiving all of the “You Bet Your Life” shows, sitting with my grandfather at his house watching numerous episodes, including this one, which he particularly enjoyed.

    • zuludaddy

      Very most excellent. Possibly the all-time greatest summer job ever.

      • amarx

        I actually managed to turn a summer job into a two-year job archiving all the shows.  The best thing was sitting with my grandfather every afternoon as we watched episodes of the show and he would comment about each one and the things he remembered!

        • http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

          What a blast!

  • Chas S. Clifton

    Did you notice how Groucho’s putting the cigar to his lips seems to have been edited out?

    • http://www.kleinbottle.com CliffStoll

      While the two players’ microphones are out in the open, Groucho’s microphone has been hidden by some leafy plant, and in post-processing, airbrushed out of the scene (pre-photoshop!).  All three microphones are the classic RCA 77-DX ribbon mics.  High quality audio, despite the artists moving around the soundstage. 

      • Chas S. Clifton

        Huh? How did we get from cigar to microphone?

        • Data1001

          That’s what she said!

          Sorry, I’ve been reading too much Freud lately.