Mark Hamill voices Han Solo in the latest 'Bad Lip Reading' video. pic.twitter.com/PI2pOShTur

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Bad Lip Reading, Mark Hamill, and Jessica DiCicco — what's not to love. May the Farce be with you.

I don't follow football, but Bad Lip Reading hit a grand slam with this one! I'm literally LOLing over here, people…

'Bad Lip Reading: Inauguration Day.'

The Auralnauts' wildly successful Star Wars remixes have gone from strength to strength, combining bad lip reading, South Park-ish raunchy humor, and massive dance-parties accompanied by some seriously rockin' tunes.

Yoda's never been so funky as he is in this amazing 4-minute music video for "SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now)," a masterpiece from the Bad Lip Reading project, whose virtuosity is so great that "lip reading" a puppet doesn't even seem like a cheat. — Read the rest

I never get tired of the Bad Lip Reading videos. This one, made for the first Republican Debate, might be the best one I've seen.

Night Flight enjoys Bad Lip Reading videos, too, and posted the "the granddad of these mock-dubbing videos: it appeared on the "Night Flight" TV show back in the day and starred Nancy and Ronald Reagan talking about Nancy's rampant drug use." — Read the rest

This really is the best one yet. Also, I wonder if the source video had as much uncannyvalleyesque retouching of Gingrich's face? — Read the rest

[Video Link] A new video from Badlipreading.com always brightens my day. "I went from being two banana plants up to a thrill-seeking shark who sold pictures of different toys I wanted." (Via Dangerous Minds) — Read the rest

Thanks to Al Franken, we all know that Bill O'Reilly wrote a terrible pornographic novel in 1998. Now the Village Voice's head garage-sale nut has digitized a bunch of choice clips from the audiobook (read by O'Reilly), including "Say baby, put down that pipe and get my pipe up," "Cup your hands under your breasts and hold them for ten seconds," and "Cunnilingus involves the lips and tongue." — Read the rest

The third album by the eclectic Swedish garage rock/punk anti-authoritarian music collective "The (International) Noise Conspiracy," A New Morning, Changing Weather included a political essay critiquing modern-day capitalism, "The Global Fear Factory," and a reading list for each song. The title suggestions are still relevant today. — Read the rest

One of the more difficult parts of trying to convince people about the seriousness of climate change is explaining how so many disparate elements and factors can collude and compound* and make everything worse. And it's even harder to predict how long those complications will take to manifest, whenever they do what they do. — Read the rest

Around 1pm on Tuesday, March 31, a 44-year-old train engineer named Eduardo Moreno allegedly derailed a train at full-speed, careening it towards the USNS Mercy, a Navy medical ship for COVID-19 patients that was anchored in the Port of Los Angeles. — Read the rest

Kevin McFarland on the final, magnificent episode of Breaking Bad, which by any calculation was a 100% pure, crystal-blue cook. Spoilers.

Spoilers. Kevin McFarland reviews the third of Breaking Bad's final eight episodes, in which consequences loom ever-closer over W.W. and his empire.

In a spoiler-soaked preview of the final season, Kevin McFarland looks at one character's embrace of humility led him to Heisenberg, protagonist Walter White's menacing alter-ego of in the world of Breaking Bad. Contains spoilers for episodes leading up to, but not including, the final eight of Season 5.

Here an excerpt from Peter Stenson's new zombie novel, Fiend, which was selected as an Amazon Best Book of the Month, for July.

When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned.

Pick-up artists are, sadly, a community. It even has a handy three-letter abbreviation: PUA. It dates back to the 1970s and has been enabled and expanded, like all affinity groups, by the Internet's network effect. In the last week, I suspect that tens of millions of people, if not more, have become aware of the extent of the subculture due to a Kickstarter campaign for a book about applying PUA stratagems. — Read the rest

Flipboard is an awesome new iPad app that aggregates links from your social network feeds and favorite sites, then renders it as a stunning magazine-like reading experience. But there's a problem: instead of using RSS feeds or other licensed content, it scrapes the web, including large images and original content. — Read the rest

According to friends in Karachi, and some news reports now emerging in the West, the government of Pakistan overreacted just a wee bit to the (in my opinion, kind of stupid and offensive) "Draw Mohammed Day" this week. By various reports, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other popular internet services have been blocked since May 20th. — Read the rest

Murilee from Jalopnik sez, "After reading your post about the candy-ass school VP who freaked out over that kid's science project, I remembered my own similar experience in high school ('75 Ford seat-belt buzzer hooked up to batteries and put in a locker, which resulted in school evacuation). — Read the rest