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She said I’d need a blaster and I’d need a freezer gun
Nicked from James. A folk song written in 1952 by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, parodying Golden Age science fiction, kept alive in filk, then reworked as a straight forward folk song by what’s basically a folk supergroup.
I hadn’t heard it before, even though James had linked to it two years ago, but it’s a great song, sung by Eliza Carthy with just the right kind of wistful melancholy undertone to it.
If you want to know where all the clips are from, the creator put a list on their Livejournal.
How to make money as a newspaper cartoonist
As a counterpoint to yesterday’s video…
How to make money as a web cartoonist
Richard Herring!
It’s Saturday, have some Richard Herring standup comedy courtesy of Russell Howard’s Good News.