The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A journey into the soft of night.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.

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Jammies.

“Jammies”, an SNL Digital Short. (Amuricaonly, sorry internet.) (Likely to have expired on Hulu by the time you’ve read this.)

[(2010 January 2, 2!) .]

Recent comments (HAO, Jammies.) • (Tim, Jammies.) • (Prashanth, Wedding.) • (Hao, Hands.) • (Prashanth, Hands.).

Recent posts (03/18, The Daily Show: Oscar Romero and textbooks.) • (02/03, Butter-related greetings.) • (01/18, Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. day.) • (01/18, Chances, part one.) • (01/02, Jammies.).

[(2009 August 2) .]
[(2009 July 23, 1!) .]
[(2009 June 26) .]

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Number of Dune fans at the Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner: five.

John Hodgman, everybody, lecturing the Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner on nerds and jocks. I like how CSPAN has nearly completed its transformation into a comedy showcase of my favorite people. (via Daniel Jalkut)

[(2009 June 20) .]

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St. Barbara-Glass.

Monks on Segways, with fire on the top of their heads, playing “Lightning” by Philip Glass. Good night, everybody. We’ll start storyboarding the next chapter of the internet tomorrow because this one just ended.

[(2009 June 18) .]

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For the week of May 24, it’s a video dump everybody.

Ze Frank’s Hard Times: Optical illusions.

The Daily Show: John Oliver reports on the Parliament corruption scandal.

The Peter Serafinowicz Show: Ringo Starr writes the Goldfinger theme song.

Chris Milk: Last Day Dream: a man watches his life pass before him.

Peter Serafinowicz: Fifty impressions in two minutes.

The Peter Serafinowicz Show: The Brian Butterfield Diet Plan

Look Around You: Water.

The Peter Serafinowicz Show: The Brian Butterfield Karaoke Bar.

[(2009 May 24) .]

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Monkey boners.

An amazing bit of improv from the ASSSSCAT TV special. (Bounty: If you find a working torrent, I will talk about you.)

Update I put up a theater script.

[(2009 May 7) .]
[(2009 April 22, 2!) .]
[(2009 April 16) .]

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Naughty balance.

Ethane and Prashanth, in order of coolness, recently made a video about a distributed version control system.

  • Prashanth: Maybe you should get that checked.
  • Ethane: Maybe you should shut your face.
[(2008 December 15, 3!) .]

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I kno-ow.

(via waxy.org)

Update I have converted the song to an MP3 form for downloading sensual pleasure.

[(2008 November 18) .]
[(2008 October 21) .]