When you drill down deep--real, real, deep--all you'll find is me clutching my weekly linklys.

Mind taking a look at all this stuff since you're already here? Will only take a minute.

CRUDE OIL

  • Clickhole.com. Infinitely clickable. Probably more interesting than any other clickbait site on the internet.

FOSSILS

What you'll be if you don't read this presentation by W+K's Martin Weigel. (via Sell! Sell!)


ROCKS AND MINERALS


Please use this song in a commercial. (via @Awoooooga)


Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin went to Russia. Shot a video for their song "Young Presidents."


Why is ketchup so hard to pour?


Smoking. Also hard.






This space intentionally left blank for that hamster eating a burrito video everyone has already seen. 

Weekly Linkly

Lots of stuff for you all this weekend so let's dispense with the chit chat and head straight to the links.

BY THE WORD

  • Writing Tips from George Tannenbaum. And good ones at that.

BY THE PICTURE


Harold Ramis' advice to filmmakers. (via @RobSchrab)


News report about Kenyan slang contains three languages. Puts US news to shame.


New Richmond Sausages ad from Saatchi London.


Most amazing instrument I've even seen.


Impressive security cam footage. 


Teaser for the upcoming Harmontown Documentary.

BY THE WAY
Thanks for stopping by. I mean I really, really enjoyed this. Kinda needed it honestly. Hope you'll call. Oh that? Yeah it happens from time to time. Well, bye I guess. Unless you want me to make you some food? You're okay? That's good. Should I call you an Uber? No. Alright, bye now.

Weekly Linkly

Hello. Hello. I do hope you can read this. I've spent the week speaking Finnish and thinking in Mandarin. that's not true. But I've spent the week thinking about speaking Finnish and thinking in Mandarin. It didn't work out so well. So here's some interesting links/videos to make up for that.

链接

  • Martin Weigel's "Against Nostalgia". It's long. It'll make you squirm if you enjoy Buzzfeed or reminiscing about the "better" times. But that's the point.
  • Dave Dye's excellent post about Tom McElligott. Tom was the McElligott in Fallon McElligott before they dropped his name for reasons no one can seem to comprehend. He also made some of the smartest written print ads in the 80s and 90s. (Including a Porsche ad about penis size.) 
  • There's a term for carrying out evil acts to become famous: Herostratus.

Elokuva


Excellent ad for the Sunday Times. (via Ben Kay)



Nice short film about the nature of love and soul mates. Done by an agency! 



Also from Ben Kay. Brilliant talk about the nature of "writing" jokes or anything, really.




The entire soundtrack from "Her" if that's of any interest to you.

Weekly Linkly

Weekly Linkly is back. As is—dare I say it—good work! I've seen more good work this week than I can remember in a very long while. Here's the business:


Can't put my finger on what I like so much about this ad. I've watched it 5 times and still want to watch it again, so it must be good. Thanks to AdVerve for the find.


The new Axe ads remind me of the great series Errol Morris did for High Life. They had me, for a brief moment, consider picking up some Axe body wash next time I'm at the store. The moment has passed. See the rest on Ben Kay's blog.


Google's Project Re:Brief. Any lover of advertising has to be teeming with jealously over the googlers getting to work with these ads/creatives.

Insane ant photography. This man is some sort of twisted genius. See the rest.

    Progress!

    Sell! Sell! posted this ages ago on their blog. It's sat on my desktop for a great deal of time because I couldn't think of anything to add to it. I still don't have anything to add to it, but that's the point.

    I like using this space to write. Not post things without comment. Not post short little quips. But there is a time, and now, a place to do that. Over the weekend I'll be working on a tumblr so that I can post all the coolness I find on a daily basis. This means videos, pictures, gifs, quotes, ect. It will be a relativly filterless view of the things I dig on a daily basis. I haven't gotten enough done yet to release it but the name is "Miscellany or, perhaps, something else entierly."

    So what about this place? It'll still be here. Still devoted to wonderful, wonderful words. I love what Ad Caulk has done for my writing and growth. There will just be one more place to follow and interact with me on the 'net.

    Who knows. This Tumblr thing could end horribly. But I do have a fairly excellent header for the page, and a sufficient amount of things to share.

    Would you look at that? I finally found words to go with this picture. Progress!

    Weekly Linkly

    It's been a while, but Weekly Linkly back. If anything it's a nice break from Christmas music.

    *Bonus points if you recognize this reference to Futurama. Too bad bonus points are relatively worthless here.