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

CRUDE OIL

• God-awful 90s mixtape/mashup thingy I couldn't stop listening to.

• Puppet Apartment. (Trigger warning: anthropomorphic appliances)

• 25x magnified seawater contains an entire world of things that are probably trying to kill us. Never trust the small stuff.

• "Are these the most dangerous people in marketing?" by Sell! Sell! (Surprisingly not just a hit list of creatives/clients who have murdered people before.)

• The Ad Contrarian's parable of "The Polluted Fountain of Youth."

• Braves. Blands. Brants. A primer on brands by George Tannenbaum.

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

• David Simon continues to gripe and make my affections for him grow stronger.

• NO SHIT by Dave Trott. 

• Food's getting more expensive. Toys cheaper. Maybe Huxley was on to something.

• Nice ad for The Weather Channel

• Sam Rami's low budget camera rigs for Evil Dead.

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. 

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.

• Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes) designed a movie poster. Still won't make any more Calvin and Hobbes.

• Luke Sullivan on a force more powerful (and potentially more important) than creativity in advertising. Not to be all Upworthyian but you're going to have to read to find out.

• Periodic Table of Storytelling. 

• Sell! Sell! have dug up (okay, opened Campaign to) what is potentially the most depressing article of all time. 

• One on One with Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland. (Great show if you're a fan of sci-fi and humanity and madness in general.)

• Dave Dye is back with TWO interesting posts Gibley's Gin and Know Stuff.

• And Ben Kay rounding it out with Fear and Bullshit in Adland.

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.

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.

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• Broke my listicles resolution to read "10 Myths about Modern Advertising" by Sell! Sell! It was worth it.

• The motorbike girl gangs of Morocco. via Mary Toves

• 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.

• The only worthwhile post about Super Bowl ads. Written by a someone in Australia. 

• Queen ants live up to 30 years. Not sure if you needed to know that but I found it fascinating.

• 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.

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:

• A recently revived Sell! Sell! post about the quote "All progress depends on the unreasonable man."

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 Ad Contrarian scientifically dissects the industry in Neuroscience and Pseudoscience.
• Briefs. We've all complained about what they shouldn't be. The San Francisco Egotist decided to get some opinion about what they should be. (bonus Sell! Sell! tweet as a sidecar)

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.

• A modest proposal by Vinny Warren: Make Love, Not Virals

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.

• Dave Trott's advice on how not to be like the rest of everyone. Hint: don't be so scared of risk. (Bonus riff on the subject by Seth Godin)

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!

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

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  In case you don't have a Jewish family to spend thanksgiving with. Here's "Old Jews Telling Jokes." From the Sell! Sell! Blog.
• Good News Everyone!* "Good Ideas Win, No Matter What Form" from the Division of Labor Blog.
• You can own the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness. Or buy it for the Parks and Rec fan in your life.
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  Movie Magic!
• "Anyone can knock down ideas. You don't have to be clever to do that." - Dave Trott

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  from Canalside View.

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  The best commentary on SOPA. That piece of legislation that wants to break the internet.

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