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The Uncanny: A Freudian concept from Das Unheimliche (“un-home-ly”) referring to the feeling of being both attracted to and repulsed by an object that is eerily familiar and yet uncomfortably odd. Got it? Good.

* Via Evan “Funk” Davies’ WFMU show, “We Built This” what now?

* Via WFMU’s blog, it’s the International House of WTF.

* I live with one of those ironic t-shirt-wearing, iPod-carrying, hipster snobs who wait for MetaFilter to post stuff I’ve already posted, to make sure it’s cool enough for consumption by American Apparel-clad sheeple.

Yesterday MeFi posted– a week after me– links to all of Jhonen Vasquez’s Zim “facts”. $5 Matt comes home tonight and is all, “Did you know GIR is crazy for eggs?”

My marketing buds will find the audio of an “Invader Zim” focus group eerily familiar.

* YouTube search result for “focus group”:

* Johhny Vasquez breaks Jenny Goldberg’s brain with video of the attempted American remake of Spaced.

At least it wasn’t video of “Oh, no, not THEM!” or…

They don’t always stink. I loved a lot of British remakes in my TV-suckled youth, but never bothered– or even knew of the existence of– the original versions. Let’s take a look at the sources for…

All In The Family…

Three’s Company…

Sanford and Son…

Not Necessarily the News. I do believe that is Rowan Atkinson in the gorilla suit.

Wow, I do have a religion. Thanks, Internet!

* Torchwood: Children of Earth trailer, if you saw the miniseries’ recent mention on Consumerist and were curious…

* Homages and “riffing” have destroyed classic horror for me. Try watching these trailers without giggling or rolling your eyes.

* There was a Garbage Pail Kids movie? How did a totally ’80s child like me miss this?? Via.

* Maybe two weeks of Thera-Flu and whiskey have warped my mind, but damn if this isn’t the funniest thing I’ve seen in, like, ever.

* No, wait…

* So, who’s winning that Adult Swim pilot contest thingie? Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge. It’s about a magic princess who helps the citizens of Detroit work through problems like rioting and teen pregnancy. ‘Features voice work from Dana Snyder, Dave Willis, MC Chris, and… Neko Case??

Matt’s not taking Mark Linkous‘ suicide well. Not so soon after Jay Reatard and Vic Chesnutt. Oh gawd, and Jay Bennett last year.

* WFMU 2010 Marathon is going on right now. Give if you can– we’re on the $10 per month plan, being addicts and all. Swag includes a shot glass designed by Jad Fair!

* ‘Mentioned before I’m trying to learn old alphabets– Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Sanskrit, Farsi, etc. ‘Wondered how they’re all related so I did some Googling. My brain hurts:

* This is a pic of Sochi, Russia, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The high last Saturday was 57F.

* Spotted on Reddit:

* Um, Citation needed?

* Recent SMBC…

Full size is way better, click already.

* Seen on Clients From Hell…

* Vertical gardens ROCK!

* Ducky just wants to fit in.

* Matt, you asked, “What’s Keith Knight doing these days?” Remember that K Chronicles where a syndicate asked him to do a daily that didn’t include all the sex, drugs, and politics, and he wondered what was left? The answer is Knight Life, apparently.

Way bigger on his site, I promise.

* Google finally admits it:

* Habitat for Humanity needs your help to build temporary shelter for some of the 1.5 million people displaced by the near-record 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile.

* Remember, charity donors are happier.

* Oregon Senate and NASA agree: Fewer car trips key to healthy cities.

* Never buying bagged salad again. Eww. Not that I bought it more than once or twice a year, living with a food snob and all…

* What did mama, Dorothy, and Thomas Jefferson have in common? Poppies.

* Fellow Portlanders, enjoy the cupcake craze while you can, for the cupcake crash is coming.

* Interview with the five-year-old writer of “Axe Cop” and his brother, once the kid gets bored.

* Helena Bonham Carter interview hints that the final film might include (highlight for spoiler)

Dobby being murdered by Bellatrix.

I’d like to see the look on Chris Columbus’ face when he heard that. Tink of de pwecious chilbwen!

* Invader Zim creator Jhonen Vasquez confesses he hasn’t watched broadcast TV in years, and is amazed that there are people who still do so.

* How to cut your cable bill by watching movies and TV online.

* Don’t miss Vasquez’s 30 days of Zim facts, although I think this fact needs some citations, or at least court records and autopsy reports.

Tests are back. We’re having… a niece!

They’re thinking “E” or “R” for the name. I came up with names based on my brother-in-law’s teabaggin’ beliefs…

* Reagan
* Romney
* Glennda Becky

… Whereas Matt spouted off archaic names strictly limited to librarians and drag queens:

* Irene
* Emma
* Emily
* Rosemary
* Rosalind

Come on, this kid’s the future captain of McNary’s basketball team, not a diva! We finally settled on…

‘Don’t know how I’d keep a straight face if they were to nickname her Rory.

* Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City explains how Detroit got rich making a product that allowed people to escape it, and what the future may hold.

* For anyone else sick of swine flu: How to wash your hands properly.

* Via Gawker, How NOT to apply for a job.

I’d never even heard of video resumes, but YouTube’s full of ‘em!

* Vegeterrible: when fruit goes bad.

* Via WFMU– and Korea– the best cockroach spray commercial you’ll find yourself boogeying to.

* Trailer– can one have a trailer for a graphic novel??– for Chumble Spuzz: Kill the Devil.

* More from Ethan Nicolle and his… five year old brother, Malachai? Axe Cop, the motion comic, episode one:

Okay, I’m just going to say it: that five year old writes better than Michael Bay.

* The Hug-e-Gram’s a joke, right? Right??

* I dare someone to ask Ellen to check out Vejazzling. Not making this up, NSFW.

* Via The World, Mitchell and Webb’s take on the Homeopathic ER.

* Adult Swim News on NBC’s g’dawful hockey coverage.

* And finally, this week marks a new season of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job”. They’ve completely retooled the show– more wigs, less Richard Dunn, more 30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer getting a pole shoved up his bum. Have a good ‘un, folks!

* ‘Loving this new Yoko Ono album.

* There are already like a million remixes!

* Dig Plunge, Swedish free jazz. Ooh, was that a bassoon? Get back here, you coward!

* Feeling that down-tempo groove of Blockhead. Yeah.

* More grooviness from Vancouver’s Do Make Say Think, who I swear I’ve blogged before– one’s mind doesn’t easily slough off a video like this:

* More things it feels like I blogged before: Silver Jew: A Silver Jews documentary.

* Several talented folks including Jenny and Chris from the Decemberists are Black Prairie. See them this August at Pickathon.

* This April at Coachella, intense psych rock from The Almighty Defenders.

* A standard joke in this household is “Matt, Marketplace raided your MP3s again.” They must know they rock the songs, ’cause they added a “Music from the show” guide on each episode’s transcript page.

From Wednesday’s show: Boston-based goth-disco (?) queen Fluttr Effect…

* And Philly punk studs The Ponys. Their friends’ list includes Jay Reatard, The Cramps, Matador Records, and Duchess and the Duke. Wait, is Marketplace raiding my MP3s??

* Coming soon to Doug Fir, wispy, sad vocals of Sweden’s Taken By Trees. Have a good week, folks.

* Recent Troubletown…

* It’s a Death Star, dishes that are stackable… Death Star… something quite practicable…

* Good news! No one knows what the **** they’re doing. Wait, that’s awful…

* Here’s my wallet, Adult Swim, just take it all, take it!

* Okay, what is the nadir of captioned photo sites: Babies With Laser Eyes…

* Or Unrelated Caption?

* Not quite as stupid as random caption generators, Comixed should at least thrill pervy Trekkies. Go boldly into that weekend, folks!

* Oooooh, new Obamacare plan will get coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans!

* Sarah Palin’s grandson gets free,”death panel” socialized medicine, hee hee hee…

* Oregon diocese severs ties with Bend hospital ’cause they be offerin’ the tubal ligation, tsk tsk.

* Fact-checking global warming skeptic’s footnotes reveals the guy basically made up all his “facts”.

* Bob Moore of Oregon’s own Bob’s Red Mills gives company to his employees. The red must be for commie.

* Wal-Mart traffic and total sales down. Wow, have middle class types stopped slumming?

* Your chair is your enemy.

“It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death.”

* Matt found this hard to believe, but here it is: “No restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese’s.”

* Uncyclopedia’s take on the worst restaurant in the world:

“It is a common myth that Tyler Durden started Project Mayhem, but Chuck E. is in fact the founder of this holy and noble movement.”

* A sample of Obsessed With Film presents, “The Erector Set movie idea“:

You: So, what’s the film about?

Studio Executive: It’s a film about that toy line from thirty years ago called Erector Set.

You: Huh? What?

Studio Executive: You remember it, right?

You: Well, yeah … but … I don’t get it. What’s the film about?

Studio Executive: It’s about making money, kid! Bwah ha ha!