The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering Mario around the screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyezQsI-v-s

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Chess, the Musical: a show that is universally acclaimed but no longer performed because it consistently loses money
I believe live television to be the most exciting thing humans have invented
Blaseball had $3 million in VC funding
Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
- https://allpoetry.com/Pad,-Pad
Why not RSS for text?
Officiating weddings for your friends

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The video of Charles Martinet puppeteering the Mario head.
Who gets to say "roll theme song!"
A community where the chances of someone acting in bad faith is negligible.
DC Action News.
All human communication is technicallt advertising.
The generous Haste demo.
A skipping stones on water kind of game.
Sonic/Klonoa/late 90s/early 00s aesthetics.
A karaoke favorite that is not very reasonably sensitive.
All the Tims who did not work on Chess the Musical.
The guy from Rent whose name you can't remember.
Breakdancing while arbitrating a chess match.
Internet radio stations.
A Windows 95 theme of Chess the Musical.
Installing Windows 95 themes on your Picotron desktop.
Sex, Death and Live Television!
Live TV mishaps that ruin entirely the wrong career.
HQ.
At five o'clock, there's gonna be a guy.
The sense of spectacle you get from a live broadcast with a big audience.
The time one of the leads forgot his entire monologue.
The thrill of being part of a live performance as it's going wrong.
Listening to Shoutcast channels on Winamp.
Winamp's Shoutcast station registry.
The childhood dream of owning a TV station and getting to make all the little station IDs.
Netflix's abandoned "just fuck me up" button.
Six episodes of Deep Space 9 on a single VHS tape.
Drop 7 vs. Dropout TV.
Getting entirely the wrong information from your survey about what people like about your product.
Trying to sign up for Blaseball and failing.
Funny names such as Dominic Marijuana.
Jumping in and forcing some actions to happen.
Needing your game to break so that you can write the way it breaks into the narrative of the story.
Blaseball-likes.
Terrorball. (Short for Territory Ball.)
A list of all locations.
The Scarborough Fairies.
Resurrecting Jaylen Hotdogfingers.
An online text mode football manager with a live chat.
Fish Center.
Determining which fish is best.
Bringing a little bit of the live frisson to a fake live broadcast.
Whether it's okay to read a poem more than once.
Softly I go now, pad pad.
Cats you had together.
The cat that Hatricia Hop-Meow is based on.
Blogs: do they exist?
Making a point of finding an open source way to do your shit.
A 24 hour cycle of live podcasts.
TiVo for podcasts.
Edging the feeling of whether you're watching live TV or not in a slip slidey timestream.
Asking chat a question and then waiting 15 to 20 seconds for the response to come back.
Bringing back RSS readers.
The New Old Reader.
Opening with the mawwige joke.
Wanting people to want things.
Going back to your old life except now your friends are married.
Protecting The Lord from unauthorized clergymen.
Paying $20 to the Universal Life Church so you can perform weddings in most states.
Keeping the card in your wallet in case anyone tries to claim that you're not really an ordained minister.

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