week of 11/18/2007

"Turkey Wrap": holiday geek crunk from BBtv.



For your holiday week enjoyment -- "Turkey Wrap," a Thanksgiving crunk original from BBtv, by Lil' Gizzard with Hen-essey. (oh, alright: music composed by BBtv editor Laura Lopez, lyrics by BBtv segment producer Russ Gooberman, performed by Russ and Xeni, video edited by Elana Eli and Laura Lopez. This atrocity was the brainchild of BBtv Exec. Producer Asa Greenberg).

MP3 Link to "radio edit," cusswords bleeped.
MP3 Link to version with cusswords.

Complete lyrics after the jump.

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Oh noes! BBtv comments temporarily broken. UPDATE: fixx0red.



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Quick note to let everyone know that Boing Boing's comment system is currently down. Our talented team of tech wizards has already Instantiated the Unfuckatron*, so all should be back online soon. All apologies. UPDATE: Stuff now works.

* (TM) Joel Johnson, 2007. Pix: icanhazcheesburger.

Cryptozoology with Loren Coleman



Yeti, sea serpents, Sasquatch -- fantasy creatures or flesh-and-blood biological oddities? Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson visits the Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine to explore these cryptid enigmas and more. Joel speaks with the museum's founder, blogger and cryptozoology expert Loren Coleman, who is also the author of Mysterious America.

Mole Men imagined by Ape Lad / Mole Crunk



In our last episode, John Hodgman gave us a sneak peek at his next book in progress, which includes mysteries of mole men. What do they look like? We don't know, the book's not finished. But Hodgman did share some of their names with us.

Florida-based artist Adam "Ape Lad" Koford drew some of the 700 hobo names recounted in Hodgman's last book, so we asked him to imagine the mole-men for today's BBtv episode.

Next, kick back with some earthworms and Stoli, and dig the smooth underground sounds of DJ Mole-licious. This "mole crunk" track was written and rapped by BBtv segment producer Russ Gooberman, with music by BBtv associate editor Laura Lopez. What set you from, homie? 6.02 x 10^23. Lyrics and MP3 after the jump.

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week of 11/18/2007