Happy Birthday Elmo!
Happy Birthday to Elmo, our favorite 3 1/2-year-old little monster.








We can only imagine that casting for this commercial was, like, the best day ever in the history of the universe.
These VHS Video Notebooks from Mocha might be the best way to keep your thoughts private. Label it "M.A.S.H. Reruns" and stick it between two old VHS tapes—we guarantee no one will pick it up.
Finally someone is cataloguing the outfits that Denise Huxtable wears on The Cosby Show! Her funky 80's ensembles need to be documented in full detail and this blog is doing a great job. - Hazel
So the Kelly Kapowski tee got a lot of love, and now we're glad to see the hunks of Saved by the Bell get their due on this one. Dibs on Zach—we heard he's got a really big cell phone.
NY Mag has a slideshow of Amy Poehler's characters from her days in Upright CitizenBrigade. These three are just the beginning...
MTV's new show Weird Vibes reads like an after-school special. We kind of love it—a lot.
Lego artist Matt De Lanoy recreated the Sudden Valley Bluth residence, and the Bluths, out of Legos for Brickworld 2011. Just a little bit to hold us over while we—continue—to wait for the movie. (Via Juxtapoz.)
Surry Hills > Beverly Hills? If you're on team Sydney, pick up the Surry Hills Singlet from DIRTYRICH.
During Glasser's performance on Fallon last night, QR Codes surrounding the stage directed people to a trippy website where you can download the song she performed. It's the future! (Via Rhizome.)
Premiering on IFC on January 21, Portlandia is a six-part mini-series created by Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein, and focuses on their hilarious take on the Pacific Northwest's slacker utopia.




&relatedstHere, we imagine what's on our icons' wishlists this year.

We'd need a lot of pencils to write down all the reasons Alec Baldwin is awesome– well played, Greenwish Letterpress.
Banksy directed and storyboarded the iconic couch-opener scene of last night's episode of The Simpsons. His tag is seen all over Springfield, but things get heavy towards the end when he portrays sweatshop laborers manufacturing Simpsons merchandise. There's even a chained-up unicorn punching holes into the franchise DVDs. It doesn't get more Banksy than that. (Via Wooster)
With cameos from people such as Hunter S. Thompson, Michael Stipe, Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry and The B-52's Kate Pierson, The Adventures of Pete and Pete was one of the most undeniably cool television shows of the '90s. Grand Lake is now paying tribute to the show with a cover of its iconic theme song, "Hey Sandy" by Polaris. Grand Lake frontman Caleb Nichols is a Pete and Pete fan, and what makes the cover even better is that he sings the lyrics not as they are, but as he remembers them.
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