Here’s some footage from last night’s Letterman interview with an “I’m extremely over this,” Joaquin Phoenix. Only a super-genius like Andy Kaufman could have crafted this kind of unintentional comedy. Without him, we simply have to wait for fed-up starlets to stumble onto a talk show while on Quaaludes.

Hopefully we’ll see more of this in the future, as it was infinitely more entertaining than the usual dog and pony nonsense you get from Late Night.

Having a hard time memorizing playing cards while spending all day plotting to kill your doctor’s family? Now you can do both in one easy tutorial!

Brought to you by crap catalogue, Everything is Terrible.

Ifilm is reporting today that Johnny Depp will portray the immortal Hunter Thompson as a young, insanity-prone journalist making his way as a writer in 1950s San Juan.

A very, very exciting prospect. Fans of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas will recall Depp’s uncanny ability to inhabit the world of Raoul Duke. Even though this bears some of the stink of the Hollywood Prequel Bandwagon, I can’t criticize anyone willing to share more tales of Dr. Gonzo.

Here we go again. Alex Rodriguez admits to substance abuse back in 2003, and the Cadre of Crusading Baby Boomer Moralist Sportswriters are again denouncing the current crop of MLB players (and the records they hold) as “tainted.” They are crying to the Baseball Heavens,

“Oh Mercy, Lawd! Take us back! Take us back to a time when baseball was played by the honorable and when records made sense! A time of purity! A time of nobility! We can’t stand the awful sight of these players who have no respect for basic rules and decency! Deliver us, Lawd!”

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Get your day-glo vests and buckshot ready, it’s Fat Cat Season.

Average Americans, armed with incendiary e-mails and blog commentaries are actually beginning to affect Business As Usual. An op-ed from yesterday’s NYT documents the new populist fervor.

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It must be Sweeps Week at The Onion. I’ve never seen their commentators this animated…

Fun Rocketboom episode today on obnoxious loquacity…

An artist’s rendering of 320,000 lightbulbs, or about the number of kilowatt-hours wasted every minute from a lack of efficiency in the home.

Part of a gallery of photographer Chris Jordan’s attempt to show people the staggering amounts of stuff we use up as a collective.

Great idea for a piece, though I would have have gone with a person by person account to hammer home the potential change that one dedicated individual can make. Also, I’d really like to see my personal lifetime bananas-eaten fractal image.

For those of you who prefer visual cues, here’s the classic The Cure song set to signage.

Via Italian Website Giavasan

I don’t care if Monday’s blue
Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too
Thursday i don’t care about you
It’s friday i’m in love

Monday you can hold your head
Tuesday, Wednesday stay in bed
Or Thursday watch the walls instead
It’s Friday I’m in love

For those of you that missed the big game (or, more importantly, the big half time show) here was the singular highlight of Sunday’s action:

Nice one, Boss.