THE DICTATOR IS COMING

Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie is The Dictator. For some reason people still think it is a good idea to interview him on live TV.

Sacha Baron Cohen on the Channel Nine morning show.

THE BEARD CAGE

Dean Beacon’s beard from the Freestyle Beard Competition of the 1991 National Beard And Mustache Championship in Tacoma, Washington

THE BEARDS

The Beards are an Australian band that expound on the virtues of having a beard. They have produced such hits as If Your Dad Doesn’t Have a Beard, You’ve Got Two Mums and I’m In The Mood…For Beards.

The Beards would like to suggest various types of people who need beards. The Beards would like to suggest that if your father doesn’t have a beard, then you have two mothers. The Beards would like to you to consider sexual relations with a bearded man. The Beards would like to suggest that if you shave off your beard you and your loved ones will die. NSFW (language)

BONEY M – RASPUTIN

I was over at Jamie Pants Awesome’s house a couple of months ago. She has a thing for Just Dance 2 on the Wii, so we played. Rasputin by Boney M has subsequently been stuck in my head since then. Randomly it creeps up on me out of nowhere. This morning it happened again, so here is Boney M with a pretty bizarre performance.

BONOBOS – HAPPIEST SPECIES ON THE PLANET

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh works with bonobo apes. The apes can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching. This TED talk focuses on how much of what a species can do is determined by biology — and how much by cultural exposure.