William M. Hartnett

A massively overlooked milestone here at Hartnett HQ: The Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros lyrics post turned 1 last Sunday. That stupid thing attracted 13,147 page views in its first year, 24.8 percent of all traffic across the entire site during the same period. Slightly more than 94 percent of visits to the post arrived via Google. [...]

Here’s the NBC Nightly News segment shot last week at The Palm Beach Post and broadcast Tuesday night. Included here at Matt’s suggestion. Probably not coincidentally, he’s in the background between 1:31 and 1:34 while The Post’s VP of digital is talking.

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I’m a latecomer to The Wire, having caught on only at the start of the current season. Though even I find the newsroom storyline snooze-worthy, I’m still happy to feature in this week’s Paper View Monday The Baltimore Sun, as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Say, speaking of The Sun, this CJR story about The [...]

Via Cheezburger comes this amazing piece of indescribable awesomeness. As one YouTube commenter pointed out, it looks better than season six.

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Well, not so much this year as this Saturday. Florida vs. Florida State in Gainesville at 5 p.m. Battlestar Galactica: Razor at 9 p.m. Bonus metaphysical conundrum: Who/what would prevail in a confrontation, Tim Tebow or Battlestar Pegasus?

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As a Florida alum and fan of Gators athletics I watch a lot of SEC football on CBS, which means I get a pretty big dose of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson each fall. I’ve long thought Danielson’s broadcasting style is idiosyncratic, a bit like Dan Rather’s election-night “Ratherisms.” (”This race is hotter than the [...]

But only because I don’t have any video my own angry dance, which is just a lot more lyrical than this.

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Loook ouuut, he is a spider pig. Simpsons movie: Brilliant.

Spiderpig lyrics:Spiderpig, Spiderpig
does whatever a Spiderpig does
can he swing, from a web?
no he can’t, he’s a pig
look out, he is a Spiderpig

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I see from the keyword referrals that some folks are winding up at my Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros video post while searching for the lyrics to this amazingly brilliant, gritty urban rap by Flight of the Conchords. I don’t know what kind of nutty search engine algorithm was responsible for leading you to my post instead [...]

My lyrics are bottomless … Still haven’t bothered getting the cable hooked up in the new house, and I’m not sure I will for another month or two because I’ve been catching up pretty well online. For example:

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