Mentos, K-Fed, Chocolate Rain: Weezer’s new video for “Pork and Beans” is meta. Here are actual celebrities impersonating pseudo-celebrities who got their fame in viral videos in a video designed to be viral. It’s sort of an M.C. Escher drawing rendered as a black velvet painting, but more desirable in your living room. The good news is that if you’re not a YouTube idiot savant, Valleywag breaks it down by linking to all the referenced videos, hard bodies, gay G.I. Joe, Peanut Butter Jelly Time and all. It’s so much fun it won’t even bother you that our culture has run out of ideas at valleywag.com/392972/weezer-undestands-how-to-work-youtube.
Mean Girls: Julia Wertz’s “roughly thrice a week” comic Fart Party is an autobiographical Web comic (also available as a book) that manages to be funny, mean, touching, self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating at the same time. It’s also pretty dirty, at least in that Wertz uses foul language in creative ways like “my life is the abortion Juno should have had” at www.fartparty.org.
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