Today at Flavorpill, we decided that following @FASHIONTweek was better than fighting the crowds at Lincoln Center. We had our minds blown by The Snuggie Sutra. We were amazed at the accuracy of the hierarchy of digital distractions. We hoped that a Diablo Cody/Courtney Love talk show never becomes a reality. We laughed out loud at this pic of Leno on Letterman circa 1979. We found it interesting that Steve Jobs’ physical appearance was the biggest news to come out of today’s Apple conference. We decided that we’ll watch anything the BBC wants to show us about hipsters. We embraced the buzz about insect art. We craved lobster. And finally, we remembered Walter Cronkite and got a lecture about journalism from Obama all at once.

After its late-night TV debut, UK comedy sensation The Mighty Boosh is available in full in the US.

Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt have been performing together for over a decade, since starting out with a stage version of their show. Their increasingly surreal humor made its biggest splash outside the UK when “The Legend of Old Gregg,” an elaborate musical skit from Season 2 of their TV series went viral online. With the release of all three seasons on DVD, fans are free to indulge in hours of mind-melting hilarity.
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Back in June we told you about Elizabeth Goodman’s unauthorized Cat Power biography — a piece that stirred up some of our most heated commenter debate to date. This morning, courtesy of Pop Candy we’ve been listening to these Cat Power BBC performances non-stop; the awkward interaction between Chan Marshall and the host on a few tracks is rather priceless. She’s a divisive artist around Flavorpill HQ, but for those of you who are fans, you’ll definitely enjoy this expansive collection of downloadable songs.

Ring the bells, the word is out: Radiohead are recording. According to a recent BBC interview with bassist Colin Greenwood they are, “at the stage where we’ve got the big Lego box out and we’ve tipped it out on the floor and we’re just looking at all the bits and thinking what’s next?” Good question. All the details we could dig up after the jump.

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Books: A playlist from Amanda Stern of the Happy Ending series [via Paper Cuts]
Dance/Opera: Sound of Music train station dance [via HuffPo]
Design: Buildings that look like jenga [via Slate]
Film: Michel Gondry Green Hornet camera tricks [via MTV]
Music: The Michael Jackson auction is canceled! [via Billboard]
Television: The BBC’s Creative Commons licensed show [via Boing Boing]
Theatre: “Durang is Jonathan Swift’s nicer, younger brother.” [via NYO]
Visual Arts: Hiroshi Sugimoto: photographer or mad scientist? [via Artinfo]
Web: Even a bum won’t buy a PC (video) [via Wired]

Bonus link: The Hipster Grifter

Spoiler alert: It’s April Fools’ Day. Everyone’s on board now, yes? We’ve already come across some real gems.

Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink: 144 character stories for the New York Post would be one thing, but the Guardian? Come on. We kid cause we love.

Guantanamo ‘fun’ – Miss Universe: There goes the British press taking the piss again. Except the BBC didn’t make this one up.

Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity: Google going deep like you knew they would. Needs more math jokes though.

Fiction world rocked as woman claims no sexual attraction to Neil Gaiman: True story, but we’re not sure about this one.

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Per the BBC: “A new dance craze called Tecktonik has taken off in France. It started in Paris and quickly spread to the rest of the the country via the internet and word-of-mouth.” Per Tecktonik’s Wikipedia entry: “The music Tecktonik is usually danced to is electro house. Tecktonic has not yet succeeded in creating its own musicgenre, even though multiple attempts have been made. Tecktonik originated in Paris, France and has grown in popularity through word-of-mouth and video sharing sites such as Dailymotion and YouTube.”

Hmm… so let’s just see what this looks like, shall we?

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For some reason we find this Guardian article about Sir David Attenborough (Richard’s older bro) chuckle worthy; even if you don’t recognize the name, you’d probably know his hushed, excited voice — think those BBC wildlife series that allow you to zone out over some beautifully-shot timelapse footage of a bramble simply growing.

It seems that Attenborough has been getting hate mail from Christian fundamentalist viewers angry that he fails to credit God in his documentaries.

In fact, according to the 82-year-old naturalist, “They tell me to burn in hell and good riddance.” Dude. He’s too old and huggable for such harsh talk.

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You know RUSSELL BRAND. He was in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL and hosted the 2008 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS because he’s a big deal in Great Britain. Or maybe we should say was.

It seems like the entire UK is outraged with Brand for some on-air prank calls he and JONATHAN ROSS placed to 78-year-old comedy legend ANDREW SACHS on THE RUSSELL BRAND SHOW; in them they claimed to have had sex with his 23-year-old granddaughter, GEORGINA BAILLIE.

You can read the transcript of the calls here, but our favorite part is the thought of Brand chanting: “I said some things I didn’t of oughta, like I had sex with your granddaughter…”

At the time of the radio broadcast on BBC 2 only two complaints had been received, but by the time Brand resigned yesterday afternoon that number had jumped to 27,000.

In today’s Telegraph, comeidan STEVE COOGAN (aka Sexy Jesus) said the calls were “inappropriate, wrong and in bad taste.” VICTORIA WOOD, a popular British stand-up, blamed the BBC programmers for allowing the calls on the air in the first place: “The person who decided that was acceptable to broadcast is the person who is responsible. I’m not shocked at what they did. I’m shocked it went into the system and someone decided to broadcast it.”

So has Brand become as unpopular with UK comedians as MICHAEL RICHARDS is with American stand-ups? Or is he, as WFMU radio host TOM SCHARPLING has called him, the British PAULY SHORE?

Which is worse?

- Mo Diggs