The Zimmers Rock It Old-School

Reeaaaaaal old school. As in, the British singing group's average age is 78. The 40-member senior chorus performs a few well-picked covers (The Who's "My Generation" and a twist on a Beatles tunes, "When I'm (One Hundred and) Sixty-Four"), according to The Washington Times. It's like when TDA squeezer emeritus Clyde Forsman sang Jimi Hendrix's "Fire" and Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy," only times 40.

Now the Zimmers are riding a wave of buzz to America. (The well-produced YouTube video below has been watched more than 2 million times so far.)

Musicians Are Funny, Too

This isn't the prettiest Web page, but it's got a lot of classic musician jokes, including a few poking fun at accordion players. (Don't miss Ted Nugent's jab at the French.)

Kitties Make Me Laugh

Being a "cat chat" addict, I can't help but chuckle at LOLCats Volume 1.

Zombies Invade San Francisco!

See the zombies set upon a mall and a Disney store in search of brains (no luck)! Watch a zombie take a Scientologist stress test! Witness an actual zombie wedding! Lots of, um, tasty bits in this fun photo gallery that documents the zombies' descent upon foggy Frisco last Friday. (Hilarious captions, too.)

That's the kind of stuff that makes this city fun.

Cracker Plays the Accordion Card

I've always liked Cracker's smart rock tunes, dosed, as they always are, with a buckshot country vibe and a pound and a half each of humor, attitude and salty observation. Now the band's released an album, Greatest Hits –- Redux, with all the songs re-recorded and reworked, with a heavy lash of accordion added for good measure, according to a rave review by Mary Beth Hascall at PLAYBACK:stl.

Apparently Cracker pulled together the record -- with the squeezebox injection courtesy of Kenny Margolis -- at least in part to stick it to former label Virgin Records, which is releasing its own greatest hits package. (Redux also undercuts the Virgin disc's price.) Can't wait to hear this one.

Thirsty for a Carlton?

Strangely, I am, and I've never even had one of the Aussie beers. Maybe it's because I watched this really cool ad for Carlton Draught.

First Bratwurst Haiku of Summer

Just in time for the Memorial Day weekend barbecue blitz, Bill from Milwaukee sends a link (it would be a link) to the Journal Sentinel's story about its first-ever "bratku" contest.

What's a "bratku" you ask? That would be a competition in which sausage-smitten people pen haiku about bratwurst (with the top five winners picking up $25 gift certificates from the ever-fabulous Usinger's Famous Sausage).

My personal fave is by Linda Hassel of Oshkosh:

A blossom of fire
Sweet juices fall on hot coals
As the bratwurst sings

That's a nice line -- "as the bratwurst sings." I can almost hear 'em sizzling and singing and then squirting just a smidgen of that precious bratwurst juice onto the coals before being pulled off onto a waiting bun. It's a song I hope to hear often this summer.

P.S. "Looking forward to my first bratwurst of summer this weekend," Bill says. Might have to do that myself ...