Very funny stuff. I can see now why Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem didn’t give Animal more lead vocal parts…he gets a little confused sometimes.

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

John Hodgman, author of the exceedingly funny “Areas of My Expertise” and “More Information Than You Require,” is interviewed in Psychology Today.

Ideally, fake facts help to jostle our imaginations. They remind us how much of actual history is so strange, and novelistic, and practically unbelievable.

But I am not a lunatic. Obviously I know that it wasn’t Satan who had taken over Jefferson’s mind, but the Mole-Men.

Ian Frazier’s latest humor piece in the New Yorker, “Mi Chiamo Stan,” is especially funny for anyone who’s seen these Rosetta Stone advertisements before.

I wish I’d have thought of it first. It’s really well done.