Sarah Vowell’s on The Daily Show this Tuesday night: . The day before Michelle Obama and Robert De Niro and after Tim Robbins. She keeps good company.

The Wordy Shipmates, her new book/audiobook, “revisits America’s Puritan roots:”

Know nada about this band, ‘cept I do like this ditty. Avett Brothers, “Murder in the City” (3:12mp3):

via My Old Kentucky Blog.

Among the many meshuganah mashup artists is the occasional mench (still Rosh Hashanah, doncha know). Like Musicina Blender, who mixes Ryan Adams acoustic vers of Oasis “Wonderwall” with Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell. “Put two beautifuls together and sometimes it creates a third beautiful.”

“Canto de Wonderwall (Musicina Blender Mashup)” (5:48 mp3):

via some velvet blog.

Possibly staged, definitely funny, “911 Call- Warthog and Wife” (0:22 mp3):

Sundown last night started the year 5769, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year; the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. Rest, repent, blow the shofar, and get ready for Yom Kippur.

rx has a new video, sampling George W Bush doin’ it “My Way:”

Who are these Undecideds, who absorb the media spotlight like a black whole, who can’t leave their house w/o participating in 3 surveys, 4 focus groups, and a sit-down w/ CNN? The Undecideds look like us, they talk like us. They live amongst us. But they are different, my friends, to the core.

Their choice it simple: it’s either Fresh Face or POW-guy. We all picked long ago. Yet the Undecideds waffle and flip-flop. They are guilty of, in a word, Indecisiveness.

And Indecisive is not something America can afford. Not in these perilous times, what with the overseas War on Anxiety and domestically The Greatest Economic Collapse Since The Last One.

These Undecideds threaten all we hold dear and purchasable by credit.

Why don’t we make them choose? Now. Maybe if they made their minds up, we could hold the elections early. This would save the US billions in attack ads alone, which we could reinvest in bribing Wall Street to quit killing our economy.

Indecision, not now, not ever, not here in the good ol’ USA.

(For more on battling indecisiveness, see previous post.)

This one definitely Not Safe For Work (NSFW), produced by an Obama-nation known as Jewish Council for Education & Research, it’s Sarah Potty-Mouth Silverman for Jewish Council for Education & Research, it’s Sarah Potty-Mouth Silverman for The Great Schlep, on Vimeo (NSFW):

via WFMU’s blog.