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Thom Dunn is a Boston-based writer, musician, and utterly terrible dancer. He is the singer/guitarist for the indie rock/power-pop the Roland High Life, as well as a staff writer for the New York Times’ Wirecutter and a regular contributor at BoingBoing.net. Thom enjoys Oxford commas, metaphysics, and romantic clichés (especially when they involve whiskey), and he firmly believes that Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" is the single greatest atrocity committed against mankind. He is a graduate of Clarion Writer's Workshop at UCSD ('13) & Emerson College ('08).

Re-mixing the Awesome GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Mix

We all know I'm a sucker for a good remix / mashup, and in addition to appealing to the Vonnegut fan in me, DJ Kilgorian Tralfamadore has put together this sweet mashup version of the complete Guardians of the Galaxy "Awesome Mix #1" (which is also apparently the #1 album in America right now? Weird).

(Admittedly, some of the grooves are a little sloppy — but I'm pretty sure he pulled off my second-favorite off-beat sampling of "I Want You Back" after "Jump" by Kriss Kross)

Listen below, or you can also download the individual tracks legally on SoundCloud (hooray for Creative Commons remix rights!). There's also an infinite video loop of Dancing Baby Groot that you can watch because let's be honest, that's the cutest thing that any of us have seen in a while.

Glenn Beck is J. Jonah Jameson

Did you hear? Spider-Man's black! Well, technically, he's half-Hispanic, half-African-American. He is not, despite Glenn Beck's mad raving, also gay. Nor is it Michelle Obama's fault. But here's some hilarious footage of J. Jonah Jameson that I dubbed with Glenn Beck's ridiculous rant about a (Oh Em Gee!) black Spider-Man:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkLNjDeaYPA&w=425&h=349]

Update: AOL's ComicsAlliance.com has also picked up the video as part of an article on the same topic.

Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis, who is not only responsible for the creation of the new Spider-Man but is also the one who joked about the idea of the mash-up video in the first place (I can't take full credit!), has also been tweeting it pretty heavily.