“Oh look, you haven’t touched your salt lick.  Num-num, good salt lick.” – Lisa Simpson

This week we’ve got lick-able food, and some excellent guitar licks.  Sadly no salt licks, but them’s the breaks.  In addition to that there’s some television retrospectives, a list of people you don’t want as your boss, an awesome new Tumblr, a couple of fan made links (including one by a wee child), and a very creative use of an animated .gif file.

Enjoy.

[Programming Note: Crazy Noises for “A Midsummer’s Nice Eve” will be along next week, but there’s no new Zombie Simpsons this week so that’s okay.]

Simpsons song medley – Internet?  More like this please:

Fantastic.  Two things I’d like to add.  1) That guy might be younger than some of the songs he’s singing.  2)  No Zombie Simpsons.  The kids are alright.  (via @springfieldx2)

Simpson’s Cake Pops – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week contains a recipe, tips, and an awesome picture.  Damn, those look good.

Technologic – This is like that Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz thing, but much simpler and involving Daft Punk and an animated .gif of Flanders from “Hurricane Neddy”. 

Wordless Wednesday – Drawings from preschool days – Excellent drawing of the Simpson family by a pre-schooler.  I especially like how Bart and Lisa got started in the middle, then crossed out and replaced elsewhere.  That’s wonderfully unpretentious child think. 

Greeting Cards for Every Occasion – A cool fan made Simpsons birthday card. 

Born in the USA – A paean to American television with moderate usage:

I can’t help thinking of Bart Simpson’s maxim about television and parenting ‘It’s hard not to listen to TV. It’s spent so much more time raising us than you’.

And now I must nitpick, for that quote is missing a “just” and a “have”: “It’s just hard not to listen to TV.  It’s spent so much more time raising us than you have.”  Other than that, well done; and that link goes to YouTube of Homer on Rock Bottom. 

The Sad Story of the Real-Life Simpsons House – I fail to find this sad.  It’s just another dumb marketing idea that didn’t work.  And why the hell did they build it in a suburb of Las Vegas?  (via @springfieldx2)

Look what I found my drawing of Lisa Simpson :) on Twitpic – Fan made drawing (painting?) of Lisa.

Steve Totally Looks Like Ned Flanders – Agreed.

Homer – Tying weight loss to The Simpsons, including excellent usage and some YouTube from “King- Size Homer”. 

Fashion is Hell: Comme des Garçons Toons in to Matt Groening – Neat?  Slightly larger picture of one of the shirts here. 

Check it out ya’ll checka check it out – A college radio DJ in Eugene, Oregon has named his show “Soul Donuts”, including a real life picture of everyone’s favorite forbidden donut fragment.  Sweet. 

Pop Art of the Day – Homer and Homer, together at last. (via @springfieldx2, geez they’re on a roll this week.)

Homemade Weed Vaporizer – Excellent usage, even if it is flagrant false advertising. 

A different kind of list – Listing Simpsons supporting characters by tiers instead of individually. 

42. The Wrong Box – An audio book review of a Robert Louis Stevenson story involving a tontine.  As you’d expect, “Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"” is mentioned. 

Who’s The Boss??? – A list of fictional bosses, including Burns and good old Zapp Brannigan. 

Lessons from great (and not-so-great) television – This is about good and not so good teevee.  But it does contain this:

The Simpsons, at least in its classic seasons, acquired a richness and velocity that continued to build for years, until it had populated a world that rivaled the real one for density and immediacy. (Like the rest of the Internet, I respond to most situations with a Simpsons quote.)

Don’t we all?

Update – 22/02/11 – And finally, I get to end not just with someone who agrees with us, but someone who’s running a Simpsons Tumblr and who has had it with Zombie Simpsons:

The first announcement for the blog is, from now on I will only be concentrating on the first ten seasons of the Simpsons. I started this blog last Autumn as a a labour of love towards our favourite yellow family and I believe the first ten seasons of the show is when The Simpsons is at its best.

I had a lot of requests from people, asking for things from later seasons and I didn’t enjoy doing them at all. It meant sitting through episodes that I didn’t care for to get them, causing me to become unenthusiastic about updating the blog. I think if I focus on Seasons 1 – 10, I’ll enjoy working on the pages more and hopefully you guys will see a lot more updates! I still love The Simpsons and will watch it whenever I can but you can’t deny their golden age!

No, you can’t deny it.  Our link list?  Updated.  Bonus love for the first ten seasons here.  (Original link via @dailysimpsons.)