A review of a new movie that most people haven’t seen yet. A couple of book reviews. And an awesome contest… with some very neat prizes!
Keep an eye on this blog in the next few days for all kinds of kewl stuff.
In the meantime, Happy Thanksgiving!
EDIT 7:05 p.m. EST: And now for a true bit of Thanksgiving comedy. It’s the now-infamous “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!” scene from the classic sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati…
Dear friend Jenna St.Hilaire (who was previously Jenna Olwin before her recent nuptials) spotted this video on YouTube and sent it this way. It’s a four-way split-screen of a dude who’s doing an a capella rendition of several John Williams movie scores, with a Star Wars-ish twist. It’s pretty amazing!
Look, I know that tomorrow is Election Day and many folks are feeling extremely anxious and even much worse. Personally, I’m sick of the whole damned thing. I’ve been an eager follower of politics all my life, but this is the first election ever that couldn’t be a more dreary dull bore. And on the eve of what I keep hearing is “the most important election in our country’s history” (except it’s really not) I’m now more thankful than ever that I don’t have a dog the McCain/Obama hunt (and I explained two days ago what I was doing regarding that).
So right now, I think most of us can agree: we need a good laugh.
I found this on YouTube not long ago and every time I watch it, it cracks me up hard! Someone took some clips of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street and choreographed them to ...
During the past few days American Rights Counsel LLC has forced YouTube to pull more than four thousand videos that are critical of the Church of Scientology. At this time it’s unclear whether American Rights Counsel are representing the cult and did so at the behest of Scientologists. What is known is that a butt-load of Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices went out from the firm over a period of twelve hours this past Thursday and Friday, and YouTube had no legal alternative but to immediately yank the contested clips.
The affected YouTube users have already begun responding with DMCA counter-claims (which might explain why this blog has been registering a ton of visits to how I filed my own counter-claim a year ago against Viacom). That is indeed a wise step to take in fighting back.
But YouTube users shouldn’t be forced to deal with this anyway. ...
A few days ago was the one year anniversary of that very strange situation between multi-billion dollar multimedia conglomerate Viacom (owner of CBS, Paramount, Comedy Central and many other brands) and Yours Truly. If you’re fairly new to this joint here’s my first post about what happened and here’s the list of all the news articles that I could find about it. Long story short: that wacky first TV commercial that I made for my 2006 school board campaign was broadcast on VH1’s Web Junk 2.0, which even though neither VH1 or its parent company Viacom asked for permission I was still fine with it, ‘cuz I thought it was pretty hilarious.
Anyway, I posted the short clip of my commercial on Web Junk 2.0 on YouTube, ‘cuz I was so proud of it and that Rockingham County, North Carolina got such a shout-out. A month and a ...
A few weeks ago this blog reported on Darth Vader’s attempt to join the Lutherans in Iceland. Now it turns out that there is an entire church devoted to Star Wars…
Mr. Unstable’s parents are no doubt proud of him…
The Burger King in Xenia, Ohio is minus a bunch of employees and one manager tonight because this guy decided to cleanse himself with a bubble bath in the restaurant’s dish sink! The location’s operators have thrown out all the utensils that came in contact with “Mr. Unstable”, and have said that the sink has been sanitized twice. I’ve heard at least one person suggest that perhaps the entire Burger King be razed and burned and the ground sown with salt.
If you must (and you probably must) here’s the complete video showing the now-unemployed Mr. Unstable taking his bath in the sink…
I’m not going to embed this. In fact, I don’t know if it’ll work as an embed. This particular video has age verification enabled, so you’ve got to be a registered YouTube user and click through the agreement that yes, you’re old enough and you do want to watch.
No, it’s not pornography. But it’s not for the squeamish, either. And it is legit. I first heard about this clip two years ago, and if a friend hadn’t passed it along I never would have known that it was available for public viewing.
You’ve probably seen enactments of this in movies and television. But this – a very rare and early film shot in a prison in Hanoi, Vietnam – depicts the real thing.
What is it?
The executions of two prisoners by guillotine… with the camera showing the heads falling into the basket.
Two things that strike me ...
Longtime readers of this blog know that I’m fond of posting classic clips from Sesame Street whenever I find them on YouTube. That should be a lot easier to do from now on ‘cuz Sesame Workshop (the outfit that used to be Childrens Television Workshop) is on YouTube and putting up officially-sanctioned Sesame Street videos! You can’t embed them in your own blog or site (yet, and let’s hope they consider allowing embedding eventually) but you can certainly link to ’em and watch them. Like, f’rinstance, the now-infamous “Sesame Street News” where Kermit the Frog reports on Prince Charming’s attempt to rescue Rapunzel.
I’m glad Sesame Workshop is doing this, and I hope they post many more in the weeks and months to come. Especially Bert and Ernie sketches. Can’t get enough of Bert and Ernie… 🙂...
Is that the most weird title in the history of blogging, or what?
But it’s true: Darth Vader tried to take part in a procession of Icelandic Lutherans in that island country’s capital of Reykjavík. Here’s the video…