My favorite part of Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union is her Arianna Huffington impression. Here’s a clip from the first episode, and it only gets funnier. Blogs and kisses!
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My favorite part of Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union is her Arianna Huffington impression. Here’s a clip from the first episode, and it only gets funnier. Blogs and kisses!
In last week’s South Park, an nation-wide internet outage triggers a mass migration to Silicon Valley. This clip is a hilarious parody of The Grapes of Wrath. I can’t figure out how to embed the video, but here’s the link.
Produce Paradise
seemed like a funny, good idea at the time.
These kinds of things usually are pretty damned funny when you are doing them. In fact, especially if you are the one doing them! In days of yore, the video would have been recorded and shelved and friends would have looked back in later years and laughed about how idiotic they were at that age.
But this is the age of instant digital media! The Fresh Beets miscalculated wildly and are now facing a $1 million lawsuit.
I understand that they want to protect their brand and their image, but come on. $1 million dollars? Is that really going to show those punks who’s boss? What is the point of bankrupting these idiots?
All it will do is make the next group of fools who do something like this try to do it more legit - like by purchasing their veggies before filming. That way they will be able to argue it is their own property with which they are, ahem, performing.
Instead of suing them, A&P should be thanking them for the free international advertising.
Sorry about posting an ebaum vid. I couldn’t find it anywhere else.
Anybody know if this is an actual video or some staged thing?
Naked Motorcycle Headstand Crash
The edited and unedited “Daughter” videos:
ATT alleges that a webcast vendor censored a lyric that was unflattering to President George W. Bush. Pearl Jam had this to say:
This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media. What happened to us this weekend was a wake up call, and it’s about something much bigger than the censorship of a rock band. AT&T’s actions strike at the heart of the public’s concerns over the power that corporations have when it comes to determining what the public sees and hears through communications media.
Pearl Jam has it nailed. Ever day something like this is allowed to occur in America, a piece of freedom dies. We must remain vigilant and alert to even the smallest erosions of liberty and free speech or one day those concepts will just be a forgotten memory.
Apparently it has become fashionable for prisoners to stage music videos and post them on Youtube. Here’s a take on Michael Jackson’s
Thriller:
He is going through some rough shit right now and the first pictures of him were released on the 24th. The Chicago Eightandfivers may know this already, but I just found out and was shocked. I knew he was going through an illness, but I had no idea. According to the Ebert-penned article, this is how it all went down:
What happened was, cancer of the salivary gland spread to my right lower jaw. A segment of the mandible was removed. Two operations to replace the missing segment were unsuccessful, both leading to unanticipated bleeding.
A tracheostomy was necessary so, for the time being, I cannot speak. I make do with written notes and a lot of hand waving and eye-rolling. The doctors now plan an approach that does not involve the risk of unplanned bleeding. If all goes well, my speech will be restored.
The article is a good read and he is facing his disfigurement and illness with great strength…
We have two local newspapers in the Twin Cities. The Minneapolis-based Star Tribune has been the Minneapolis staple for years and the Pioneer Press has been the St. Paul staple for years.
I read both. I usually read both every day or at least several times per week. I even subscribe to the St. Paul Sunday print edition of the newspaper. There are a couple of reasons:
1. I do not want to see the newspapers go out of business.
2. I like the Comics.
3. I like to peruse the local job postings.
Fortunately we have an excellent weekly recycling program in St. Paul courtesy of Eureka! Recycling so I do not have to feel too bad about generating newspaper trash.
The Star Tribune rebuilt their Home Page quite awhile ago. I didn’t really like the change but I got used to it. It seemed like they just wanted to feature ads more prominently after their re-design and it didn’t really seem very inspired.
The Pioneer Press unveiled a new website design on Monday, March 19th, 2007.
The Pioneer Press is by far the superior local newspaper website.
Both local newspaper websites require flash, both feature RSS Feeds, both have ads and both have search capabilities, but the Pioneer Press actually breaks down your searches into categories which provides more meaningful results than those at the Star Tribune.
I was a Star Tribune.com loyalist for years. I despised the old layout at Pioneer Press.com but the new design and layout is now an actual interactive website. It is more along the lines of what a newspaper website should be. No longer is it merely a print newspaper with the text of their articles uploaded to a web page.
I will still continue to read both newspapers online, but the Pioneer Press is now my preferred local news website.
Girl Talk. Download - pay what you can. - #
Phish reunites to tour in 2009. - #
Here's a helpful and depressing tutorial on the current financial crapstorm, in cartoon form. I'm having a hard time figuring out who did the video, but it was linked to on Cosmic Variance. - #
MoveOn.org is giving away free Obama buttons. Almost 2 million ordered so far. - #
If I had married Tea Leoni and starred in film and TV with Gillian Anderson, I would have the exact same problem. How many love children do you have David? - #