Don't question the cuteness.
She likes to help me clean.
And Barney's all, "wtf, mate?"
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Friday, June 27, 2008
My Dog Is Cuter Than All Others.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
R.I.P. George Carlin 1937-2008
George Carlin was one of my favorite comedians. He was incredibly offensive in a good way. He took topics that on the surface seem horrifying (see "Rape Can Be Funny") and talked about them in a way that was actually very insightful (in the rape one he actually takes on victim blaming for how stupid it is).
He talked about really important things, and took obvious pleasure in getting a rise out of people. But he was also hilarious. It's not easy to make people think and piss them off while at the same time making them laugh their asses off.
After the jump I've put up some clips of his routines, including his "Seven Words" bit.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
I'm Back
And posting the only music video in recent history that has the potential to get me laid. haha.
It's also an obnoxiously catchy song that I might need in my iPod for 5K training.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Wedding Shows Are Ridiculous
I hate weddings. Seriously. I don't have any strong desire to get married, but if I ever do walk that plank I'm thinking city hall or Vegas (seriously, why would you want to go to a church and/or blow 50 grand on one stupid day when you can have an ordained alien or Elvis marry you?). I hate wedding shows even more than I hate weddings...unless the shows come with an open bar, too.
Anyhoo, this video is awesome:
Edit: Random thought - someone should open a Transformers-themed chapel in Vegas. I mean, seriously, there would be nothing cooler than having Optimus Prime perform your wedding. If they did that I'd grab the next guy that passed me on the street and marry him. Or maybe it could be 80s-toy themed in general. That way you could choose, would you like to be married by Optimus, She-Ra, or Funshine Bear?
Friday, May 30, 2008
Have a Massive Dose of Adorable.
This is how old Zelda was the first time I met her (4 weeks). She looked a lot like the red ones in the video. Except mine is cuter because she didn't have her tail mutilated hacked off docked.
You can see why I had to adopt her.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Quickie: Murdered Harry Potter Actor
I wonder how many people will read that and immediately panic that I meant Daniel Radcliffe or Rupert Grint. You know, out of both the people that will actually read this.
Rob Knox, who plays Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was stabbed to death in a London bar. He was only 18.
Video.
The movie is coming out in November by the way. For all of my geekitude, and the 827 million times I've read the series (that's a precise count of course), I can't place where Marcus Belby fits into the story.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Mmm...Yogurt
OK, so I love me some yogurt. Really; it's tasty. But as we all know, it's also the quintessential female-oriented diet food. Which is incredibly annoying (I'm sorry, nothing that comes in a little plastic cup qualifies as "cute best man good").
Well, this video about the marketing of yogurt to women has been making the rounds of blogs that I read over the past few weeks:
Hilarious.
Go Whatever-Wash-U's-Mascot-Is
So when Washington University announced it was giving an honorary degree to anti-feminist, anti-woman, right-wing assface Phyllis Schlafly, students and faculty were (rightfully) horrified. There are several Facebook groups against the degree and there was lots of debate on how to go about opposing her.
About 75% of the 2800-person graduating class plus several faculty members stood up and turned their backs while she was being given her degree (got that little fact from Feministing). Ignore Wolf Blitzer's condescending douche-y "What's the controversy this time? [sigh]" comment and focus on the story.
("A bunch of losers"? Stay classy, Phyllis Schlafly)
Also, photos.
Isn't accepting an honorary degree (and having her own Bachelor's and law degrees) hypocritical of her? She thinks women should stay out of the workforce and be at home, why isn't she leading by example? She should have refused her degree on the grounds that she doesn't want to be treated like a man.
In case you missed it, this is a woman who said it's perfectly acceptable for a man to rape his wife.
Ellen Is Getting Married Now That She Can
Because California is one of the few states that doesn't suck. I'm looking at you, New York, it seems like you should be next. Anyhoo, here's a video.
She also took on John McCain over gay marriage:
Friday, May 16, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
On Being Ten Feet From Howard Dean
This is a little late, I apologize. But last week I went to a taping of The Daily Show. It was last Thursday, the episode that had Howard Dean as the guest. I thought that I'd walk you through the process.
First, you arrive and stand in line. You have to make reservations at the Daily Show Tickets page. Those come with the disclaimer that not every who makes a reservation will get in. It also suggest you arrive between 3:30 and 4:00. That's crap. On my first attempt to get in I arrived somewhere around 3:15 and was at the back of the line around the corner. They cut the line off about 10 or 15 people in front of me (*grumble*). That, however, worked out for the better, because if you get denied the first time you can e-mail them for VIP tickets that guarantee you a spot in the audience. Which is what I had last week.
With VIP tickets you don't have to get there quite as early. I believe 4:30 is the latest you can arrive and still be guaranteed a spot. I got there a little before 4:00 and stood and waited. At 4:30 (or 4:35 or 4:40...) they come down the VIP line and check your name off their list and give you a numbered ticket. I was #9. Yes, I made "Client 9" jokes. It was the right thing to do. Then you go through a security checkpoint. Metal detector and someone searching your bag. Like the airport without the condescension or attitude. Then you are corralled into a holding area while all 200 audience members go through security, and you stand there for about an hour total. Then they finally let you into the audience area (after making 2 or 3 announcements reminding you not to use electronic devices or take pictures, or to shout anything out during taping, etc) by your ticket number.
My party had really good seats. If you're facing the desk Jon Stewart sits at, we would be to the left (so, his right) in the second row. Pretty much as close as you can get without giving him a lapdance.
You sit there for another half-hour or so. There's a warm-up guy who comes out and makes fun of people in the audience and gives instructions about applause and all that. See, they don't use a laugh track. The audience is mic'd at half the volume Stewart is, so your reactions are what is used on the show. And you have to clap and cheer loud because of the half-volume thing.
So Jon Stewart comes out (woo) and talks/answers audience questions for a few minutes.
The taping starts. Little did I know, they do the entire show in a straight shot. They even have monitors hanging that play the pre-taped segments. It's exactly what you see on TV, only live. I was surprised by that initially, but I guess it makes sense for this particular show. It's scripted, but there's a little bit of ad-libbing and audience reaction that feeds it and is what makes it good.
So, on to Howard Dean. I was interested but not completely thrilled when I learned he was the guest. See, I don't agree with his decision to disenfranchise Florida and Michigan. Though I will say with his appearance I can sort of see where he's coming from, but I still think it's a huge mistake and very much smacks of what happened to Florida in 2000. Which I hate because he was one of my top choices in 2004, I think Edwards-Dean or Dean-Edwards would have been a better choice than Kerry-Edwards. Certainly more charismatic.
When he left (during the commercial break) Jon Stewart said a little something to the audience that to me sounded like he was pretty much thanking us for not booing Dean off the set. So that acknowledges the fact that I'm not the only liberal irked by his decision. Which I sort of already knew.
Anyway, after that, it was just like the end of the show. Wrap it up, Moment of Zen, out of there. Then the audience was ushered out.
It's a really cool experience. From a nerdy, "I love that show and anything that comes out of Jon Stewart's mouth" place as well as being interested in seeing how these things work behind the scenes.
Have some clips from that day's show (which, put together, are pretty much the entire show):
(I decided that John Oliver is by far my favorite of their current correspondents)
(I though this segent was kind of stupid, except when he asked if Clinton wore pantsuits when she was 3)
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
I Celebrate My Return To Blogging By Inundating You With Music Videos
Don't worry, I only inundate people with incredibly badass music videos. I wouldn't want to disappoint either of my readers.
Also, in order to keep up with the grain of this blog, they are politically motivated incredibly badass music videos. W00t.
(This isn't NOFX's video, it's some random YouTube person's...but it's more about the song anyway)
(swoon.)
And one more, for funsies:
(meaning it's not political, I just like the song - though I swear it's been sped up for the video, compared to the album)
Enjoy.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Oh, You Dirty, Dirty Toothbrushes, How Dare You Put Your God-Stick Into My Shame-Cave
No matter how delightfully snarky and sarcastic I find myself to be (yes, I'm completely narcissistic, deal with it), Jon Stewert is always better. Maybe that's why he's on TV and have a piddly blog with about 5 readers.
Anyhoo, The Daily Show takes on abstinence-only sex ed:
Enjoy.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Start Smelling Like The Irish
For funsies. Oh, you have to scroll in about 40 seconds to get to the actual video.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
You Say I Only Hear What I Want To
I found this on Feministing (I know, shocker).
A video from the Feminist Majority Foundation basically using celebrities to promote the universality of feminism.
In case you didn't figure it out/have been under a rock since 1995, the title is a reference to the fact that Lisa Loeb is in the video and, well, I can't even hear her name or see her without "Stay" running through my head in its entirety. On a side note, I really wish I could find awesome cat-eye glasses.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
If Only.
*sigh* I am too gullible sometimes. I signed onto MySpace just now and one of the videos listed on the home page said "Legend of Zelda movie trailer." Which I of course watched. Then I Googled it and looked for it on IMDb. I've been Punk'd. It's a fake. Curse you and your ways, April Fool's Day!!!!
Anyhoo, here's the video I found on YouTube, which I watched after I realized the movie wasn't real:
Link's wig is incredibly bad and the fighting is unbelievably fake. Even if I had still thought this was a real movie this trailer would have taken care of that.
I would love to see a Legend of Zelda movie done in the epic, beautiful, outrageously expensive and worth every penny, shot in New Zealand because everywhere else is too ugly style of Peter Jackson. I mean Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson, not King Kong remake Peter Jackson. I don't know what he was smoking when he agreed to that monstrosity.
For now, this is the only Zelda I need in my life:
(I will resist posting any more pictures of my dog, I promise)
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
For funsies.
I love Jem, Le Tigre, and A/V geeks with too much free time.
And by the way, I completely disagree with the Project Runway outcome.
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