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Thad McCotter has fun with antonyms
Congratulations, Congressman Thad. You found out how to use a thesaurus, and you put it on big placards and read it on the floor of the House. Hilarious!
Very compelling online video
This is a great, simple, no-frills but brilliantly edited online video from the Nike Foundation and its partners. It’s called “The Girl Effect.”
Canine Study of Reverse Motion (Video)
Lisa studies my dog on film. Sometimes I don’t even believe that I live with this thing.
Isn't that something?
We put out our first web video today at ShameOnElaine.org, a site about which I have not written here yet. Check it out:
Mike Gravel, are you OK, buddy?
I don’t really know what to say. Last time I wrote about Gravel, I said he was stuck in a permanent acid trip. Then I watched this video.
What?
Apr 2, 12:28 AM / Comment [2]
Dirt McGirt the Monorail Dog
In case you ever thought about owning a dog, please watch this video. This is what every moment spent at home is like. I love this dog, but man. She really likes to play.
Mar 26, 05:06 PM / Comment [2]
She voted for the war.
Short & simple YouTube video – this is the creator’s (watercooler254) only video. Intriguing.
Internet Gone Too Far?
The top post on Digg right now is out of control. It’s apparently video, which I will not watch, of a US solider in Iraq throwing a puppy off a cliff.
The submission suggests – correctly – that if this indeed true, the soldiers should be sanctioned in some way. Some of the top-rated comments in the post pull similar videos of US soldiers in Iraq, others ask why the outrage over one puppy instead of 200,000 civilians, etc. I don’t care about any of those.
What is extremely disturbing is the extent to which people are outright calling for this man’s murder – like a vigilante internet mob, sans torches. It should be noted that the man in the video gives his name and rank – for whatever reason. But the commenters are not just calling for murder – people combed the Internet and posted his profiles on social networks, his pictures, and pictures of his family members. One person posted his home address and phone number, another his car and license plate number.
It’s really unbelievable what the cloak of anonmity brings out in people – who in their day jobs would literally scream for murder? This video incident is sad, but the reaction is even worse. Come on, Internet.
Barack & Hillary: K-I-S-S-I-N-G?
Warning: this video may bring your mind places you might never want it to go.
From the same folks who brought you Barack OBollywood.
Ridiculous Shadow Puppeteer
Jack Nicholson's Characters Come out for Clinton
Jack Nicholson and his movie characters star in an online ad in support of Hillary Clinton, titled “Jack and Hill.”
Nicholson previously recorded robocalls for Clinton for Super Tuesday contests.
Super Tuesday; Yes We Can
Today is election day for half the country in the Dem nomination. I don’t get to vote til next Tuesday in the DC primary. That’s all fine, cause I’m at least not like those suckers in Pennsylvania who have to wait til April 23 to vote.
To start the day off, here’s will.i.am’s Yes We Can video. Vote!
Feb 5, 07:49 AM / Comment [1]
Free Fallin' to Tuesday (feat. Airplane!)
After a bad month for Hillary, you’d think her campaign would stay away from really bad metaphors (in a really bad advertisement).
techRepublican David All quickly mashed it up with scenes and sounds from Airplane!, and it’s hilarious.
Blabbering iMac Video #1
In which I discover I can talk to my computer.
Jan 26, 07:29 PM / Comment [1]
My NBC Ice Bowl Crowd Shot
During the third period of the Ice Bowl, an NBC cameraman panned the front row of my section. Bruce, Scott, and I were shown waving our Buffalo Sabres flag, and then the digital signal froze while the camera was on us. My dad downloaded the whole Ice Bowl from a torrent and cut this video.
Jimmy Kimmel is an idiot.
The Huffington Post put together a montage of how late night hosts addressed their return to the air, largely without their writers.
Jay Leno expressed his support for the writers, but did mention that “19 people [writers] put 160 other people out of work,” and that’s why he returned to the air. Conan also expressed his support and said he stands with the writers.
Meanwhile, Letterman brought out a chorus line doing a Rockette rendition holding up strike signs, and had a “top 10” list of writers’ demands. The top demand: producers should immediately remove their heads from their asses.
The biggest idiot of them all: Jimmy Kimmel, who expressed frustration that actors can “do movies like the Sex and the City movie,” but can’t come on his show. Well, Jimmy, one has a picket line, the other does not, and you’re a selfish bastard.
Watch the full montage
The Ice Bowl
On New Years Day, the Buffalo Sabres and the Pittsburgh Penguins will meet in the first-ever outdoor NHL hockey game in the United States, playing before 73,000 people at Ralph Wilson Stadium, home of football’s Buffalo Bills. Though the NHL calls it the Winter Classic, Buffalo fans know this game as the “Ice Bowl” – the closest any Buffalo team has come to a “Bowl” game in about 15 years.
I won 4 tickets to the Ice Bowl from a contest on Sabres.com; though they’re obstructed view and in the family section, I’m still going to watch the game in the front row in the middle of the stadium.
I’ve been in Buffalo since before Christmas, and the Ice Bowl is taking on mythologically epic proportions. For many Buffalonians, this ranks alongside the Bills’ Super Bowl appearances, or the Sabres’ sole Stanley Cup series eleven years ago.
How do you build a hockey rink in a football stadium? The NHL made this time-lapse video.
Each night on the news shows, there’s a special report on the progress of the construction of the ice rink in the center of the football stadium. There’s Ice Bowl and Sabres merchandise in every grocery store. More than 8,000 people bought $5 tickets to watch the game on the Jumbotron in the Sabres’ HSBC Arena. Tickets are going for as much as $1400 on eBay.
For those with tickets, the NHL is making sure there’s going to be a big party for the event. The Buffalo News ran a story this morning titled, “Party Time at The Ralph”:
The outdoor hockey party, featuring the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins on center ice at Ralph Wilson Stadium, officially kicks off at 8 a.m. Tuesday when the parking lot gates open. And for those who have run out of party-planning energy, pregame festivities await.“What I’m thinking is everybody’s going out for New Year’s and probably not thinking tailgating, so we’re going to create a tailgate party for those arriving,” said Don Renzulli, National Hockey League senior vice president of events and entertainment.
Once the stadium opens at 11, the party spills inside. The main vendor for the game expects to sell more than $1,000,000 in food and merch during the game.
“There is no doubt this will be the most food ever eaten at a hockey game,” said Sportservice President Rick Abramson. “It will be a spectacular feast.”The pantries at the stadium are being stocked to sell an estimated 12,000 slices of pizza, 10,000 hot dogs, 31,000 cups of coffee, 6,000 pretzels, 5,000 hamburgers, 5,000 cups of potato soup, 3,000 bags of peanuts, 1,400 pounds of chicken wings, 12,000 bottles of soft drinks, and 5,400 bottles of water.
Fans who have gotten past their New Year’s Eve celebration are expected to down some 70,000 cups of beer. And in a first for the stadium, hot chocolate sellers will be roaming the aisles to help fans beat the chill.
Needless to say, I am beyond excited for New Years Day. I’ll be hitting the parking lot at 8 am with my friends and my 16-year-old (6’ 4”) brother, who we need to get into the special “family” section.
For a slightly more pesstimistic view of the Ice Bowl, this FoxSports hockey commentary dismisses the “Big Outdoor Game” as a last-ditch effort by the struggling hockey league to siphon casual fans surfing TV into this spectacle on ice.
For one-off gimmicks like the Winter Classic, it’s a neat idea that will make for great photo ops and highlight segments, but don’t expect to be anything else than a quick spark in the sports fan’s world. There are no quick fixes, and if the NHL’s willing to accept that, then by all means keep up the occasional outdoor game for its spectacle and grandeur. If they want anything else out of it, I’m afraid they’re out of luck.
However, the author makes some really interesting points about hitching the future of hockey to new media for easy updates to news and scores, as well as the continued adoption of HD TVs to enable casual fans to better see the details of the game, and the critical element, following the puck.
Measuring a Despotic State
Colin Delany at e.politics points to an interesting post-WWII mini-doc on measuring for if a community or state is despotic or democratic. Colin’s commentary is interesting, and he outlines the main points of the video well.
9-year-old hockey player makes a ridiculous move
When this kid join the NHL in a decade we’ll be seeing this clip over and over. Even if you don’t like hockey, you’ll be impressed with this little kid’s moves.
Rudy 9/11 Montage
This is so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes:
The best writers strike video yet.
It obviously comes from the Colbert Report writers:
You can go over here to send a message to the studio execs in support of the writers.
Hillary Endorsed by Fuckin' AFSCME
I will take any excuse to post this video. Today, it’s AFSCME’s endorsement of Hillary earlier this week.
The amalgamated federation…ah, I don’t know what the fuck it means.
Auburn Marching Band Plays Thriller in Horror Costumes
On Sunday Oct. 28, dozens of high school marching bands met at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY for the annual New York State Field Band Championships. Congratulations are due to Orchard Park High School (woooo alma mater! wooo!) for clinching their first ever National-class championship.
The show you have to watch, though, is Auburn High School’s rendition of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Trumpets don Freddy Kreuger masks, the drumline all has skulls on their heads and painted on their drums, and, well, you really just have to watch it. The title track of Thriller comes on about 2/3 the way through the video.
Deck.
I found this project I did junior year of college for a film class (along with Alex Bonwit, one of the film’s stars). Enjoy.
"Semi-Pro" - Teaser for new Will Ferrell movie
It’s hard to tell what kind of Will Ferrell movie this will end up being, but this is a rather humorous teaser:
Ohhh, so Bush is just listening to Jim Carrey
In case you were wondering why President Bush squandered yet another diplomatic opportunity at the United Nations by focusing on the democratic failures in Burma, I’ve figured it out.
The only thing that makes sense is Bush was surfing YouTube and found this Jim Carrey video, and said, hey, why the fuck not?
Also, Jim Carrey…what happened, buddy?
I introduce this video without comment.
Free Tibet activists unfurl banner on the Great Wall, are detained
Snoop Dogg at a Ducks Game
Blake just sent me an amazing video of an interview with Snoop Dogg at an Anaheim Ducks game intermission. His son wanted to go see hockey, and Snoop “likes the way they skate on the ice all swift-like.”
I think that if Snoop can become and stay a fan of hockey, he could help popularize hockey in America again. This could be especially true now that the Ducks have won the 2007 Stanley Cup.
More of this, please!
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