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On the Subject of Dementia

2008-04-03T18:35:00.002-04:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mike Gravel, former Democratic and current Libertarian candidate for president. (Via Matthew Yglesias, who needs the traffic.)

Ted Turner is a Demented Genius

2008-04-02T20:01:00.004-04:00

I now have a man-crush on Ted Turner. (I'm going to have to get in line behind Charlie Rose.) Charlie tries and tries, but Ted Turner has no truck with interrupters.

My favorite part is where they debate whether he should invite Rupert Murdoch to his birthday party. I'm not kidding! It's starts around 19:00. At 12:45, he sings an entire verse and chorus of "My Old Kentucky Home"! And Charlie just sits there with dewy eyes, like a bleach-blonde skank being serenaded by Bret Michaels!

UPDATE: The embed seems to have died, but the video is still at the Charlie Rose website.

Flashdance

2008-03-11T19:59:00.002-04:00

Here's a video of me talking about Flashdance—a movie I had never seen before and plan to never see again—with my old friend Jonathan Betzler.

You know, I don't think I've seen myself on video in ten years or more (I like to remember things my own way. Not necessarily the way they happened) and I find this... surprisingly un-excruciating. Maybe it's a trick of the light.

Jonathan is threatening to do 23 more of these through the end of the year. (Last week was The Right Stuff. The rest will be posted here.)

For Want of Hobo Jokes

2007-11-03T12:24:00.000-04:00

Hey, look, official Funniest Man Alive John Hodgman has a blog:

I actually admire the sheer, misanthropic brio of those Lockhorns. After all, it can't be easy to distill all the drunken, marital loathing of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and pour it all into a single, hate-filled funny pages panel day after day after day.

Panser Anti-Bjørne

2007-02-13T16:03:00.000-05:00

This documentary is now at the top of my Netflix queue. I suspect---just this once---Hilleary won't mind.

The quick summary: man is attacked by bear, man spends years building anti-bear armor, man seeks out Grizzly for a re-match, and then... ? I'll just have to wait and find out!

(Via Dave-of-the-Long-Box)

Pa, Pa, Pants Man!

2007-02-04T11:36:00.000-05:00

(via Andrew Sullivan)

George Michael Bluth on Success

2007-01-11T09:13:00.000-05:00

Happy Times.

Via Unfogged.

Nigga, please

2006-12-05T12:21:00.000-05:00

Brotha got played. (Via Ogged)

[UPDATE] Did that embed work for you? Here's the link.

[UPDATE 12/29/2006] The embed never seemed to work until I changed the Blogger template for the blog. That's odd.

[UPDATE 12/29/2006 Pt 2] Ah, Blogger's new pedantic-er Publish routine complained about an unmatched embed tag in the YouTube HTML. Maybe that was it?