June 26, 2009

Have A Great Summer And Stay Sweet, You Guys!

Dear You Guys,

So for the past 15 months I've gotten to help plan and launch a totally unique new website, working with a team made up entirely of people who were already my friends on an idea so crazy it just did work. I got to write about almost anything I wanted and share editorship of the site with a writer who makes me laugh out loud every day. And it was my full time job. Not a bad deal!

Now it's time to move on to write for other sites, including my six year old blog lindsayism.com, where they always have to take me back because they is just me. But I have a few people to thank first!

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Which Former Beauty Queen Should Be Videogum's New Spokeschick?

Have you ever been to one of those websites where a chick pops up and talks to you about how great the site is while you furiously hunt for the X button? Those chicks don't come from nowhere -- it seems they come from the exciting worlds of local news and/or beauty pageants, and they're all available for hire from the site websitetalkingheads.com, where each one makes her awkward, pre-rehearsed pitch in hopes companies will pick her to annoy their very own customers. Here are a few of my favorites. Which one should we pick?

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Posted by Lindsay at 3:30 PM in WebJunk

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Here's The Gross Thing I Promised: Shark Eats Dead Horse

If you watch it against your better judgment, knowing that it's not something that you want to watch, you'll be super mad at me. So rather than shock anyone, here's a description: some guys were on a fishing trip near Fiji, where the found a floating dead horse that had been recently dumped in the water (hey 11 year old girls, the horse almost certainly died of natural causes, okay?). As they're taping the horse, a shark swims up and does a one-shark feeding frenzy on it. It's my opinion that this video could easily be on the National Geographic channel, because its appeal (besides childish gross-out appeal, which is there too), is getting the chance to see something we rarely see in nature. And since it's not a person, and the horse is already dead, and the video is literally of nature taking its course, it's not THAT terrible, okay? Anyway, all warnings apply!

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Posted by Lindsay at 2:00 PM in Animals On Film, Gross
Tags: Horses | Sharks

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Videogum's 6 Most Misunderstood Animals (So Far!)

In the past year, I've had the sheepish pleasure of becoming somewhat of an expert in the non-lucrative field of cute (and not cute) animal videos, though I really only posted one or two a week. Several times, though, one of our furry friends has appeared here only to be mocked, scorned, teased, and teared down for a perceived lack of cuteness, or for mysterious actions that were clearly out of its control. Our only solace is that these special creatures don't know how to use computers or read the heartbreaking words written here about them, and will always live in a special bubble of self-delusion and the assumed adoration of all the people of the world. Let us celebrate them now, and maybe give them one more chance to slowly claw their way into our hearts.

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Um, It's A Furry In Diaper!

This is the story of two adult human beings who are into BOTH the furry/plushie fetish AND the infantalism/diaper fetish.They need Microsoft Excel 97 just to keep everything straight! This is safe for work, but I rejected it a few weeks ago as being too weird and creepy for this fine upstanding site. So here it is today! I can't decide which creeps me out more: not being able to tell the gender of the diaper bunny, the fact that the guy behind the camera sounds like Brian Posehn from The Sarah Silverman Program and Mr. Show, or this couple's demonstrated interest in Art Of The Twenties. I bet Salvador Dali is their favorite!

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Posted by Lindsay at 10:45 AM in YouTube Fetishes
Tags: Bunnies | Furries

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That's It, I'm Retiring After Today

Lindsay here. As you might have seen in the comments Monday, I'm leaving Videogum, and today is my last day of school. But this isn't my last post, this is just the post where I explain that I'll be completely not following any sort of normal news cycle today (EVEN THOUGH MICHAEL JACKSON TOTALLY DIED, WHAT THE HELL?), and will instead be posting whatever the heck I want! Including some favorite videos from the past year and even at least one new thing that's really super gross! So if you're like "WTF?", that's why. Gabe will be normal, though, so don't be scared!

Also, your Gen X celebrities will continue to die until I get a new job. You heard me! Let's see who might be next.

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Posted by Lindsay at 9:30 AM in Creepy, Death
Tags: Alyssa Milano | Goodbyes | The Golden Girls

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June 25, 2009

Bill Murray Wins

A local reporter interviewed Bill Murray at the U.S. Open, and Bill Murray just launched into his Carl Spackler character from Caddyshack, seemingly just for the entertainment of the reporter, or out of boredom. It's awesome:

(Via The A/V Club.) This is completely in line with all those stories of Bill Murray showing up at people's parties and whispering in their ears on the subway.

Posted by Lindsay at 5:00 PM in Local News
Tags: Bill Murray | Caddyshack

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How Did I Miss Amy Sedaris Being The Spokesvoice For Supercuts?

I went to re-watch Reza Aslan's Daily Show interview from last night on their site just now (because he's so dreamy!) and was greeted by this pre-roll commercial for Supercuts with a very familiar narrator who is obviously not trying to sound like anyone else but herself. It turns out Amy's been doing these for almost a year, yet it's gone virtually unnoticed (and un-blogged, even!) for all those eons of internet-time. Good for Amy:

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Posted by Lindsay at 3:30 PM in Commercials
Tags: Amy Sedaris | Jon Stewart | Reza Aslan | The Daily Show