Thousands of young Americans enter film school every year with the hope of making the next Citizen Kane (but this time, "Rosebud" is a pair of rollerblades!). Most of them, of course, won't succeed as directors, and will eventually find themselves moving on to more reliable work in other fields, or toiling in the belly of the entertainment industry, or writing a pop culture blog. So it must be discouraging to these hopeful and ambitious young artists to realize that this little girl, with nothing more than a video camera, a couple of American Girl dolls, and a song about the best burrito she has ever had, just created something better than anything they will ever do in their entire frustrated and unsatisfying lives.
I'm not sure exactly where this video takes place, but we should move there. It looks fun. "Do you want to meet up for a drink after work?" "Well, first of all, there's no such thing as work, and second of all, sure, I'll meet you at the vodka factory, just give me 15 minutes to get this manatee into his Heelies."
"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. It happens as well that the feeling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
Some nerd programmed a secret level on Mario Brothers and had the coins spell out "Will You Marry Me?" for his girlfriend.
Oh, nerds. Always with the being nerds. This is one of those stories they will tell their nerd grandchildren about. Very cute, nerds. Congratulationerds. (Via BuzzFeed.)
The state-sponsored lottery system is basically a nightmare. It's subsidized gambling that preys on the socio-economically disadvantaged (who often don't even have the proper money-management skills to deal with the fortune if they do win, and there are countless stories of lives ruined and families torn apart by the fantasy windfalls), and fuels the destructive impulses of gambling addicts. The revenue that it "gives back to the community" for things like education is often a meager fraction of the money being made, and much of it is often diverted to other state needs, while still leaving people with the false impression that schools are adequately funded by the multi-million dollar lotteries. Not to mention the morally bankrupt idea of paying for education with the exploitation of vice and greed in the first place. And not to mention the morally questionable message of the lottery: that winning millions of dollars without any effort, talent, or investment is a worthwhile and highly desirable goal.
But the lottery is also, apparently, CRAZY ADORABLE!
This little girl's parents are really shooting the moon in their efforts to make the cover of this month's Negligent Parent Magazine. Not only do they imply that they have raised their child to gleefully eat her pets, but they publicly use her full name. One can only hope that Bailey Michelle's future political career is not ruined by this incendiary video. BAILEY MICHELE FOR PRESIDENT OF WATERWORLD, 2032! (Via TheDailyWhat.)
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