Rich over at FourFour has found more internet gold with the following segment on "snapping" from a PBS series Tongues Untied. But whereas a lot of funny viral clips seem hilarious and out-of-date, suggesting a world we can't believe used to exist much less a world which we ourselves might have inhabited, this video remains timeless and useful. Face it, while the world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace (who wrote this post? Professor Snore?), we still need to know how to snap correctly. Whether you're at a fancy dinner party at the mayor's apartment, or a casual children's basketball game next to the highway, this video will help you find the right snap for any occasion!
Oh, look, it's a new Peta ad starring Twilight's own Christian Serrato. It's very effective, I'm sure, since it combines an interest in the ethical treatment of animals with everyone's first love of paranormal undead immortal metaphors for sexual awakening. Neat! Besides, everyone knows that vampires are deeply moral creatures, who worry a lot about political statements and making the world a better place. (Huh? Also why am I talking about vampires as if they are not just hilarious make-believe?)
One quick thing, though, WHO WEARS FUR ANYMORE? I mean, I am sure that there are a few 95-year-old widows who claim that their longevity is due to drinking a stiff Gimlet every day at 4:30 and never going outside without their mink, but maybe Peta should start to focus on some of their more convincing issues, like industrialized farming, and the cruelty of America's meat industry. Especially if they're going to appeal to children? "For Christmas this year, Sally wants a pair of Robert Pattinson underwear, and floor-length fur coat." No she doesn't.
I do love, though, when any advertising campaign, for good or evil, has to skirt around the issue of licensing rights. "What? She just happens to be standing in a very spooky looking mist-filled forest. It could be anything. There's absolutely no reason to think that this is a deliberate rip-off of Twinight: Blue Moon." Nailed it. "Nailed what?" (Via HuffingtonPost.)
I'm not a political scientist. I know that might confuse a lot of you who have been reading this blog for awhile thinking that this was a blog about politics written by a prominent political scientist. Nope! I just happen to share Thomas Hobbes's opinion that Glenn Beck smells like farts. But so, I'm obviously not qualified to speak with any authority about the health care debate. Not that you need to be a political scientist to speak thoughtfully on the subject (oh boy, here come the rhetorical knots and the self-conscious loop-dee-loos), but I'm probably even less informed on the whole subject than your average regular scientist (those who study chemistry, biology, and Weird Science). I do think that children deserve health care. That seems like kind of a no-brainer to me. They are children after all. Tiny, helpless, wolf-suit wearing children. I also think that poor people should have health insurance. They are poor. There are a lot of things in their lives that are perpetual sources of misery. Their ability to remain among the living should not be one of them. Actually, you know what? I really think everyone deserves health care. It's 2009, you guys. If we can have realistic looking dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movie, surely we can fix people when they are broken.
But I understand that the issue is very complicated (kind of, I mean, people are making it very complicated on purpose), and certainly this PSA in which Heather Graham stars as the Public Option is not helping anything.
Haha. Thanks, Terrence Howard! You've always got the best reminders.
A Terrence Howard Reminder: You Gotta Feed Your Baby Human Food, Not Newspapers
A Terrence Howard Reminder: There Is No Such Thing As Doubles Tetris
A Terrence Howard Reminder: Pants Go On The Bottom, Shirts Go On The Top
A Terrence Howard Reminder: Stay With School
A Terrence Howard Reminder: You Gotta Try Harder Not To Get Rabies Next Time
A Terrence Howard Reminder: You Gotta Admit Hustle And Flow Was Overrated
A Terrence Howard Reminder: Not Everything Is A Sandwich
A Terrence Howard Reminder: Clean Your Asshole Sometimes!
It's just nice to see a famous movie star who hasn't let his Hollywood celebrity keep him from giving weird billboards back to the community. (Image via FilmDrunk.)
This is a very important Public Service Announcement, obviously, and all American children should have to memorize these 11 types of strangers, as well as the exact scripted thing that they say each time (any deviation from the script means it's probably safe to get into the car). Although, I'm pretty sure we could use a new name for Hero Trap since huh? Hero Bald Fashion Photographer Who Prefers Shooting In A Parking Lot For The Natural Light Trap? Total Hero Trap.
But also, there are a few strangers that the video missed, and they are important. You know, so that the children don't get raped.
I'm a few days late on this, obviously, but that long weekend wasn't going to enjoy itself. Anyway, this is the new German PSA about AIDS that people keep sending in to tips@videogum.com. It is basically the 9/11 PSA of German PSAs about AIDS, and it is also NSFW.
Yikes. What a terrible ad! Although it would be funny (not funny) if everyone stopped overusing the term Nazi when they thought someone was being overbearing or malicious and started using "pandemic incurable retrovirus." You know, like, "Jesus, my algebra teacher is such a pandemic incurable retrovirus about showing your work on the daily five-point pop quizzes she makes us do every day before class." Or, you know, like, "the DMV is staffed by a bunch of sadistic, half-literate pandemic incurable retroviruses." You get it. Not to mention the classic Seinfeld character, the Soup Pandemic Incurable Retrovirus. Wouldn't that be hilarious? Ugh. This lady knows what all that which I is talk about. (Get it? She is not a professor of smarts.)
First of all, I am SORRY about this. But that's the way it goes. Some mornings you wake up and it's a video of a cat eating all the birthday cake, and some mornings you wake up and it's this. That is life, jump into it. Anyway, a Brazilian advertising agency released a poster for the World Wildlife Fund earlier this week that swept the Internet. It featured a hundred planes pointed at the World Trade Center, and it was awful. I mean, I think we all support the cause of the World Wildlife Fund. Most of us. There might be a few who are like "I just hate wildlife, I think it is the way I was raised" (hating wildlife is taught in the home). But the rest of us are like "Yay! Wildlife!" But invoking 9/11 to protect wildlife? That seems odd. And by odd I mean horror-barf. That seems horror-barf.
Well that was just a poster. Now imagine that they made it into a video.
Look, the message is a good one and the cause is completely respectable. Besides, Mr. Wayne is very influential these days. So maybe a completely disingenuous plea with America to do something that is completely contrary to everything that made him famous (i.e. with everything that made him someone worth listening to in the first place) will work to encourage students to put down the face tattoo needle and pick up a book (or rather, to encourage legislators to put down the face tattoo needles and pick up the education reform pens? Who is this PSA even for?). But you would think that at the very least they might have used a take that didn't literally sound like he was blindly sounding out a cue card that he didn't understand. I am sure there were a million takes. "That was great, Dwayne, now could we try the line about this being the time for bold educational reform without the styrofoam cup full of codeine? What's that? Sure, you can hold the styrofoam cup full of codeine behind your back."
Bonus: Bobb'e J. Thompson would like you to stay in elementary school:
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