I don't know if this is a joke or what, but it's even funnier than Olympic speed walking: freestyle canoeing, which, from this clip, appears to involve dressing up in a costume and "dancing" in a canoe in front of an audience while music plays. Phantom Of The Opera:
I love that so much. Via John Hodgman, who discovered that "you don't need a special canoe to participate."
Harry Potter And The Curse Of The Half-Thought Out Ideas Urlesque has collected the "Top 9 Harry Potter Mash-Up Videos," which admittedly could also probably just be called "The 9 Harry Potter Mash-Up Videos," but yes. Videogum gives a special nod to "Voldemort sings 'Lion Sleeps Tonight'" because it's "a tribute to all the fallen Harry Potter characters," and that is hilarious/insane.
The internet has been a lot of fun, you guys. We've all had some laughs and found true love. But if we agree that the internet has at this point become a source for distraction that relies on an ever-increasing threshold of strangeness and provocation, then we can all agree that the internet has reached it's apogee and we can move it down to a nice two-bedroom condo in Florida and leave it to live the rest of its days in clement weather and mild boredom. Because shit does not get any weirder or more provocative of a strange distraction than this video (after the jump.)
Making fun of chick flicks is like shooting fish in a barrel (or writing a chick flick), but Sarah Haskins manages to do it with originality. The latest target in her Target: Women series on Current TV are the three chick flicks coming out this fall: The Accidental Husband, Happy Go Lucky, and that uber-chick flick mess that is sure to go down in history as one of the worst movies ever: The Women (2008):
My guess is the two Sarah is going to see are The Accidental Husband and The Women, because they have famous pretty Hollywood stars in them and we chicks just like to stare at familiar pretty faces, not obscure British actresses.
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