Lisa’s Friday War Protest Video
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Lisa’s Friday War Protest Video
Friday, May 16th, 2008Sunday Morning Funnies
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Lisa’s Friday War Protest Video
Friday, May 9th, 2008Lisa’s Friday War Protest Video
Friday, May 2nd, 2008I may start posting one every Friday or so. Expect music that will span the decades.
Historical perspective note: My boyfriend first watched this three or four years ago when he was in Kuwait, waiting to be sent on to Iraq.
Videos for you
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Here’s one, from the Canadian Union of Public Employees, that should put a smile on your face:
Of course, we here in Canada recognize this as satire. I’m not sure that it reads that way to Americans. What do you think?
Hat tip: Audra Williams
And here’s one that really won’t put a smile on your face: American soldiers in Iraq: Protecting you from terrorist puppies.
(Warning: animal cruelty.)
Hat tip: mercenarytoast
The best thing on the internet
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007For your viewing and listening pleasure, the Bill O’Reilly sex tapes as baroque oratorio, performed live at the University of Washington’s Meany Hall (needless to say, this is NSFW):
If you want more, apparently Igor Keller made an entire CD of it. This basically puts to rest all of those arguments that modern society no longer produces works of sheer genius.
Hat tip: Rohmie.
Friday tuneage: After the Revolution Edition
Friday, June 22nd, 2007For your Friday amusement, I come bearing some classic songs rendered in true WTF style.
Tang Dynasty, a Chinese metal band, covers “The Internationale”:
A lovely arrangement of anarchist anthem “A Las Barricadas”:
And to top it off, an inexplicable reggae cover of the Soviet anthem:
I’m officially a member of the fourth estate
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Now when I rip the bejeepers out of the mainstream media, I’ll be flogging myself, because I’ve just received my second-ever official media credential. This time, I’m heading to the NFL Draft, which is not an easy credential to acquire:
[My After Effects skills are improving, though I still make things a little "busy," huh?]
“If they need to be touched, touch them.” (With compressed video.)
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Chris Bradley at Deeply Blasphemous has unearthed the Christian answer to all those heathen video diaries and football highlight clips toxifying the internets…
Enter
GodTube.
That’s right, fundamentalist Christianity’s parallel universe has grown a new tumor, but instead of taking the shape of the Virgin Mary, it’s developed into a likeness of YouTube.
The site’s full of everything you’d expect from a fundies-only party — tons of sermon highlights, lots of Xtian Rock videos, and a few lessons on how to be a Christian clown.
That last one isn’t a joke. In just 3 short minutes, you, too, can become a molestation-minded pest to the elderly. Just watch:
I didn’t realize that the Bible taught that all elderly people are to be treated as Jell-O-brained toddlers, but since Jesus died young, I guess he could ony make an educated guess as to what happens to you when those scary-looking grey hairs start popping up. Maybe he thought those were your brain cells reaching for heaven.
At the very least, the Christian clown instructors seemed to take away that lesson, or something similar, from the good book. If you can stomach part 2 of Clown School, please do.
And as part of your preparation for cheering up old folks, make sure to remind yourself of God’s patience and generosity with the fundie version of a highlight reel:
If you ever had any doubt that some fundamentalists take a perverse joy in watching people suffer and die, that clip probably removed it. For whoever made it, each world tragedy is just another pre-party for the Second Coming. Get your wristbands while you can.
For more fun, check out clips of creationism involving naked humans feeding giraffes while elephants and lions leer voyeuristically, the terror of Christian Fear Factor, a creepy Christian drill team dance, and more!
YouTube’s a lot of things, but pornographic isn’t one of them. I can only assume some fundamentalist leaders have decided Daxflame is the antichrist and must be avoided at all costs:
Video killed the rational star
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006I should probably be numb to the endless stream of bile spewing forth from the right, but the LGF comments I wrote about this morning really bothered me. The calls for genocide were so sincerely angry, it was as though the people writing them had suffered deep, recent personal loss at the hands of every single Muslim.
Unfortunately, a lot of people felt that way on 9/11. The live images of the Towers being hit, burning, and eventually falling drove plenty of folks bonkers for some period of time. It didn’t jive with the world as most of us understood it at the time.
Wounds are supposed to heal. The intense irrational fear that overcomes us at a moment of great shock naturally fades. For whatever reason, we’re built to get over, or at least get past, even our most tragic events over time. Memory kinda works that way.
But what if we were repeatedly forced to see exactly what we saw on the day — at the moment — we were shocked and scared? Wouldn’t that make it harder to get over it? Or worse, what if we came to _like_ the nonsensical way we felt after such an event, or at least got used to it? What if we wanted to hold onto those feelings? Wouldn’t it be so much easier if we could relive the moment by seeing exactly what we saw then?
Most wingnuts who say things like “level Mecca” and “it’s time for another f*cking Crusade” didn’t live in New York on Sept. 11th, 2001. They saw the tragedy unfold on CNN or Fox News. The anger that fuels their hatred today boiled up when they helplessly watched those first broadcasts.
And thanks to the power of the internet, they can watch the same broadcasts again and again. Their ringleaders can trot them out every anniversary or whenever they feel the collective hatred slipping ever so slightly. Republicans can squawk all they want about Always Remembering and Never Forgetting, but without the ability to replay the exact video footage the wingnuts watched that day, they could never make it stick.
By reconnecting themselves and their followers with exactly what they saw on 9/11, they can replenish the irrational, fear-driven bloodlust they felt as everything actually transpired. Much to my surprise, it seems the wingnuts were the first group to discover and mass market a truly renewable energy source: a digital fuel that provides us unlimited genocidal rage.
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