Simon has a new video up at last! Yay!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s13dLaTIHSg[/youtube]
If you haven’t seen these yet, do so right now. They are too funny, even if you’ve never had a cat stick it’s butt in your face while you’re trying to watch TV.
[tags]Simon’s Cat[/tags]
1. If I could be a fly on the wall I would stick to the new Benjamin Moore Affinity “Croquet” AF-455 paint.
2. Jealousy is inevitable.
3. When I see a shooting star my wish would be that all forms of abuse everywhere would stop.1
4. I’d rather be forty than twenty any day!
5. Certain songs when I hear them make me wanna be a kid again, watching the Muppet Show with my Dad, who’s favorite character was Animal, who unfortunately doesn’t appear in the video below but Madeline Kahn does and that alone makes it worth watching.2
6. If time were in a bottle “the first thing that I’d like to do is to save every day til eternity passes away just to spend them with you.”3
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to luxuriating in the knowledge that I don’t have to get up early the next morning, tomorrow my plans include showing (and hopefully selling) my couch and ottoman to someone from work, and Sunday, I want to find balance between Operation Living Room Makeover, writing, and spending time with my sweetie!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3049TRLo5M[/youtube]
Side effects of viewing this video can include a lump in the throat, tears in the eyes, and an urge to hug total strangers. (Seattlites, watch to the end – we’re the finale!)
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/clip:1211060[/vimeo]
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)
[tags]Matthew Harding, joy[/tags]
Some real winners have crawled out from under their rocks to comment on the video “This Is What A Feminist Looks Like” from the Feminist Majority Foundation.
This video is less than 3 minutes long, filled with celebrities, and is really…well, I won’t say milqetoast, but it’s clear the filmmakers tried hard to make it non-threatening.
So the comments on it prove just how little it takes to make today’s misogynists foam at the mouth.
The comments range from pseudo-intellectual diarrhea: “What rests at the core of the feminist movement is power. This is evident in their demands for economic equality, omitting of course differences in abilities and ambitions. Essentially they want to be paid more for doing less work. This has no economic value”
…to the blessedly succinct: “girls suck”
And then there’s the dazed and confused: “if thats not borderline gay or gay itself then the gay line is seriously being blurred by hollywood…. great job jews.”
Dude, the “This Is What A Closeted Gay Homophobic Racist Looks Like” video is over there.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YA13GNT8Mc[/youtube]
[tags]feminism, Feminist Majority Foundation[/tags]
I had occasion to go through some photos from the trip to Europe we took last fall. Big mistake. Sigh. I work too much.
Photo: Uppity with Michaelangelo replica, Florence, Italy, 09/14/06
This is from Bat Pussy, an honest-to-god porn film from 1973.1
I truly hope I never encounter an attempted rapist in action, but if I do, I will beat him to within an inch of his life with my Hippity Hop.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R7Md2aq7Oo[/youtube]
[tags]vintage pornography, hilarity[/tags]
I’m a sucker for acoustic covers of songs that sound better than the original rock versions. This is one of my faves. The iTunes version, with its inclusion of harmonies, is even better.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8nkkOA_AM[/youtube]
I’m also a sucker for Charlie Brown.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGnYw-OuCnI[/youtube]
[tags]Mat Weddle, Hey Ya cover, acoustic music[/tags]
The other day I noticed that all of the blogs I read are written by women. Oh noes!
Lest I get completely out of touch with the souls of stem-people (other than the one I live with), I’ve been making a concerted effort to find quality blogs written by guys for inclusion in my digital library.
My standards are high, I admit, but then, it’s my valuable time and bandwidth we’re talking about here.
The writing’s gotta be above the tenth-grade level and the content reasonably informative and misogyny-free (or at least self-aware enough to admit it when he embraces his Inner Oppressor). Funny, while not a requirement, greatly increases the likelihood of a second date.
One of the few that have made the cut is All Men Are Liars by Sam de Brito. His blog is very good – well-written, insightful, and yes, funny – but it was this video that earned him my feed subscription.
Not a lot of straight guys from uber-macho Australia have the guts to see for themselves how the other half lives, especially when it involves a Brazilian bikini wax.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXtUDuiuzYo[/youtube]
[tags]All Men Are Liars, Sam de Brito, blogging[/tags]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU[/youtube]
[tags]Flight Of The Conchords[/tags]
This is one of the reasons I don’t go to male strip shows. To me, they all look like this guy: muppets with pelvic thrust.1
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg8KcpMkBw0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbs64GvGgPU[/youtube]
Mort! mort! mort!
[tags]The Muppet Show, Swedish Chef, male strippers[/tags]