This piece isn’t as fresh as I’m accustomed to posting, but it caught my eye today. It’s a jarring look into the third world consequences of something as innocuous-seeming as animation. The sequence is purportedly inspired by the street activist/artist, Banksy.

It’s been a tough few months for me personally (hence my distance from the land of the Emu), but there is catharsis to be found in this film, written and directed by Mep fan and friend Pete Lee:

This Close or This Far from Peter Lee on Vimeo.

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Necessary lecture by economist Tim Jackson.

The following video by YouTube user, FallingWhistles, is exemplary. It is informative, viscerally affects the viewer, and carries a message unheralded by the mainstream media.

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A homeless man trying to support two children surely knows the meaning of being under pressure.

Monty Python meets the Kids in the Hall meets the Venice beach boardwalk. By the way… this is the tune that Digby is muttering to himself.

Wanted to apologize for my absence and promise you some soon-coming scintillating Mep content. In the meantime, here’s a (backhanded) ode to the busy…

Teachers are used to working with less.  Primary school teachers are used to buying basic classroom supplies out of their own salaries; secondary school teachers are used to teaching with classrooms at double or more capacity; post secondary teachers at all levels are used to ever increasing demands from multiple masters (publish now, do committee work now, teach now, advise now…everything now, or preferably yesterday).  I’ve taught at all these levels, and most of the teachers I know accept their respective situations with a shrug and a sense of humor (there’s a reason the teachers’ lounge is the most important room in any school building for the people to whom it caters).

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This is mindblowingly brilliant…and perhaps the best use of a Congressional hearing in decades.  Proof that this hits home: the face of bigoted jackass Rep. Steve King, who understands the target of the joke.  I’d ask the Republicans who don’t understand to read up on Voltaire, but I doubt they’d get the reference.

Two overexposed memes just had a baby full of awesome. It’s too bad this isn’t a real movie.

Night of the Living Trekkies: Book Trailer from R. Giskard Reventlov on Vimeo.