And Now For Your Daily Resurrection
This remarkable video was shot by a ski team in Haines Alaska. The skier/cameraman falls prey to an avalanche and is completely submerged under a mountain of snow.
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TechCrunch Duped by Amway
Earlier today, internet business culture behemoth, TechCrunch, posted a riddle for its millions of devoted followers. Branded as a heretofore unbroken code, the decipherer was promised Good Will Hunting-like stardom and a potential job with Google, no doubt as the Alpha Team Leader of a Top Secret Super-Genius Infiltration Training Program. Not to mention a TechCrunch t-shirt…
From the No-Crud Bureau: Violence Ineffective vs. Pre-Rational Beings
We can debate the efficacy of violence against anyone all we like, but it’s pretty clear that committing violence against the very young is a bad idea.
In other news, spanking is remarkably ineffective at changing the behavior of baby lab rats.
British Anchorman Reveals Abuse on Air
What a trooper that Jonathan Charles is. After 20 years of torture, he manages to compose himself enough to reveal his darkest experiences without breaking his Cliched Anchor’s News Tone. Now that’s professionalism.
Marc Maron – Grizzled Comedy Veteran (Emu -POTW)
Discovered a treat on Vimeo last night. It’s a full 70-minute stand up routine of Carlin and Hicks disciple, Marc Maron.
This routine, filmed a couple weeks ago at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade theater, will give you a good sense of Maron’s plodding, dark, self-loathing, intellectual style. He seems equally depressed as the Patron Saint Bill Hicks would be having to face a media world as over commercialized and sold out as ours is.
Illusions of Competence
This well-crafted video touches on several Mep themes including Chess, Debate, and the habits of the incompetent. It seems to have been inspired entirely by board trolls, which may be their first ever positive (though second-hand) contribution to mankind.
The Time Traveler’s Wife: A Faux Sci-Fi Chick Flick Disaster
Last night, at the behest of my girlfriend, I saw the steaming pile of mastodon dung known as The Time Traveler’s Wife. Going in without reading the novel, I carried several misconceptions about the movie. I will now disabuse you of any of said misconceptions that might cause you to accidentally watch this thing…