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A Life Lived on Facebook
I was tempted to title this post, ‘Enter the Void.’ While the execution of this video is nearly flawless, I was especially fond of the dark, ominous Stones track playing behind it. I think the video leaves it as an open question as to whether it was a good thing that this particular life was lived out completely reliant on a virtual social network.
Kudos to Frequency for picking up on this first.
Ender’s Game
A compelling fan-made trailer for the Orson Scott Card sci-fi classic…
People Can Be Convinced of Anything
A little shameless self-promotion for your Sunday – check out part of my latest series of Blue Pyramid Stories, featuring an amusing anecdote from high school…
How to Scare the Bejesus Out of the American Voter
This ad was run a few weeks ago by a non-profit called Citizens Against Government Waste.
John Boehner’s Tears Smell of Cantaloupe
Those of us who live in the phony-baloney, ocean-adjacent America know little of John Boehner. Of course, we’ve heard the tales of his 27-hour workdays whittling American Jobs out of plain fir wood in his Ohio-based Opportunity Laboratory. We’ve heard of his quest to bio-engineer a giant human ear that is to be staked to his chest cavity so he may finally Listen to America in the way that we never could. And perhaps, it is because of our inferior listening skills that we’ve never before heard his suffering.
Timescapes
Koyaanisqatsi on steroids…