My friend Heather is understandably pround of her work with Girls Kick Nuts Girls Fight Back, a personal safety/self-defense education group for women/girls. She's also understandably proud of her all-too-brief appearance in the GFB promo video. Self-defense training is important. And it should only be taught by people who know what they're talking about. The GFB girls seem to know … Read More
Bollywood Flash Mob In Times Square
Brings a smile:
Who Says Our Kids Are Lazy?
This is the unintended consequence of the abhorant practice of leashing your kid — having to drag them around:
Feist On Sesame Street
Really, “1234” was suited for this… It’s adorable.
Teaching English To A Chinese Grandmother
This is a little mean (and NSFW):
Spacey and Letterman Discuss The Twitter
Dave Letterman is like everyone's grandparents:
Never Gonna Give Up Your Teen Spirit
A jarring mashup that kind of works:
Nice Driving, Pal
Let's see… There's a ringing bell, a flashing red signal, and — oh yeah — a freakin' train right in front of you.
Train v. Tornado
Guess who wins?
Literal Videos: “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”
I love literal videos. I blogged the "Head Over Heels" one a while ago. Here's another:
Looking Into The Past
I love this stuff…
Have You Heard Of This Internet Thing?
A news story from the early 1990's, before graphics, but post-emoticons:
Fatal Attraction: The Original Ending
Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) doesn't try to kill Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas). No bathtub scene. In the original version, she exacts her revenge in a different way. Test audiences hated the original ending (shown below), so the cast was called back together to reshoot the ending as we now know it. But here's how it originally went. If you're a … Read More
Downfall Redux
One of my favorite internet memes is to take the bunker scene from the film Downfall (a German movie about the last days of Hitler, which was nominated in 2005 for the Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film) and add "better" subtitles. It's that simple, but the results are often laugh-out-loud funny. Here is one entitled "Real Estate Downfall": In this one, Hitler reacts … Read More
Horror Film Trailers
Okay… might as well do a feel-good "Free Willy"-type family film: