Ha! I'm just terrified that once she inevitably decides to make her candidacy official, internationally, we'll once again assume that American identity of proud idiocy we bore under Bush. I'm not an Obama fangirl, but I appreciate that he seeks knowledge and surrounds himself by specialists and advisors who know more than he does. And when he doesn't know something or is wrong, he admits that and ameliorates the fallout.
This adamant foolishness Palin shows is horrific. And the fact that she thinks it makes her a "real American" is even worse. Real Americans don't revel in their ignorance. I can't imagine how she reconciles that kind of laziness and incompetence with what she considers patriotism.
Can you tell that I can't stand this woman?
If she weren't so willfully ignorant of things that should be common knowledge and didn't hold up her stupidity like a banner or badge of pride, I could ignore her. But there are tons of people like her who will vote for her if she runs for President - so, yea, I'm OVER her, but she's still dumb and dangerous.
And I honestly don't understand how you could feel good about knowing literally nothing. Isn't this your field of interest, Sarah? Don't you ONLY do politics? Is there some hobby about which you have just encyclopedic knowledge? What is filling your brain so completely that you just can't be bothered to do the homework?
Ugh.
Oh, goodness. This has become a THING, huh?
Well, I think I've been commenting on Videogum since nearly the very beginning (I noticed a link on BestWeekEver and followed it here and the rest is HERstory) and - yea - a lot of things have changed and - yea - I stopped commenting altogether for months before guest blogging and - yea - I'm not sure I GET a lot of the new inside jokes (mystery butt?), but Videogum is great and I love it and it's literally the first blog I ever bookmarked and started to read everyday and this is the longest sentence ever.
Anyway, there's a new crop of commenters in town (not really new at all in that they've been around forever and all the old commenters have just kind of faded away, [but hey! I see a lot of you have weighed in on this post!] - I JUST WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!) that are still Very Funny HAHA, but the feel is markedly different than when I came to this blog, which is - of course - to be expected.
And I don't know that Videogum needs to change anything. Gabe's writing is still HILARIOUS and he's got one of the most distinct writing styles on THE ENTIRE INTERNET, which is saying something - and that is why we are all here. That hasn't changed and it's still very funny to me. And I was a fan of Max Silvestri and Rich before Videogum even existed, so any time their work pops up on the site, it's just GREAT.
Part of what's kept me interested in Videogum for the past 3+ years is the comments - and for whatever reason, I'm not as engaged as I used to be. It feels like a contest now and I'm not at all interested in trying to BEAT anyone at blog commenting. I was around before The Ball or even registered accounts. All of a sudden it was like the industrial revolution and I'm still spinning bedsheets out of barley with a foot paddle or whatever happened to old timey people when things got less old timey. I guess I'm pining for a time that wasn't even that great? Like when people want "the good old days" to come back and then are like "oh right, everyone was suuuuuuper racist then."
Oh - and I like gifs! I don't use them ever, but sometimes they just work and are Very Funny. I know a lot of my fellow OG commenters don't agree, but I'm willing to stick my neck out on this one (what? there are literally NO STAKES here). I don't really understand the friction - but I'm also averse to conflict - so instead of getting pissed off, I just generally distance myself. I hid in a dark corner of the internet and cried until VforVgum was over and then I just pretended like it never happened. I'm a child of an ugly divorce, which is a non sequitur that's not at all related to what I just said about Videogum.
But yea - Videogum is the best. Don't ever change.
Their increasing dexterity troubles me, but I think that a robot computer-based internet website may not be the best place to discuss plans of an counter-uprising, guys. Let's take the fight to the fax lines, OK? Or maybe even lower tech... pigeons? Pigeons.
The clapping was synchronized too, so they all GET IT. I could see this being a Christopher Guest movie for sure. Because what's even going on? They seem to know.
The full ad! With a black model.
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I think we have Pete Campbell to thank for this!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KWR_gvxCigs/SssObxVvQJI/AAAAAAAADdQ/73jgRizTtw8/s400/pete+ebony.jpg
Oh man. I found an ad for flight attendants in a 1960s copy of Ebony Magazine and they really did weigh you!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KWR_gvxCigs/SxgNWtTel5I/AAAAAAAAFiY/c15zHUAJoe8/s400/panamstew1968a.jpg
Oh - and the "must be single" requirement is just very hilarious in an old timey sexism way.
How many shows is Whitney Cummings involved in this year? All of the shows? Goodness. And I've never seen an episode of Sex and the City (WHAT'S IT TO YOU?) or any of the movies, but Michael Patrick King is pretty awesome, so there's that.
Annnd Patrick Wilson is on TV? (NnnnNNNNnnnN/Swoon!) Too bad it has to be on Ghost Doctor M.D.
Once this is adapted into a made for tv movie, then a feature film, which Lawblog will score, then a hit stage play, Notsewfast will be the first monster to win an ACTUAL EGOT.
Take a drink every time someone sings Queen To Be.
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Misfits!
(Spoiler alert, I'm sooooo going as Alisha this Halloween because I am an adult and also literally no one I have ever met in real life watches Misfits)
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And everyone should watch SURVIORS because OMGTHATSHOWWASINTENSE! Pure apocalypse porn.
http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/survivorsseries.jpg
I was coming to post this EXACT THING. Who am I? Werttrew or something? What with my photographic memory of all things Videogum??? (Something I just assume about wert but is probably not even true so I should just shut up).
FUCK YEA!
I honestly hope she gets well soon. I'm dealing with MILDLY bipolar depression (cyclothymia, booourns...and it's just easier to say "depression" than to explain...) and it's no fun. So ummm.. yea...
Also, this Chevy Chase sketch from Tunnel Vision sums up the stigma STILL surrounding mental health issues
I was coming to say this!
Also, fun game if you're a cultured person of the world, like I totally am: Flip through MoMA's Flickr portraits and comment on which of the Abramovic sitters you think are hot.
hot, hot, crybaby, hot, not, hot, literally weeping, not...
Anybody get the feeling that MAYBE this isn't the Larsen's first run-in with the law? Before Rosie's mom knew what was up, she was pretty flippant with the cops' questions about her husband. Aaaand when she was talking to the babysitter - an aunt? - she said they asked a bunch of "bullshit questions... AS USUAL."
My bet's on Mitch having a past. And the dad's weirdly racist moving company friend seems really eager to TAKE CARE of some guy in the preview of the next episode.
NnnnnNNNNnnn! This movie.
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"FREDO'S LOST HIS MIND!" is what I was literally thinking the whole film because I can't separate fictional movies in my mind.
OH AND - either those Larsen kids eat a worrisome amount of chocolate chip pancakes, there was a HUGE continuity issue in the episode, or those shits take LITERALLY ALL DAY to cook.
This is the official chocolate chip pancake theory thread.
Maybe Rosie had herself killed because her mom is a SUCCUBUS!!!
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And for whatever reason, I just want to purrrrr "club sauce" at councilwoman Ruth Whateverhernameis.
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I hope Pony Day is celebrated for generations to come! Ecto-children of the 23rd century will clandestinely celebrate the long extinct ponies, gone the way of the dodo, on their historically accurate personal computers - outlawed after the Luxibrium Revolution of 2245, of course - in reverence of this hallowed day! Because today we commented when no one else would!
I'm just glad to have been a part of this.
I'd like to take this moment and poor out a little liquor for the fallen pony, Hoof Hearted. You're in the ultimate winner's circle now.
http://brittanysdream.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Brittanys-Horse-in-Heaven.jpg
I've got a baby the same age on my lap RIGHT NOW - my almost 14 month old niece - and she looked up at me while I was playing this and asked "dadadada?" to which I responded "dadadada." And she looked back down at the video as if her question had been answered.
Makes almost TOO much sense.
YES! I was coming to wonder how these types of things are cast too! Let's ask Dan Finelli.
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