YouHeard about YouTube?
So Google has bought YouTube for $1.6 billon. Yes, billion. The founders had this to say about it..
Susan Mernit did a nice wrap up of the chatter.
(via Waxy.org)
Talk. About Pictures.
Episode #9 of Talking Pictures has been posted for your listening pleasure. Finally.
Thought of the Day: “Minds”
“The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.” —Winston Churchill (via Business Pundit)
Worst Tag Line. Ever.
As if Stick It didn’t have enough against it, it’s tag line is…
“It’s not called gym-nice-tics”
Worst tag line ever.
I Huff, I Post…
My first piece for the Huffington Post has been published. The unhelpful comments are not my doing.
One Sentence Movie Reviews: “Half Nelson” (2006):
Half Nelson (2006): “The Verdict set in the 8th grade.”
Notes: Heard it extolled on both The Treatment and Ebert & Roeper. Slow going at first but eventually absorbs you completely. Like a Hubert Selby novel, poetic dirty and horribly, awfully sad.
Best guess as to why it’s called Half Nelson. A half nelson is a wrestling hold where an oppontent is immobilized with their hands behind their back, similar to the paralyzing mess the main character has made of his life.
Hijacking a Friend’s Blog
We have assumed control.
The World’s Most Obvious Headline…
“Blogger Book Craze Could Fizzle From Overkill.”
I could have told you that (via Arts Journal).
Total Eclipse of the Heart: Now with Football!
When was the last to saw you saw the video for (or even heard, outside a karakqoke bar) Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart?” And what’s with those football players?
It should surprise exactly no one that TEOTH was a Jim Steinman song because the man is incapable of doing anything small.