Hey there, this is my interblogwebnet.
I hate and fear the internet, but spend a lot of time on it anyway.
When I'm not busy breaking things, I enjoy ribaldry and claiming to be Batman.
Last year I wrote about all the sheer horrifying joy of Farfour, a spokesmouse for Hamas on their children’s program Pioneers of Tomorrow, but I quickly lost interest. Turns out Farfour was replaced by Nahoul the bee, who vows to carry on Farfour’s legacy.
Why did I come across this just today? Not sure, but I know it involves a wonderfully edited video of Barney crankin’ dat Soulja Boy.
“New world order.”
Oh boy. Cue Trilateral Commission theorists.
Some of the more considered media outlets have been discussing the aftermath of the Georgia/Russia shindig and how it represents both a challenge to the American hyperpower and the potential for destabilization of the European order.
Our attempts to hook a Georgian brotha up with some fresh new NATO threads and guns apparently didn’t mean shit.
This week, he [Putin] turned those words into action, demonstrating the limits of US power with his rout of Georgia. His forces roamed at will along the roads of the Southern Caucasus, beyond Russia’s borders for the first time since the disastrous Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
As the Russian officers sat on the American stockpiles of machine guns, ammunition, and equipment in Gori, they were savouring a highly unusual scenario. Not since the Afghan war had the Russians seized vast caches of US weaponry. “People are sick to the stomach in Washington,” said a former Pentagon official. And the Russians are giddy with success.
Yay! Clearly, nothing is going wrong. Anyway, the piece one of the better things you’ll probably read all weekend.
The phrase “pain at the pump” is no longer clever … or any semblance thereof. Just because it’s an alliteration does not give it extra traction to not be a cliché.
I write about the media so seldom, I have decided it shall go into my koyaanisqatsi category.
Anyway, the good Dr. Mr. Monsignor Yelvington got all mythical, declaring a white peace (today’s vocab, suckas) in the print/web war, marking the end of the internetiers’ self-created sisyphusian efforts to make the internet work for newspapers. For management’s rage was so great, that they were cast into the pits of poor CMSes and SoundSlides. Quoth:
Sisyphus was a crafty and devious king of Corinth. We’ve all been crafty and devious from time to time. Breaking the rules may be the only way to get anything done.
Sisyphus broke enough rules that he came to the attention of Zeus, who arranged a novel and eternal punishment. Sisyphus would roll a huge rock up a hill, only to have it roll back down onto him. And then he’d have to go do it again. Endless, crushing cycles.
Sort of like site designs. Or CMS implementations. Or sales training.
What’s troubling is that, Mr. Yelvington, a rather progressive media chap (and awesomely involved with the Drupal CMS, which I still need to try one day), says that just now editors have been exorcised of their denial.
The last comment is stuffed full of depressing. Like Angry Journalists, but better written.
Depravity reached a new high this evening when I mumbled the dialogue of an episode of COPS along with the TV.
It’s not wholly my fault – it was a catchy one. The police respond to an old woman’s house where some guys had just stolen a bunch of liquor she had kept on the premesis. I got through almost the entire scene before I realized it.
This is awesome reading without a clip or screencap, isn’t it?
Is that necessarily a good thing? If the prospect of an irreverent musical didn’t push me away from Hamlet 2, this ringing uh … endorsement certainly did.
Remember when the ratio of of Facebook favorite movie hits for “Napolean Dynamite” vs “Napoleon Dynamite” reached parity?
People sometimes call this place Vantucky for a reason.
I just loved the title of this blog entry about the latest comic absurdity in this year’s election:
The WSJ asks whether Obama is too fit to be president:
If you don’t get the joke, you really need to bone up on your brief histories of the 21st Century.
Submitted for your disdain: The Mars Phoenix lander’s tweet upon confirmation that it had indeed recovered a water sample from Mars.
… I’m still going to follow it, though.