Muddy Waters gives a soulful rendition of the Ke$ha classic “Tik Tok”
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NY Comic-Con 2010: Video Retrospective
in which I try to make sense of Wario dancing to Michael Jackson, anime dancers, and an accordion-playing Boba Fett in the Big Apple.
“I’ll Be Back”: The Terminator Monster Ballad
The Spider House Rules
So last May (that’s May 2007), Matt “Call Me the Webmaster” Wrather and I were taking in The Coast of Utopia, a trilogy of plays by Tom Stoppard. It covers the part of Russian history most people don’t know a…
A Lesson in Comedy
I have had a love-hate relationship with Family Guy. Or, more precisely, a love-indifference relationship. Honestly, it wasn’t even on my radar during the first Fox run, though I was of course aware of occasional gems. I didn’t watch it…
Candidate in the Wind
Elton John stuns the audience at his benefit concert for Hillary Clinton with a scathing political rewrite of “Candle in the Wind.” UPDATE: Please vote for us here, and digg us!
It’s a cruel, cruel world wide web.
As of this writing, this woman doing nothing more than introducing herself has about ten times the views of our video commemorating Anna Nicole Smith. Something is seriously wrong when the internet cannot be counted on to take the low…
Come to think of it, Quilted Northern is pretty messed up too.
I’ve seen this commercial a couple of times now, and I can’t get over how deeply, deeply weird the subtext is. Look, I tend to read too much into commercials. I’m the first to admit that. But sometimes a cigar…
The ANSiversary: And Finally
Super Bowl Ads and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Aside from ethnic stereotyping that didn’t even skirt the issue (Mariachis are sexy! Indians are crass capitalists! Chinese are pandas!), there was an overriding theme to this year’s Super Bowl ads. It started with the Audi Godfather spot.