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!
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Video on Overthinking It
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 … Continued
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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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djuEcS0iq3g Look, I tend to read too much into commercials. I’m the first to admit that. But sometimes a … Continued
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The ANSiversary: And Finally
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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.
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I’ve had it up to here with this shark-on-shark violence.
When visiting aquariums as a child, I always wondered why this kind of thing didn’t happen, like, all the damn time. (Warning: video link. And kind of horrifying.)
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At Least You’re Not Tom Cruise Crazy
I didn’t know about Eugene Mirman before he came through New Haven a couple years ago. His show alternated live bits with videos he had made. One of these, Eugene Mirman: Secret Agent, contained the memorable threat: “I’m gonna kick … Continued
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