All right. All right! We get it!
Isn’t Bruno irreverent?
Isn’t Eminem so angry?
Personally, I prefer Andy Samberg and “Neil Diamond” singing about guys walking away from explosions like they just don’t care. Kind of like I did from the hot mess that was the MTV Movie Awards.
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BONUS: 10 seconds worth of 5 Second Films.
(UPDATE: Check out pic at the end.)
When I begin to investigate the nature of something which I do not initially understand, I take a deep breath, and prepare myself for the unexpected. As is the case with the concept of furries, I took a deeper breath, and held onto it for dear life. Who knew what I’d find.
To begin, allow me to share what prompted this study (via AOTS):
Whenever someone goes to painstaking lengths (I say painstaking because I’m lazy, you see) to create, um, a recreation of this calibre for no real reason, my curiosity is peaked. Why would anybody make their own version of Dick in a Box for one? For two – why as anthropomorphic animals?
Immediately, I went to the best source of all truth and accuracy on the web – Mr. Wikipedia himself. And right off the bat, I was amazed to discover what I understood about furries was completely off. I’ll get to that in a second.
My opinions had changed because my perception had been changed:
Originally, I had believed that all furries were sexual in nature and creepy in general, and my reaction to the above videos was not cast in a favorable light. But according to Ms. Wikipedia (I changed my mind about the site’s gender as well, because she’s always right), I learned this:
Many members of the furry community feel that the overly sexual component gives the rest of them a bad name, and may use the derogatory term “furvert” to describe such people…
The term “yiff” is most commonly used to indicate sexual activity or sexual material within the fandom—this applies to sexual activity and interaction within the subculture whether online (in the form of cybersex) or offline…
Most furry fans claim that these media portrayals are misconceptions, while the recent coverage focuses on debunking myths and stereotypes that have come to be associated with the furry fandom…
So as it turns out, those videos aren’t sexual in nature. They’re just creepy in general.
(I’m kidding, of course, because who am I to judge. Do you realize how difficult it is to type with paws?)
He should have been an Ewok.
I spend a lot of time on the TripleDoubleU. Well, a lot probably is an understatement of the amount of minutes I’ve allotted to pure waste. All I know, is it could be worse. Like, I could have burned the entire Memorial Day weekend away in front of my laptop, and that, um, didn’t happen.
My cousin, Steve, on the other hand, is what I would call a web dabbler. He dives into the stream of the information superhighway every now and again, and he phishes out some strange finds. Such as these two videos below.
Both feature interesting music choices and eclectic slide shows.
Both took a lot of time to make… but hopefully not an entire Memorial Day weekend.
(BONUS BOTH: May both get stuck in your head!)
Awful Battle, GO!
(Click here for Egg Movie 2… and oh wait, yes! There is more Linda Gray lovefesting here. My personal fave? You can never go wrong with Cascada and staring in the credits.)
There’s an old math equation that discusses the value of time:
Okay, it discusses more than (‘>’ in mathese) the value of time, but whatever. My point is that time equals money, and since there’s not enough time in the world for a good laugh, 5 Second Films is on the job and ready to help.
Here are a few quick laughs:
(FYI: Tio = Uncle… I guessed this and I’m correcto <–guessed that too!)
(Thanks AOTS)
Detroit has been in sort of a rough spot lately, so where can someone go to get away from their Motor City blues?
Howzabout CLEVELAND!
Courtesy of BishopVids, creators of the videos you’re about to see:
See? It’s the perfect escape!
(Thanks to Steve for the find)
Although YouTube feels like it’s been around forever/4eva , it’s really only been here for just over four/4 years. But what it’s wrought – flash-in-the-pan celebrities, viral videos, copyright battles – will be here for awhile.
Since I’m pretty much in constant contact with the TripleDoubleU, I’ve seen my share of crap and my share of gold. It’s sometimes funny to see how long it takes a family member to bring up something I caught months ago.
So imagine my pleasant surprise at this spoonful of sugar that helps the viral videos go down that much sweeter.
Play me off, keyboard cat! (For some reason my faves all have to do with kids and dogs… go figure…)
For more go to these YouTube channels: BrotatoChip or theKeyboardCat, or simply PlayHimOffKeyboardCat’s site.
(Big thanks to Chris for finding this one!)
Just watch the previews for these, and comment on which one is best.
Can The Greatest American Hero be defeated?
If you answered yes, then I’m sure you’ll watch the second clip again and again and again and again…
If you need more (and you will), click here and here.
(via Bonniegrrl)
Internet memes are a phenomenon in so much that they spread faster than a wildfire, faster than a rumor in high school, and faster than any milk product through my lactose intolerant friend, Jay.
Now when you take something we’ve all seen and taken for granted and add music… Internet Meme 2.0.
YouTube user/musician ParryGripp has done just that. I’ve featured one of his videos once before (that got taken down because the original video poster is a d-bag). It was Hamster On a Piano that was eating popcorn. It was hilarious, I thought, but these are of the same, if not higher, caliber. Enjoy!
I am so mad right now (despite this being a Happy Find).
I hope that most of you have seen it already, but I really, really, really wanted to post a video called She’s a Talker, but the guy who put it on YouTube has since taken it down. Basically, it was 73 different (allegedly) gay men brushing their pet cats and saying – what else – “She’s a talker.” It was hypnotic more than funny (well, actually, more than halfway through when you realize how many guys are doing and saying the exact same thing, it becomes humorous).
But anywhiskers, here was my planned lead-in hypnotic video (and yes, that’s Lynn Redgrave, Mindy Cohn, and Ruth Buzzi… I don’t know how I kept my pants on):
(via Everything is Terrible, my new favorite blog)
BONUS NOSTALGIC ELECTRONIC HYPNOTIC SWIRL
(via Hipster Runoff, my always favorite blog):
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When I was just a wee lad back in the day (I’m prepping for St. Paddy’s), it was awful fun for the adults give kids a sip of beer and watch their reactions. I’m the oldest boy of all the cousins on my father’s side, and for quite awhile I was the only boy (my brother broke the streak when I was nine… there were nine girls and me… ever notice how the more girls there are, the higher the octave of screeching goes?)
What I’m getting at is it wasn’t uncommon for my elders to make me the butt of the joke. Some might have thought it would encourage drinking, but I never took a sip of alcohol (not counting my relatives’ pranks) until I turned 19 and could legally do so in Canada. My other tendencies in alluded-to innocence: I was more interested in Nintendo than IN-tendo (if you catch my innuendo), smoking was a disgusting habit my parents had and I swore I would never have, and drugs… well, I’d stick only to any of the natural kind.
But nowadays, you have 13 year olds becoming fathers…
…parents pulling new tricks on their kids for laughs (and filming it and putting it on YouTube… “Thanks Dad… what are you, like, thirteen, or something?”)…
…or teaching their kids to be pretty good at smoking.
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I guess you could always over indulge your child and baby them so they can become insulated and protected from the rest of the world (read: spoiled), that they never have to deal with R|E|A|L|I|T|Y. Heaven forbid someone take their Cloudsong…
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