I wish to God that Marie Osmond’s son, Michael Blosil, who leapt to his death on Feb. 26, had had a Sassy Gay Friend.
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What's love got to do with it?
Frequent commenter Amy suggested I check out a YouTube video of misheard lyrics, which led me to this one of “What’s love got to do with it?” by Tina Turner. It made me laugh and I can’t resist sharing it.
UPDATED — I'm a Wolverine, so I just can't pass this up
see more Sports Pictures Note to gentle readers who do not follow college sports: The University of Michigan (Go Blue! Hail to the victors valiant!) and Ohio State University (Hiss! Boo!) are rivals. Oh, and the mascot for the University of Michigan is the wolverine, one of Nature’s fiercest predators. The mascot for Ohio State …
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Literal video — finally, music videos I can relate to
Neo-neocon introduced me to the phenomenon of literal videos in a post of hers I read last night featuring the literal video version of Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 hit, “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” A literal video maker takes a music video and changes the lyrics to describe the action in the video but sings the …
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Academy Award-winning movie trailer coming soon to a theatre near you
Allahpundit toasts, “Here’s to a showdown at next year’s Oscars between “Movie Title” and that Matt Damon opus about how the neocons lied us into war so that they could grab Saddam’s oil.”
How to be a TV reporter
and this: These parodies both made the rounds awhile back and I regretted not featuring them, partly because they are so true and partly because I was a newspaper reporter for the Harford Democrat from 1980 to 1982. Newspaper reporters envy local TV reporters their salaries and glamor, but do not respect them because their …
Iowahawk spots top Democrats in circular firing squad
Check out Iowahawk’s brilliant take on the intra-party war top Democrats are now waging via their proxies in the press and see if, like me, it reminds you of the song from the musical Chicago, “They Both Reached for the Gun” — and, um, just to be clear, I mean the puppet master aspect of …
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He is risen — Keyboard Cat, that is
Rejoice! Keyboard Cat is risen — well, there’s a new orange tabby of Buddha-like serenity playing keyboards and drum and even tossing in some wicked dance moves. Brenna Ehrlich of Mashable has the story. The dear, departed Fatso, the original Keyboard Cat, is famous for the “Play him off, Keyboard Cat” YouTube videos adapted from …
Did Dan Rather tell Chris Matthews Obama couldn't sell watermelons?
What Dan Rather said to Chris Matthews this morning on MSNBC about the current state of Obama’s persuasive powers is, “But he couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him a state trooper to flag down the traffic.” There’s no racial monopoly on who sells or buys watermelons. Rather made no allusions to race. So — …
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Go, granny, go!
You gotta LOVE this woman! Ruth Flowers attended a disco party and saw that it was filled with “energy and joy,” as she puts it. So she decided to become a DJ and NOW is rocking the discos in PARIS FREAKING FRANCE! And don’t you go there about her being 69 — she was a …