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The Definitive Act of the Twenty-First Century

For Realz.

And that is: notquoting Tionna Smalls.” Although that’s a close runner-up. No; no indeed, the definitive act of the Twenty-First Century is, naturally, something that first surfaced on YouTube. Because you, the reader, are so finely attuned to nuance and Zeitgeist and other foreign-sounding words, you are reading it here before it registers on the consciousness of the tastemakers at Gawker Media, the Times, or CBC. Ahead of the curve, in front of the pack, on the top of the heap, and (perhaps?) good for loaning me twenty bucks till the end of the month?

Yes, that is the raincoaster blog devotee!

And just for you we present the following video, another Brian Atene monologue, but this one may be somewhat familiar in parts, if you’ve survived high school English. I had all of the great “To be or not to be” speech memorized by the time I was ten because it was on the cover of my best friend’s mother’s cookie tin and it would always take her ten or fifteen minutes to talk her mom into letting us get at the Peek Freans, so I had plenty of time to go over the lines. I used to recite them to her poodle when I was pet-sitting, just to discombobulate it.

It was a nasty little dog, and I’m a bitch. What can I say?

So here it is, the video containing the plan for the definitive act of the twenty-first century. And what might that act be, you wonder? Well, I’ll tell you. But I’ll tell you over the jump, because I’m like that.

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The definitive act of the Twenty-First Century is: selling collector’s cartoons on eBay to get the money to buy a gun with which to kill yourself.

4 Comments

  1. Posted May 22, 2008 at 9:12 pm | Permalink

    I’m really not sure what this needs: William Marshall, Jonathan Harris, more cowbell or more nembutol

  2. Posted May 23, 2008 at 12:48 am | Permalink

    I think we’d better take the nembutols away from him and give him some sugar pills. Just to be safe.

  3. Posted May 23, 2008 at 12:54 am | Permalink

    I dunno. An overdose of nimbies might be pretty interesting YouTube fodder . . .

  4. Posted May 23, 2008 at 1:25 am | Permalink

    I think if you put Atene on too many of those, what you’d get is something like those interminable vids where the Japanese girl stares silently at the camera for ten minutes while Arctic Monkeys plays in the background.

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