This is his best yet, although it is entirely lacking in that trademark zany WTF-ness we’ve come to know and love (?). If you’ve ever wondered what was the point of Brian Atene, grab a bottle of Coppola Rosso and watch this. And not just because he namechecked me!
Ah, he took it down AGAIN: embedding disabled by request. Oh, fine, BE that way. Here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0R93KZPM7U
Prince Philip sez cough, please
Breaking…
so to speak.
Contrary to rumours and a front-page article in the London Evening Standard (what kind if standard is that? I ask yez) Queen Elizabeth II‘s superannuated boytoy Prince Consort Prince Philip‘s prostate is in fact and in actuality fully-functional.
From Reuters:
We now accept that the story was untrue and that he is not suffering from any such condition,” the Evening Standard said.
“We unreservedly apologize both to him and to his family for making this distressing allegation and for breaching his privacy.”
Although I understand there’s a woman in France who could have just told them.
For those of you who’ve wondered if I ever sleep, of course I do, in the daytime. For those of you who’ve wondered how I’ve managed to survive everything that’s been thrown at me, perhaps this is a clue: I’m immortal.
Today was a lazy day for me, since I pre-posted all my paid blogging stuff for the weekend, so when someone on Gawker asked me about my past as an execution victim, I decided to type it out. Here, for what it’s worth, it is.
I didn’t remember who did it the first time, it was early days; I got executed for being too “me-too” as in, twice in a week Gawker had posted something and I posted a “yes, and there’s this” in the comments, with a link to something related.
It was most enlightening: people who’d been nicey-nicey to me before piled on. Little did they know…
Then I got fished out of the graveyard by a kind intern, came back and posted. Mohney executed me again, citing a rather arbitrary “48-hour rule”.
Then I got fished out of the graveyard again by someone who shall remain nameless.
I got executed at Gawker again for something. Don’t remember what, actually, but probably dropping too many links to my blog.
Not that I would ever do such a thing.
Then Defamer brought commenter executions on and I said it was my goal to be executed by every Gawker site, so they executed me. Then came resurrection again…
Then I posted that getting executed by every site would mean I’d have to actually GO to Kotaku and Gizmodo, so Kotaku and Gizmodo both executed me. Not sure if that counts as once or twice.
Again, I rose on the third day.
I’m relatively sure I got executed on a different Gawker media site as well, but I can’t remember what it was. Ah, well.
If you’ve got ten or fifteen hours to kill, go to that thread and play all the YouTubes: it’s a compilation of the best movie speeches of all time, and it’s over 300 comments now, most of them pretty awesome. Here’s my contribution and for those of you who may be wondering,
YES I AM PMSING!!!!!!
ah, Ken.
Run away with me and we’ll have a hundred little Irish babies who’ll kick Hollywood’s ass.
Where is Metro when you need him? Probably sulking because Blogger won’t let me leave any golden droppings in his comment section.
Stolen from the comments on Gawker:
Oh, look what’s lying right here on the coffee table, one of my favorite passages by Gore Vidal:
“Although the Soviets still wanted to live by our original agreements at Yalta and even Potsdam, we had decided, unilaterally, to restore the German economy in order to enfold a rearmed Germany into Western Europe, thus isolating the Soviet, a nation which had not recovered from the Second World War and had no nuclear weapons. It was Acheson– again– who elegantly explained all the lies that he was obliged to tell Congress and the ten-minute-attention-spanned average American: “If we did make our points clearer than truth, we did not differ from most other educators and could hardly do otherwise…Qualification must give way to the simplicity of statement, nicety and nuance to bluntness, almost brutality, in carrying home a point.” Thus were two generations of Americans treated by their overlords until, in the end, at the word “Communism”, there is an orgasmic Pavlovian reflex just as the brain goes dead.”
Gore Vidal, Dreaming War, New York, Thunder’s Mouth Press, p.117-118.
Bonus points for the following as well:
Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
In the wake of the newest reports setting the death toll from the Chinese earthquake north of 50,000, the government response of 50,000 troops, which was initially hailed as a superb example of the actions of a government in complete control of its situation, is looking a little less adequite.
It takes two soldiers to carry one body.
May 14, The Guardian:
Duncan Campbell
Initial indications are that the Chinese feel they have sufficient resources and experience to deal with the earthquake’s aftermath, although aid organisations and foreign governments have offered help, both financially and in terms of expertise…
Among international agencies and governments, the general feeling that seems to be emerging is that China has the infrastructure, the personnel, the resources and the experience to deal with the crisis without significant outside help. Whereas it was immediately clear that Burma would not be able to cope with the scale of their disaster on their own, China, with its vast army and its previous knowledge of severe earthquakes, presented a very different picture.
May 17th, The Guardian:
Julian Borger
For the first time, Beijing has accepted aid from abroad and invited rescue teams from Japan, Russia, South Korea, Singapore and even Taiwanese charities. US offers of direct assistance were declined but China’s embassy in Washington encouraged Americans to send cash and supplies, a distinct break with the past.
May 21st, The Guardian:
Jonathan Watts
Chinese police have detained a political dissident because of remarks he made about the government’s handling of the Sichuan earthquake, according to his family and supporters.
Guo Quan, the founder of the China Democracy party, was seized outside his home by seven or eight police officers four days ago. They searched his house and confiscated his computer.
“They waited outside and caught him as he was taking our child to school,” said his wife Li Jing…
In the past week, he is said to have raised questions about the emergency services’ response to the quake and the safety of nuclear facilities in Sichuan. Fellow members of his small party believe his detention is connected to last week’s disaster.
Well then, I think we can all understand why Duncan Campbell was being so boosterish, can’t we? That must be pretty strong Kool-Aid they have in China, I’m thinking, except that … Duncan Campbell is actually in the UK and Jonathan Watts is in Beijing.
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