Talking to Americans…

although why bother? Here is a clip from the infamous series on This Hour has 22 Minutes, by Rick Mercer who is also in our blogroll but really needs to hire me to feed and walk his blog while he’s away.

What’s really funny is that the person who posted it on YouTube doesn’t know any more than the rest of these clueless and corn-fed specimens of Amerawkana.

DID YOU KNOW that the capital of Canada recently relocated from Ottawa to Toronto? Former Vice-President Al Gore did!

In fairness to Gore, he knows better and probably did the quick “I don’t have time to correct this dude” math in his head before coming out with the stock answer.

pixillation: a relative situation

as in, after pulling the second all-nighter in 72 hours, I’m not sure which of the two of us is more pixillated: me or this ancient Scooby Doo remix video.

Ah, I can’t figure it out. But I’m not the only one with that problem, as you can see from this video of Shaggy and Scooby’s encounter with some of BC’s finest export.

Bollywood Beatles

Okay, look. Let's be honest. If the lead singer here were a white boy dancing like that he wouldn't get the girl; he'd get the tongue depressor forced between his teeth, a double dose of clonazepam, and the snazzy jacket with the extra-long sleeves that buckle in the back. Those backup boys can rock it out, it must be said. The lyrics are a bit messy, though, a little too brutally honest. "We also create false promises" eh?

From Boingboing:

In this youtube, a band identified as the "Indian Beatles" performs a totally rockin' version of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" in Hindi…

Commenters on the YouTube page add more details. The song is "Tumse Hai Dil Ko" from the film "Jaanwar" — and this: "The camera work is exceptional, the singing great, and the fact that this was just 1 year after the Beatles' appearance on the Ed Sullivan show makes this work of adaptive plagiarism all the more impressive."

And the lyrics:

Look, no one knows yet
Look, no one knows yet
My heart loves you
My heart loves you

Look, no one knows yet
Look, no one knows yet
My heart loves you
My heart loves you

We meet because of destiny
We also create false promises
We meet because of destiny
we also create false promises

My heart loves you
My heart loves you
Look, no one knows yet
Look, no one knows yet
My heart loves you
My heart loves you

The Ice Storm: Quebec, 1998

From tigressemimi

I made this video with Windows movie maker. This video is a presentation of photos pulled by the album of the ice storm of quebec in 1998. This storm was terrible. We must be evacuated because it was too much cold and too dangerous. We did not have electricity anymore and all the shops were closed. The food became rare. I remember that we had to put our food to the garbage because the fridge and the freezer did not work any more. It was the hell. it fell 100 mm of ice there. To show you the extent of damages, here is some figures:

700 municipalities affected

up to 7,000 cords of wood distributed each day (firewood)

more than 60,000 meals a day served in shelters

more than 16,000 wooden poles damaged

approximately 3,312,600 litres of milk discarded

more than 3,000 pylons downed or irreparably damaged

telephone service cut off to more than 158,500 customers

approximately 1.7 million hectares of forest damaged

so you understand now what i say… but one thing was very nice… SCHOOL WAS CLOSED lol please leave your comment i'll be very happy ^^

needs cowbell

That Christopher Walken can really tap it out, eh? And look at Ginger Rogers there…115: is that her age or her Star Number?

Night of 100 Stars from 1985, the culmination of the ancient vogue for variety specials. "Special" indeed.