Happy Anniversary, Motown!

Motown records brought black music by black musicians into the mainstream, and changed American culture forever.  If you’d like a serious analysis of that, please go here. You know I ain’t got time for that shit.

Instead, I’d like to present two videos choreographed by very, very white people, and mashed up with some very, very black (although not Motown, it must be said, and indeed it WOULD have been said, had I not just said it myself, thus inocculating this blog against those so-called sayers and their nastily truthful accusations, now where was I?) music.

Bob Fosse‘s Mexican Breakfast featuring Gwen Verdon: original here. Unaccredited, vulgar ripoff by Beyonce here. More amusing version of same here. Walk It Out, Fosse version below:

And here is something that could only be made even whiter by the addition of Soulja Boy: Tappercize!

mashup from EverythingIsTerrible

Kung Poo Hustle

It’s true what they say (and don’t ask me who they are. How would I know? I’m an innocent blogger, not an investigative journalist, dammit Jim!).

And what do they say? They say this:

That it is a fact universally acknowledged that a Kung Fu master in action looks uncommonly like he’s trying to pass a truly recalcitrant turd.

Check it out:

via BestWeekEver

Peaches Geldof, world’s least-likely humourist

Peaches Geldof with man of the moment

“I have respect for broadsheet journalists because
they haven’t succumbed to degrading themselves, to
writing pidgin English with all these terrible
colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just,
like, embarrassing”

Peaches Geldof

from Popbitch

the true nature of freedom

Cue the Janis Joplin.

Freedom's just another word for getting drunk with a squid

Freedom's just another word for getting drunk with a squid

Maids of Dishonour

Married To The Sea