The Real Secret: the greatest motivational video of all time

Yes, boys and girls, it’s our old favorite Brian Atene back with another masterwork. This simple, thirty-second video, entitled “Do You Wish It?may be, nay, IS, the most powerful motivational talk in all of recorded YouTube.

Pour yourself a tumbler of something bracing, keep the Kleenex handy, and set phasers to awesome!

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

Maids of Dishonour

Married To The Sea

Yoko Ono’s Next Husband

No, seriously. Think about it. She’s got John‘s money and no particular need to be the ruling Rock Widow of Our Times, which goes to Courtney Love on sheer batshit-insane points. Sure, Yoko‘s meaner, and she’s smarter, and she’ll outlive Courtney by a good twenty years, but it’s time she moved on. Time she found a new man.

Time she found this man.

via WOWReport

William Lamson is clearly both deeply artistic and strange to the pink, gooey core. Check out his site: my particular favorite video is “Monument Valley Flight Attempt” but one has to come to it with preparation. One has to be ready. One has to wait it out, all two minutes, forty-one seconds of it. There IS no punchline. It, itself, IS the punchline. Or is the viewer?

Or the reader of this blog?

The Carol Channing Christmas Message

What’s the difference, really, between one old Queen and another?

Which reminds me, in fact, of the time (I was not there, you understand, I heard it later, she wasn’t talking to me by that time) the Queen Mum phoned down to her butler’s switchboard or staff room or whatever it was and asked, “Would one of you old queens please bring this old Queen a large gin and tonic?”