I hear the baaa-ing of sheep from Animal Farm, and in real time, too!
They’re going to be completely unbearable when the RNC rolls around.
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While in Boston, I’m hoping to catch Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle with Wendy. (Let it be known that my friend Dhimant “Bhundi” Patel and I were Harold and Kumar back at Crazy Go Nuts University in the 90’s.)
I thought I’d go look at Tak Toyoshima’s comic, Secret Asian Man, to see if he’d have any commentary on the movie. He didn’t, but he had this somewhat-related comic…
Maybe Harold and my main man Jet Li in Hero will help fix that.
A Simpsons scene at a Boston blogger gathering:
Freddy Quimby: “Say it, Frenchie! Say ‘browsahhh’!”
Waiter: “Brow-zaire!”
I can’t properly post about Boston without putting up my favourite Boston Common photo…
It’s wicked fried!
I’ll be visiting The Redhead in Boston this weekend, and when I’m not doing the usual boyfriend-y hoo-hah, I’ll be attending some local bloggers-and-friends gatherings.
Saturday night, I’ll be hanging out at Clery’s, which is stumbling distance from the Back Bay T station. I’ll be attending the Sunday Brunch at Johnny D’s. I’ll hang out at the Berkman Center on Monday morning (Monday’s a holiday in Ontario), Hahhvahhd Square in the afternoon and home in the evening.
If you live in Boston area, feel free to drop by. I will be taking accordion requests.
Another entry in the series of things that have been sitting on my hard
drive, awaiting posting: photos from the 5th Anniversary of Kickass
Karaoke!
I know I keep saying this, but I’m busy building a new developer
relations site for Tucows: more stuff later. It’s my new blogging
mantra: “More later. More later. More later.”
In the meantime, you can check out my photos, either in photo album form or as a slideshow.
The obligatory cute chick shot. That’s why you come to the blog, right?
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This Land is Your Land [Updated]
[via Guile] Woody Guthrie’s classic folk song, This Land is Your Land, is the basis for JibJab’s funny Flash animation featuring John Kerry and George Bush trading insults:
“You’re a U.N. pussy…”
“Kick ass!”
The Richmond Organization is the publishing company that owns the rights to Guthrie’s classic, and they’re a little peeved at the JibJab animators.
They think the parody, which is getting hits in the millions, is
“damaging” the song. There’s probably not much that they can do, as parody (“an imitation which ridicules another’s work or as any burlesque or
risque occurence that would not happen in an original instance”) is protected speech.
It’s called fair use, and it’s not dead yet.
Addendum: Cory in BoingBoing points out that Woody Guthrie’s standard copyright notice was:
“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085,
for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our
permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a
dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote
it, that’s all we wanted to do.”
They’re trashy, they’re vile, and they’re ugly paunchy men who sometimes play the guitar butt naked. They’re White Cowbell Oklahoma, and they put on one helluva show back in June.
Opening Sparkfest [2.2 MB QuickTime]
The opening number, accompanied by one of the band running a circular saw against some scrap metal to spark-o-riffic effect.
Chainsaw 1 [2 MB QuickTime]
Chainsaw 2 [1.5 MB QuickTime]
No White Cowbell Oklahoma perfomance is complete without a chainsaw performance. Here, they chainsaw two stuffed dinosaur toys.
Freebird in the Worst Way Possible [Not safe for work: full frontal male nudity; Lynyrd Skynrd — 1.6 MB QuickTime]
The wrongest way to play slide guitar: butt naked, with the glass slide
on your member. I’ve seen every episode of Beavis and Butt-head, so I
find this sort of thing mildly amusing.
They’re a little bit overdue (it took place at the start of the Summer
Solstice back in June), but here they are: my videos from the Om Festival.
Friday
The Dance Screen [1.7 MB QuickTime]
At once dance area, they set up a large translucent screen and aimed a
projector hooked up to a computer at it. There was some space between
the screen and projector for dancers, which led to some pretty cool
shadow effects. Near the end of the video, I move away from the screen
and towards the DJ booth.
Saturday
Saturday Morning [1.8 MB QuickTime]
It’s never too early to dance — the SumKidz stage had DJs 24 hours a day. Here’s a 360-degree view of the area.
Poi 1 [1.4 MB QuickTime]
Poi 2 [1.8 MB QuickTime]
Poi 3 [630K QuickTime]
Poi dancing — dancing with little flaming braziers attached to chains
— is mesmerizing and also look great on video. We watched this for
about an hour.
Dharma Lab 1 [700K QuickTime]
Dharma Lab 2 [730K QuickTime]
Dharma Lab 3 [930K QuickTime]
Dharma Lab are two guys from Buffalo who make some pretty good
electronic music. They’re not afraid to drop a little classical
leitmotif into their hard techno — one of these videos has a Fur Elise sequence.
(Hey kids: you may not know what Fur Elise is, who composed it, or why it was composed, but you’ve probably heard the cellphone ringtone).
Sunday
Sunday Morning [1.1 MB QuickTime]
So…spaced…out…but the kids are still rockin’. This was one of the dance areas, around 6:30 a.m..