Strictly speaking, we don’t think the intent with these Meth Project PSAs is to be ha-ha funny, and yet we haven’t laughed this hard since that “mission accomplished” banner flight deck thing Bush pulled. Victor Hugo wasn’t this sincere and foreboding.
The Montana Meth campaign, in various media.
A clips reel of Liza Minnelli’s various outbursts on the March 15, 2006 episode of Larry King Live. She’s neato.
Tube’d by RichJuz
—despite a hell of a lot of attempts. Still, we all got to know enough to tarnish America’s image as a civilized nation in the eyes of the world, so to celebrate the impending closing of two of the cutest little words our leader mispronounces, we present The Bottom Line ,Stephen McQuillen montage set to the lovely tones of Negativland, and Australian documentary Abu Ghraib - A Torturer’s Tale which made a small internet splash a little while ago. So long, and thanks for all the new enemies!
The Bottom Line
You Tube’d by Ger0nim0
Abu Ghraib - A Torturer’s Tale
You Tube’d by f0xmuld3r
Sydney Morning Herald Iraq correspondent Paul McGeough has collected DVDs of propaganda videos from Iraq insurgents and a fairly striking Flash presentation has been created around them. Warning: possibly upsetting, feels a bit like that homeless religion-spouting nut at the bus stop suddenly given an AK and gearing up to kill you, X 5000 or so.
The Enemy Within [smh.com]
Thanks to David
Valleywag is Gawker Media’s new San Francisco/Silicon Valley gossip site. “Silicon Valley gossip site?”, you sputter between cold mouthfuls of Heinz teeny beans you were too lazy to cook -“are these why my pee smells like the blue slurppee machine at the 7-11?”
Probably, we say in disgust. Valleywag explains itself thusly:
“Well, where there’s money, there’s excess, and where there’s excess, there’s gossip. And there’s now a lot of money again in Silicon Valley. Oh, and let’s not forget Google. Did you know that Marissa Mayer, the anointed queen of Google, used to go out with Larry Page until quite recently? And no one ever ever writes that. So that’s why.”
That’s right, watch out, people we’ve never heard of.
Anyway, this particular rocket ship is being piloted by Nick Douglas, formerly of Blogebrity, who we thankfully don’t have to be nice to anymore lest we endure having our ego caved in by being labeled “c-list”, and is a pretty brisk read right out the gate. Check it out, if you would.
Valleywag
Dial-the-Truth Ministries thoughtfully catalogs the deaths and ages of various rock people, offered as proof that rock and roll is a one way fast ride to hell. We’re not sure Alice Cooper’s Glenn Buxton succumbing to Pneumonia at age 49 jibes with the whole wrath of god thing stylistically. “Fear the god who once unobeyed will rain down upon thee rivers of blood, hoards of locusts, and the very bad sniffles for not wearing a scarf.”
Seems like a let down.
Premature Death of Rock Stars [Dial-the-Truth Ministries]
Via popbitch
For the lovely people of Dial-the-Truth Ministries we offer up The Dead Kennedys’ classic Religious Vomit, performed live. If it kills us quickly, so much the better.
A clip from a 1981 Hampton Virginia Stones performance in which Keith sidelines onstage as a bouncer. Note just how non-pulsed Keith is at the prospect of beating the brains out of a wayward fan with his Telecaster. A casual act for Keith. This is a man well used to things just popping out at him from nowhere— fans, bats, Satan and so on. Regular folks would have shit themselves and run off. A fine argument for a life of hard drugs.
Keith clip via Geetarz.org review of a Stones Hampton Coliseum concert bootleg DVD
Squad Patrol! In color!
And pain.
Fire Crotch [Squad Patrol]
If someone doesn’t write in and inform us that this is a goof like that finger-biting thing turned out to be, we may never be able to stop this high girlish screaming we’re doing as we type this.
“BME: What happened next?(Ryan “holding on to” Dave’s arm) RYAN: After discussing and thinking about it very seriously for about a year, we decided to take the big step. To put it simply, Dave had his entire right arm (since we’re left handed) amputated at the shoulder and we surgically reattached it immediately behind my right pectoral muscle.”
Adding and Subtracting [bmezine]
Related : Ween - “i can’t put my finger on it”
The Dead Puppet Show — a dark little corner of the intarweb, where bits of failed beings lay. A fairly unsettling photo series which suits a bad cup of coffee real well.
The Dead Puppet Show [soa360.com]
Thanks to Wet Paul
Louis Wain was an artist in the late 1800s who started painting cats to entertain his ailing wife, who suggested he send them out to magazines and newspapers. This was the start of the Louis Wain Cat, a cartoonish image which became very popular both in Britain in America. Shortly after the cat became famous, Louis began to succumb to schizophrenia, and you can see the progression of his breakdown in the drawings.
Late Onset - Louis Wain
Via Digg
“Funny shit”, but not ha-ha funny, more like “for a superpower we look like a joke” funny: yesterday the big interweb buzz was over the “trophy” video of some civilians in Baghdad being shot by members of a private security company, which is a lot of syllables for the word “mercenaries.” The video, probably best seen at either Crooks and Liars or from site Flurl. This clip has so far sparked two investigations into who and what we’ve got dong our dirty work over there. (Both video links seem to use the clip from BareKnucklePolitics.com, as far as we can tell the origin point of the video. )
For a great background on the mercenaries we’re spending our taxes on, check out Private Warriors, a Frontline report that sets the stage for the trophy video nicely, for want of a better term.
Also: The Brit Marines Hazing Gets Out Of Hand video isn’t doing a lot for the general western image, either.
