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Top 10 Videos of 2011: 9. Puddin’, “Taylor Swift”

December 22, 2011 | Comment

9I know. Right when I was chattering about the exciting momentum of my top ten videos countdown I go and hit the “pause” button for over a week, even slotting in another C&B post on an unrelated subject. What can I say? Never mind — the point is, no way would I let this list peter out. I made all these silver video-countdown icons (like the one at right), and I am damn sure gonna use ‘em.

At number 9 on this year’s list is a choice installment of Puddin’, a YouTube series described as follows by its creator:

Monday thru Friday I upload a live action cartoon. Racist, self hating, morbid, yet ironically very family friendly.

I have yet to see an episode of Puddin’ that struck me as having a racist intent. I assume he means that it’s racist in the same way that it’s “family friendly” — i.e., it’s not. At all. This particular installment is relatively tame, with only a single word rendering it NSFW. The description of Puddin’ continues,

The setup is simple. Guy sits in an office break room eating a pudding cup. Eddie Pepitone enters, or is already there. He does something. You react by laughing, wincing, asking for your 20 seconds back, or watching over and over. Easy.

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The Best of Twitter

July 14, 2011 | 6 comments

Does anyone ever look at the “Favorite” tweets on other people’s Twitter profiles? Until that question occurred to me the other day, I don’t know if I ever had done so. Admittedly, the “Favorites” feature on Twitter is one I tend to forget about periodically. If my hunch is correct and people seldom look at each other’s favorite tweets, then what good is this collection of favorites that I’ve been compiling in fits and starts?

twitter-stampSo hear this: I have some favorite tweets — and damn it, attention must be paid. I am boldly risking my reputation by giving the following tweets the imprimatur of my favor. 1 Lastly, I should mention that the embedding code for these tweets was generated by socialditto.com; I tweaked the CSS format a little to blend with the design of this blog.

@paulapoundstone Paula PoundstoneYou know, my CD is available on my website. I feel silly saying, but it is, and Flag Day is coming up, so you’ll be looking for gift ideas.Jun 3 2009 via web

@LauraJSilverman Laura SilvermanSomething smells like pee. I think it’s near the spot on the rug where my dog was standing when she looked me square in the eye and peed. Jun 3 2009 via web

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Update: I Have Failed as a Member of Society

June 8, 2011 | 2 comments

As you may already know, in my previous post I reacted to a tweet I’d noticed, which said

A 15 year old girl who has terminal cancer wants to trend on twitter, let’s make that wish come true!! #alicebucketlist Pls RT

…leading to my statement that we have failed as a society. I intended this partly as comic hyperbole, but not entirely.

It simply struck me as silly that being a trending topic on twitter would be a worthwhile aspiration. Is that how low the celebrity status bar has been set? What kind of fulfillment would that provide? Does anybody think that in 30 or 40 years we’ll be sitting around reminiscing about the great twitter memes of yesteryear?

Plus, I figured, it’s probably not even for real. The very mention of a youngster with terminal cancer raised in me a set of red flags normally reserved for chain email hoaxes. I half expected the end of the tweet to tell me to DM all my followers.

Turns out it was even simpler than that — I’m just a cynical asshole:
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We Have Failed as a Society

June 8, 2011 | Comment

Or, in tweet-speak: #societyepicfail
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Top 15 #fishfilms or #mouthfilms Tweets

March 2, 2010 | 2 comments

I don’t know if he still does, but I remember David Letterman used to do top ten lists where the category would be two different things. The name of the list would be an either/or proposition, something like “Top Ten Weather Man or Dog Breed Names.” Anyway, this format occurred to me when I couldn’t decide which of two recent Twitter memes to post my favorites from.1

List items not authored by me are indicated by links to their creators. Yes, I did favor my own contributions heavily, and no, it’s not fair. Why? Because it’s my blog. Mine! Minemineminemine-mine! (…Er, not that anyone ever said it wasn’t. In other news, I am a very petty little man.)

Enough Prelude Already — To the List!

youngmrlingcod

  1. Seabasscuit
  2. Phlegmento (mcquickdraw)
  3. She’s Gotta Harelip (wongfilms)
  4. Dude, Where’s My Carp? (lbgilbert)
  5. Ten Things I Hake About You (stephiemalverns)
  6. Charlie’s Angels: Full Glottal (AmoebaStampede)
  7. The Name of the Roes (julieankerson)
  8. Young Mr. Lingcod

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