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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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Update: Oops, I’ll Post It Again

March 13, 2011 | Comment

Once again, a cover song I’ve covered previously in my Got You Covered series has surfaced in video format on YouTube.1 This one’s a high quality, professionally shot piece of film, too (as opposed to a cell-phone-in-the-audience product,2 like most concert videos on YouTube). Here’s Richard Thompson channeling his inner Britney Spears — or not:


Those craving more can download the MP3 (and check out plenty more of his stuff) at the Richard Thompson store on Amazon, or at eMusic. His home page is called BeesWeb and is located at www.richardthompson-music.com. Like any responsible recording artist today, he also has fan pages on Facebook and MySpace.3


Old and Improved

November 15, 2010 | Comment

posterLast night, while re-embedding the video on my post Favorite Movies: All That Jazz, I found myself obliged to revise and substantially expand the original text. To back up a step: yes, I did say “re-embedding the video.” As a consequence of my decision to shift the handling of photos and videos here on C&B from the Floatbox Plus plugin to the simpler Highslide 4 WordPress plugin, I have to go back and re-embed all the videos in my old posts. I could go into detail about why this is necessary, but I’d like to keep my readers awake if possible. My point—and I do have one—is that since writing the original All That Jazz post I have notched at least one more viewing of the movie, not to mention three and a half more years of overall insight (for better or worse). So you see, my hand was forced. Go check it out—even if you don’t care what I wrote and you just want to see the awesome video of the song-and-dance number.


Update: “Kashmir” On Video

April 15, 2010 | Permalink

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It’s hard to find everything worth noting on a given topic the first time out — such is the nature of the internet. I am no stranger to the sudden moment of “how did I not find this before?”

My first Got You Covered post, focusing on the rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” by Matt Haimovitz and Uccello, has just been updated to include a YouTube video of them performing the song. Here I was all proud of having edited and compressed a 30-second MP3 excerpt of the track, and all the time we could have been watching and hearing the whole thing… duh. Well, better late than never.

As long as I’m calling attention to that post, I might as well mention that a week or two ago I re-wrote part of its text that I found unsatisfactory. I do that sometimes, but unless it’s a substantive change or an addition to the original post, I don’t point it out with an update like this.


I’m a Media Darling!

July 9, 2006 | 1 comment

screenshotIn an effort to drive more traffic to this blog, I got my post “Here Lies Lay” approved for inclusion over at Thought Mechanics.1 Then, whaddya know, the next day I get an email from TM’s Theron Parlin telling me that the post got them a cameo on the NBC Nightly News.

If you want to see the webcast, you can do so here. The only bummer is that the post’s appearance comes at about 18 minutes into the 22-minute webcast, and there’s no way to cue forward or backward on the video clip. NBC wouldn’t want you to miss any of that newsy goodness just because you’re on the web.can’t anymore.2

I briefly wondered why NBC didn’t show a screenshot of the post in its original home here at C&B. My guess is that a) Thought Mechanics is a much more well-known blog brand, and b) it might have something to do with the big headline right under the Ken Lay post that says “Boo-Fucking-Hoo.”