@BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
(Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post roundups here on the motherBoing.)
- Jesse Thorn: Patton Oswalt does some great material from his new comedy album on Letterman. Link
- Sean Bonner: Yokai and Yurei on NHK part 1 - Link
- Jesse Thorn: New York Public TV of the 1970s: "Soul!" featuring Earth Wind & Fire, Ron Carter, Max Roach & more... Link
- Richard Metzger: Sesso Matto: Greatest Seventies Italian Sex Comedy Soundtrack of All? Link
- Jesse Thorn: A few beautiful videos of the Chicago (and Detroit) partner dance style known as "Steppin'" Link
- Jesse Thorn: Albert Brooks presents "Comedy School" (via @lonelysandwich): Link
- Andrea James: "Flowers" by Emilie Simon: Link
- Richard Metzger: Uninsured US Citizen Posts Video About Health Care on Sarah Palin's FB Page Link
- Andrea James: Boing Boing cultural exchange. Brazil's Sabrina Boing Boing primarily covers Silicone Valley: Link
- Andrea James: 'American Psycho' meets Talking Heads. Miles Fisher covers "This Must Be The Place": Link
- Andrea James: You know you're culturally significant when... 30 Rock, the porno (some language, no n00dz): Link
- Richard Metzger: Sex Crazy Cop Link
- Xeni Jardin: The Porpoise Driven Life. Link (thanks, Mark Kleiman)
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Porpoises are not fish. [/pedantry]
I love how Christians are constantly the subject of mockery on here, it really makes my day.
really? You need to seek out other amusements.
Hey, great to hear BB made your day Angela!
But maybe you shouldn't enjoy mocking Christians so much, some of them are people too and it might hurt their feelings.
/sorry, sarcasm begets sarcasm
Meh - Christians constantly say & do things that are rude & inconsiderate to others. They dish it out but cannot accept it.
And re: Porpoises not being fish - the catholic church declared capybara to be fish (so they could be eaten during lent) -- if a 100lb rat can be a fish, so can a porpoise.
The problem with Kenneth's video on health care is that before he can address the issues over the uninsured he has to address the issue of partisan politics. There is really no way to have an honest discussion on anything political in the USA anymore, because one side does not trust the other, they trust ONLY their side, which means their leaders can knowingly lie to them and expect to be believed. Anything Kenneth says to the opposition will automatically be mistrusted.
The people showing up to town hall meetings only to yell at Democratic leaders aren't interested in what they have to say, and aren't interested in having a reasoned discussion on health care, they are there to berate their perceived enemies.
I read the comments on BB because they are so very often witty and funny. There's another constant here: twisting the subject of a post so it fits one's expectations. 'Porpoise Of Life' doesn't mock Christians but the exploitation of their beliefs.
I'd bet anything that Xeni has many Christian friends, whom she esteems for being persons the very values of their faith made them. Just a guess.
Back to watching this week's pick of vidz.
I do have a great deal of conflict with swiping at christians.
oh, all right! AND muslims and jews and hindus et al. I'm perfectly aware of the pain I cause.
The Soul! section, on thirteen.org, is an incredible find! What a treasure trove.
Check this badass out: http://www.thirteen.org/soul/2009/02/06/october-4-1972/
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, damn.
I'm perfectly aware of the pain I cause.
Hopefully you are equally aware of the pain that you do not cause.
I don't know what happened to your home page, dudes, but everything below Alan Moore is - perhaps appropriately - like a bad acid trip.
Fixed. At least in FF and IE.
Kenneth,
I sympathize with your position as I was unable to obtain health insurance for my son, albeit for only six months, due to the fact that he had received speech instruction at his public school within the year prior to our applying for insurance coverage. No one could explain why of course, and our agent simply suggested we wait six months and then try again, which worked. It is indeed a frustrating experience, and I really can't imagine how much more frustrating it is when a serious illness is involved.
However, please distinguish between "health care" and "health care insurance," as they are not one in the same, and using them interchangeably is at best confusing, and at worst misleading.
Merely because you don't have healthcare insurance would not prevent you from obtaining a colonoscopy procedure, although I do understand that it will make it more difficult in both a fiscal and logistical sense. A brief Google search seems to indicate that a colonoscopy for patients without insurance costs on average $4,000. Expensive for sure, but if your life is possibly depending on it (I'm unfamiliar with your particular condition), it is probably not something that you should have put off for eight years.
Good luck.
@13
Fine in Safari too.
Dear Innocent; abstractly, yes. But that doesn't count, karmically.
The healthcare video: does anyone remember a time when Americans would watch scenes of abject third world poverty (the starving and dying lying ignored on sidewalks) and say to themselves: "how can they DO that to people?"
Steppin's nice, but check out Juke! It'll blow your mind...and while you're at it, check out it's Detroit counterpart Jit ("Jittin' Jesus" is AmAZing!)...then move on to Memphis Buck, Kuduro from Brazil and Angola, and Baltimore Club (also known as doodoo!)...And last but UNDOUBTEDLY NOT least look up New Orleans Bounce! Type "Sissy Nobby Valentine" or "Bounce Music New Orleans" into YouTube to see what I'm gettin at!
Good day, ya'll
#5 posted by Anonymous:
Any time you say something like "[group of people] always [do/say] x," be aware that to many people you sound exactly like someone saying "Blacks are criminals" or "Jews are greedy."
I don't know why some people don't seem to be able to regard humans as individuals. Maybe it makes the world easier to understand? Lends a bit of certainty? Or maybe it's just easy to do--and generally acceptable--online.
To me, it just sounds like ignorance, no matter who it's from or towards whom it's directed. And I say this as someone who used to do quite a bit of that sort of thing, until I realized that I sounded like an idiot and was mistreating the people I encountered in my daily life by being a judgmental prick.
This isn't boingboing mocking christians. It's boingboing forwarding a viral video MADE by christians mocking christianity-based marketing.
Check out http://splendoroftruth.com/ (the filmmakers) and tell me if it's a snide atheist site.
careful, we skirt the recursive event horizon.
Steppin' remembers me of Cuban Salsa dancing, which is all in the feet. In fact, how is this not cuban salsa dancing?
@IAMINNOCENT, your assessment is correct.
But that doesn't count, karmically.
Tak, what if death actually works as one black hole which spits reborn souls on the other side.
If there's a committee where I get a vote it will count: of course you will be reborn as an Amish, a girl. I am sure that you could make of these circumstances the best possible use.
:D
alas, one must first have a soul to be reborn with one.
Missed Flipper,Flipper King of The Sea,
ata,ata,ata,ata
Liked the health care video; good points. I have asthma. type II diabetes and a thyroid condition, let me tell you about MY run-ins with big insurance. Currently uninsured.
Ironically, I've just begun the process of immigrating to Canada (investigating, but getting some items in order), though for many more reasons than health insurance. That'd make the right wingers happy, I know, one less lefty.
Incidentally, I'm a Christian (Episcopalian/Catholic) and I've never found bOING bOING offensive...
Peace, out.
I was being sarcastic, it really bums me out. sometimes its just the cheery on top of a really bad day.
alas, one must first have a soul to be reborn with one.
Tak, Tak, Tak... you don't know that, no one does: accept the mystery. BTW it was a 'what if' moment, one when we can (must?) let go of our rationality to imagine shapes in the clouds. It's fun.
OK, I'll assume that you are just having a mollusk moment.
never said YOU didn't have one.
Take it then: you'll shine with one. I'll grow another one out of the miseries and the beauties of this world. Anyway, I always wondered how it would be to start over while keeping the memories of a lifetime.
no, no, that won't work either, the good ones always taste bad - some kind of evolutionary defense.