Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
A young student from China is Ireland-bound, and runs into a problem..agus faigheann sé amach go bhfuil an nach labhraíonn Gaeilge i bhfad Gaelic! 10 minute YouTube video, very funny and sweet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA0a62wmd1A
For all of the folks in Facebook who invite me to participate in a game: Sorry, don’t have the time to play them, and I distrust a lot of the join-this stuff in Facebook anyway. For all the folks anywhere who invite me to events out of town (Chicago): Sorry, too laid up after the [...]
Meredith and Eric took first place at the National Championships with a flawless, beautiful performance… stunned the people online and the commentators with **OMG WHO ARE THESE GUYS!!!** reactions. They can’t go to World Championships until the elder is 14, which is next year. But my god, they were the best I’ve ever seen them, [...]
Re the UK election: Excellent brief explanation on what a hung parliament means Probably the funniest political video of the UK 2010 season (Labour candidate)
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/05/sdp-liberal-alliance-broadcast
YouTube: Mr Bean running on the Bean Party ticket does ‘I wanna Be Elected’ as a video. Especially for all those in the UK getting ready for next week’s election. And yes, I did take the Torygraph’s poll, and it suggested I’d vote for the UK Liberal Democrat party, for what that’s worth.
This year we decided to buy a big household present for everyone rather than a lot of stuff (of course, Mere still makes out, but…) so the big add was a combination of an HD TV for the living room, and a HD TiVo and a Blu-Ray player to go with it. This is changing [...]
Irish marriage equality TV ad; rather clever.
Thanks to Deb Geisler and John Scalzi, I can bravely point to an ad about major league baseball that doesn’t make me watch a sport I don’t care much about, but gets across a simple, semi-inspirational message that most everyone not in the NY metro area can get behind.
With a whimper: engineer shuts down WCPO’s analog TV transmitter (Cincinnati, Ohio) Same with other Cincinnati stations: WXIX (film of the analog signal actually going out), WLWT (nice little historical signoff piece), and also Dayton’s WHIO.
I can’t read the love letters from Governor Sanford to his girlfriend without this going though my head. Sorry. As one right-wing blog said today: Under different circumstances I think he could have survived this, but it’s a quirk of our politics that voters don’t mind cheating as much as they do inept cheating. Infidelity [...]
I’m really amazed at the rapid speed I’m making through the VHS tapes. Part of that is that there’s a lot of the BBC stuff that is now available; I was absolutely shocked to find that the Tim Curry ‘Life of Shakespeare’ was available on DVD (I sweat blood finding the VHS). (Yes, I’m very [...]
Bollywood twist number: Aao Twist Karein (Youtube) – beyond description. I liked the dancing rock band and the eyebrows wiggling, of course.
Ready Kids? Here-we-go! The Watchmen! Baby Huey! Jonny Quest! Tom Terriffic and Mighty Manfred! Hoppety Hooper! Beany and Cecil! Captain Kangaroo! and Mister Moose! Hashimoto the Japanese House Mouse! Mighty Mouse fighting Wolves with Zoot Suits! Heckle and Jeckle! The Beatles! Spinach for Britain with Popeye! The Flintstones having a fag! Three Little Pigs in [...]
From last weekend, in Schererville, Indiana. Yes, I only had the Flip, and no, I’m no videographer.