Salon.com > David Puner http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 06:12:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “NYC’s True Graffiti Problem” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/09/nyc_s_true_graffiti_problem/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/09/nyc_s_true_graffiti_problem/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:32:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/misc/2007/03/09/nyc_s_true_graffiti_problem This video was made by the Graffiti Research Lab, a group that, according to their website are "Dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication." Hmm. So here's their point about advertising being the real graffiti.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/09/nyc_s_true_graffiti_problem/feed/ 6 “24: Aqua Teen Hunger Force” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/09/24_aqua_teen_hunger_force/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/09/24_aqua_teen_hunger_force/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:10:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/03/09/24_aqua_teen_hunger_force Jack Bauer doesn't screw around -- ever. Here he is -- all-biz, per usual -- going up against the Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He can't explain it to you now, it's too complicated, but he'll explain later -- presumably when he's done torturing the meatball (aka "Meatwad"). (Created by National Lampoon.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/09/24_aqua_teen_hunger_force/feed/ 1 “The Reagans on Drugs” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/08/reagans_on_drugs/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/08/reagans_on_drugs/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:21:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/03/08/reagans_on_drugs Here's a viral mashup video that has somehow passed us by on its rise. This is not quite how we remembered Nancy's war on drugs, but it's much funnier than those recollections. There are some particularly startling revelations around 5:15. And, maybe this video finally provides an explanation for this.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/08/reagans_on_drugs/feed/ 5 “Medieval Helpdesk” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/08/medieval_helpdesk/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/08/medieval_helpdesk/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:31:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/03/08/medieval_helpdesk Here's a sketch from the Norwegian Broadcasting television channel program "Cystein og meg." While the production value may leave a little to be desired, the premise is pretty good. We'd like a sequel where the befuddled reader winds up calling a Dell 1-800 number in El Salvador for a refresher course.

While we're getting medieval, here's one of our favorite comedy sketches based in the period: "Cops in Medieval Times," from "The Ben Stiller Show." For what it's worth, we had that "touch of the plague" a couple of weeks ago.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/08/medieval_helpdesk/feed/ 13 The George Brett pine tar incident http://www.salon.com/2007/03/07/george_brett_pine_tar_incident/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/07/george_brett_pine_tar_incident/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:03:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/classic/2007/03/07/george_brett_pine_tar_incident We love baseball spring training. It's bright and sunny in Florida and Arizona, and the games played now promise the official games of spring and summer are right around the corner. Here is one of our favorite baseball moments of yesteryear, the 1983 George Brett pine tar incident, on demand thanks to YouTube. Cue to around 3:20 if you want to zip ahead to moment of impact. Three weeks until the regular season haul gets underway!

And here's another gem: Johnny Bench and his "Baseball Bunch" with a dramatic recreation of that pine tar incident. Very nice attention to detail paid here, in particular to the mustaches.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/07/george_brett_pine_tar_incident/feed/ 3 Stewart on Walter Reed http://www.salon.com/2007/03/06/stewart_on_walter_reed/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/06/stewart_on_walter_reed/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:55:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/misc/2007/03/06/stewart_on_walter_reed On Monday a hearing held by a subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform convened at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Soldiers wounded in combat testified at the hearing about terrible conditions and mistreatment they received at the hospital. To read more about the developments in the Walter Reed story, click here and here. To watch "The Daily Show" presentation and commentary about the subject, click below.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/06/stewart_on_walter_reed/feed/ 1 “Airport” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/06/airport_animation/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/06/airport_animation/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:07:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/animation/2007/03/06/airport_animation Here's a clever animated short (appropriately entitled "Airport"), composed entirely of airport infographics. The description on YouTube provided by the Portable Film Festival -- a festival based in Australia and comprised of short films created for portable devices -- says the film is "the animated story of one man's epic journey, created entirely from public domain symbols." The filmmaker, incidentally, is named Iain Anderson, which is awfully close to the spelling of our favorite flute rocker, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson. (Thanks to Reel Pop for the spot.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/06/airport_animation/feed/ 1 “Baby Got Back” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/05/baby_got_back/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/05/baby_got_back/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:05:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/03/05/_baby_got_back Creator Michael Hightower sums up this spirited work up tidily on his Web site: "The advent of time warp technology offered to Knights of the British Empire has allowed this uniquely satisfying look at Sirs Gilbert and Sullivan's re-envisioning of fellow Sir Mix-A-Lot's Baby Got Back. O! What a joy it is for us to hear these three titans working in concert for the first time, and hopefully not the last." Indeed!

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/05/baby_got_back/feed/ 6 “Last Letter Home” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/05/last_letter_home/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/05/last_letter_home/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/misc/2007/03/05/last_letter_home The description accompanying this poignant video on YouTube reads: "US Army Pfc. Jesse Givens died in Iraq in the service of his country on the first of May, 2003, in his 34th year. He wrote this letter to his wife Melissa, his five year-old son Dakota (nicknamed 'Toad') and his unborn child Carson (nicknamed 'Bean'). He asked Melissa not to open the envelope unless he was killed. 'Please, only read it if I don't come home,' he wrote. 'Please put it away and hopefully you will never have to read it.'"

This musical dramatization of Pfc. Given's letter features baritone Andrew Garland lip-synching his own recording, scored by Lee Hoiby. (Thanks to Mark S. for the tip.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/05/last_letter_home/feed/ 17 “The Jolie Doctrine” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/02/jolie_womb_raider/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/02/jolie_womb_raider/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/03/02/jolie_womb_raider With Friday's news that Angelina Jolie will be adopting another child, we present this parody/mashup of "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (another short by Apeman888 -- "Spiders on Drugs" and "Conspiracy 911"). For more of Apeman's work, check out his YouTube homepage here or his Website here.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/02/jolie_womb_raider/feed/ 22 “Sopranos” promo http://www.salon.com/2007/03/02/sopranos_promo/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/02/sopranos_promo/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:52:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/03/02/_sopranos_promo New installments of the final, partial season of "The Sopranos" will begin airing on HBO next month. Here's a re-mixed promo for the show from "This Just In" that reveals Tony has more cluttering his mind than ever before. Looks like T must have been quite the channel-surfer before his beloved History Channel came into being -- if Dr. Melfi sees this, maybe they'll finally have a breakthrough in therapy. And if they have to include some of those flashback scenes this season, we can only hope the Swedish Chef will make an appearance.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/02/sopranos_promo/feed/ 4 “Animaltown Doctor” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/animaltown_doctor/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/animaltown_doctor/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:04:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/03/01/_animaltown_doctor In this parody of Richard Scarry's "Best Busy People Video Ever," Doctor Lion explains the state of American healthcare to a young mouse with the desire to become a lawyer. You can check out this Amazon.com page's editorial review to acquaint yourself with "Best Busy People Video Ever," if you so choose -- the basic premise: "Best Busy People introduces the concept of how a complicated society functions, with everyone's job having an impact on everyone else's." [Thanks to J. Miller for providing the video.]

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/animaltown_doctor/feed/ 13 “Karl” http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/karl_2/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/karl_2/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:17:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/03/01/karl Filmmaker Andy Cobb writes of this video on MySpace: "Hopefully it is clear this is intended to kick Karl Rove while he's down, not mock anyone unfortunate enough to receive 'stop loss' orders." Cobb's video is a satire of Eminem's video "Stan," he says.

And here's Eminem's "Stan" video, which, Cobb says, is "such a dark and sinister video, I think it captured the really mean-spirited vibe of this project -- devoting an entire video to kicking an evil bastard when he's down."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/karl_2/feed/ 16 McCain to Letterman: Gonna run http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/mccain_announces_late_show/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/mccain_announces_late_show/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:09:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/news/politics//2007/03/01/mccain_announces_late_show Here's the video of John McCain announcing Wednesday night, on the "Late Show," that he will be running for president. This kind of takes the suspense out of the upcoming official announcement, but we like Paul's idea that McCain will make that one on Leno. For more on McCain's announcement about an announcement, see War Room's post here.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/mccain_announces_late_show/feed/ 8 One Beck over the line? http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/glenn_beck_dina_sansing/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/glenn_beck_dina_sansing/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:13:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/media/2007/03/01/glenn_beck_dina_sansing On Wednesday, we brought you Glenn Beck ranting about Keith Olbermann's quote in Rolling Stone that Beck's television career could be one comment away from ending. Well, on Wednesday night, Beck had this uncomfortable exchange with US Weekly's Dina Sansing during their conversation about some naughty pics of "American Idol" contestant Antonella Barba. Could Olbermann's words possibly prove prophetic so soon?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/glenn_beck_dina_sansing/feed/ 16 Laura on Larry http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/first_lady_one_bombing/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/first_lady_one_bombing/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:48:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/03/01/first_lady_one_bombing Tuesday's "Daily Show" ran a clip of one particularly notable moment from the first lady's recent gab with CNN's Mr. Larry King, and Jon Stewart gives it the commentary it so justly deserves. "That one pesky, daily explosion!" he rephrases Mrs. Bush's take on Iraq, "it's so discouraging to see that on TV." When put that way, it almost seems like the president's wife doesn't even have a remote grasp of what's going on over there.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/first_lady_one_bombing/feed/ 2 “Hello! Man — The Story of Fossils” http://www.salon.com/2007/02/28/wyllie_o_hagan/ http://www.salon.com/2007/02/28/wyllie_o_hagan/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:48:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/misc/2007/02/28/wyllie_o_hagan Here's a curious digital short from the London-based artists Wyllie O Hagan (Denise Wyllie and Clare O Hagan). Their pitch: "Discover a world of fossils never seen before."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/02/28/wyllie_o_hagan/feed/ 4 Sticks and stones, Beck and bones http://www.salon.com/2007/02/28/beck_on_olbermann/ http://www.salon.com/2007/02/28/beck_on_olbermann/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:40:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/media/2007/02/28/beck_on_olbermann On Tuesday night, CNN Headline News talking head Glenn Beck responded on his program to comments MSNBC's Keith Olbermann made about him in the current issue of Rolling Stone. Beck gets pretty animated in this clip -- especially when he does the mocking impression of Olbermann. Oy. Beck says his liberal staffers have blood shooting out of their eyes; but what of their ears?

To check out some of Beck's other fine work, click here. To read the Rolling Stone Olbermann profile, click here (the sidebar comments Beck's so angrily responding to are not included in the online version, alas).

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/02/28/beck_on_olbermann/feed/ 7 Monty Python stock market report http://www.salon.com/2007/02/28/monty_python_stock_market_report/ http://www.salon.com/2007/02/28/monty_python_stock_market_report/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:15:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/classic/2007/02/28/monty_python_stock_market_report Tuesday was a brutal day for global stock markets. Here's a timeless market wrap-up, courtesy of Monty Python.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/02/28/monty_python_stock_market_report/feed/ 2 “The New Dubya-Doo Movies” http://www.salon.com/2007/02/27/dubya_doo_2/ http://www.salon.com/2007/02/27/dubya_doo_2/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:48:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/comedy/2007/02/27/dubya_doo_2 In this edition of "Dubya-Doo," Dubya learns some things about himself and "this thing called an Iraq war." As always, there are lots of high-profile cameos and some Fox News Channel coverage to round out the D.C. antics. [Thanks to ebolaworld.com for the video.]

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