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A couple of years ago I tried to spread a rumor that Tron was coming back as Tron on Ice.  Though a couple of people nibbled at my idea, I couldn’t secure any investors and eventually the rumor was consigned to development hell.

So you can imagine my pleasant surprise when, while searching for a completely unrelated video on youtube, I happened across this video!

This guy sings the plots of famous movies to the tune of their orchestral overtures.  He’s got more, too!

Check out this one.

And this one.

And this one.

He’s got the characters in Jaws down pretty good.

My personal favorite is Halloween, mainly because of the bald mask.

I need to do one of these for Smokey and the Bandit…

That’s right, how else can you explain the presence of this little item in the MoMA fall catalog (the one that arrived in the mail, not just on the website).

This little gem looks familiar, where have I seen it before? Hmm, could it be something that I’ve had in my possession for almost a year? Could it be that I put the M in MoMA? (Process of elimination with the M, folks.) Could that wonderful little gadget be sitting on my toilet seat right now with a stunt camera perched atop its mounting ring?

Certainly looks like it. I know I probably didn’t out MoMA MoMA, but I’m still happy with the purchase. How else could I have snagged these great night time shots with a tiny digicam?

So, a few people contacted me about my most recent post, citing the recent examples of establishment-biased editing in Wikipedia.

Sure, Wikipedia is falable. It always was. It’s constantly changing, often pranked, slanderized, pimped out, trash talked, and everything else that you can think would happen to a typical community with no real police force except it’s own upstanding citizens.

And I’m certain that for the four examples I provided above, there are hundreds more, maybe even thousands that have not been found yet. But we are finding them; we do rule Wikipedia, don’t we? It’s a democracy in the purest form of the word. (From the Greek: Demos:People, and Kratos:Power). The people hold the power here, all of us. And of course there are going to be some bad apples that want to spoil the whole thing; every society has a criminal element, after all.

Thankfully, now that WikiScanner is on the case, Wikipedia just got itself a bonefied legal system. How does Wal-mart editing it’s own page to make it sound like the company actually pays a living wage hold up once the whole thing is out in the open? Propaganda doesn’t work very well when you know it’s propaganda.

So, to sumarize: I have faith in Wikipedia, but not blind faith. I reserve blind faith for Hulkamania…

So, I just realized that every post I’ve written since the 6th has been a rant of some sort. I don’t mean to be such a Negative Nancy (farbeit a Grumpy Gus), I guess this is just what’s been on my mind lately. So I want to get this blog out of the dumps, and I want to do it right. So I’m going to share with you something that I believe represents not only everything that is right with this country, but also (miraculously), everything that is wrong with this country. And it makes me so happy every time I see it.

Yes, you may argue that this is bread and circuses, entertainment for the masses, a distraction from the many, many issues that actually matter. And you’re absolutely right. As much as I love Twiggy and her 300,000 plus views, I also know that he is just a very recognizable example of an epidemic that has gripped this country. For those who don’t know what I mean, please read 1984 and then Brave New World. Which one seems closer to reality? (Present administration excluded.) For a great analysis on the whole subject (and a whole lot more), check out Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, over twenty years old and still a good read. Or dig a little deeper. Or get caught up with the present. So, yeah, you probably say, things like this, and American Idol, and US Weekly are turning us into mindless consumer zombies that couldn’t give a hoot what our government does cause, honestly, all that stuff is really boring anyway.

You may argue all that, heap your reasons upon me. But I argue this:

She’s a water-skiing squirrel! Come on people!! Twiggy is so friggin’ cute!! And on water skis!!

I watched this and almost fell off my chair laughing…  Seriously, I wish I had moves like this guy…

Happy days!  For weeks I’ve been typing doylebrau into google and getting no love, finally, finally I’m somebody!  And the top hit, too!  Cancel that scotch, I’ll be drinking champagne tonight!!

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