[Hands Free : Mark Goffeney] (Viewer #40)
By the way, the view total is so low because it’s a YouTube version of a Vimeo video. I hate Vimeo. The player always drags on my computer no matter how long I let it buffer.
Archive of entries posted on 31st October 2015
Fixer Upper
Breakthrough! A new implant “can reverse Alzheimer’s damage”.
Cool. Can it be adapted to help politicians remember campaign promises?
Link of the Day: I’m Finding Myself Using “Pessimal” a Lot
[High Praise! to Mental Floss]
11 Words and Phrases You Didn’t Know Had Opposites
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
The Art of Editing in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
“A shot-by-shot investigation of the three-way standoff at the climax of Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, revealing mathematical patterns, images of thought, and pure musical rhythm.”
I’ve seen this movie (and that scene in particular) several times. I missed a LOT of subtext and subtlety in the way that scene was put together. I knew it was pretty powerful, but I didn’t know why. Now I do.
Forthright and Forthcoming!
On the Today Show, Hillary Clinton declared she’d been “as transparent as possible” about her emails.
Really? Because I’ve had root canals that seemed less like pulling teeth.
It was 40 years ago today…
Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody was released 40 years ago today. I was a DJ at a small radio station in a small town in southeast Georgia. When the record came in, I listened to it. Queen wasn’t new. They had been around a few years, and had played some of their stuff. But, when I listened to Bohemian Rhapsody I thought “What the heck?…” Or something along that line. But, it wasn’t my call about adding it to the rotation. When it started making its way up the national charts, it was added to our rotation.
The general reaction was “What the heck?…” Or something along that line. Still, it kinda grew on everyone. After all, this was the mid 1970s.
If you like the song, you’ll like this old video, because it’s a funny tribute. If you hate the song, you’ll like this video, because, well… muppets.
Okay, if you’d rather watch the original version, click here.
