Uncle Fester providing piano accompaniment for a prepster would-be-beat poet… you have to love it.

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There is something profoundly disturbing about this video featuring a gorilla and the classic– now completely cheesy– Phil Collins song that was actually cool back when Miami Vice was cool… back when I went to prom with a white suit and pastel pink tie over a t-shirt.

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There’s something interesting and disturbing about this video of prisoners in the Phillipines performing a full-length version of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller ” music video. Apparently the dance routines are part upgrade to their exercise periods, conceived of and lead by an inmate.

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Jack Black and Mos Def directed by Michael Gondry? Be Kind, Rewind looks hi-larious…

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You can count on me to bring you the hard news…

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Just stumbled across a great half-hour reading by Mary Ruefle on Google Video courtesy of the Lunch Poems series at UC Berkeley.

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What can I say, I like it. Do something, even something tiny.

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Robert Pinsky moderates a linguistic duel, the Meta-Free-Phor-All between Stephen Colbert and Sean Penn.

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 The Why Do You Think You are Nuts viral video continues its meme-march…

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I’m a big fan of Demetri Martin’s standup… this series of viral videos he is featured in are interesting. It’s a Windows Vista promotion, but it’s often impossible to know that…

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Turns out a water buffalo is far from the worst Christmas present ever.

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You have to love YouTube. Some of these “cover songs” made me laugh until I cried (and my ears bled).
First, there’s the commercially stupid, like this Kids inc. cover of Is This Love or a young Fergie singing Lionel Richie to a terrifying, broom spinning clown.
Then you’ve got the terrible, beginner (we hope) bands. [...]

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Lost Memory is a haunting video– almost a tone poem– pairing lost archival home movie footage with the perfect musical soundtrack.

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Presenting Ernest and Bertram. As seen at Sundance and banned by the good folks at the Creative Television workshop. Love the soundtrack…

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