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In Mep land, the post-Superbowl week is heralded not for parades and fanfare and All-American splendor. It is, instead, the highly anticipated (if unofficial) start of the baseball season.
And while baseball reality is certainly exciting what with the three Mep favorites (M’s, Sox, and Yanks) all poised to be major contenders this year, baseball fantasy is also right around the corner.
On this bleak winter morning in a country seemingly coming apart at the seams, two heartening reminders (check out the poll results) that the internet will always trump mindless mass-media propaganda.
Image via Reddit user, hiddencross.
While American citizens are demonstrating their good will, as they do, on cue, whenever informed of a disaster of the magnitude of the Haitian earthquake, we largely remain oblivious of their own government’s direct role in the plight of one of the poorest nations on Earth.
Some eye-opening testimony from Ugandan citizens in response to a new state measure that would call for either life imprisonment or the death penalty for anyone convicted of practicing homosexuality.
Over the hill action stars Dolph Lundgren and Carl Weathers fight over 25-year old fictional table scraps on internet TV venue, The Jace Hall show.
Last week, an upstart, unknown, non-publicly traded corporation decided to forego all of that pulling-congressional-strings-behind-closed-doors business and take the reins themselves. And so, Murray Hill Incorporated has filed to run as a Rebublican candidate in Maryland’s eigth Congressional District.
I, for one, would like to welcome our new Corporate Overlords and offer them any help my flawed human faculties can offer.
Last night I went out to LA’s Wiltern theater to witness a once in a blue moon assortment of talent assembled by Jack Black and co. to raise money for Haiti earthquake survivors.
I recorded some fantastically washed-out grainy video in an attempt to share this experience with you. Not only do the following clips give you a sense of the performances, they also recreate the crowd’s futile attempts to see anything amidst a standing room only mob. In any case, enjoy the festivities:
A truly unexpected performance here from the WWF’s Iron Sheik.
Here’s the Shins’ James Mercer covering Neil Young’s Don’t Let it Bring You Down…
Genius comedian Patton Oswalt regaled the crowd with his angry musings before an Aimee Mann set.
He then brought the house down with his Yoshinoya Beef Bowl routine.
Here’s Ben Stiller vamping on stage with a mysterious figure referring to himself as ‘Fabreeze Fabreeze.’
A vindictive Stiller returned during Tenacious D’s closing act with a giant drum set…
All in all, a very compelling night of entertainment.
Today is the third anniversary of the events of 1-31. Given this country’s continuing reactions to awkward underwear incendiaries, and enthusiasm for perpetual war, I think it’s as relevant as ever.
Big Fat Whale has created a terrific portrayal of the absurdity of corporate personhood.
