A hidden treasure on Google Video makes available a 35 minute short shot by Stanley Kubrick’s daughter, Vivian, during the filming of The Shining. The piece gives us a sense of the process of one of the most legendary filmmakers of all time.

Link via /film

For those of you who missed it last night, here’s the outburst during Obama’s healthcare address that is getting all the attention in today’s press…

Freddie, how could you…

I don’t know what inspired this life introspective as seen through the eyes of a classic arcade game protagonist, but it seems to be the sort of thing that we post here, so I’ll just stop blabbing and comply.

I’m a big fan of video meme subcultures who are self-aware enough to get it when their tired spoof isn’t amusing or original anymore. And so, here is the Angry Hitler Meme death-knell piece…

What a trooper that Jonathan Charles is. After 20 years of torture, he manages to compose himself enough to reveal his darkest experiences without breaking his Cliched Anchor’s News Tone. Now that’s professionalism.

Apparently, Goldman Sachs (or the Great Vampire Squid) has decided to come out of its subterranean sea lair and loose a torrent of economic ruin upon us all. At least it was thoughtful enough to disclose this plan in its newest ad campaign…

“Your future hasn’t happened yet, but when it does, rest assured that Goldman Sachs will be there to suck any possible warmth, wealth, or happiness out of it.

Here’s the other potential contemporary comedy heir to the throne, Patton Oswalt. While neither Oswalt nor Maron are transcendent figures right now, both carry with them the comedic lineage that goes directly back to Richard Pryor.

Link via Philosophy Monkey.

Discovered a treat on Vimeo last night. It’s a full 70-minute stand up routine of Carlin and Hicks disciple, Marc Maron.

This routine, filmed a couple weeks ago at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade theater, will give you a good sense of Maron’s plodding, dark, self-loathing, intellectual style. He seems equally depressed as the Patron Saint Bill Hicks would be having to face a media world as over commercialized and sold out as ours is.

As the nation’s health care debate/debacle (debatecle?) crescendos into to a high-pitched whine, one champion’s advances threaten to trump all the efforts of the medical community, pharmaceutical industry, and lobbying covens. And this champion, this potential savior, is an unlabeled, off-brand, non-invasive, patent-free, discount store sugar pill.

According to Wired magazine, placebo effects have dramatically increased over the past few years, making it monumentally tough to get new drugs approved by the FDA.

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Mike Judge recently resurrected his dynamic duo of Beavis and Butthead after a dozen years out of the limelight. They seem a bit rusty, though commercial endorsements were never really their thing.