Brent Runyon (contributor to This American Life) does a folk cover of Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noise”.

Needs some S1W.

Here’s the music video from 1985 that was sponsored by Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug campaign. Some notable participants: New Edition, Toni Basil, David Hasselhoff, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tootie from the Facts of Life, Boogaloo Shrimp (aka Turbo) from Breakin’, and for a delicious bit of retro-irony… Whitney Houston.

A 1992 NRA gun safety video. It’s got all the good stuff: multi-cultural kids, rapping anthropomorphic eagle (for all the freedom lovers), and Jason Priestley.

Secret Wars Re-Enactment Society. Brilliant.

Thanksgiving has the turducken, Easter has this.

I was on a long flight earlier this week and I had a laptop from work that I thought would entertain me for a while. Not the case. The battery life was abysmal, flickering out after 1.25 hours on a full charge. So I started looking on Amazon just to see prices for portable DVD players. There’s clearly some competition in that space, but a couple of features that some models sport to differentiate themselves seem entirely irrational:

1. The Remote
   
   You can’t even see a 7-inch screen at more than arm’s length.
2. The Swivel
   
   I’m not even going to comment on this.

I know this is old, but I saw it again, and it made me laugh.

YouTube had it for a while, but the NBC lawyers put the kibosh down on it. Eventually, they posted it themselves (as in the link above). SNL has been flagging for a while now. Much of the current shit is unwatchable. That’s why the preferred method of finding humor in SNL is to wait for the good skits to show up on viral video sites. No more wading.

Impressive yoyo skills.