John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

How to not look like a tourist

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Creature Discomforts: watch me

Aardman, the people behind Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, and many other examples of fantastic stop-motion animation, have adapted the Creature Comforts format to a series of ads to raise awareness about disabilities. The site is here; an example is below, and another is here.

Every Sperm is Sacred

And now, a little Monty Python to get you through the rest of the week. Oliver! never got quite the ribbing ... nor the Vatican, for that matter ..

Twisting by the pool

Oh, oh ... domino. Click this video to see a pretty impressive combination of pool and domino-planning, and en francais, at that.

The value of taking a pause (teleprompter edition)

Teleprompters (we use AutoCue at our station) make it easier for announcers to read the news while maintaining eye contact ... but a lack of punctuation, or directions for just taking the briefest of pauses, can make quite a difference in meaning, as the clip attests:

George Carlin: Euphemisms, and language that takes the life out of life

George Carlin, who died Sunday, made me laugh, and frequently. When I was a teenager, I played FM & AM repeatedly, to the point that I could imitate some of his sketches (Radio WINO, you'll always have a fan in me). Carlin also had a way of making you think. This famous sketch on euphemisms and our never-ending preference to pick words that "take the life out of life" is as good a commentary I've ever heard on word choice, and the implications that come from using vague, bland, passive-voiced, abstract non-words.

Nice catch

Doesn't every non-pro-baseball-type dream of something like this?

Now I know my A-B-Cookie Monsters

Warning: This is cute and sentimental. And pretty funny.

No, puddy, a turtle ain't no ball of yarn

Cats and turtles evidently don't mix:

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When mass transit feels like a factory

Even though I'm fairly (OK, very) tall, I can tuck myself into a small space on a crowded bus or train, when I have to. But this was an eye opener: