Archives for "April, 2009"
My three favourite Fail videos
One of my favourite sites of the last few years, some of the stuff at failblog.org makes me wet my pants. Here’s my three all-time fave videos, clearly the thing I find funniest in life is inexplicably girlish responses by men when surprised: 1. Frightened Fail 2. Courage Fail 3. Masculinity Fail
I love the ‘Live a Little’ Instant Kiwi ads
I just love the Instant Kiwi ad series with Doug and his ‘shoulder angel’, a perfectly-realised Mexican sidekick (of whose actual ethnicity has me stumped, Philippino?) representing Doug’s repressed crazy, spontaneous side. Here’s my favourite of the three ads so far, the first one, the ‘get a perm’ ad. It’s gorgeous, very Napolean Dynamite, and [...]
The DVD is an embarrassment to our species
I cannot overstate how furious I am at dvd technology. I don’t think I have ever rented a dvd that didn’t freeze up at precisely the climax of the film. Never during setup, only ever during pay off. The most recent and most memorable freeze was during Elephant, a Gus Van Sant-directed film covering a [...]
The main difference between men and women
I probably shouldn’t base a whole article around the same tired themes that launched Tim Allen’s career and saw it thrive and survive in the conservative American heartland for about 15 years past its used-by date. Maybe I can add a fresh new angle. I doubt it. Of course you know the male spatial rules [...]