Dirty brilliance from John K

OK, kids. Here's a horny, humping Monster from the Id from the mind of my personal God of cartooning, John Kricfalusi. Brilliant--but be warned--exceedingly filthy.

Tenacious D - Classico from Copernicus Studios on Vimeo.

YouTube vid not the best res. For some bloody reason, the direct link to the site doesn't work. Here's the damn site if you want to get there on your own:

http://www.tenaciousd.com/classico/

Make Love, Not Warcraft

Am beating my brains against the wall writing an SF novel based on the premise of a world devoted to gaming and role-play. The bastards at South Park managed to make most of my satiric points in a 30 minute cartoon show.

!@#$$!@#$

Idiocracy

Caught "Idiocracy" in LA with Eric, Mike Judge's satire of a world of idiots. Evidently, this pissed off the executives at Fox and they've released it to only a few cities with next to zero publicity. I imagine they don't like the insult to their target audience. Their target audience being idiots, they shouldn't have worried. But, at any rate, I saw it at a movie theater as movies are meant to be seen.

Great movie. Yeah, a dead rip-off of the premise of C.M. Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons." But a great movie nonetheless. I won't bother with a plot summary. The above vid clip says it all.

Peace, ya morons.

A Scanner Darkly

Yeah.

Kansai Airport

No room for an airport? Build an artificial island.

Quote of the Week

"In American free speech theory, the press is often described as fulfilling “the watchdog function,” deriving from the notion that the public representatives must be watched over to assure they do the public’s business faithfully. In the context of the Internet, the concern, most clearly articulated by Neil Netanel, has been that in the modern complex societies in which we live, commercial mass media are critical for preserving the watchdog function of the media. Big, sophisticated, well-funded government and corporate market actors have enormous resources at their disposal to act as they please and to avoid scrutiny and democratic control.

Only similarly big, powerful, independently funded media organizations, whose basic market roles are to observe and criticize other large organizations, can match these established elite organizational actors. Individuals and collections of volunteers talking to each other may be nice, but they cannot seriously replace well-funded, economically and politically powerful media."

--from Yochai Benkler's "Wealth of Networks"


In other words, if the Internet succeeds in killing the old media paradigm of big centralized news-gathering/dissemination orgs, the bloggers and yappers creating "user generated media" for free ain't gonna save Democracy's ass.

Dominator vid