Do You Speak English?

I don't speak English either.

I love that video, though I can't help feeling that Eric Idle should be involved in some way.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand - In India(?)

I suppose turnabout is fair play. The Beatles did spend some time in India.

BANANAPHONE

Thank god there's an internet. If not for this formidable series of tubes, the only people ever to see this video would probably have been the five other members of this kid's high school AV club. And maybe that Latvian guy from the chess team.

Kidding aside, this is hilarious in a way that I can't quite explain. Maybe it's the puppets. Maybe it's the guns on sticks that protrude from the heads of some of the puppets every few frames. Maybe it's the fact that Puppet-Snape kind of looks like Bert from Sesame Street. Whatever. Watch. Laugh. Devote some bandwidth to something besides . . . whatever you usually devote bandwidth to.*

* I devote bandwidth to brazenly ending sentences with prepositions, then creating footnotes to commemorate the accomplishment. Pedantic nerdity is the reason italics exist.**

** In this blog.

YouTubery - "A Fat Rant"

The "obesity epidemic" is all over the news these days. Tall, slender female anchors deliver the latest statistics on the American waistline with a look of carefully-crafted, news-anchorly concern. It's people's health about which Big Media really cares, right? That's why there are all these ads for weight-loss products and beauty aids--and pizza and hamburgers and ice cream and candy and . . .

Fear. Consume. Repeat.

Enter Joy Nash. This clever, sassy smart woman tells it like it is in her YouTube video, A Fat Rant. Her video is well-written, the delivery heartfelt and the pacing quick. She never shys away from the word "fat." You won't find any euphemisms in this video. This is a shout-out to everyday people struggling not so much with their weight as with the way they feel about their weight.