Because Ocelopotamus has been on a little bit of an Arrested Development kick lately … and because we know you need something to chase those Monday blues away — we bring you the Chicken Dance compilation. Chickens don’t clap. Believe it. And just to really bless the beginning of your week, we follow that […]
Entries Tagged as 'Video'
“Has Anyone in This Family Ever Even Seen a Chicken?”
April 16th, 2007 · Comments Off on “Has Anyone in This Family Ever Even Seen a Chicken?” · Comedy, Culture, TV, Video
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Music: “We Can Get Together”
April 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Culture, Journal, Music, New Wave, Peoria, Video
Here’s Icehouse’s ecstatically edgy crossover single “We Can Get Together” from 1980, which never fails to give me that particular New Wave frisson that results from just the right ratio of synthesizers to spiky guitars complemented by a sublime angst-in-my-pants vocal style. And oh yeah, they were still called Flowers when they made this video, […]
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The Beatles Are Irish, and Ted Haggard Is Completely Heterosexual
April 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on The Beatles Are Irish, and Ted Haggard Is Completely Heterosexual · Blogroll, Comedy, LGBT, Music, Performance, Politics, Video
I owe Joe. My. God. for turning me on to musical comedian (comedical musician?) Roy Zimmerman, whom I hadn’t heard of before — but he’s smart as paint and reminds me a little of Barry Crimmins. Anyway, here, for a warm-up, is “What if the Beatles Were Irish?” And here’s the one Mr. My. […]
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And If You Let Me Stay … We’ll Dance Our Lives Away!
April 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogroll, Blogs, Comedy, Culture, Music, TV, Video
Aaron posted the truly fabulous video of Debbie Harry performing “Call Me” on the Muppet Show … because nothing says “male escort work” like brightly colored hand puppets! But I have to say, my all-time favorite Muppet Show musical number is still Leo Sayer dancing with a giant green bird. Bonus: Leo many, many […]
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Ladies, Your Viewing Figures Just Went Up
April 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Comedy, Culture, Doctor Who, LGBT, Science Fiction, TV, Video
Just because I love you, here’s a three-part chat show interview with John Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack (the swashbuckling bisexual time traveler from the 51st century) on both Doctor Who and its spinoff series, Torchwood. He talks about his recent knot-tying ceremony with his partner Scott, switches back and forth between his American and […]
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Music: “Good Morning, Britain”
April 5th, 2007 · Comments Off on Music: “Good Morning, Britain” · Culture, Music, New Wave, Video
As a follow-up to my Roddy Frame post from a week or two back, here’s Roddy teaming up with Mick Jones from The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite to do something energetic, political, and way danceable: the ever-fabulous “Good Morning Britain,” from Aztec Camera’s album Stray, released as a single in 1990. And this is […]
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Music: Tim Curry, “I Do the Rock”
April 2nd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Culture, Film, Music, New Wave, Video
Time for a little Monday music pick-me-up! This one needs no introduction: it’s the inimitable Mr. Tim Curry doing that thing he does. Nobody prances better.
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Raising Issues with Tissues: Greenpeace Infiltrates Kleenex Ad Campaign!
April 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Raising Issues with Tissues: Greenpeace Infiltrates Kleenex Ad Campaign! · Activism, Advertising, Business, Climate Change, Media, Nature, Politics, Video
One more post in honor of April Fool’s day — here’s Greenpeace pulling a pretty good activist prank. Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, are responsible for clear-cutting irreplaceable old-growth forests in order to make their tissues. Meanwhile, there’s this Kleenex ad campaign where people are asked to sit on a blue sofa, artistically placed on […]
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News Roundup: “An Exceptionally Heavy
Spaghetti Crop”
March 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Activism, Apple, Business, Climate Change, Comedy, Culture, Factory Farming, Feminism, Film, Food, Health, HIV/AIDS, iTunes, LGBT, Media, Music, News, Politics, Science, Tech, TV, Video
Here’s a little smorgasbord of items I wanted to blog this past week, and didn’t get the chance to. Because unlike spaghetti, time to blog doesn’t grow on trees! John Nichols of The Nation asks whether we’re nearing an “Impeachment Moment,” noting that the I-word is finally being discussed — if not exactly embraced — […]
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The Roosters of the Peace
March 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Culture, Nature, Peace, Video
And now for something completely different: Two chickens break up a fight between two rabbits. And we’ve got the video. You go, peace roosters! What would El-ahrairah do?
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