With my hometown team in the Sweet Sixteen, I thought I'd dig through the archives of a long-defunct, long-offline version of Sample Reality and repost the only thing I've ever written about the NCAA. It begins with this Nike advertisement from 2000, a fantastic little commercial produced by Wieden & Kennedy (Portland, Oregon), which illustrates… Continue reading Remembrances of March Madnesses Past
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Dennis Kucinich and Tucker Carlson
Dennis Kucinich is always dismissed as being "out there," a modern day Jerry Brown, but in this interview with Tucker Carlson about the impeachment of Dick Cheney, Kucinich is undeniably rational and level-headed. In the face of Carlson's manic thuggish questioning, Kucinich is unflappable. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bELc-kjLR_E]
Before Borat…
Long before Borat from Kazakhstan, there was Zladko Vladcik from Molvania... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_PIjc2ga4]
Speaking up for Jerry Falwell
Last week I posted a video clip of Jerry Falwell in 1998 delivering a sermon about the potential apocalypse of Y2K. In the clip, Falwell tosses off a weird aside about how he used to teach billy goats to "do what they're best at." It was a funny clip, especially out of context. In a… Continue reading Speaking up for Jerry Falwell
Jerry Falwell on Y2K and Goats
In September 1998, Jerry Falwell delivered a series of sermons about the impending social collapse soon to be delivered to a wicked nation by the "Millennium Bug" -- that is, the disaster that never disastered, Y2K. In the sermons, Falwell likens the Tower of Babel to Y2K, and prophesizes that "God may use Y2K to… Continue reading Jerry Falwell on Y2K and Goats
KUBARK on 24
Jane Mayer, an uncompromising journalist who's become a thorn in the side of the Bush administration (for her reporting on current U.S. torture tactics and the method of "extraordinary rendition"), has written a New Yorker profile of Joel Surnow, one of the creators of the hit television show 24. Her profile focuses on Surnow's support… Continue reading KUBARK on 24