ファミコン風

the colonial friend

by director Rachid Bouchareb, this short film, L'Ami y'a bon, is a companion to his 2006 film Indigènes. In bleak animation and sparse percussion, this short recounts the story of a Senegalese man who volunteers for the French Army in 1939 and then is captured during the French capitulation in June 1940. Sent to a concentration camp in Germany, he survives and is freed in 1944. Returning to Senegal, he and his fellow conscripts demand their wages for the previous five years. The French authority denies their request and massacres them all.

C(hee)SI

via vijay, this is a video comp of dozens of awful caruso one-liners from intros to csi miami. where's dennis franz's butt when you need it?

Kiss

A side-by-side comparison of kisses from "The O.C.," "Veronica Mars," and "Grey's Anatomy" inexplicably using French dubbed versions of the shows. The VM kiss gets my vote a thousand times over, but I am heavily VM biased and suggest that you watch the first season if you want to experience 935 minutes of sustained bliss.

The kiss is itself a spoiler, so I won't describe it and recommend that you abstain from watching this video until you watch the first season.

Mc Donald's Happy Meal Commercial (long cut)

I don't believe I've ever been so taken with a fast food commercial. This boy is awfully charming in spite of the cliche parent-characters and my aversion to race-targeting ad campaigns that this commercial may or may not be part of.

the love connection

per jezebel and many other sites, a disgraced, disbarred doctor turned dating advice sociopath left two messages on s.f. resident olga's cellphone after trying to pick her up off the street on a friday night in s.f.

here are the two messages:



the caller is "dimitri the lover," né james sears, disbarred for sexually assaulting patients.

transcript is here at jezebel: your-friends-were-very-jealous-even-if-they-say-they-werent-they-were-envious-i-approached-you