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Samantha Bee on Sarah Palin

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee explains how Sarah Palin will move women everywhere to vote Republican this year: “John McCain chose a woman who is almost completely unprepared for the job, and who disagrees with me on every core value I believe in, but I will be voting McCain in November because…” (embedded below)

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Tags: politics · television

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Because I haven’t been generating much content recently, and because I previously posted about the passage of Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’s initial online run, I thought I’d point out that it’s currently up and running on Hulu.

For those of you who don’t know, Dr. Horrible is the most recent project from Joss Whedon. It began out of frustration over the writer’s strike and over Hollywood’s failure to engage in exciting ways with emerging media and modes of distribution. (Ironically, perhaps, Hulu is a joint venture between NBC and Fox; hardly scrappy Robin Hood types).

Anyway: if you’re a Whedon fan, if you’re interested in the coming media wars, if you’ve heard about Hulu but never watched anything, or if you just want to hear Neil Patrick Harris sing, the videos are embedded below.

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Tags: film · geekiness · internet · music · technology · television

Brave New Films: When FOX Attacks Michelle Obama

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments