Call me lazy since I've just been posting videos of late, but this recent Betty White craze on the internet, SNL and TV shows is just great. I love this lady's sense of humor and timing. A true star talent!
Here she is in a spot from Hot In Cleveland starring Valerie Bertinelli (from One Day At A Time fame), Wendie Malick ( from Just Shoot Me fame) and Jane Leeves (from Frasier fame). Looks OK as long as they keep those lame laugh tracks off and stick to a live audience.
This kid is amazing, and at just 10 years old, seems so well-adjusted and bright. He gets it. His name is Will Phillips of Arkansas and he is speaking up for gay rights! Kudos to his open-minded parents. I now have a different view of Arkansas for sure.
Here he is again being asked a simple question at the 21st Annual GLAAD Awards:
I have heard of H&M, but never knew it was the craze of fashion for the populace! These women in France went crazy, literally, when a new store opened. How can this even be called shopping? Insane, ridiculous behavior!
In looking at their site I came across some interesting facts:
H&M was established in Västerås, Sweden in 1947 by Erling Persson. We now sell clothes and cosmetics in around 2,000 stores around the world.
H&M offers fashion and quality at the best price.
H&M’s first store was opened in Sweden in 1947.
H&M offers fashion for women, men, teenagers and children.
The collections are created centrally by around 100 in-house designers together with buyers and pattern makers.
H&M also sells own-brand cosmetics, accessories and footwear.
The stores are refreshed daily with new fashion items.
In Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria H&M offers fashion by Internet and catalogue sales.
H&M does not own any factories, but instead buys its goods from around 700 independent suppliers, primarily in Asia and Europe.
H&M has about 20 production offices around the world, mainly in Asia and Europe.
A family brawl ensues at the store owner's shop who did not want to alter her dress. The whole clan gets in on it: pushing, punching, shoving, slapping and even spitting. Good grief! CRAZY people out there...
To deliberately attempt to manipulate viewer's opinions through laugh tracks is as pathetic as she is.
Check out a part 1 of 2 videos from NBC.com:
Writer and activist Micheal Stinson, who apparently hates Sarah Palin more than we do, flew to El Lay with his wife to be in the audience during the newly re-Leno'd Tonight Show, which featured the Alaskan trainwreck as a guest on its second night.
Now Stinson has come forward with some SHOCKING allegations against NBC and the talk show, claiming they manipulated Sexy Sarah's interview by dubbing laugh tracks over to make her appear funny and well-received, when apparently she got nothing but awkward silence her ENTIRE segment.
You can read the full article here, but it's a little lengthy, so here are some highlights:
But when Jay brought out Sarah Palin, she was completely nerved. Watch the video, check out her breathing, she's freaked and talks a mile a minute. Both my wife and I agreed - when you actually get close enough, she's just plain creepy, and those yech vibes filled the room.
And while NBC Sold Palin, she sold her body, jiggling, teasing, pushing the cutesy-pie, what we used to call in the military, a "prick tease." She short circuits brains, deflects the fact that most of what she says is nonsense or hateful, as lizard layers of right wing men's brains hum a sexual fantasy tune, and women who have thrown all sense of propriety to the wind, watching her strip, want to be just like her. Rich. Stupid. The sweet "Bite Me" bitch attitude she's honed to an art form. No, she doesn't just "wink" - she uses her whole body to sell the package. Turn off the sound, just watch her body language. I find it whorish, repulsive, and I'm no prude.
They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions. Well, there was some laughter. Mine, of derision. During those pregnant pauses in her performance I was laughing long and loud, couldn't help myself as much of what she was saying was utterly surreal, ridiculous, hypocritical - nonsense, spewed platitudes, pushed buttons. I was seriously thinking of leaving as it was getting hysterically unfunny.
After sitting through the taping of the show in the studio I can recount many portions where there was little or no laughter or response, but at the later broadcast they are smoothed over with applause and laughter that WERE NOT THERE at the taping. Groans, hoots, grumbling, or just dead silence - all missing.
They should bear some responsibility for hawking a defective product. This is corporate shilling in the worst way, not only to raise Leno's ratings, but to push Palin on a crowd with fake laughter and applause. The applause sign is one thing, an American institution. But INSERTING Laughter for Sarah Palin? Try to realize that while you may be laughing at the things she says, because she's a train wreck, the corporate powers that be are ADJUSTING the laughter so it appears APPROPRIATE. I worked in a mental institution. The very basic definition of insanity is "inappropriate laughter" WHO decides what's "appropriate?" Apparently, corporations. Not you. The Tonight Show is a lie, more than ever a corporate shill that's performing a cultural engineering service. Selling garbage, that is literally ruinous to our nation and women's rights.
Great satire from Funny or Die, with a message we should all act on. Funny or Die have teamed up with Americans for Financial Reform to urge Congress to act on financial reform and get that shit passed ASAP!
I love all the old Presidents coming back to haunt the Obamas while in the bedroom one night. They brought in starring Will Ferrell, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Dana Carvey, In Living Color alum Jim Carrey and Maya Rudolph, directed by Ron Howard.
How many people do you think are in the sky at any given moment? In the video link below you will see air traffic around the world for 24 hours, taken from a satellite. You won't believe this! The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period. Click on the image to view the video or the link at the bottom of the post.
Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on it's axis. Also you will see the aircraft flow of traffic leaving the North American continent and traveling at night to arrive in the UK in the morning.
Then you will see the flow changing, leaving the UK in the morning and flying to the American continent in daylight. It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, condensed down to about 2 minutes. From space we look like a bee hive of activity.
You could tell it was summer time in the north by the sun's foot print over the planet. You could see that it didn't quite set in the extreme north and it didn't quite rise in the extreme south.
I have never seen this before. We are taught about the earth's tilt and how it causes summer and winter and have had to imagine just what is going on. With this 24 hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface we get to see the daylight pattern move as well.
Remember watch the day to night..... Day is over in Australia when it starts.
