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Archive for October, 2009
The Favre Years
2009/10/31The Snake
2009/10/30Catch in Reverse (deleted scene)
2009/10/29http://www.matt4n.com/barstoolblues
There was a point when I wanted the video to move along very deliberately, like an episode of the British Office. But it morphed into more of a fast-paced music video, for better or worse. As that began to happen, there was a red blinking arrow, brighter and brighter, pointing at this scene. It almost made the cut because of how it complements the scene that follows (where we were talking about the NFL commercials’ camera tricks “but it’s clearly fake”), but in the end, it just slowed things down too much, and I felt like you wanted to get to the boat as quickly as possible.
Observation No. 18
2009/10/29
Monkey News
2009/10/28Monkey News is a feature that has been running since the early Ricky Gervais XFM days where at first it was titled “Chimpanzee That”. Monkey News is all about “[a story] where a monkey has been involved”. Normally the monkey is a mysterious protagonist until he is revealed, despite the fact that it is obvious that it is a monkey (or, most commonly, a chimp) throughout the story. The stories usually originate from a tale that Karl has made up or extrapolated out of all recognition from a news headline. Despite the fact that the stories are frequently highly unlikely (or even completely impossible), Pilkington appears to genuinely believe what he is saying. WIKIPEDIA
Chimpanzee Funeral
The photo below shows a group of Chimpanzees at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Centre in eastern Cameroon lined up solemnly near a fence after one of their fellow chimps died an is taken away.
Chimpanzees are normally very noisy creatures, but after the passing of one of their fellow chimps, an elderly female named Dorothy, the entire group rushed over to the fence and watched in silence as her body was buried. They sat there by the fence with their hands on each others shoulders as if mourning and consoling each other.
The photo was taken by Monica Szczupider, a worker at the rescue center. She said Dorothy the chimp was well into her thirties when she died of heart failure after being ill.
Szczupider said:
“This is a funeral shot. We were burying Dorothy. We brought her in the wheelbarrow to let the others see.
“It was unbelievably emotional. We were all struck. Even the employees, all of whom grew up as villagers potentially eating apes, before they were a delicacy, were emotional.”
“I think every last one of us was silenced by their silence.”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2701461/Chimps-mourn-pals-passing.html
Joseph Conrad
2009/10/27
