YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #45: ROCK’N’ROLL WESTERN

I’ve just started reading The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (and no, I haven’t seen the movie, so don’t ask), and it got me to thinking about those old Western movies we grew up with as kids. For example, remember the one by Sam Peckinpah that ended with a big street gunfight between Chaka Khan and the Bee Gees?

That was a good one.

BACKGROUND: That clip is from Big Train, which is the British comedy sketch show that Simon “Shaun Of The Dead” Pegg used to do before he got into film.

Also available: Mao Tse Tung rises from the dead to replace Bryan Ferry as the singer of Roxy Music, and performs “Virginia Plain” for no real reason. Genius.

On a plain,

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I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU

[Or, "Let me get this off my chest, Part 562,919"

ITEM [via Wil Wheaton]: Hillary Clinton’s refusal to give up the nomination is starting to transform her from feisty candidate into psycho ex-girlfriend. Imagine the following 3am phone call:

DEMS: ...Hello?
Hillary: Hey baby.
DEMS: C'mon Hillary. Enough with this.
Hillary: Don't you get it? You NEED me.
DEMS: No, I don't. It was fun while it lasted but I'm with Barack now. I made my choice, it's done.
Hillary: You can't really mean that. How can you say that after all the good times we had?
DEMS: To be honest, I started hanging out with you because Bill's pretty awesome.
Hillary: But I'm just like Bill!
DEMS: No, you're not. Bill is charismatic, inspiring, and gets me really good weed.
Hillary: Fuck you. You're elitist!
DEMS: I'm going back to sleep.
Hillary: No, no, wait. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. Listen...

And so on.

So maybe it’s just as well we’re starting to see signs that Hillary’s days are numbered. Post-NC/Indiana, the math is no longer in her favor, she’s running out of money, and some of the superdelegates she was banking on seem to be moving in Obama’s direction. John Zogby reckons she knows the game is up and will probably drop out before the final primaries next month.

For the record, I’ve always felt Hillary Clinton should run for as long as she wants. If she loses the DNC convention and still refuses to quit campaigning, then you’ve got problems. But in a race this close, I think she’s entitled if she really wants to push it (even if half her votes are probably coming from Republicans trying to give McCain someone he can beat).

On the other hand, assuming they were all legit Democrats, it is worth asking how many of the delegates she won two months ago would still vote for her if they held their primaries today. Lots of people back then were backing the horse they figured could beat Giuliani Huckabee Romney McCain. And if you go by Pollingreport.com, as of Tuesday Obama and Hillary have an equal chance of beating McCain.

Which is why I never really bought the “She’s fragmenting the party” line, either. The only people fragmenting the party are obsessed Democrats and liberals who can’t admit that their own precious candidate who backed their idiosyncratic pet issues isn’t winning. Go to the liberal blogs and most of them are still saying, “We wouldn’t even HAVE this problem if everyone had listened to us and backed Dennis Kucinich, goddammit!”

What I’m betting on is that even these people will realize by November that if it’s change they want on any scale, it’s not going to come from the GOP. You want a candidate who can beat him? Get out there and fucking vote for the Democrat! It really is that easy. Forget whether his or her health care plan is perfect, or if they ever took money from a corporate lobbyist (hint: they ALL have) or whatever. You want a perfect candidate? There’s no such thing. Get over yrself and fucking support the Democrat, or live with four more years of business as usual.

Seriously. This isn’t rocket science. And with so much at stake, I can’t believe Hillary’s people would choose now of all times to go all Cartman on us – “Screw you guys, I’m going home!” – just because their fave Demo didn’t get chosen.

If they do, then the Demos deserve to lose.

I know it’s over,

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ELECTRIC VOLCANO

ITEM [via io9]: Take rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in plume of an erupting volcano – like the one in Chile, say – mix ‘em up, and you get something that looks like this:



Yes. An erupting volcano with f***ing LIGHTNING.

Also known as the cover of the next Metallica album.

Damn that’s impressive. Respect.

I give the Internet 48 hours before some conservative Christian conspiracy theorist finds Satan’s face in the smoke. Though come to think of it, I can sort of see the Scream mask in there on the right. So maybe Kevin Williamson is the Devil.

High voltage,

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