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I Got RickRolled Trying to Watch a Video of Whitney Houston Smoking Crack!
Mar 27th
I know I’m late to the table on this one, but I’m getting a huge kick out of it. I got RickRolled last night.
What is RickRolling, some of you might ask? RickRolling is an example of what makes the internet truly great. It where viral marketing meets the prank phone call, and it’s been building up steam over the past year. In short, it’s an online prank that’s resurrected the uber-80’s pop hit “Never Gonna Give You Up,” by Rick Astley.
I’d totally forgotten about it.
I’m almost embarrassed to say how I got RickRolled. I was internetting around and landed on perezhilton.com, where I came across a headline that promised to show video footage of Whitney Houston smoking crack. Well. I remembered how Whitney once stated rather too emphatically in an interview with Diane Sawyer that crack was “too cheap,” and that she “makes too much money to ever smoke crack.” Not that I cared too much about a rich Diva’s drug of choice, but I thought at the time, “Whitney, thou doth protest too much.”
So I thought I’d just take a little peek at the offered video link. Hey, it was late, and I had had a glass of wine. A little junk food for the brain can be fun, right? So I hit the link. No Whitney scoop. Just a blast from my 80’s past.
Now I can’t get that song out of my head.
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Mar 22nd
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It’s Friday Night! I’m feeding my basketball jones by gorging on the NCAA men’s tournament games, but there are enough ads on that I have plenty of time to get this post together and share some of my favorite reading over the past couple of days.
Grab a glass of your favorite wine and start linking — these are all great reading!
My Dad sent me this one. Very interesting (and biting) commentary by Greg Palast, linking (no pun intended)this week’s bailout of predator banks with the recent outing of Eliot Spitzer as consumer of high-end (or, at least, high-priced, prostitutes). Thanks for the link, you crazy old liberal!
I ran across this one on Wonkette last night. Turns out, Jeremiah Wright, recently reviled former Obama pastor, was a guest in the Clinton White House. Yes, that’s Bill Clinton, husband of Hillary. Stay tuned for Hillary’s Speech on Race. . .
And today the cunning Obama has mind-melded members of the Fox News Team. Talk about the candidate of hope and change! Who would have thought that Obama would be able to sow the seeds of rebellion within Fox News, that bastion of knee-jerk conservatism. Check out The Huffington Post and (the always hilarious) Wonkette for their take on Fox anchors Chris Wallace and Brian Kilmeade speaking out against their own network’s/colleagues’ vendetta against Obama.
Also today, featured on Anderson Cooper’s 360 blog: CNN contributor Roland Martin is actually taking the time to listen to Jeremiah Wright’s speeches, and is helpfully providing some context for and commentary on the speeches that contain the clips that have been played repeatedly in an attempt to portray Wright and, by extension, Obama, as un-American and untrustworthy. Today, he discussed the Reverend Wright’s 9/11 sermon and the “God Damn America” sermon.
And on Politico: here’s a reality check for everyone who still thinks (hopes) the Democratic nomination is still in play. Despite all evidence and expert opinion to the contrary, the Clinton campaign continues to behave as if their girl can WIN the nomination. Not quite — it will take an act of superdelegate subversion of the citizens’ will in order for her to be the Democratic nominee.
Happy Friday!