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In the relentless race to fill the 24-hour news channels, there’s nothing worse than a slow news day. This hilarious video is even worse than a slow news day, it’s a no news day. This better be the video of the day, since obviously nothing else at all is happening.

Yep, nothing going on. Sorry. Maybe go outside for a bit?
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I can’t tell you how many times I would be willing to watch this video of Mr. Redlegs, the Cincinnati Reds mascot, being decapitated in a tragic/wacky accident, because I’ve watched it at least twenty times already and it’s still funny. I mean, it’s no bug sex, but then again you can watch it without feeling like a pervert.

 
Mascot Loses His Head
Thanks, BWE!
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WTF! is in this case literally appropriate, because "Green Porno" is about insect - and worm, and spider, and snail - sex. It’s the most mind-bendingly strange work I’ve seen lately. You’ll have to see it for yourself  to believe it. Isabella Rossellini wrote, stars in, and often directs this series of shorts first shown at the Sundance Festival and now available for streaming on the Sundance Channel site. It’s also available on mobile phones via Helio. In fact, "Green Porno" was conceived both out of thoughts about ecology and a desire to experiment with art for mobile. Seriously, this is strange, charming stuff, with the still quite beautiful actress ("Blue Velvet") applying her abundant charm to topics like worm anuses and fly humping. She acts them all out by herself, in full-body costumes so simple yet so vivid as to be almost abstract, like the sets. "Green Porno" made […]

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You’ll have to be 18 and log into YouTube to see this, and it’s barely (joke!) worth the effort, because you’d need to enhance it like the Zapruder film to see anything but cheek. But it’s, um, fleshy enough that I’m not going to imbed it. There’s something surreal about seeing hundreds of naked college students run past the camera enjoying an annual ritual at Tufts University. Given the Grinchy tidings emanating from all the writers strike talk, I thought you’d enjoy it. Not that I think you’re pervs or anything.
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In our erratic and totally random quest to occasionally bring you interesting bits of non-mainstream video entertainment, a mission made somewhat more urgent by the writers strike, let me offer you the amusing comic short "The Feminist Bookstore." It comes from ThunderAnt, the team of Fred Armisen ("Saturday Night Live") and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney). Unrepresentative sample line: "You’re making your anus special by not wanting it talked about."
Bonus: I found out about it on the NY Times books blog, which is actually way cooler and more fun than you might expect.
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Comedians Waco and Roger have produced the following Larry Craig parody video. It contains rude language and offensive jokes about homosexuals, Matt Lauer, congressmen, and sexual congress, but it is kind of funny, especially if you think awkward and inappropriate sexual advances on journalists are hilarious.

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MySpaceTV now has its own show. It’s not any good. Its about eight college friends who graduate and move to LA, four of them living in the same house. Says one, "it’s gonna be wild, and sexy, and crazy, and dramatic." You mean, it’s like "The Real World," only on a webcam? Wow. Just what I’ve always wanted!
Roommates Ep1: Life After College

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Wordless animation from French art students isn’t the usual fare here, but this short from a group calling themselves Twit-Twit is incredibly clever. You get a family-friendly old-west story, plus robots, plus a subtle criticism of the corruption of power. And the production is fantastic, too: Every shot is well composed and the level of detail is a lot greater than what you see in other animated shorts online.

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Via BWE, here’s a great video of some dude getting the crap tasered out of him for videotaping a police search:

I love these sorts of videos for two reasons. On the one hand, they have a sort of “Jackass” or “Cops” appeal: people are doing stupid crap and get hurt. It’s funny to watch other people get hurt, because it isn’t me. But also, I can feel good about watching it, because this man isn’t just a dumbass getting hurt for my entertainment. He’s a victim of police intimidation and abuse of power. And by watching it, I am a witness, standing up for the right of people to videotape cops doing their jobs. I have to admit, though, if that was me, I’d have set the camera down next to me and left it running.
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Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday, but she seems to regard all the attention as something of a hassle. She’s significantly less excited than the “Price Is Right” contestant we showed yesterday, and all she got was an invitation to play Plinko. But I guess you don’t become a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature by getting excited about prizes- you do it by hiding in a cave and writing a dozen or so great novels.

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