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There are a lot of real jerks out there, most of them men, who harass and worse their students, employees, or just those they happen to run into. The good news is that a lot of these people — Bill … Continue reading
Category Archives: Arts and entertainment
Here are a couple more very short films I liked, following up on the collection of 15-minute scary films featured Monday. Picture Perfect: 30 seconds of romance from Jay Haynes Link: https://youtu.be/zCryyt48AAA Early Bird: a minute of dark comedy from … Continue reading
The 15 Second Horror Film Challenge is an international ultra-short-film competition. For more information see http://15secondhorror.ca. There you can also find out about the 2018 competition, open now until October 15. Below are my personal favorites among the top 20 … Continue reading
How did I not know about this before? Just over ten years ago the Japanese company Crypton Future Media released computer software that can be used to generate a female singing voice, originally in Japanese and later in English and … Continue reading
A relatively new attraction in New York’s Times Square is Gulliver’s Gate, something like a huge model train set the size of a football field reproducing famous locations around the world in 1:87 scale. It includes the city’s own Grand … Continue reading
Some minds might be boggled by the notion of fun-loving Germans, but check out the video below. Passengers traveling the 30-kilometer (20-mile) rail segment between the eastern German towns of Jena and Naumburg saw strange things happening outside their widows. … Continue reading
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah acts out the thoughts read to him by Trevor Noah with no rehearsal. It turns out to be reasonably funny: Link: https://youtu.be/kp19uL6AvD8 by … Continue reading
I highly recommend “How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire,” an article by Beth Daniels posted September 7 at Smithsonian.com. It begins, “Mr. Chairman, I am against all foreign aid, especially to places like Hawaii and Alaska,” says Senator Fussmussen … Continue reading
Near Nashville Tennessee just off I-65 one can see what may be the single most bizarre and unintentionally hilarious statue in the world, supposedly depicting Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Reportedly made of injection-molded fiberglass possibly covered with foil (though … Continue reading
This performance of the Ode to Joy from the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is very similar to one in Catalonia in 2011 (see link below), and as with that one, this was sponsored by a local bank. The … Continue reading