Friday Follies: Don’t Call it Ping Pong
Friday, November 28, 2008Bruce Lee plays table tennis with nunchuks. Some fine digitizing done in the name of commerce. Looking forward to the Errol Flynn sword sequel.
Bruce Lee plays table tennis with nunchuks. Some fine digitizing done in the name of commerce. Looking forward to the Errol Flynn sword sequel.
Posted @ 8:07 am | Category: Friday Follies | Author: Carter Wood | Tags: Bruce Lee|
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Comedian as government pitchman, 1933, earlier than most appearances he’s still remembered for.
Never really thought he was that funny.
(Extra bonus points: Spot the pre-Stooge Mo Howard. )
UPDATE: Turned off the autoplay on the video. Sorry. Very much dislike websites that force video on you.
Posted @ 8:04 am | Category: Friday Follies, General | Author: Carter Wood | Tags: Jimmy Durante, National Recovery Administration|
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A late entry today, very late. Consider it our “Midnight Follies,” rushed through at the last minute as favor to big business John Peel’s fans.
It’s the 30th anniversary of the great, great punk-era song, Teenage Kicks by the Undertones.
Which isn’t really that funny or follies-related. But the version by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is.
Ah, you think, how middle aged self-indulgent. And the Buzzcocks had more staying power.
But there’s an intellectual property rights angle, of great interest to manufacturers. Feargal Sharkey, the singer who defined the Undertones sound, is now a music executive in the U.K. And he’s in the news.
Former Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey will launch a new organisation later today (October 27th) aimed safeguarding the future of the music industry.The UK Music body will call on the government to address the problem of illegal file sharing, as well as extend the copyright term afforded to artists, which is currently limited to fifty years.
The organisation represents a wide range of music bodies, including, BPI, the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, and the Music Managers Forum.
“The thing we all realised is that we all agree with each other 95% of the time. It’s looking at where the industry is going to be three, four or five years from now,” Sharkey told the Guardian newspaper.
Wanna hold ya, wanna hold ya, wanna hold ya tight, get teenage-kicks and property rights! All right!
P.S. Wow. Everybody covers Teenage Kicks. A copyright violation?
Posted @ 4:59 pm | Category: Briefly Legal, Friday Follies, Technology, intellectual property | Author: Carter Wood | Tags: Add new tag, Feargal Sharkey, file sharing, Teenage Kicks, UK Music, Undertones, Undretones|
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Stay alert for elevated squirrel activity!
Extreme Weather Alert: Meteorologists Predict Intensely Brisk Autumn
Posted @ 7:38 am | Category: Friday Follies | Author: Carter Wood |
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Yankees Building New Vacation Stadium In The Hamptons
Some of the best satire on the web, coming from The Onion. If only the kids didn’t work blue so much.
Posted @ 8:00 am | Category: Friday Follies | Author: Carter Wood | Tags: Friday Follies, New York Yankees, The Onion|
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We missed this existensial dilemma earlier in the NFL Season. Camus goes deep…
Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life
Posted @ 10:04 pm | Category: Friday Follies | Author: Carter Wood | Tags: The Onion|
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“Honestly, shows like ‘Medium,’ they tend to foster a lot of misconceptions. The day-to-day work of being a conduit between law enforcement agencies and the supernatural world is a lot less glamorous than what most people think. It’s mostly a lot of paperwork.”
Posted @ 7:32 am | Category: Friday Follies | Author: Carter Wood | Tags: The Onion|
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Tropical storm Hanna is due in the D.C. area tomorrow, bringing wind, rain and exaggerated news reports. A few pre-storm observations:
UPDATE (11:30 a.m.): The latest report from the Virginia Pilot. 65 mph winds? That’s just a weekend blow on the Oregon coast.
Posted @ 9:25 am | Category: Friday Follies | Author: Carter Wood | Tags: Tropic Storm Hanna|
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Not a ha-ha Friday Follies, but still amusing to at least one Garry Moore fan…
“I’ve Got a Secret,” now that was a show, back when celebrities were familiar with fine arts, popular arts and even the avant garde.
John Cale — Mr. X on the right — went on to play viola with the ’60s demimondic Velvet Underground (ridiculous Andy Warhol “Factory” staging here) and then ventured into more traditional piano and orchestral performances. More on the 1963 TV performance here.
For more manufacturing-related “I’ve Got a Secret” clips, here’s Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the TV, and computer/keyboard inventor Ray Kurzweil. Henry Morgan gets Kurzweil’s secret right away.
Posted @ 7:22 am | Category: Friday Follies | Author: Carter Wood | Tags: Erik Satie, Henry Morgan, I've Got a Secret, John Cale, Ray Kurzweil|
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