Brass Eye is a hilarious & much missed British parody of "issue" news programs such as 60 Minutes in the U.S. It ran for one year, in 1997 (minus the 2001 special), and only six episodes were produced. Thanks to the miracle of the internets, all six (
Animals,
Drugs,
Science,
Sex,
Crime &
Moral Decline) are available in their entirety via Google Video. If you're unfamiliar with the series, trust me, it's not to be missed.
Previous mentions on
Metafilter. Discovered Via the
good mr hodgman's blog.
posted by jonson
on Apr 29, 2007 -
48 comments
Re Your Brains is the music video to a great song (a memo between two businessmen, detailing the fact that one of them is now a zombie and intends to eat the other one's brains) by
the much mefi'd Jonathan Coulton; apparently inspired by his "
Flickr: the Video", fans are making DIY videos for several of his songs over at the
JoCoPro (Jonathan Coulton Project). Two of my favorite non-zombie related ones are
The Presidents, a mnemonic for memorizing every U.S. President in order & at least one fact about each, and
Code Monkey, detailing the warm secret heart of a Frito loving coder.
posted by jonson
on Sep 11, 2006 -
17 comments
Look Around You is an insanely funny BBC parody of 1970's educational programs filled with pure nonsensical lies clothed as facts & pitch perfect mimicry of the style of governmental approved childrens education television. Each of the entire first season's worth of 8 10-minute episodes
can be viewed here and is highly recommended.
posted by jonson
on Aug 30, 2006 -
66 comments
Short of finding your spouse from
Jailbabes, the "mail order bride" has to be the worst notion in the proud tradition of horrible spousal selection. But for too long now, the lonely women of the world have been shut out from this marketplace of love. Not anymore, thanks to
MailOrderHusbands. Order
now, going fast!
posted by jonson
on Jun 4, 2003 -
8 comments
Bar Signs. Modern Drunkard has posted a handy guide for the alcoholic in us all, a set of gestures to communicate your needs when it's too loud to hear, or just because, as the site says, "when words come out, whiskey can't get in."
posted by jonson
on Dec 16, 2002 -
21 comments
