Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

So these dudes at the party were talking about their neighbor Andy Samberg and laughing about The Lonely Island. It turns out when you’re young, videotape your fresh comedy ideas and launch them on the Internet, then The Lonely Island is a pretty cool place to be, and it just might lead to being writers for Saturday Night Live!

They made a spoof series about young sexy people living at The ‘Bu (Malibu) for Channel 101. That’s a topic worth another few blog articles. Later.

I heard this cool dude at a party last night marveling about Andy Samberg making it to SaturdayNightLive and how he is his next door neighbor. Sounds like fun. He mentioned how Andy and Chris Parnell SNL’s The Chronic of Narnia Rap has been tearing it up on the Internet, so I had to check it out for myself. Yeah, I remember seeing that. Funny stuff. Lazy Sunday in New York strolling aroundlooking tough and buying cupcakes. New York’s Village Voice reviews Lazy Sunday and wonders if it’s better than real rap.

Just finished upgrading this blog to WordPress’ new 2.0 release. After a few tense moments, the good old Thoughtful Preparations blog came back to life, upgraded and all.

Kind of fitting and good timing since this is roughly the one year anniversary of my launching this blog. I had no idea I would get into it as much as I have, and the WordPress software community has much to do with the pleasure gained in blogging.

I look forward to seeing the new features, plug-ins and performance enhancements in WordPress 2.0 aka Duke. Thanks!

Beautifully composed photographs by Arno Rafael Minkkinen. See a recent gallery retrospective of his large collection of thought provoking images.

My recent blog entry Wacky Holiday Fun Movies attracted a lot of eyeballs, so we return with more pop internet video craziness. Everybody loves a good joke. Add audio and video special effects, shot quick and dirty, and you’ve got a crude laugh riot.

Google recently announced at the 2006 CES show in Las Vegas their intentions to sell video produced by major content producers such as CBS. Meanwhile, a look at Google Video reveals something like America’s Funniest Home Videos on a global gross out scale. Google clearly understands how to attract eyeballs, with their clean presentation and access to thousands of dirty little homemade videos and animations uploaded by the salt of the earth.

Poop Today? Clever stop motion video of floating young men singing a gay song.
Fire Fart, a man lights a candle by lighting ass gas on fire. A human torch!
Matrix Ping Pong, Creative example of what ping pong looks like in Matrix time-space.
Hung Up Remix, Maybe not the music video Madonna had in mind. Performers from a distant era can’t keep the dancing spirits down.
Farting Preacher, Strange attention getting methods of a televangelist. Sounds fake.
Girls Judo Wrestling Match, Rachel’s first jiu-jitsu tournament.
Dumbest Dog, a dog who seems to want to bite himself with a laugh track.
Poppin’ Balloons, a peak inside of what appears to be a college dorm room balloon popping party.

Google set out to organize all the information in the world, and now we can see that there is such a thing as too much information.