2008-12-08

A Bit of Humor

I found this online in the small hours of yesterday morning while not doing my French homework. I thought it was pretty funny, but I should probably include the disclaimer that, this near the end of the semester, anything that is not my classwork or study abroad applications is pretty funny. Nonetheless, I am trusting that people in a saner state of mind than myself may also get a laugh out of this:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/7/14stallard.html

Because it's Panto Season...

There are loads of silent films on Youtube (a joy, if you like watching effete men in eyeshadow staring wildly and waving their arms around, which I do, for some reason), and, though Abel Gance's 'Napoleon' isn't up there - yet - D.W. Griffith's 1921 'Orphans of the Storm' is! And it's hilarious! I haven't seen it since I was about 10 so just had a dim memory of how silly it was, but I've just watched parts 9-14 (from the bit where Danton - the fairy godmother of the piece - storms the Bastille (oh, yes, it's that sort of film) to the end, where Danton rides his white charger to...oh, but I won't spoil it for you! Robespierre, btw, is the chap who looks like a cross between the Child-Catcher, the Cabaret MC and Kenneth Williams as Dandy Desmond, and his existence apparently has a negative effect on horticulture. He's also a Bolshevik, according to the inter-titles, and watch out for the wonderful Charleston-dancing Flapper Sansculotte chicks with headbands and off the shoulder dresses!
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=7TE68skx4As