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*If Women had Hubby Vision. It's a Southern Thing channel. You-Tube.
 
*If Women had Hubby Vision. It's a Southern Thing channel. You-Tube.
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*[https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a809f9a-9ab6-4c43-a925-3283d6e455c3_600x307.jpeg  Civil engineering with water and vibration]
  
 
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==Higher Things==
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guE154B6P8Q The Cave Simile] of Plato, narrated by Orson Welles with mediocre cartoon pictures. 
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==Comedy==
 
==Comedy==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzNeGw8Fmo Cobras and Panthers,] Saturday Night Live spoof on West Side Story.  
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*The Babylon Bee
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**[https://babylonbee.com/video/chinese-military-to-just-shout-wrong-pronouns-at-american-soldiers "chinese-military-to-just-shout-wrong-pronouns-at-american-soldiers,"] (2023).
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*Saturday Night Live
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ THeodoric of York, Medieval Barber,"] (1978)  with Jane Curtin, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, and Steve Martin.
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**[https://youtu.be/cVsQLlk-T0s More Cowbells]
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzNeGw8Fmo Cobras and Panthers,] Saturday Night Live spoof on West Side Story.
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x2SvqhfevE "I Am the Very Model of a Biblical Philologist"]
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*[https://twitter.com/i/status/1524524321472872448 Ultra-MAGA] parade (2022) and [https://twitter.com/i/status/1524799965326876673 warrior dance]
  
 
*[https://youtu.be/TcnSXEvzULk Sinatra and Rickles at the Academy Awards, giving Best Screenplay to Mel Brooks] for The Producers.  
 
*[https://youtu.be/TcnSXEvzULk Sinatra and Rickles at the Academy Awards, giving Best Screenplay to Mel Brooks] for The Producers.  
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1CZhGvHGIU Giuliani on Bad to the Bone] on the Masked Singer, with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQEUFZbIb2g the Reveal]
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*Weird Al Yankovich:
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg Amish Paradise] (1996) (best)
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**[https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=1st+world+problem+al+yankovich&docid=608033259070836364&mid=10F32853360A3C2347E510F32853360A3C2347E5&view=detail&FORM=VIRE "First World Problems"]  (2014) (second best)
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw White and Nerdy] (2006) (third best)
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notKtAgfwDA "Just Like a Surgeon"] (1985) (third best)
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ "I Lost on Jeopardy"] Good.
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** Foil
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**Handy
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos "All about the Pentiums"], ok+
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu6HJDYWf68 "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch"] merely ok.
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcVFtu-ZmmM "I Love Rocky Road,"] pretty good.
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**Eat It (1984)
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**I'm Fat (1988) (very good)
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc Word Crimes] (very good)
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*Abbot and Costello
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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg "Who's on First?"]
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHKm0cm-jI "You say tomato..."]
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==Math==
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxGsU8oIWjY&vl=en "How the Infinite Hotel Ran Out of Room"] About 5 minutes
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6OaYPVueW4 "New Math,"] Tom Lehrer. About 5 minutes
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlfXirQF3A "Lobachevsky,"] Tom Lehrer (1953). About 5 minutes
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BqnN72OlqA "Donald Duck in Mathemagicland,] Disney. 27 minutes.
  
 
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==Other==
 
==Other==
 
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/NationalConservatism/videos Natcon II Orlando], (2021).  
 
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/NationalConservatism/videos Natcon II Orlando], (2021).  
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*[https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1509856053357432833/pu/img/zcOjw23OLgqDKw9I?format=jpg&name=medium Ukrainian curling], with antitank mines.
  
 
*Best new podcast: “Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.” Although this is ostensibly about a Seattle-based church, it’ll be equally fascinating to the religious and non-religious alike. It’s a gripping dive into group psychology and celebrity culture.  
 
*Best new podcast: “Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.” Although this is ostensibly about a Seattle-based church, it’ll be equally fascinating to the religious and non-religious alike. It’s a gripping dive into group psychology and celebrity culture.  
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==Movies==
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==Movies==
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*The world at War 1973 documentary Lawrence Olivier
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*BIll Murray Scrooged Not worth rewatching.  
 
*BIll Murray Scrooged Not worth rewatching.  
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* "Meet me in St. Louis." The 1944 Judy Garland film is a romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters, and it's rarely met a disapproving critic with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.  
 
* "Meet me in St. Louis." The 1944 Judy Garland film is a romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters, and it's rarely met a disapproving critic with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.  
  
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* The Munsters.  
 
* The Munsters.  
  
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*The Duellists (1978) follows two rival French officers through the Napoleonic Wars. A minor insult sets off a decades-long series of duels between the men, neither willing to abandoned his honor.
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*Excalibur (1981) condenses several Arthurian legends into a single spectacular epic. One of the most hypnotic and visionary films of all time.
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*The Lady Eve (1941) an extremely funny romantic comedy about a beautiful card shark trying to seduce a bumbling millionaire.
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*Russian Ark (2002) follows a ghost and his long-dead aristocrat companion through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, bouncing through several hundred years of shared history and culture. Innovative and beautiful; shot in a single take
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*Брат (Brother) follows a recently-discharged Russian conscript as he moves to the big city in Yeltsin-era Russia to follow his hitman brother.Брат 2 (2000) picks up immediately where the first film left off, with the conscript and his brother embarking on a twisted adventure to the South Side of Chicago.
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*Maverick (1994) is a cocky western comedy starring Mel Gibson as a fast-talking and cowardly gambler trying to scrape together enough money to enter a once-in-a-lifetime poker tournament.
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*Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) is about a good-hearted dockworker unable to fight in WW2 due to hayfever, but too ashamed to go home. He is befriended by a squad of recently-returned Marines, whose scheme to return him to his family without losing face quickly snowballs.
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Unknown Soldier (2017) tells the largely-ignored story of the Continuation War, a massive conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1941-1944. Probably the most realistic depiction of WW2 era infantry combat ever filmed.
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*In the Line of Fire (1993) is a thriller in which Clint Eastwood faces off against John Malkovich.
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Eastwood plays the sole remaining agent from JFK's secret-service detail. He's tasked with stopping an ex-CIA agent from killing the President.
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*The Counselor (2013) was Cormac McCarthy's first ever work for the screen.
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It was universally panned by critics. I liked it so much I bought the screenplay.
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One must judge the movie on its own terms, rather than expecting "No Country for Old Men 2." It is profound.
 
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Revision as of 14:50, 29 May 2023

Nature

  • Aaron Hilliard, Musrhoom Wonderland
  • If Women had Hubby Vision. It's a Southern Thing channel. You-Tube.

Higher Things

  • The Cave Simile of Plato, narrated by Orson Welles with mediocre cartoon pictures.

Comedy

Math


Other

  • Best new podcast: “Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.” Although this is ostensibly about a Seattle-based church, it’ll be equally fascinating to the religious and non-religious alike. It’s a gripping dive into group psychology and celebrity culture.
  • Fall of Civilizations. Podcast. A whole series.

==Movies==
  • The world at War 1973 documentary Lawrence Olivier
  • BIll Murray Scrooged Not worth rewatching.
  • "Meet me in St. Louis." The 1944 Judy Garland film is a romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters, and it's rarely met a disapproving critic with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
  • "A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas"
  • Chrstimas with the Kranks.
  • T34 See that. With Ben
  • 1941 Bill murray JohN Belushi comedy.
  • The Munsters.
  • The Duellists (1978) follows two rival French officers through the Napoleonic Wars. A minor insult sets off a decades-long series of duels between the men, neither willing to abandoned his honor.
  • Excalibur (1981) condenses several Arthurian legends into a single spectacular epic. One of the most hypnotic and visionary films of all time.
  • The Lady Eve (1941) an extremely funny romantic comedy about a beautiful card shark trying to seduce a bumbling millionaire.
  • Russian Ark (2002) follows a ghost and his long-dead aristocrat companion through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, bouncing through several hundred years of shared history and culture. Innovative and beautiful; shot in a single take
  • Брат (Brother) follows a recently-discharged Russian conscript as he moves to the big city in Yeltsin-era Russia to follow his hitman brother.Брат 2 (2000) picks up immediately where the first film left off, with the conscript and his brother embarking on a twisted adventure to the South Side of Chicago.
  • Maverick (1994) is a cocky western comedy starring Mel Gibson as a fast-talking and cowardly gambler trying to scrape together enough money to enter a once-in-a-lifetime poker tournament.
  • Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) is about a good-hearted dockworker unable to fight in WW2 due to hayfever, but too ashamed to go home. He is befriended by a squad of recently-returned Marines, whose scheme to return him to his family without losing face quickly snowballs.

Unknown Soldier (2017) tells the largely-ignored story of the Continuation War, a massive conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1941-1944. Probably the most realistic depiction of WW2 era infantry combat ever filmed.

  • In the Line of Fire (1993) is a thriller in which Clint Eastwood faces off against John Malkovich.

Eastwood plays the sole remaining agent from JFK's secret-service detail. He's tasked with stopping an ex-CIA agent from killing the President.

  • The Counselor (2013) was Cormac McCarthy's first ever work for the screen.

It was universally panned by critics. I liked it so much I bought the screenplay. One must judge the movie on its own terms, rather than expecting "No Country for Old Men 2." It is profound.