Today is apparently Force Friday, a crafty marketing event to release of a bunch of Star Wars toys. The best is the BB-8, a robot you control with your phone. Check it out here. If you want links to all the other store specific toys and contests, go to the Star Wars page here.
Speaking of Star Wars, have you seen the video of the “The Death Star’s Architect Speaks Out About His ‘Shoddy’ Design”? It is pretty funny. Watch it here.
So Jeb Bush is on the first week of Colbert’s Late Show, and was raffling off tickets to the show without letting the show know. Colbert responded with this video.
I didn’t realize there was a method, history, and such specifics about what cockney is. Watch a video about it here.
It seems perfect to end on this one. WBEZ has a podcast about some Chicago-centric eats that aren’t just deep dish and hot dogs. I very much want to try the Gym Shoe Sandwich. Listen or read about it here.
“The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that showcases footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters across the country.” And it can get weird.
Watch this one from the front page:
Watch this one of a very sleezy Arnold Schwarzenegger:
In my on-going effort to put off studying and life plans I found these documentaries that are worth a watch.
1. Watchers of the Sky tells the story of Raphael Lemkin who was a Polish-born Jew who fled the Holocaust for the US, created the term “genocide,” and made his life work drafting and ratifying the Genocide Convention. It is based off of one of my favorite books A Problem From Hellby US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power which is also absolutely worth reading. The best part is Ben Firenze (one of the US prosecutors at Nuremberg) who is now an adorable elderly gentlemen charming the pants off everyone at the UN in support of genocide prevention and international accountability.
2. Sin Nombre and Which Way Home are both basically the story of the kids in my class. The former being a movie and the latter a HBO documentary.
3. Netflix has a three-part docudrama series about the Nuremberg trials called Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial if you haven’t already had your fill of Nazi programming via the History Channel.