Way Up North
I mentioned them before, but From Up North is a great aggregator of design found on the internet; while their recent post about serious ads are worth a look, they are not as good as these funny videos. Here is a sample one:
Categories for Videos
Pardon Moi
Via the wonderful Berkeley Place:
Shameless in Chicago
Shameless is a BBC dramedy about a down-and-out family trying to survive with a hopelessly disappointing albatross of a father. I didn’t like it that much, but there are a few people that read this blog really liked it. There is funny moments, but they were sometimes hard to laugh at when they are amidst such depressing things and undecipherable British-slang. Well it was/is popular enough that it is now getting the Office treatment and getting remade on Showtime for an American audience (it looks like even a sometimes shot for shot remake judging from the trailer). It is now being set in Chicago and starring William H. Macy; nice to see is he getting a role that isn’t the dopey soft-spoken pushover. Showtime’s marketing is pretty good in tricking me into watching their shows, so I will probably end up watching a few of the shows. Sorry to get all Maureen Ryan there, but check out the trailers below and see what you think:
British:
American:
Gonna Go Back In Time
Per a conversation with Kelly on Friday night, there are many plot holes in Back to the Future that trump the argument about whether it would still be called Clara’s Gorge if still she didn’t die in it, or whatever that argument was. Cracked seems to be obsessed with this also, because here is a timeline of other plotholes followed by a video about strangeness in the movies:
Why ‘Back to the Future’ Is Secretly Horrifying — powered by Cracked.com
And on the topic of Cracked.com, did anyone know about the loophole where some guy beat the system on Press Your Luck? Here is the video of him doing it from the article.
Too Much Awesome On My Feet
Speaking of getting excited for the upcoming fall schedule, Eastbound and Down comes back September 26. What better way to get pumped about it than with this real life Kenny Powers. (Via Jason Thomas, that doucher.)