Really crank your speakers up for this one!
Let’s just call this an Open Thread…
Laverne
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The Ojai Post
Thursday July 29, 2010
Really crank your speakers up for this one!
Let’s just call this an Open Thread…
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Words fail me.
Do you suppose she’s Laverne and Bill is Shirley, or vice versa?
I guess points are in order for an honest effort…
Schlimiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer, incorporated!
Best,
Leigh
Is this a spoof or for real?
Go Barack!
I think it’s for real, Suza — I went to youtube and found it, and the person who posted it is obviously a Clinton fan — I think it’s an earnest effort, which is endearing, but, oh, boy…Jesse Dylan or will.i.am she’s not!
All the best,
Leigh
Leigh,
Hahahaahahahahahahaha! That was great!
Thanks Leigh!
I just shake my head and smile… afterall, this is an adolescent culture…
Oh yeah,
Leigh, I thought you were being very witty but then I realized that “Incorporated” was the actual lyric in the theme song. Ooops! Still strikes me as funny though.
Hey SPK:
I wish I was that brilliant!
Best,
Leigh
Leigh-
you say: “I think it’s for real, Suza — I went to youtube and found it,”
If it was “for real”, it would be on a major network, not youtube.
I suggest you spend the rest of the week watching youtube videos and report back to us what else you find that is “for real”
“for real” refers to it being done by a Hillary supporter, and not a Hillary-supporting spoof. Are you seeing that the distinction is that it is done by the HRC campaign itself vs. an independent supporter? That’s not how I read the thread.
Thanks Tyler, for your response re spoof vs real.
I asked if it was for real, in jest, because it seemed like a spoof. Like a skit on Saturday Night Live!
El Anonimo, I beg to differ. There are many things on youtube that are real, and, alas, many things on major networks turn out not to be real, if by “real” you mean “true.”
El Anonima: From my relatively insignificant viewpoint, there are many cool things about youtube. The statistic which measures viewership is quite insightful by keeping track of how many times a video has been viewed. This particular vid (Laverne) has received 79,000 views in just one week. Seems pretty real to me. An interesting development that has been occuring is the fact that the under 25 demographic in our society has migrated away from network and cable television to internet tv such as youtube. For me this is heartening because youtube is decentralized, has more variety, no commercials, the making of the videos is generally motivated by genuine interest rather than money and anyone can produce their own televison shows for a minute fraction of the cost of the old centralized way. Even moth eaten Rupert can see which way the wind is blowing and – one reason why he bought Myspace (has tv too if you did not know).
Tyler-
I’m reading it as some creative with excess time on hands created an ambiguous pitch/spoof that gets people with too much excess time on their hands to discuss whether it is a pitch/spoof and then discuss the relative merits of youtoob and the media revolution that it is possibly engendering…
is that thinking outside the box or just double-speak?
We all know that those Obama people are really clever.
And the people of Ojai! Whoa! The people of Ojai can spin this into a discussion of media revolution.
Some place in a dark, dark space where the teenagemutantninjas have evolved into politcal activists, there is a group working their little ivy league heads off with the goal of producing as many kitchy tunes for Hillary as they can. Ah yes, what genius! Get that YouTube generation where they live. Flood the Net! Whose grandma can sing this one?Tune in-Tune out!
Now, who’s spoofin whom?