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Mirror's Edge is a "first-person runner" from EA that appears to be inspired by parkour. Taking the role of the traceur are agents of a dystopian police state. They chase Faith across a mirrored skyline as she delivers messages and attempts to free her imprisoned sister.
Kathy and I were on the road to ROFLCon for only 8 hours on Wednesday in when our dog Sparkle's permanent urinary catheter failed. The balloon holding it in place apparently had been losing air in recent weeks and perhaps the sitting position in the car or the air pressure changes were the last straws. At 4:00 am, in Utah, it simply fell out. Sparkle was overjoyed, and I was completely devastated.
We knew what we had to do. Kathy literally turned around and we drove another 8 hours back to our animal surgeon in Los Angeles. Sparkle is doing well now, recovering after a new catheter was implanted into her side.
It goes without saying that the road trip to ROFLCon is off. We will stay here to take care of our dog. Oddly enough, I believe that the experience was worth it just to see how far you can push yourself when you have to.
Andy has identified and named a film genre meme in which an editor creates a repititive montage of a television show or movie: supercuts. This editing pattern is perhaps most famously expressed in a Casino remix that contains exactly what would be cut out from the movie in order to run it on prime time television.
I also stumbled on a gem of a supercut a while back: Like, The Real Orange County. Watching it again and again, I realize that I am still, like, not over it.
Looking at the impressive list of celebrities who will be attending ROFLCon, I decided to add a celebrities section to Memecat. As I submit videos of these people to Memecat, I find that they are often referred to by the character they play or by a situation in the footage that made them famous. I have chosen to separate the internet phenomenon from the person behind it by identifying an individual by their given name (when it makes sense to do so).
This hilarious scene from South Park features the Numa Numa kid, Star Wars Kid, Leave Brittany Alone, Chocolate Rain, and Dramadog.
LOL Together, a lolcat filk of the Beatles' classic.
I found this one after watching Boing Boing TV's recent spot on filk music.
Daniel Hernandez reports that young people - including punks and rockabillies - are ganging up on and attacking emos in streets and public squares across Mexico.
The spark came first in Queretaro on March 7. An estimated 800 young people poured into the city's Centro Historico hunting for emos to beat the crap out of. They found some. The next weekend it spread to Mexico City, where emos faced off against punks and rockabillies at the Glorieta de Insurgents, the epicenter of emo social space in the capital. There's also been reports of anti-emo violence in Durango, Colima, and elsewhere.Source: Intersections
Depending on where they take hold, subcultures that are offensive to the mores of the established culture are going to run into serious opposition. In this horrible outbreak of violence, I think that the emo subculture has been striking a nerve in the young inheritors of traditional Spanish machismo. Their reaction is to attack people that they see as a threat to their mores. The violent mob literally wants to destroy the proliferators of emo subculture.
And of course the emos and others that are concerned about the attacks are fighting back. It takes a long time for enough people to learn to be tolerant that it becomes woven into the fabric of life.
This video is from a Mexican television station and contains footage of the violence.
Spotter: The Daily Storm.
