I Hate Sports: Pep Rallies Suck!
If you went to High School in the United States, you were probably required to attend several Pep Assemblies to cheer on your Football or Basketball teams.
Chances are, however, that you never had a dance for the Wrestling team or a parade for the tennis team because all sports are not created equal. Our schools waste vast sums of money on Athletic programs while kids who want to pursue careers in the arts (where they have a MUCH better chance of landing a real job than the average kid does of getting an NBA contract) see their music, drama, and art budgets cut back year after year.
Michael Jackson iPhone
Like a lot of you out there, I find myself very conflicted over the death of Michael Jackson. I grew up with his music (we were the same age), and while I always loved what he created, I absolutely loathed the creature he evolved into over the years. The bottom line, I suppose, is the he's not a man who was ever meant to grown old -- and now he won't be have to. His music, however, will remain forever young.
G.O.P. Talking Points Alert!
Emergency notice for the G.O.P.
Warning: Do not watch if you are a G.O.P. lawmaker who wants to maintain credibility claiming that President Obama is nothing without a teleprompter.
Barack & Friends: Father's Day
This is the first episode in a new series we're doing here at Britethorn. As you will quickly discover, the "friends" reference in the title is a bit tongue in cheek.
Happy Father's Day
P.S. "I Hate Sports" will be back next week.
Britethorn and SNL
Posted June 20th, 2009 by John Kramer
Well, the big new around Britethorn land is that I've pulled ALL of my SNL Reviews off YouTube. For a long time now I've worried that NBC/Universal's lawyers would come knocking at my YouTube door and yank the plug on those reviews because I don't have their explicit permission to post short clips from Saturday Night Live on YouTube.
SpideyPhone
Well, I've been promising this one to people for a while and now she's finally done: The SpideyPhone. I was quite torn on which direction to go with this one. Would Peter Parker be using the phone to take photos? Would he be playing Spiderman-type games on it? Well, when it was all said and done it seemed to me that the most useful App for him would be the one that got him out of the most trouble.
Revolutionary iPhone
Of course everyone in Iran doesn't have an iPhone. I'm just using the apple commercial parody as a vehicle to tell the amazing story of how much new technology- especially in SMS, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube -- available on cell phones, has changes the course of the Iranian political system. Its still too early to tell how things will eventually play out, but there's no doubt now in anyone's minds that the current Iranian government will never again sleep peacefully knowing how easily their people can organize and rise up against them. VERY, very cool!
I Hate Sports: Lord Kramer's Cup
Well, here we are at the second week of the series, and I STILL hate Sports! Luckily, the world of sports has been good to me so far in providing me lots of subjects for ridicule -- like this weeks winner of the FIRST Lord Kramer's Cup: Kyle Busch. Watch the video and Gently Weep for a great guitar that got done wrong. . .
Canadian Healthcare Nightmare?
I asked Canadians if they'd trade their Healthcare System for the one we use in the USA, and here's what they had to say . . .
This is a follow-up to a video I posted a bit over a year ago which you can see here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diegd-6ilj0
