Band of Brothers Screenwriter Discusses the Show

Contains some spoilers, if you haven't seen the show. However, if you haven't seen the show, you really should.

Found this to be really interesting.

The Fake Chest Pains Lady and The Ewok Guy

 

I thought the last Norm Macdonald clip that went semi-viral would be my last ever. But I found that I couldn't find any reference to The Fake Chest Pains Lady or The Ewok Guy anywhere on youtube and then I found I had a clip with them in my archives (previously uploaded to youtube but blocked for copyright). So here it is.

How many people on youtube are searching for this? I'm hoping it's at least 1.

By the way, an update on experiences with The Algorithm. The Norm Macdonald clip got way more views way faster than any video I ever posted in the past. It got 300K views in something like a week. However, once it hit that point it hit some sort of brick wall and stopped getting many more views. I wish I knew what that mechanism was. It could be natural that everyone who was going to watch it already watched it but I have no way of knowing.

Best of the Worst - New York Ninja

 

The name of Vinegar Syndrome continues to ascend.

Game Grumps - Roblox Pizza

 

This Christmas Season, the hottest game is Roblox. It's the bleeding-edge, hot craze with next-gen graphics and massively multiplayer PvP office politics action.

Cringing Along with the Back to the Future Musical

 

There is a "Back to the Future" musical and the reviews are in: "That was painful to watch. There was a visceral feeling of like- I got anxiety, I got mad, embarrassment was peak... peak embarrassment for what was going on..."

The Wizard of Oz is All a Dream

 

I've always held the pedestrian view that whether Oz was all a dream or a real place was purposefully left ambiguous and up to each viewer to decide.

I've also always decided that Dorothy really went to Oz - just because that's the much more interesting movie in my opinion.

Everything that suggests it was a figment of her imagination can (very loosely) be explained. She wakes up in her bed because the magic of the ruby slippers sent her there. The Scarecrow, Tin Man, etc. all look strikingly like the people she knows in Kansas - well that's just coincidence. She is drawn up inside a tornado and, not only survives, sees other people in there. There's even two guys rowing a boat in the tornado... Well, it's a children's fairy tale kind of thing, I guess.

When you really think about it, it does start to sound crazy but children's movies often are.

But there is one aspect, in fact one shot, that indicates unequivocally that it is absolutely all a dream. Still within the cylinder of the tornado, there is a shot where Miss Gulch, riding on her bicycle, transforms into the Wicked Witch. 

This one shot, this brief moment, absolutely can not be explained away. In the real world, this can not happen and can not be reconciled. 

Well, let's see, maybe Miss Gulch was always the Witch and now we're just seeing her transform using her magic. But the Wicked Witch doesn't just show up in Oz the day that Dorothy does, she's pre-existed there for years. Well, maybe she's lived in both dimensions and lived parallel lives. But Miss Gulch knows Dorothy and the Wicked Witch has no idea who she is when the meet for the first time.

No, the image you see above is the kind of thing that only happens in a dream. It was all a dream.