{"id":6394,"date":"2014-09-26T06:55:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6394"},"modified":"2014-09-26T06:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:55:44","slug":"friendzone-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6394","title":{"rendered":"Friendzone Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic, infuriating piece by David Roberts at Grist &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/on-climate-how-far-gone-is-the-far-right-spoiler-far\/\">is it possible to convince the American right wing that climate change is real?<\/a> (Go on, take a wild guess.)<\/p>\n<p>Vox: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/9\/23\/6831777\/new-zealand-electoral-system-constitution-mixed-member-unicameral\">Three reasons why NZ has the best electoral system in the world<\/a>. I could niggle with the details, but I&#8217;m genuinely pretty happy with the system we have here.<\/p>\n<p>Opening credits for an imaginary Buffy animated series. So good! And packed with in-jokes.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bnbxP6HHMY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s a treat: the entire film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzonscreen.com\/title\/hopeless-2000\">&#8220;Hopeless&#8221;<\/a> is available to watch free on the NZ On Screen site! It&#8217;s kind of an NZ slacker comedy, but with so much heart to it, and a lovely shaggy-dog rhythm. I last watched it just a few years ago, and it held up very well I thought. Bookmark this one for a quiet moment, highly recommended!<\/p>\n<p>David R pointed out to me that the &#8220;Star Wars minus the music&#8221; thing I linkied last week was just one of an amazing set of vids by the Auralnauts. Here&#8217;s an 18-minute reimagining of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones, using redubbed dialogue and clever editing to tell a rather different tale. It is <em>marvellous<\/em>!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gI8aSJBC9u0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/firefly-fan-film-surprisingly-great-209445\">15-minute Firefly fan film that is apparently pretty good<\/a>. (I haven&#8217;t watched it.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianlv.com\/2014\/09\/emma-watson-speech-to-un-men-need-equality-too\/\">That speech Emma Watson gave at the UN on feminism and how men need it too<\/a> &#8211; it really is very good. (I have watched this one.)<\/p>\n<p>And &#8211; because the website for it was actually tricky to find, google didn&#8217;t even give it to me the other day &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heforshe.org\/\">here is the actual campaign site for <em>He For She<\/em><\/a>, which is the UN thing she&#8217;s promoting. I&#8217;ve signed up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.distractify.com\/culture\/wildlife-photos-of-the-year\/?v=1&#038;img=f10b47\">Wildlife photos of the year<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/luciens-library.tumblr.com\/\">Tumblr of beautiful, close-reading analysis of Gaiman&#8217;s Sandman<\/a>. (I can&#8217;t handle these kind of animated images, but the content seemed good while I stayed.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/9\/23\/6833085\/steven-soderbergh-explains-why-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-is-one-of-the\">Soderbergh has a re-edited Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/a> to force focus on the visual storytelling, shot composition, and other elements of what he calls &#8220;staging&#8221; (John Fouhy tipped me off on this first).<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of my week at the moment is watching (a big chunk of) weekly comedy-news show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ\">Last Week Tonight<\/a>. Fronted by the divine John Oliver, this show has transcended the format pioneered by the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, producing lengthy explainers using archive-trawling and some investigation to really educate you about something that is genuinely worth getting grumpy about. It is a very special show. It airs Sunday night in the USA, then the big story gets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ\">uploaded to YouTube the next day<\/a> so everyone can watch it. (It gets regionlocked out of the Uk for another 24 hours I think so their local affiliate can broadcast? Anyway.) And the big story is BIG. It is usually fifteen solid minutes of exploration into one story. If you haven&#8217;t jumped on the LWN train yet, start right here with this piece from the latest show on the Miss America Beauty Pageant. It does what you expect, and then does a whole bunch more stuff that you won&#8217;t expect, and it absolutely nails every aspect. Also, it&#8217;s funny as hell. Watch this, people!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oDPCmmZifE8?list=PLmKbqjSZR8TZa7wyVoVq2XMHxxWREyiFc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oliver, of course, is well-known to podcast aficionados for his co-host role in long-running comedy news thingy <a href=\"http:\/\/thebuglepodcast.com\/\">The Bugle<\/a>. The Bugle has just had its first new episode since Oliver got really busy doing something or other &#8211; hopefully they&#8217;ll manage to keep them coming. <a href=\"http:\/\/thebuglepodcast.com\/\">Give it a listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>And finally, this music video about horror movie monsters as high-school students going to prom is very, very good. And absolutely PACKED with gags and references. I caught heaps but I know I missed lots more. (The song is&#8230; forgettable.)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fy9uaWqUNa8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic, infuriating piece by David Roberts at Grist &#8211; is it possible to convince the American right wing that climate change is real? (Go on, take a wild guess.) Vox: Three reasons why NZ has the best electoral system in the world. I could niggle with the details, but I&#8217;m genuinely pretty happy with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=6394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friendzone Linky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-6394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky","tag-fridaylinky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-1F8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}