Mike Gravel’s Helter Skelter:
This is going to be the longest and weirdest election year ever.
(via Matt Yglesias by way of Sully)
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I had a Venti Starbucks today for the first time in forever, and, as always, it gave me the shakes. Combined with this video, I think I am having flashbacks at the office. I might need Jimmy Carter to talk me down.
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And while we are at it, who can forget this:
Phil Hartman was such a loss.
smiley
What the hell?
Incertus
That’s got to be Shatner’s greatest performance ever.
Wilfred
That is absolutely fucking brilliant.
Ninerdave
Actually I liked it!
I see he’s ditched his inner zen master
see also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRwizmuCnOw
Since we can’t do more than one link in a post.
Tim F.
EAT MY DUST, SADLY NO!
leinie
Smiley, I’ll take your “what the hell” and raise it to a “what the fuck?”
The thing is, it’s oddly compelling. I couldn’t look away, I couldn’t turn it off.
Nash
. . .
He’s gone nanners.
dr. luba
Ninerdave,
He’s just returning to his rock roots.
zzyzx
This is why we must all fear the Gravelance!
maxbaer (not the original)
I’ve officially seen everything now. It was great in a “Plan 9 from Outer Space” way. Top that, Gavin.
Wisdom
Paul wrote the only good heavy rock song the Beatles ever did to counter Pete Townshends claim that the Who was nastier.
Gravel steps up for his Dem roots.
Liberal Masochist
Shatner? that was Phil Hartman!
Helena Montana
That SNL Clinton bit was one of their funniest–back from when I still loved Bill Clinton.
jeffreyw
i could
Napoleon
What?
How about Hey Bulldog, or Revolution.
Damned at Random
Mike Gravel is the candidate I would most like to have a beer (or other mind altering substance)with
Ninerdave
There’s this too.
Tsulagi
That Gravel video is great. I dunno, given the retarded Pubs and the pussy Dems, it just might be time for the Hunter S. Thompson party.
Mike Gravel, a man ahead of his time!
Mary
Fuck. Both Veoh and Hulu are locking me out. Can’t donate to the MUP, can’t stream American tv online.
The Jimmy Carter skit.
Clinton in McDonalds.
Poltically Lost
So, this morning I’m thinking what’s John Cole up to…so I click on over and see, “Don’t eat the brown acid.” At first I’m not quite sure about the incongruence, begin to giggle at the visuals and remember back to the days of the good acid and the not so good (you know the stuff you got in the parking lot at the dead show instead of waiting till you got inside). So, then I click the you tube without reading that it has to do with Gravel.
My. God.
What has you-tube wrought upon our souls?
capelza
I love that! Gravel reminds me of William S. Burroughs doing “Sharkey’s Night” on a Laurie Anderson album.
This is the best thing to come from this election “cycle” that began the first Wednesday in November 2004.
Rick Taylor
Reposting from another thread, but Ronald Reagan the Master Mind.
chiggins
Phil Hartman was supposed to have been Lumberg in Office Space. It hurts.
MNPundit
I hate Andy Dick. He killed Phil Hartmann indirectly.
Gerald Curl
The other night, my wife and I made the same comment about what a loss his death was. At the time we were watching the clip where he played James Stockdale with Dana Carvey as Ross Perot. “Gridlock!”
tBone
You say this like it’s a bad thing. Unfettered access to our never-ending parade of shitty sitcoms and soul-devouring reality shows is not as cool as it may sound.
Sue E. Generous
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that clear a print of the Zapruder film and from that angle. That thing still has the capacity to shock.
Gus
That Jimmy Carter thing never fails to make me laugh. “Do you have any Allman Brothers?”
Zippity
I hadn’t thought about that SNL skit forever. The funny thing is that Tom Arnold actually worked at a McDonald’s in Iowa City-I worked there with him. The owner’s son-and general manager’s name was Kevin O’Brien. This skit was the talk of IC McDonald’s alumni for a while.
OniHanzo
Does anybody else remember the Dana Carvey show? And that skit where Bill Clinton had surgery to give himself six breasts to feed the homeless with?
Lasted only two months and it beat everything SNL has ever put out.
OniHanzo
Might be one of a few skits
Fwiffo
Mike Gravel is completely crazy. Does the fact that I think I agree with him also make me completely crazy?
Keith
I do, but all I can remember from it is the skit where they pay for food in drive-thru lines and tear out of there before picking up their food (“WOOOHOOOO!!!!”) and some song about chopping broccoli. I figured they’d give Dana Carvey at least a few more eps than a then-unknown Ben Stiller got for his skit show
gypsy howell
Shit, I got you beat — I sent him money!
But you know what, when you wade through all the crazification, he’s right.
RoonieRoo
Gee thanks for the warning John. Ignorant me didn’t know what the hell brown acid or any of that meant and clicked the stupid video this morning. Not all of us get off on some of those images, though they be famous. I only got a couple of seconds into the video because, unlike most Americans, I’m not heartlessly numb to seeing people shot in the head and killed.
Thanks so very much for the warning that it might have images some still functional people who are not brain dead from years of violent TV might be slightly disturbed by.