These are the kinds of horrors that await us when we become an Asian/Hispanic/Black majority country.
The third guy really explores the studio space.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
Usually wrong but never in doubt
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
This fight is for everything.
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
And we’re all out of bubblegum.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.
People are complicated. Love is not.
If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.
“More of this”, i said to the dog.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.
I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.
I really should read my own blog.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.
Peak wingnut was a lie.
Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.
Legalize
Don’t forget those Chinese kids wearing matching Houston Rockets jerseys, grooving to the Backstreet Boys. We all know what that can lead to ….
Legalize
Those impressions are fuckin’ awesome though.
ruemara
If only someone had said they needed more cowbell, this would be perfect.
BTW, when I do my freddy mercury impersonation, it is this funny.
Ed in NJ
Funny, but it needs more cowbell.
Laura W
These are the kind of horrors that await us when cats learn how to online date:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBXxbsOoFr4
(For sure turn your sound down a bit if you have cats, or especially an insane dog who is used to breaking up cat fights, in the room. Leah is running from door to door on high alert thinking there is a cat fight in her yard.)
gwangung
And if you think that’s scary, wait till I show you…
demkat620
That’s some good stuff right there.
That second guy has Walken down.
LD50
That seventh guy has it nailed.
I don’t know what CW routine that #5 girl is trying for.
John Cole
@LD50: Was that the one standing in front of a bookshelf?
LD50
@John Cole: Yeah, the 2nd-to-last person, the one right before the girl with the baseball cap and shades.
linda
remember those assholes who sold those subprime mortgages; they’re back, now gouging those desperate homeowners with a whole new scam. at this point, i’m thinking vigilante justice might be worth considering:
By March, sales agents were inundated by calls from furious clients who had paid long ago, but not heard from anyone. Some called from motels, their belongings piled in boxes, weeping as they recounted losing their homes.
The agents let most calls go to voicemail, playing the most dramatic messages over speakerphones for communal amusement, Mr. Pejman said.
“Guys would sit there and laugh,” he said. “ ‘This lady’s going crazy,’ that sort of thing.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/business/20modify.html?_r=1&ref=business&pagewanted=print
Eric U.
@LD50: that’s a dude, dude
Brick Oven Bill
Here is plausible explanation as to why these guys might have taken the time to make this film. It is based on a study:
“Mate preferences and Matching Outcomes in On Line Dating” (University of Chicago, Duke University, MIT).
It is not nice to make fun of Asian guys, even when they are mocking themselves. They are typically more productive than white guys and have to put up with a lot of crap without Balloon Juice jumping on the pile.
DougJ
It is not nice to make fun of Asian guys, even when they are mocking themselves. They are typically more productive than white guys and have to put up with a lot of crap without Balloon Juice jumping on the pile.
I almost responded to this before I saw it was from you.
MattF
Actually, it’s metamockery, so it’s OK.
LD50
BOB being all Mister Racial Sensitivity and shit. Wonders never cease.
LD50
@Eric U.: Prove it.
Pixie
LOL Thanks for that Laura. I watched it 3 x already and was lmfao. My cats all came into my room to make sure I was ok. :P
gwangung
Aw man, THIS IS MY JOB you’re talking about. I write this stuff.
You’re telling me we can’t make a living doing comedy???? Only white people can do that?
Dude, you’re heartless.
Laura W
@Brick Oven Bill: You see, that was exactly the problem for my online feline dating couple. She was orange and he was black. Everyone knows a black boy cat is not alpha enough for an orange girl cat. Orange girls are so rare that they get to decide who they will have litters with, and they live to dominate skinny, black boy cats.
I wonder if Duke will fund my study?
LD50
@gwangung: It’s just that I think BOB would be much happier if all you Asians just stuck to engineering, programming, and running restaurants.
gwangung
@LD50: Now I admit, I’m not sure I can compete against the awesome comedy skills of BOB, but isn’t this America? The land of freedom and the right to the pursuit of happiness??
I am so disillusioned.
Brick Oven Bill
The New York Times on dating in Asia:
Both Shirakawa and his girlfriend like the fact that she weighs more than he does, and is the leader of the couple. “She’s a lot stronger than I am, can lift heavy things and go drinking until dawn. I admire that about her, and feel protected when I’m around her,” he said. Older than he by five years, it was Shirakawa’s girlfriend who made the approach, started the dating process and decided what course their relationship would take.
“Frankly, I think women should be in the driver’s seat. Society and relationships work better that way,” he said. Shirakawa likes to wear his girlfriend’s clothes and often shows up for work wearing her blouse and jeans, to the general approval of his co-workers.
Read it all. This, I believe, is why Asian women tend to be happier in America than Asian men. Asian men’s best dating prospects seem to be in their country of origin.
Shirakawa’s dating strategy downright sucks when pursuing the typical American female. Perhaps we could set him up with Zoe from Kentucky however.
Hammy
Sure, they can do a good Christopher Walken impersonation but can they do a convincing David Carradine impression?
LD50
@gwangung: Actually, it’s worse than that. Given BOB’s advanced age, he’d probably prefer if you stuck to laying railroad tracks and running laundries.
You Don't Say
The first guy was dead on.
Laura W
@Brick Oven Bill: Well, at the risk of being stoned in the BJ public square or burned at the stake, I found that very interesting, Bill. How did you pull a piece from Nov of 2007 out of your brick oven anyway?
Brick Oven Bill
The Brick Oven serves humanity the only way it knows how, as the repository of social imagery that this age of oil and its excesses have created in our very midst Laura W.
And when this phase of society comes to a close, it can cook good food without electricity.
Hammy
He’s not Asian, but Brandon Hardesty does excellent re-enactments of movie scenes that he filmed in his parent’s basement. Here’s his Christopher Walken impression from Pulp Fiction.
I loved his re-enactment of The Shining.
DougJ
Brandon Hardesty does excellent re-enactments of movie scenes that he filmed in his parent’s basement. Here’s his Christopher Walken impression from Pulp Fiction.
He’s not quite as good as the third Asian guy doing the same scene.
calling all toasters
“Good for you… good FOR you”
Bookcase guy is awesome.
PaulW
Bookcase guy did the most naturalistic performance of The Walken on that collection. The first guy, in the yellow shirt talking about free-range chicken, was actually mimicking another Walken impersonator so that’s an impersonation of an impersonation and doesn’t count…
Can we get some of these guys to do Walken from “Catch Me If You Can” or “True Romance” perhaps? “The Rundown” would be choice.
retr2327
If you want to really see somebody tear Douthat a new one, go check out Tom Levenson’s takedown.
That’ll leave a mark . . . .
gex
@linda: Wow. Sounds just like those Enron jerks laughing at the grandmothers in CA who couldn’t afford their electric bills during the rolling blackouts. Assholes. How’d they like to lose everything?
hamletta
@gex:
I’d sure like to find out. Especially if “everything” includes their balls.
Alan
I find these Walken impressions slightly disturbing in that they made me realize something I had never noticed before: the degree to which Christopher Walken sounds like “Welcome Back Kotter” era Travolta. Now I have a mental picture of Vinnie Barbarino reenacting Walken’s scene from Pulp Fiction.
Anne Laurie
Laura, I am a bad person — the original (non-annotated) version of that video makes me laugh every time. Something about the way Tuxedo Guy is being as Respekfil as possible, and yet, his tail keeps doing the “workin’ my last nerve, Ginger!” twitch.
DougJ
I find these Walken impressions slightly disturbing in that they made me realize something I had never noticed before: the degree to which Christopher Walken sounds like “Welcome Back Kotter” era Travolta.
It’s the same weird New York accent.