(The original, in case you haven’t seen it, warning about language on both)

(via Dave Id)

See also:

• November 18, 2007 — My Olbermann fetish

Note: Please do not take this literally. Flyers fans are human too. If you see one trying to steal the purse of a helpless old lady, please report the matter to the police immediately and do not — I repeat: do not — beat the person to a bloody pulp.

See also:

• July 22, 2008 — Scissors bomb mailbox!
• July 17, 2008 — Dr. Horrible: Adorable evil
• July 10, 2008 — The young’uns come out to play

You could say he’s really gone off the deep end.

(Really folks, I’m here all week. Try the veal.)

See also:

• August 2, 2008 — Nobody wants to read 1,000 comments
• July 22, 2008 — It’s all fun and games until a kid goes missing
• June 20, 2008 — Why I love Quebec

I hope to make it after work, though I’m in the middle of eight consecutive shifts right now (sweet, sweet overtime money, how I will enjoy spending you) and might be semi-conscious.

For those of you who haven’t been to a YULblog before, here’s an idea of some of the sights you might encounter at La Quincaillerie:

The anglo table

Video cameras

Bright lights

iPhones (and iTouches and other gadgets)

Hands

Chris Hand

French people (like, you know, from France)

Pretty girls

Big-time bloggers with big-time hair*

Big-time bloggers with not-so-big-time hair

Big-time bloggers chatting with pretty girls*

*Patrick Lagacé was shy last month and didn’t want any photos taken of him since he hadn’t seen his hairdresser in over six hours. Therefore I’ve used an identical body double (a little-known evil twin brother) to stand in for him in these photos.

See also:

• November 1, 2007 — Meet Neath?
• August 24, 2007 — I like to blog during the summer
• August 2, 2007 — I stand by my choice

I’ve clearly underestimated Mr. Kimmel. Though some of the lyrics are a bit lame, the video is still epic.

My only complaint: Why not put an unbleeped version online, like NBC did when Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg’s Dick in a Box went uber-popular online?

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I talked about one of his videos in December, but really they’re all good. I hesitate to recommend any specific ones because that would imply others are less good, but Everyday Normal Guy has a sequel for a reason:

Did I mention he’s a Montrealer? You can see some hints of that in some of his videos.

UPDATE (Feb. 22): More info from Cyberpresse.

See also:

• May 3, 2008 — Your Habs playlist
• April 26, 2008 — Jon Lajoie: SuperHab
• March 22, 2008 — 8 out of 8 ain’t bad

After his successful fatwa campaign to get Montreal Alouettes General Manager Jim Popp fired from his job as head coach, Gazette football writer Herb Zurkowsky finds out Popp is now refusing to talk to him.

(Sorry guys, I couldn’t resist.)

My third silly graphic tonight. Can you tell I’m procrastinating from real work?

See also:

• December 16, 2007 — Herbie is never happy
• August 2, 2008 — Gazette starting Olympics page, photographer blog
• July 25, 2008 — Myles has given up on baseball

Les journalistes blogueurs dont les billets consistent essentiellement en des questions du genre: “Et vous, qu’est-ce que vous en pensez?”

What do you think?

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• No related posts

My sympathies to him and to Mitch Melnick, Herb Zurkowsky and Elliott Price whose humiliation serves to remind people how betting on sports (when a spread is factored in) is more about luck than anything else.

See also:

• August 2, 2008 — Gazette starting Olympics page, photographer blog
• July 25, 2008 — Myles has given up on baseball
• July 22, 2008 — Gazette live-blogging Impact game

A little place to get your revenge for My Lil’ Reminder and its ilk.

See also:

• January 15, 2008 — RDS goes black, will it go back?
• January 4, 2008 — Relive the 90s with kitsch Québécois commercials
• November 26, 2007 — Molson flub was about marketing, not Facebook

I guess RBO’s Bye-Bye show was a success, considering the sheer number of articles written about the subject, on everything from its ratings (2.4 million people watched it) and the price of its ads to its use of makeup to Hérouxville’s reaction to being made fun of.

Even the Oscars don’t get this kind of coverage.

Maybe they should schedule them during the holidays.

UPDATE (Jan. 17): My God, they’re still talking about it. Three million viewers, plus another million and a half the next day on the repeat. CBC would kill for those numbers.

See also:

• June 13, 2008 — No more glass ceiling at RadCan
• April 11, 2008 — Team 990, RadCan to air Impact games
• March 13, 2008 — Sur le Web: Get a clue

Fortunately, some people have taken it upon themselves to do just that. There’s even a blog, Publicités poches du Québec, that has tasked itself with that mission, uploading recordings of these ads to YouTube.

Here are some of my favourites:

• Céline Dion hawking a Dodge Shadow and Diet Coke.
• A Jean-Pierre Ferland song and some underage-looking kids making suggestive gestures with popcorn for a butter commercial
• TV Hebdo is some sort of magic remote control or something
• Distribution aux Consommateurs works hard for their money, with the big hair, purple suits and giant eyeglasses that make the 80s so regrettable.
• Radio-Canada are there pour vous divertir, avant tout.
• La clef de sol offers a Pentium 133 with a Statue of Liberty on its screen for no apparent reason, and you don’t have to pay until 1997.
• Brault & Martineau is so cool it hurts.
• Wal-Mart doesn’t want you to buy too much soap.
• Froot Loops c’est bon c’est bon.
• Cita-Cita-Citadelle.

See also:

• January 15, 2008 — RDS goes black, will it go back?
• January 5, 2008 — Expensive junk
• July 23, 2008 — 168 fonctions différentes*

The dub comes courtesy of a group called The Day Job Orchestra, which has been doing similarly well-synchronized dub jobs on a slew of Star Trek videos.

See also:

• December 3, 2007 — MAGLOCK CONTROLS ACTIVATED LOLOL!!!!!!!!!111222
• October 15, 2007 — New Galacticast is thrusterific
• February 13, 2007 — alt.wesley.crusher.rules.rules.rules

I know the dollar was gaining fast, but that’s pretty impressive.

See also:

• August 3, 2008 — Great Scot
• July 28, 2008 — Online articles should be corrected
• July 24, 2008 — Ste. Anne bike path looks really cool

Name a YouTube sensation or Internet meme and there are mainstream media articles about it. TV news, desperate for attention-grabbing video, will run whatever people are watching online and try to explain why it’s so popular. Newspaper lifestyle writers, desperate for some new sociological situation to discuss, look behind the meme to find something about our lives that’s changed in recent years. The rest just want to convince readers, viewers and listeners that they’re hip to the Internet and aren’t being left behind in the mad rush to the Web.

But there’s one Internet meme that mainstream media hasn’t touched yet, and for very good reason: They just can’t show the video on television.

For the few of you who don’t already know what I’m talking about, I’m going to choose my words carefully. Because despite the warning at the beginning of this post, there are people with a sense of decency who read this blog regularly (e.g. my mother, her mother).

The video in question is called “2 girls 1 cup”. It’s a pornographic fetish video created by a Brazillian pornographer, and billed as the most disgusting set of moving images ever produced. Basically it’s two women eating their own feces and vomit out of a cup.

The Internet meme isn’t so much the video itself, which even YouTube won’t allow posted to its website. Rather, it’s the reaction videos, videos of people watching it for the first time and the horrified, disgusted looks on their faces when the tame lesbian porn turns into … gross.

It’s gotten to the point where those reaction videos themselves are being spoofed (see the Kermit version — and again remember the warning above), and others who are trying to leverage the video’s infamy to gain some fame of their own are going so far as to create music referencing it:

But still, mainstream media is silent. A gay magazine here, a college newspaper there. Maybe a spoof article.

Have we finally crossed that line that big media won’t follow? Have they finally drawn a line in the sand and said this is so offensive that they won’t dignify it with even a passing reference?

If so, perhaps that’s a good thing. Perhaps it will cause some people in the news business to rethink their approach to coverage that picks up on Internet memes at the expense of wars, politics, science and all those other boring topics that don’t drive up ratings numbers they can sell to advertisers.

Or perhaps not. Perhaps they’ll just show the reaction videos and hope they can tell the story without showing the original or even mentioning its name.

Anyone want to take any bets on how low the media is going to go on this?

See also:

• October 12, 2007 — Is “fuck” gratuitous?

I can understand Leno and Letterman putting on a bare-bones show without monologues in order to save the jobs of non-writing tradespeople who work for them. But Stewart and Colbert are all about the writers. What the heck are they going to do?

See also:

• June 8, 2008 — TWIM: GM/CAW FYI
• February 11, 2008 — PicApp: Ads for copyright compliance?
• January 21, 2008 — Bye bye, ByeByeLogement

No Montreal media appear on either list, though the Toronto Star gets two dishonorable mentions, for prematurely killing off Morley Safer and for bringing the Detroit murder rate up by a factor of 50. The Ottawa Citizen, meanwhile, put a photo of an innocent man on a section front, identifying him as a pedophile.

See also:

• November 26, 2007 — Why are errors in online articles not corrected?
• December 3, 2007 — Toronto Sun on media errors
• August 3, 2008 — Great Scot

• We’re just now getting around to compensating store owners after the post-Stanley Cup riots in Montreal. The riots where we won the Stanley Cup. In 1993. Fourteen years ago.
• Joe Clark was punched in the face for no apparent reason on Sherbrooke street last month, giving him a bloody nose.
• A Union Station street meat vendor got badly burned after he lost consciousness and his clothes caught fire. The headline for this story on the Edmonton Sun website was, for a brief time, “Toronto hotdog vendor roasted.”

Can’t we laugh, just a little bit? Please?

See also:

• May 17, 2008 — 56 rioters and counting
• May 12, 2008 — The Great Canadiens Conference Quarterfinal Riot Song
• April 25, 2008 — Riot remorse

LOL Movies: Star Trek Furst Contact

See also:

• December 30, 2007 — Robert Rabinovitch the slob
• October 15, 2007 — New Galacticast is thrusterific
• February 13, 2007 — alt.wesley.crusher.rules.rules.rules

Tay Zonday has gone mainstream:

Cherry Chocolate Rain (via Transmission Marketing)It’s cute, but the fact that the original song “Chocolate Rain” was about how racism still permeates society, having its remix/sequel video done throwing money around, surrounded by gangsta rappers and video skanks and shelling a soft drink… I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be ironic.

Good for Tay Zonday for capitalizing on his immense success. As for Dr. Pepper’s marketing department…

UPDATE: I got an email from a company whose job it is to search the Internet for Tay Zonday blog posts, pointing out another version of the song promoting Comedy Central’s Last Laugh ‘07 tonight, singing about celebrity gossip (is that worse than a soft drink?). No word on when The Comedy Network will air the program in Canada.

See also:

• February 16, 2008 — Worst. Kerning. Ever.
• November 27, 2007 — Don’t tase me, ho ho ho
• August 5, 2008 — Nobody reads fine print (except ours, right?)