Comments on: Saturday Video Roundup: looking at the YouTube Video Awards

By: kelly

kelly — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:08:14 +0000

“Doll face” is beautiful. thanks for posting it.

By: Expat

Expat — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:09:35 +0000

All of these vids are excellent, I’m glad I’m not a judge.

By: Expat

Expat — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:26:20 +0000

Methinks Tay has his tongue firmly planted in his cheek.

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:37:43 +0000

Yeah, he shouldn’t bother justifying himself. The other videos are good too.

To give you a jump on next week’s SVR, I have a disturbing video I’m emailing you the link to.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:40:15 +0000

Russ: Tay is hardly a virgin. He’s a doc student at a Big Ten school and he’s more than comfortable slinging his book learning around on the interviewer, which is cool. I might cut him some slack on the “sell-out” thing – I mean, I’ve been a doc student, and it will be a miracle if I ever get the loans I had to take out just to live paid off – but when he starts pretending that his Dr. Pepper song and the original have nothing to do with each other he’s engaging in a hefty dose of New Criticism-meets-poststructuralism decontextualized horseshit. The interviewer might not know enough to call him on it, but I do.

He’s damned lucky he laid that crap on that interviewer instead of somebody like our own Dr. Booth.

My best guess is that this guy harbors a good deal of contempt for certain segments of the society – not that said segments haven’t earned it – and that he’s abusing people in ways they can’t quite grok.

Again, I’m not arguing with that. Just don’t expect ME to buy it.

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:51:01 +0000

Re “Battle at Kruger”: Darrell, imagine the nature documentarians who are eating their hearts out over the footage this tourist got. They spend their whole careers in the bush and never come up with anything comparable.

Dr. S., I thought you might get distracted by Tay Zonday. The interview with him at MSP Mag is illuminating. But it wasn’t fair of the interviewer to single out a guy who’s just starting his career for selling out.

It’s a personal choice. People are just trying to make a living.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:05:28 +0000

I gotta say I loved the “battle at kruger”, I just saw it yesterday and was impressed. Does this make Water Buffalo the new king of the jungle?