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The woman in the Hyundai Christmas ads covers Beyonce’s Single Ladies. Me like:

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Seriously. I like the Batman shirt. The thing that made this song for Beyoncé was the video more than the song. This video is cute, but it’s not bootylicious.

You got it backward — the woman (and man) who cover “Single Ladies” are in Hyundai’s Christmas ads. Talk about crossover I (and probably everyone else) never saw coming.

@mellbell: Yah. Video’s about a year old?

@blogenfreude: Oh, no! You’re throwing over the Progressive Insurance Chick? Didn’t you link to her doing stand up?

ADD: Yes, yes you did. ;-)

Seriously: in the battle of cloying insurance ads, Andres Cantor calling a chess match WINS.

@JNOV: I did – and now I choose a car over car insurance.

Okay. Who here can dance? I know Put a Ring on It is old, but I think it’s way past time we put on our leotards and dance belts and make a video. WE CAN DO THIS!

ADD: I might need a hand up after the sideways lunge.

ADDD: Oh, yeah — knees crackin’ a plenty!

@chicago bureau: Ha! But what about The Pips? Take the train to Happytown. Woo! Woo!

I’ve never heard this song. Am I missing anything?

I finally heard “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga tonight when I saw those guys do it on “Sing Off”, then I listened to a piano cover by Hayley Williams of Paramore. Mrs RML is obsessed by the song, so I’ll probably watch the video later. I have heard “Telephone”, but only as the soundtrack to those dancing soldiers in Afghanistan.

I like “Sing Off” because I enjoy hearing talented people do something fun.

Brown University group does “In the Waiting Line” by Zero 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKzYeOnGZ3c

@redmanlaw: I find it beyond bizarre that Ben Folds is a judge on that show.

@redmanlaw: You’re missing one kick ass video if you like Dancing Women of Exceptional Health. I love the choreography. The song’s okay. This is the official video — it’s incredibly high energy, but you can see where JaQuel Knight and Frank Gatson give the dancers breathers. Near the second half, they rest their arms on their thighs some. The hardest part for Beyoncé is around 1:30.

ADD: The video was inspired by Bob Fosse. Gwen Verdon is the dancer. There’s also a mashup of Put a Ring on It and this video. It works.

@mellbell: Have you seen the Ukulele Girl? Give it a chance — there’s a surprise. I love her. Ben Folds had her open for him once, in like a gym or something.

ADD: Oh, a new favorite for me. Julia Nunes sings All My Loving.

ADDD: Oh, bummer. She was in Hoboken a few weeks ago.

We will have no gods before Chaka Khan.

@FlyingChainSaw: The Management notes for the record that only Accredited Stinque Gods can use the Sacred Comment Embedding Trick, and are advised to use it exceedingly sparingly, lest they get stoned by Jealous Mortals.

I thought it was more appropriate than glomming on another post. Can I keep Chaka?

@FlyingChainSaw: Yes you may. I’m just proactively anticipating whining.

Guaranteed to bum your shit right out:

How America will collapse (by 2025) – Four scenarios that could spell the end of the United States as we know it — in the very near future
salon.com

/pours glass of wine

The melancholy sounds of some of the tunes on Radio Hanukkah on Sirius XM fit the mood

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025

@redmanlaw: McCoy is also the author of the Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. Incredible act of journalism.

@FlyingChainSaw: Read that and cited it for a paper in an intelligence class I took as an undergrad. I wrote on the CIA and heroin in that region, so I was familiar with what Gary Webb was writing about several years later for the San Jose Mercury News. I believe it was one of the first examples of making news content available on the webz.

Ah, here we go:

In August 1996, Gary Webb began publishing the results of a yearlong investigation that traced the money fueling the horrific U.S.-backed “contra” war against Nicaragua to the profits from Los Angeles’ 1980s crack epidemic. The CIA led its contra army to spend the entire decade terrorizing the Nicaraguan people and their Sandinista government, happily allowing the contras to flood Los Angeles and other North American cities with cocaine to fund their efforts. Gary provided extensively documented evidence that while poor communities in L.A. paid the price of the crack explosion – from rampant addiction in their neighborhoods to oppressive law enforcement and jailing with Reagan’s stepped-up “war on drugs” – the United States government protected the men moving a great deal of the drugs coming into the city. Local dealers faced life sentences while the bigtime narcos from Washington to Managua went free.

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/

That’s why I didn’t join the military as a college drop out in the 80s. I thought I’d end up Down There,

Fun fact: I did a project for the Mercury News in West magazine on the Ohlone Indians of the Bay Area the summer of my first year of law school a few years before Dark Alliance came out.

@redmanlaw: But… but… American Exceptionalism!

Here’s the thing: Whatever you make (or not) of the scenarios, the underlying point is that we as a nation are willfully ignoring the facts, and have been since Saint Ronnie. (Or pick any earlier arbitrary date, but 1980 is when America collectively said Fuck it.)

We’ve already driven off the cliff, and sheer inertia is keeping us airborne. But at some point we’re gonna look down, see nothin’ but air, and wave bye-bye to the camera as we plunge out of sight.

My question is, will it hold together long enough to see me out or do I have to go somewhere else? And if the US collapses can the rest of the West hold out? And is there a Musical Theatre scene in the Faroes? I will read these distressing links at some point but not now.

@nojo: I do think that this is the natural state of US politics. I’m sure we’re not the first bunch of layabouts generation to have thought this. Civil war ringing any bells? It’s not even the first time a political party has collapsed. It’s not even the first time money has ruled everything. It’s just the first time that we’ve experienced it first hand.

@blogenfreude: Yay!

@FlyingChainSaw: Oh! YAY!

@nojo: Oh, I stopped whining about that in 2009. I think…
ETA: Around the time I realized that bandwidth data transfer is not cheap.

@Benedick: I am just anticipating more bread and circuses to keep the populace willfully ignant.

Man, it’s too early for this shit. Or too late to fix it or whatever. Is it too early to drink?

@Benedick: Thank you.

And in other fucked up news, 19 countries won’t be attending Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Of course, he and none of his family will be there, either. The list of 19 contains a few surprises:

China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Serbia, Iraq , Iran, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Venezuela, the Philippines, Egypt, Sudan, Ukraine, Cuba and Morocco.

Solidarność?

@blogenfreude: thanx for the link. my favorite things and mrs robinson are very good covers.

@redmanlaw: i had heard of gary webb and freeway ricky ross before i saw this documentary:
http://americandrugwar.com/
featuring this ex-governor who makes the news today
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/gop-governor-admits-smoking-pot/
also appearing is america biggest fool joe arpiao who somehow somewhere found junkies and potheads laid out in the streets of amsterdam to trip over.
as usual republican’ts spout blatant lies about drugs and single payer health insurance programs in the developed and intelligent world,
yet no one but internet surfers and documentarians ever calls them out on their bullshit. i grew up in household where we all watched the local and national (cronkite) news nightly, read three newspapers every day, and discussed what we saw, heard, and read. then of course you could count on the news providers (especially 60 minutes then but not now) to point out hypocrisy and lies, to call out governmnets and corporations when they misbehaved. now there are only two sources of news: 1) outright lies and propaganda on fox, and 2) entertainment pop culture horseshit elsewhere. msnbc seems to try to provide a third choice but i’m afraid it’s too little to late. how can todays american children ever be expected to question, criticize, and demand righteous behavior from government and corporations in the future when their parents have already been indoctrinated to believe all they are told and never question?

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