Youtube is starting to freak me out. It's great for important stuff like Eddie Izzard clips and cartoons from The Electric Company, but looking at the most-viewed videos you find some questionable stuff. Not disturbing-questionable. Just questionable. For example, there's a very photogenic homeschooled girl calling herself Lonelygirl15 who posts a video diary that has become extraordinarily popular. She's sweet, she's smart, she's cute. At first you think, Now isn't that adorable? Then you look again, and you think, "WTF IS GOING ON HERE?!" Not only is the production value far too high for a 15-year-old who says she can barely operate her own webcam, but the girl's facistic parents (who seem to be uberreligious) allow an older boy to hang out in her room with the door closed for hours at a time? And what 15-year-old, no matter how smart, reads Richard Feynman? The whole thing seems to be exquisitely scripted and edited to perfection...but why? Is she after a modeling career? Attention? Pervy older men who will possibly pay for a boob job? I'm just... confused.
Another questionable vblog that other people mention (tho I can't find any trace of it) is that of someone named "Pay to the order of of of". Being a complete nerd with too much time on my hands, I know the source of this phrase. It's lifted from the diary of .... Sirhan Sirhan. The dude who shot RFK, supposedly for his potential support of Israel. That's disturbing-questionable. (And speaking of Arab-Israeli relations, check out the villain in this Adventures of Letterman cartoon from The Electric Company. It's just wrong.)
This weekend I'll finally blog about the lecture I went to a few weeks ago, the one involving Christ living in Italy, crop circles, and meditation. I had to dig out some old notes to fill it out.
I'll also be posting about the Anthony Godby Johnson controversy (source of the upcoming Robin Williams movie The Night Listener) on Swallowing the Camel.
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