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Another old movie: The Pleasure Seekers

2011-12-29T20:58:00.002-06:00

The Pleasure Seekers(Movie Clip) The Ones That Fly Evidently they like Vegas stylings at this Madrid nightspot, Ann-Margret (as American "Fran") in hot pink with the title tune by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, in Jean Negulesco's The Pleasure Seekers, 1964. below Pleasure Seekers, The -- (Movie Clip) Las Meninas Newly arrived American Susie (Pamela Tiffin) in Madrid at The Prado, with Las

1974 Super Beetle: Car & Track

2011-12-03T00:42:00.002-06:00

original url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyvcPXcTK2U

Lady, singing: 14 November 2011

2011-11-14T15:20:00.002-06:00

I wish I knew who this lady is, or what the words are. I used to know some Arabic, but this is difficult for me to interpret. [link]update: Her name is Amal Maher, and she was born in 1985. Evidently she is a pretty big deal currently in Egyptian music.

Orson Welles on Cavett, etc

2011-10-31T13:41:00.003-05:00

Above:"Orson shmoozes about Winston Churchill." Below, this is via a story from Slate discussing this radio interview clip, from 1940, when Welles was on KSAT radio in San Antonio, talking with H.G. Wells.

Natalie Wood tv commercial c. 1981

2011-10-25T23:48:00.001-05:00

The Night The Roof Fell In

2011-10-15T23:20:00.002-05:00

The Dick Van Dyke Show: "The Night The Roof Fell In" (aka Rashomon Lite)[via Slate.]

"Let Your Learning Be Your Eyes" Les McCann

2011-10-08T23:04:00.000-05:00

song: "Let Your Learning Be Your Eyes" by Les McCann, from 1975

Whale in field, via Yahoo

2011-10-06T15:44:00.001-05:00

Daffy the commando, etc

2011-10-05T08:25:00.000-05:00

Original link is here, from close-captioned cartoons.

Sharing the Secret Sharer

2011-09-27T23:23:00.003-05:00

Apparently somebody decided to narrate Conrad's novella on Youtube, in a William Shatnery sort of way. You can read along while listening, if you've got an hour and 42 minutes. But don't do it at work! They'll catch you, and punish you, by making you read it out of a book. To your co-workers. Whether they want to hear it or not. While they're doing your work. Conrad comes to your cubicle? Not

more from sxephil

2011-09-23T23:38:00.003-05:00

"GINGERS SCIENTIFICALLY NOT LOVED except for Christina Hendricks"As always with videos from Phillip DeFranco aka "sxephil", the NS4W caveat applies due to occasional cursing and cheesecake imagery. I appreciate DeFranco keeping up with pop culture goings on so I don't have to. Also, he's a lot more entertaining than shows like Extra! or Entertainment Tonight, and his videos take much less

14 September 2011: Agnes Moorehead and Tim Holt

2011-09-14T02:26:00.002-05:00

via Elbert Ventura's article at Slate.

Michael S. Hart 1947-2011

2011-09-08T19:51:00.005-05:00

from Yahoo News:Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg and a pioneer in formatting print material for online use, passed away Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Illinois. A self-described "unreasonable" thinker, according to his obituary at Project Gutenberg, Hart invented the ebook in 1971.I've had a post sitting in the drafts folder for some time, tentatively titled "Lit Blogging", which

Gore Vidal n' Norman Mailer on Cavett

2011-09-04T22:55:00.001-05:00

The original link is here.

the ides of August

2011-08-15T00:13:00.002-05:00

"I can't work like this, cut off from the scientific community. You stay here and guard my sandwich."

CNN re Wolves

2011-08-14T01:20:00.003-05:00

CNN link is here. Feral?

Happy August 1st day

2011-08-01T07:56:00.000-05:00

original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESNuvQ_o-G0I hate to admit I find this guy amusing.(he curses a bit, so arguably this is NS4W.)

Ice cream is national Yahoo! month, on July

2011-07-16T23:24:00.000-05:00

And now it's Friday

2011-07-15T20:36:00.002-05:00

But it's been a week, so it's next Friday.Here's an interview with Aldous Huxley from 1958.

It's Thursday

2011-07-07T11:35:00.000-05:00

You object, perhaps understandably, that Valley of the Dolls was not literature, apart from in the statutory sense. I haven't read it, so I don't know.Slate's 7 July photo gallery of arty broads[link].

Are you a bright man?

2011-06-26T23:15:00.002-05:00

via "Breaking copy: a better blog about copywriting"Apparently some people still visit here sometimes. As you may have noticed, I rarely post here nowadays. Generally if I have anything to post I do that at Dead Horse.

The Golden age of ballooning

2011-05-11T15:21:00.002-05:00

Because "when you're king of France you have better things to do than go around remembering your bloody number."

АМЕНЦИЯ

2011-05-09T22:07:00.001-05:00

АМЕНЦИЯ ("AMENTIA" ) Sergei Ainutdinov 1990 [link]

We come from Kalto Province

2011-03-18T22:34:00.000-05:00

In Calto province the Parmesano Calto is highly regarded. In Kalto province they don't have Parmesano, but they have sentient cottage cheese that will eat you if you don't eat it first, after stunning it with phonic particles, which are only effective for about 2-3 minutes. Lunches tend to be very rushed affairs in Kalto province."Star Trek: Voyager" Time and Again (1995) - Memorable

2 Time videos 1dec10

2010-12-01T17:58:00.001-06:00

The Right's Weird Campaign to End Elections for Senatorsby Adam Cohen Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010:Why Ending Elections for Senators Is a Bad Tea Party Idea - TIMEPrison closing, Lyon Mountain, NYa network of local economies

The Cranes are flying/ Летят журавли

2010-11-29T02:31:00.000-06:00

William Styron's daughter re 1952 Pulitzer voting

2010-11-28T00:08:00.002-06:00

via Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes

Tristan da Cunha, etc

2010-11-22T19:14:00.002-06:00

original url, Wikipedia article on the Tristan da Cunha Islands.

the resident: we're running out of chocolate!

2010-11-13T17:20:00.001-06:00

Peter Bogdanovich discusses John Simon c. 1970

2010-11-09T10:00:00.000-06:00

The Damned don't cry (no really, they don't...)

2010-11-08T07:39:00.001-06:00

Cries and Whispers in less than a minute

2010-11-02T19:37:00.001-05:00

A very brief (and somewhat inaccurate) Othello

2010-11-01T16:27:00.001-05:00

by Awesome British guy.

Dick Burton on Electronovision®

2010-10-31T21:46:00.002-05:00

The potatoe diet, er, the potato e-diet

2010-10-30T21:40:00.001-05:00

"Officer Bubbles"

2010-10-29T07:05:00.000-05:00

the video is from July 2010. This Gizmodo item is more recent: Meet the YouTube Commenter Sued for Mocking 'Officer Bubbles'There's a Fox News discussion of this on Youtube, which is too irritating for me to post it as an embedded video, but FYI the link is here.

Preserving Yiddish, etc

2010-10-28T07:01:00.000-05:00

from ZD Net: 100 year data preservationA 350 year old copy of Shakespeare is about as readable as a new one. But a 35 year old floppy? Preserving data is essential to digital civilization, but how? Here's a new approach.from the BBC: New Yorker's mission to keep Yiddish alive [video link] With the number of Yiddish speakers dwindling the last secular bookshop in New York is

World o' trash, USA

2010-10-27T11:37:00.000-05:00

26 October 2010

2010-10-26T17:15:00.002-05:00

from Slate: "The whimsical animators at Taiwan's Next Media offer their take on the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas seeking an apology from Anita Hill."BofA Says It Reviewed 102,000 Foreclosures in Two-and-a-Half Weeks, but It Won't Say HowCNN: "Businessman Leo Hindery reveals the real unemployment rate and why it's double the official government figure."(Have you ever embeded a CNN

Nicole Saba - Ana Tabee Keda / نيكول سابا - أنا طبعى كدة

2010-10-15T09:36:00.000-05:00

Cry, baby

2010-10-08T07:33:00.000-05:00

facebook blah blah blah

2010-10-06T02:30:00.001-05:00

Richard Harris re Brando

2010-10-03T06:02:00.000-05:00

from slate V

2010-10-01T12:35:00.002-05:00

Freakonomics real estate video

2010-09-30T02:08:00.001-05:00

Brigitte Dale's "How to Be Popular"

2010-09-28T15:50:00.000-05:00

Go Down, Moses Diary

2010-09-10T11:32:00.004-05:00

fromWilliam Faulkner on the Web:Diary that inspired Go Down, Moses discovered A 19th-century diary from a plantation in Holly Springs, Mississippi, apparently inspired the commissary ledger that was so instrumental in Go Down, Moses. From a Feb. 10 article in The New York Times: The climactic moment in William Faulkner’s 1942 novel “Go Down, Moses” comes when Isaac McCaslin finally

6 September 2010

2010-09-06T11:00:00.003-05:00

http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?vid=21719543They leave out the part about how Grover Cleveland also brutally supressed striking Pullman workers, and wanted to burnish his image. Also left out: that the US doesn't celebrate labor day on May 1st because "May Day" came to have socialist connotations for some. Of course nobody pays me to be so pedantic in real life, but I can be so here.

Brigitte Dale, the daisytree girl

2010-08-18T07:24:00.003-05:00

win·some (win′səm):adjectiveattractive in a sweet, engaging way; charming.

the return of epicfu (not in 3D)

2010-08-12T09:17:00.000-05:00

Jenny Toomey explains what net neutrality means to musicians

2010-08-11T00:01:00.000-05:00

Grey Gardens 1975

2010-08-08T07:14:00.001-05:00

Grey Gardens is a documentary by the Mayles brothers, who appear occasionally in the mirror.

I (supposedly) write like

2010-07-18T21:38:00.004-05:00

I write likeCory DoctorowI Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!This is the "badge" that was generated when I inputted my text from "At least you can afford shoes", below. Apparently I Write Like is the newest thing, for people who have time to kill and require flattery and haute distractions. I heard

Saturday the 3rd

2010-07-03T21:49:00.006-05:00

Song is "As we go up we go down," by Guided by Voices. I've been spammed by a pretty insistent jerk who has left over a dozen comment spams on various posts with links to suspicious-sounding sites. I hope nobody followed any of them, as they seem disreputable. At any rate that's why I've decided to turn comments off, possibly indefinitely.

the resident: Twitter Sucks (Now)

2010-07-01T20:25:00.002-05:00

More world cup

2010-06-22T21:35:00.002-05:00

I'll admit I'm not that into soccer myself, but how can you not be impressed by the enthusiasm of this pair of Paraguayans?

Writing n' junk

2010-06-21T07:00:00.007-05:00

"Do We Still Need Libraries?"What's the purpose of libraries—really? To be a community gathering place? To promote life-long learning? To help users navigate the information flow? To store print documents for the historical record, as Nicholson Baker argues they should (and aren't) in Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper?Libraries can serve all these functions. But what they mean to us

At least you can afford shoes

2010-06-15T01:28:00.001-05:00

Alejandro González Iñárritu, the marketably avante-gardish Mexican film-maker who directed Amores perros, did the commercial above. I hate to admit I liked this when I saw it at Slate, in spite of many of the things it represents-- commercialism, mindlessly hyperkinetic editing, glitzy phoniness, celebrity worship, and probably a bunch of other things which if pointed out would just belabor the

Novelist Elif Şafak-Euronews

2010-06-09T23:43:00.000-05:00

Euronews — June 06, 2010 — Elif Şafak is Turkey's most popular female writer. She has also gained fame abroad, not only for her literary accomplishments but also because of the lawsuit brought against her in Turkey because, in one of her novels she refers to the mass killings of Armenians in 1915; that is in The Bastard of Istanbul. The suit was dropped. Euronews met up with Şafak in Lyon,

Ella vs outer space

2010-06-07T20:28:00.001-05:00

Ingrid the pit bull

2010-05-30T17:15:00.002-05:00

Added On May 18, 2010A dog shelter in Huntington, New York, offers to purchase Viagra for an adoptive owner. WABC's Josh Einiger reports.I keep telling myself, "Jonathan Versen, you need more variety here at Hugo Zoom, not just CNN videos." OK, I'll listen to myself, but after this bit about Ingrid the pit bull.

more on the Gulf spill

2010-05-26T01:56:00.002-05:00

CNN's Brooke Baldwin and Rick Sanchez speak to Jean-Michel Cousteau about the consequences of the Gulf Coast oil spill.

Hawaii 5.0.2

2010-05-20T18:07:00.003-05:00

Apparently there's a new Hawaii 5-o Show. The new intro looks like something by "McG."

Porn for the blind

2010-05-12T00:02:00.004-05:00

Added On April 15, 2010Never before has Braille felt like this. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.

Aaron Jamison

2010-05-05T21:51:00.004-05:00

the verbiage at CNN reads: Added On April 29, 2010An Oregon man holds onto his sense of humor even though he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. KATU reports.I note that the public health policy dimension, the fact that this man's widow-to-be would be unlikely to face crushing debts in most industrialized countries as a consequence of her husband's health problems, goes unmentioned. Maybe

Chinese knife killings CNN

2010-05-05T21:33:00.002-05:00

Added On April 30, 2010What's behind a series of violent attacks on young students in China? CNN's Jaime Florcruz reports.

hope for many, perhaps

2010-04-24T16:26:00.002-05:00

from CNN: Added On April 21, 2010A Detroit man credits yoga and a proper diet with helping him lose 365 pounds. WXYZ reports.

Sustainable seafood practices

2010-04-22T16:32:00.001-05:00

CNN: Added On April 22, 2010Sustainable seafood practices are discussed in light of efforts to conserve food sources. CNN's Tom Foreman reports.Apropos of Earth Day I thought I should share this.

Eyjafjallajökull

2010-04-21T13:12:00.005-05:00

No, I don't know how to pronounce it either. However, I note that Wikipedia has a sound file,here, which is bit too quick to be helpful for my slow ears. Also, they note that "...the first fissure occurred at Fimmvörðuháls." Fimmvörðuháls! How can Icelanders understand each other with words like that, let alone give each other directions?

An American graffitist

2010-04-09T13:15:00.001-05:00

from Rocketboom.

Cspan caller gripes about excess of black callers

2010-03-31T19:30:00.004-05:00

via "The Root", here: "Caller Respectfully Critiques C-SPAN's Abundance of Black Callers." Are they being sarcastic when they refer to the caller as respectful? You decide for yourself.I have neglected Hugo Zoom this past month. However, starting next week I mean to go back to posting cultural tidbits here, probably at the rate of 3 times a week or so. Meanwhile I will be gone for a few days,

"Buy one anyway"

2010-03-30T02:17:00.002-05:00

This was posted on Slate in mid-February. It strikes me as the product of smug people who know that because they work for a fairly prestigious internet news/info portal, their ox is safe from goring. Possibly I'm just "not getting it," but that's how it comes across to me.

"the resident" re Peak USA

2010-03-16T23:48:00.000-05:00

from CNN ireports-1

2010-02-28T10:16:00.006-06:00

Apparently if you have a web connection you can upload a "citizen journalist iReport" to CNN. This is one Bob Johnson from somewhere in Michigan. I haven't figured out how to get this page to load with the ireport embedded such that it doesn't autoplay, but you can pause it indefinitely, or at least until your connection to HZ refreshes.[note: you have to hover over the video to make the controls

Ladysmith black mambazo

2010-02-26T07:13:00.002-06:00

the original is here."For 40 years, the choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has captured the hearts and minds of people around the world, including former South African President, Nelson Mandela"

Yes, even bar graphs

2010-02-25T01:48:00.004-06:00

I heard that after they saw this, Gustavus Adophus called this guy wanting their degree back. Via Gawker, here.

Howard Zinn X2, from 2009

2010-02-24T03:29:00.006-06:00

'Howard Zinn: relying on charity from the rich'A Youtuber, mr1001nights, writes:"From a talk I recorded at Harvard's JFK school of government in March, 2009, on a break from recording Thomas Ferguson for my documentary Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics"*****and,from jpreeeter, "Howard Zinn on President Obama Recieving Nobel Peace Prize""The honorable author, historian, and social

stroke your plants

2010-02-22T23:47:00.002-06:00

via CBS2, "world's most useless facts" (although this strikes me as moderately useful.)

Fora TV discussion of "the Daily show"

2010-02-21T23:34:00.002-06:00

"Journalists Rachel Davis Mersey and Ted Anthony defend "The Daily Show" from NPR's Ira Glass, who argues that the program, while good satire, is a poor substitute for actual, in-depth news coverage."the complete video is here.

Robert Greenwald vs. the History Channel

2010-02-20T21:52:00.000-06:00

www.stopkennedysmears.com -A petition telling the History Channel that until they stop running politically motivated fiction as historical "fact," you will refuse to watch their programming.Robert Greenwald: "Joel Surnow, a hard-right activist and former Fox News producer who supported Rick Santorum and is close friends with Rush Limbaugh, is the executive producer of an upcoming mini-series on

Parker Lewis können nicht verlieren

2010-02-19T20:48:00.000-06:00

Audrey Nelson on Fora TV

2010-02-17T17:51:00.002-06:00

''Cleavage at Work? A New Dress Code for Professional Women''Another video from Fora TV. This is Audrey Nelson. The full video of her presentation is here. Yes, the still image caught my attention.

Nixon and the HMO debate

2010-02-13T22:34:00.002-06:00

via Ed Richey and Sean O'Neill.

claymation resnais, sort of

2010-02-13T09:09:00.000-06:00

those pesky distinctions

2010-02-12T08:13:00.006-06:00

screenshot from New York magazine, referencing this cbs news story. and,catching up from last month:"Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger"cross-posted at Dead Horse.

Euronews: 2 stories

2010-02-08T06:09:00.002-06:00

"Eyes in the sky helping with major disasters"The tragic earthquake in Haiti last month triggered a vast international rescue effort. And space played a vital role in saving lives. Observation satellites are helping by providing crucial information in the emergencies that follow major natural disasters....Euronews interview with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan

Sunday Morning- from 2003

2010-02-07T04:39:00.003-06:00

from the 1st season of Dead Like Me, from the summer of 2003. I never watched this show during its original, brief two-season run, but then again I've never had any premium cable channels, and I think it was on Showtime. Nevertheless, having gotten past the silly intro sequence I'm growing fond of it now, watching it in its second or third life on Hulu.

CNN n' winter driving

2010-02-06T23:40:00.000-06:00

Added On February 6, 2010CNN's Reynolds Wolf visits a winter driving school and picks up some tips on how to navigate safely in the snow and ice.

Temple Grandin on CNN

2010-02-04T06:17:00.001-06:00

LINK- HLN's Joy Behar talks with Claire Danes and autism pioneer Temple Grandin about the importance of treating autism early.

3 Feb 2010 Muslims changing names to reduce discrimination

2010-02-03T07:29:00.002-06:00

Dos Americas: The Reconstruction of New Orleans

2010-01-31T08:12:00.001-06:00

via UC Television.

the trouble with women, 1950

2010-01-25T04:22:00.001-06:00

with 'Brad Bradshaw' and Myrtle Malloy.

CNN:"Big city left with no bookstore"

2010-01-22T23:06:00.000-06:00

The original url at CNN is here. I don't know if the story is literally true, because some cursory Googling suggests there are other book stores in Laredo, although it also shows the B. Dalton phone number as current.

F. A. Hayek's "Road to serfdom"(in cartoon form!?)

2010-01-19T04:21:00.002-06:00

the url for the original is here.

Dana n' the firefighters

2010-01-12T21:10:00.001-06:00

via slate.com.

moto gp de france 1973 (at paul ricard)

2010-01-10T04:18:00.000-06:00

vader vs japanese cops on youtube

2010-01-09T21:43:00.001-06:00

from Harry Enfield; cocktail chitxhat

2010-01-08T17:12:00.001-06:00

From ''got wind 2''

CNN video Cal lawyer vs BofA

2010-01-07T23:44:00.001-06:00

UPI and security theater

2010-01-06T04:32:00.001-06:00