I’m a little behind the eight-ball on Movember, as there’s only about six hours left and I still haven’t shaved off my Novembeard into a mustache. What can I tell you? Busy week.
As I did a couple of weeks ago, I’m giving away another Threadless t-shirt (a men’s large) to the next person who donates $25 or more. Here’s a photo of the shirt–it’s got kind of a smog + unicorn vomit theme.
In any case, let’s get to it. Apologies for the MySpace-style, in-the-bathroom-mirror photos. First, the full Novembeard:
Not exactly ‘full’, in truth, because I actually trimmed it a couple of times. So, let’s get trimming. First, some grad student goatee action:
Then there’s the horseshoe or biker moustache.
Then something close to a Selleck:
And, finally, because I can, here’s the Hitler. Or, if you’re feeling more PC, the Chaplin.
Even if you’re reading this on December 1st or 2nd, you can still donate. Thus far, we’ve raised $765! Thanks to everybody for all their donations up to now.
UPDATE: The t-shirt is spoken for, and we’re now up to $865!
The subtitled Hitler trope is a gift that keeps on giving. I don’t know why I find them so entertaining, but whether it’s the Sundin trade or problems with Windows Vista, they always amuse me. Maybe it’s because I saw the original film, and each send-up reminds me of the original’s super-serious tone?
In any case, Graeme McRanor has produced this latest example, on the Winter Olympics. Rated PG for frequent cursing:
I know I’m late to this ballgame, but I just saw this and it struck me as pretty amusing:
This isn’t the first of these remixes that I’ve seen using this snippet from the exceptionally good German film Der Untergang. Is there a Hitler video generator out there on the web somewhere?
ZDNet reports that YouTube faces criticism and possible legal action for hosting anti-semitic videos:
The videos hosted on YouTube include clips of a 1940 anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Suess and two music videos of outlawed German far-right rock band Landser, which show footage from World War II depicting Nazi military operations.
Report Mainz, which is due to air the program, said in a statement that Social Democrat (SPD) parliamentarian Dieter Wiefelspuetz said airing the clips on YouTube in Germany was scandalous. Report Mainz quoted him as saying: “Publishing these films amounts to aiding and abetting incitement of the people.”
You know, the older I get, the less sure I am about dealing with hate speech, particularly in a context like YouTube. After all, the web has increasingly sophisticated filtering mechanisms which enable the truth to bubble to the top. Nothing lives in isolation online, and so people who comment on and link to a hateful video can dilute much of its power. Is metadata a reasonable replacement for anti-hate speech laws?
Being a Caucasian, male, straight Westerner, I’m pretty much in every majority group you’d care to identify, and so I’m not really the target of any such speech. I’d probably feel differently if my grandparents died at Auschwitz.
I couldn’t figure out how to tastefully work in a reference to JewTube in this post, but it’s just staring us in the face, isn’t it?
