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Did you guys watch the “Otis” video yet? With Kanye and Jay-Z? People have a lot of different opinions about that album and that song because that is what people do. They are born, they have opinions, they either do or don’t go to the gym every once in awhile, and they die. The end. The thing about that video, though, is everyone is smiling so much and having such a great time! That’s great. It’s nice when people are feeling good and aren’t afraid to show it. And that is what I wish for you this weekend. Have a very “Otis video” weekend. (And if you’re in the Atlanta area, feel free to meet up with your fellow monsters, who are doing that. As always: watch out for murderers. And true love.)
After the jump, the five Highest Rated comments, as voted on by you, the Lowest Rated comment, the winner of the Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Insensitive Ironic T-Shirt Contest, and the Editor’s and Associate Editor’s Choice.
This Week’s Highest Rated Comments
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huckabeast | Aug 10th | Score:57 |
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I like you, Gabe, but if you ever humiliate my girlfriend like that again, I will not be responsible for my actions. They will be superbad. |
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| Posted in: A Fake Interview With Emma Stone | |||
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Gobblegirl | Aug 9th | Score:58 |
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We’re knocking him for not getting a roommate, but be honest: would you want to live with this guy? |
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| Posted in: Don’t Live In An Apartment Like This | |||
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facetaco | Aug 10th | Score:59 |
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It wasn’t him. |
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| Posted in: Duh Aficionado Magazine: Bert And Ernie Aren’t Not Married Because Of Intolerance | |||
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R2D2, Esq. | Aug 9th | Score:70 |
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Having a tiny apartment is the new constantly mentioning that you don’t even own a TV. |
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| Posted in: Don’t Live In An Apartment Like This | |||
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R2D2, Esq. | Aug 5th | Score:81 |
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I’m looking forward to when Gwyneth Paltrow makes her landmark appearance on Gabe and Max Like The Internet. |
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| Posted in: The Louis CK Talking To Dane Cook Scene Is Genuinely Important | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: Whoa, way to go R2D2, Esq. The top two comments??? That has NEVER been done before! Which is probably a lie! I'm not sure if it's been done before, I'm actually probably sure that it has. But didn't that make you feel good when you read that it had never been done before?]
This Week’s Lowest Rated Comment
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thelocaltrust | Aug 10th | Score:-16 |
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| Posted in: Paul Rudd Continues To Be Very Appealing | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: Now, I think these downvotes were a bit presumptuous. Maybe this person LOVES getting kicked in the testicles? Maybe he thinks getting kicked in the testicles is very handsome and charming and would probably actually be funny and nice if you met it in person? You don't know this person's life! Thelocaltrust: #1 getting kicked in the testicles/Paul Rudd fan of all time, maybe.]
This Week’s Caption Contest Winner
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Mailman | Aug 9th | Score:57 | |
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IT’S NOT A HUMOR |
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| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It Contest: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Insensitive Ironic T-Shirt | |||
[Ed. Note: Congratulations, Mailman! You earned it.]
This Week’s Associate Editor’s Choice
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Nate Scott! | Aug 11th | Score:23 | |
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I have the weirdest tears right now. |
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| Posted in: You Can Make It Up: Bert And Ernie Get Divorced | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: I have to explain this choice a little bit. I've always been a person who references things constantly and mostly in situations where those references don't even make sense at all. You know what I mean, I won't get into it. But lately it has gotten much worse. Yesterday a person was trying to have a conversation with me and I responded only with some really very stupid reference and that person said, "So this is what your brain is now?" And I would really like that to not be what my brain is now but I think that unfortunately, yes, that is what my brain is now. And after I read the Bert and Ernie fan fiction my first thought was, "I have the weirdest tears right now." And I hated myself for it. Oh my goodness. And then I saw that you, Nate Scott!, had posted this exact same thing in the comments. And then I hated myself so much more, you have no idea. I'm surprised that I am alive to tell the tale. But. Also. Great job, Nate Scott! Great joke. Great minds think like every other mind on the Internet. Mind brothers for life.]
This Week’s Editor’s Choice
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raptor jesus | Aug 11th | Score:4 | |
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Corporations are not Pockets!! |
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| Posted in: Duh Aficionado Magazine: Corporations Are Not People | |||
[Ed. Note: This is just a very good point. It's exactly the kind of thing that NO ONE seems willing to talk about in these political primaries. Open your eyes, Sheeple. First they came for the pockets and you were silent. And other jokes about politics and corporations and Karl Marx and pockets.]
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Let’s all dance like a puppy eating a lime!
haha puppy that goes in your mouth, you can’t eat it with your chin and your feet
Thank you for reminding me I should watch this episode again.
“Are you being sarcastic, dude?”
“I don’t even know anymore.”
Kelly I know what you mean, I always have to focus really hard on speaking English and knowing that lol that’s your girlfriend bing bong ding dong Steve Winwood makes no sense to 99% of people
????? Leave me out of your fantasies aka “Don’t Get Too Close To My Fantasy” etc.
Dear Mr. Fantasy, get it that’s a song Steve Winwood co-wrote and sang
Stare in to the Lion’s eyes
And if you taste the candy
You’ll get to the surprise
I’m waiting for the day when there is a Monster who calls itself, Spencer Davis… that will be fun that day.
I’ve learned to use Videogum to have personal laffs around other people. I swear this has happened every time that Topher Grace or That 70s Show is mentioned around anybody I know:
Someone: something something That 70s Show something something…
Me: Hey, what’s up with Topher Grace?
Someone: What do you mean?
(conversation is obviously in my court now)
Me: I don’t know… I just… kinda wonder what he’s doing right now…
Everyone: …
Me: …
Mila Kunis is pretty.
“That’s your boyfriend / girlfriend / dentist / whatever” has become a very common meme among my group of friends lately.
I find it helps if you choose your friends based on if they read Videogum.
Ian I know what you mean.
So I’ve only just caught up with today’s Videogum. And seeing as I have a bit of a personal interest in this, I thought I’d have my say here. The “Russell Brand breaks his legendary silence” post just makes me sad. A person writes an article for a national newspaper about the London riots, someone who has lived in these areas for most of their life, and gets treated with disdain and mocked because it was Russell Brand who wrote it.
The whole “legendary silence” trope seems to be about taking self-important celebrities and pointing out ill-informed quotes they’ve made about topics completely unrelated to them. Russell Brand’s article was thoughtful, considered, and described more than adequately some of the social complexities of the area where the rioting has occurred. I don’t want to tell Gabe how to run a blog, and I know the MO of this place is mocking of celebrities who have a little too much self-worth. And let’s face it, Russell Brand has done a lot worth mocking. It was just disappointing that when he does something positive with regards to a very serious issue that he is knowledgeable about, it was treated as a joke.
Isn’t that one irrelevant?
I know I always make stupid non-jokes about my handle, but I’m actually asking: huh?
The level at which I’m concerned about my possible irrelevance in the context of the comment section of Videogum.com is comically disturbing. After posting this, I finished work, walked my dog, talked to my friend for an hour, talked to my sister for a half hour and finished a song. The first free moment I had, I came to Videogum, expecting to see “+63″ next to Capu’s comment, paired with comments from every monster about my irrelevance. This is at least twenty-percent true (science).
When did I become the Marc Maron of Videogum?
Are we good?
Oh shit, you did quit drinking, That One. Sorry I doubted you.
It’s late so you’ll probably never see this but you’ll never be irrelevant, That One. You’re one of the funniest, smartest and most well known people on Videogum. You’re better than me in everything you do. Though, it is good to know I’m not the only person with Videogum insecurity.
…I meant the gif. The gif is irrelevant. Because that’s its point isn’t it? To be an irrelevant gif? And then I thought I would use a play on words with your username because that’s what people do around here. I didn’t realise it would be taken so seriously. Sorry =(
yeah but WHY had he use so much adjectives? the piece itself did not feel insincere, but just misguided – all that baroque language just failed to get something important across about those riots//the looting/anti-capitalist protestors… in my opinion. also: speaking from the other side of the pond (i mean LORRY), i don’t think his analysis was that unique or profound? of course youth are disaffected. they are all across europe. and of course ideology is ruining everything for everyone except for the lucky few.
(i don’t agree with this analysis. i just don’t think it’s that big of a deal if russell brand echoes the sentiments that have popped up all over the leftist press in the Uk/Europe.)
(but again, that’s speaking from this side of the lorry)
that being said:
(i think i mean to say sorry. let’s be friends?)
case rested?
My problem with his article is it is banal, self involved, and hypocritical. The vast majority of it is pointless waffle as he bathers on about absolutlely nothing, before arriving at a completely pedestrian and ill informed half point along the lines of “thanks Mr Cameron!!!”.
He performs the typical trick of hypocrites which is to point out himself, before ignoring the issue.
Aside from the fact that blaming the Coalition government is absurd (they have been in power for a single year, New Labour if anyone are the ones responsible for a decade plus of miscommunication and poorly managed spending on youth which “lead” to this- again, if you are willing to so quickly insist on blaming a particular political party, which is myopic and ignorant) blaming Cameron in particular is just cheap pot shots against an unpopular figure. Say what you want about Cameron, disagree with his views and his policies, but at least he BELIEVES something. Cameron isn’t trying to disadvantage people, Cameron isn’t trying to lose people jobs and benefits; what he is doing (and you can tell because he is actually one of the rarer politicians that tend to talk more directly, and often not just skirt issues when questioned) is actually trying to rebuild a shattered economy in deficit. His “Big Society” is clearly something he believes in.
What is Russell Brand doing? By his own admission just some corporate shill who 100% indulges in the self obsessed capitalist individualism and greed that is the cause of this kind of behaviour. But because he’s funny, because he’s “ironic” and not a stuffy politician, he’s somehow the voice of the people? He hasn’t lived in those areas for a long time.
And fyi, those areas he talks about are fucking super trendy nowadays, so he can have a day off talking about how impoverished and maligned they are.
Also, don’t know kertwang but I assume you are American? Not trying to have a go AT ALL but don’t use the descriptor “protestors” for these riots. I am really hoping that is not the message being sent across the pond. These people were protesting nothing. That’s not to say that their actions can’t be explained by their social disadvantages, but what went on was no protest, barely a riot; just complete barbarism.
and that little caveat at the end- “Russell Brand’s fee from this article will be donated to a clean up fund”- his fee for that article is about as much as Russell Brand tips in a restaurant.
p.s Ralph Fines is too skinny to play me in the movie
hey, i agree with a lot of what you are saying. i’m not from the UK, but tit’s all over the news here. Commentators from my country as well as some writers I follow in my field (cultural studies/sociology) have been interpreting this as a sign there is something really wrong with a political system that neglects a large part of its citizenry (young people) and a social system that really quite shamelessly disadvantages those who are already disadvantaged. That’s why Brand’s whole point about consumerism seemed banal to me. I hadn’t paid much attention to his self-indulgent stuff – like you said it was hypocritical.
The reasons i used to word protestors as well as looters and rioters is really because whether or not designating people as protestors or as looters (or as terrorists or activists, etc.) is a political choice. I’m not saying I feel these people are protesting something; I was merely referring to, among other things, the BBC’s fuck-up in describing these people initially as protestors (which they retracted). I guess i wasn’t very clear on that, so I’m sorry.
also i should proofread my comments. what a HUGE freudian slip!
Boobs on the News
Yowza! Top 2? You shouldn’t have, you guys.
Although I know that Kelly is wrong and this is not the first time it has happened, I’m going to pretend that it is and lord it over my friends all weekend. On Monday, I will begin the search for new friends.
I think werttrew snagged all five his first week commenting. The rest is history.
Not quite.
http://videogum.com/89581/monsters_ball_the_weeks_best_c_10/franchises/monsters-ball/
May I be the first to submit my application.
Gobbles, you made it!! Congratulations!
We can finally sit together at lunch, now.
Now I owe her a popsicle.
Thanks guys!!!
Hey Monsters! I don’t know if this is the right time or place to do this, but I wanted to link to this blog post I wrote for American Short Fiction about Andre Dubus’s “Killings”/Todd Field’s In the Bedroom: http://www.americanshortfiction.org/blog/?p=4725. It’s part of a series I’m writing on short story-to-film adaptations.
I don’t comment here TOO frequently, but I read the comments enough to know that Monsters are a particularly bright and well-read bunch who love movies (duh), soooo, I thought someone might be interested in reading inept blog posts about great literature and film.
Have a good weekend, everyone!
I’M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!!
Guys. I had a weird videogum dream the other night where Gabe was taking all commenters/Monsters/whatever on a field trip somewhere, and we were walking around on the steel girder skeleton of a building being erected in the city. And then I don’t remember anything after that. Is that a weird thing to have a dream about? Creepy? Sorry, Gabe.
Thanks for insulting me and giving me editor’s choice at the same time, Gabe.
I can’t tell if you are calling Kelly Gabe or if you didn’t notice you got ASSOCIATE Editor’s Choice.
Harumph!
Layers within layers, “my friend.”
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! Guys, this is my first Monster’s Ball, and it has happened at the end of a horrible, horrible week in which I was completely miserable and questioning every life decision I had ever made.
But those decisions, those mistakes, they have brought me to this moment. So they were all worthwhile.
Celebrate! I’ll be working all this weekend, but can someone have a dance party on my behalf? I’d appreciate it, I really would.
Breaking Bad Spoiler for this Sunday: It all works out and everything is fine
jeez Nate Scott and Kelly, why dont you just fuck already
Oh man, I missed Mailman’s caption the first time around, so can I just say, for the record: BAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Perfect.
Have a great weekend all, and if any DC Monsters can think of anything I shouldn’t miss in DC, I am all ears.
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