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Why Are the Lights Out? Find Out Why in The Earth Hour Movie (Video)

March 29th, 2008 at 7:20 am » Comments (0)

The lights are out, even in the virtual world. People are asking, “Why Is Google black?”

On the page is the one line: “We’ve turned out the lights. Now it’s your turn,” with a link to a description of “Earth Hour.”

Google users in the United States will notice today that we “turned the lights out” […]



Louise Brooks and Greta Garbo, Silent Screen Stars, Music Video Stars

March 28th, 2008 at 8:49 pm » Comments (1)

Three music videos for a Friday night. The gorgeous evocation of the 1920s of Vanessa Paradis’ new music video, L’incendie sent us searching for clips of Louise Brooks, and we found Garbo, too.

Vanessa Paradis - L’incendie from Divinidylle, directed by Johnny Depp, reminds us that music video can be an art form.

Creative synthesis […]



Obama on The View: “I’m Not Vetting My Pastor” (Videos)

March 28th, 2008 at 3:49 pm » Comments (1)

Barack Obama on “The View,” the latest stop on the Pastor Jeremiah Wright Apology Tour, was swooned over, predictably. He wrote our headline, and uttered many sound bites….
Obama described Wright as a “brilliant man who was still stuck in a time warp.”
“View” co-host Elisabeth Hasslebeck expressed concern that Obama’s choice of pastor may show […]




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