Because American politics is funnier as a music video

[sunnyskywalker]

Okay, maybe if I only link to a single entry of Hello, Hedonism and state that I only support visits to this single entry rather than the entire blog...

Anyway, I am getting obsessed with the quirky things they have on this blog. The latest is a pair of presidential candidate music videos. One involves hot girls singing and dancing in the streets, some for Obama and some for Giuliani. As the site says, "you’ll find yourself singing “Giuliani for pre-si-dent/ Obama gotta re-pres-ent” for HOURS." The other is a single hot girl singing a love song to Hillary.

Now, hot girls singing about how presidential candidates make them hot is a little disturbing, but it also makes a good satirical point: you often hear about candidates "courting" voters and "wooing" the public, right? And we all know that the tall guy wins, the better-looking guy wins, interns can be for the president's personal as well as political use, etc. This just takes that and says, "Fine, you're wooing us and trying to look good on TV for us? Then we'll respond to that." It's no coincidence that the first video asks you to check out their site, barelypolitical.com.

Also, the Obama/Giuliani song is damn catchy.

More miscellaneous links:

A summary (with scans) of a comic wherein Batman and Superman spend the night at the Fortress of Solitude comforting each other. Includes alien worms penetrating each other. No, this is not a fan comic. What did these guys they think they were writing?

Titles We Have Known lists the ten most common titles on submissions this publication has gotten in the past year. Things like "Waiting" and "Remember" I can see, but "Butterfly"? "Smoke"?

I wonder how long until someone submits a story with all ten in the title as a joke? I'm thinking, "While Waiting for That Reunion at Work, Remember the Revelation of the Smoke Butterfly of Grace You Had as a Voyeur With Insomnia."

Comments

[baleanoptera.livejournal.com]

Includes alien worms penetrating each other. No, this is not a fan comic. What did these guys they think they were writing?

I think that is one of the most disturbing links I've ever had the joy to click. Like the blog said - how did this ever pass the editor? A pop-culture! never change!

[sunnyskywalker]

I know! And there's a whole site elsewhere devoted to scans of wacky comics covers that make you wonder what everyone involved was smoking. You can waste a lot of time goggling at the useless superpowers Jimmy Olsen used to get every other month (or at the awful WWII propaganda, which is bizarre in its own special way).

[baleanoptera.livejournal.com]

I have now spent far too much time trawling that site. But OMG - the oddness and strangeness of comics! I will never look at hardcore comic readers the same way again!

or at the awful WWII propaganda, which is bizarre in its own special way

So true, so true. But since I'm academically fascinated by the awful WWII propaganda I kind of like it - in all it's over-the-top ness.

[plasticinecupid.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I needed to see the Obama Girl video just now. Researching presidential candidates can be... well, infuriating and depressing, among other murky things. Bleh. It's good to be able to laugh about it.

[sunnyskywalker]

No kidding. Sometimes the only thing to do is to take solace in the wacky musical version.

[plasticinecupid.livejournal.com]

I'd like to design an Obama Girl t-shirt with a dialogue bubble stating: "Guiliani is such a tool!"

[sunnyskywalker]

That would be awesome.