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Very informative and entertianing as well!
Late start on this one. Round up you favorite Videblogging 2007 video(s) and post here or hold out for Thursday comment section.
Second and a half, ’cause Drew doesn’t count.
By far the best episode of RB I’ve seen, since I started watching (every day) early last year.
Cute rocket, matches your pink blouse & lipstick!
Funny you included a clip of Ze, nice touch.
Catch the mouse first take?
Like the hat poetry man!
Justin, walking around w/a camera on his head, not looking crossing the street, gets hammered by a large speeding truck, the sound of his last breath being punched out of him, a little blood on the lens, the long pavement level, sideways shot down the street ….huh? oh sorry, just trippin’ but I’d vote for that piece of video!
How do I make a submarine in 2ndLife? (with torpedoes)
Bobby Kenedy, Martin Luther King, how brave to have given their lives for us.
Ze? Where?
guitar guy
bubble pak heart
carrots
kid w/loose tooth
?Ze
robot 1-15
dog
idiot w/a mermaid t-shirt
chickens
Nah, that\’s not him. For starters, that guy\’s pupils are the same size.
Turn off your monitor and rest your eyes a bit before posting again. Preferably on a beach.
Hmmm, coulda\’ fooled me, ask Drew, & It\’s dark right now @ the beach.
Great Show. Nice outfit.
Rocketboom Midnight Edition
Jimi Hendrix - Freedom
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6nUQuF_fj0Y
Here’s something you should do before you die: Go to Montgomery, Alabama and visit the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. It’s not usually crowded and for a few dollars you can get the whole tour, and probably a chance to just stand at the podium where Dr. King himself stood, bringing the word of God to people and birthing the most important and effective political movement in U.S. history.
I stood there once, noting that the worn wood under my hands could have used a paint job, looking out at the rows of empty pews and the balcony beyond, wondering what it was like when it was full, wondering if he ever stood there when it was empty like this and pondered what to do next. And I realized, really understood for the first time, that Dr. King was just a man, doing what he felt he had to, sticking his neck out farther than most of us will ever dare. My admiration for him grew 300 percent that day.
In the basement of the church — where Dr. King stood beside Rosa Parks as she told 50 congregants about getting arrested that day on the bus, and the boycott was agreed to that same night — there’s a nice collection of souvenirs, many of them less than a dollar. The pencils seemed especially appropriate and I carried away a fistful. They were also holding a bake sale that day, which included some awesome pie. And there’s a 47-foot mural in the main basement room depicting the civil rights struggle. Local high school kids take turns staffing the exhibit and they’ll explain the whole thing to you, image by image. Prominent among the faces of evil men in one part of the mural is J. Edgar Hoover, whose appearance doesn’t seem to surprise anyone who has sought this place out.
In Memphis the Lorraine Motel has been built out into the National Civil Rights Museum, but the original facade where Dr. King died is the same, the little square-tube balcony railing you know from that indelible picture of his people pointing to where the shot came from as he lay dying at their feet. The stuff inside the museum is worth a look, but again I found the place where things had happened, the smallness of it, the wasps building a nest in one end of that railing, the frailty of those people and the unfathomable things they willed themselves to do, carried the real message.
Go back and look at the New York Times articles from the assassination. The authorities did some very weird stuff, like cutting down a whole stand of trees right near the shooting site. I don’t usually go in for conspiracies (sorry, Zach). But really, you have to ask yourself, who would the dark forces in the government have wanted dead more?
It’s a question to ponder as we remember Dr. King and try to gauge what he did and said, and measure it off against the stuff we face today. For starters, I’m guessing he wouldn’t have been a big Iraq war fan.
http://www.dexterkingmemorial.org/
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/about/about.asp
Cool! Just noticed the voting below the video window.
But it\’s confusing, I\’m not sure if I\’m voting for the topic before the number or after. (I see now that it\’s after, but I bet there are a good number of erroneous votes happening.)
oooo, the post that nearly never was… better late than never and especially when it\’s an absolute cracker like this one. fab episode
thanks for posting the clip of boby kennedy. it\’s amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjkNW1vnZZs