Category Archives: YouTube

1,000,000+ views on YouTube

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Reverend

Sometime this month the 176 videos I have uploaded to my YouTube channel have been collectively viewed more than 1 million times—well, 1,041,448 to be exact. It’s pretty crazy to think videos I have uploaded have been watched that many … Continue reading →

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Davey and Goliath: Christmas Lost and Found

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Reverend

Re-runs of Davey and Goliath were a staple of my childhood, and possibly the most compelling thing about this show was that it was the only kids’ show on the tube Sunday morning during the late 70s and early 80s—such … Continue reading →

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Ace in the Hole

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Reverend

The Media Funhouse just posted about the unbelievable classic film treasures that enjoy a short, but rich life on YouTube (kinda like the cicada in August). And the two collections he links to are filled with Western and Film Noir … Continue reading →

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Stopover in a Quiet Town

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Reverend

My favorite Twilight Zone episode for the last six or seven years is “Stopover in a Quiet Town.” I think the whole idea of two people waking up after a bender in an abandoned town in which they discover everything … Continue reading →

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The Swine Flu in 1976?

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Reverend

The fearless Anand Rao just tweeted a link to two Public Service Announcements from 1976 about the Swine Flu (via the Daily Beast). They are pretty awesome, the 70s aesthetic is absolutely one of my favorites of all time. I … Continue reading →

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Cigarettes and Chop Suey

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Reverend

Over at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, Kliph Nesteroff linked to a cartoon he found at Cartoon Brew (a new gem in the reader) titled “In the Nicotine” from 1961 which is about a man who is checked into a … Continue reading →

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The time people will spend watching crap

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Reverend

I was talking to Andy Rush and Jerry Slezak recently about the fact that the over 90 videos I have uploaded to my YouTube account have almost 360,000 views. A figure that is modest by YouTube standards, but still kind of … Continue reading →

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We Edit Life

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Reverend

The other day I came across a video by People like Us (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) on Ubuweb, specifically the collage video she put together from found footage at the Prelinger Archive called Remote Controller (2003). It comes highly recommended, and … Continue reading →

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Aldous Huxley on freedom, communism, technology, and the pharmacological revolution

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Reverend

Cliph Nesteroff’s blog Classic Television Showbiz is one of the great filters for YouTube on the web. He consistently puts up a ton of great clips of all sorts of gems from the golden age of television. Recently he linked … Continue reading →

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YouTube experimenting with copyright?

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Reverend

After uploading the final speech from First Blood to YouTube, I was immediately delivered a copyright notice from Google and Lionsgate. Here is what it looks like: Click for larger version you can view in its entirety. To quote: Lionsgate … Continue reading →

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