The Great
We’ve got your back Christine:
A while back, I encouraged my friends and neighbors to take the cleveland.com challenge. Since then, I’ve been told by many people that I’m fighting a losing battle. Here’s what I’ve got to say about that.
When we flee to our own corners of the Internet, where we only talk to those people who think like us, we are doing something terrible that (particularly in Cleveland) we should do better to avoid — i.e., we are committing a sin analagous to suburban flight. We are taking our intellectual tax base out to the edges, and leaving our core community to crumble.
The Good
- Russ Miller at Finite Jest unearths a hilarious mis-translated review of Cleveland from the original Québécois. (The actual article dates from 2007 and can be found here.)
- Jenita McGowan at Lustfelt 4 My Rustbelt spent her staycation well.
- The Beachland Ballroom has the lowdown on the Waterloo Arts Festival and its ancillary activities this weekend in Collinwood.
The Bad
- Chronic pessimist Jeff Buster wants somebody (else, apparently) to start a recall of the County Commissioners, and says Mike Polk’s tourism video is “harmonious with my outlook on Leveland” {sic} while considering this video to be spammy. Here’s some free advice, Jeff: stop complaining, start the recall yourself, and look up the definition of parody. You’re not helping.
- Todd Meany of Fox 8 gives another piece of evidence to those who claim TV News is a joke by doing a ridiculous story about a black bear. Read the rave reviews:
- “A work of retarded brilliance” - JuicyPips
- “I know what you’re thinking: “That can’t be real.” Oh, but it is.” - Fresno Beehive
- “This video is like something that The Onion would do.” - Exploding Wumpus
- “The recreation of the bear movement is fantastic - journalism at its best.” - Flood at MetaFilter
- “A ridiculous story.” - Kyle Brady
- “They call this reporting?” - Van Santos
BHC will have a better version of this story for you sometime next week.
The Ugly
Guy Templeton Black at RealNEO pretends he’s a ‘pediphile priest’ and tries to grab his dog’s penis. We don’t really understand what this has to do with Catholic foot fetishism, but here’s the video:
