Mike McCready

The official line is that the group fought with EMI (their label) to be able to post this video online and make it freely available. But we know that’s not true. Making viral videos has become OK GO’s trademark. Not allowing the video to go viral would be shooting themselves in the foot. OKGO is [...]

In case you missed it, this is a song about America’s health care system called We’re Number 37 by Paul Hipp. The best line is: We’re #1 in tanks. We’re #1 in planes. We’re #1 in war with #2 for brains Check it out:

I’m seeing on TV that the authorities are taking this manifesto offline. This is the manifesto written by the pilot of the light plane that crashed into the IRS building in Austin, Texas. I have not read it all yet (and don’t endorse it) but in the interest of free flowing information I’m posting [...]

(text en català a continuació) Speaking of “hey look at me!” posts… early last year I thought I wanted to do a series of video podcasts that featured (rather, sort of compared and contrasted) Barcelona and New York. I go back and forth quite a bit so I thought I could get plenty of fresh footage [...]

Remember that game show that wasn’t on US TV but that made a lot of news? You know, the one about winning “The Best Job In The World”, which was to be the caretaker of a beautiful Australian island and get paid about $120,000? Well, the guy who beat out 35,000 contestants and won [...]

There’s a documentary that you can probably find on Pay-Per-View Movies or Movies On Demand or whatever your cable company calls them. It’s called “Collapse” and to say it was thought-provoking is an understatement. If you don’t read any further or do anything else, do yourself the favor of watching the trailer video below.

This snowman got my attention. It was especially out of place on the 2nd Avenue sidewalk near 30th Street.

All last year and early this year there was a lot of anticipation in the neighborhood about the High Line, a new elevated park in the Meatpacking District of the West Village. It offers great views of the neighborhood and of the Hudson River – and apparently of the people staying in The Standard Hotel in all their nudity and lewd behavior according to a report by Mike Taibbi on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.

The hard economic times in Spain have been making the major news media in the US. Here are two reports from NBC news. The first one is from tonight’s broadcast. It’s about the truckers’ strike. Here in the US we’re having a hard time coming to terms with $4.00 for a gallon of gas. [...]

OK, now I’m just being silly. Someone please take this camera away from me!! No, seriously!