I've written before about how I am having a love affair with google images. Not so much with you tube and their search-ability stuff. Somehow their links seem designed to humiliate and creep one out. Allow me to explain.
I heard some music I really liked and googled the writer's name and learned that she had been inspired by really old cartoons. So, of course, I went straight to youtube (It's the video capital still, right?) and found this:
Okey Dokey. Quaint propaganda that reminded me an awful lot of the "science" movies we watched back in grade school days. Nuclear Power is our friend! Blood should match your own skin! How to know if your parents are commies! Okay, I made those titles up. But I bet if you youtube or google video search them a reasonable facsimile will come up. Maybe I'll do it later.
One of the reasons I didn't was because I got waylaid by the links to the right of the cartoon I was actually watching. Yikes! Rhino sex! Horse mating! Dog humping old woman! Gorillas doing what gorillas do! Need I say: YIKES! Where did this come from when all I was looking at was a 50year old animation?!
Did I peek? Well, yeah, sure. Who wouldn't? Then I looked at some of the comments left by previous surprised viewers and learned that I should "clean out my history." ANOTHER thing to worry about! Actually, I had heard about this before, but since I am a comparatively dull person with interweb interests that are also pretty dull, I'd never bothered to clean my history before. I don't have time for this!
I just finished reading a book called "Pornland" because the wife of one of my instructors had an article about the book published in a serious academic journal. Quite an honor for her. I wanted to read the book first and THEN read her article to see if our opinions synced up at all. What I really wanted was to see if I was as smart as I am sure she is, and thus gain some unsolicited validation for myself.
I heard some music I really liked and googled the writer's name and learned that she had been inspired by really old cartoons. So, of course, I went straight to youtube (It's the video capital still, right?) and found this:
Okey Dokey. Quaint propaganda that reminded me an awful lot of the "science" movies we watched back in grade school days. Nuclear Power is our friend! Blood should match your own skin! How to know if your parents are commies! Okay, I made those titles up. But I bet if you youtube or google video search them a reasonable facsimile will come up. Maybe I'll do it later.
One of the reasons I didn't was because I got waylaid by the links to the right of the cartoon I was actually watching. Yikes! Rhino sex! Horse mating! Dog humping old woman! Gorillas doing what gorillas do! Need I say: YIKES! Where did this come from when all I was looking at was a 50year old animation?!
Did I peek? Well, yeah, sure. Who wouldn't? Then I looked at some of the comments left by previous surprised viewers and learned that I should "clean out my history." ANOTHER thing to worry about! Actually, I had heard about this before, but since I am a comparatively dull person with interweb interests that are also pretty dull, I'd never bothered to clean my history before. I don't have time for this!
I just finished reading a book called "Pornland" because the wife of one of my instructors had an article about the book published in a serious academic journal. Quite an honor for her. I wanted to read the book first and THEN read her article to see if our opinions synced up at all. What I really wanted was to see if I was as smart as I am sure she is, and thus gain some unsolicited validation for myself.
(And just to show how brave and fearless I am; I just googled an image of the book's cover! Take that!)
But I DID search the book's author's name. And I DID carry the book with me to read while I was doing my laundry. And it DID create quite the stir here at Elder House. Now! How the hell do I clean THAT out of my history?!?!?!
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