I am always finding videos I want to blog about and most of the time I just Twitter them or something but some times I get a nice batch of videos and they are worth a full post. So yeah, here are three videos that caught my attention recently.

Let’s start with the new episode of Creepy Touch from Mishka and my friend Nick Gazin AKA the Toilet Cobra. Nick is joined in this by his father who is amazing. They go to a horror convention and talk to Tom Savini and got to join in a sing with Hershel Gordon Lewis. I am just going to assume you guys know who those people are, but if you don’t you need to get to googling. Nick’s dad once saw a few of my titty photos and determined that they were some how important works of art. He does not have such praise for the horror convention and lambasts it with vengeance. Also Gwar and Toxie show up which is always fucking awesome.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iP6BMmJttI[/youtube]

Next up we have a new Onion News Network episode which I was going to post anyway, but I found out that it was the last ONN episode my brother turned in before he started his new job. I was going to post the episode because it is hilarious and speaks to a number of issues of the day. I just like the idea of protesting PETA really. When I lived in VA I knew several people who worked at their headquarters and quit because of some of the horrible shit they were doing. This girl told me she used to go to old folks homes and convince the old people that PETA could take better care of the pets than the seniors could. Then as soon as they got to their van they would suffocate the animal because they believed that the animals were better dead than as pets. The video below is all about a women’s rights group protesting the harmful treatment of models. It is pretty great.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2z2lTUR5Ao[/youtube]

Lastly we have this Wale video I ran into on Lylas that featured Lady Gaga. Now while I am not as into the song as I am really excited about the video. Half the video is shot at Ben’s Chili Bowl which is pretty much my favorite place to eat on Earth (sorry Popeyes…). I feel like I have blogged about Ben’s before but here is a refresher. Ben’s is a chili spot in DC that is straight up legendary. It survived the MLK riots, Crack Cocaine and a Metro stop being built on their street which killed off all traffic and pretty much every business on the block. The only reason they stayed open was because the construction workers building the subway ate their lunch at Ben’s every day. In 1995 I started going to a Reggae club across the streets from Ben’s every week because they would rent out their bar to punk kids for $150. That neighborhood was horrible then and we would pretty much have to run to catch the train at night, but the bar let 14 year old kids drink, the Jamaican dudes who hung out there would sell us weed and Ben’s Chili Bowl was across the street. On a Saturday night the place would be packed with all the locals and then a bunch of white kids from the suburbs with mohawks. On the street the locals would threaten us and tell us to get out of their neighborhood, but we never got any of that at Ben’s. Just amazing Chili Fries and the best damn milkshakes I have ever tasted. Today, nearly 15 years after I saw a kid get beaten to death in the middle of 12th St, that neighborhood is thriving. It is a totally different place with a Starbucks and a 7-11 on each corner. Ben’s is now a hot spot for DC politicians looking for some street cred for having photos of them with Ben on the wall. The walls are filled with photos of African American civil rights leaders, football players, actors, musicians, comedians and several US Presidents. Last time I was in there they had a sign up that said “The only people who eat for free are the Obama’s” or something to that extent. So getting back to the video, presumably Wale is from DC and it has plenty of shots from places where I spent a lot of time growing up. Also if you look carefully you can see a shot of Anwan Glover from the Wire & the Backyard Band. I am a big Wire fan and as a DC native I have to like GoGo plus I met him at Le Royale so that gives this video extra points. Plus I slept in Lady GaGa’s hotel room in Miami once so I can’t hate on her, no matter how much I want to…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNyqtl99R0[/youtube]

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