SEAN RAMESWARAM, a producer with Studio360 and host of the Sideshow
podcast, reveals the hidden treasures on the internet this week,
including an epic movie phone tree, Eleanor Roosevelt's booty call,
the unseen power of grammar, an otherworldly Elton John cover, and a
Rottweiler's self-evaluation win the internet this week.
1. IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?
Some supercuts get old pretty quickly, but this one doesn’t. Phone
calls in movies from Dial M for Murder
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWP_hrNHSN4] to Anchorman
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoSmxnBXMGU] are linked in one long
phone call. It starts with simple salutations, but eventually turns
into a bizarre narrative that somehow seems to work.
Thanks, Roshen [https://twitter.com/nobodytheindian]!
2. WHY, ELEANOR!
The New York Public Library is digitizing its Billy Rose Theatre
Division Archive
[http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/divisions/billy-rose-theatre-division].
That means a whole world of ephemera, which wasn’t on the internet
before, now is. The website Open Culture started sifting through it
all and uncovered some gems
[http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/100000-wonderful-pieces-of-theater-ephemera-digitized-by-the-new-york-public-library.html] including
portraits of Katherine Hepburn, costume sketches and, best of all, a
telegram
[http://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/10200644/ERoosevelt.jpg] Eleanor
Roosevelt sent the burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee on what must have
been one incredible opening night.
Eleanor Roosevelt
(Open Culture
[http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/100000-wonderful-pieces-of-theater-ephemera-digitized-by-the-new-york-public-library.html])
Thanks, Lynn [https://twitter.com/lynnrlevy]!
3. AN INTERACTIVE GUIDE TO AMBIGUOUS GRAMMAR
"An Interactive Guide To Ambiguous Grammar" is maybe the least
click-baity headline of the year, but Vijith Assar’s essay
[http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-ambiguous-grammar] on
McSweeney’s also happens to be one of the most worthwhile reads of
the year. It’s ostensibly about the differences between the active
voice and the passive voice — how the sentence “The quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog” transforms into the sentence “Speed
was involved in a jumping-related incident while a fox was brown.”
What’s most amazing is that it turns out to be an examination of the
language we use to report shootings of unarmed black men by police
officers. Didn’t see that coming, did you?
[http://imgur.com/2711joS]
4. SUCH A TIMELESS FLIGHT
Astronauts, etc. [https://soundcloud.com/astronautsetc]’s take on
Elton John’s “Rocket Man
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNl3C0qvKg]” is aces. It takes
something that was already beautiful and makes it silkier, smoother,
and maybe even a little sweeter.
5. THE PERFECT CAPTION
> did... did a rottweiler write this pic.twitter.com/cmK7icX2J7
> [http://t.co/cmK7icX2J7] — Molled Cider (@ilikemints) September
> 14, 2015 [https://twitter.com/ilikemints/status/643552504723148800]
