06.19.11
Fat Man
Mean is integral to satire. (Well-placed cheap shots, too.) It’s something lefties never really master.
Anyway — if, for example, I did something like this on a Democrat, Drudge or somebody similar would pick it up tomorrow, forcing it in front of every eyeball possible — like this.
The other side, of which I am a part, has nothing like that. Still.
It’s because we all are weak.
There are a number of punch lines buried in “Fat Man.”
Can you guess the identity of the “guest” vocalist from a famous Seventies hard rock band?
A free No-Prize if you can.
Side technical notes from the artisan economy:
I’ve now done enough of these to know — empirically — that YouTube games your video uploads unless you bribe them not to. This is one of the monetization strategies employed by Google properties.
The push to monetization lies in subtly providing inferior service and processing that screws with you unless you sign up or arrange for a premium capability.
When uploading — even if your video is already compressed because of the nature of the video-making software and format you employ — YouTube will randomly attempt to destroy it more.
YouTube’s processing will take your audio track, which has already been degraded in the video-making process, and peremptorily often try to –loss it further. You’ll hear this as an absence of high end, stereo image, or addition of digital artifacts, either in ghostly noises, icy tinkling or other shadowy anomalies.
YouTube processing will often also add digital artifacts to the imagery.
For example, in Fat Man, one sequence of Chris Christie makes it look like he has a disease on his lower lip and chin. It’s not a feature. It wasn’t in the clean copy uploaded to YouTube.
Google YouTube’s “processing” added it.
YouTube “processing” may inexplicably edit your video in a senseless way. One up-load of Fat Man had two seconds hacked off the end of it.
Deleting files messed with in this way and re-uploading doesn’t generally fix such errors. YouTube kept hacking two seconds off the end of Fat Man until I changed it completely and added about six seconds of filler. At which point it stopped and did something else bad to the file.
In other words, you can upload as many times or editions as you like but there is always the chance more interesting digital corruption will be added to your contribution.
YouTube’s “processing” will select three thumbnails from the video. Of these, it will also pick the middle of the three as the default. If you should decide to change it to one of the other two, YouTube may simply decide to ignore your new settings no matter how many times you re-enter and save them.
You’ll have noticed that the old media giants generally never suffer these problems.
That’s because bribery works.
You’ll never see anything that looks or sounds less than perfect from Nashville or Hollywood because all the bandits have been paid off and the proper palms greased. Now, enjoy the shiny advertising YouTube and its partners add to such songs before they load.
Mark Smollin said,
June 20, 2011 at 12:46 am
What is the difference between greed and gluttony? Both seem to produce lots of fat men.
Dave Latchaw said,
June 20, 2011 at 6:44 am
Avarice enables Gluttony and Sloth helps out with the fat part.
George Smith said,
June 21, 2011 at 9:09 am
What is the difference between greed and gluttony? Both seem to produce lots of fat men.
Generally speaking in terms of your comments, you oughta consider not posting any at all. They look like spam.