Freeze frame

This is awesome. It reminds me of in elementary school when we'd play some game in P.E. involving someone yelling "freeze" and everyone had to (obviously) freeze -- and people inevitably would freeze in an awkward position, like with one leg lifted back and arms airplaning to the side, rather than just stopping in place. Alternatively, it reminds me of the usually useless clock "weapon" in Castlevania. Anyway.

Obama, Meet We Are the World

I'm somewhat of a Barack Obama fan, so I suppose it's nice that Will.i.am and other celebrities have decided his candidacy is important enough to warrant a pro-Obama (proBama?) "We Are the World"-style music video.



But with the "lyrics" consisting of sung-chanted portions of an actual Obama speech, and with the participants not once winking (see: Scarlett "Yeah, I Made a Tom Waits Covers Album" Johansson singing at a sibilant-dulling mic screen), the video basically is a cross between "Voices That Care" and the brilliant Ali G sketch where he beatboxes to a nuclear protester's embarrassingly dreadful protest song.

Observe:

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Still, none of them holds a candle to the best celebrity song of all time: Rockers to Help Explain Whitewater.