Howard Dean Goes Nuts on the Internet! (Dean Remixes)

deangoesnuts.com ^ | 1/23/04 | Luke Skyfreeper

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Howard Dean -- the toast of internetdom!

Er, sort of.

Dean is all the, um... rage... these days, and nowhere does it show more than at DeanGoesNuts.com, a site that brings to mind the "Star Wars Kid" internet video remix phenomenon.

In just 3 days, the owner of www.DeanGoesNuts.com, a college student in Indiana, has compiled nearly FIFTY creative remixes of Dean's Tuesday night speech in Iowa. Sound like a lot? Not hardly. Caner Ozdemir (who, interestingly, seems to be a staunch Howard Dean supporter) has stopped accepting new submissions for the weekend in order to put together some submission guidelines.

A few of the tracks on DeanGoesNuts.com honor Dean by putting bits of his campaign speeches to music. Most of them, however, are just plain fun - building on Dean's now-famous hoarse-voiced Iowa speech.

Some personal favorites of this reviewer: Crazy Dean Breakdown, the Trance Mix, the Funky Mix, Dean Dances 1 and 2, and the energetic Dean 300 Techno Mix.

Ozdemir, who expected "100-200 hits a day MAX" to the site, admits that things have "spiraled out of control." As of Friday evening, hits to the site were well past 90,000 and climbing rapidly toward the century mark.

[holden]

Obsesive=Obsessive (by self-definition)

HF

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I haven't conducted an exhaustive search for play-on-Dean stuff, but the one definitive exercise that's missing is for Dean to be superimposed on the picture of Slim Pickens riding the H-bomb down from Dr. Stangelove.