Posted on 02/25/2005 7:50:34 PM PST by Cableguy
There was a time when embarrassing talents were a purely private matter. If you could sing the Star Spangled Banner in the voice of Daffy Duck, no one but your friends and family would ever have to know.
But with the Internet, humiliation - like everything else - has now gone public. Upload a video of yourself playing flute with your nose or dancing in your underwear and people from Toledo to Turkmenistan can watch.
Here, then, is the cautionary tale of Gary Brolsma, 19, amateur videographer and guy from New Jersey, who made the grave mistake of placing on the Internet a brief clip of himself dancing along to a Romanian pop song. Even in the bathroom mirror, Mr. Brolsma's performance could only be described as earnest but painful.
His story suggests that the quaint days when cultural trinkets, like celebrity sex tapes, were passed around like novels in Soviet Russia are over. It says a little something of the lightning speed at which fame is made these days.
To begin at the beginning:
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Right-click on the.swf, choose "Open" or "Open With", select Internet Explorer, and make sure that the box asking if you want to always open this kind of file with this application is checked.
This is absolutely brilliant fun and this guy has nothing to be ashamed of. It makes you feel good just watching the video clip! I'd love to see Apple use this as a commercial for iTunes.
Amen.
Ping.
You two are pathetic. That you are entitled to write for the NYT & promote cruelty in times when a young man is fun loving enough to make people dance & sing and be silly. People who normally don't speak to each other in my office were actually having a few moments, no it was the entire day were smiling and praising this young man for doing what big budget movies can't even come close to any more. To refer to his performance as painful, you a__h____s, the only pain was thinking your paper allowed you two to take up so much space to rip apart some one with a real gift to communicate with people every where, some thing with all your fancy words could never dream of accomplishing except to remind us that the NYT's is nothing more than a rag. No papers these days dare write any truths, but this attack was the stuff of low lifes.
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