Politically Incorrect Alphabet

Mark Jones’ Politically Incorrect Alphabet is fun…

My wife is a teacher of young children, and I’ve spent a fair time of late sitting on undersized chairs admiring the alphabet charts on classroom walls. Typically ‘A’ will stand for Apple, ‘B’ for Ball. It occurred to me that ‘I’ for Indian, one I remember from my childhood, has been replaced as it is no longer politically correct to refer to native/first/indigenous Americans as Indians.

Lacking any tact or decency, I therefore determined to create an alphabet using only subjects that, while they might have been unremarked a few decades ago, are now outside acceptable usage. But only just.

Claude Lelouch’s “Rendezvous” Mashup

Claude Lelouch’s 1976 short film Rendezvous (YouTube video) is legendary:

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris.

No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.

Filmed in 1976, the revered short film by seminal French director Claude Lelouch is regarded as the ultimate in chase scenes – the connoisseurs’ trump card in response to Bullitt or The French Connection.

If you thought that was cool, check out the Google Maps + Google Video Mashup of Claude Lelouch’s Rendezvous that allows you to track the progress on a Google Map. Awesome…

Bring Me The Head Of Charlie Brown

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown is a hilarious Google Video:

Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.

Watching Charlie Brown turn into Travis Bickle is the highlight of the video, but I’ll warn you that the violence might make this video NSFW.

The Boing Boing post where I found this also mentions Billy Schulz, a YouTube video “mockumentary about the illegitimate son of Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz.”