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I figure Daily Kos could use a little silliness tonight and you are all about to get some in a big way. I give to you The Chickening. Brainchild of Nick DenBoer and Davy Force, it is perhaps the goofiest, most surreal five minutes I’ve ever spent watching a video. It was also damned brilliant fun. I’ll let the A.V. Club describe it for you.
Upon looking at The Chickening, other filmmakers wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer. That’s a bit of hyperbole, but the short film does seemingly represent the culmination of remix culture in film. Directed by Nick DenBoer and Davy Force, The Chickening has toured film festivals for a while—playing TIFF,Fantastic Fest, and most recently at Sundance—and has finally landed online. It is an augmented reality version of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, but with chickens, interdimensional aliens, and a 42-year-old manchild at the heart of it all. It manages to be an absurd, barely cohesive story of one family’s descent into poultry-themed madness, while still showing love and reverence for Kubrick’s horror masterpiece.
Without further ado, I present The Chickening:
Warning: NSFW — contains doity language and partial nudity that we could all have done without.
Did you get all that? Good!
Let’s move on to Tops...
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From leu2500:
Lilith Gardner flagged Ice blue's comment on Ammon bundy's arrest.
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From Quilldriver:
From angry marmot's diary entitled Espying a Ghost at Sanders' Duluth Event, marktheshark made this beautiful tribute to Paul Wellstone.
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Highlighted by belinda ridgewood:
In many ways, nomandates’s comment in Paul Hogarth’s diary about the recent site … stimulation of new diarists made a lot of sense. Certainly it carried the discussion forward. We hope! (Report of the highlight and comment on the comment by BeninSC.)
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From Steven Payne:
Fordmandalay hit the nail on the head with this comment regarding the real reason Ammon Bundy has changed his tune and is telling everyone to go home. Hint: it ain’t altruism.
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For Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary on the subject!
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2016-01-27, courtesy of jotter!