Giving Something Back, For A Bit
January 22, 2008
Regular readers will know I’m a fan of the magnificently funny A Little Bit Of Wisdom In Every Box, which is blogging’s answer to light entertainment. I will of course stop liking it when everyone discovers the infectiously good-natured Sam, a 23 year old student union president and blogger par excellence, but until that happens, I will rave like a loon.
He’s now treading the murky waters of video posts with this first one.
This would have been good enough, but he followed it up with a director’s commentary version version, which is even funnier.
Honour him with your patronage, Thislings.
Seriously, just enjoy. Just hit F5 and look at the straplines on the nav bar.
bad grammar makes me [sic]
ma vie en blog
because beggars CAN be choosers…
Honour him.
20 comments
Hehe, very good. I particularly like the Directors Commentary, I can see that taking off elsewhere…
Thislings? Are we in Lord of the Rings? Superb. Okay, this is how it is. Don’t argue with me.
Wendy = Arwen, the Evenstar of her people, i.e. us. Unless you’d rather be Eowyn, Wenders, it’s up to you.
Cliff = Elrond: wielder of Vilya, mightiest of the Three.
Mr Angry = a sort of composite of Boromir and Gimli. ROWR!
Sam = hobbitses. That’s what happens when you’re a 23 year old blogger with fans in their early to mid thirties.
Ed R = Aragorn. Let’s go hunt some orc!
Me = Galadriel. All shall love me and despair!
Oh. Ted’s Gandalf. And perhaps I should be Eowyn (fair daughter of the Eorlingas!) so that Writer’s Moll can be Galadriel. Yes, that works considerably better. OK, revised as follows:
Me – Eowyn, Theoden’s sister-daughter. Sounds dubious.
Ted – Gandalf. Long he fell, and the Balrog fell with him!
Writer’s Moll – Galadriel. ALL SHALL LOVE HER AND DESPAIR!
You can just call me Strider. Hey Wendy, you do realise that yiu and I are now betrothed, right? And that makes Cliff my future father-in-law……
So, which one’s GollumSmeagol, and who’s playing Saruman and Sauron and all the other bad guys, like the Mouth of Sauron ( I get to lop off his head!) and The witch King of Angmar?
I realise that! I could do much worse, I reckon!
Hey dad – love your site. You don’t mind if I call you dad, right? Or would you prefer daddy?
Oh – and I’ve already checked Sam out, and he’s HOT. I mean, funny and clever and interesting. Great site. Yes.
Who’s Gollum, then?
Aw, shucks, Cliff. But yes, I am great.
I don’t mind being a hobbit, but I’m not doing the hairy feet thing, I think that’s a bit disgusting. It does worry me that you all know the names of everyone in the films, though. I can’t even tell the three of them apart. That Liv Tyler was attractive though.
(hehe, Katy, early thirties…)
That Infinite Muppets guy could be Gollum.
Very early thirties, Sam. Almost not thirties at all. Pretty much twenties, but with a 3 where there used to be a 2. You’ll learn. Oh, you’ll learn.
I’m already neurotic about being a twenty-something.
You DO realize what this makes me, don’t you? It makes me–
KING OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!
That’s IT. Ed is out of control and must be demoted. Ed, you are now Eomer, scourge of the mighty Uruk-Hai.
And don’t be complaining, now, or you’ll end up as the jolly innkeeper.
That makes you my little sister, Katy.
Hang on a sec. Who do I cop off with now? Do we have a Boromir that’s not combined with a dwarf? Or a replacement Aragorn?
I wanna be King Of The World! Wah!
Help – like I said, I’ve only just got into fantasy, so will you wait while I read Lord of the Rings and learn my part?
Help me too – is that the one about the kids on the desert island?
Can I be Piggy?
WM, Ted – you’re Princess Leia and Darth Vader on my site. Blame young master Jones.
I still think I got rooked.
Leave a comment. Play nice. I will turn this blog around.