Snark Videos

Derek gets tricked into watching a less than classic 80s video.

Derek dives into the twisted world of black metal in an attempt to summon Teh Satan.

Gary Jules gets a bit more funky, and interpretive dancing follows.

I'm bowling for BigBrothersBigSisters. It's a great charity so if anyone feels like donating, even just $10 would be much appreciated. Thanks!!! Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/cv7df5 Author: thebdonski Keywords: the bdonski Sammy charity big brother sister snark Added: April 24, 2009

I discuss Follow Me on Twitter where I give links to good articles and irrelevant updates on what I'm doing at an any given moment: http://twitter.com/bdonski Author: thebdonski Keywords: perez hilton thebdonski miss california USA community values snark Added: April 22, 2009

What it says http://www.youtube.com/davedays Author: thebdonski Keywords: thebdonski my two sons davedays sammy fatherhood snark Added: April 14, 2009

Why is flaming so common with Internet comments? Are some commenters always frothing with rage, or just when they sit down to type? Have you been that guy? The legislature is considering a four day school week for some schools. What do you think of a long weekend, every weekend, for public school students? The Port of Seattle has a plan to cut the air pollution from trucks idling at the Port of Seattle. A group calling itself the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports objects to a proposal. We'll find out why. Mason County is looking at budget cuts to the sheriff's office. But State Senator Tim Sheldon says armed residents will take up the fight against crime. Sheldon says no bag limit on criminals in Mason County. Plus Woodinville moves to ban human sign holders.

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My second, cuter son. Sammy is available for hire! Don't be shy about contacting me for his expensive services. Follow Me on Twitter http://twitter.com/bdonski One year ago today I uploaded my first video, Introducing thebdonski. How fitting that a year later I introduce my son. Author: thebdonski Keywords: bdonski dave days child labor commercials selling out father son snark Added: March 30, 2009

I interview a man by the name of Crisco Zills. http://www.youtube.com/criscoz Author: thebdonski Keywords: bdonski interviews crisco zills community snark Added: March 20, 2009

In this economy, no one can afford to be without a job. And that guy's about to be out of a job. By The Public Service Administration, for more of our videos check out our youtube home page: http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicServiceAdmin Andy Cobb Josh Funk Nyima Funk Marc Evan Jackson Mark Kienlen David Pompeii Marc Warzecha By Andy Cobb With writing by Eric R Pfeffinger Author: Election08 Keywords: michael steele job search rnc republican GOP satire video snark sketch Added: March 12, 2009

Author David Denby comes on to talk about his new book 'Snark'; Jack got his vehicles out of the mud; Dog whistle politics; Jokes from the Late Night Funnymen.

Question: Should there be a limit on how many kids Americans can have? Two topics covered today Dick Cheney speaks out and mother of Octuplets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2eRn_mQ_b8 Follow Me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bdonski Author: thebdonski Keywords: bdonski dick cheney octuplets mom community snark Added: February 6, 2009

The three topics covered today. Afghanistan escalation: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090223/editors?rel=hp_currently TYT- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4j6rgCN70 Author: thebdonski Keywords: Afghanistan barack obama sarah palin ashley judd bdonski snark Added: February 5, 2009

David Denby is most recently the author of Snark. Please also see our lengthy essay, in response to Adam Sternbergh s review. This conversation represents an effort to get Denby to answer questions raised by both pieces. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Ordered against using a snarky tone. Author: David Denby Subjects Discussed: Whether or not Denby feels battered, unsuccessful attempts to pinpoint the definition of snark, the club of the clued-in, newspapers and narratives, Denby s reservations about the Web and decentralization, snark s relationship to voice, Sturgeon s law, panic in mainstream journalism, satire and a corresponding set of virtues by implication, prototypical voice, the Sarah Palin prank, Spy, contempt for New York celebrities vs. contempt for money and power, investigative reporting and the Web, peer-to-peer journalism, Josh Marshall and the attorney scandal, Private Eye, Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the need to take sacred cows to task, Pitchfork, Ugandan discussions, endearing jargon vs. in-the-know references, why Denby doesn t find Gawker and Wonkette funny, fickle public memory and disappearing websites, Perez Hilton at 40, fighting slander, accounting for corrective impulses on the Web, privacy as a bourgeois triumph, whether or not Denby can truly have an informed opinion on Twitter if he s never used it, quibbling with Denby s uniform assessments of mediums, accounting for the visual innovations of Spy Magazine, the visual notion of snark, Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter, circumstances in which being ruthless towards someone is okay, Mike Barnacle, nastiness and self-deprecation, Penn Jilette, snark practitioners as flip-floppers, Maureen Dowd, superfluous anger vs. righteous indignation, constructing a narrative in which you can locate yourself, Alcanter de Brahm s irony symbol, Perez Hilton s lack of anonymity, defending Tom Cruise, why photographers haven t fought Perez Hilton, legal remedies, being dragged into the celebrity culture, and raising an army of thoughtful writers. EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: Let s talk about this idea of trash talk vs. snark. You indicate in this book that it s okay to have a vituperative remark or a savage wit, if there is a corresponding set of virtues. And, in fact, you say a corresponding set of virtues by implication. Now implication, I think, is the important word here. Because to go back to the Sternbergh review, I would argue, to defend him briefly, that he is attempting to point out that Television Without Pity and the snark tone that he champions I mean, is there not a corresponding set of virtues perhaps that is in the initial stages? In the prototypical stages perhaps? I mean, don t people have to start from somewhere before they reach this level of thought that you are advocating in this particular book? Denby: Well, we don t know, do we? But I don t see much of that in Television Without Pity. Mostly, it seems to me, whenever I look, it s enormously long plot summaries with a lot of snarky adjectives. And it s fun. Because it s like friends who gather at a house to watch a TV show, and you compete with one another to see who can be funnier. But I would forgive them everything if they jumped up and down with joy when something original and difficult came out. Like in their movie stuff, I don t notice them celebrating There Will Be Blood or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. What gets their jets going is trash like Bride Wars. In other words, they re invested in trash. And that s why I say that these people are really thugs of the conglomerate in a way. In other words, they re part of the commercial system. They re not really interested in anything adversary. For all of their nasty tone, they re part of the commercial system. They re not adversarial at all. They don t push the little guy you know, the protest against the system or the artistic revolutionary. That s not what they re into. They re into fandom. Now let me come back to Sternbergh. Correspondent: But also to point out the initial thrust of this question. As a prototypical model, for some people, snark is the way to get to this more virtuous plane that you re advocating here. Denby: Well, I hope you re right. And maybe they ll just Correspondent: I can say this from experience. Because I was a little snarky when I started writing. Denby: But people get older and they realize that I m not pushing my weight. That this is too easy. Correspondent: Yeah. Jessica Coen, who ended up going from Gawker to New York Magazine. She wrote an essay. I m sure you re familiar with this. You don t quote it in the book. But I m sure in the course of your research, you found it out. She pointed to the negative feelings that she had, and she wanted to go to this more thoughtful plane. Denby: Right. Correspondent: So I m saying that perhaps, maybe, instead of essentially fanning the flames of discontent against this type, it s perhaps steering them in the right direction. Which you do do in this book. Maybe this is just a growing stage before they blossom into some writer of virtue of some kind. Denby: Well, that would be nice. Also, I think they re naive if they think that they can make a whole professional career out of this. Because you cannot underestimate the ruthlessness of editors. In other words, this is something that Adam Sternbergh doesn t know. That his kind of wise guy stuff pales very quickly. And when styles of humor change, editors get rid of you if you don t keep up. So there can be something naive. It s a way of gaining a professional foothold. But you ve got to move beyond it pretty fast. But just to return to Sternbergh, as I remember, the main thrust of his critique was that snark is an appropriate response to a corrupt and dishonorable world. Well, I m not going to argue with his characterization. I think it is a corrupt and dishonorable world. But the appropriate response to it is not snark. The appropriate response to it is criticism, analysis, and, best of all, satire. Which is what I praise over and over again. The kind of stuff that Stewart and Colbert do. Most of snark is weak. It s mostly impotent. It s more a confession of defeat than an appropriate response to anything. I mean, he s way off on that. Correspondent: Okay, well, to look at this question of prototypical voice from a different vantage point, you suggest that Philip Weiss s infamous Spy article, in which he infiltrated Bohemian Grove discovered only where power hung out and what its vulgar habits are. Denby: Yeah, who took a pee where? Correspondent: Yeah. But if we are to discount this article as nothing more than an amusing prank, I point to the Quebec comedy duo who revealed Sarah Palin s lack of qualifications with this wonderful prank. And while their particular tone may not have been thoughtful or political, it did lead to people rethinking Sarah Palin s qualifications. Denby: Absolutely. Correspondent: Isn t there something to be said about how people react to a particular prank or an act? Or how people run with the ball of, say, the Bohemian Grove scenario? And try to investigate it further? I mean, that s what thought is. Denby: Yeah, but that s what Spy never did. I mean, it kept promising more than it delivered. The Sarah Palin prank was brilliant. And that she didn t catch on for, what was it? Ten minutes? They had her going. It s just astounding. But the trouble with Spy was that it never did investigative reporting. It did a kind of junior league infiltration of the powerful, rather than the hard work of going to the library and looking up records, and so on and so forth. That true investigative reporting requires before you can nail someone in dishonest behavior or corrupt behavior or collusive behavior. So it never actually delivered. And since it was written basically for people who wanted to join the money . Random Stranger Shouting Into Mike (Presumably Disenfanchised): Wha what? Denby: (to Stranger) Thank you. That was good. Stranger: You re welcome. (Photo credit: Casey Kelbaugh)

When are you earnest? When did you stop taking others at face value?

A collection of snarky comments made by Dean Winchester over the 2 seasons of Supernatural. I own nothing, which makes me sad.

A collection of snarky comments made by Dean Winchester over the 2 seasons of Supernatural. I own nothing, which makes me sad.