Posted on December 5, 2008 8:56 AM
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If it's Friday, and, why, yes it is, it's time for a
Unicorn Chaser on
Boing Boing tv. Today:
SPAMASTERPIECE THEATER bloopers, out-takes, and oblique lulz from the amazing John Hodgman, minor television personality and author of
More Information Than You Require (
Amazon link). Direct
MP4 Link, if you prefer download.
Update: proof they are the REAL THING.
Posted on November 4, 2008 10:09 AM
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Today on
Boing Boing tv we reprise our ongoing SPAMasterpiece Theater series featuring author, PC, and minor television personality
John Hodgman. His new book,
MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE was released just a couple of weeks ago.
Hodgman himself describes this series as the dramatization of "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM."
Today's installment: V1V4 M3X1CO., in which we explore supply chain management solicitations with the help of luchadores, mariachis, beautiful black-n-white señoritas from the silver screen of our abuelitos, and GIANT NARCO-KITTEHS WITH UZIS.
A note from our musical director: The adaptation of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" (1735) which opens today's episode was remixed in flagrante 8-bit by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson.
Also: a special and hearty thanks to the talented and generous Ehrich Blackhound (previously boinged here) for creating our new, typographically-correct opening slates for this parody series.
Previous SPAMasterpiece Theater episodes on Boing Boing tv:
* SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. I
* SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. II
* SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol III
And more Hodgman on Boing Boing tv:
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More Information Than You Require. This is not a book trailer, part 2.
* More Information Than You Require. This is not a book trailer.
* More Information Than You Require.
Posted on October 28, 2008 10:37 AM
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Today on
Boing Boing tv, we reprise our ongoing SPAMasterpiece Theater series, featuring author, PC, and minor television personality
John Hodgman, whose new book,
MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE, has just been released.
Hodgman himself describes this series as the dramatization of "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM."
Today's installment: The Stomatologist, in which we answer a lovelorn Russian woman's age-old question, "Why I cannot find my special the man?"
A note from our musical director: The adaptation of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" (1735) which opens today's episode was remixed in flagrante 8-bit by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson.
Also: a special and hearty thanks to the talented and generous Ehrich Blackhound (previously boinged here) for creating our new, typographically-correct opening slates for this parody series.
Previously on Boing Boing tv:
* SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. I
* SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. II
Posted on October 10, 2008 9:34 AM
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Today on
Boing Boing tv, we continue our SPAMasterpiece Theater series, featuring author, PC, and minor television personality
John Hodgman, whose new book,
MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE launches next week.
Hodgman himself describes this series as the dramatization of "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM."
Today's installment: Barrister Abbey and Diana Khan in "Wuthering Wire Transfers," a tempting tale of financial transactions and naked lust that requires your soonest response.
A note from our musical director: The adaptation of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" (1735) which opens today's episode was remixed in flagrante 8-bit by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson.
* Previously on Boing Boing tv: SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. I
Posted on October 1, 2008 9:40 AM
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BBtv is launching a series of episodes featuring author, PC, and minor television personality
John Hodgman, as the world waits breathlessly for the launch of his new book,
MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE . We have read it, dear viewer, and it is splendid.
Today, the debut installment of Boing Boing tv's SPAMASTERPIECE THEATER, which Hodgman himself describes as the dramatization of "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM."
We'll be releasing more of these in the coming weeks. Each one is composed exclusively of actual, unadulterated, unsolicited email. Like virtual raw foodists, we would not think of cooking perfect fruit that falls so gracefully from the internet's tree of life.
We hope you enjoy. { fade to black, fade in Hodgman in the library chair, surrounded by spam ephemera}
A note from our musical director: The adaptation of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" (1735) which opens today's episode was remixed in flagrante 8-bit by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson.
In our latest installment of Boing Boing TV's "SPAM THEATER" series, a cash proposition from a faraway land, and the secret to what girls want. Special thanks to Erik Sheppard of
Voice Talent Productions for contributing -- well, voice talent!
Additional footage via archive.org: "Drug Addiction (1951)," Encyclopedia Britanica Films, Inc; "The Town and the Telephone," Murphy (Owen) Productions; "Children Obey Your Parents," Salvation Films.
Previously:
SPAM THEATER: Love Song of Kseniya
SPAM THEATER VOL II
Posted on April 21, 2008 10:28 PM
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Boing Boing tv presents a new installment of "Spam Theater," in which we bring to dramatic life actual, unadulterated spam emails we've received -- word for word, exactly what plopped in our in-box.
Today, a classic Romance Scam enticement from the fictional spamtress "Kseniya," written in mad heroine prose worthy of a Tennessee Williams play. Voiced by Xeni Jardin, who received the message.
In part two of today's episode, '80s electrobeats and word salad merge as one.
Full text of the email from "Kseniya" after the jump, along with photo and video credits.
In today's edition of Boing Boing tv, dramatic readings of real-life unsolicited emails. Part one, FOR MY DAUGHTER'S SAKE. If one were pitching this to a movie studio, you might describe the plot as
Grapes of Wrath meets
Spanish Prisoner meets an ATM. Part two, DE@L OF A LIFETIME, a tasty dish of word salad.
Previously: S.P.A.M. Theater, Vol. I
Credits for Creative Commons-licensed video and photos used in this ep, after the jump.
In today's edition of Boing Boing tv, dramatic readings of real-life unsolicited emails. Part one, HOWITZER CANNONPANTS, a spiritual and pharmaceutical parable that ends not with ressurection, but erection. Part two, THANKS, MAURICE, one of dozens of emails received by Boing Boing editors from a disturbed man in Canada who sought cash, justice, and an end to "Mind Controlled Hatred." Credits for Creative Commons-licensed video and photos used in this ep, after the jump.
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