Althouse: I've curated 5 TikTok videos for you tonight. Let me know what you like.

August 12, 2022

4. Baron Ryan on the age-old subject, Nothing is something.

5. "Be absolutely miserable, but change nothing...."

17 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...: 2. A wasp cut of a declassified cold cut.; 8/12/22, 5:37 PM
Inga said...: That wasp prefers baloney over some poor insects’s head he had been biting off just moments before.; 8/12/22, 5:58 PM
Lash LaRue said...: Tonight’s selections are in the right order.; 8/12/22, 6:17 PM
Barbara said...: I loved the First Sunset Since April one. It packs a huge visceral experience into a few seconds in a lovely way…until the speaker gets silly at the end.

The wasp with the cold cut also gives me lots of information…but I’d rather not see it.; 8/12/22, 6:26 PM
Breezy said...: Omg wasp hands down. Such drive and purpose!; 8/12/22, 7:19 PM
Nancy said...: Writing an email to the Pope??; 8/12/22, 7:26 PM
Jupiter said...: I've got one for you.; 8/12/22, 8:03 PM
Baceseras said...: 2. I liked the background music and light kitchen clatter -- very heimlich.; 8/12/22, 9:39 PM
Original Mike said...: Four months of no darkness. A true nightmare.; 8/12/22, 9:43 PM
Jupiter said...: So, while we are on the subject, what does "curated" mean?; 8/12/22, 11:45 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "Writing an email to the Pope??"

If you pause it when the text is on screen, you can read it. It's about muffins.; 8/13/22, 4:34 AM
Will Cate said...: I like all of them, but I note that two out of the five fall into the "conversations with self" category, which will annoy certain commenters.

The Wasp is my favorite here... can't get enough of tiny creatures eating stuff. That's a whole 'nuther category...; 8/13/22, 7:54 AM
Whiskeybum said...: The answer to #4?

Everything; 8/13/22, 8:01 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "So, while we are on the subject, what does "curated" mean?"

To quote the OED, the relevant meaning of "curate" is "To select and organize (the items in a set or collection), frequently for presentation, display, or publication; to put together or compile (a set or collection of some kind) selectively. Sometimes with humorous allusion to senses 1 and 2a."

Sense #1 is "To look after and preserve (the exhibits in a collection, as in a museum); to be the keeper or custodian of (a collection, museum, public garden, etc.),"

Sense 2a. us "To select, organize, and present the items for (an exhibition), typically using professional knowledge or expertise."

It's jocose.; 8/13/22, 8:18 AM
Saint Croix said...: the Baron of bad news made me laugh; 8/13/22, 11:36 PM
Saint Croix said...: Be absolutely miserable, but change nothing...

That's a good set-up

Be a man.

That's a good pay-off.

And then the hacking laugh off camera.

Off-camera was a good technique.

It made me think, "what's going on off camera? What event happened that made that guy laugh so hard? What had they been talking about?"

Kind of a freaky one. Liked it.; 8/13/22, 11:43 PM
Susan in Seattle said...: The Baron of bad news - reminded me of Mondegreens and made me chuckle.; 8/14/22, 7:59 AM