The Culture of Narcissism
Over at his other digs, Scott responds to Ann Althouse’s YouTube video of herself watching American Idol, by Youtubing a video of himself watching Ann Althouse watching American Idol. Ladies and gentlemen; place your bets on how close we can get to infinite regress before it’s all over …
Update: Tim Lambert and his dog respond.
posted on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Can lurkers just youtube a video of Scott’s video on youtube?
I predict that it will reach infinite regress minus five.
Holy shit! Scott looks like me.
Eh, just watching her video and talking about what she was saying (“I guess there was a bald guy? I’m not sure who she means…”) would have been funnier. If he really needed to go all meta he could then do one of himself watching his own video (“I forget what that was about, oh right, I guess a bald guy…”).
blink
I have the sudden urge to find a digital recording device of some kind, recording myself watching him watching her, and correcting his misassumptions about the invalidity of American Idol as an academic medium, and how the celebrity-appeal is actually related more to construction of desire and suspension of time than anything else.
(Forced bed rest, severe pneumonia, and fevers? Makes Lacan, Zizsek and American Idol seem like natural combinations!)
Mise en abyme is the new black.
“I predict that it will reach infinite regress minus five.”
Posted by Ben
Hah! I bid minus four.
I hope there will be a competition in which we can vote for the best Althouse-inspired American Idol meta-vlog. Then we can put up videos on YouTube in which we comment on the finalists!
It’s the Infinite Wingnut Project!
Vlogging at the object level is bad enough.
“Depth Takes a Holiday” is the ultimate title for any post about Althouse.
According to my watch, Ann’s Warholian fifteen minutes are about up.
[...] the cool kids are into it, so I thought I’d give it a [...]
Is this the blog where you’re able to post snark using Ann Althouse’s name?
Ann should of course reply by vlogging on Mc LeMee’s. And vice versa.
Soon, one million LeMees and Althouses, waltzing the internets, on and on…
Soon, one million LeMees and Althouses, waltzing the internets, on and on…
no – what we really need to close the loop are the folks from American Idol to start vlogging about Scott …
Or we could just cut out all of the middlemen and go right to here. (I know, no video … but just use your imagination.)
I vlogged my response.
I have to respect that dog’s good judgment.
I just showed Tim Lambert’s dog watching Scott watching Althouse to my three-year-old daughter, who said she can’t sleep and has been puttering around for a half-hour, way past her bedtime. So I brought her up on my lap, played the video, and asked her what she thought. “I’m tired,” she said. And off to bed she went.
There’s magic, insomnia-killing magic, in vlogging.
Holy shit! Scott looks like me.
We pretty much all look like that, cj.
This kind of vlogging is a stupid waste of time. Grow up, people.
yes, I’ll get right back to important things, like LPGA blogging (throwing the guys a bone this week) and poop jokes. thank you, kerm for showing me the light!
wait, that wasn’t kermit the frog? damn!
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