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If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that we all love cute-ass videos. Well, almost all of us. Welcome to Eff This Video, the column where Liz Shannon Miller explains to you why your favorite videos are some bullshit.

WITCHCRAFT!

Okay, I know it’s not technically…

In which I say fuck you to basically the entire nation of Japan.

One of the things I’ve been doing when not sneaking away from my computer to see movies is writing stuff for the MetaCafe series Game Time Play Time. Here’s the latest episode!

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If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that we all love feel-good videos. Well, almost all of us. Welcome to Eff This Video, the column where Liz Shannon Miller explains to you why your favorite videos are some bullshit.


FUCK YOU, AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D TEASER.

Fuck you.

THAT’S RIGHT, I SAID FUCK YOU. I mean, seriously? SERIOUSLY? A 30 SECOND TEASER? That’s all I get? GODDAMN IT, AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D TEASER! I AM ONLY A HUMAN WOMAN!

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True story: I wrote this originally on Tuesday night. Wednesday morning, the full-length trailer came out. Some editing was required.

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CC Studios: Eff This Video-Rocky Broadway: A First Look

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If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that we all love feel-good videos. Well, almost all of us. Welcome to Eff This Video, the column where Liz Shannon Miller explains to you why your favorite videos are some bullshit.

I LOVE THE THEATER. I decided to open this one with…

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CC Studios: Eff This Video- Eclectic Method: Arnie

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Were you looking for your headache? Because I found it for you. I found your headache. It’s this piece of shit.

I mean, look, I’ve enjoyed many an Ahnuld movie in my time, don’t get me wrong. But never because I thought, hey, the words he’s saying should be mixed into a supercut. You know…

My secret (hypothetical) feelings about Jingle All The Way, revealed!

What I’m Writing Wednesdays

I’ve been doing enough freelancing lately that it’s probably worth me doing a semi-regular roundup of what’s going on. So…

There are a few other things in the works but, I am, as always, available for birthdays, bar mitzvahs and other paying work.

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CC Studios: Eff This Video - Batman Begins: ABC Family

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Oh, ABC Family. I’m so happy for you, and how you’ve acquired the rights to a pretty decent Batman movie. One of my favorite Batman things, if I’m to be honest. I’m not saying Batman Begins is perfect, I’m just saying that Christian Bale is a talented actor, and watching him smash…

How does that sentence end? FIND OUT! Also, eff this video.

On teaching Retta about hockey

I wrote a thing for [REDACTED] about “Help A Retta Out” last week, but it’s not going to run for various reasons. However, I did write some words, so why not let people read them? Enjoy.

There are some days when you look at the crap on Twitter and Tumblr and elsewhere and feel like giving up on life; days when social media feels like justification for the extinction of mankind. But then there are other days, when it really does seem like a force for good. Like, for example, turning sitcom stars into hockey fans.

The comedian Retta is probably best known for her hilarious work on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. But her Twitter feed is a hilarious stream of her thoughts, including occasional bouts of live-tweeting her favorite TV shows.

Retta’s live-tweeting of things is so legendary that not only was it written into an episode of Parks and Rec, but the official Twitter account of the LA Kings reached out to Retta to ask her to perform her services at a game:

Retta’s response:

And that’s where we might have left things, with Retta living in ignorance of hockey’s wonders, except for the efforts of enterprising fan Chanelle Berlin.

Just one day after those Tweets, Berlin created the Tumblr blog “Help a Retta Out”, which is devoted to explaining the sport of hockey to Retta. This ranges from basic explanations of the game’s rules, to profiling some of the attractive young lads who play the game.

For those not super-familiar with hockey (like myself), “Help a Retta Out” reveals that there’s surprising depth to be found in the sport and its players, thanks to bromances, pioneers and pancakes. Like the best of fans, Berlin nimbly communicates her enthusiasm for hockey, making it contagious.

Now, two weeks later, Retta is now thoroughly educated on the subject:

And seems game to attend a game:

What’s lovely about “Help A Retta Out” and the tweeting that’s surrounded it is how it’s broken down barriers, challenging the notion that the only people who might care about hockey are white men from Canada. It may not be saving the world, but it is bringing people together.

So I started writing for a new website covering the web video world

It is called Video Ink. I have so far written about data companies, which were fun to learn about, and reviewed Burning Love, which was fun to watch.

This whole “piecing together freelance assignments” thing has gotten slightly easier in my old age.

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Daily Dot | This is what it's like to be solicited for nude modeling online

This is a real thing that really happened to me. Also, after the fact, I was informed that this sort of skeeveball activity might be linked to super-illegal and super-awful stuff.

DO NOT SEND NAKED PICTURES OF YOURSELF TO PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET, PEOPLE. Life’s most important lesson.

I wrote a thing for AJ Christian’s “Indie TV Innovation” series on Televisual, if you want to check it out.

I wrote a thing for AJ Christian’s “Indie TV Innovation” series on Televisual, if you want to check it out.

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CC Studios: EFF THIS VIDEO: ODIN EATING LIKE A PERSON

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If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that we all love feel-good videos. Well, almost all of us. Welcome to Eff This Video, the column where Liz Shannon Miller explains to you why your favorite videos are some bullshit.

Look, life is hard for all God’s creatures, and it’s…

Behold, a rare dalliance into the second person. With dogs.

(Please like/reblog, if you get a chance!)

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CC Studios: Eff This Video- Luke's Change: An Inside Job

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If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that we all love feel-good videos. Well, almost all of us. Welcome to Eff This Video, the column where Liz Shannon Miller explains to you why your favorite videos are some bullshit.

Okay, here’s the first problem I got here. This video…

Over a million views on this video? Seriously guys? Eff the entire Internet.

(Please, if you get a chance and don’t hate this, reblog and/or like? THANK YOU YOU’RE THE BEST.)

BILL MURRAY WEEK: Caddyshack (1980)

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by Liz Shannon Miller

Growing up female and a lover of movies, I’ve always been aware of the gender divide that exists in film culture; whether it’s biology or society, there are movies I adore that are not tolerated by my male counterparts, and vice versa. Sure, we all agree on the classics being classics. But when it comes to more guilty pleasures, there is some element of “women like this; men like this.”

Caddyshack is one of those movies—a movie I perceived as so aggressively male that I never bothered to watch it until just recently, assuming that, just like Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman,” I would walk into the fancy store and face the mean shopgirls because I simply wasn’t wanted there. There is probably a version of that metaphor for dudes; it maybe involves locker rooms? Or Brian’s Song? (Another movie I’ve never seen, because I was told it was for boys.)

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Surprisingly, for a film that has very little use for women, I didn’t disllike Caddyshack

But I did have some other problems. Yay for Bill Murray Week!

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CC Studios: Eff This Video - Drunk Ron Swanson

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If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that we all love cute-ass videos. Well, almost all of us. Welcome to Eff This Video, the column where Liz Shannon Miller explains to you why your favorite videos are some bullshit.

This video… God fucking damn it.

This one got existential on me.