"That tailor Billings, from Tennessee, wrote poetry that Homer and Shakespeare couldn't begin to come up to; but nobody would print it, nobody read it but his neighbors, an ignorant lot, and they laughed at it." -- Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven by Mark Twain
Plus Tom Elia's The Hyperbolic Imperative Power Rankings @ The New Editor staring everybody's favorite flatulator Andrew "The Bear" Sullivan! (Just so you won't think we're having a moment of nice.)
Posted by Vanderleun at June 25, 2007 8:46 AM | TrackBackI first saw this on Brit Hume's FNC program during the slot where he tries to do a humorous sketch--usually unsucessfully in my opinion.
I kept waiting for somethin crass. Finally, I realized that he was sharing something beautiful with us.
How rare. How wonderful.
Posted by: Edward Gilkison at June 25, 2007 1:03 PMThat clip has been popping up alot these past 10 days or so. I've seen it at least five or six times and it still chokes me up.
Bravo Paul!
Posted by: Ryoushi at June 25, 2007 3:28 PMI'm really surprised they had to ask the female judge what she thought. I mean, there she was obviously falling in love...
Posted by: B. Durbin at June 25, 2007 5:17 PMMagnificent.
I needed something like this today.
Thanks, Gerard.
Posted by: TmjUtah at June 26, 2007 8:52 PMThe female judge looked like she was trying not to have an orgasm...twit.
The singer is incredible...beautiful moment.
Posted by: Anna Black at July 11, 2007 8:51 AM"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." -- Karl Popper N.B.: Comments are moderated to combat spam and may not appear immediately. Comments that exceed the obscenity or stupidity limits will be either edited or expunged.