John's Blog

I have to admit, I spend way too much time tooling through You Tube, trying to separate the the wheat from the chaff. But when you find a gem, its' luster is hard to ignore. Such a wide variety of material is on display so that there's gonna be something for every taste.

Wildly popular ones like the Toilet Flushing Cat or the Girl who takes a pic of herself every day for three years get plenty of attention. And Dennis Leary fans will enjoy seeing him and Lenny Clark dropping into the broadcast booth at a Red Sox game. They find out that the first baseman is Jewish, and it turns into a great bash Mel Gibson session. (Good luck with this link; it's been taken down once already.)

But the quirky and/or specialized interests that get represented there are great fun as well. Sure, not everybody is gonna' appreciate watching people pinstriping or enjoy looking at the 732 videos of people riding an escalator, but different strokes for different folks.

Tags: videos, pop-culture, funny, quirky, time wasting fun