The Epitome of Profundity

dunun:

What was that about “hats” again?

Utterly mesmerizing — one of the most impressive .gifs I’ve seen in a long time. Micaël Reynaud definitely deserves to be on the short list of people doing meaningful and artful things with the form.

(via Raza, who aptly describes this as endlessly rewatchable)

“It’s This American Life. I’m Ira Glass. Each week on our show we choose a theme, of course, bringing you different kinds of stories on that theme. This week: This American Rap.”

“Today on our show, I, Ira Glass, will figure out if it is possible for a white, upper-class liberal in his fifties to start a rap career.”

“We’ve arrived at act two of our show: Hustlin’ Yankees. Frequent contributor and friend of the show Sarah Vowell decided she needed record a ‘jam’ about scurvy in Colonial America.”

Timmy, let’s get this straight: you’re too old for those overalls and that Cars underwear. There aren’t any CEOs of Fortune 500 companies wearing Cars underwear, and Mark Zuckerberg certainly wasn’t making “vroom” noises when he ate Cheerios at your age. 

You just turned three — it’s time to think about your future. There’s no excuse for not having cultivated your personal brand by now, if you want to grow up to be someone with more than twenty-five LinkedIn connections. We are living in a globalized world, and you need to update mentality to face this twenty-first century reality.

Do you want to goto the elite prepatory preschools that begin the path of Ivy League greatness? No one at Harvard wakes up and pretends to be a dinosaur. I don’t mean to be harsh, but your mother and I are deeply concerned about your future — and we would like to see you show that same concern.