Video Report: "America's Secret War".

This is a fascinating video, and a piece of classic on-site investigative journalism that's becoming increasingly rare in this day. Mariana van Zeller traveled to a war zone on the border of Turkey, Iraq and Iran, to investigate reports that the U.S. is funding anti-Iran terrorists, effectively engaging in a proxy war with Iran.

I don't think they actually gave good evidence that the U.S. is involved with these groups, but the opportunity to get a look at a guerrilla/terrorist group, one which has a large female contingent, is fascinating. It's a look at a part of the world and a conflict we see very little of in the U.S.

[Video] Fiest: Honey Honey

This seems to be my day for finding interesting videos. In this case, it's an odd music video for the band "Feist" using...not stop motion, but puppets. And interestingly, the puppeteers are intrusive- there's no attempt at suspension of disbelief. In spite of this, the puppets have interesting personality to them. And of course it's very baroque, like a Jan Svankmajer film without the creepiness.

Happy Birthday Manictao!

There'll be alot of people raising an extra glass of...something...in your honor!  (Hmmm....this stuff on my shelf is clear, and it comes in an interesting green bottle.  It'll do!)