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Welcome to my eGuiders page, where I've been laboring away, finding the best online video for you.

For your viewing enjoyment, we have a weatherman losing his mind over the Washington, D.C. "Snowpocalypse"; a surprisingly gorgeous music video that casts the Founding Fathers as an '80s hair band (rock it out, Ben Franklin!); a young woman doing strange things with a baby (keeping it clean here, folks); Sawyer's many pet names for his "Lost" companions; a scene from "The Big Bang Theory," sans audience laughter; a "Glee" parody from "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon"; a long but deeply satisfying evisceration of "Avatar"; and a very, very old videogame commercial.

But wait, go to the next page, and there's more! There's a guide to producing the news! There's a movie made by chimps! Reality stars who don't want to make friends! Economic philosophers rapping! "The Late Night Wars" as a Ken Burns documentary! And cars, cars, cars and "Top Gear"!

Whew. I need a hot cuppa now.

Thank you! Good night!

Today's cuppa: office coffee

Up to my ears in transcription hell, so just a quick note to share some links and a little news.

Click here for my appearance on the TV Talk show on BlogTalkRadio last Thursday, in which I share all sorts of set-visit-y goodness and play 'Splainer Girl for why there aren't more cable shows online.

Click here for a video celebrating YouTube choosing eGuiders as Curator of the Month. In it, a bunch of eGuiders say hey, and yep, I'm one of them (but in fairness, many of the rest are far more famous than little old me).

And click here for my latest eGuiders video pick, featuring my age-inappropriate secret boyfriend (so secret he doesn't even know me) Steven Crowder ( @scrowder on Twitter) in a humorous mash-up of "CSI: Miami" and the oft-discussed War on Christmas.

I say, just let Yukon Cornelius loose on the Grinches. Considering how he handily took care of the Bumble Snowmonster, the War on Christmas should be over by the end of Hanukkah.

And finally, for those of you who clicked here and here and watched "Community" last Thursday, you know that "Breakfast Club" and "The Dead Zone" star Anthony Michael Hall (on the right below, with Joel McHale) guest-starred as a knuckleheaded bully with a fondness for winterdoodle cookies and a limited emotional range (and imaginatively named "Mike").

I asked "Community" executive producer Dan Harmon ( @danharmon on Twitter -- follow him, he's a hoot) about Hall's future on the show.

"I didn't murder him," says Harmon. "Last thing I said to him, 'Let's make sure we find out this guy's a great guy in the future. Love to have you back.'

"One of my goals with 'Community' is to never have villains. People get on the wrong sides of each other in different situations, but if you scratch the surface, you always find out that everyone's a hero or a victim in their own story.

"Just because of the fact that he was great, we'd love to have him back. Also, he was something of a straw dog in the episode, just a bully. I'd love to bring him back and make him sympathetic."

Back to hell, see y'all later.

Today's cuppa: Irish breakfast tea (fully caffed!)

Click here for my regular Thursday appearance on Shaun Daily's TV Talk show on blogtalkradio.com. I come in at a bit after the half-hour mark.

We discuss my recent contribution to a piece on David Letterman's sad situation at TheWrap.com and talked about Alex O'Loughlin -- FYI, if this week, a third person asks me if he's as sexy in person as he is on TV, I'm going to be forced to mock you. The answer is "He looks the same in person, so if you like him on TV, you'll like him in person." Clean cup, move down ...

I also discussed recent set visits, including the one I did yesterday to Style's "Clean House Comes Clean," which I promise will be a fun story! It sure was a fun set visit -- but how could it not be, since I got to see designer Mark Brunetz and go-to-guy Matt Iseman wearing their Niecy Nash wigs?

Now, as promised, here are some of my recent eGuiders video picks...

Click here for a look at bats flying out of a cave that, uh, looks like something ... else.

If Fox's "Glee" hasn't yet convinced you that looking cool is not a prerequisite to making awesomely cool music, click here for a kid who makes squeezbox magic.

I'm from the Adirondacks, and I will always hold that they are the most beautiful mountains on Earth, but click here for a video that may change my mind. ... Nah, but watch anyway.

Just because you design shoes doesn't mean you don't have other talents. Click here for a little promo movie by none other than Mr. Red Soles himself, Christian Louboutin.

Today's cuppa: instant coffee (not bad)

Just came up for air after unearthing some online-video gems, loading them into the cart and shooting them down the line to the good folks at eGuiders.com. Check 'em out, check-'em-outers...

Quite simply the Best. Baby. Video. Evah. Click here.

A lovely piece from Singapore that reminds of of what real beauty is. Click here.

These guys REALLY love their choo-choos. Click here.

Hard to believe it, but a video worse than the Windows OS it's advertising (which I hear is actually pretty good). Click here.

Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking rock it out of this world. Click here.

That's all for now, but wait until you see the hamster video I just found today. Heh heh heh.
UPDATE: It's up! Click here.

But in the meantime, check out this entry from one of my other blogs.

And, just because it's so darn funny, here's episode five of the retail melodrama, "IKEA Heights."

Today's cuppa: office cafeteria coffee

I've been bombarding the good folks at eGuiders.com with video picks lately, several of which they made featured videos for the day. (Thanks Marc and Brian!)

For your viewing enjoyment, here they are (and again, can't be accused of being in an online-video rut):

"Hamster Time" -- Dancing hamsters. 'Nuff said.

"Broken Escalator" -- An abbreviated version of this is circulating, poking fun at a political party. Here's the complete, nonpartisan original.

"The King's Singers" -- Roll with some Bach.

"Is Social Media a Fad?" -- If you Twitter and Facebook this, it may cause an implosion.

"Cow Song" -- Yeah, cows. Heh heh heh.

"Broken Hill Comes Over Pitch Black During a Dust Storm" -- in Australia, for real, just a day or so ago.

"The Animals: House of the Rising Sun" -- vintage awesomeness.

"Twitteleh" -- Twitter with a Jewish twist.

"Life=Risk" -- Sometimes success is just one failure away.

Tonight's cuppa: decaf Irish breakfast tea

Ever wondered why TV promos sometimes seem to be composed of repetitive, mediocre ideas? This video takes a humorous look at the often sad state of creativity in Hollywood.

Today's cuppa: Bewley's Gold tea

You can't accuse me of getting into an online-video rut. But if you do, I offer this pair of eGuiders.com picks in my defense:

First up, click here for a comedy vignette that explores the possibility that latenight TV host -- and as of tonight, primetime TV host, as his new NBC show premieres -- Jay Leno actually was cloned. And, can you spot the "Happy Days" star?

Then, click here for a video I posted in honor of my birthday -- which is tomorrow, BTW -- and in honor of me being three-quarters Irish (which I am every day). You won't have to actually give up yer aul sins in this one, but you will learn a little bit about a man widely reviled in the snake community.

Tonight's cuppa: Peppermint tea

Just discovered that a trio of my recent video picks has been posted on eGuiders.com, and I couldn't wait to share!

Click here for a send-up of the Washington Post's late, unlamented "Mouthpiece Theater" videos; here for a bizarro take on the Dove soap "Evolution" videos; and here for The Onion's plastering of PETA protests -- and they're not the only ones.

Today's cuppa: PG Tips tea