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...discovery of competitive air guitar, a deliciously addictive niche of pop culture, came unexpectedly at the 2006 South by Southwest Film festival in Austin, Texas. It was there that I stumbled across a film proclaiming to be the “Official Story of America’s Unofficial Pastime.” The film, a documentary feature called “Air Guitar Nation,” follows the determined 2002 search for the first U.S. air guitar champion. While vying for this title, national contenders David “C-Diddy” Jung...
...Marty Crandall in a pine tree costume diving into a moving van filled with stolen balloons. The band takes their contraband to an idyllic field where they release the orange balloons that match their jumpsuits—shallowly symbolic, but forgivable. The imprisoned balloons are gleefully liberated into the air just as Mercer sings “Give me your hand / And let’s jump out the window.” It’s hard to say if The Shins are trying to make a point with all of these contradictions, but who cares? The video provides...
...push for a new College calendar, widespread student participation in the vote is crucial.Sundquist puts the issue to Tracy E. Nowski ’07, the former manager of the Petersen-Sundquist presidential campaign. The first names and nicknames of key College administrators are already thick in the air, with Sundquist taking notes in his meeting book—in reality, a small accounting book with the word “cash” on the front that the vice president fondly calls his “baby.” The chair of the Student Affairs Committee, Michael...
...Virginia State Police Col. Steve Flaherty, the agency superintendent, said that he was disappointed that NBC had decided to air parts of the video. NBC executives gave police the entire package that was sent to NBC studios on Monday by Cho - a rambling 23-page written statement, 28 video clips and 43 photos - but Flaherty says it contained little that the police did not already know. The portions broadcast Wednesday night on the NBC Evening News were so upsetting to relatives of some of the victims that they canceled plans to be interviewed on Today...
...News said in a statment: "We did not rush the material onto air, but instead consulted with local authorities, who have since publicly acknowledged our appropriate handling of the matter. Beginning this morning, we have limited our usage of the video across NBC News, including MSNBC, to no more than 10 percent of our airtime...