hip shit for old folks

You ever have one of those moments where worlds collide.

Where there are things that should mix but do, and somehow it works out fine.

Like Sinatra and Bono. Peanut butter and chocolate. Even Flavor Fav and Sly Stallone's crazy ass Danish ex, Bridgette Nielson.

I just had one of those moments, and it involved the MSM, multi-media, MTV, parody, and the name everyone tries to work into a sentence, Barack Obama. It may even be an epiphany, a, hey, why didn't I think of that moment. (Perhaps at some time I'll post the Washington sitcom I drafted in 1999 that involves an election too close to call that both candidates took the office together, and had to share governing responsiblity, but that's for another time.)

Newsweek has begun to run an online parody of the MTV show 'The City.' And it works.

'The District' is voiced by 'Barack,' a guy from Chicago who decides to 'risk it all' and go for the big job. It follows the news of the week, takes enough stuff out of context, and mixes shots, to give MTV and all those fake reality shows a run for the money, and does so in such an original way that I might not look at Congress and the Executive Branch the same way for, oh, about another 15 minutes.

Here's the link, http://video.newsweek.com/#?t=9961941001&l=9860081001, check out all 3:47 of it yourself and see what you think.

Hipsters will find it cheesy. But then again Washington most definitely is not for the hip. Never was. Never will be. Even with all that's going down these days. For sure.