I love watching fail videos. Some fat guy slips on the ice and smashes his ice cream cone in his own face, trampoline accidents, someone getting whacked in the face at a pinata party, all comedy gold. I eat it up; I can't help myself. I like this stuff partly because I feel a certain superiority to these people: What were you thinking, dumbass? But mostly I like it because I can recognize my own failures in them. I, too, have slipped on ice, wrecked my skateboard, fallen off a roof. I, too, have dropped my ice cream, have tripped on the stairs, have walked into a closed sliding glass door. I saw this video once of a huge ship, coming in to dock, the thing is enormous, like a floating city. On the video, the ship just plows into the pier, and there is a terrible noise, and the ship just keeps going. The pier shatters into fragments, and there is a scream of metal, and still the ship just keeps going, carried by its own momentum, deep into the port, where it crashes into a ...
Here in the Black and White