Okay, now I’ll just admit that I’m trying to freshen up my sidebar a little. But this is a nifty piece of Batman-themed editing:

Yeah I know this is very old, but Tom Hagen and Sonny Corleone and I recently finished up both Empire and Jedi, so this seemed relevant again.

The boys were quite amused.

It’s been said that on a slow news day you can use the Internet to find just about any combination of bizarre, that’s-just-wrong mash-ups.
Case in point: The Shawshank Redemption, rendered in just under two and a half minutes, told rather cleverly through rap:

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There are two very, very, very good reasons to link to this excellently edited Office Space-meets-the-stalker-film trailer mashupery:

Because you don’t get to see the Spider-Man 3 trailer until later.
Because it makes for an incredibly quick post that requires very little writing or effort on my part.

Here ya go:

The other day when we posted this fun little bit of nonsense in which the characters of Star Trek cavort and dance to the tune of Monty Python’s “Knight of the Round Table” ditty, we were sad and despondent that the video embed from YouTube.com didn’t work. Cursed technology! So, naturally, we’ll try it again [...]

Is this trailer mash-up of Mission: Impossible 3 and The Shawshank Redemption a little silly? Of course it is. But is it kind of fun and reasonably topical? Oh, you bet your bippy.
And it’s Friday. You’ll link to things that are a heck of lot less relevant, let alone directly pertinent to whatever work you’re [...]