And I love the RuPaul banner.

Seen this, Raven? http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/ravens/

that was you, right, raven?

that sent out a little notice regarding horrorshow clips or something? or was this just another trippy flashback?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Creepshow-trailer

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Hey... I finally saw the context of your avatar... I am watching 'Camille' on Turner Classic right now, and I can see why you chose it, Garbo is divine!

Roast IV begins Monday, January 28, 2008 at 8:00 PM, GMT.

Roastee: MINK
Master of Ceremonies: jonny

Look for jonny’s launch post.

THE JESTER

Then you will absolutely appreciate this slice of Shatner cheese: http://www.videosift.com/video/Shatner-Ladies-Man

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Wow! Shatner Cheese Jackpot is right! Great find swampy!

Hey, for the first time, I just stumbled upon the "congrats gold!" thread that was made for me eight whole months ago. So now I'm thanking everybody individually to make up for the deafening silence. Thanks!

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Congrats Calvados, keep it up!

My pleasure, Raven! When I found your post, I couldn't get over how many times that video kept repeatedly getting yanked when it had only just sifted. I hope you got a permanent, reliable fix for it, and I hope as many people see it as possible. What an incredible find, Raven!

In reply to this comment by raven:
THANK YOU ISSYKITTY!

Maybe this is an area that credible journalism would find it difficult to go.
money + fanaticism + nutjob is not a calming mix.

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Yeah maybe, I watched it, and there is not much to report... they basically spent about 10 minutes on it, and just replayed a lot of stuff from the vid and focused on whether or not Tom Cruise was #2 in the church or not, and why he got into it in the first place, and some of the basic history of the Church and celebs... they interviewed the author of that new biography, and talked to Tom's Lawyer... there wasn't a whole lot of critical thinking going on though, and they stayed away from the really creepy and interesting subjects like Tom's wish for there to be no SP's in the future (SP= suppressive people, so basically, us), or the claims about how he has saved people's lives or cured "Ground Zero cough", which, frankly, I would like verified, as I've never heard of that before and it seems highly inflated.

But, that's what you get, 20/20, like most American 'journalism' these days, is utter fluff... they soon moved on to another fluff piece about how the mayor of a small town in Oregon posted pics of herself in a bikini (her hobby is weight training and body building, so, go fig) on her MySpace page and the ensuing small town fracas it has caused, but yet again, failed to ask any interesting questions that are fundamental to the story, mostly they just interviewed some old guys at a barbershop... sigh...

In reply to this comment by Thylan:
sounds fun. hopefully if its good, that will get on th net too.

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There is a special 20/20 scheduled for tonight at 10 that is supposed to address it... I am counting down the minutes.

In reply to this comment by Thylan:
You have to love how the internet is so determined not to let this die, and how that has matched their determination to take this down.

If this clip ever gets shown on national news somewhere, just cos, I'd love to hear about it.

sounds fun. hopefully if its good, that will get on th net too.

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There is a special 20/20 scheduled for tonight at 10 that is supposed to address it... I am counting down the minutes.

In reply to this comment by Thylan:
You have to love how the internet is so determined not to let this die, and how that has matched their determination to take this down.

If this clip ever gets shown on national news somewhere, just cos, I'd love to hear about it.

Give me the embed for that video, and I will host it for you with fake title/tags. There's too much good humor in there to let it die!

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I fix it for you! *lies

Also, would someone please do me a favor and throw a promote at this thing... put it back to the top of the Sifted list so more people get a chance to watch it before Xenu and his minions find our new source code?

Well, us goldies complained about it, but I guess it's not gonna get changed. Such is life, I'll just have to post another forty videos, I guess.

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Sucks doesn't it? I initially didn't comprehend how incredibly lame that is because I didn't lose any powers... but I am starting to see now how that changes a lot of things now that the majority of you hardworking sifters have lost one of the coolest powers available. I regret not pitching a fit over that.

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Alas, my promote and save power were taken as soon as I received them

Ahahahaha!!! You are hilarious:) Well I'm glad we've got a stable link to keep Crazy Cruise's vid up on the sift. One more thing we can lord over youtube users:P I can't take credit for the code though, all props must go to my resident code ninja buddy, Engival.

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WOW IT WORKED!! OMG!! That is so awesome! Thank you so much for doing that for me! I am so totally going to save the code for this and use it in the future... I am always finding Gawker vids I crave to post! YOU RULE LINZ! THANK YOU ONE HUNDRED MILLION TIMES!

Hello Raven,
as expected, the Tom Cruise vid got pulled on youtube, but I THINK this code might work for embedding from Gawker. It's just that I don't have the star points to do it myself. Do you want to use it to fix your dead video?
If so, try this:

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/util/videoModule.swf" style="" name="videoPlayer" quality="best" scale="noscale" salign="tl" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="videoURL=Cruise_Scientology_video.flv" height="376" width="475">

Sorry, Raven, I didn't know you'd already posted the Tom Cruise vid. Are you able to embed the one hosted by the Gawker site? They claim that they won't be removing it, so it should be more stable. I posted the address is in the description for the vid. You can bring yours back to life and kill this one.