So tweets and Facebook updates and YouTube clips made by people that are like them, in Canada (or Germany, or Spain, or the UK)... such people can easily feel like family.
"Despite all the mocking of various individuals of little faith, the image of the Israeli prime minister and the bomb will be broadcast in every news edition around the world, and will be incorporated in the video clips made by the Republican party for the presidential campaign," wrote Nahum Barnea in Yedioth Ahronoth.
The article noted that at one point on an early-morning trip, "the loudest sound was the clip-clip-clip made by the approaching conductor".
A sample clip made by HitRecord shows an animated drone flying across the screen and dropping a bomb as Snowden says the words "places where technology does hurt".
One club member read a poem aloud, "Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens," by Jack Prelutsky; another showed a video clip, made by a newsreel team, of Flannery O'Connor, captured at age five with a chicken that walked backward.
Finally, to end on a musical note, marvel how different the Beatles classic Hey Jude sounds in a minor key in a clip made by Kurt Hugo Schneider and Tyler Ward, and catch a Barack Obama mash-up of him singing Michael Jackson's Thriller.
It started off as the TZ Anthem Challenge, in which kids had to replicate the dance moves performed in a video clip made by 15-year-old Zay Hilfigerrr, set to music that he had co-written.
The remarkable thing is the effort it took to have one of rock's great performers dance awkwardly for a few minutes – there's an amazing video of him rehearsing at home for the filming, throwing those ungainly moves, and another early version of the clip, made by Daniel Pearl and Jeff Stein, that features the Boss dancing in his vest on a soundstage.
The clip made by bent wire with some sensors and an actuator could hold paper note, recognize it, and move it.
Silva hopes the clip, made by her son-in-law Tim O'Donnell, will inspire others to adopt deaf cats of their own -- and teach them sign language, too.
They have a new EP out called Home Wrecker and this curious new clip, made by the guys at KROZM to go with it.
