Warning: graphic imagery and NSFW audio. I am particularly grateful to narrator "Randall" for the phrase "sleepy fuck."
UPDATE: The morning of February 16:
MLW: So I watched a version of that video with the official narration, and that's not a cobra it's eating in the last part. It's a puff adder.
ME: Wow. Aren't puff adders EVEN WORSE than cobras?
MLW: I think so.
ME: It's true: the honey badger really doesn't give a shit.
MLW: Nope.
ME: Neat! Hmm. I wonder if honey badgers are...domesticatable?
MLW: I really don't like the direction your thoughts are going in right now.
"the most fearless animal in the animal kingdom."
well, it should meet the polar bear, which is--according to Jon Peters--the fiercest killer in the animal kingdom
Anyway, "Randall" should have at one point said:
"well, OBVIOUSLY, we have a BADGER in the wild..."
Posted by: Matthias Galvin | February 13, 2011 at 09:41 PM
"Sliiiiiddde!"
Posted by: Oliver_C | February 14, 2011 at 05:09 AM
Mine is a mongoose which plays the tambourine. Quite boring really.
Posted by: colinr | February 14, 2011 at 12:31 PM
And irritating when it insists on playing for hours through the middle of the night.
Posted by: colinr | February 14, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Bunuel, as ever, said it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX7hSs4_TX4
Posted by: colinr | February 14, 2011 at 12:41 PM
Apparently, nobody but me remembers "The Honey Badger," Hemingway wannabe Robert Ruark's version of Valley of The Dolls for men. Terrible novel, but it warped my notions of The Writer's Life beyond belief at an impressionable age.
Posted by: Tom Carson | February 14, 2011 at 08:29 PM
Robert Ruark, author of "Something of Value?!?!?!" Fuckin' A'! Come to think of it, that title WAS rattling around in the very farthest reaches of the back of my head when I was putting this together. Leave it to Mr. Carson to provide a missing piece of the puzzle. I'm looking at the prices of used editions at Amazon now...
Posted by: Glenn Kenny | February 14, 2011 at 08:34 PM
GK, feel free to bill me for the $0.01 plus postage. It's really bad, but kind of touching in a Midcentury Document way.
Posted by: Tom Carson | February 14, 2011 at 08:47 PM
So, "Randall" is to David Attenborough as Tony Clifton was to Andy Kaufman?
Posted by: lipranzer | February 14, 2011 at 09:32 PM
Robert Ruark! The one who...oh, wait, that's Howard Roark.
Posted by: Claire K. | February 15, 2011 at 04:21 PM