Single Black Female

Karyn Langhorne Folan, author of Don’t Bring Home a White Boy: And Other Notions that Keep Black Women From Dating Out, suggests that single African American women need to start dating outside their race if they are to find a partner. Part of the problem is that ‘good’ black men i.e. those with college degrees [...]

Gay is the New Black

Dangerous Breed is home to political T-Shirts that make you think: the slogan that is provoking  most comment at the moment is “Gay is the New Black”, which refers to the denial of gay marriage rights in the USA. Others include “Ski Iraq” (as seen on Six Feet Under), “Gaza Strip Club” and “Petrosexual”. Get [...]

Eligible Men

Daily Motion has a video of found footage of dating agency videos, which shows a procession of hapless men explaining what they are looking for in love “vivacious, foxy”, “the goddess”, and why they are eligible bachelors (“I’m an executive by day and a wild man at night.” “I’m atonal.”, “I’m interested in most phases [...]

Odd Cops

You don’t see this every day:

A cop playing a guitar to a busker
A Staffordshire bull terrier being frisked
A lady cop watching a naked man do an unconventional high-wire act

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Pyjama Girls Documentary

Director Maya Derrington noticed that there was a propensity for the people of Dublin to walk around the city in their pyjamas. This observation inspired her to make Pyjama Girls, an observational documentary that focuses on a group of teenage girls who live in the Basin Street Flats in Dublin’s Inner City. The film is [...]

Undercover theatre

In Washington DC, unsuspecting shoppers, diners or park goers can find themselves suddenly witnessing what appears to be a shoot out or someone being chased by federal agents, but it’s all part of a new kind of street theatre, dubbed ‘threat theatre’ in which the audience are extraneous. The point is not to entertain, but [...]

Foreign Embassies

Brits are causing trouble abroad again – badgering British embassies with a litany of embarrassingly trivial complaints, ranging from the mother who wanted the British consulate in Florida to help her teenage son pack his suitcase and a traveller in Zambia who wanted the high commission to call in sick for him at work. Got [...]

Spotlab

Spotlab is the Winner of NATPE’s Next TV Competition for Reality/Unscripted. It follows 15 new directors who have three months to learn how to direct their own ad. In fact they walk away with a showreel for three spots, and hopefully a new career. As part of the program they get access to industry insiders [...]

Random Acts of Reality

Random Acts of Reality is a blog by Tom Reynolds, an Emergency Medical Technician (or ambulance man, but don’t let him catch you calling him that) in the London ambulance service.
Recent posts include a call to a teenager who has a sore hand as a result of punching something (or someone), a rant against the [...]

Dr Feelgood

Slate Magazine explores why doctors end up giving celebrities too many pills: JFK, Marlene Dietrich, Elvis, Anna Nicole Smith, and now Michael Jackson. Elvis’s doctor explained that he did it “because I cared too much”, but the article  concludes that: “Like the drug-addled celebrity, Dr. Feelgood is a true addict, hooked not on OxyContin or [...]