PhillyTube
YouTube isn't all slick product placement - yet. There are still lots of amateurs and little-known pros putting stuff up. As an experiment, I searched the last day's offerings that had to do with Philadelphia.
There are dozens of new videos, from fast squirrel tricks to a nine-minute tale of a South Philly woman's last-century Christmas tree to roaring mash-ups of Flyers hits and then something unclassifiable having to do with a System of a Down song and rollicking jelly bellies - or eggplants - I'm not sure. And the Adventure of Joey & Mickey, two downtown lounge singers who played with everyone back in the day.
An 11-second video of a Philadelphia jumping squirrel.
"Weirdos of Philadelphia" -- two women dressed up as giant bean-bag clowns (or eggplants?) and crashing into walls to the tune of System of a Down's "Chop Suey!"
Mouina The Tree - the gentle story of a South Philadelphia woman and her decade-old Christmas tree.
Cosmo Baker at Pat's, riffing on the proper Philly cheesesteak. (mumbled bad-language warning)
Black and white heart throb James Darren singing "Goodbye Cruel World" with background chirping.
Ron Wood aka Zen One, who started dancing for the ladies.
George Manney's music-video portraits of Philadelphia musical legends.
A few moments of crushing, old-school Flyers hockey to the tune of some horror rock, with the voice of Vincent Price, followed by your old table hockey game come to life.
The Adventures of Joey & Mickey, two South Philly lounge singers. "We're more of an entertaining type thing."