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Vlad and Boris: Love Song for Sarah Palin, our Alaskan Neighbor

Xeni Jardin at 7:55 pm Thu, Oct 23, 2008

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vlad and friend boris presents 'Song for Sarah' for mrs. Palin. (via @andrewbaron)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • Antinous

    Vlad is not a typical Russian name – Vladimir or Vova is, not Vlad.

    Vladimirs usually go by Volodya or Vova, but Vlad is a nickname for Vladislav.

    • Xeni “Hussein” Jardin

      @Antinuous, Tell that to Pootie-poot.

  • wolfiesma

    I just finished watching Rufus Wainright’s All I Want docu-DVD (eat your heart out AntiNous) but I gotta say, these guys are way hotter. Are they really Russian, or are they just pretending?

    • Antinous

      Are they really Russian, or are they just pretending?

      Nyet. Maybe.

  • mdh

    Glad I watched to the end. That you betcha/doggonit bit was brilliant!

  • Enormo

    @#20
    Thank you.

  • Isaac Cates

    These guys are no Red Elvises, mind you, but I think the song is pretty inspired. I hope these guys get to meet Sarah by and by.

  • wolfiesma

    Xeni,
    For some reason (many reasons) I want to dedicate this song to you.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpntNDAYltM

    • Xeni “Hussein” Jardin

      wolfiesma, mind = blown.

  • Kabur Naj

    My little five-year-old girl just caught the last bit of this video as I watched it. Her comments:

    “It’s silly, but I like it. I wonder who Joe is? Maybe it’s the boy in the white shirt.”

    I think I’ll spare her the bigger picture until she’s a lot older.

  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

    This has been a brilliant campaign for vernacular music videos. I’ve been collecting them since spring.

  • doggo

    Doggone it.

  • Takuan

    I like pie and earworms
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgyccBOpEc

  • Roach

    Yeah, that’s way too nice of a room to be in Russia.

  • seva

    moderately amusing, but those guys are not Russian at all. Judging by their look (hair and clothes), if they are not westerners dressed up, they are probably Romanians, Hungarians or Gypsies, the Vodka on the window is not a Russian brand, and Vlad is not a typical Russian name – Vladimir or Vova is, not Vlad.

  • Takuan

    see how they feed

    Palin’s ‘going rogue,’ McCain aide says

    * Story Highlights
    * Sources say there is brewing tension between McCain aides and Palin
    * Palin aide says she is trying to take control of her message
    * “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” says a McCain adviser
    * Next Article in Politics »

    From John King, Peter Hamby and Dana Bash
    CNN
    ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) — With 10 days until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense, they are spilling out in public, sources say.
    Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, on Saturday.

    Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, on Saturday.

    Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue.”

  • FoetusNail

    When I was young we practiced hiding under school desks or running out into the hall; on Saturdays at noon, the sirens were tested. Years later, we lived just outside of the blast damage radius of the military base and would think about life after the bomb. People would list the things needed to survive, but all anyone in our area needed was one can of tuna, because they probably wouldn’t have an appetite or time to eat. I remember sitting with visions of thousands of bomb disease victims, dead in the streets, holding their cans of tuna. Then there was Fishbone; Johnny go get your gun, for the Commies are in our hemisphere today.

    Wherever they’re from I liked their video.

  • cstatman

    wow, TWO songs stuck in my head at once, battling for supreme hilarity of the day.

    MUST CLEAR EARWORM

    ah, there we go

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81fwLNklSM

  • MomentEye

    It’s Flight of the Conchords gone public domain.
    Awesome!

  • Cool Products

    Check out this video
    Haha, I just found this, I think that it is the best one I’ve seen so far.

  • sammich

    Why am I disappointed that Boris is not Boris Johnson?

  • Takuan

    hey misses palin, I already love another
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSBHtk8Lj2Y

  • Razzabeth

    Hahahahaha

    I like the part where he is drinking vodka in the dark, yelling at the computer screen, “Why won’t you reply to my e-mails?!”

  • Ed Bear

    Awesome. This is my new favorite thing for today.

  • Xeni “Hussein” Jardin

    Glad you guys dig. I think I have a crush on both of these commie hotties.

    • Antinous

      I’ll fight you for the one in the red pants.

  • sammich

    Bloody Hell Takuan! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs&feature=related

  • sammich

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pklr0UD9eSo&feature=related