To embed Video...

(Revision II)
So MixedMusic got me going on this when she posted a dead link to a very cool YouTube video. So I poked around and figured out a way for you (and me) to embed YouTube and Google videos in your work on this site. NOW PLEASE REMEMBER what this site's all about -- writing, words, expression. Don't clutter all your fine word work with a bunch of goofy videos. Ask yourself: Does this enhance the art of writing?

I asked myself the same question and have started to glean some other videos for you on writing. To see them click here or click on the keyword "video" above. Feel free to add some of your own and put video and author in the keywords. Let's see if we can build a cool library of writers talking about writing or reading their own words, etc.

Here's how to embed video into ANYTHING you post (including comments): I AM PURPOSELY misspelling the word VIDEO so that it doesn't loop to a broken link. ...

• 1. Copy the exact link to YouTube or Googletube video you want to show.
• 2. Post it this way (making sure you spell video correctly and you have brackets at either end): [vidoe:http://www.youtube.com/gobbledygookurlhere] and bingo. Submit and watch.

By the way, below is the link MixedMusic posted; it is great. (And if you click "Read More" before you start it, you'll see the real lyrics to this song by the group The Books.)

"Balance.
Repetition.
Composition.
Mirrors.

Most of all, the world is a place where parts of wholes are described
within an overarching paradigm of clarity and accuracy.
The context in which makes possible an underlying
sense of the way it all fits together,
despite our collective tendency not to conceive of it as such.

But then again, the world without end is a place where souls are combined,
but with an overbearing feeling of disparity and disorderliness.
To ignore it is impossible without getting oneself into all of kind of trouble,
despite one’s best intentions to not get entangled with it so much.

Meanwhile,
the statues are bleeding green.
And others are saying things much better than we ever could;
as the quiet become suddenly verbose.

And the hail’s heralding the size of nickels.
And the street corners are gnashing together like the gears
inside the head of some omniscient engineer.
And downward flows the garnered wisdom that has never died

Then finally,
we opened the box, we couldn’t find any rules.
Our heads were reeling with the glitter of possibilities, contingencies...
but with ever increasing faith we decided to go ahead and just ignore them,
despite tremendous pressure to capitulate with fate.

So instead, we went ahead to fabricate a catalog
of unstable elements and modicums and particles.
With not zero total strangeness for brief moments which amount
to nothing more than tiny fragments of a finger snap.

Meanwhile,
we’re furiously seeing green.
And the map has started tearing along its creases due to overuse...
when in reality it’s never needed folds.

And the air’s withholding the sound of its wellspring.
And our heads approach a density reminiscent of the infinite productivity of the center of the sun.

And there in lies the garnered wisdom that has never died.

Expectation -
leads to disappointment. If you don’t expect something big huge and exciting...
usually...
I dunno,
just, uh yea..."
The Books, 2005, Smells Like Content, from their "Lost and Safe" album.