Monday, March 3, 2008

hey, the blind have needs too

so i head over to april winchell and download her latest podcast to listen to on the way to work (and if you don't know april, you need to--for my money, one of the most brilliantly funny people out there anywhere). and one of the things she and her co-host talk about this week is a website devoted to the noble--and apparently grievously overlooked--cause of bringing porn to the blind.

for those of you who are as clueless in this regard as was i, here's the deal: porn-starved blind guy (and no, i'm not being sexist--you know it's always gonna be a guy) logs onto porn for the blind and submits a request for an audio description of a sample movie clip from the adult website of his choice. they in turn put it out there in hopes that a sighted volunteer with suitable descriptive skills will come along and record their (fine, his) visual impressions of said clip in fulfillment of said blind guy's fervent wish.

well, apparently unmoved by the half-ass efforts of the few volunteers who had up to now come forth, april--who is nothing if not a humanitarian--brought in the inimitable auntie vera charles to show 'em how it oughta be done.

the result almost caused me to run my car off the road and take out a startled flock of hasidic jews at beverly & mansfield--trust me, don't try to listen to the following clip while you're doing something that could hurt somebody.




[oh, and (1) apologies for the quality--i hijacked it offa her podcast; and (2) this woulda been up yesterday had it not taken me ten fucking hours to figure out a way to embed an audio clip in a blogger post--i mean, sweet jesus, why do they make what should be such a simple thing so hard? finally, i hit upon the idea of turning it into a movie--for the blind, of course]

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just shared this with all of my friends . Hilarious stuff . Though , sadly , I'm not surprised such a thing exists .

mkf said...

(sighs and shakes head) byzantine boy, byzantine boy, byzantine boy....as i said in the headline and will now say again: the blind have needs too--in fact, i'd be willing to hazard a guess that there are at least three of 'em feverishly masturbating to that clip as we speak.