Say Goodbye to Productivity
TheWB.com launched today, adding to the list of online corporate streaming sites. It’s a conspiracy to kill my productivity, I’m sure. Hello Veronica Mars, Buffy, and Gilmore Girls.
Also, this reaffirms my belief that nothing good has come out of the WB and UPN merger. They might as well call the CW the WB because they’ve killed off almost all of the minority character-driven shows of UPN. *Sigh*.
Scientists Says Michael Bay Wasn’t Wrong, I Go Buy a Lottery Ticket
Never thought I’d live to see the day where’d I say Michael Bay was right I suppose. Remember that RIDICULOUS asteroid-moving theory that was the whole foundation of Armageddon? You enjoyed the cheese of the movie and said, “WTF?”, right? Well, a ph.d student’s research says this is possible. What is the world coming to?
A THOUSAND TIMES YES.
The Olympics were fun and all, but Olympics Schmimpics, their close means the impending return of the Fall TV Season. Oh hells, yes. More on that later.
For now, I can get my hit from a preview of the first several minutes of the Season 2 premiere of Gossip Girl. SIX DAYS TO GO.
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Even after watching the Survivor and Amazing Race episodes, I use to read Linda Holmes’ recaps on Television Without Pity because of their funniness, their insightfulness, and all around fun. So, I’m so super psyched to see she is the new pop culture blogger for NPR’s Monkey See blog. Congrats!
Oh, and a side note: The primaries may have gone on for what felt like forever, but for some reason yesterday, as I read about the DNC, the sheer momentousness of this election finally really, really hit me. I’m slow. Sue me. And BTW, Michelle Obama is the bomb.
Star Wars Farts
You’d think that since I have a “won’t stop till you drop” amount of work to do, I could post this later. But no, it gave me so much joy and giggles that I didn’t want to delay any happiness this may bring others.
Ever heard of a website (now gone because of Lucas’ excellent group of attorneys) called StarWarsFarts.com? They now live on in this set of Flickr Stills.
But wait, it gets better. Soon, thanks to Glark, you may look forward to: “videogamefarts.com”, “tvfarts.com”, “filmfarts.com”, and even “historicfarts.com.” This development wouldn’t have been possible if not for this milestone conversation.
Doping Horses, Four-Eyed Cats
First things first, four horses were banned from jumping the Olympic final for doping. The people who did this should really get banned for life. But it still sounds a little funny to hear that it reported this way – what did the horses do? Use their hooves to pick up a needle and inject themselves? Crack open a bottle of pills and chomp on it?
In other news about animals, I am LOVING Tara Ariano’s ongoing series about mutant animals. I’ve been endlessly entertained with two-headed cats, two-headed lizards…My favorite so far is a pig with the shape of a rabbit and the face of an ape. WTF, right? Today’s animal is…a four-eared cat who looks like Yoda!
Holla U of C Economics
My ex-roommate has been reading this book about the University of Chicago economic theory and telling me that the school’s impact on economic policy is ‘evil.’ We hadn’t started going into that firepit of debate yet, I think I’ll fire off the opening salvo by shamelessly using Matt’s post on this NYTimes article about Obama’s economic agenda and how he could be categorized as a “University of Chicago Democrat.”
Welcome Back, Brenda Walsh
After a bajillion promos and ad spreads, the ONLY reason why I can care even a little bit about the revamped 90210 show this fall is the return of Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) and Brenda Walsh aka crazy-as-all-hell Shannon Doherty. Just boot those kids off, I say! As if we don’t already know Brenda Shannon Doherty will only accept total domination, as she rightly should.
CW is trying so hard to make me care about the teens in this promo, but meh….Here’s the Fug Girls take.
Really, it’s this promo that’s got me interested:
Best Week Ever Asks – Is Michael Phelps A Douche?
OK, so Toro is probably going to kill me for even putting this up here, but it has to do be done. Major props to Phelps for you-know-what, and seeming humble and you-know-whatever. But come on, this Best Week Ever article IS amusing: “Just Asking: Is Michael Phelps A Douche?”. And before you go all, “the poor guy just can’t catch a break,” I’m sure he’s doing just fine.
For the record, the use of the word ‘douche’ and all of the social context it implies, let’s save that a debate for another post.
