April 30th, 2007
Groonkly Bit
CHRIS DOWD:Is there a cliquey-ness to the U.K. comedy scene? And is there an element of jealousy when someone strikes out on their own? Coogan and Hollywood? Do people sneer?
GRAHAM LINEHAN: What’s that quote? I think Gore Vidal said it – it’s not enough to succeed, our friends must fail.
Chatattack, “The Star and Writer of The IT Crowd discuss things”
Don’t think that mentaliy is limited to comedy or the UK, Mr Dowd.
April 27th, 2007
VOTW: Grey's Anatomy's has Balls
GREY’S ANATOMY did the thinkable. They made me bump a villain to next week. So I’m sitting there, minding my own business and avoiding important projects by watching the nation’s fascination, GREY’S ANATOMY.
Then they hang an old man’s grapefruit-sized swollen balls from the top of my TV set. The shock tactic: 1) stunned my primetime watching eyes, 2) made me laugh uncontrollably for two minutes flat, and 3) made me wonder, “How did they get this past the Inscrutable Censors?
The Inscrutable Censors are the mysterious lot that make morality judgments for us so that we don’t have to. The ICs tend to bring incredibly useless and laughable notes on what qualifies as decent to new levels of the absurd. Yet these same folk decided seeing Candiru-Infected Old Man Balls was the one thing they’d let slip through their bulldog grip.
I’m not sure whether I should thank them, cause the comedy of that scene was worth dealing with the 40 minutes of whiny, pretty doctors that followed, or hate them because, yikes, Candiru-Infected Old Man Balls was just on my TV.
There are few who aren’t scarred by that sight. They live in the dark corners of the internet. They are teh ones who thin a woman, wearing high heels, furiously stomping her foot inside a flushing toilet is an excitable thing. I fear any recognition of their dark desires will only embolden their cause and eventually topple society as we know it.
Then again, comedy is comedy. Even if it’s a cheap easy gag. Hell, it worked for SOMETHING ABOUT MARY.
Since the villain I had lined up for today has a long shelf life and anything GREY’S ANATOMY will be old hat by the weekend, the ANATOMY Team will have to take one for the team and be evil.
I could give GA permanent villain status for wasting Sara Ramirez‘s genius talent on a weekly basis. I recently learned she was in Spamalot: The Musical. Correction, she *owned* Spamalot: The Musical whenever she hit the stage.
Yeah, wasting talent definitely makes them evil.
April 26th, 2007
HOTW: 5,290,218 Otter Colored Glasses
And that’s just for the embedded video below*.
Since these bastards have officially gone viral, you’d think I’d file this under the status of “villain.” But my heart is feeling particularly light today. It’s as if someone assembled a series of mirrors in effort to reflect much needed sunlight onto my soul.
Besides I have a much more deserving villain in mind.
DID YOU KNOW?: Showing that video is guaranteed to get you sex with your hot young sexy receptionist.
Challenge my theory of sex physics if you must. In fact, I dare you to.
(via yahoo news)
(*Fun fact: what people don’t know is those otters are gay.)
April 25th, 2007
Round Objects in Square Holes
This section is becoming slim again for I am lazy and in dire need of inspiration. Or I simply lack the need to bitch.
Also I’m letting schooling take a lot of my brainpower again. Damn higher learning.
For those paying attention, this is the second Earth Day brand I threw together. The first one was a sloppy mess but I was done looking at that LOST parody for a time.
This brand features a shot of the Earth from the moon via one of the last Apollo missions…I think. It could be from one of the first.
I did have issues with boxing the Earth up like that then I thought, “Fuck, man. You’re not some pretensious artist. You’re a guy with an ancient version of Photoshop and access to NASA’s photo library. Throw the thing up and move on.”
And so I did.
April 22nd, 2007
Groonkly Bit
April 19th, 2007
HOTW: National High Five Day
They have a soundtrack.
A history.
A webpage.
A friendly place with a freaky-ass avatar.
They got me rollin’…rollin’….rollin’ on a river.
Don’t leave them hangin‘.
April 17th, 2007
…of the Week
It’s pretty obvious who is the villian this week. After all the investigations are said and done, the suspected shooter had a choice and he chose death over life. Everything else is just excuses and bad drama.
The heroes may not be as obvious. One student had the prescence of mind to barricade the classroom door, which most definitely saved his fellow classmates. The media will find other fine examples, I’m sure.
I don’t know what else to say. I’m also uncomfortable filing this under the pre-designated categories. So I’ll just end this here, file it here, and keep an eye on the news like everyone else.
UPDATE: Balls! Did I say I would watch the media for reliable objective news?
Specfically today, there is something over-the-top being heard in some of the reports that this shooting today is the “deadliest” in American history. Also, incorrect information is being shared. These newspeople are misreporting on the profiles and the changes in it. Cable news earlier this afternoon misrepresented that this is an American-only problem. During the early evening, I just watched a report on CNN saying that the few historical non-American school shootings have been done by adult non-students.
full link to article
I’d be better off trading my right eye for an Unkindness of Ravens expertly trained to gather all news and report it back into my perfect ears.
(Qutoed text via BoingBoing)
