Rick Astley penned the bio of Moot for the Time 100 poll, aka the world’s most influential people. He thanks him and money quote: ”I suppose at first I was a little embarrassed by it. I always liken it to when people look through their photo albums or home videos from 20 years ago and think, Gosh, did I really wear that?” Yes, yes you did.
Of course, Astley, received a second lease on life thanks to the whole Rickrolling phenomenon. It seems in recent months that he’s accepted the reality of the situation, moved beyond disbelief into something of gratitude.
The Goode Family is Mike Judge’s animated follow-up to his beloved King of the Hill. The shows aren’t set in the same universe or anything, but let’s be honest: the more Mike Judge comedy we can have, the better off this world will be.
There has been some speculation that Disney/ABC would eventually become partners with online video site Hulu, but now it is official.
Financials of the deal were not revealed and it’s still pending approval, but what this means in terms of conent is that ABC shows (Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, etc.) and Disney movies will be side by side with NBC/Universal and Fox content.
Hulu now has three of the four major networks under its belt, along with three of the major film studios.
This pretty much means that Hulu is no the de facto leader in online television, as if it weren’t already. Again, content is king.
Not to pick nits, because at first I was like, well okay it’s a pizza box that tears into four plates and whatever it’s not that great or more environmentally conscious. But then when it folded in half, giving you a way to store leftovers. Well, it seems so simple and ingenius.
My only thing is that when I order pizza I leave it in the box anyways, though I guess it would be nice to have plates and storage built into the delivery box.
Okay this isn’t actually made for sipping drinks during the time of swine flu, but it sure looks like it should be. Either that or it’s some creepy daytime mask for people that like to wear gas masks out at night.
But why? Have you ever seen something and it just makes you go what? I’m trying to comprehend what would cause someb0dy to make this coiled and sewn polyester horsehair braid mask. Which is a different emotion from wanting one really badly to drink beer out of.
So last night was as crazy/action-packed episode of Lost as they come. Farraday getting shot by his own mother? If he’s dead does that mean that the cycle he’s trying to prevent just repeats itself over and over and over again until we keep coming back to that point?
Anyway, this isn’t about Lost this is about those strange advertisements that were run during lost. The “what did you see?” ads.
Turns out they’re for a show that doesn’t even exist yet; the clips are actually the start of the network’s campaign for Flash Forward. Though the show doesn’t exist, it’s safe to say that if ABC is running ads now, then the show has gotten the green light.
I doubt very much they would be running ads to see if there is enough initial interest to pick up the show. Then again, with the way networks decide on shows and tv lineups, nothing would surprise me regarding their terrible business decision.
But back to Flash Forward. It’s based upon Robert J. Sawyer’snovel about what happens when the entire human race loses consciousness for about two minutes (in the ABC version it’s two minutes and 17 seconds) and sees events that will happen 21 years in their future (in the ABC version they’ve reduced it to six months). According to Pop Critic, “Flash Forward chronicles the chaos that ensues after a scientific experiment begins goes badly.”
ABC hopes to have the show ready to replace Lost when it ends it’s remarkable run in 2010. Only a pilot has been shot starring Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, Jack Davenport, Christine Woods and Sonya Walger. Production was overseen by David Goyer and Brannon Braga.
I like Goyer, mostly, and the cast with Joseph Fiennes and John Cho is respectable enough. The show was orignally developed for HBO and they were excited for the show, but felt it would work better on a network.
Hard to make any judgements since there hasn’t been any footage to see, except for those annoying commercials. Which you can see all five here. MORE »
Meta Filter has been running a post regarding all the crimes committed during Ferris Bueller’s day off from school in which he steals a car, impersonates a police officer, hijacks a parade, etc. It’s quite funny.
My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the “Fight Club” theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron’s imagination, like Tyler Durden, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves.
One day while he’s lying sick in bed, Cameron lets “Ferris” steal his father’s car and take the day off, and as Cameron wanders around the city, all of his interactions with Ferris and Sloane, and all the impossible hijinks, are all just played out in his head. This is part of the reason why the “three” characters can see so much of Chicago in less than one day — Cameron is alone, just imagining it all.
It isn’t until he destroys the front of the car in a fugue state does he finally get a grip and decide to confront his father, after which he imagines a final, impossible escape for Ferris and a storybook happy ending for Sloane (”He’s gonna marry me!”), the girl that Cameron knows he can never have.
George Carlin, ya’ll. Joe MacCloud mentions the infamous Carlin routine. It never gots old or unfunny no matter how many times I’ve heard this routine.
I enjoy the football, but I’m a baseball guy at heart (actually basketball but that’s not part of this discussion). Joe MacCloud succinctly makes the argument that there should be a difference between baseball and football and that baseball is ruining itself in trying to be, well, more exciting.
So howabout a few Old School Baseball Nites or Afternoons, you know? No BAMARAM-ARAMARAMARAMARAMA every time somebody adjusts their cup, eh? It won’t be, like, quiet, because there would be somebody playing Old-School Baseball Pipe Organ, OK? It’s like, the Classic Baseball musical instrument, the pipe organ! And somebody maybe has a bugle and they can do the real dah-nah-dah-nah-dah-nah-dah-nah-dah-nah-dah-nah: CHARGE thing, and it will be totally cool and mellow, like, Actual Crowd Noise and the HEYCOLDBEER guy and HEYHOTDOG guy will be relatively louder, and you’ll be able to hear the CRACK! of the bat, the WHAP! when the pitcher burns one in over the plate–all that shit, you know, the fucking Game, man. Heckling will be audible, as God intended. It’s like, people gotta wait for a lull in the BAMARAMARAMARAMARAMARAMA to yell at whatever opposing player is out there, and the players can’t hear most of the time because there’s all the BAMARAMARAMARAMARAMARAMA. Heckling is a huge part of the Classic Baseball Experience.
This might be better than the red swings on the BART. Of course, it’s slightly more scary in a druggie sense, but who’s got time for picking nits when free bouncy rides are involved.
Why go with the TinyUrl or the CuteUrl or even the GiantUrl, when you can add a dash of Charles Dickens to your Url.
Yup, put a url into Dickensurl.com and you get something much better. Of course, this doesn’t make the url shorter, just a bit more Victorian. Or wordy. Depending on whether or not you like Charles Dickens.
We’ve been anticipating this and glad to see it happen. According to the AV Club, however, “Billy Mitchell wasn’t even the current champ–it was some dude named Ike Hall. Mitchell is only the third greatest Donkey Kong Jr. player in the world.”
Your move Billy Mitchell – or not, since you’ve still got the Donkey Kong record. We’ll have to wait until June 2, to see if Wiebe can claim that crown.
I mean, not that we need empirical evidence to make this correlation, but here it is.
Here’s the thing: your romantic success has nothing to do with your mental jewelry and everything to do with how you make the other person feel. And making someone feel a certain way is a somewhat nonlinear process that requires a different kind of mastery than that of calculus or Shakespeare.
In other words, you need to earn love (or at least lust). Sadly, no mom, dad or professor teaches us about the power of the well-placed compliment (or put-down), giving attention but not too much attention, being caring without being needy. I wrote a whole 280-page book about that, so that’s a story for a different day.
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