There are three phases to my gratitude for the lovely Alison Brie.
1) As Trudy Campbell on Mad Men, she first caught my attention. Playing a put-upon cuckquean, she somehow reminded me of a real-life Disney Princess that realized wishing gets you nowhere. And oh how I wish to meet her! she was on Saturday Night Live instead of co-star January Jones!
His disregard for her feelings makes me a mad man!
2) As Annie Adderall Edison on Community, she wriggled further into public awareness in a more notable role. And she’s also proved she’s funny. And funny goes a lot further in the cute department, of which she’s the manager.
Will she end up with Troy, Jeff, or the entire Community?!?
3) And of course, there’s always this case study in stunning black and white…
"Hey would you like to swing on a star..." Oh no wait, that's the theme from "Out of This World"
…or should I say, “I am thankful someone else has heard of Otherworld.” In the days since the TripleDoubleU has taken its foothold as our MRS (memory replacement system), there are few things I cannot find any mention of out there via Google.
Unfound(dead) Item #1 – Fender Bender ring anyone’s bells?
Unfound(dead) Item #2 – Anyone else ever hear that John Williams reversed a song he wrote to make the Star Wars theme (other than the Indiana Jones theme which is the dumbest rumor I ever heard!)?
Anydogpile, I remember Otherworld for only one thing – everyone there was primarily left-handed. Nobody on allthe other blogs I checked mentioned that. Oh well. It existed. You can watch all eight episodes from the 1985 show here. Or just watch the intro and end below. Or do nothing but dream about turkey. This was my Thanksgiving miracle, not yours, so I’d understand. Jerk.
I’m environmentally conscious. I don’t pollute, and my biggest pet peeve is polluters. Whether it’s plastic CD wrappers being dropped walking out of stores, fast food bags being tossed out car windows, or emptied glass bottles being left in parking lots, my blood instantly boils. I’m not perfect in the green department, but in this regard, I mark myself an emerald shade. (I even changed one of my friend’s littering ways.)
Not to be outdone, this is filled with marijuana plants.
So I’m always looking for ways to improve, and it appears the city of Boston is, too. An architecture firm and science lab teamed up to produce the above…
…a vertical tower of prefabricated “eco pods” filled with bio-fuel producing algae for the space. The new tower would act as a center to test new algae species and different growing methods. (via Inhabitat)
Even though I truly despise Boston’s sports teams (I’ve mentioned it before), I really liked Boston Legal. And now I’m in favor of the sci-fi flavored forward-thinking that’s going on there. Perchance the developers bring such technologies to Detroit? We have tons of abandoned buildings.
Do you think robot arms are ticklish?
P.S. I also hold this against Boston…
Self-Titled Boston Rob: World-Titled Survivor Douche
For 23 years, the Burning Man festival has taken place in the Black Rock Desert, and since I first heard about it in an old issue of Marvel’s X-Force (it was issue #75 at the point when Cannonball, Siryn, Warpath, Sunspot, and Boom-BoomBoomer Meltdown comprised the line-up), I’ve been curious about it. By saying I’m curious, I’ve been picked on at work. I’m not sure why, exactly, because based on the pictures below, it looks… weird. And I’m always thankful for that.
It’s that time of year again. Parades. Turkey. Gravy. Mashed potatoes. Drinking. Fighting. Sleeping. Buying. And above all else… thanking (as Joey on Friends would say, “Supposably“).
So here I am ready to kick off a weeks worth of giving just that. Today, I’d like to say thanks for the existence of CatsForGold.com.
Sounds like a deal to me! If only all pets could be mailed...
I love getting things in the mail and for once the mail will love me back! All I need to do is find some gold lying around… here’s my class ring my mother told me I wouldn’t want later in life (moms know everything!), and here’s a pocket watch that’s on a gold-plated chain… I think there’s some gold in this pen…
Plop into the CatsForGold envelope, and plop into the big blue box! I wonder what Cat-tankerous (his name) will look like. The bottom bar has already been set…
(I apologize for the slow load on this page, but I decided to collect the clips for easier access. And sorry the list is so long, but I wanted to prove a point.)
When talking about a movie’s score, modern audiences probably think it has something to do with how much it made at the box office on opening weekend, or what it’s rated on Rotten Tomatoes. In actuality, the movie’s score – primarily the theme song – should be more than a cue to what you’re supposed to feel throughout watching the flick. It should capture the spirit of the story in a melody… one that you can carry with you in a hum.
As a child, all my favorites had excellent theme songs (you can hum them without a hint):
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Superman
Back to the Future
E.T.
Jaws
James Bond
Rocky
Batman (Michael Keaton)
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I love me my Snuggie. As a matter-of-fact, I’m wearing mine as I type this.” I’ve worn it in a pub crawl in NYC, and I’ve wanted to wear it in a pub crawl in Seattle.
But as per usual, if something shakes me at my core (or in this case makes me shiver in my Snuggie), I must stand atop my mountain blog and proclaim it to the world to inform and warn about it. This time, it’s the Snuggie Sutra.
K'man!
Based on the Kama Sutra, the ancient Indian sex guide (like how The Joy of Sexbent over spoofed The Joy of Cooking… and the Kama Sutra), the Snuggie Sutra offers up suggestions for couples, depending upon whether you’re blue or pink, or your Snuggie is blue or pink (or green or zebra), it looks… hot.
And I don’t mean the way you think… **
*Proof…
Me typing in my Snuggie (watching the Colbert Report)
While kicking back brews and shooting the breeze with my pals, the glow of the TV showing whatever game we’re interested in holds our gaze. And that’s what it’s all about with us men, so they say. We’re “visual creatures” allegedly. Our eyes are too big for our stomachs, and our stomachs are the way to our hearts. Wait, I got off topic…
Oh, yeah. During said television events, especially of late, companies have been promoting the hell out of two video games: Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City.
And all I think upon watching these previews is how much more like movies video games are becoming. I have Unchartered 2: Among Thievesand it’s better than any action picture I’ve seen in a long time (The Dark Knight notwithstanding), and it makes me laugh…
Haven’t we as a public (well I know I have) been bitching about how much movies are starting to look like video games? I could give two shiitake mushrooms about James Cameron’s Avatar or Robert Zemekis’ A Christmas Carol*, and they’re really no different from the games. Except for the fact that I partake in one and watch the other… Hmm…
Perhaps men aren’t just “visual creatures” after all… We’re touchy, too.
*I do want to see 2012, and it’s as heavy a CG feast as Avatar.
If you’re not watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, you’re missing out. In its fifth season, this FX comedy never fails to make me LOL… srsly.
(SIDENOTE: The overuse of LOL pisses me off, because very often, I don’t think people are really Laughing Out Loud. GMS might be more accurate, as in, Gets Me Smiling. Or TTWH – Thought That Was Humorous. Or simply S, for S’a’ight.)
Anymilksteak, there’s a trend amongst directors on that show, and I wonder if that plays any part in its biting sensibilities.
I just gave you a clue. They’re some of the directors on Always Sunny. But as you can also see, they were all child(ish) actors. Shakman was on Just the Ten of Us, Savage was on The Wonder Years, and Levine was in Teen Wolf, amongst other things (including a TGIF show on ABC that replaced Just the Ten of Us).
This leaves me to wonder… what are their sensibilities behind the camera? Does the show seek out the directing talent of failed former famous Actors! because they bring experience? Or does the show succeed because the directors are failed former famous Actors! (because writing has nothing to do with it, right… TTHW)?
(SIDENOTE TOO TWO: There is always a third scenario – the Actors! are simply following the career paths of those before them, i.e. Jodie Foster, Sean Penn, and the king, Ron Howard. But that’s neither here nor there, nor Coinkydink nor Coinkydonk.)
Another of the show’s directors (and Actors!) is David Hornsby. He got his start on the fake reality show (which GMS on so many levels), The Joe Schmo Show, and since then he’s had limited success until Always Sunny. His co-star on that show fared a bitter better…
So let’s get down to brass tacks (a phrase I’ve been hearing more frequently, and that’s S)…
BONUS COINKYDINK OR COINKYDONK: Some of the previous CorC‘s flow into one another. Sam Jones was in Smallville, which was produced by Jeph Loeb, whom wrote Teen Wolf which featured Jerry Levine. Consider your mind blown…
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