I’m really enjoying Conan on the Tonight Show this week, but the idea that his backdrop may have been modeled on Mario makes me love him even more.
I really hope it’s intentional.
Courtesy Serious Lunch via Gizmodo.
We still talk about Arrested Development almost every day at my house. We just do. We love it.
One of the best guest appearances on that show was Carl Weathers as “Carl Weathers.” And since I’m making a bastardized version of Anthony Bourdain’s Daube Provencale (which is French for “fancy fucking meat stew, bitches”) tonight, Adam and I had to quote this scene to each other around the kitchen island:
Let’s Paint TV is definitely one of the best and most strange series of videos on YouTube right now.
The videos feature John Kilduff, host of a public access television show from Eagle Rock, CA, who spends each show simultaneously running on a treadmill in a business suit, painting and engaging in activities such as blending drinks. Callers ask questions and play songs.
Here’s “Let’s Paint, Exercise and Blend Drinks”
And the mind bending, “Let’s Paint, Exercise and Dress Like a Chicken”
I was reminded that I saw a few altered versions of subway ads for M. Knight Shyamalan’s “The Happening” somewhere on the web after I saw this post on Urban Prankster about changes to Showtime’s recent campaign for “Weeds” and “Diary of a Call Girl.”
Here’s the original ad:
I went back and tried to find the Shyamalan stuff. It’s on Slash Film, although I doubt that’s where I first saw it.
I have no idea if the posters are being manipulated by the same person. More on this Flickr account.
The Cartoon Network has a new ad campaign and this is my favorite–Tom and Jerry in one of those police chase shows that’s always on Spike TV during the day.
Courtesy Ads of the World
Big week in gay news with California now allowing gay marriage and Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi immediately announcing their pending nuptials. This has an excitement factor of zero since Ellen’s going to wear a handsomely cut tuxedo and Portia will wear a slinky dress–just like they boringly dress at every event. Let’s hope George Takei and partner Brad (who announced their marriage plans on Howard Stern this morning) will step it up a notch.
The biggest news, however, was the announcement of RuPaul’s Drag Race, a reality show to find America’s most superstar drag queen. It’s on Logo next year and is only slated for six episodes. Which is a drag. I want a full season of this.
Visit the site and vote for your favorite potential contestant. Or, better yet, enter the contest!
I just noticed that my Tivo added SNY, the NY Mets television network, this morning in time for the first game this afternoon against the Florida Marlins. The Mets have been blocked from Hartford for a few years, excepting the occasional game on Saturday afternoons.
When I saw the addition to the lineup, I immediately thought it was a cruel joke, yet another one perpetuated on any of us unlucky sort who have saddled our lives with the affliction of being Mets fans.
It seems to be working, I’m watching it right now. With my luck, I’ll get all the Mets news shows and the actual games will be blacked out. You know Mets fans, we’re told we “have to believe,” but we’ve been burned so many times in so many ways, it’s impossible.
I have my ups and downs with the show LOST, but I’ve always been a fan of Sawyer, the wise-cracking con man with the hot abs and soulful eyes who always has a quick (and appropriate) nickname ready to address the other castaways: “Short Round,” “Hoss,” “Sally Slingshot,” “International House of Pancakes,” “Captain Falafel,” “Skeletor,” etc.
Here’s a highly enjoyable compilation of almost every moniker he’s dished:
Is Roger Catlin, Hartford Courant TV critic, going to take the buy-out package he was offered? A lot of people don’t like him, but I love his crankiness. He’s like the weird uncle who sits in your grandmother’s living room all afternoon, watching television and screaming about how the world is going to hell in a hand basket. You know, my kind of guy.
Why was food critic Elissa Altman’s review of Prime in Torrington pulled from the Hartford Courant website (view the cache here) or even allowed to go up in the first place? This is her second run-in with the residents of Torrington, blasting another restaurant, The Venetian, in an earlier column. Was she fired, as Bob Zemmel from Oxford, CT, asserts in the comment section:
As of yesterday Elissa Altman no longer works for the Courant as a restaurant reviewer or in any other capacity. So please use your own judgement and ignore the review,- for whatever poor attempt at journalism that it was.
I originally noticed this on the Chowhound website, where the discussion is now at 28 posts and raging from everything to claims that all of Altman’s reviews were pulled from the Courant site to discussions about how much food critics get paid.
When are they going to hand Greg Morago his walking papers? Hopefully they’ll give him ample time to clean out the tubs of snacking butter he probably has stashed under his desk.
We’ve always liked the Hartford Courant television critic Roger Catlin because he’s such an entertaining old crank. Plus he gets paid to watch T.V. and write about it, which is our dream job.
We just didn’t realize until today that he hasn’t left the house for the past 20 years.
From
“Something happened in just the last month or so regarding cassette tapes.You can’t find them any more.
I used to by them by the brick – 20 at a time – at the local BJ’s. But suddenly they were nowhere to be found, replaced by racks of blank CDs, so plentiful now you can buy them for pennies practically.
First I thought it was an aberration; a one week shortage like the times they don’t have vanilla yogurt in stock. Or maybe they started stocking it in a different area.
But a couple of other visits back and a drive around tonight to a couple of other stores has confirmed it for me: cassettes have gone the way of vinyl, of 8-tracks, of reel-to-reels before it.
It’s happened, of course, in video as well. We’ll still call them videos, and might go down to the video stores. But it’s DVDs you want to pick up. …”
Someone explain “the microwave oven” to him soon before he gets really confused.
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