February 2010
Went on tour of free trade organic chocolate factory this morning. Did not turn into organic blueberry. So, so good: http://bit.ly/cLlfLU
January 2010
Up in Seattle for the weekend, and having a lovely rambling wander of a day, a bit like an Altman movie with mucho beer. Need a hat, though.
Rick Sanchez pretty much just flat out said that Twitter is a man’s game and Facebook is a woman’s. #smrs is just depressing me.
Some conclusions from this week’s experiment! RT @NewTeeVee: A Week With The Daily Show, OldTeeVee-Style http://bit.ly/bS8xs6
At @TheGRAMMYS panel on social media, and gotta say: Not really loving Rick Sanchez. Is he always so loud and patronizing?
Kevin Pang has written a bunch of stories. →
And everyone should read them — especially any fans of Cheeseburger Show.
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DAILY SHOW Old School, Night 4
And so, friends, we come to the end of our journey, and I cross the finish line triumphant. Which is to say that I stayed awake tonight, which was good because not only did I get my Chris Matthews jokes in the second block, as hoped, but also a few politically-relevant iPad references. Oh, and Jon Stewart dropped a metric ton of bleeped-out f-bombs while discussing the State of the Union. It...
RT @nickmiller23: The New Yorker has just made all of J.D. Salinger’s short stories available to read. Enjoy: http://tinyurl.com/yaytjx5
Quick thought that deserves more brain meat later
So, last night I watched The Late Shift, which dramatized Jay Leno’s takeover of The Tonight Show in the early 90s, but beyond all the back room dealings it’s really the story of David Letterman walking away from his dream of following in Johnny Carson’s footsteps to instead create his own show. And this morning, The Wrap posted Miramax’s obituary, which gave the credit...
Night 3 of my “Daily Show” experiment: A rousing success! By which I mean I stayed awake the whole time. http://bit.ly/doYZoa
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DAILY SHOW Old School, Night 3
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VICTORY! That’s right, bitches, without the influence of food poisoning or RuPaul I made it all the way through tonight’s show. I really really really should not feel proud of staying awake through a half-hour of television, but given how this week has gone so far…
Good show tonight — though there were no iPad jokes, Stewart...
“Perhaps someone else might have something intelligent to say about this. For my...”
– Mick LaSalle: Brittany Murphy made vivid impression
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Popnography: Start Your Engines: RuPaul's Drag... →
“i also pointed out recently in an interview that i NEVER would have had the...”
– It’s really too bad that Amanda Palmer is getting married to Neil Gaiman, because despite the fact that people who make a big deal about not watching TV and movies kinda bug me, I kinda wish I could marry her anyways.
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DAILY SHOW Old School, "Night" 2
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Well. Whoops. This isn’t going so well.
Last night, though, was RuPaul’s fault. No, seriously. I managed to overcome the food poisoning incident from Monday night in time to attend the premiere of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” and while I did leave early, when I got home the combination of a 1.5 mile walk and complimentary vodka had me...
Wow, give it another hour and every possible menstruation joke you can make about the iPad will have been made.
Braving the elements and my unhappy digestive system to attend the premiere of RuPaul’s “Drag Race” tonight. Gaga give me strength.
Three Wolf Moon Is Now Official New Hampshire... →
“The Mountain’s Three Wolf Moon is a true New Hampshire success story,” said Steve Boucher of the Division of Economic Development. “What started off as a tongue-in-cheek take on a cool T-shirt has resulted in worldwide acclaim for a very creative and growing Granite State business.”
You really cannot deny the power of this shirt.
One Third of Women in the Military are Raped →
ericmortensen:
robot-heart-politics:
bmckinney:abbyjean:
In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars,...
LA web video makers, you really really gotta check out @WebTVPrep — many, many secrets to success lie within. I’ll be speaking on 2/15!
AWESOMENESS CONFIRMED. RT @ejc: AWESOME - Check it http://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com/ /via @twofivethreetwo
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DAILY SHOW Old School, Night 1
Explanation here, if you missed it earlier today.
Stayed awake almost all the way through, but between getting up at six this morning to drop someone off at the airport and fighting off some mild food poisoning all evening, ended up crashing out during the Bill Gates interview. If this is the first time someone has fallen asleep listening to Gates talk, though, I’ll be surprised.
It is...
I kind of am. RT @dropdeadsuit: I am watching this tonight. It’s ok to be jealous. http://bit.ly/6nCNPK
Bad Movie Monday: Adamantium Memory Bullet →
Second in my friend Asa’s new series, where he tells you on Monday what bad movie he watched while drinking on Sunday night. We share the same strong belief in Ryan Reynolds, but that’s not the only reason I’m sharing.
Where I plan to be at 11 PM PST every night this week: Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart and a OldTeeVee Social Experiment http://bit.ly/7iPBTU
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Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and a OldTeeVee Social...
Like a great many people in the 18-35 demographic (judging by both the Nielsons and my Tumblr dashboard), I stayed in last Friday and watched the last Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien, which I’ll freely admit was also the first episode of the seven-month-old show I’d ever really seen. (Clips on Hulu don’t count.)
It’s not that I never liked Conan O’Brien,...
Hey, @Hulu, how’s a godless liberal supposed to properly hate America if there are ads for the USO during “The Daily Show”?
'Leverage' and the Rise of 'Nerd-Friendly'... →
I don’t write a lot of stuff for the Wrap, but guys, everyone should be watching “Leverage.” It is awesome. And this humble little column is the best way I could think of convincing you to do so.
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Review: 'Legion' - FEARNet →
I had to see this at a midnight screening the day it premiered in order to file by 8 AM Friday morning. If this review seems cranky to you, that’s why.
Usually I keep in my fangirlishness, but guys TED RAIMI is here at the @Tubefilter meetup. “SeaQuest” 4 Life!
RT @WheelbearGo: I can’t wait for the first corporation to be arrested and put on death row. I think that will lead to some fun debates.
When I am in a bad mood, ftr, the voice in my head sounds like Toby Ziegler. “There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.”
Ok, I think the mood is gone, in part thx to @spytap and @meganwest. But to be sure, I’m gonna expel some energy assembling furniture now.
I am inexplicably in an awful, pissy, hateful mood. I really should get off the Internet right now. Tweeting this in the hopes I do.
He was super-cool, guys. RT @NewTeeVee: OK Go’s Damian Kulash On YouTube Embedding: “You Pick Your Battles” http://bit.ly/4KQc7XHe
Today I did a phoner with the lead singer of a band we’ll just call UNCOOL Stop. Trying to cut 5,000 words down to 1,000. He was a talker.
Creators gots to get paid, yo. RT @NewTeeVee: Strike.TV: Still Stuck in the Year 2008? http://bit.ly/78aiVT
RT @contranym sum-up: “Fox Ready to Air, Fail to Promote, and Immediately Cancel U.S. Version of Torchwood”: http://bit.ly/4o09lS
TJ's organic tomato soup with a poached egg...
I am haunted by the memory of this morning’s breakfast.
I don’t know how I feel about this — ‘The Office’ plotting a David Brent-Michael Scott showdown? http://bit.ly/8N8hcv #ew
This NY Times review confirms the one thing I was hoping about the new season of “24” — Jack Bauer’s a granddaddy! http://bit.ly/5mzOyi
