Hulu

The site Hulu, just out of Beta, offers the concept you've been waiting for. A free, centralized, high quality dumping ground (& viewing area) for current TV shows (old bits and some movies). They have some kinks to work out, but I'm digging it.

As you may have noted, YouTube has become too unspecialised to even confront it. And on Hulu, sound and image quality are great.

The name is not very clever - Sort of, let's put "TiVo" and "YouTube" in a blender and see what we get!

Fluffernutter? I hardly know her!

There's an awesome media page on the Fluff site dedicated to the glory of a Fluffernutter sandwich. Try playing all the files at once for a surreal experience.

The Birds Redux

Another Hitchcock title is getting a remake. From the writers of "Boogeyman" comes what I'm sure will be a riveting bit of celluloid that will be enjoyed decades.

Oh, and Jpeg, a "Strangers on a Train" retread is already in the works over at Universal.

More Sequins Please

Hard on the heels of the David Hasselhoff news, Nicholas Cage will be playing Liberace in a movie he's making. I guess when he didn't get to play Superman... Liberace was the next logical choice.

Oh yeah, 2007 is going to be a great year for entertainment.

Penn Radio

Penn Jillette's (of Penn & Teller) radio show is on Free FM (here in Chicago, that's 105.9, 1-2pm), but I typically catch it via the podcast, which is now the full show but without the commercials.

Yesterday's show title had me crackin' up: It's Very Hard To Remember That Clowns And Mimes Are Human Beings

Damn, that white boy can dance!

Must see dancing: Bachelor # 3 in the orange shirt. Wait for it... Paze, It will restore your faith in young people wearing bright colors.

Free Live Music this Saturday...

Nonagon and Snaklab All-Tsars at Hotti Biscotti in Logan Square. No cover, cheap beer, free earplugs, and a screening of Peter Greenway's The Draughtman's Contract beforehand (8:30pm). Saturday, October 22nd. Music starts at 10:30pm. Read more to see the official flyer...

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"Would you believe . . . I'm dead?"

or "Something smells like it died in your shoe-phone."

First Gilligan and now Maxwell Smart.

That leaves us with one classic, comic bungler . . . running the country.

This computer is a dog

Best screensaver ever.
For your bemusement.

Help squash the Broadcast Flag

The EFF needs your help to kill the Broadcast Flag in Congress. Write your representative and tell them what you think of crippled, big brother-infected technology.

When Chimps Attack II

Fred Durst shows you his 'O' face (WARNING: Spyware-laden link. Proceed at your own risk. Thanks, Nora).

WARNING: NSFW. Actually, not safe for anyone with the gift of sight.

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everywhere
else.

Say it ain't so!

IMO: She wants a baby and all his pot smoking has left him shootin blanks.

Not that I really give a shit.

link

For those keeping track...

Billy Joel's mid-life crisis reached full speed today as he married his 23-year old fiancee. Joel is 92... just kidding he's 55. He first fell in love with bride Kate Lee as the novelty of drinking legally first wore off, and she caught his eye being carried from the neo-natal ward.

"I'm going to marry that baby some day" he said.

With Schedule Wide Open...

I'm sorry to have to tell you but the band Creed has broken up. Apparently the 3 band members not shown here thought Scott Stapp was a sanctimonious asshole and started their own band. I haven't been so upset since Hootie and the Blowfish hung it up. Where will I turn for their brand of overdramatic 4-minute sermon delivered with that distinct oh-so-serious quaver?

Mr Show... finally

Keenan and I listened to David Cross routines on the drive down to Texas last year. To celebrate the end of the semester Wednesday I rented a Mr. Show DVD. I'm a belated viewer of the show so I got to see the poignant white-trash ballad "Y'all are brutalizing me" for the first time last night.

I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

(sung to two cops...)
"I thought that my home was my castle
with no one scrutinizing me
no pigs, no lyin' bitch, no hassle
y'all are brutalizing me.

Can't a man not drink his beer in silence?
Can't a man not crudely lie and scream?
Can't a man control his bitch with violence?
Y'all are brutalizing me.
Y'all are brutaling me."

Malpractice

Remember this diagnosis:

"I called the doctor on the telephone
Said Doctor, Doctor, please
I got this feeling
rocking and a'reeling
tell me, what can it be, is it some new disease?

They call it Boogie fever
You got to boogie down
Boogie fever, I think it's going around"

Well, apparently, it was really lung cancer.

Top HollyWords Announced!

My fave is actually last on the list as a "Word To Watch":
Aramaic (The Passion of The Christ): Now beginning to be translated as ‘bling-bling’.

I'll offer practical usage: "Check out that sweet Lexus, it's Aramaic!"

But I would also suggest it could be used as a general superlative: "Aw, hells, that oral sex was Aramaic!"

...the DJ cuts the iPod from side to side...

Gil and Jeff "No-Talent Ass Clown"^* Pazen will be DJing at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave. Tues. March 9th at 6pm. So come on down and drool over 23 inch cinema displays and G5 towers while listening to Gil and Paz, "Chicago favorites and Mac aficionados," er do their thang.

^* Yet another in a series of attempts to regain Pazen's spot on Google's image search.

Rockettes vs. "Nutcracker" in Holiday Steel Cage Match of Death

I thought that the Rockettes weren't coming to Chicago anymore, but what do I know? What's the big deal with them anyway?

In other news, if you haven't seen the Joffrey Ballet's "The Nutcracker" at the Auditorium Theatre, you really should.

via tmn

Everyone else is doing it, why can't I?

Cripees! It ain't even Halloween yet, and holiday shit has been out for weeks. So let's hop to it, lil' consumers! Feed the beast that is the good ol' U.S. of A. economy!
My Christmas List.

What do you want?

Abracadabra... dissappearing magicians

Today while wondering how long that tigers breath will smell like Roy, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what happened with David Blaine's P.R. stunt. What could he be thinking in that glass box, while respectable magicians are being snacked upon? I bet he's pissed off! Did he end his "trick" prematurely? Is he laying low in some Euro-pub?
I mock his shabby magician values.

Also, this entry is the 1st to use the new "mischief" category, which pretty much covers anything you don't agree with.

Roy attacked by Montecore

Unfortunately, this is dead-serious real, and not an Onion article.

Blain Pelted With Eggs

Obsessed self promoter Blaine brings out the worst in the British.

With airfares at historic lows, more than one House8 member is sure to be thinking,"Hmmm, THAT'S not alot of money for a shot at David Blaine."

The Beeb: Archives open to the public

Smashing.

via boing boing

male or (fe)male?

Type in anything and this site will use powerful magic to tell you your gender, if you weren't already clear about it. I typed in "I have a vagina," and it still knew I'm a guy.

Austrian Birdman Falls to Earth -- From England to France

It's the same guy who jumped off the Statue in Rio...

via Drudge

It only took 7 days for Motero's prediction to come true

NBC is hurrying development of a movie about the rescue of POW Jessica Lynch.

I know it's just a show

I've been kind of busy pondering grad school options. While I wasn't looking, Emily seems to have been voted off MTV's Real Word / Road Rules Battle of the Sexes. Can it be true?

I feel completely irrational levels of hatred for this cold, despicable b*tch. I hate her the way Andrew hates the French.

Polish up your Jargon

I just got big-mama'd by a main-lawning metrotard.

CheapoVegas

In honor of the 2nd somewhat House 8-ish trek to Vegas (now with 100% more Chris!),

Squara writes:

Bellagio review from Cheapo Casino Boy:

Rooms are fantastically lush and spacious at about
550 s.f., and the suites are even bigger and nicer. Of
course, you've got to be a freakin' Rockefeller to get
a suite. Tasteful furnishings, marble floors in the
john, and all kinds of stuff the rich are used to but
we still gawk at. The bathrooms have showers separate
from the tubs, so you can sit in the tub and watch
someone shower like rich people always do.

Vegas baby, Vegas.

I thought I google searched FOO FIGHTERS

but this poo fighter game is pretty damn cool... hey, joe, you speak japanese? hook me up and translate instructions, k?

Bruuuuuucccccce!

The Smoking Gun presents Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band's tour rider, including "...sax player Clarence Clemons's need for a whole roasted chicken to be delivered, mid-concert, to his dressing room..."

Get comfy for this one: it's eight pages long.

via fark

Triumph vs. Simon

via svn

Fox hits new low: Man Versus Beast

What I'd really like to know is who was responsible for determining how many "little people" they would need to compete against one elephant?

So who's comin' over on Wednesday to watch?

I love my job.

And no, I'm not making this up.

Death Clock

Here's a fun little activity!

Congratulations Tim

We are all so, so proud.

Aaaack!

via Drudge - I know, I know

In your Photoshop dreams, Pazen

Favorite ballot initiatives this election?

Just two I heard about this morning:

1) North Dakota voted down a proposal to give young North Dakotans financial incentive to stay in North Dakota.

"It was a well-intentioned initiative to try to keep young people in North Dakota," former Gov. Ed Schafer said. "However, as time went on, people realized it wouldn't get the job done."

How about hookers and drugs? I guess you gotta go to Nevada for that. Well, the hookers, anyway.

2) Oklahoma banned cockfighting. Congratulations! So if you're lookin' for a good ol' fashioned legal cockfight, ya gotta go to Louisiana or New Mexico.

When physics dorks get bored

Yer gonna poke an eye out! Or lose a toe, or something...

via Mr. Barrett

Argentina defeats US in basketball...

...and nobody cared.

In the mid-90s, this might have been big sporting news. Like when Jordan, Magic, Barkley and their ilk were playing on the national team.

And Reggie Miller is a whiny beeyotch.

Looks like Team USA got knocked out of the medal round by Yugoslavia today, 81-78. Did you care?

Didn't think so.

via kottke

Justin's "I Banged Britney" Webpage

Okay, everyone knows I'm the biggest defender of Brit. But I'm sorry. This is freakin' funny.

via zena

Jedi 'Religion' Grows in Australia

I wonder how many are Orthodox (Yoda) as opposed to reform (Qui Gon Jinn)?

From the mouths of chickens...

"If only these players knew how much the fans needed to see them having fun," Giannoulas says later. "If only they had a clue."

Indeed.

A great read about the historically very private man inside (formerly San Diego) Chicken, Ted Giannoulas.

via Pazen

Anna Nicole Drinking Game

The sad thing is, Entertainment Weekly and NETSCAPE beat all of us to the punch...

Fireworks

In case you missed it, you can "watch" (create) the Chicago Fireworks Show.

The Most Accurate Clock In The World

This is pretty cool...

Gratuitous plug for my best friend's Web site

Zena writes for Teenpeople.com, and sometimes it's really funny.

Bumfights

Motero, do you own this yet? If so, why haven't you invited us over for a viewing? Don't be holdin' out on a brutha...

via Obscure Store

The Coz vs. The Oz

Bill Cosby disapproves of "The Osbournes." Don't worry, Bill. with our attention spans these days, I doubt Ozzy will outlast Dr. Heathcliff Huxtible.

Am I the only one that loves them BOTH?

Apesgrapes the Midget Clown

i really cannot say anything about this. just click on the damn thing and prepare to laugh. well... as long as you don't find midgets offensive, scary or sexually arousing. did i say that out loud?

via jane madsen>todd brockmeyer

New 'Scooby-Doo' Drops Drug Subtext

One more reason to skip it...

Did I Mention My Mother-in-law is Joan Rivers?

Although Joan Rivers spent boatloads of cash in 1998 to transform the ball room of New Yorks Plaza Hotel into a winter forest for her daughter Melissas wedding, Mr. Melissa filed for divorce this week.
I know we all hoped it would work out, but apparently you can't buy compatibility.

Melissa is known mostly for being the talentless princess daughter of the horrible bitchy comedian.

oh, behave

Curiously, a forum that rips off the Austin Powers logotype has characters from the film as members...

welcome aboard, Miss Fagina!

via Pazen