An admittedly delayed reaction here, but did anyone else notice the WMFU sticker in the background of the image for this post? It is making my brain hurt, and not just for the color scheme. I demand an explanation!
This Captain Planet thing could work, IF the heroes are portrayed by the cast of Community. Put Chevy in a ginger wig, give McHale a turquoise mullet, and you can probably fill in the rest for yourself.
Your recognition of this fact is appreciated. Likewise, I understand all too well the way some comment sections just bring out the troll inside that you never knew existed.
But not Videogum's, because look at this agreement and compromise! So conciliatory! Monsters for Congress! (as opposed to the lowercase m monsters in there now?)
but Zooey also just put this up on Hellogiggles, which is the BEST thing:
http://zooeydeschanel.tumblr.com/post/7534516699/hellogiggles-video-chat-karaoke-episode-4
For Jean Ralphio, The Jerk, and Ukeleles, I can forgive anything.
Whooops! Went and supplied a room where there already was one. Redirect yourselves to http://turntable.fm/videogum
I'll be in there as soon as my browser decides to cooperate!
Hey, better than chocolate records... let's all share awesome music with each other over the interwebs while at work!
http://turntable.fm/videogum_monsters_ball
C'mon and get this party started, guys!
Wow, Tina Brown's made quite the sudden power play for the coveted "Shortest Lasting Deathbed Reincarnation of Newsweek" award.
The winner gets a lifetime subscription to Time.
I interned with a guy from Poznan once, at one of those high school DC seminar programs. He'd often comment on how pretty the girls that came in each week were, and I'd have to remind him that they were at most 16 and he was 22.
#coolstorybro
What I love most about Bam Margera's response, aside from EVERYTHING, is his specific choice of "shut your fat fucking mouth".
Has he seen Roger Ebert lately, and realized that the man kind of lacks a lower jaw, thus rendering him incapable of being fat or shutting said mouth?
I can only presume this is ignorance, because Bam's not smart enough to be that intentionally crass.
Oh, did you go to Secret Hollywood Conservatives (But Not Really All That Secret) University? I hear their degree in Political Philosophy and Randian Studies is really top-notch.
I have not watched The Sketch Show solely so I can continue telling myself that Paul F. Tompkins, Kaitlin Olson, and Mary Lynn Rajskub each really gave it their all and knocked it out of the park as they always do.
I was going to chime in with the obligatory "they cancelled Party Down for THIS?!?", until I realized it could have been worse:
They could have given us a third season of Party Down, with Kelsey Grammer in the Adam Scott role. And not in the way that they brought in Megan Mullally to take Jane Lynch's spot on the catering crew as a different character, nono. Actually playing the role of Henry, and getting all up on Lizzy Caplan.
Yeah, turn that image over in your mind for a second. You're welcome.
I distinctly remember my political awakening coming at the end of 8th Grade, as the Clinton scandals ended, and we were required to do a current event article summary each week.
Such revelations included:
"Wait. I don't think anybody really cares about this Elian Gonzales kid that much AT ALL. It's like they're using him as some sort of "game piece" in a game... like, if politics were chess, he would be... perhaps, a pawn? Hmmm!"
"Elizabeth Dole seems very smart and well qualified to run for president. It's really weird that nobody wanted to give her any money, and as a result, she couldn't run. Why should money stop someone from running if they are smart? Is it because she's a lady? Maybe Bob Dole standing next to her in a cap that said First Gentleman looked sad to people"
"Gas prices going up makes people SO angry"
Also, for shame Mick Foley. Tori Amos and your friends at RAINN surely do not approve of the air of sexual violence that hangs over the Gathering.
(I am a little disturbed at how sincere my disappointment in this actually is).
Well, of course it is, but I thought that the overall context of the political situation Coburn finds himself in added an extra layer of funny to the story.
Nevertheless, apologies to anyone for whom Videogum is a place to escape all the depressing realities of current affairs, as I know it is for many.
Not to get all Politicsgum up in here, but I love that while Coburn apparently can't find it in him to play nice on the Gang of Six deficit team or answer questions about his role in the Ensign scandal, he CAN find time to take down the real menace to our nation's fiscal security-- Big Baby.
Oh Grover, don't tell me that cap and gown are from Beck's online "university" courses!
Actually, Beck-ian conspiracy nonsense would be sort of delightful in Grover's awe-filled Muppety voice.
Seeing Kathie Lee and Hoda on your screen is God's way of telling you that there has GOT to be something you should be doing with your life at this point in the day, and if not, to reevaluate your life and find that something as soon as humanly possible.
If you still don't get the message, you're punished with The View.
I think she's okay, given ALL the contestants are dogs.... riiiight?
Or has Meredith been rooting for a far more macabre conclusion for the dog show in recent years? I'm an Early Show man when it comes to dog show news.
Was James Urbaniak kidding when he tweeted about auditioning for this last week? Because I'd imagine its a nice income stream for a guy to have, and I can see him actually pulling it off.
Dear Anthony Weiner,
Were you this cool back in 2002? If you were, and I was too busy giggling at your last name from the back of the House floor to notice, I am ashamed- my only defense is that I was 17, and thus kind of an idiot (though I'd hope smarter than some, what with the front row seat to Congress and all). Anyhow, keep up the good work, and hopefully those kids sitting at the back now think you're a rockstar.
Sincerely,
[GroverJefferson]
House Page, 107th/108th Congress
Shut it down, boys and girls. A worthy companion to our Space Jam website friend has emerged:
http://www.morepower.com/
By all accounts, it was updated until 2008. 2008!
You guys, I feel bad for Charlie Sheen. I heard he had a rough childhood growing up with that guy who played the President on TeeVee and his Mighty Ducks brother with the Mexican name, and besides, he's made some seriously great stuff.
My first words exiting the theater after seeing this movie at the free campus cinema freshman year:
"Wait, so why didn't he die in a plane crash?"
For a brief moment when Zach Braff gets on the plane at the end, my brain flashed back to the turbulence at the beginning of the movie, where he's sitting all dead-faced, and was like "oh. framing device. that was actually the end, when he dies. good ending." not the omgbrillianttwist i figure braff thought it to be (m. zach brafalan!), but a solid and fitting ending.
and then that didn't happen. huge letdown.
then again, for the rest of college, i used "zach braff should have died in the end of it" as my quirky alienating icebreaker whenever the movie came up, so pot kettle black, i suppose.
which reminds me, i also wrote some achingly bad yankee hotel foxtrot fanfiction around the same time, with about the same level of emotional insight. yikes.
I've wanted a Kavalier and Clay miniseries since forever, but honestly, magicians v. nazis is about the only logline behind that link that could make me think, "well, that works too."
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