Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
@JasonCalacanis brings you this special announcement. Is he the new CEO of I Can Has Cheezburger?
via youtube.com
Seriously, vote for CauseCast. It's how the guy in that suffocating C mask would want it.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson are turning on...
via youtube.com
In honor of the late Bea Arthur, I present this bizarre, amazing old TV clip of the actress/comedian singing a song about drug use called "Sniff Swig Puff." Found via Pandagon:
You heard it here first, folks...Cats are fond of boxes...
via youtube.com
My old roommate's cat, Sasha, LOVES him some boxes, too. If we ordered pizza, we had to be sure to keep an eye on it at all times, lest it be crushed under the weight of an orange housecat before we could finish it.
Also, the title is a reference to Norm MacDonald's classic impression of Larry King, that I feel may actually be BETTER than Kevin Pollak's interpretation:
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Watch TWIYT LIVE! Tomorrow morning at 10 am PST/1 pm EST.
via youtube.com
A deluxe serving of new YouTube videos, awesome in-studio guests and the distinct possibility that I will forget we're being broadcast live and scratch myself between jokes. You don't want to miss this.
Pregnant Bank Robber Sought in North Carolina
Police are looking for a pregnant woman they say tried to rob a North Carolina bank at gunpoint but left empty-handed after answering her cell phone.
Fayetteville police spokeswoman Teresa Chance said Wednesday the woman had a handgun and demanded money when she entered a Carter Bank & Trust branch at 9:43 a.m. the previous day.
But she got distracted when her cell phone rang.
Police said she began talking to the caller and left the bank without taking any money.
via foxnews.com
Did anyone else read this and immediately envision the trailer it would have as a mainstream comedy, possibly starring Kate Hudson?
"Teresa Chance has a big problem..."
CUT TO: Hudson looking at her pregnant belly in the mirror:
HUDSON: I'm hideous!
"But that was just the beginning..."
LANDLORD: Who's the father?
KATE HUDSON: He's...out of the picture.
LANDLORD: Sorry, no bastards in my building...We need you out of the apartment by Friday.
"Now, to protect her new family, she's going to take the biggest chance of her life..."
CUT TO: Kate Hudson walking into a bank, pregnant, with a gun.
KATE HUDSON: Okay, everyone put your hands in the air, I guess, or something!
Kate's cell phone rings.
DOCTOR (on phone): We have some test results for you!
KATE HUDSON (into phone): Can't this wait? I'm sort of busy now, and I really have to pee!
BANK CUSTOMER: Do we still need to keep our hands up!
CUT TO: "The Fugitive"-style scene with cops standing around on a manhunt.
"But can a single gal take on the long arm of the law alone?"
SHERIFF: I need a hard target search of every Maternity Store, Baby Gap, ice cream parlor and public restroom in that area!
CUT TO: Hudson running into a door or something, like they do in every comedy trailer. (Here we'd also cue in one of those songs that's in every comedy trailer, like "Got My Mojo Working," "Walking on Sunshine" or that one that just goes "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!")
CUT TO: Hudson talking to her Mom from a pay phone.
KATE HUDSON: I just want to do what's right for my son!
KATE'S MOM: First, you just have to do what's right...
"From the producers of some crap like 'Bride Wars', Kate Hudson, Tommy Lee Jones and Annette Benning star in 'Expecting Trouble.' Rated R for dick and poop jokes."
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
St. Vincent's 'Actor'
via npr.org
NPR is streaming St. Vincent's entire new album. I'm only one song in so far, but I like it!
I also highly recommend this cover of Jackson Browne's "These Days" (also memorably covered by Nico).
Monday, April 20, 2009
Their Brand is Crisis
Interesting posts about brands that will no longer exist after 2010. Some are kind of bittersweet. (I once worked at a Borders Books, and have fond high school memories of hanging out in their Mission Viejo store drinking coffee and reading books for free.)
One that I was surprised and delighted to see, however, was Crocs, the loathsome shoe company responsible for arguably the most irritating, ugly footwear in history. I mean, look at these fucking monstrosities. It's like wearing a MySpace page on your foot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/twelve-brands-that-will-d_n_188368.html
Sunday, April 19, 2009
I Made this ALF Blingee
It was part of a larger discussion, I assure you, but that's not an excuse. I must now leave the house before I do something I'll later regret.
YYY's "Zero" on Letterman
via pitchfork.com
I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeah's on Conan when "Fever to Tell" was coming out, and it was terrible. Kind of put me off the idea of seeing the band live, even though I like their first EP and full-length a lot.
Now I see this clip from Letterman the other night and they sound really good. Perhaps it was just an off night?
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Pee-Lectrocution
via kottke.org
Gah!
http://www.kottke.org/09/04/it-hurts-when-i-pee
What I love about this image the most is the expression on the urinator's face. Is he surprised to feel a red line signaling "electricity" surging through his torso? Or is that just this author's interpretation of the face dude's make when we relieve ourselves. He's like the Mona Lisa of illustrations warning you not to pee on to wires.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Gotta Be Honest...This Could Kill Twitter for Me
Oprah's Twitter page is gross.
http://twitter.com/Oprah
I hate everything about minor celebrities like Ashton Kutcher attempting to ride Twitter to 12 extra seconds of notoriety. (Make no mistake...This is not about charity or technology or anything else. Ashton makes shit movies and shit websites and he is just latching on to a fad a few years late so that he can get on Larry King. It's cynical and pathetic. John Krasinski's on Twitter, too, but you don't hear him blustering about it every five minutes, because he can talk about his hit show and the movie he just directed.)
But honestly, major celebrities with splashy Twitter ego pages may be even worse. The one thing saving it for me is that I just don't have to follow any of these people, so I can sort of block it out. But Diddy and the guy from "My Boss' Daughter" pontificating to CNN about technology like they're Jobs and Wozniak is just a lot to stomach.
Goofy videos, @shiralazar, a HUGE announcement and me singing "Les Miz" on TWIYT #41
via youtube.com
Tune in next Friday at 10 am PST/1 pm EST for the first-ever This Week in YouTube LIVE EDITION on UStream!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Inappropriate!
I mean...differ from the President on Tax Policy if you must...but come on. This is hardly going to be persuasive.
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