Archive for October, 2009

Talking lemons and porn stars: a small collection of 30 Rock parodies

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Okay, even though this season has gotten off to a rough start, 30 Rock is still one of my all-time favorite TV shows.  And, given my documented fondness for Sesame Street, you can imagine how tickled I was to find this very clever send-up sketch, entitled “30 Rocks.”

I’m quite amused by the fact that Liz Lemon is in fact, a lemon.  Plus, the Alec Baldwin muppet is just awesome.

I was also quite surprised to find out that 30 Rock had become such a pop-culture force as to warrant a porn parody.  I haven’t seen the actual adult film, mind you (honest!), but this trailer for it is pretty damn More >

Watch what you advertise

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I’m not really a ‘fancy watch’ kind of guy.  I rarely dress up, and the few watches I’ve owned were Fossils that I liked but didn’t last longer than a year.  Because, of course, FOSSIL WATCHES ARE CHEAP WATCHES.  So I’ve never owned a watch that cost more than, say, $80.  And I was okay with that.  Even if I could afford a nice watch (I can’t), it probably wouldn’t be a priority.  Lots of other things could be bought with a few thousand dollars.  Nerdy things, if not entirely practical ones.

And then I was browsing through this month’s Wired.  And I turned to page 91.  And I saw…it.  A More >

Random Playlist: I know why the Caged Elephant sings

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The first time I heard Cage the Elephant on the radio, it was like a breath of fresh air.  The song, “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked“, with its dusty guitar riffs and rap-singing, was a throwback to the 90′s, when 311 and Beck ruled the airwaves.  It’s especially reminiscent of Sublime, and as you can see in the video below, the lead singer channels the insanity of the brain-damaged lead singer of The Vines.  Speaking of which, does anyone remember when The Vines were the ‘next Nirvana?’  Yeah, they weren’t.

Unfortunately, it turns out, the first time I heard the song on the radio in my native More >

Also, he has so much money at the end of all three movies.

Unforgiven sucks. There, I said it.

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Once upon a time, I held fast to the notion that I didn’t like movie westerns. I don’t know why, I just assumed I didn’t. I’d seen Tombstone, which sort of counts, but I didn’t love it as much as my friends. I mean, it has Val Kilmer dying of tuberculosis and Kurt Russel sporting a killer mustache, and that’s about all it has going for it. I didn’t hate the movie, but the fact that I had to google it to remember that Kurt Russel was the star in the first place should tell you the impression it made on me. And that was the only western I’d ever managed to watch, unless you count that one More >

Blockbuster, or Netflix? Why is it so hard for ME?

The movies-by-mail dilemma

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I sincerely need help with this problem, and I hope reaching out to the depths of the internets can help me.  We’re talking a Sophie’s Choice-caliber problem here, people: I am currently signed up for both major movies-by-mail programs, and I need to cancel one.

I’ve been a Blockbuster Total Access subscriber for a couple of years now, and for the most part, the mail service works great.  Movies arrive within a day (or they did, before I moved and mail service got infinitely shittier at my new zip), and I generally get what’s at the top of my queue, except for the occasional rare item.  But, More >

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