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The Whitey Version of Tyrone

August 7th, 2009 No comments

and for those that don’t know, here’s Tyrone:

Good times

Categories: Music, Pop Culture

Ghostbusters …. in 1954

August 2nd, 2009 No comments

Youmeme watch!

Categories: Cool, Pop Culture

For the DIY crowd

July 25th, 2009 No comments

I found a new-to-me great website – There, I fixed it. It’s awesome. Trust me on this.

Or if you don’t, here’s an example of the human ingenuity you will find therein (this is a special for JCo):

Best pool ever

Categories: Awesome, Pop Culture

YouMeme: a Wedding

July 25th, 2009 No comments

Unfortunate choice of color on the men’s side, but otherwise … fantastic.

Categories: Awesome, Pop Culture

Slap Chop is no Shamwow

January 21st, 2009 No comments

Compare and contrast:

v.

But I do, indeed, love Vince’s nuts.

Categories: Awesome, Pop Culture

Spiders on Drugs

January 21st, 2009 No comments

Not a YouMeme, just awesome.

Categories: Humor, Pop Culture

How Lord of the Rings Should Have Ended

December 15th, 2008 No comments

Seriously. I fuckin hate Tolkein.

Categories: Awesome, Humor, Movies, Pop Culture

It’s been a month

December 10th, 2008 No comments

Here’s some fawkin awesome tube for you

Categories: Awesome, Music, Pop Culture

Awesome to Crap

October 29th, 2008 No comments

Speaking of first to worst – I caught a rerun of Psych, season one, and was reminded how awesome the show was when it began. The first season is well written, tight, funny, and smart. Sean is likable, Gus has plenty of lines, the cop-psychic interplay is fun, and the pacing is fantastic.

By season three, the protagonist (Sean) is a smarmy asshole, Gus has basically disappeared, product placements are overwhelming the plot, and the show feels stale. Once again, the old adage holds:

In season one, the actors work for the writers
Season two, they work together
By season three, the writers work for the actors

As a case study in this truism, see the behavior of Heigl, Katherine.

Sorry Psych. It was good while it lasted.

Categories: Pop Culture, TV

I can’t decide

October 21st, 2008 No comments

this is either the gayest or most heterosexual piece since Chuck Berry’s “My Dingaling”

Can’t decide. Brain aneurysm!

Categories: Music, Pop Culture

Kiss that meme goodbye

October 16th, 2008 No comments

Time to put “fail” in the “dude, where’s my car?” pile.

When Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson testified before the Senate banking committee last month about Paulson’s proposed bailout bill, a demonstrator in the audience held up an 8.5-by-11 piece of paper with one word scrawled on it in block letters: “FAIL.” Earlier in September, Sarah Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson was dubbed by some bloggers an “epic fail.” Grist magazine invoked the phrase when John McCain told a Maine TV reporter that Sarah Palin “knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States.” And just last week on the Atlantic’s Web site, Ta-Nehisi Coates found the theory that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Barack Obama’s memoir so “desperate” he called it an “Epic Fail.”

Categories: Pop Culture

This may be the worst thing I’ve ever seen

October 2nd, 2008 No comments

I can’t believe it took me 30 years to find it. It … defies description so you’re just going to have to watch it yourself.

No, wait. Seriously? They filmed that? It made it past editing and was actually released? Inconceivable!

Update: the song was written by the actresses. Bravo! … but was edited out of the final US cut. Boo!

Categories: Awesome, Awful, Movies, Pop Culture

Kermit Bale

September 30th, 2008 No comments

Christian Bale == Kermit… with photographic evidence

Categories: Awesome, Pop Culture

Disappointed by America yet again

August 3rd, 2008 No comments

HGTV’s next design star has approximately 1/10th the talent and 1/100th the design skills. Even if the methodology wasn’t screwed up (texting A or B is a blow to the person with B), even if Jen has nothing but matching the demographic of the watchers, I thought the obvious talent disparity on this, the worst of the Design Star seasons was such that the better designer would win.

Oh well.

Matt, you got jobbed.

Categories: Pop Culture

Jessica Simpson Epic Fail

July 21st, 2008 No comments

So the never-had-talent tries to reinvent herself as a country star. It did not go well.

Audiences booed and clapped as the singer, 28, opened for Sara Evans on Saturday at the Country Thunder USA festival in Randall, Wisconsin.

“I don’t know what your perception is of Jessica Simpson or what tabloid you buy, but I just want you to know that I’m just a girl from Texas,” Simpson told the crowd. “I’m just like you. I’m doing what I love and dating a boy.

J. Simp, honey, it’s not the singing they were booing. You have to know your audience, and cowboys like to keep that shit on the downlow, know what I’m sayin?

Categories: Eye Rollers, Pop Culture