The Smurfette Principle
via Drew
Truth In Advertising
Got to love Hulu’s choice of tags for the “Seaver-Fever” segment on NBC’s Today Show.
on the cancellation of UFO Hunters
It throws up questions big time, has this got something to with the government? Are there not enough people watching this show? Or do people really not care about Aliens and UFOs? I think it’s a little bit of all them.
The Office is nothing but a bunch of comedian jewish people(nothing new), millions of other shows just like them:
Hate to say it, after reading books and reading the internet. I found out that Jews run the ball game in Hollywood, in fact they have most control of the United States. I don’t want to get into that right now.
“Megan Wants a Millionaire,” need I say more! Come to find out one of the candidates in the show cut his girl friend up into pieces, nice huh? What was he doing on the show if he had a girlfriend anyways.
I mean do I really want to learn about truckers that drive on ice or how people chop down trees. One world “boring!”
I think the general public is very stupid anyway.
I just said
The song they’re singing next door sounds like Jimmy Buffett singing ‘The Best Part of Waking Up Is Folgers in Your Cup’.
what was up with that weird Oscar moment?
Burkett also accuses Williams of not passing along invites to parties the two were invited to for the film, and even says that her race to the stage was intentionally impeded by Williams’ mother’s cane.
Amy said
This is someone’s version of hell. Michael Bublé and inflatable beavers.
there’s a novel in the details of this
The professor at the University of Alabama who gunned down three colleagues in a tenure meeting — and who probably killed her brother in a shooting in 1986 — may have orchestrated the details of her brother’s shooting from a newspaper clipping police discovered in an enlarged photograph from the original crime scene.
Keating declined to be specific about the incident in the paper. Boston newspapers were reporting the article was about the November 1986 killing of the parents of actor Patrick Duffy, who starred in the TV series “Dallas.” They were slain with a shotgun during a robbery attempt at a Montana bar they owned. The two teen suspects then stole a truck at gunpoint from a car dealership. They were arrested after a high speed chase.
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For the ten of you who watch The Wire *and* know who Terry Richardson is, this is for you.
For Cindy
dear clusterflock
Favorite Daily Show correspondent.
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
Shit William Shatner Says
Twitter sensation Shit My Dad Says is becoming a TV pilot with William Shatner set to play the larger-than-life dad at the center of it.
What will they call the show if the pilot makes it?
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“I don’t see,” Gruber concludes, “how Apple can get from where they are to where they need to be when they are negotiating with people that stupid.”
What really makes me uncomfortable
is that moment when the guest shakes the host’s hand before the commercial then stands to leave before the cutaway.
First impression…
Are George and Diane just a little tipsy?
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My wife made a good observation yesterday when we were talking about this story, and that is, “Hey, wait a minute, the Taliban and the extremists — what is it they say just before they blow themselves up which kills somebody, they say, ‘Allahu Akbar’.” So if anybody’s making this a religious thing, they started it.
Hoarders
Have you seen this show? Holy crap!
David Simon on Bill Moyers Journal
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RFD-TV
A 24-hour rural cable channel with 13 million weekly viewers.
One of RFD’s biggest hits is a Larry King Live copy called RFD TV Live. Instead of Tyra Banks or Bono, executives from John Deere show up to chat about their new tractor line.
The network carries 92 such programs, most produced independently with advertising or underwriting from marketers like Wrangler Jeans, General Mills and Monsanto. There are shows on bull riding and women’s pro rodeo. On Animal Makeover, sponsored by Ralston Purina, the topics include crawfish farming, creating a well-lit rabbit hutch, how to prevent gallstones in goats and tips on grooming show lambs. In a segment on hay, equine nutritionist Katie Young kneels in front of a horse pen and offers tips for the buyer (hay stems should be narrow, soft and pliable to the touch). Horses who snack on stale greens will get chubby–”grass belly,” she calls it.
Simon Says
The Wire was not about Jimmy McNulty. Or Avon Barksdale. Or Marlo Stanfield, or Tommy Carcetti or Gus Haynes. It was not about crime. Or punishment. Or the drug war. Or politics. Or race. Or education, labour relations or journalism. It was about The City. It is how we in the West live at the millennium, an urbanised species compacted together, sharing a common love, awe, and fear of what we have rendered. The Wiredepicts a world in which capital has triumphed completely. A world in which the rules and values of the free market and maximised profit have been mistaken for a social framework, a world where institutions themselves are paramount and every day, human beings matter less.
– David Simon, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald.
I lent a friend my complete series of The Wire, warning him to allow himself at least a week for full consumption. I recall hearing back from him maybe 30 hours later; he was on Season Three. All he wants to do now is talk about the show’s implications — implications for newspapers, schools, cities, etc. He sent me an email after finishing Season Five with a note reading, “I went to the Baltimore Sun web site right afterwards and, while the credits were still rolling, read that the mayor resigned last week because she illegally was taking money from developers.”
That’s the best part of this show, I think — passing it along and watching someone else experience what you felt that first time around.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French … and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.’ True story. So the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’
Freddy’s is fighting and they’re doing it on Fox News, baby
A couple of friends of mine were on Fox News yesterday morning, to talk about their fight to save Freddy’s, a hugely loved local bar in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn – as well as many homes and businesses - from being snatched in a landmark eminent domain ruling.
Basically, the New York supreme court has decided that billionaire developer Bruce Ratner can seize property in the 22 acres of the “Atlantic Yards” footprint in order to build an arena and some tower housing that is deeply unwanted by the people of the neighbourhood. It is now enshrined in law that it is fair game for the state to seize property from small businesses, homeowners and renters, if the billionaire or corporation who wants to seize their properties can pay higher real estate taxes to the state. This is an outrageous abuse of the idea of eminent domain which was originally designed to be used ‘for the public good’.
The community has fought against this for 6 years now, and the last appeal against this use of eminent domain was decided last month in favour of the billionaire. Two days before Christmas, Forest City Ratner initiated proceedings to seize the homes and businesses in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
The message is: if you are a homeowner in the United States of America, anyone who wants to seize your property is now enabled by law to do that, so long as he is richer than you. That is now enshrined in law, in a decision handed down by the highest court of the land.
Freddy’s is more than a bar. It’s a community, a true neighbourhood sanctuary, and a fantastic music venue. It is expected that the site that Freddy’s sits on will fit a few SUVs in the parking lot that is planned for it. Handcuffs have been installed in the bar, and there are more than enough people willing to chain themselves to the bar and go to jail to defy the bailiffs if and when they arrive at Freddy’s door.
The fifth amendment to the United States Bill of Rights
prohibits the federal government from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
Well, they got their due process of law, but it is bad bad law indeed. More legal challenges are on the way.
UPDATE: I have now amended this post to reflect the fact that this decision was originally handed down by the United States supreme court, which means that it can happen legally anywhere in the US. It has been challenged in the state of New York in this case, but the ruling apparently (and I am not a lawyer or an American citizen) stands countrywide.
UPDATE again: George Will wrote this op-ed column in the Washington Post about the ruling and “the twisted meaning of ‘blight’”. Read it.
Guess who is going to contribute to Fox News
?!
The venerable sports network will launch ESPN 3D on June 11 with a World Cup soccer match, creating what it says will be the first all three-dimensional television network to the home.