cross-posted from my FB:
I am not giving up on "The Onion". One really stupid idiot made one dumb post in the one and only context they have where stuff can get out without an editor's approval (their "live-tweeting" of events). They sincerely apologized, a real "yes, we screwed up" apology, not the typical "I'm sorry you took it wrong" that we ( Read more... )

The one thing I captured from the film and music montage section of the opening ceremonies was this:

Everything we yanks started, and then got tired of, the British picked up and turned into a bigger success and reinvigorated it. Sitcoms (The Office?), soap operas (they invented the idea that one could go prime time), war movies, sports movies, rock ( Read more... )

it is very interesting to compare the background music for various Yosemite Valley (or Grand Canyon or Yellowstone) documentaries over the years, the type they would show or sell at the visitors center. Each generation assumed it was creating a soundtrack to last, yet each sounds pretty well dated and is more a distraction than a support to the ( Read more... )

New NPR Head Comes From 'Sesame Street' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | American Voices:National Public Radio announced Sunday that its new CEO would be Gary Knell, CEO of the Sesame Workshop, home of Sesame Street. What do you think?
Their jokes are ok with this one but I liked my own first thought ( Read more... )

Robert Fripp's Diary for Friday, 5th August 2011:In the inbox, from an artist-pal, the tale of their difficulties getting paid when UMG took over the record company which released their albums ( Read more... )

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“Weird Al” Yankovic | Music | Set List | The A.V. Club:I wrote this song before 9/11 just because I felt a lot of that selfishness in our culture, and immediately after 9/11 it felt like our national attitude had changed, and everyone was pitching in and being helpful, and being supporting and loving, which lasted about a week. -- Weird Al, on 'Why ( Read more... )

Toy Story 2, Cars 2, Toy Story 3, Kung Fu Panda 2...

Blue Sky Disney: Titled...:Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I'd love to have a great title and a really crappy film. I'm just asking why we can't have both? While I love John Lasseter's attention to detail focusing on the films his Emeryville studio makes, I just have to ask why they can't ( Read more... )

I really, really, REALLY hate DRM. Especially when it screws honest people. - WWdN: In Exile:This [the hassle it takes for Will to actually read his own works on the platform of his choice] is the sort of thing that drives honest people to piracy, because the pirates are providing a better end user experience for them than the legal alternatives.
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it's sad to see daytime drama being replaced by reality TV. Especially when you consider that - back in the 1950s, 1960s & 1970s - one of the main reasons that soap operas were so popular with housewives was because these shows then gave their viewers a break from their sometimes desperate realities.
[Jim Hill Media] Could the cancellations of ABC ' ( Read more... )