catch the mcpheever
GAH MORNING FROM HELL GAH *runs away from work through the intarwebs*
++Isaac Hayes quits voicing Chef on 'South Park,' citing the show's 'inappropriate ridicule of religion.' Or, as Matt Stone explains in the article, Hayes is a big old Scientologist who got pissed when they mocked his religion (in the notorious "Trapped in the Closet" episode, mocking Tom Cruise, R. Kelly, and Scientology in general), despite having participated in over 150 episodes of, well, South Park. While I can't fully be mad at Hayes because, hey, he voiced Chef in the first place, I still can't help but go "WTF" over this. And the Tom Cruise episode wasn't even the first parody of Scientology by the Parker/Stone duo! Remember Blainetology? With street magician David Blaine trying to turn his cult into a religion for tax cut purposes? Whatever. Still, you'll be missed, Isaac, and like Matt said, I wish you the best.
++Meet the George Foreman USB-operated iGrill. No, really. No, really. You hook it up to your computer and it cooks. I don't even. Just. Huh? *is baffled* Thanks, voleuse, for blowing my mind with this link. Wow.
++Television Without Pity will be recapping the new series of Doctor Who when it comes to the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. This will either be a) awesome, or b) obnoxious, as TWoP recaps tend to go either way. Here's hoping that they're as witty and well-written as the American Idol recaps.
++This isn't really a link, mostly because I couldn't find one and am too lazy to hunt, but Anderson Cooper 360 last night featured a report on one of Ambien's more alarming side effects: sleep-eating. The popular sleep aid causes some of its users to binge in the middle of the night without any recollection of their activities the following day. The report also mentioned that Ambien can also cause sleep-driving, which is, y'know, potentially a very very very bad thing. I mention this because I've had some really negative experiences with Ambien in the past (it caused some intense multisensory hallucinations -- for serious), and it took me a while to figure out what was wrong with me because no one ever mentioned the potential side effects to me. I ended up figuring out that the Ambien was the problem when I surfed the web and found, like, hundreds of testimonials featuring some pretty terrifying experiences with the drug. So, y'know. Be careful and all.
Finally, Kat McPhee is my new Idol girlfriend. I like to imagine that she and Ryan Seacrest have all-night gigglefest slumber parties where they chug Sprite and Pixi Stix and play Mall Madness together. I don't know why. But yeah, she's adorkable and gorgeous, and also very lucky that her boobs didn't fall out of her poorly safety-pinned dress last night.
++Isaac Hayes quits voicing Chef on 'South Park,' citing the show's 'inappropriate ridicule of religion.' Or, as Matt Stone explains in the article, Hayes is a big old Scientologist who got pissed when they mocked his religion (in the notorious "Trapped in the Closet" episode, mocking Tom Cruise, R. Kelly, and Scientology in general), despite having participated in over 150 episodes of, well, South Park. While I can't fully be mad at Hayes because, hey, he voiced Chef in the first place, I still can't help but go "WTF" over this. And the Tom Cruise episode wasn't even the first parody of Scientology by the Parker/Stone duo! Remember Blainetology? With street magician David Blaine trying to turn his cult into a religion for tax cut purposes? Whatever. Still, you'll be missed, Isaac, and like Matt said, I wish you the best.
++Meet the George Foreman USB-operated iGrill. No, really. No, really. You hook it up to your computer and it cooks. I don't even. Just. Huh? *is baffled* Thanks, voleuse, for blowing my mind with this link. Wow.
++Television Without Pity will be recapping the new series of Doctor Who when it comes to the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. This will either be a) awesome, or b) obnoxious, as TWoP recaps tend to go either way. Here's hoping that they're as witty and well-written as the American Idol recaps.
++This isn't really a link, mostly because I couldn't find one and am too lazy to hunt, but Anderson Cooper 360 last night featured a report on one of Ambien's more alarming side effects: sleep-eating. The popular sleep aid causes some of its users to binge in the middle of the night without any recollection of their activities the following day. The report also mentioned that Ambien can also cause sleep-driving, which is, y'know, potentially a very very very bad thing. I mention this because I've had some really negative experiences with Ambien in the past (it caused some intense multisensory hallucinations -- for serious), and it took me a while to figure out what was wrong with me because no one ever mentioned the potential side effects to me. I ended up figuring out that the Ambien was the problem when I surfed the web and found, like, hundreds of testimonials featuring some pretty terrifying experiences with the drug. So, y'know. Be careful and all.
Finally, Kat McPhee is my new Idol girlfriend. I like to imagine that she and Ryan Seacrest have all-night gigglefest slumber parties where they chug Sprite and Pixi Stix and play Mall Madness together. I don't know why. But yeah, she's adorkable and gorgeous, and also very lucky that her boobs didn't fall out of her poorly safety-pinned dress last night.