I interrupt my six week hiatus to say if you get the chance to catch No Doubt in concert, please do. Gwen Stefani looks like she just stepped of the "Just a Girl" video set, the band sounded terrific, and radiated energy and the sense that they were having as much fun as the audience. The set list tilted in favor of Tragic Kingdom (not a ( Read more... )

Last night was another entry in Brett's Old People Music concert series. Elton John and Billy Joel's Face 2 Face tour made a stop in Detroit, and the two old men put on quite the show. Joel's set was the better of the two (though about a half hour shorter than John's), mainly because he shared some stories, cracked some jokes and was just a more ( Read more... )

The half-hour I spend watching 30 Rock is the best half-hour of my entire week.

David Letterman once again shows actual journalists how to do their job. Hopefully they were taking notes.

I'm sure Governor Palin is a wonderful person, but this interpretation of her Oval Office still makes me laugh.

Note: There are a few different things behind the door, so keep opening it.

Because I think Sean Hannity is an awful human being, who epitomizes all that is wrong with the news and politics, I want to share this clip.

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Note to self: Do not, under any circumstance, piss off David Letterman.

Some background on the clip: Senator McCain cancels his appearance on Letterman last night at the last minute because he suspended his campaign to head to Washington and work on this Wall Street bail out plan. Nine minutes of hilarity ensues.

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So, my first post since the end of July is brought to you by Warren G and the greatest song of the 90s: Regulate! He was featured on this morning's edition of Video Yearbook on Fuse. Today is going to be a great day ( Read more... )

Once again I thieve from rei_c, but she's so much better at finding this sort of thing than I.

You know, I'm just going to steal her entire entry:

Following off of my previous entry on the teacher who was suspended for using the Freedom Writer's Diary: Anna Quindlen wrote an article in this/last week's Newsweek. It goes a long way to summing up the ( Read more... )