Oh, The Onion. Why do you rule so very much?

U.S. Techno-Industrial Base Eroding Due To Foreign Competition

I'm a fan of Brit-coms--"Are You Being Served?" especially--so this bummed me out:

Are You Being Served? actor John Inman dies

Amazing how attached you get to 30-year old British sitcoms when they're the only thing on TV when you get home.

Ha! Awesome.

Swiss Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein

Australasia is irking my fanboy cookies in general today.

Jackson says he won't be making `Hobbit'

Okay, so I dig me some Lord of the Rings action, and I was looking forward to the prospect of a Hobbit movie--mostly because I hated the book, but if anyone can make it palatable, it's PJ. But if he's not doing it, then forget it. I'll just cast my ( Read more... )

Some research company phoned me--demographic ideal that I am--for a phone survey the other day. Apparently they wanted to know about my media habits and usage. Whatev, I was bored so I sat through it ( Read more... )

Another entry in the ongoing quest to find the ideal metaphor to describe the utter distastefulness of Rachael Ray...


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A League of Their OwnA "meh" article that's about a week and a half late, isn't entirely correct, has a total cop-out Captain Obvious headline that's the lamest lame that ever lamed, and doesn't tell me anything I don't already know about my favorite rollergirls, but it's cool because my girl Betty Beatdown's name is the lead ( Read more... )

Words cannot describe my abiding disgust for all things Rachael Ray.


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Political science minor or not, I hate election season. I hate seeing all the campaign ads on TV most of all. My deep, dark secret is that I've actually written a script for a campaign ad--and it was performed in full by the candidate and shown on TV--so I know precisely how ridiculous and disingenuous these things are. Watching ads now after ( Read more... )

Jesus fucking Christ on a cream cracker. Lisa Baden (the traffic chick on Channel 7) has broken out the props. How many times do I have to say this? Traffic reporters are not funny. Traffic reporters are never meant to be funny. Traffic reporters play the straight man to the Morning Zoo's crazies. These days even the news people are being ( Read more... )