Dear whomever decided to greenlight the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' 25th anniversary-celebrating "Turtles Forever" made-for-TV film ( Read more... )

I died a little inside when I discovered I could not find a clip of this on YouTube, nor could Google find a reasonable transcript of it. But here is my best rendition of it, with thanks to the one blogger in the world who seems to have also found the bit hysterical ( Read more... )

Could this be the only way to make millions as a biologist...? ;-)

Seed: Who Wants to Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire?

Last night we caught the beginning of the show, and I must add kudos to Jason Alexander, who genuinely likes and admires Shatner, and who was pretty darn funny, too.  The Ross guy was pretty good, as well, with lots of one-liners that earned him laughs.  I must regretfully take a bit of my praise away from Takei, who wasn't quite as funny the ( Read more... )

Comedy Central roasted William Shatner last night, and I have got to say that Bill and George Takei (pronounced "tah-kay", not "tah-kai") delivered easily the funniest jokes and the funniest overall routines of the night.  Lisa Lampenelli was much better than usual, that Patton Oswalt kid was genuine, and Fred Willard was most effective of the ( Read more... )

Avonej has arrived.

The end of everything has begun!

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We just finished the first disc of the Firefly TV series, and I have to say, I already saw enough potential there to call it the best sci-fi television series that never really was ( Read more... )

"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air
I never thought I could feel so free.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me..."

We just watched 40-Year-Old Virgin yesterday, and that song was featured in it, which sent me flashing back to the great '80s show, The Greatest American Hero, about an ordinary guy ( Read more... )