Heh, I wonder if the entire pitch was "let's use Fox's money to buy a Realdoll."

Harold & Kumar 3D: eh. I enjoyed it, but it's pretty flaccid compared to the first one. I don't remember a whole lot about the 2nd one, come to think of it. There are worse ways to spend 90 minutes ( Read more... )

Louis C.K. discusses season 2 of Louie, part 1 of 4 (Onion AV club)

I somehow missed back in May that Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) will not be back for season 7 of House. Last week's EW mentions that this season "starts with a one-year time jump. [...] The first episode finds House several months into a prison sentence, but eventually back at ( Read more... )

boingboing:

It's likely that Jake has mobile phone dermatitis or metal contact dermatitis, allergic reactions supposedly developed after long contact to the nickel in modern gadgets. A report published this month in the Dermatology Online Journal concludes that "cell phone allergic contact dermatitis is an emerging problem and should be considered ( Read more... )

The Memorial Day marathon sucked me in (there were long stretches with nothing better to watch on TV) and now I've started watching Deadliest Catch non-ironically. Somehow I let myself get emotionally invested in the people and their well-being ( Read more... )

Wow. These people are all fiendishly diabolical. I want them to be my friends. (Oh, and apparently there was some medical mystery in the story too.)

Today on day R+4, things are definitely starting to feel slightly better. Rolling over/sitting up in/getting out of bed are still annoying, because the give of the mattress means you really have to use your chest muscles etc. to leverage yourself around. Skimming the rest of this list, laughing is only slightly annoying now, coughing is pretty ( Read more... )

Thoughts on various TV shows (mild spoilers here, if you haven't seen the shows already, well, get off your ass and do it ( Read more... )

Because of past incidents I just sort of assume that any acute pain in my big toe joints harkens the onset of gout, but this time I'm not entirely sure. The pain is just slightly forward of where the toe attaches to the foot (whereas with past gout I've felt it squarely in the joint) and only seems to come when flexing the toe in a certain way and ( Read more... )

As if it wasn't bad enough that the Canucks got eliminated tonight, ( major House spoilers )