The Colbert Nation is losing its leader.

No more The Word, the Sport Report, Cheating Death, Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger, Who's Not Honoring Me Now, Colbert: Platinum Edition, Threat Down, etc.


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Lately I've been complaining that my dreams are either too bizarre to be truly pleasant or full-on nightmares (no kidding - my nightmares can be epic in scope, a cast of thousands, enormous production values and startling plausibility. They screw me up for days).

Well, last night looked to be a break from the norm. My first dream featured an ( Read more... )

Dear Academy,

Please, please, please give Leonardo di Caprio the Best Actor this year for J. Edgar.  Please give him his damn award and spare us another year of his glum, overly-serious, washed-out biopics.  Yes, he's good at what he does, which is one thing...ONE. THING.  Making humorless, dreary Oscar-bait  on a large commercial scale with very ( Read more... )

I'm fighting hard to hold on to a good mood, but I gotta get a few things off my chest.  Random bits of reer that need venting:

>  I'm happy the hikers were finally freed from Iran after their 2 year imprisonment.  However, I think they should both be soundly slapped upside the noggin'.  LIFE LESSON:  DON'T GO HIKING IN IRAN.  Who needs to be told ( Read more... )

Ewan's shatteringly adorable appearance on Top Gear is coming on tonight on BBC America, and that inspired me to venture a repost:

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He's really disarming in this interview.  At some point you just have to reject it and walk away for your own safety.  Sexy bastard.

From one of the crappy awful entertainment websites:

Farewell and thank you, Detective Elliot Stabler.

Christopher Meloni, who has played the short-fused, well-muscled sex-crimes detective for 12 seasons on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, will not returning for season 13. Meloni's rep told us, "It is true-12 great years and time for the ( Read more... )

Okay.  For the third or fourth time in a WEEK I've heard some bullshit comedian make jokes about the South (and at least two of those focused on Alabama).  In the space of a week, I, as a Southerner, have been called fat, racist, and stupid.

Then I happened upon a blog about the tornadoes that, not a month ago, laid waste to my city and my home ( Read more... )

See my icon?  Change the caption to "Old hard drives suck, Microsoft sucks, and Outlook Express sucks."

My computer access is encumbered at the moment, as I've been reduced to using a very old desktop (though the one I wrote my dissertation on, heh), and a very old laptop that is due to have its hard drive crap out at any time.

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Dear Senator Rand Paul,

On tonight's The Daily Show, you threw out the quote of "that government is best which governs least" and confidently attributed it to Thomas Jefferson.  As is the sad custom with so many conservatives, you deputized a Founding Father into your argument as a way of pumping some vague notion of legitimacy into policies which ( Read more... )