Bobbi Flekman for Senate

(wow, never expected to need my Spinal Tap icon 2 days in a row)

Thanks to zebedeegoddess for this news.

Character actor Paul Benedict has died. In addition to many non-Guest related movies & TV shows, he appeared in Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind, but is arguably best remembered for this classic exchange ( Read more... )

"Are we gonna do 'Stonehenge' tomorrow?"
"No, we're not gonna fuckin' do 'Stonehenge'!"

This random Spinal Tap moment brought to you by the losers who made this news story happen: Vandals damage Stonehenge

In this week's Entertainment Weekly there is a small sidebar re-imagining the cast of the movie Clue with Cult of Guest actors playing the major roles. Eugene Levy as Col. Mustard, Catherine O'Hara as Miss Scarlett, Michael McKean as Mr. Green (okay, not a stretch- he played that role in the real movie), Jane Lynch as Mrs. Peacock, etc. They have ( Read more... )

The concert- overall- Awesome ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving is almost over...I hope everyone had a good one. Ours was pretty low-key. We watched the parade, a little bit of the dog show (does Fred Willard write the script for John O'Hurley? seriously, it's like a parody of a parody), then went to the Chinese buffet. It was okay. Not very crowded, which means they don't turn the food over as ( Read more... )

As I've probably mentioned before, I work for a university, but not actually on campus. Our department is at a separate location, so I don't really have much interaction with the typical campus atmosphere/students/faculty, etc. But we aren't completely independent from the university, and (at least) once a day someone from our office has to drive ( Read more... )

Friday: Went home, watched one episode of Clean House, went to eat dinner. We drove to NoDa, intending to eat at Cabo Fish Taco, but there were too many people waiting outside so we went to Bubba's BBQ instead. There was no wait at Bubba's of course, but it did get pretty crowded while we were there, the most people I've ever seen there, in fact ( Read more... )

The completion of last Wednesday's Jeopardy coolness was tonight. In a category about animation voice-providers, there was a video clue hosted by Harry Shearer regarding his roles as Smithers and Flanders. If only they could have had that on the same night as the Michael McKean and Christopher Guest clues. No, never mind, I probably would have ( Read more... )

Tonight on Jeopardy was a total fangirl moment! First, in a category about Superman, there was a video clue read by Michael McKean himself regarding his (and his wife Annette O'Toole's) roles on Smallville. The other was a category called "Who's the Wife" or something, where it named a male celeb and you had to give the wife's name. The $2000 ( Read more... )