Archive for April, 2007
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Here are some things I learned/pondered while away, but first a quick reminder: I’m in class all day Monday so blog will be quiet, BUT 2 of my 3 major projects are due Monday so soon my schedule will be free! Ok so the things I learned:
- I didn’t know that the Empire State Building changes color(lights) every night. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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On Thursday’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” Seattle Grace’s chairman of the board visited the doctors and said “Fix this” before pulling down his pants and revealing grapefruit sized testicles (caused by the legendary Amazonian-peinis-fish). The above pic is the reactions of the doctors, captured in a reverse-angle/between-the-legs shot with something dropping into frame.
Well I got a press release from ABC (via my old reporter email address) saying that the “something” was really Mitch Pileggi’s (Skinner from “x-files”) face as he bent down to pull down his pants. When I re-watched the episode, which I taped, I saw that this was true. Though it is odd that Pileggi’s face looks so much like a warped scrotum.
The mistaken scrotum was so dubious that bloggers across the country were leading with headlines like “Grey’s Anatomy Went ‘Nuts’ Last Night” “Censors ok with Scrotum” “Grey’s Jumps the Shark (penis fish) Again”and “Grey’s Anatomy Sneaks a Swollen Scrotum Past Network Censors.” Obviously these people couldn’t take the time to review the episode (which is posted online at ABC and the fake-scrotum drop takes place around the 7 minute mark).
Oddly enough, on CBS’s “C.S.I.” which airs at the same time as “Grey’s” someone groped the enlarged testicles on a dead body. The testicles were not shown, which is good for Pileggi because it means no one mistook them for his face.
Man I love May Sweeps! I just wish upfronts would hurry up and get here!
Forget the presidential election. I’m backing Nathan Petrelli for congress.
Welcome to the Nathan Petrelli for Congress campaign site. Through this site, you can learn about me, the issues facing our district, and how you can become a part of the campaign.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that my father’s death prompted me to run for Congress. With my father’s memory at the heart of my campaign, I bring his philosophy to the problems that face our district and our nation today. With a philosophy centered on family, personal responsibility and the desire to make a difference, I will build a brighter future for all the constituents of the 30th Congressional District.
Remember, I began my campaign with my family in mind. But when I represent you in Congress, it’ll be with you and your family in mind.
There is a form to sign up for email updates. Since the site is sponsored by NBC similar to the Prima Papertech site, if you want some “heroes” scoop I’d suggest signing up. It’s where I’ve been getting a lot of stuff lately. Also if you want a HUGE spoiler, then check out the most recent graphic novel which explains who was originally supposed to blow up New York.
As a sweeps stunt, NBC and “My Name is Earl” is doing a smell-o-vision episode. What you do is buy the current issue of TV Guide (I already have mine) and inside is a card with numbers on it. When next week’s episode airs, the numbers will appear on the screen and you scratch the correlating box to find out what the characters smell.
I know its really dorky and cheesey, but at the same time it’s sooooooooo cool! I just hope they end up doing one of these for “The Office.” That would be CRAZY!
Like “Buffy Season 8″ Joss Whedon is doing a comic version of “Angel Season 6.”
Wedon: Season six—that is, the storyline we were planning to pursue—made much more epic and fleshed out quite a bit. We’re looking at it as a 12-issue miniseries, to keep it tight and intense. Brian and I have been exchanging juicy ideas. And some that are more bran-y. For health.
In related news, Whedon is also talking about his recent “Wonder Woman” drama.
Nobody interfered with my vision [On the Wonder Woman movie] because literally, nobody ever said, “No, no. We want it this way.” I told them what was I going to do, they said do it, I did it, they said no. I said okay. I could feel the end for a long while. I could tell they weren’t enthused and you know our conversations were never about what the movie was about, the very few that we had. And so I just felt like, if they know what I’m going for, they don’t like it, and they may not even know, and they’ve told me they don’t even know what they are going for, just that I’m not giving it to them, so it wasn’t like they were interfering. They gave me all the freedom in the world, all the rope in the world in which to build my noose.
Everyone who thinks they know what “The Simpsons Movie” is about needs to think again. Writer, director & producer James L Brooks spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the upcoming film and revealed that much of the film’s final content is not yet settled.
“It started out as people wanting to know what it was about, and then we were having fun with it, putting out false story lines. We’ve revealed more with each successive trailer. We’ll continue to do that” he says.
More surprising is the news that much of what’s seen so far will NOT be in the final film – “We saw a trailer the other day, and somebody said 70 percent of the things in it — based on where we were eight weeks ago — are no longer in the movie, because we keep on fooling around.”
Brooks says there are 94 speaking parts so far. Also stuff from the test screening in Portland a month or two back has been edited – “We changed a lot of jokes. We physically changed one character, and we basically rewrote that character and another” says Brooks. Show creator Matt Groening added “We changed some language in the movie, because some people were bugged.”
This seriously sounds like its straight from “X-files.” Billions of bees have gone missing world wide. That’s missing. Not dead (though its safe to presume they probably are dead) no bodies have been found!
The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States, where honeybees are used to pollinate $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and other crops annually. Disappearing bees have also been reported in Europe and Brazil.
Commercial beekeepers would set their bees near a crop field as usual and come back in two or three weeks to find the hives bereft of foraging worker bees, with only the queen and the immature insects remaining. Whatever worker bees survived were often too weak to perform their tasks.
It sounds silly, but this could drastically affect the price of produce which require bee pollination or anything with honey in it.
Captian America was arrested in Florida for groping women, saying dirty things to a burrito, and smoking pot. No seriously! A doctor had been attending a superhero themed costume party and was later arrested for being a creep. The Smoking Gun has all the details: ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve really been wanting to post about this topic, but Blog@Newsarama has done it way better than I ever could. I’m also posting this because of a little thing known as FREE SPEECH. So here is what Blog@ had to say:
I’ve deliberately avoided talking about the whole Todd Goldman mess up ’til now, mainly because it’s such an unbelievable clusteryouknowwhat that I knew it would take more blogging power than poor little me could muster. But now, circumstances compel me to speak up, namely because other people are being told to shut up. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stephen King comments on writings and violence.
I’ve thought about it, of course. Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing — including a short story called ”Cain Rose Up” and the novel RAGE — would have raised red flags, and I’m certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them, even though I interacted in class, never took pictures of girls’ legs with my cell phone (in 1970, WHAT cell phones?), and never signed my work with a ?. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember the guy who did the naked/pregnant Brittany Spear’s sculpture? Well he’s finished his next project and its called “Paris Hilton Autopsy.”
The life-sized sculpture depicts a supposedly dead Hilton, in the nude except for a jeweled tiara perched on her head, with Tinkerbell (in matching tiara) lying across the heiress’ shoulder. A cell phone is clutched in Hilton’s hand.
To help ram the message home, the Hilton sculpture has an open abdominal cavity and its innards are removable, as if the Simple Life star were really being splayed out for an autopsy. All of the internal organs have been rendered to scale and visitors to the exhibition will be encouraged to don a pair of gloves and pick through the plaster-and-clay remains.
I couldn’t make up this sh* even if I tried!
Here is a link dump with some of the things I would have posted about while I was gone:
- David Goyer is directing “Magneto,” Marvel’s second spinoff of the “X-men” franchise.
- CNN attempted to cover Jodi Picoult writing “Wonder Woman” but its seriously OLD news. The only thing good that they emphasized is that Picoult is only the second woman in 66 years to write the book, which is really sad.
- “Studio 60” is still not canceled, but it might as well be. Even so, NBC is bringing it back on May 24th for its final new episodes.
- NBC had its all time lowest week in ratings last week.
- Drive was canceled.
- Jack Valenti, former head of the MPAA and one of the most powerful people in the history of movies passed away.
- The inventor of the Play Station stepped down from his chief executive position.
- Edward Norton as Bruce Banner?
- Rosie is leaving “The View.”
- Hugh Grant pelted a paparatzi with beans.
- Alec Baldwin went crazy and cussed out his daughter while on the phone. He then later asked NBC to be released from his contract from “30 Rock” but the network refused to do so.
- I think all countries should make it a rule that it’s illegal to be kissed by Richard Gere.
- The “Babylon 5” direct to DVD movies helmed by J. Michael Stracynski will start coming out in July.
- Zach Braff is no longer starring in “Fletch” which is being helmed by “Scrubs” creator Bill Lawrence.
- A kid (using the same cell phone I have) texted “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” in 15 seconds, which won her $25,000.
- A study in Ireland shows that text messaging is destroying written language.
- Seriously? Caffeinated soap?
- A “Muslim Dr. Ruth” is pissing off people in Egypt because she’s talking too much sex.
- An Earth-like planet that could sustain life has been found.
- Monkey’s play video games.
This is my only post about what happened at Virginia Tech. What happened was tragic and I understand that as a nation we often morn together, but I think what the media is doing is total bullshit. To the news stations and papers, its not about reporting its about ratings and numbers. It’s wrong and it’s why I despise journalism. It’s also why I think it’s awesome that Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said, “People who want to take this within 24 hours of the event and make it their political hobby horse to ride, I’ve got nothing but loathing for them.”
