Did you watch last night’s finale of the Amazing Race? Oddly enough, it ended in our fair city and included a mad dash along the food carts in Alder street and an even madder dash to VooDoo Doughnuts. This actually reminds me of times I’ve been frantic to get to VooDoo… Oh, and someone should […]
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SNL Short: Jizz in My Pants
Here’s what will surely become another minor classic in the SNL shorts of Andy Samberg (with a cameo from Justin… EEEEEE!!) — a techno bumper which describes a NSFW situation that has never ever happened to me. I promise. By the by, this is the first single from Samberg’s band Lonely Island (along with Akiva […]
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“DIE, WEREWOLF!”
The new season of Robot Chicken officially starts tonight (even though the whole season premiere is already online). To whet your appetite, Adult Swim’s posted the opening of the episode, in which Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich take a spin around Hollywood looking for jobs. Who do they beg for work? Well, […]
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Retro Sci-Fi DVD Roundup: The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek: Alternate Realities.
So yesterday–just in time for the new version!–a fancy-pants two-disc edition of 1951’s classic The Day the Earth Stood Still came out on DVD. Thoughts on that DVD are after the jump, and because why not, I’m also going to use this post as an excuse to talk about two other, somewhat recent sci-fi DVD […]
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Crazy Gideon? You are Ka-RAAAAA-ZY!
Mental illness is no laughing matter. Unless you’re talking about CRAZY GIDEON who is so f-bombing crazy that he would actually sell a 27 inch TV for $189!! WTF?! That’s ka-frakkin’-razy! Seriously, dude! Somebody call the cops and taze this crazy sonofabitch… because the mothereffer is CRAAAAZZZY!
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Soft Focus Taping in Portland
Vice Magazine‘s web TV series Soft Focus is taping locally this Thursday, December 4, at the Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne). Soft Focus is an “off beat music interview show” and this installment sees Ian Svenonius interviewing Fred and Toody Cole (currently of Pierced Arrows and formerly of Dead Moon) as well as Stephen Malkmus. […]
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The Simpsons Visit the Apple Store
Remember back when The Simpsons would put the burn on modern culture… and on a regular basis? Well, when Springfield gets its own Apple store, the “burn” burns so brightly I may never look at my iPhone the same way again. So funny… so sad… so true!
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DVD Review: 24: Redemption.
I got sucked into 24 shortly after the DVDs of the first season came out, at which point my then-girlfriend and I devoured those episodes in a period that we realized–sometime around hour six or seven, and with a combination of guilt and elation–more or less echoed the real time gimmick of the show. When […]
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“Holler at Thy Dragonmaster.”
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog… back with the wizard he made fun of in his infamous Star Wars sketch? Too good to be true, right? And yet: HERE IT IS. Turns out that the wizard, who insists on calling himself “Blackwolf,” is a huge fan of the goblin-y death metal group Lordi. When he found […]
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Snoop Dogg Makes Mashed Potatoes With Martha
“You mind if I add a little something to it?” Thanks, Brad.
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OH Frak! New Battlestar Season 4.5 Trailer Released!
And this looks a lot like Adama getting ready to be flushed out an air-lock. Hmmmm… Due to the fact that I live somewhere in the Pleistocene era and have no cable television, I’m about one half season behind. But that doesn’t keep me from being totally excited about the newest Battlestar trailer released by […]
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Gus Van Sant Hearts Mary’s Club.
“Gus Van Sant guest starred on the Entourage season five finale last night and sported a Mary’s Club jacket,” reports Daily Absurdities. Thanks to Matlock for the heads up. (No, not that Matlock. A different one.)