According to the IMDb Studio Briefing for December 22nd, 2006:

If the public reacts to We Are Marshall (starring Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox) the way many critics have, the film will come crashing down like the plane that carried 75 Marshall University players to their deaths in 1970.

I'm going to the dentist tomorrow. Tonight, I found myself brushing my teeth really long, extra hard. Don't get me wrong - I brush pretty good every night, but tonight I really went apeshit. I even flossed. The whole got pretty serious, and I'm pretty sure the dentist is going to buy it. Pretty clever, huh?

My new favorite site is The Comics Curmudgeon. I've been reading it daily for several weeks now.

CollegeHumor's newest original went up today.

It was written by fellow Cool-Kids-Clubber Steve Menegozzi. Those who haven't seen Cool Kids Club yet (why not?) may also know Steve from the short film SK8BOARDING, where he won many accolades for his role of California Condor.

The new short is Thanksgiving themed, and if you are friends with me there's a good chance you'll love it. Click the white space below to play.

Thanks again to everyone that came to Cool Kids Club last night. Early reports from Matt indicate we'll have some video to show for this one. I'm going to take today off and spend it in my favorite pajama pants.

Our first review comes from the it-sounds-like-us-but-isn't Uncool Kids. It's as if they knew me for years.

I've started watching Fall's biggest hit, Heroes. I was skeptical, but I'm a sucker for anything superhero and I heard good things.

Eight episodes in, and I feel comfortable saying Heroes is bad. It's the kind of show where, when there's a scene in India, everyone is still speaking English.

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I'm really excited about Cool Kids Club tomorrow night, and I hope the audience will be too. It's going to be a great time.

This Friday some friends and I will perform another installment of the RUNAWAY SMASH HIT Cool Kids Club.

Cool Kids Club, for those just joining jeffrubinjeffrubin.com, is a live commentary on vintage educational films. It's maybe a little bit like Mystery Science Theater, but live and no puppets.

Cool Kids Club takes a lot of time to prepare and is known to distract from blogging.

The show is Friday, November 17th at the PIT (154 W. 29th St). We go on at 10 o'clock, and because you can bring your own drinkie drinks it makes a great springboard for the rest of the evening. More info (and buy tickets in advance - fancy!) on the PIT's website.

Speaking of fancy, if you'd like alerts for new Cool Kids Club shows delivered straight to your inbox, enter your email address here -

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I was really excited to hear about the Democrats' convincing victory at the polls this week - things are going to change! I'd like to see George W. Bush drag the country into a meaningless war now.

Looking over the past (sparse) month or two of blogging, I'm surprised to find that I have yet to write about CollegeHumor's new original content or even our new director of original content, Sam.

Sam comes to us from Dutchwest. In addition to being funny, Dutchwest's videos have perhaps the best production value in the increasingly crowded world of Internet sketches. I could go on and on about how talented I think Sam is, but I'm lazy so I'll let his work speak for him.

Here's the newest, which is not only hilarious but also about Lost.

Other already-classics include Girl's Costume Warehouse and Street Fighter: the Later Years.

Really though, they are all worth watching.

Mark your Jeff! calendars -

November 8th - Streeter & I will be at the UCB Theater at talking about rejected CollegeHumor stuff for the Rejection Show. Streeter & I did this show about a year ago, and it was a blast.

November 17th - Cool Kids Club at the PIT. That's right, our Mystery-Science-Theater-ish show is moving to a real venue where the seats are more than planks of wood on buckets of paint.


More details on both as we get closer....

I need a scheme to raise several thousand dollars by Tuesday.

Of the many cultural advantages to living in (or near) New Jersey, nothing beats Six Flags Great Adventure.

Six Flags Great Adventure is home to the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, Kingda Ka. Telling you the numbers (456 feet, 0 to 128 mph in 3.3 seconds) doesn't really do it justice. I should also mention the whole experience lasts well under 45 seconds.

After a year of talking about it, some friends and I finally got to ride Kingda Ka over the weekend. I wished I was brave enough to make a point-of-view movie while I was on it. Then I remembered I lived in the future, and that someone probably had done it already.

Another interesting fact - a sign outside the ride explains that sometimes Kingda Ka doesn't make it over the hump. It just falls back down. DON'T PANIC! Everything's fine, and it just goes again. My friends and I were unable to come to a consensus on if we wanted that to happen.

More info, as if I need to say it, on Wikipedia.

A few months ago I posted my all time favorite educational film, Bike Safety Camp, on YouTube.

For weeks and weeks it sat there with a few hundred views and one comment. This week, traffic picked up.

I don't know why, but in the past three days part 3 (of 3) went from something like 350 views to 6,973. It's also picked up 14 comments.

Though I'm thrilled to share the wonder of Bike Safety Camp with thousands of people, I'm upset that I can't figure out who my 6,972 new best friends are. How are all these people suddenly finding it? Neither this blog nor the YouTube video are in the top Google results for "Bike Safety Camp." YouTube's "links to this video" is apparently useless. Technorati, the blog search engine, came up dry.

Does anyone have any ideas how I might find the monkey that started this Bike Safety Camp viral outbreak?

I saw Borat last night at the New Yorker festival. It's really, really funny. I think it will be so big, that in a few months my parents will be aware of Borat.

Other things my parents have recently become aware of include Facebook, watching TV series on DVD, and Owen Wilson.

I know everyone around here has an "I saw the craziest thing on the New York subway" story, but last night I swear to you I saw the craziest thing on the New York subway.

When I got on the G train, there was a man whose entire body appeared to be covered in tattoos. He had a big red star around his right eye, a chilli pepper on his cheek, some sort of galaxy of planets on the back of his head, and a big "DON'T" on the back of his neck. I couldn't get a clear look at his leg, but it appeared to have some sort of naked woman worshiping a multi-eyed green cat. His clothes were pretty standard punk, except for a green mini-leprechaun hat that looked brand new. Pretty strange, but nothing exceptional.

He and his friend (who was wearing completely normal clothes and had no visible tattoos) were making balloon-animal penises. They were hanging them from the bar you hold on to when there's no room to sit. Tattoo-guy would often pop the balloons (accidentally, I think) or let all the air out so it sounds like a fart (on purpose, I'm sure). Whenever Tattoo-Guy caught someone looking (and everybody was looking) he'd shoot them a "Hey! What are you looking at?" grin. They seemed to be delighting in the attention they knew they were getting, but still nothing exceptional.

Then, at the next stop, a mariachi band got on.

They were dressed head-to-toe like a real mariachi band. There were only two of them - one had a guitar, the other had a mini-accordion. They started to play their mariachi song right next to tattoo-guy, who just kept on making phallic balloon animals. Neither ever acknowledged the other. It was unbelievable. Another rider and I shared a Jim-Halpert-esque "Is anyone else seeing this?" glance.


BONUS STORY - the grossest thing I've seen on the New York subway was an Asian male, probably in his 20's, with mole hair coming off his jaw that was so long HE HAD BRAIDED IT. The second craziest thing I've ever seen was the girl who was hanging on to him.

BREAKING

Real 'Itsy Bitsy' songwriter still alive

-- Further antinews bulletins as events don't warrant --

(thanks for the heads up, Amir)

ANTINEWS (noun) - A story so uninteresting, it actually becomes the opposite of news.



From the article -

"The song has been used in such films as 'Sister Act 2' and 'Revenge of the Nerds II' and was more recently revived in a yogurt commercial."

more Yahoo! news watch on JeffRubinJeffRubin.com

(here's the story)

It would be funny if Logo, the new network for gay men, started airing unedited reruns of pro wrestling.

It's all about context.

I've discovered that U2 is the perfect music for your alarm clock. It's not bad, but you still want to get out of bed to turn it off.

Matt just keeps making awesome Cool Kids Club graphics. Here's two more.





I'm writing this at midnight exactly, so the show is now officially tommorow night.

I haven't been the greatest blogger this September, but I've been spending a lot of time tweaking this Wednesday's Cool Kid Club show. Even if everyone hates it, I've had so much fun putting it together that I can't imagine not doing it again.

In case you forgot, details are in the post under this one.

I don't want to overhype it, but it's going to be like taking a dose of every drug you can name and then taking one of the first space tourist flights to the moon.

Remember to bring some booze!

Cool Kids Club FAQ

Q: What’s Cool Kids Club again?

A: Cool Kids Club is a live commentary on vintage educational shorts. It’s maybe a little bit like Mystery Science Theater 3000, except live and no puppets.

Q: When’s your first show?
A: This Wednesday, September 20th, at the Universal Space Agency in Williamsburg. The doors open at 8, and the show starts at 8:30. It's free. Seating is limited, so come early. If you’d like, bring a blanket to sit on. In case you weren't sold at "seating is limited", we’re inviting everyone to bring their own alcohol. The show will be about an hour.

Q: Sounds stupid. Who’s involved?
A: Besides myself, the show will be written and performed by Dan Hopper, Kevin Haulihan, Steve Menegozzi, and Matt Esolda. Dan, Kevin, Steve, and myself worked closely together on Penn State's humor magazine, Phroth. Over three consecutive years Dan, Kevin, and Steve each took a turn directing Phroth Phest, the magazine's annual live sketch show. The three of them turned the show into the rarest of beasts - a well-attended and funny student production. Matt directs awesome music videos, and does a weekly comic for the CollegeHumor newsletter. He's also the A/V nerd of the group, which is really saying something. He'll be making sure the show looks and sounds great. He also designed these great logos.

Q: Do you have a MySpace?
A: Do we have a MySpace!?!?

Q: I want to stay informed of future Cool Kids Club activities, what are my options?
A: Besides the MySpace account, you can also sign up for our email list by sending a blank message to SuperCoolKidsClub-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

This week, our absurdly talented development team launched a new version of CollegeHumor.com. Amongst other major changes, we've added a more blog-ish front page that we're all really excited about.

Just wait - I'm going to be getting into all sorts of crazy adventures. Our old pals Streeter, Amir, and Ricky have already written some really funny stuff too, so be sure to read it several thousand times a day.

I'm very excited to tell you guys about the new live show I'm putting together.

Some friends and I are going to be doing a live commentary on old educational filmstrips. It's a bit like like Mystery Science Theater 3000.

We're calling it Cool Kids Club.

Besides me, the show is written by and starring Dan Hopper, Kevin Haulihan, Steve Menegozzi, and Matt Esolda.

Our first show is in Williamsburg this September 20th. That's a Wednesday night. It's at the Universal Space Agency.

Also, just in case, we're inviting everyone to bring their own alcohol.

Dan, Kevin, Steve, and myself worked closely together on Penn State's humor magazine, Phroth. Over three consecutive years Dan, Kevin, and Steve each took a turn directing Phroth Phest, the magazine's annual live sketch show. The three of them turned the show into the rarest of beasts - a well-attended and funny student production. Matt directs awesome music videos, and does a weekly comic for the CollegeHumor newsletter. He's also the A/V nerd of the group, which is really saying something. He'll be making sure the show looks and sounds great.

I also started a Cool Kids Club MySpace page - http://myspace.com/supercoolkidsclub. I'll be keeping that updated, and this won't be the last time I mention it on jeffrubinjeffrubin.com.

I was lucky enough to snap this picture on my way to work this morning:





I'm usually not superstitious, but I'm told that if a Segway crosses your path you will have good luck all day. Here's hoping!

More fake banner ads.







previously

I only now realize I should have called this blog That's So Rubin!

This week, a trailer dropped for the upcoming comedy Let's Go To Prison, a film with an unprecedented pedigree.

- Cowritten by Reno 911/The State's Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, and Michael Patrick Jann. I was unfamiliar with Jann's name, but his IMDb profile helpfully notes he "was the primary director of film/video material for 'The State." He also directed the underrated Drop Dead Gorgeous.

- Starring Arrested Development's Will Arnett, aka GOB (sidenote - third season of Arrested Development finally comes out on DVD this week).

- Directed by Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk.




There's actually nothing particularly exciting about the trailer. I winced at the lame Brokeback Mountain joke (which, to be fair, doesn't look like it will actually be in the movie). Still, for anyone that knows even some of those names this is a must see.

A few months ago I went on a fake-banner-ad production spree.

I did a few of them. I wanted to use them on CollegeHumor, but I could never figure out where I could fit them in. I really like them, so I'd like to figure something out one day.

Here's the first in the series:



In other news, images uploaded via Blogger.com end up getting scaled down. Every time I want to post a larger image, I end up having to use my Flickr account. Is there some obvious soloution everybody but me knows about?

From YouTube:



So let me get this straight. It's an ad, brought to you by another ad, on a branded channel, and you can buy a ringtone of the whole mess?

I signed up for a MySpace comedy account tonight.

When you sign up, you can categorize your comedy by choosing up to three keywords from a list. And what a list! They included everything but prop comic!



Oh wait, nevermind - they got it.


(more on why I signed up for a MySpace comedy account soon)

Nobody's exactly sure who wrote this update for CollegeHumor, but have you ever noticed how Professor Amazing and Jeff Rubin are never in the same place at the same time?

NBC made a special promoting their new Fall shows. So that anybody might be interested in watching, they shot eight-and-a-half glorious minutes of original The Office footage to wrap around it.

Here's all The Office stuff and none of the previews.

(via OfficeTally, an Office blog that manages to post several The Office releated news items every day)

A good way to measure the the relative worth of two topics is to compare the word count of their respective Wikipedia articles.

For instance, the article about He-Man's nemesis Skeletor is 7,002 words long. However, the article about Optimus Prime is a staggering 10,004 words. Thus, Optimus Prime is about 1.4 times more important than Skeletor.

The article about air is 1,878 words. Therefore, Optimus Prime is about 5.3 times more important than air.

I always feel bad for people that snore. Everyone hates them, but it's not their fault! They can't help it.

They're like werewolves -they wake up and everyone's just horrified by them and they're like "what did I do last night?!?!"

There's a lot of street performers at Fisherman's Wharf. Usually they are pretty easy to ignore, but this is one we couldn't resist.

This guy sits next to a sign that says "Live Impressions - Shout Out a Star! $1." You have to pick a celebrity off his list, but there were many to choose from. My friend Dave ponied up two dollars and requested Sidney Poitier.

It's a scene from 1963's The Long Ships.

My friends and I realized when we walked away that none of us had any idea what a good Sidney Poitier impression was like. What do you guys think?



Sidney Poitier Impression on Vimeo

Scott went on The Star Ledger's Munchmobile to find the best pizza in New Jersey. Over the course of a single day, him and a group of strangers got to visit seven great NJ pizzerias in search of the best slice. Then, someone asks them what they thought and writes an article about it.

"If you pass out, I get your slices," Scott Wiener of Cranford announced at one point.

As I write these very words my first ever unsupervised baking project (chocolate chip cookies, of course) is hurdling towards ediblility in the oven.

If all the raw dough I ate is any indication, they're going to be delicious.

I believe everyone is born with a mission. I was fourteen years old when I discovered my mission - to introduce as many people as I can to Bike Safety Camp.

As the name implies, Bike Safety Camp is a children's educational video about bike safety.

Now, I'm something of an expert on stupid children's safety films. Blockbuster used to rent them for free, so my bored friends and I would take them out and rip on them. Please, try to understand how serious I am when I say that Bike Safety Camp is the greatest safety video of all time.

I first saw this masterpiece in 7th grade health class. I can still remember how my class facetiously pumped their fists in the air in time with "Wear A Bicycle Helmet (Every Time That You Ride"). That summer, I obtained a copy on VHS from a friend in summer camp (he sent it to me after the summer was over, thanks again Justin).

For a time, I worried what would happen if my VHS of Bike Safety Camp suddenly fell apart. Would I ever be able to find another copy? How would I share it with my children?

Thankfully, I no longer have to worry. A friend of mine graciously indulged me and ripped the VHS to DVD. Of course, I then began to wonder if anyone would even know to look for the DVD if something horrible happened to me. So just to be sure, I uploaded it to YouTube.

I've shared this video with every friend I met in public school, private school, college, work, and everywhere in between. Now, dear blog reader, I am sharing it with you.

Bike Safety Camp is a little over 20 minutes long, so I had to break it up into three parts. Trust me, it's worth it. I'm going to go ahead and embed part 1. Please, share and enjoy!



Here's part 2 and part 3.

I see some vile footage while sorting through CollegeHumor movie submissions, but I can think of very few times a video has made me say "oh god" and turn away. I had another one last week.

I don't want to say what it was of just yet. You should see the reactions it elicited first. Thanks Ricky's flickr!

The Perry Bible Fellowship website has a new layout. It's as good an excuse as any to read them all over again.

I've been struggling to decide which three I'd like to order prints of. I'm leaning on Orbitoid Jones, Sgt. Grumbles, and Suicide Train. I'm only getting three because I had to draw the line somewhere.

By now, even grown-ups know that MySpace is the radical new place for kids to hang out.

This was the featured video on MySpace's front page today. I can only assume it's prominent placement means a lot of money changed hands. I think it's also safe to assume that someone was paid to write this description:


The best part about advertising on MySpace is that it's not just any website. It's a community. Look at the users rave about Garfield, and build excitement for the product:

Ugh. Survivor: The Ride. I don't know where to begin.

During college, my roommates and I were pretty into Survivor. It was a weekly house event. So I was ecstatic to learn that there was going to be a Survivor: The Ride within driving distance while we were on vacation in San Francisco together. It promised to combine three of my favorite things - roller coasters, Survivor, and stupid shit.

I'm sorry to report that the ride itself is pretty poor. However, the pre-ride Tribal Challenge made it all worth it.

Before you board, a park employee splits a ride's worth of people up into four teams. The challenge is hosted, via video, by Survivor All-Stars Jenna Morasca and Ethan Zohn. The pair teach you a dance and a song. Supposedly, the team who performs the best will get the other teams wet. The clearer (and meaner) way to put it is the team who performs the worst gets the wettest.

The problem with the game, beyond it's own inherent stupidity, is that it's immediately clear nobody is paying attention. The park employees are too busy contemplating how much they hate their job and making sure nobody falls off the ride - in that order. Also, while waiting in line you'll watch the ride go by at least a dozen times. Eventually, you'll notice a conspicuous lack of water on the ride. So, during most cycles of the game Jenna and Ethan's instructions and awful chant are barely even acknowledged.



Survivor: The Ride - Tribal Challenge on Vimeo

I tried to document every aspect of my whole Survivor: The Ride experience so that Survivor fans can see everything there is to see without actually wasting their time.

I've been playing a lot of the new Mario Kart DS online recently.

It's one of the first Nintendo games that lets you compete with other players online. Not only can you can play against other freedom-and-Mario-Kart-lovin' Americans, but dorks throughout Japan and Europe as well. The game just throws everyone into a race. There's no way to communicate, even if we could. Though these opponents may be on different sides of the globe, we all speak the international language of Mario Kart.

The lack of traditional communication makes it difficult to express any personality while playing. One of the few things you can is draw an emblem that goes next to your name and on your cart. I was thinking about writing something obscenely jingoistic to intimidate my foreign adversaries, but then I realized they can't read English.

If you're ever going to a desert island and you can only bring one Internet forum thread with you, make sure it's this one. The community at ASpecialThing.com dug up tons of great comedy on YouTube.

Two highlights:
- This 1998 clip of Norm Macdonald on Letterman right after being fired from Weekend Update.
- This one of Jon Stewart interviewing the Spice Girls.

I heard VH1 has a really loud siren that goes off throughout the building when stuff like this happens.

Oh dear, there was a mix up at the crappy dance movie factory! Now, nobody knows which movie about dancing goes with which tag line!

Can you match the movie about dancing to it's tag line?

1.		A. Every second chance begins with a first step.
2.		B. Never follow
3.		C. Break the rules. Find your freedom. Live your life
4.		D. Something happens when she hears the music... it's her freedom. It's her fire. It's her life.
5.		E. The only person you need to be is yourself.
6.		F. Her dreams. Her terms.
7.		G. If you want respect, you have to take it.
8.		H. Life doesn't hold tryouts.
9.		I. For everyone who believes in the beat.
10.		J. A comedy about following your own lead.

Highlight the seemingly empty area below to read the answers.
1 - H
2 - B
3 - D
4 - A
5 - F
6 - E
7 - G
8 - I
9 - J
10 - C

This rather striking image is from a public domain bike-safety-film titled "One Got Fat." In other words, heavy metal bands are free to use it on flyers to promote their next show without fear of persecution by the man.

Here's some other ways I've been thinking I could use this very-free-for-everyone image:

- Print it onto enigmatic, textless stickers. Vandalize the subway
- Scare 4-year-olds.
- Splice a single frame of it into my upcoming horror film. Probably somewhere during the climactic orgy scene.
- Scare 2-year-olds.

Also, I didn't get a chance to mention it earlier, but this character's name is Philbert Bagel.

Interested yet? The rest of the film is hosted by the always amazing archive.org here. If you're not up for watching the entire thing, I took some more stills and uploaded them to Flickr.

For me, yahoo.com is pretty much the newspaper. I don't know when, but somewhere I developed the habit of checking it for news. That's why I love how their new homepage design most prominently features the "oddly enough" section.

Daily Urkel Links -

Do the Urkel!

Do the Urkel remix I made at work today. (fixed this link)

UrkelQuest contest at CollegeHumor.

It's hard to beleive that they got the Urkel dance and a very special lesson about alcohol into the same 22-minute episode. Bravo, TGIF.

George W. Bush and Tony Blair were caught offguard earlier today, when a microphone they thought was off recorded a candid conversation. According to Yahoo news, Bush said:

"See, the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over,"

I'm not 100% sure what he's getting at. That said, I beleive we can add the president to the list of people who don't exactly understand irony.

I'm really excited to link to the new episode of CHTV. For the ignorant, CHTV is CollegeHumor.com's monthly sketch series that I'm lucky enough to cowrite and costar in.

Our co-director/co-editor, Giancarlo Fiorentini and Jonathan Grimm, really did a spectacular job.

I love Cheston's new Eyeball Knight comics, based on his classic flash game Eyeball Knights.

We went to the 4th of July hot dog eating contest

Our view of the action
Originally uploaded by DrBaloney.

We went to the 4th of July hot dog eating competition. Do you think it's sillier to be a boxer or a competitive eater?

TBS has the world broadcast premeire of the direct-to-video American Pie sequel, American Pie Presents Band Camp.

I've seen Band Camp and I could give you 50 reasons not to watch, but none of them would be as convincing as the soundboard TBS is hosting.

In other news, I'm traveling to San Fransico this week, so posting may become sparse.

Adios butthuggers!

(thanks for the link Cho)

Congratulations to the trailer for Charlotte's Web. It has just set the record for most Academy Award nominees in a preview that also features a fart joke.



It's about 40 seconds into the preview that a talking cow (voiced by Academy Award winner Kathy Bates) farts on a rat. The rat is sent flying through the air to an unknown, though likely hilarious, fate. Lest we think this was an accident, the Kathy-Bates-cow lets out a satisfied, "bullseye!"

What other classic children's literature is primed to be updated with fart jokes? Here's some ideas:

The Giver - The Giver farts on Jonas.
The Berenstain Bears - Father bear farts, blames it on Brother Bear. Keep in mind they are all CG. This is the one I'm most surprised doesn't exist yet. I'm thinking maybe Dakota Fanning as Sister Bear.
The Chocolate War - I actually don't remember any of the characters from this one, but I imagine the fart being followed by a "GROSS!" and maybe someone doing a bellyflop.

As promised, here's the video from last night:



Jeff on Attack of the Show on Vimeo

Here's a bit torrent of my appearance on Attack of the Show. It's in Real Media. I'm intrigued that someone is nerdy enough to rip Attack of the Show, but not nerdy enough to know that Real Media is the worst video format. That's a very fine line.

I think it went pretty well. It aired live, so I haven't had a chance to see it yet. Hopefully I'll be able to take out my segment and put it on Vimeo soon, for those of you who I lost at the words bit torrent.

I appeared live via satellite out of an office whose sole purpose is to provide live via satellite interviews for various TV shows. That day, they had hosted appearences of Hank Williams Jr. and Chris Hansen.

The make-up woman and I had a nice conversation. I asked her who had the nicest skin of anyone she's ever worked on. I think she misunderstood the question, because she responded that I had the nicest skin of anyone she had worked on today.

In your face, Hank Williams Jr.

Tomorrow, I am scheduled to appear on G4's Attack of the Show. As far as I can tell, G4 comes with most digital cable/satellite packages.

Attack of the Show is sort of like SportsCenter for nerds. They discuss Internet news of the day, review computer related products, and don't have sex. I'm going to be talking about viral videos.

I believe it airs live, tomorrow, at 7 pm. You should probably check their website tomorrow to make sure.

Hey Aerosmith, it's 2006 already. Where's my virtual reality computer that lets me nail Alicia Silverstone while skydiving?




(While searching for that video, I just assumed it was spelled Amazin' with no g. It's not though.)

Trivia you probably could have guessed, even if you've never heard it:

David Hasselhoff got his start on a soap opera.

Dear Management of the Planet Hollywood of Toronto,

I was honored to receive your letter. I often tell people that National Treasure is my favorite of all the films I have ever directed. Your decision to include the special glasses Nicholas Cage used to read the Declaration of Independence and find the treasure has really touched me. Having a prop from one of my movies exhibited next to classic props like the baseball bat from Signs and Richard Gere's hat from Runaway Bride... well, it is truly an honor.

That is why it's with such a heavy heart I must inform you I simply can't attend the glasses' premiere. I am delighted to hear that Diane Kruger
will be able to attend. She's a doll - tell her Jon said hi.

I am of course happy to sign the poster you sent me.

Best Wishes,
Jon Turtletaub

Acoustic Spinto Band set MP3 on WOXY.

There will soon be a lot of pictures on this blog.

I knew I needed a digital camera when I saw a fat 9-year-old kid in a "Don't Hate The Playa, Hate The Game" shirt.

He was a nerdy 9-year old too. Trust me, we can smell our own. Another hint is that we were both in the videogames section of Target.

Beer Reaviwes
Tafsdinght, i'm revaiewing brolkyn lager, which had lts of. its prettttay awsome.

(found on allposters.com)

From the Wikipedia entry on Andy Capp:

Until the 1980s [Andy Capp] was always seen with a cigarette dangling from his lip until it was deemed politically incorrect. Similarly, he no longer indulges in fisticuffs with Florrie because of concerns about the depiction of domestic violence, even though their fights were always drawn in a stylised fashion so as to avoid offense, and in any case Florrie always gave as good as she got.

You don't get to read stuff like this in Britannica.

Why yes, this is the second consecutive post to deal with both Wikipedia and domestic abuse.

we'll get our chances, the second time around

Did you know Sasha Mitchell (who played Cody on Step By Step) was accused of beating his wife? I don't have the statistics handy, but I think a lot of people are aware of this fact.

For years, it was kinda an upspoken agreement among everyone that Cody from Step By Step maybe hitting a woman using Tai Kwan Do was hilarious. Oh, also, I'm assuming everone knows that Cody from Step By Step is a world champion kick boxer. Again, I don't have the numbers.

Well you know what? According to Wikipedia:

After the scandal of domestic violence charges being filed by Mitchell's wife, the Disney company decided to write him out of the script, and was only asked back for one episode on the last season of Step by Step. He later stated in court that his domestic violence charges resulted from attempts at protecting his children from their mother, whom he accused of being a drug user. He was able to obtain full custody of their four children, and their mother only receives limited, supervised visitation.

Not so awesome now that we rushed to judge, is it? Possibly, you know how the system works.

Wikipedia adds:

In an attempt to keep the comic relief of Cody around after Sasha Mitchell left the show, writers added three characters: Rich Halke (Dana's boyfriend and J.T.'s best friend, introduced in 1995), Jean-Luc (played by Bronson Pinchot, Carol's hairsylist partner whose role should remind people slightly of his role in the movie Beverly Hills Cop; he was a fixture in the 1996-97 season)

Try to imagine how it feels to be replaced by Belki.

My first Wikipedia article.

Writing it was a lot more time consuming that I originally thought it was going to be. I still keep finding little errors.

I'm open to suggestions for a follow-up.

Our intern Chris got this stuff called "magic sand." At first I told him to go back to the old beggar he got it from and trade back for the cow we sent him into town with, but it's actually pretty cool:



Magic Sand on Vimeo


More info on Wikipedia.

Sorry, Your Already Movie Sucks

From the May 9 - 15 issue of Hollywood Reporter
(by the way, does anyone have any idea why The Hollywood Reporter is sending every issue to my roommate? He didn't subscribe to it.)

Weinstein Co. Gears Up For Big-Screen Knight Rider

"I had a meeting with Harvey, and I could tell he had just seen the two-hour pilot for the series," [long time Knight Rider producer Glen Larson] said. "We agreed the film would be a darker, edgier version oft he series, somewhere between 'Knight Rider' and 'Sin City.' "

SEE YOU GUYS THERE!

Can you crack this secret code:

THA SACRAT OF THA CODA IS JUST TO SWITCH ELL OF THA E's AND A's

Can you imagine how crazy it would be if Urkel ran for president? I mean, a black president!

Ironically, the word irony is only used correctly 20% of the time.

Overheard at Google HQ on January 6, 2006 - "So, what's related to Martin Luther King's life and also round?"

Bigoted Art Movie Aficionado

Bigoted Art Movie Aficionado

Do you guys want to go see that faggot cowboy movie? What... yeah, of course I know it's part of their agenda man. Dude, I run the website on their agenda. The thing is, the Times gave it four stars at that A.O. Scott is usually a hardass, and before you say anything, you read my website so I know that you know that I know the Times is part of the liberal Jew run media!