Sienna Miller isn't having a good couple of days, fashionwise.
Not a good couple of days at all.
Saturday, April 04, 2009
While I'm in the mode of recommending things to watch on TV, don't you think it should be more than the same three shows?
Good thing I just caught Kristen Schaal's special on Comedy Central, isn't it?
You may know Schaal from her occasional commentaries on The Daily Show.
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Certainly that is where I first saw her (and why I decided to give her special a shot). I'm glad I did. It was really, really funny; smart and kind of surreal.
In a way that Sarah Silverman often aims for but, to my eyes, misses as often as she hits (also Kristen's not as obsessed with talking dirty onstage).
I recommend keeping an eye out for the re-runs. Schaal's a very skilled comedianne.
Here's a couple of more clips. The first is from the special itself, the second is her doing an earlier form of some of the same material as the special.
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The Clip Joint: Kristen Schaal
Friday, April 03, 2009
Try it yet?
With only one more episode set to air this season, it's probably too late for any of you who haven't yet to heed my entreaties about what a great show Terminator is. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't rent the DVDs...
But anyway, having sworn that if this show doesn't get picked up for another season, it won't be because I didn't prod all and sundry that I could into watching it, I offer you this article by Josh Friedman, executive producer of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:
The Terminator as Metaphor for Life
Excerpt:
But anyway, having sworn that if this show doesn't get picked up for another season, it won't be because I didn't prod all and sundry that I could into watching it, I offer you this article by Josh Friedman, executive producer of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:
The Terminator as Metaphor for Life
Excerpt:
...we needed a central relationship to anchor the story. The first Terminator movie was a romance, really, between Kyle and Sarah. The second movie is a father-son story between John and the Terminator. So I thought my show, at its core, would be a family drama, a relationship between a mother and a son who is coming of age.
love is love is...
Electric Dreams was not, shall we say, the most realistic of movies (a boy-girl-computer love triangle?) but it did have a couple of things going for it. One was that the girl was played by the lovely Virginia Madsen, then in her early 20s.
Another was a pretty good (if pretty disposable) electro-pop soundtrack, including the hit title single by Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder, and this surprisingly substantial song by Culture Club...
...which has come to have a meaning, for some of us, beyond the context of the film.
Another was a pretty good (if pretty disposable) electro-pop soundtrack, including the hit title single by Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder, and this surprisingly substantial song by Culture Club...
...which has come to have a meaning, for some of us, beyond the context of the film.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
I'd mock, but I have over 15 Star Wars books at home from the library right now, so clearly, I haven't a leg to stand on
Twilight series spawns religion: Edward Cullen is real, members should read the books like a Bible
Source.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Please answer this question
What AntiVirus Software Product do you use?
It has recently been made clear to me, at some cost, that I need to upgrade my virus protection. The following are, supposedly, some of the top programs out there; I thought I'd ask you, my vast reading audience, which if any you use and what your experience is.
BitDefender Antivirus
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Webroot Antivirus
G DATA AntiVirus
ESET Nod32
ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS
Vipre Antivirus + Antispyware
F-Secure Anti-Virus
Trend Micro
It has recently been made clear to me, at some cost, that I need to upgrade my virus protection. The following are, supposedly, some of the top programs out there; I thought I'd ask you, my vast reading audience, which if any you use and what your experience is.
BitDefender Antivirus
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Webroot Antivirus
G DATA AntiVirus
ESET Nod32
ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS
Vipre Antivirus + Antispyware
F-Secure Anti-Virus
Trend Micro
Monday, March 30, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
6 More Random Things About Me
Calvin, from his Canadian Cave of Cool, tagged me for the "6 Random Things" meme.
1) Last book read: Unfriendly Fire: How The Gay Ban Undermines The Military And Weakens America, by Nathaniel Frank.
2) Peter David, fine writer of books, films and comics and a columnist for the Comics Buyer’s Guide, once found a line I wrote funny, and asked permission to quote it in his column.
3) I have never, ever played any role-playing games. Tried once or twice, as I had friends that gamed, but just found the whole thing too absurd.
4) I've never done any illegal drugs, either.
5) I think this record kicks major ass.
6) I'd like to see manga eradicated from the face of the earth.
I tagged Jen at The Continuing Saga of Jeopardygirl
I tagged Lady F at Fillyjonk
I tagged Bill at Pop Culture Gadabout
I tagged Sarah at The Vintage Doctor
I tagged Darren Daz Cox at his Fine Art Blog
The Rules
1) Link to the person who tagged you.
2) Post the rules on your blog.
3) Write six random things about yourself.
4) Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5) Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6) Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
1) Last book read: Unfriendly Fire: How The Gay Ban Undermines The Military And Weakens America, by Nathaniel Frank.
2) Peter David, fine writer of books, films and comics and a columnist for the Comics Buyer’s Guide, once found a line I wrote funny, and asked permission to quote it in his column.
3) I have never, ever played any role-playing games. Tried once or twice, as I had friends that gamed, but just found the whole thing too absurd.
4) I've never done any illegal drugs, either.
5) I think this record kicks major ass.
6) I'd like to see manga eradicated from the face of the earth.
I tagged Jen at The Continuing Saga of Jeopardygirl
I tagged Lady F at Fillyjonk
I tagged Bill at Pop Culture Gadabout
I tagged Sarah at The Vintage Doctor
I tagged Darren Daz Cox at his Fine Art Blog
Thursday, March 26, 2009
As god is my witness, I have no idea how I feel about this
I kind of like Kathy Griffin, in that I find her stand-up specials fun to watch. I'm less interested in her "D-List" series. Especially as I have come to question just how long one can stay on the D-List with two Emmys and a multi-milliondollar book deal.
I have all the reverence for Paris Hilton as I would for a low-class whore. (I leave it to you to decide whether that means I have little reverence for Hilton, or a lot for whores.)
But I have to admit, given I know from watching these specials that Griffin has, on occasion, had some...well let's just call them less-than-sensitive things to say about Hilton, I was a little surprised to find that they're now apparently shopping BFFs.
I have all the reverence for Paris Hilton as I would for a low-class whore. (I leave it to you to decide whether that means I have little reverence for Hilton, or a lot for whores.)
But I have to admit, given I know from watching these specials that Griffin has, on occasion, had some...well let's just call them less-than-sensitive things to say about Hilton, I was a little surprised to find that they're now apparently shopping BFFs.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
When I say everything, I mean...
Ahem.
You're familiar by now with my "Everything is connected" theory; in fact, if you've grown tired of it, you might want to skip this entry. If not...
On tonight's episode of Life--which incidentally was the best episode in months*--there was a minor, red herring character named Jimmy Ellison.
James Ellison is the name of a character on Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Everything is connected. Absolutely everything.
*It's going to get good again just in time for me to miss it when it goes, like Veronica Mars.
You're familiar by now with my "Everything is connected" theory; in fact, if you've grown tired of it, you might want to skip this entry. If not...
On tonight's episode of Life--which incidentally was the best episode in months*--there was a minor, red herring character named Jimmy Ellison.
James Ellison is the name of a character on Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Everything is connected. Absolutely everything.
*It's going to get good again just in time for me to miss it when it goes, like Veronica Mars.
That's a pretty dick thing to say considering how supportive Britney's been of the GOP agenda
As you may have heard--it's making the rounds of the papers and blogs and such--while President Obama was giving his press conference yesterday, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was watching...Britney Spears hosting one of her pants-off dance-offs.
Suffering?
Does that strike anyone else as an very...ungentlemanly thing to say, given Britney's having
One House GOP leadership aide said Cantor went at the request of a fundraiser. "If suffering through a Britney Spears concert will raise one more dime to help Republicans take back the House, then I'm glad Cantor's willing to do it."
Suffering?
Does that strike anyone else as an very...ungentlemanly thing to say, given Britney's having
demonstrated her fealty to President Bush in 2002, when she told Carson Daly: “Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes, and we should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.”
Boys and their toys
Ashton Kutcher "Tweets." Recently he "Twittered" a snapshot of his wife, Demi Moore, bending over in her underwear.
Kutcher is hardly the only celebrity Twitter fan. Stephen Fry likes it so much that he even Twittered when he was stuck in a lift. Think about that for a second. Hugh Laurie is a big American TV (and now, with Monsters & Aliens, movie) star. And Stephen Fry is Twittering from a broken lift.
Meanwhile, it's claimed the reason Jennifer Aniston finally kicked John Mayer's ass to the curb is because he was spending too much time Twittering instead of twittering, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
Should anyone be wondering:
I do not Twitter.
I do not have any plans to Twitter.
Kutcher is hardly the only celebrity Twitter fan. Stephen Fry likes it so much that he even Twittered when he was stuck in a lift. Think about that for a second. Hugh Laurie is a big American TV (and now, with Monsters & Aliens, movie) star. And Stephen Fry is Twittering from a broken lift.
Meanwhile, it's claimed the reason Jennifer Aniston finally kicked John Mayer's ass to the curb is because he was spending too much time Twittering instead of twittering, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
Should anyone be wondering:
I do not Twitter.
I do not have any plans to Twitter.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Well I'll be damned.
For some of us, this is exciting.
I mean, between this and Shawnee Smith returning as Jigsaw's apprentice Amanda in Saw VI...
Bitty Schram has finalized a deal to reprise her role as sidekick to Tony Shalhoub's obsessive-compulsive detective during Monk's eighth and final season, sources confirm to me exclusively.
Schram left Monk midway through the show's third season reportedly due to a contract dispute. Producers, however, insisted at the time that they simply wanted to take the show in a different direction. Whatever triggered her exit, it's apparently water under the bridge.
I mean, between this and Shawnee Smith returning as Jigsaw's apprentice Amanda in Saw VI...
Following up on Bill O’Reilly's following, and feelings on, females
Two things.
One:
Apparently concerned we'd need more proof of his idiotic misogyny, O'Reilly decided to declare that women need to stay home with the kids while the men go out and make all the money.
This is 2009, in case you'd forgotten.
Funny thing is--unquestionably because I am the result of a single parent upbringing--I happen to think a child does need two parents. An extended family of friends and relations doesn't hurt either.
I get a little crotchety whenever I see the "You don't need a partner to raise responsible, emotionally healthy children" meme which sometimes goes on out there. I think you do.
But, I don't think that in such a pairing, the woman must be the one to stay home. I don't even think it must be a man and a woman, it could be a woman and a woman, or a man and a man.
Two:
That blogger he ambushed went on the Keith Olberman show today to discuss it.
Hey, O’Reilly? Punks jump up, to get beat down!
One:
Apparently concerned we'd need more proof of his idiotic misogyny, O'Reilly decided to declare that women need to stay home with the kids while the men go out and make all the money.
This is 2009, in case you'd forgotten.
Funny thing is--unquestionably because I am the result of a single parent upbringing--I happen to think a child does need two parents. An extended family of friends and relations doesn't hurt either.
I get a little crotchety whenever I see the "You don't need a partner to raise responsible, emotionally healthy children" meme which sometimes goes on out there. I think you do.
But, I don't think that in such a pairing, the woman must be the one to stay home. I don't even think it must be a man and a woman, it could be a woman and a woman, or a man and a man.
Two:
That blogger he ambushed went on the Keith Olberman show today to discuss it.
Hey, O’Reilly? Punks jump up, to get beat down!
No argument here.
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