Archive for June, 2007
The problem with your HP all-in-one printer/fax is that it’s an HP all-in-one printer/fax.
Jun 29, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
Steve Delahoyde just uploaded his “Regrets” series featuring Schadenfreude to funnyordie.com. You should click it, view it, vote it, comment it, lick it, smoke it, push it and perhaps eat it. Thanks!
Jun 29, 2007 | Categories:Video | Leave A Comment »
If you are a big Arts on the radio fan, then tune in for Chicago Public Radio’s Sunday morning arts program Hello Beautiful. It’s usually hosted by Edward Lifson, but he quit to go be a Harvard fellow. So guess who they asked to cover this week? I will host the show this Sunday. Check it out as I have a great conversation with Bob Berger, owner of the Flat-Iron building about the new plans to put a Bank of America in the place of Filter (Wicker Park). And they even let me horse around a bit with the film critic and with the intros. I think it’s up now on the site, airs on Sunday!
Jun 29, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
So about 6 months ago, we decided to get rid of the home phone. Who has a home phone anymore besides parents and mayors? We called Sprint to cancel, then SBC, then Sprint again . . . and again . . . and again . . .
This was last February. 6 months of trying to cancel a simple phone line. Last month, I even had a confirmation number of the conversation to reference THIS month, knowing full well I’d be attempting the same thing once again…
Jun 29, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | 1 Comment »
Check out my sister Heather’s interview on PRI’s The World, broadcast earlier this week.
Her book Macedonia, written alongside Harvey Pekar, just hit the stands.
The piece is about 8 minutes long and very interesting. Way to go Heather!
Jun 29, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | 1 Comment »
The first ever first round pick from the WNBA…
Jun 29, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | 3 Comments »
Or do you just let it ask you for 8 years? I think we all acquire the newest version of Acrobat the same way, it comes on your next computer. For anyone who’s upgraded their Acrobat…what’s it like? Is it fucking awesome? Does it display the shit out of documents? Are you glad you chose to upgrade? I don’t think I’ll ever know the joy.
Jun 28, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
So last weekend, I gave the show Enterprise a go on DVD. It’s okay. Kinda cool to see a series serving as a prequel to every single Star Trek ever, but it’s missing that Je Ne Sais Battlestar element. (For the uniniated, the Space Shuttle program had a test ship called “Enterprise” named after . . . yup.)
Lots of explanations of how the phasers work and lines like “Looks like you watched too many science fiction movies.” Cue huge clapping and laughter and guffawing from the peanut gallery.
Great having Scott Bakula as the captain. Stephe’s boy James Cromwell is the guy who invented Warp Drive. Plus a few NASA references for the space program geeks and the Vulcan chick is unbelievably hot.
Special effects are pretty bad . . . Battlestar kicks other shows asses because it’s shot so well, the effects are fantastic, the cast is perfect and the episodes play like movies and it’s aired on the 24 off season. Enterprise didn’t really take off, it was just okay.
Plus why does every single lunchroom scene owe a dollar to James Cameron for Aliens? I swear if I see another show or movie with humans eating with aliens or robots joking about how funny it is that they’re so different . . . most of the time, I was wishing I was watching Quantum Leap.
Jun 28, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
Here’s a gift from me to you. The word “awesome.” I started using it more and more over the last few years. People limit their use of the word “awesome.” Awesome doesn’t indicate good or bad. It just means “…wow.”, and there’s a built-in appreciation for even bad things or terrible things that I find useful, they too can be awesome. I’ve found it a more and more apt word to apply to stranger and stranger things I’ve encountered as my journey continues. For example, last night at 4am on the Venice Bus from Culver City to Downtown L.A., I asked the bus driver if there were any 24hr. buses along the route that went up into Hollywood, and the complete stranger shoots back.
You can take the Vermont Bus, the 204 runs all night to run the Mexicans and the Blacks back and forth. What are they going to do but ride the bus all night?
Venice Bus. 4am. L.A. Complete stranger. That response.
Awesome.
Jun 28, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
“Oh, I was saying that we need to get together with our community leaders and start a dialogue to really address these issues.”
Jun 28, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
Jun 28, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
The Will Ferrell clip below reminded me of this clip I found while trolling for a good Brian Fantana clip to continue my obsession with Paul “Super Nintendo” Rudd and found this clip which kills me. Could it be that Anchorman is so funny that most of it’s outtakes are funnier than the taketakes in most comedies?
Jun 27, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
Jun 27, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
I just wish once instead of asking you if you’d like to make it a combo or to supersize it, I wish they’d ask “Would you like to pay more?”
That’ll be $8.73, would you be interested in paying more?
Why yes I would, and thank YOU for asking.
Jun 27, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
Jun 27, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | 2 Comments »
The music was infectious. Even the little kids were dancing. So I thought why not let the rhythm move me like I was a young PSwzye. I didn’t realize (til too late) that I was dancing too close to you and that outsiders (Julie) may have got the impression that I was freakin’ you. I wasn’t, even though it probably kind of looked like it. Next time Akon comes on, I promise not to dance in line at the bakery. We cool?
Jun 27, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
but I failed. This is hysterical. Funny or Die at it again..
Jun 27, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
My sister wears too much. People think she’s a whore.
Jun 26, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
So my sister Heather’s book is out today!
For the past few years, Heather has been collaborating with Harvey Pekar (
American Splendor fame) on a book about Macedonia.
It’s out, it’s gonna be a hit, and we’re all super excited so
check it out!
Jun 26, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
Jun 26, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
Jun 25, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
I’m trying to get a new bit started. If we all work together we can annoy everyone twice as fast. I’m watching the Special Edition of Fantastic Four, which has twenty more minutes of a terrible movie I can’t get enough of and Reed Richards just said something about “reversing the polarity.” Is is just me or have most of the problems in the history of science-fiction been solved by reversing the polarity. Just once I would like to see a bunch of scientists standing around a magnet whose negative sides are sticking to each other and have one of the scientists suggest reversing the polarity. That would make sense.
So for the rest of the week or as long as you can take your co-workers ire at the bit, suggest this as the solution to any number of office problems you’re trying to solve. Server not up? Suggest reversing the polarity. New footage not digitized, “Have you reversed the polarity?”. Can’t get a client on the phone?…
Jun 25, 2007 | Categories:100% Filler | Leave A Comment »
No, I wasn’t at the gun show! That’s my new tattoo. Whaddya’ think?
ApplePhoneShow.com
Jun 25, 2007 | Categories:Special | 3 Comments »
