January 2010
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Wasted Words podcast No. 57 - “They Fight...
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“When that chute opens you feel like you’ve done something kings and queens can’t...”
– Gary Busey, on skydiving. Alright, similes. You’ve had a good run. Time to hang it up. Can’t be topped.
(via kevin & mocktopus)
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The Last Tonight Show Blog Post
aaronbleyaert:
Hey guys! So, as many of you have already noticed, NBC took down my last Tonight Show Blog Post. It bums me out, of course… But the end of the day, it’s their site, so they can do what they want. The very last post was more of an epilogue than anything else, anyway. If you didn’t get a chance to read it, here it is!
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Conan’s Surprising New Deal with NBC
NBC has just greenlit the first show in a series produced by Conan’s NBC-based production company. The pilot is for a show called “Justice,” and it tells the story of a (presumably fictional) Supreme Court justice who quits his lifetime appointment to open his own law practice. Part of Conan’s deal with NBC allowed his production...
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Happy 173rd Birthday Michigan! →
fuckyeahmichigan:
Michigan became the 26th state on January 26, 1837.
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Anti-facism? No. Anti-lizard aliens? Why not?
Inspired by [Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here], director–producer Kenneth Johnson wrote an adaptation titled Storm Warnings, in 1982. The script was presented to NBC, for production as a television mini-series, but the NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too “cerebral” for the average American viewer. To make the script more marketable, the...
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Watch“(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right To Party” - The Hotrats. Audio embed from lala.com.
The Hotrats=Dudes from Supergrass doing awesome covers. This one is the Beastie Boys song done a bit like a 1967-era Who song. The whole album- just so nice.
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“If I were made dictator of the planet, one of the first things I’d do is to make...”
– PhiladelphiaWillDo:
Speaking of insightful comments, Craig Calcaterra is dead on. When I’m supreme ruler of the Internet, anyone writing “FAIL” or “Just sayin’” will have their Internet access immediately disconnected. And I hate open letters even more than those two sayings.
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Watch
Five years ago, when NBC said to Jay, “Conan’s gonna take over your job in 5 years,” that’s when you say, “Okay, fine, no hard feelings.” You call ABC, you call FOX, you try to get my job, you leave. You don’t [Jay voice] “Ehh, yeah, okay, I’ll be in the lobby, if you need me!”
Don’t hang around! You go across the street and...
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Wasted Words podcast No. 56 - “Torture Or...
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A Deluge of Donations via Text Messages [nytimes.com]
As of late Sunday, the organization had collected pledges of $103 million, about $22 million of which came through the text-messaging program. The National Football League’s promotion of text-message donations during its weekend playoff games produced stunning results, with money “coming in at the rate of $500,000 an hour,” said Roger Lowe, a...
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natepatrin:
“If you don’t think the world has gotten any better since the 1980s, consider this: there was a time, when the religious right seemed to have elected its first president and was viewed as a pack of kingmakers by a cowed and confused media that feared that these oddball fuckers might just have a better pulse on the American mainstream than they did, Pat Robertson got the kind of...
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MY SOLUTION TO THE LATE-NIGHT CONTRETEMPS
Okay- hear me out.
Aside from the talk show hosting, something Conan O’Brien has done very well is exec. producing odd, funny shows- Lookwell and Andy Barker, P.I. If you haven’t seen them- look and watch. They’re easy to find on the inter-net.
NOW- NBC will be needing programming for 10 pm.
Here is what can happen- O’Brien’s production company can throw a...
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In my freshman year of college, in the dorms, the dorm association would give out these free cheap-o dry erase boards. It was normal to slap it up on the door of your room, so people could leave messages. People would leave messages, write quotes, whatever.
Sophomore year, I moved into a different residence hall where I didn’t know anyone. Got the standard issue cheap-o dry erase board, put...
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