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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I think this video works because it plays with the slippage between the homosocial and the homosexual. Also, it’s almost painfully funny.
The video, “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck” is a response to the “I’m Fucking Matt Damon” video that Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon did. In the response video, Jimmy Kimmel says the video is […]
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Apparently, Gary Zerola, a Boston attorney who was considered a top candidate for “The Bachelor” and who made it into People’s list of most eligible men in 2003 has a problem. And, by “has a problem” I mean to say “is an alleged serial rapist.” Zerola’s attorney claims he’s “simply a man who meets women […]
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
I had no idea that John Waters was on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.” He’s such a thoroughly magical person.
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
So, TV Links got shut down, which is by now, old news. However, here’s an excellent blog post filled up with TV Links replacements.
As the friend who pointed me to the post said, “When are they going to learn? Shut one down, and 36 sprout up in its place.” File sharing seems to work like […]
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
This is one of my favorite bits of television in recent memory. However, it did have the unfortunate effect of teaching me some slang terms which will now be seared into my brain for all of eternity.
Aside from general hilarity as displayed above, one of my favorite things about Weeds is the use of […]
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
The above is 30 minutes of openings for cartoons from the ’80s spliced together into one overwhelming montage. If there’s one lesson that can be taken from this, it’s that synthesizers are awesome. While I had never seen a good number of these, I have fond memories of a number of them. My favorite […]
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
The Onion AV Club has a short piece titled “Awful Things Zach Braff Is (Probably) Responsible For,” which references the above video.
I’m not really a big fan of Scrubs, but I’m especially not a fan of these types of “No way, dude, we’re totally not gay” jokes. The problem being, of course, that this […]
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
I received in the mail yesterday a review copy of Reading Desperate Housewives: Beyond the White Picket Fence. The book is part of a series of books on reading contemporary television. While this sort of timely academic work is just the sort of thing I’m fully in support of (at least in principle), the cover […]
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
David Hasselhoff got his ass taken out of Wimbledom for parading around sloppy drunk and totally annoying. While that’s mildly amusing, what makes the story hilarious is that he was saying things like, “Do you know who I am? I’m the Hoff.”
I remember reading that Sammy Hagar’s answering machine says something to the effect of, […]
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
As a child, I loved “The Bob Newhart Show.” I’m not sure why, exactly, though the fact that he lived in a city and worked as a shrink and drank after work probably seemed deeply romantic at the time.
Anyhow, I just got pointed to this amazing send-up to Dr. Robert Hartley and his fabulous […]
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