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GPOYW - for Heather Landis’ i.am.nerd series. Every photo...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:12:00 -0800

GPOYW - for Heather Landis’ i.am.nerd series. Every photo is fantastic.

Today’s drive to LA.

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:00:53 -0800

Today’s drive to LA.

chrisfarah: thedailywhat: Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:46:31 -0800

chrisfarah: thedailywhat:

Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: Classically-trained thespian and Royal Shakespeare Company alum Brian Cox guides 2-year-old Theo through the first sentence of Hamlet’s “to be, or not to be” soliloquy.

[via.]

I will take one of each, thank you!

I love Brian Cox.

Ladies, you know what I’m talking about.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:02:56 -0800

Ladies, you know what I’m talking about.

Some art.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:51:41 -0800

Some art.

Mom Bought a Winestopper

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:58:00 -0800

Mom: I bought this new wine stopper.
Me: Neat.
Mom: You leave it in and you can pour from it.
Me: Neat. Of course, it shares a name with a vibrator.
Mom: What?
Me: "The Rabbit." It's a vibrator too.
Mom: Oh.
Me: It kinda looks like it too.
Mom: Well, hey, double duty.
Me: Yeah.
Mom: Of course, I wouldn't want to drink wine out of it afterward.
Me: No.
Mom: ...
Me: ...
Mom: ...
Me: This gets grosser the more I think about it.
Mom: I know. You're the one who brought it up!
Me: I know! Why did I do that?!

David Niven. Genuine class. . . . Wait. That’s Alec...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:26:00 -0800

David Niven. Genuine class.

Wait. That’s Alec Guiness.

Jeremy’s iron?

NutriGrain - Feel Great This remains my favorite commercial of...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:34:22 -0800

NutriGrain - Feel Great

This remains my favorite commercial of all time.

BABIES EVERYWHERE!

Everyone Woke Up Angry

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:13:00 -0800

So I wake up this morning, check my e-mail, and then log onto Twitter. And what do I see, but multiple posts of people being more than a little angry at Obama. Angry about the death of the Public Option and angry about the escalation in Afghanistan.

Hey, guys?

Our system of government is more complicated than this. Obama did what he could for the Public Option. The mere fact that it’s only been one year since he took office, yet we’re already seeing this legislation in both houses? This should be impressive. This is in itself a win. The only thing Obama could do is to leave this to the Senate, which yes, is dropping the ball to an almost magnificent degree. They all said again and again that they wouldn’t vote for the bill without a public option. Clearly, they were bluffing and are reducing their credibility. I am not happy about this. Indeed, I am directly affected by this. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that Obama is our President, not our magically benevolent and liberal dictator. The man has to work in tandem with two branches of government. Frankly, we are safer this way. Yes, it would be nice if he could swoop in and get this shit through, but Christ, that is not how America works. Did everyone wake up and forget how American government works?

Let me ask you this: did you do everything you could to get this bill passed? Did you donate? Did you call? Did you write? Did you go to demonstrations (if there even were demonstrations)? Probably not. I didn’t. I could have done more. We all could have done more. The fact is, we have to vote for Obama every day. We have to do this by being the most active and participatory American citizen we can possibly be. That’s how the guy got elected and that is the only way he’s going to be able to get the policy changes he promised us. Our system is slow. It is slow and it is fraught with red tape and with personality conflicts and bullshit amendments and sex scandals and political capital and clout and you-scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours. It is this way because we let it be this way. Because our lives are tiring and stressful and equally full of bullshit - and all of these things take our minds off of what’s going on upstairs. It’s natural. We’re not bad people because of this, but the mere act of being alive is really very exhausting. So we don’t want to have to think about this even larger life-and-death crap.

We want to be able to vote for the right representative, senator, President, etc. who we think we can leave in charge to do what we want them to do. And then we can go back and worry about all the other shit. Well, there are other entities who get more involved than we do. They’re pushing these people to do the job their way. And beyond that even, a lot of Senators are voting just so they can make it look like Obama is failing. And there you are, the person who voted for Obama, sitting back thinking your job is done. And you’re angry. The Republicans are trying to make it look like he’s failing and you are helping them. Instead of recognizing that it’s failing because there are many, many personalities involved, you’re blaming it on the one personality who no longer has a say.

I’m sorry, but that’s wrong. It is wrong to take that attitude and further the idea that Obama has somehow turned out to be a different person. He hasn’t failed us. You’re failing him. To see Obama as the end-all, be-all of our government is to fail him. Fox News paints him as a dictator and we cry out about how evil and stupid they are, but then we turn around and blame him for the economy, or the war, or the hobbled health care reform and that is the same. They’re claiming he controls everything and you’re claiming he controls everything. The Founding Fathers structured our government so that no one person could control anything. Everything sucks right now for our own protection. So that we couldn’t be fooled by a charismatic personality. In all of human history, has it ever behooved people to have one of those all-powerful, charismatic personalities running things? If we had someone as effective as you’re demanding that Obama be, that would be mind-bogglingly dangerous. We don’t give people that kind of power on purpose. The idea of a god-like Obama is attractive, but let’s keep in mind that gods are also mercurial and vengeful. We are far better off with this well-intentioned human man who has to play nice with others than we would ever be with the kind of legendary hero-god who would be able to do all the things a lot of leftists seem to think Obama should have the power to accomplish.

Let’s also keep in mind the fact that Afghanistan is not Vietnam. I don’t know about you, but I understand next to nothing about what we’re trying to accomplish there and how we’re trying to accomplish it. This isn’t Communism we’re fighting, it’s terrorism. We’re trying to hobble one of the most insidious and faceless enemies the world has ever dealt with. Gone are the days of treaties and conventions and rules. We no longer know who we’re fighting and we don’t even fully understand why they’re fighting us or what they stand to gain. This is not a territorial dispute. This is not two world leaders playing real-life Risk. This is anarchy and religious fanaticism. I defy to anyone to say with absolute authority what the correct plan of action is. It may very well be to raise the number of troops. It may very well be to pull out right now. I have no fucking idea. Do you? And if you don’t have any real idea, based on facts and insider knowledge, then how about refraining from snatching that Nobel Peace Prize out of Obama’s hands just for the moment? How about giving it some time and acknowledging that we don’t have a better answer and that shit is complex.

It’s not that the state of things isn’t disappointing right now. I would like to think we don’t have to endanger another 30,000 lives. I would like to think that we could keep the Public Option in play. But what I don’t like is to make snap judgements about a man I respect who is probably taking 10 years off his life just to try to make all of ours better. And at the end of the day, I still think that’s what Obama is doing.

Hope, change, si se puede.

"Humility in this business isn’t just a matter of being polite, it’s kind of a matter of survival...."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:19:35 -0800

“Humility in this business isn’t just a matter of being polite, it’s kind of a matter of survival. You can’t ever afford to think that you’re the bee’s knees, because you could always afford to be better.”

- Michael Shannon, The A.V. Club’s Random Roles

GPOYW - at karaoke after a Casting Couch show at SF Sketchfest...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:31:55 -0800

GPOYW - at karaoke after a Casting Couch show at SF Sketchfest last year

“Buy! Sell! Buy! Sell!” were probably the next words out of my mouth.

And then I no doubt rocked some Lionel Richie.

cocktailscast: Ep. 5.5 - The Leftovers From Episode Five Diana...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:22:35 -0800

cocktailscast:

Ep. 5.5 - The Leftovers From Episode Five

Diana and Katai consistently complain about the drink that they can’t remember the name of, discuss the finer points of raping a dude, speculate about the possible existence of Glenn Beck’s dignity, and deliver their Halloween episode over a month late.

Again, I apologize for bombarding you good people with this, on every internet front imaginable.

For God's Sake, Get Your Shots Already, Will You?

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:44:36 -0800

For God's Sake, Get Your Shots Already, Will You?:

Dear Person Running the Newsweek Tumblr:

Keep up the good work.

Signed,

Lindsay Katai

(via newsweek)

newsweek: McCain vs. Obama on Afghanistan “Yes, hello. I...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:41:42 -0800

newsweek:

McCain vs. Obama on Afghanistan

“Yes, hello. I would like to order one giant Lincoln portrait to hang above my mantle. Thank you. Oh, you know what? I would also like to order a mantle. Thank you. Oh, I forgot. I would like to order a house in which to keep this mantle. And while you’re at it, I would like to order one adult life with which to support this house, with its mantle, and its Lincoln portrait. Thank you. Oh, and a bag of Kettle Chips. Honey Dijon if you have them.”

- order I just placed with the Store of Everything, which should exist

Desi Arnaz & Amanda Lane - Cuban Pete “When I start to...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:04:15 -0800

Desi Arnaz & Amanda Lane - Cuban Pete

“When I start to dance, everything goes chick chicky boom chick chicky boom.”

I hear this chorus, and all I can think of is Bugs Bunny dressed up as Carmen Miranda.

Wikipedia's Featured Article of the Day: George Hatfeild Dingley Gossip

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:39:07 -0800

Wikipedia's Featured Article of the Day: George Hatfeild Dingley Gossip:

This article will jump in your face and declare its superiority to other Featured Articles. I’m talking “Chess Master.” I’m talking “King of the Wooden Spoonists.” I’m talking the “Jew of Chamant.” I’m talking the word “grandpatzer.”

George H. D. Gossip, I will write a twee musical about you and it will make me upwards of $12 dollars. I mean, Christ! Your name alone.

Finally, a dictionary for people too stupid to suss out...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:04:00 -0800

Finally, a dictionary for people too stupid to suss out dictionaries.

Jesus, Google. Just tell me what the word means, like every other dictionary. Knock off the patronizing picture painting.

“Like, okay. You know when you get in a car? And you’re not the passenger? [pause] Sorry, ‘passenger’ was probably too confusing a word for you. Okay, you know when you’re the one who just sits there? That’s a ‘passenger.’ Okay, when you’re driving— [pause] No, you’re not the chair. The chair is not considered a passenger. [pause] Yes, technically the chair just sits there, but people aren’t chairs, you know? [pause] You don’t? Okay, go look up ‘chair.’ [pause] Yes, yes. That’s the one. The one that reads, ‘A chair has a back and four legs.’ [pause] No. I mean, kind of. But no. People don’t have a back and four legs. Two of those legs are called ‘arms.’ [pause] Okay, you know what? Go look up ‘arms’ and— No, not ‘weapons, especially as used by the army, navy or air force.’ I’m sorry, I should have been more specific. Go look up ‘arm.’ Singular. [pause] I’m sorry, you’re right. It was dense of me to assume you would know what ‘singular’ means when you have to look up what an ‘arm’ is. [pause] I’m sorry, I should have said ‘stupid,’ not ‘dense.’ [pause] The irony of your knowing what the word ‘stupid’ means, but not ‘arm’ is not lost on me. [pause] No. Don’t even fucking bother looking up ‘irony,’ okay? We’d be here for days.”

Google Dictionary, I hope that one day you run into the Oxford English Dictionary in a dark alley. You will know it by its tweed suit, monocle, and brass knuckles. It will know you by the stains on your T-shirt, vacant look, and the Del Taco cup in your hand.

The definition for “sweet” is about a thousand times worse.

(h/t lowindustrial)

Nancy Wilson - Now I’m a Woman Daaaaaaaaamn, gurrrrrrrrrl.

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:43:48 -0800

Nancy Wilson - Now I’m a Woman

Daaaaaaaaamn, gurrrrrrrrrl.

Hey, Macy’s? You’re not fooling anyone. That may be...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:20:14 -0800

Hey, Macy’s? You’re not fooling anyone. That may be Lucy’s head, but that is very obviously Little Orphan Annie’s decapitated body holding it up.

Where in God’s name is Annie’s head, Macy’s? Where is her head?!

I have been lost in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade videos...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:04:00 -0800

I have been lost in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade videos for the last 40 minutes, thanks to this AV Club blog.

The parade has never been a part of my Thanksgiving tradition. That would require waking up at some kind of reasonable hour, and my family is firmly against such a thing. So I am torn by many conflicting emotions watching these. I am embarrassed. I am delighted. I am laughing like hell. I am sad. I am proud. I am in awe. Is the Macy’s Parade the most amazing feat of ironic humor in the history of mankind? Or is it just soooooooo embarrassing, like watching your parents put on an impromptu talent show when your best friend is over? Is it the worst of us? Is it the best of us? Is it all the flair of a bedazzled sweater, worn by someone who “gets” it? Or is it all the flair of a bedazzled sweater, worn by someone who absolutely does not get it?

After watching nearly an hour of these, I think this one finally answered my question. With this commitment to an internet joke that probably 2/3 of its audience could never hope to understand, I am going to join the Macy’s Thanksgiving’s Day Parade Gets It camp.