Archive for November, 2010
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Nov
Posted by NPI in Comedy, Film, Joie de Vivre. Tagged: "but that's not important right now", "Don't call me Shirley", airplane!, blazing saddles, comedy legends, Dr. Rumack, Frank Drebin, in memoriam, leslie nielsen, Leslie Nielsen tribute, Leslie Nielsen's greatest lines, Leslie Nielsen's greatest moments, Police Squad, The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2 1/2, The Naked Gun 33 1/3. 2 Comments
One of the painful realizations of my adolescence was that I had my father’s sense of humor. A friend’s parent confirmed it for me when I was about 14, after I made an obvious play on words. I knew from that point on that, down the road, I would be unable to resist easy puns, [...]
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29
Nov
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again, Barack Obama, bill madden, david foster wallace, decormyeyes, diplomatic cables, esquire, james poniewozik, john paul stevens, Kanye West, leslie nielsen, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, netflix, new york mets, New York Times, news ticker, pretty little liars, relevance, Slate, ted berg, thanksgiving, Time, timeframes issue, tom scocca, TSA, wall street, Watch Instantly, wikileaks. Leave a Comment
What we read while you were thankful for your favorite blog… R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen. And R.I.P. diplomatic cables? If you were patted down by TSA agents this weekend, take comfort in this: They don’t like it any more than you do. John Paul Stevens on the death penalty. And he still looks great in a [...]
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26
Nov
Posted by Tim in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Sports. Tagged: 2010 college football season, bowl championship series, college football, conference-usa, crusade against the bcs, death to the bcs, elimination games!, every game counts, except that every game doesn't count, inside the bcs, math comes alive, mid-american conference, mwc, non-notre dame independents, sun belt, wac. 1 Comment
In my neverending quest to rail against the BCS, I am calculating week-by-week how many games this college football season really “count” (as in, influence the national title picture). After 12 weeks, 110 of the 120 FBS teams cannot make the BCS championship (a refresher on my criteria), including, finally, Virginia Tech. Now that we’re [...]
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24
Nov
Posted by Jake in This Day in Revisionist History. Tagged: "that guy JFK", assassination, Colt Cobra .38, Dallas, Frank Sheeran, Jack Ruby, James Tague, JFK assassination, Jimmy Hoffa, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, the Mafia, This Day in Revisionist History. 1 Comment
November 24: “Wait, you mean that wasn’t John F. Kennedy?” –Jack Ruby, upon learning that he had been beaten to the punch by the man he had just fatally shot. Jack Ruby had already been laying low for weeks when Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F. Kennedy in the head, and as a result had [...]
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22
Nov
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: airport security, akron, america, benjamin hochman, body-scanners, Brian Windhorst, cleveland plain-dealer, condoms, denver post, Dick Cavett, James Frey, kenny mckinley, lebron james, michael kruse, NBC, new york times magazine, NY Times, ok, Parks & Recreation, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Shame on Sandy, Soccer, soccer sucks, Sports Illustrated, the 4d man, the awl, the guardian, The New Yorker, TSA, woody paige, yawns. 1 Comment
What we read while changing our opinions on the morality of condoms… Ron Paul condemned the new airport body-scanners, but TSA insists that they are here to stay. Well, at least we know America’s airports are safe! This also presents an interesting Fourth Amendment (the second best!) question. Speaking of law, the New York Times [...]
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21
Nov
Posted by John S in On the Long Side, Sunday Book Review, TV. Tagged: ABC, Bad Guy, Bill Carter, Comcast, Conan O'Brien, Conan's response to NBC, david letterman, Dick Ebersol, Dick Ebersol's a fucking idiot, do not go gentle into that good night, Fox, Irwin Segelstein, Jay Leno, Jeff Gaspin, Jeff Zucker, jerry seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Lorne Michaels, NBC, NBC Universal, People of Earth, Rick Ludwin, Saturday Night Live, smiling politely, the Conan debacle, The Daily Show, the Sonny Corleone philosophy, The War for Late Night. 4 Comments
Anyone who picks up Bill Carter’s new book about last January’s late night TV debacle—The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy—looking for a villain is destined to be disappointed. This is not for lack of effort. The book is impressively comprehensive about NBC’s decision to move Jay Leno from [...]
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20
Nov
Posted by Tim in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Sports. Tagged: 2010 college football season, bowl championship series, college football, conference-usa, crusade against the bcs, death to the bcs, elimination games!, every game counts, except that every game doesn't count, inside the bcs, mid-american conference, mwc, non-notre dame independents, sun belt, wac. 1 Comment
In my neverending quest to rail against the BCS, I am calculating week-by-week how many games this college football season really “count” (as in, influence the national title picture). After 11 weeks, 106 of the 120 FBS teams cannot make the BCS championship (a refresher on my criteria), including Bizarro Heisman Trophy candidate Ricky [...]
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19
Nov
Posted by Jake in The Drawing Board. Tagged: Donald Trump, The Drawing Board, negotiations, negotiating with terrorists, what you preconceive I reconceive, badass cop, DMV, licensing systems, Islamic extremism, Christian extremism. 1 Comment
The world is full of things we take for granted. I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but there are examples, trust me. One example is that it’s wrong to negotiate with terrorists. We’ve all heard it before, whether it’s some politician on television, or a badass cop on a hit [...]
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18
Nov
Posted by John S in Real World/Road Rules Challenge, TV. Tagged: "the wingspan of a hobbit", Abram and Cara Maria, Brad and Tori, Camila goes home, Cara Maria v. Laurel, Cutthroat, cutthroat rankings, Fresh Meat II, Gulag, Laurel is socially awkward but physically imposing, MTV, MTV Cutthroat, Power Rankings, proving yourself, Real World/Road Rules Challenge. 7 Comments
“Let’s be honest: Cara Maria’s cute and she’s way more fun than the other girls. Of course, that plays a role in my decision.” —Abram “They have the team that they wanted now, but I’m sorry—I don’t think that’s going to be good enough.” —Camila The theme of last night’s episode was “proving yourself.” [...]
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18
Nov
Posted by Tim in TV. Tagged: awful pizza, brenda, can't wait to see what brenda looks like cleaned up, canoodling, chase is a little thick am i right?, dan in the final three?, dan's blue socks, hard to believe holly's still around, holly, individual immunity, jane bless her soul, judfabio, like REALLY awful pizza, morning glory, naonka makes a move, operation: take out brenda, purple kelly as "survivor-retarded", purple kelly in the final three?, sash, survivor survival guide, Survivor: Nicaragua, the camp's on fire!, the merge, volcano surfing, wait? wood burns easily?. 4 Comments
“It does look like a king and queen situation. But Sash is more a queen and I’m more a king.” —Brenda, apparently channeling Shannon “What do I have to lose? Something has to change, and it has to change soon.” —Holly We finally got our shakeup episode of Survivor: Nicaragua, coming one week before I [...]
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