How flying is like the First Amendment
Ze Frank explains that like with free speech, while you have the right to recline your seat, if you exercise that right to its limits, many around you will think you’re an asshole. That, and many other spot-on observations, in today’s _the show_:
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
In a world…
I’m just blogging “this”:http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2677837 so it’ll be easier to find the next time I want to have a good laugh… (If you haven’t seen it before, it’s five of Hollywood’s most popular voiceover guys, doing a trailer for a film about themselves. Hilarious.)
Snakes on a Plane: Review
Just got back from seeing “Snakes on a Plane”:http://www.snakesonaplane.com/ with “Mike”:http://www.marusin.com/ and “Kris”:http://www.croncast.com/. It was every bit as bad and brilliant as we’d hoped.
It’s unclear to me how this movie could have been watchable as a PG-13 film; the fall-off-your-chair funny scenes were the most graphic (some nudity, lots of gore). The film never takes [...]
Snakes. On a plane. 9 hours to go.
Hard to believe, but the day we’ve all been waiting for is upon us. It was exactly “one year ago today”:http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/snakes-on-motherfucking-plane.html that screenwriter Josh Friedman graced us with what will no doubt go down in history as the day that changed cinema. On that day, the brilliance of a movie title so simple, so powerful, [...]
Strangest kids book ever
Reading “Babar and the Succotash Bird”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007DB95A/tins-20 to my kids tonight, I ran across the following paragraph. You may not agree, but it strikes me as among the oddest ever committed to the English language:
“Remember, Alexander, don’t jump to conclusions. There’s more than one bird who can call ‘Succotash!’ That’s how life is - right mixed [...]
Signs You’re at a Different Stage of Life
I spent the better part of an hour inflating a swimming pool so that the boys could cool off today (in 90 degree heat, inflating that pool was a ton o’ fun), and separately got to employ the time-tested smell check to see if Becca’s diaper was full. Ernie, on the other hand, is busy [...]
What I learned in NYC
While in New York for Syndicate, Jason remarked that he “learned he couldn’t drive in New York”:http://www.shellen.com/2006/05/what-ive-learned-from-walking-up.asp (”God invented horns for a reason people, he intended for you to use them.”), I learned that armed with a chocolate pudding, Jason does a mean Bill Cosby impression.
Wal-Mart gift cards
Heather Armstrong: “Can you buy bullets with your $25 gift certificate at Wal-Mart? And if you can do you have any idea how awesome it is to be American?”
For Extra Credit…
… What product came with the “instruction manual”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/04/04/instruction_manual.php I wrote about last night?
Narnia Rap Battle
Inevitable, I suppose. There’s now a west coast “answer”:http://www.narniarapbattle.com/ to the Samberg/Parnell “Chronicles of Narnia”:http://www.youtube.com/w/SNL—The-Chronic-of-Narnia-Rap?v=zLElfJ9YCh0 rap from a couple weeks ago.
Quite funny, actually.
