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That basketball…was like a basketball to me (via...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:06:46 -0700

That basketball…was like a basketball to me (via @lizstrauss & @Marti_L)

Damn. Adam West, he had the moves, baby. (via my sister)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:17:37 -0700

Damn. Adam West, he had the moves, baby. (via my sister)

"“Without a doubt, the business model of network television is suffering from competition with other..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:52:14 -0700

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“Without a doubt, the business model of network television is suffering from competition with other channels who operate with fewer content restrictions,” says Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture and television at Syracuse University. “This country’s obsession with not uttering naughty words and not talking about s-e-x is borderline psychotic. Strike that, it is psychotic.”

While the major networks struggle to create compelling content that meets the FCC’s rigid decency standards, HBO, Showtime and AMC have pumped out profitable hits such as The Sopranos, Sex & The City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Weeds and Mad Men — shows that could not exist on broadcast television. And not only is the public accepting of the adult content, many people pay to watch it.

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- Could a Little Indecency Save Network TV?

Though it’s worth noting that it’s also scared advertisers concerned with content, not just the FCC.

(via rickyv)

When you go to other countries, sometimes there are SWEARS and NAKED PEOPLE on broadcast television!!! The downside is that your head bursts into flames and you get cancer.

(via dalasverdugo)

"Plan in Projects, work in Contexts, and strive to not let anything stick to you more than you’d like..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:51:06 -0700

“Plan in Projects, work in Contexts, and strive to not let anything stick to you more than you’d like it to.”

- (Merlin on the Great Gmail Outage of ‘08)

So I was asked to do a reading. A sex-ay reading. My friend,...

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:43:05 -0700

So I was asked to do a reading.

A sex-ay reading.

My friend, fellow blogger and fine human being, Carly Milne, is curator/emcee of the West Coast version of NYC-based In the Flesh: people getting together to listen to other people do readings that are in some way, shape or form of an adult nature.

Now, I am a big ham from waaaay back, so I can’t say “no” to stage time, much less stage time offered me by so nice a gal as Carly. Plus Nina Hartley was on the bill. Nina Hartley, she of adult film fame, and more importantly to me, of Boogie Nights, one of my fave films ever (and the first film I ever bought on DVD!)

I had to do it; I didn’t know what to do. So I did the logical thing: I went into my blog stats for communicatrix-dot-com, found all the sex-related search strings that had brought people to my blog, and wrote a song using them.

That’s it, above. There’s a lot of me talking, so if you wanna get down to business and skip the patter, just start at about 3:20 in.

What this reminded me? That I have performance in my blood. Just do. Just love it.

Always will.

Genius designer and expert curse-word user Aaron Draplin on why...

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:13:23 -0700

Genius designer and expert curse-word user Aaron Draplin on why America is fucked (design-wise, although yeah, it points to a much larger issue.) Click the screenshot to watch this teaser from Jess Gibson’s docu.

There probably aren’t enough Draplins to counteract the fuckedness of the fuckers who are fucking up this country, so the rest of us fuckers just have to link to him more. (via excellent designer Spencer Cross on the kernspiracy list)

"If I were a right-wing blogger, and I found out that Barack Obama was wearing Ferragamo loafers that..."

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:35:59 -0700

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If I were a right-wing blogger, and I found out that Barack Obama was wearing Ferragamo loafers that cost $520, I would spend about 50% of my waking hours making sure everyone knew this. I would mock him for being an out-of-touch elitist and make jokes like, “If you think that’s a lot, you should see how much his purse costs ” I would send the link to Drudge and wait for Instapundit to pick it up, and then watch gleefully as Fox News ran segments about how Barack Obama’s $500 loafers vitiate his entire economic platform.
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But of course, I’m not a right-wing blogger. And the $520 shoes belong to John McCain. And frankly, I don’t think how much his shoes cost matters one whit for how he’d govern the country.

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- Let’s Play: If I Were a Right Wing Blogger - Yahoo! News (via glass)

This magnificent sample is a microcosm of the wonderfulness to...

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:48:38 -0700

This magnificent sample is a microcosm of the wonderfulness to be found at I’m Learning to Share. On the surface, it’s just good, kitschy fun. But when you start to dig in, there are rich veins of anthropological information, among other weirdnessness.

Take, for example, the little white labels on all the books. Did the stylist check 400 books out of the library to do this shoot? There is no hardware in evidence on the young lady’s hand, yet the title of the album would have us believe this is music for the quotidian day. Is she at the swingin’ bachelor library pad on a Wednesday, dressed up like that? Or is it her house? Who’s giving whom the drink, here? (Click here for the large version.)

Every post on this blog is filled with such riches. And the author is wildly knowledgeable about a diverse group of cultural fringedwellers and superstars alike. (via baikinange, who is no slouch herself)

An-ton-i-o Ban-der-asY cinnamon twistsIts The...

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:08:36 -0700

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Its The One-Semester-of-Spanish Spanish Love Song (via ijohnpederson)

Sometimes I just like to pull up a ringside seat to the end of...

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:08:00 -0700

Sometimes I just like to pull up a ringside seat to the end of the world and watch the flames curl gently upwards into the blackening sky. No pun intended. (via dearjanesample)

(via merlin)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:39:22 -0700

(via merlin)

glass: catbird: 10 years ago, we only had 2 kinds of T-shirts...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:57:34 -0700

glass:

catbird:

10 years ago, we only had 2 kinds of T-shirts to choose from; today we have 3!

Can’t we all just get along? Right on, right on…...

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:26:26 -0700

Can’t we all just get along? Right on, right on… Hippomothamus - 99 Problems / Wonderwall (Jay-Z/Oasis remix) (via Hippomothamus)

“I’d like to kill it.” Best edit point ever....

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:14:49 -0700

“I’d like to kill it.” Best edit point ever. (Dog Barks Nonstop for 6 Years | The Onion) (via my sister)

Nellie McKay sings "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You" | Video on TED.com

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:55:38 -0700

Nellie McKay sings "Mother of Pearl" and "If I Had You" | Video on TED.com: Feminists don’t have a sense of humor. Sing it, sister. (via Twisty & her interior decorator, who most certainly has a sense of humor)

cubicle17: justwatchthesky is a new tumblelog from The Big...

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:56:40 -0700

cubicle17:

justwatchthesky is a new tumblelog from The Big Noob’s Ryan Sims that simply, and to great effect, highlights a single lyric from a song:

The scope is narrow: An exercise in documenting words in the music I listen to with color and type. The constraints are simple: (1) Only use Georgia (serif) or Helvetica (sans) and (2) try to post as often as possible.

If you can force yourself to stop ogling the typography, you might even notice that you can play the songs from which each lyric is taken. (via simplebits)

This is why I frackin’ LOVE the internets. Heather Morgan...

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:55:21 -0700

This is why I frackin’ LOVE the internets.

Heather Morgan is one of those pivotal people in my life, who really helped move me along in my journey. She was my first teacher at Groundlings and it was under her tutelage that I started to get the basics of storytelling and using characters to serve a story. A few (well-spent) minutes watching the above will demonstrate the why of that.

I ran into another pivotal player, Ken Roht, in the past week. Frankly, if it weren’t for Ken, I wouldn’t have had an acting career or a design career, much less know hundreds of the people I now call friends.

Many of the people who’ve helped along the way aren’t the household names that some of our contemporaries are. Don’t mean to cast aspersions on the famous contemporaries; it’s just that they’re probably getting more public shouts-out than those of us who, for whatever reason, haven’t gotten the kind of exposure those in the eye of the MSM have.

It’s all good. And we’re all doing our parts, right?

I’m a nerd blogger. My part, right now, is showing gratitude out loud in my own, nerdy way.

Go, Heather, go.

Heather Morgan’s First Ladies Dogs (via MeFi & Grow-a-Brain & chris glass)

I confess that I was not a huge fan of the Conchords when the BF...

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:36:26 -0700

I confess that I was not a huge fan of the Conchords when the BF tried to turn me onto their show. But in small doses—like this silly but excellent song—they are silly but excellent. (via ship’s biscuit & Seth Godin.)

merlin: Maybe if Michael DeBakey had helped our President lie...

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:30:58 -0700

merlin:

Maybe if Michael DeBakey had helped our President lie instead of saving thousands of lives with his 75-year career of fucking tireless brilliance, hard work, and ingenuity, CNN might have seen clear to give him the top spot today.

Sorry, Mike, but no dice. But you’re definitely a strong second.

Y’know, Doc, maybe, instead of dicking around helping to reinvent our modern understanding of heart disease, cancer, and smoking risk, you should have learned to play “blues flute.” Also, what was with all that education, health policy junk, and surgical procedure shit? Seriously. Get a room, dude.

Anyhow. Tony Snow was on TV a lot and had a million-dollar smile. So. You know. Whatever.

Sorry, I’m not usually the corpse-desecrating type. But my monthly capacity for overstated conservative obits maxed out on Jesse Helms.

So we’re clear, there is much that I love about my Oprah....

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:29:10 -0700

So we’re clear, there is much that I love about my Oprah. But this favorite things show? Yeah, it kinda makes loving her a little more challenging.

yourmonkeycalled:

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Oprah announced she was doing one of her “Favorite Things” episodes, in which all the members of the audience receive cars, grills, trips, etc. The audience went APESHIT. They’ve gone apeshit before, but this was Kabuki-level, pure art APESHIT THEATER. So I had to take some pictures of my TV.

See a few more images here. I highly recommend viewing these in the largest size, on the largest monitor you can find. Once you stop crying, please let me know how we can fix our country.