"Dude, I saw that coming a mile away..."
Karma at work.
Wanna-Be murderer jihadists planting an IED without sufficient training, as captured by a US AC-130.
Posted by: brando at April 22, 2008 08:52 PM (rDQC9)
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Well - as it turns out - these guys "were" friendlies - info courtesy http://www.gotwarporn.com
who found the original video -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=18f_1201000704
RIP
Posted by: Andrea at April 24, 2008 08:59 AM (AyCEP)
But now, everyone who didn't get to be in the video feels bad....
"From the minute Sarah's video with Matt played, revenge has been percolating in Jimmy's mind," says Jill Leiderman, the show's executive producer. "The Friday morning after it aired, Jimmy came in and said 'I need Ben Affleck."'
Affleck's consent lead to Harrison Ford's involvement -- he was a fan of Silverman and Damon's video, apparently -- which then lead to Brad Pitt's cameo as the delivery guy who presents Affleck and Kimmel with a cake celebrating their love.
Head music booker Scott Igoe said that once Pitt was on board, he reached out to the musicians who had appeared previously on the show and had proven themselves to be good sports. Within 24 hours, he had the Maddens, Gray and Wentz on board -- and had really ticked off Ashlee Simpson, who wanted to participate but was unable to because she was on tour, he says.
"Basically, we devised the list: 'Who has been on the show in the past that we really like?"' Igoe says.
The music for the song was written by Kimmel's bandleader Cleto Escobedo, with the lyrics devised by Kimmel, Kimmel's brother, John, and the show's writing staff. The video was filmed in two days at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and at nearby Henson Studios, site of the "We Are the World" session.
"Half the e-mails I've gotten the day after have been from publicists so disappointed that their clients weren't in it," Igoe says, mentioning Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Paul McCartney.
Whether the song will be released as an official download is up to ABC, Leiderman says, but she promises they'll make the appropriate inquiries to see if they can get a single put out.
Igoe, meanwhile, has his sight set on a bling-ier outcome. "Hey, if 'D--k in a Box' can win an Emmy, why can't we?" he asks.
And of course, all this was just an excuse to post this:
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I hadn't seen the Jimmy Kimmel videos... those were hilarious.
Posted by: Contagion at February 27, 2008 05:10 PM (f5Co1)
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I'll have to watch tonight. No speakers at work.
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at February 28, 2008 06:24 AM (+MvHD)
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I don't know what's better: Sarah/Matt and Jimmy/Ben, or DiaB!!!
Posted by: Amanda at February 28, 2008 10:46 AM (ay+rD)
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I heard Kimmel on Adam Carolla's radio show last week. They made mention of "the divorce"... Jimmy didn't want to talk about it. Heh..
I didn't know what they were talking about until Bou sent me those links!
Posted by: That 1 Guy at February 28, 2008 07:43 PM (F8ULw)
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Thanks for the great roundup. Gotta admit - I am most likely to wear SweetP or Rami, but as much as I can't stand Christian's persona, his collection was the best.
My name is Greta and I'm a PR addict!
Posted by: Greta at February 08, 2008 01:46 PM (Xl4tG)
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I vote for Christian's designs. I think he's given the strongest performance overall, too.
Thanks for the update - I've missed the last few episodes of the show.
Posted by: Janette at February 08, 2008 02:20 PM (jgNJs)
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Holy Crap! I think Jillian's was the most fun to look at. Who knew? But yes, Christian hit it out of the park and should be the winner.
Posted by: ZTZCheese at February 08, 2008 03:17 PM (7jM3p)
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Ooh, cool, thanks for posting these! I'd been wondering what they were going to do with Fashion Week. Neat that they all got to make a collection.
I think my choices in order are:
Sweet P
Chris
Rami
Jillian
Christian
Of course Christian will win, because his stuff is the funkiest and (imo) ugly -- and that seems to be the trend as far as true fashion goes. What I think is ugly gets the brass ring.
(No fashionista here.
) Though seriously, I'd love to see a designer with huge talent (cause the kid has talent) who isn't an a** actually win sometime.
Posted by: beh at February 09, 2008 08:11 AM (7XWn4)
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My youngest son has joined the Young Marines...and when the Silent Drill Team comes to our area, the Young Marines will be helping them out. You can bet I'll be a parent chaperon for THAT event. Oh, yeah!!!
Posted by: Mrs. Who at January 27, 2008 10:48 AM (6zbwL)
Ralphie Rocks!
TBS set records with this year's "A Christmas Story" Marathon:
The marathon scored its best-ever average delivery in total viewers (2.8 million) as well as in such key demos as adults 18-34 (775,000), adults 18-49 (1.6 million) and adults 25-54 (1.5 million), according to Nielsen Media Research.
For the marathon's entire 24-hour run, TBS ranked as the No. 1 ad-supported cable network in 18-34, 18-49, 25-54 and total viewers. (Ad-supported networks include most basic cable outlets with a few exceptions like Disney Channel.)
During the marathon, the most-watched airing of "Christmas" in total viewers was the first telecast (8 p.m. December 24), which averaged 4.4 million viewers. The 10 p.m. telecast that followed was the most-watched among 18-34 (1.2 million), 18-49 (2.2 million) and 25-54 (2.1 million).
The 10 p.m. showing also beat all broadcast programming on Christmas Eve (8 p.m.-midnight) in the 18-34 demo.
I watched part of at least 5 of the 12 showings. How about you?
It's Amazing!
CBS moved the start date of Amazing Race 12 up to November 4! And today they released the team information for the new season. I already KNOW I'll be rooting for Nicolas and Donald, and we'll have to wait for the season premiere to see who else we'll love and love to hate!
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there was an episode of Family Guy where Peter and Chris were talking about Robot chicken. If you don't watch FG, what made it especially funny is that Seth Green is the voice of Chris.
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at October 24, 2007 06:01 PM (0Pi1o)
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Indeed. I love when the Seth Green doll pops up on episodes of RC, too. Or when they do Dr. Evil....
Posted by: caltechgirl at October 24, 2007 09:01 PM (IfXtw)
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In Best Buy the other day, my wife noticed the first volume of Voltron (the real one, with the lion robots). Included as a bonus on one of the discs was the Robot Chicken sketch where Voltron loses a dance-off to one of the giant monsters while everyone chants "SERVED! SERVED! SERVED!" That's crossover appeal.
Posted by: nightfly at October 30, 2007 11:33 AM (PuuC1)
Friday Nonsense
So last night we saw this week's South Park. Every imaginary or animated character you can think of shows up, and more you didn't previously know. Hubby and I ran it over and over and over, literally squealing at each new character that came on the screen.
So for your viewing pleasure, here's Imaginationland parts I-III (the usual South Park language and content warnings apply)....
October 03, 2007
In which I do my Mike Teevee impression
As the new fall season of TeeVee unfolds, I find myself drawn back to network shows a bit more than in the past. Cable shows will always own (and then break) my heart (DAMN YOU SCI-FI CHANNEL!!!), but this year's network offerings look to be a better group than most.
Of these new shows two were IMMEDIATE hits in our house: K-Ville and Chuck. Each is already queued for a season pass on the TiVo. Finally there's something good to watch on Monday other than Football and DWS. Although I admit this week we watched ALL of the Padres/ Rockies play-in game, instead. Good thing we have a dual tuner Tivo and 2 tv's..... Hubby has also recently gotten into Shark, and has a season pass for that as well.
Cavemen was better than expected. It plays more as a buddy comedy with gimmicky jokes than a gimmick comedy with buddy jokes. We'll see how quickly the jokes get tired....
We're still on the fence about Cane. The first episode was good, but the previews make it look like every episode will be: Alex loves his family, but they don't all love him; Alex faces a challenge; Alex bulldozes his way through; Alex must face repercussions of previous bulldozer incidents. In which case, YAWN!
Tonight we get the new season of South Park, and the first episode of Pushing Daisies. I'm interested to see what the show will really look like. Visually, the previews are like a mixture of Pleasantville and Big Fish, so I am interested to see how much of that carries through the whole episode. If the show is good, so much the better.
Strangely enough, I'm very sad the summer TV season is over. As much as I love House and Betty and DWS, the summer shows were so much more interesting and so much more watchable than regular October to May network TV. Psych, Dresden, The Closer, Burn Notice, and Painkiller Jane were weekly appointments for us, and some of the best TV I've seen in years, even if the folks at SciFi got cancel happy on us (see note above re: Sci Fi). Oh well, if nothing else it's good they're all on in the summer: the TiVo would be SWAMPED otherwise, and it would take me MONTHS to catch up!
Survivor got its season pass yanked: predictable, stupid, filthy. When TAR comes back, then I'll watch reality TV on CBS. There's a REASON that TAR has won every "best reality show" Emmy since its inception.
Not surprisingly we've watched very few of the "returning" shows on the TiVo so far. I am, of course, keeping up with DWS, usually on the same evening it airs. And CSI we watched almost live. I was terribly disappointed that they seem to have gone back to the "less-plot-more-artistic-long-camera-shots" method and are now adding indie rock for crap ass montages. Look, we wanted to see them get Sara out from under the car. We wanted some kind of master plan from the arch criminal. We got neither, just a drunk pirate wandering in the desert with NO COMMON SENSE about how to be found. And she was carrying a mirror! Does she not know to flash with it? I mean, she COULD NOT have walked so far from the crash that she didn't hear that helicopter Greg was flying around in. You get up on high ground, and flash with the mirror, dumbass. You don't collapse 3 feet from the roadside because you wandered instead of conserving your energy and trying to stay cool during the day! Wander at night. Moron. CSI Vegas is getting to be as dumb as CSI Horatio.
Yes you read that right.
Ok, well, the cold medicine and returned-camera high are wearing off, so it's nappy nap time for me. See you later.
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What is TAR?
I thought Cavemen absolutely sucked and will not waste time watching it next week. Not sure what will happen on Tuesdays since we've been watching Dead Like Me followed by back-to-back episodes of Eureka. Eureka ended last night.
Let's see, I'm interested in Heroes and Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations on Mondays. Depending on when I get home from school determines whether I get to watch Heroes Monday or wait for the weekend.
Tuesday - not sure now
Wednesday - again, depends on when I get home from school. I really enjoyed the Bionic Woman premier last week, so I'll watch that again.
Thursday - the Office (it's a no tv night because we have the kid, so it's recorded)
Friday - I've been sucked into Meerkat Manor!
Saturday - bookstore night.
Sunday - Can you believe I don't know what we watch? Must be a DVR night.
I just don't have time to watch much tv right now because of school. Just trying to watch a few per week to keep the DVR from filling up.
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at October 03, 2007 01:32 PM (+MvHD)
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Heh. I thought that I was the only one who watche Psych. Besides my wife, of course.
Couldn't quite get into PKJ on SciFi this summer, but I'll probably catch up when repeats hit the air.
Posted by: physics geek at October 04, 2007 01:13 PM (MT22W)
My Movies
Both my darling blogchild and the crew at Dean's World have been hashing out a list of movies you can see over and over again.
I have a few of those myself. In our house they're called "Movies I can fall asleep to".
See I have this thing with movies. If they get really predictable, or really embarrassing for the main character, I skip it. Fast Forward, skip, turn off, you name it. I won't sit through it. Consequently, there are VERY FEW movies I can sit through more than once without skipping through, let alone enjoy over and over and over.
The funny thing is, those movies somehow migrate to the bedroom. I'm a slow-sleep insomniac, and (like everything else with me) contrary to the usual advice of removing distractions from the sleep zone (aka no TV in the bedroom), TV actually distracts my brain enough to let me fall asleep. Especially things I've seen before. So we have a rotating stash of movies that live in the DVD player in the bedroom and get pressed into service in conjunction with the 90 minute sleep setting on the TV just about every night.
So, without further ado, movies I can sleep to:
White Christmas Blazing Saddles Star Wars Empire Return of the Jedi Fellowship of the Ring (either disk 1 or 2; but not Twin Towers. I always want to skip the "Sam and Frodo" parts too much) Return of the King (Disk 2 works better... less Sam and Frodo) Kill Bill vol 1 Kill Bill vol 2 The Blues Brothers South Park Team America A Christmas Story Fiddler on the Roof Disney's Robin Hood
I'm certain there are more, but these are the ones currently in the DVD case in the bedroom.
John Hawkins at Right Wing News has a list of what he says are the top 10 South Park Episodes of all time.
He's wrong on all 10 counts.
Here's my top 10 SP eps of all time (in chronological order... #5 is my favorite):
1. Cartman Gets an Anal Probe: The original. Started the world of South Park on TV.
2. Chinpokomon: You have "vewwy lahge Amewican Penis" 'Nuff said.
3. Cartman Joins NAMBLA: I never knew such a thing existed before this.
4. Scot Tenorman Must Die: Revenge is sweet. Too sweet.
5. Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants: Matt and Trey's masterpiece. Summed up the feelings of an entire nation and introduced us to the now world famous "chicken lollipop". Also my favorite. EVAH.
6. All About the Mormons?: What a great refrain: dum dum dum dum dum.....
7. Trapped in the Closet: Tom Cruise is trapped in the closet! Plus a send up of the Clams. Perfect.
8. The Return of Chef: Isaac Hayes quit over Trapped in the Closet. In their usual manner, Matt and Trey let the world know what they felt about it....
9. Smug Alert!: Perfect satire of limousine liberals, their pretensions, their Priuses, and their love of the smell of their own asses.
10. Make Love, Not Warcraft: What can I say. We all know these people.
Honorable Mentions: The Return of the King to the Two Towers, Chickenlover, Cripple Fight, and Go God Go (I and II)
You may not agree with all of my picks, but seriously, any list that doesn't include Smug Alert!, Osama, Trapped in the Closet, and/or Scot Tenorman isn't a list to be taken seriously.
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I think honorable mention needs to go to the Spirit of Christmas for starting South Park, as it got Matt and Trey the opportunity to give Cartman an anal probe.
For me, the season 1 closer, about Cartman's dad/Philip and Terrance. Just from the big community watching when it first came out. About 50 people around one TV, and they get April Fooled big time. Waiting and waiting for the joke to end, and it never did!
Posted by: Bill De Witt at August 28, 2007 08:37 PM (WAMm7)
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I'll admit to not watching too many South Park episodes; I have small children in the house. However, the ones I've seen have made me laugh a lot. The Return of Chef was on the other night and my wife got her first glimpse of South Park; she had no idea what awaited her. When the CPS guy started licking the groin area of the baby doll in front of the class, she screamed out loud and then clapped her hand over her mouth so as not to awaken our children. I got a good laugh out of her reaction.
I loved the All About the Mormons and Trapped In the Closet. I also enjoyed The Passion of the Jew.
Posted by: physics geek at August 29, 2007 07:18 AM (MT22W)
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Scot Tenorman must die is probably one of the funniest ones they've done. It starts out lame, but the last 5 minutes makes it absolutely hilarious.
Posted by: Contagion at August 29, 2007 03:36 PM (loeSs)
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we bought the Flash Gordon movie that was released on DVD this week and I saw it for the very first time last night.
Looking forward to the show tonight (hope I remember to set the DVR)
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at August 10, 2007 11:40 AM (+MvHD)
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I grew up on Space Soldiers Conquer The Universe. If I had cable, dish or broadband I'd be all over the new Flash Gordon. Oh well, the library will have the DVDs in a couple of years.
Posted by: triticale at August 11, 2007 02:27 PM (P69h2)
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Heh. I had the exact same reaction to the Firefly marathon, and I too own the series.
The latest Flash didn't inspire me, but maybe I expected too much from the pilot. I'll give it another chance. I did enjoy the short-lived version starring John Wesley Shipp, even though it had many flaws.
Posted by: physics geek at August 14, 2007 01:04 PM (MT22W)
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Hmmm... I got nothing on this one. There aren't any shows I feel compelled to watch. I'll go watch television when I just want to veg and not actively move my brain, many times that's sports or an old movie. As I never remember shows, I don't watch them.
Now I hear that Universal Hi-Def is going to be showing Firefly starting July 28 (tonight 8pm eastern) so I'm going to try and remember to watch that.
Posted by: Teresa at July 28, 2007 06:38 AM (gsbs5)
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This is difficult for someone who watches a lot of TVLand and Nick at Nite! LOL!
House
Monk
Army Wives
Big Love
That's about it... :/
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House
Army Wives
Deadliest Catch
Mythbusters
Dirty Jobs
Grey's Anatomy
ER
The Best Years
Las Vegas
and....Good Eats, most Food Network shows
Posted by: Sarah at July 28, 2007 04:04 PM (lNBUL)
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Maybe I should get cable...I wouldn't be able to come up with ten.
(But if I had History and Sci-Fi channels...then it would be hard!)
Posted by: Mrs. Who at July 28, 2007 05:29 PM (9FXen)
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Wow. Not sure I can come up with 10.
Jeopardy!
My Name is Earl
CSI
Law and Order
Law and Order: SVU
Mythbusters
Family Guy would go on the list if it were still as good as its first incarnation.
Wow. If I think of any others I'll let you know.
Posted by: Greta at July 28, 2007 09:51 PM (Xl4tG)
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Eek! 10 only?
Heroes
House
CSI: Miami
Scrubs
The Office
Smallville
American Idol
Best Week Ever
CSI: NY
The Amazing Race
It's sad that 24 and BSG aren't on there, but their seasons sucked this year.
Anyway, you know I'm not gonna watch only 10.
Posted by: sarahk at July 29, 2007 03:44 PM (QLpkT)
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OK I was thinking about this more and I realized the top ten shows should look more like this:
Jack's Big Music Show
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Sesame Street
CARS (the Movie)
Dirty Jobs
The Sandlot (The Movie)
Did I mention Cars???
Mythbusters
Anything Powerblock
and..........CARS
Posted by: Sarah at July 29, 2007 05:17 PM (lNBUL)
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In no particular order:
Army Wives
Heartland
ER
LOST
Heroes
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
American Idol
Survivor
Traveler
Bones
Posted by: Sharon at July 29, 2007 05:32 PM (n1OFV)
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Okay, ten... let's see if I can come up with ten that are actually worth watching.
Deadliest Catch
Ace of Cakes
Good Eats
Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations
Heroes
Mad Fin Shark Fishing
Feasting on Asphalt (starts this weekend again!)
Seconds From Disaster (is this still on?)
Mythbusters
Dirty Jobs
The Office
Hmmmm... four food shows, and two Alton Brown shows. Very telling indeed.
I really struggled to come up with ten. We went through the scheduled recordings on the DVR, but almost everything was something hubby wants to record. Yay! I want to watch less tv than I actually do!
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at July 30, 2007 04:16 PM (0Pi1o)
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Not having cable and only watching about nine shows anyhow, it appears there's a big vacuum in my TV exposure. I only recognize "Houser" and "Ugly Betty" - neither of which we watch.
Posted by: DirtCrashr at August 02, 2007 10:33 AM (VNM5w)
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House totally rules. Also I'm watching a summer series on VH1 called "Rock of Love," which is one of those "slow down to rubberneck at the bad accident" things with me: I know I shouldn't watch this crap but I can't tear myself away from the incomprehensibly pathetic awfulness.
Posted by: dogette at August 03, 2007 05:52 PM (q/UVc)
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Someone else watches Psych besides me and the spousal unit? Very cool.
I'll add in my geeky wish of being backstage on the set of Battlestar Galactica.
Posted by: physics geek at August 06, 2007 01:02 PM (MT22W)
And for some reason the letters missing from my name were considered questionable content. ::shrug::
) Though seriously, I'd love to see a designer with huge talent (cause the kid has talent) who isn't an a** actually win sometime.
