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paulscheer: Top 10 Zach Galifinakis Quotes - From the BORED TO...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:17:59 -0400

Top 10 Zach Galifinakis Quotes - From the BORED TO DEATH press conference

10. When asked about building chemistry between himself and Schwartzman, he replied, “Well, it’s always difficult because Jason’s always on satellite.”

9. When he and Schwartzman were jointly asked about committing to a series as their movie careers were thriving, he looked down at his phone, then said to Schartzman, “I just got your text about how you were going to announce that you and I were not coming back to the show.”

8. When a critic wondered if he was feeling the heat from “The Hangover,” he first asked, “From the movie, or from last night?”

7. On why he chose to do “Bored to Death”: “You do a show and you like doing it, and you’re fortunate enough to be working, and that’s the way I see it. If this were a ‘Reba’ sitcom, then maybe it would be an easier decision, but this is something you would want to be part of, so I’m very, very happy.”

6. When it was suggested that he’d appeared in just about every film this year “except that movie about the homicidal orphan,” he snapped, “I did props on that.”

5. On his sudden success: “If I were 26 and this was happening, it would be all great, and I would probably buy like 17 Dodge Vipers. But right now it’s just a major inconvenience.”

4. When asked how many Dodge Vipers he did buy, he first replied, “17,” then recanted and admitted, “I haven’t bought any. They don’t make them in station wagon form.”

3. On the matter of losing time for his stand-up because of his film career, he sighed, “I’m going to really miss the Uncle Chuckles in Tampa.”

2. “I think as soon as I’m a wash-up in a couple of years, I will return to stand-up.”

1. When Ted Danson was asked a question about working predominantly on cable television in recent years rather than on a broadcast network, he went for the joke and said, “For Jason and Zach’s sakes, I was on a show called ‘Cheers.’” Galifianakis promptly one-upped him and replied, “I know, I know, I know! You tell me every five minutes! If it isn’t ‘Cheers,’ it’s fucking ‘Becker‘!”

via http://www.premiumhollywood.com

What's Your NPR Name?

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:10:58 -0400

doree:

spiegelman:

liana:

Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.

In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. Even (on our most ambitious days) a Cherry Glaser or a Sylvia Poggioli.

So finally, after years of Fresh Air sign-off ambitions, we came up with a system for creating our own NPR Names. Here’s how it works: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.

So I’m Liarna Kassel. And Eric is Jeric Bath. I even have a new nickname for my little brother in Dylsan Rosarita.

The local affiliates also have some great names. Soterios Johnson on WNYC and Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY (I thought her name was Mosskowain for the longest time) are two of my favorites. My only problem with Liana’s method is I don’t have a middle name!

My NPR name is Djackavid Arenal

paulscheer: My Mom plans her Christmas Eve Meal like Patton,...

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:28:12 -0500

paulscheer:

My Mom plans her Christmas Eve Meal like Patton, this is one of 3 diagrams.

No release date info yet, but this looks very fun.

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:39:55 -0500

No release date info yet, but this looks very fun.

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CUTE! Via doree: via Videogum

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:30:42 -0400

CUTE!

Via doree: via Videogum

McCain-Palin Rally Sites from here to the election

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:28:41 -0400

Thursday, October 30: Defiance, Ohio

Friday, October 31: Denial, Virginia (the real part); Creeptown, Pennsylvania; Wackjob-Diva-Opportunist Tri-Cities, Pennsylvania (Palin only)

Saturday, November 1: Daylong rally and picnic at Anger, Indiana campgrounds and demolition derby

Sunday, November 2: Lyeville, North Carolina; Bargaining, North Carolina

Monday, November 3: Depression, West Virginia (actually, a whistle-stop tour of the whole state)

Tuesday, November 4: Supression, Ohio; Intimidation, Florida; victory bonfire scheduled for Acceptance, Arizona

My friend Alan and I used to chat before Administrative Law...

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:17:46 -0400

My friend Alan and I used to chat before Administrative Law class and one of our classmates suggested that we sounded like Statler and Waldorf. Not sure which one I was supposed to be, but in this context, I’d want to be the punchline guy, Waldorf.

Have to admire the style and production values here, but is it...

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:31:50 -0400

Have to admire the style and production values here, but is it too slick because it’s not in the campaign ad style that we all know and love?

More on the Mad Men Twitter dustup

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:36:00 -0400

doree:

I just don’t find Don Draper’s Twitter all that clever, is the thing! Maybe also because Don Draper would NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS have a Twitter. Peggy’s is better, in my opinion.

The Reuters story about the dustup brings up the important issue of fictional character law:

Many Twitter accounts are fans pretending to be fictional characters, so the “Mad Men” flap could set a precedent for Twitter users. Although anybody can legally pretend to be any made-up character, Twitter could be in violation of AMC’s trademark if its presentation successfully confuses readers as to whether the feeds are endorsed by the network.

Where was all this fervor over fictional character law when I was writing my law school certification paper? Oh yeah, there was no commercial Internet then. Sigh.

billbarol: Ah, Facebook. You know me so well. Facebook ads are...

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:46:19 -0400

billbarol:

Ah, Facebook. You know me so well.

Facebook ads are the best.

Details to come about my night backstage at The Colbert Report...

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:36:18 -0400

Details to come about my night backstage at The Colbert Report with my friend Lucas Conley, author of Obsessive Branding Disorder. Note the Colbert bump: OBD is currently 1029 at Amazon.com. Yesterday it was 20,549. That’s power, folks.

Fuck the Hilton and other Hotels that Overcharge for Wi-Fi

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:39:40 -0400

azizisbored:

NEVER STAY AT HILTON HOTELS.

Please re-blog and repost this.

I’d encourage anyone that reads my website to never stay at Hilton hotels, I’m staying at one in Chicago and they overcharge the fuck out of you for internet use. In the rooms, its $12.95 a night for “Basic Broadband” and it goes up to $17.95 for “Premium Broadband.” Here’s the deal, I bought the Basic one and it was slow as shit, like 5 KB/s. So basically, for legit broadband, you have to pay $18 a night.

If you’re gonna charge people for internet, that’s shitty, but almost standard, but that “Basic” and “Premium” bullshit is unheard of and really a fuck you to the guests.

Then, I went to the lobby expecting free wi-fi. NOPE. $7.95/hour. PER HOUR. But its unlimited access!

Fuck you Hilton. PLEASE re-blog this.

And once again, FUCK YOU HILTON HONORS.

This is something of an ongoing mystery to me, why nicer hotels charge for WiFi while modest ones such as Hilton Garden Inn (to stay on point with Hilton) offer WiFi for free to its guests. My guess is that they’re assuming that business travelers will simply be expensing Internet access so the guests don’t really pay, other corporations do. Everybody wins, right? Except if you’ve ever had the hassle of getting WiFi set up at a hotel that charges (or even sometimes just plug-in broadband), you know that the guest remains the loser.

billbarol: “Well, there’s good news and bad news. We can...

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:23:12 -0400

billbarol:

“Well, there’s good news and bad news. We can install that Random Words Headline Generator on Thursday like we promised, but it doesn’t look like we can get the guy in there to calibrate it before next week.”

Never Not Funny Podcast with special guest Greg Behrendt

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:52:38 -0400

Never Not Funny Podcast with special guest Greg Behrendt

Why Patton Oswalt Is a Genius

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:40:42 -0400

Amidst other sports-related stuff last night, but worth waiting for. From last night’s Root of All Evil. Must see. The best part starts with about 1 minute left.

(Via Awful Announcing via Deadspin)
http://deadspin.com/5031352/an-ode-to-ea-grown-men-crying-and-commenters-are-the-root-of-all-evil-nsfw

In Search of Sasquatch, Marine Edition

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:53:49 -0400

In Search of Sasquatch, Marine Edition

It's not everyday that my law degree comes in handy

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:57:07 -0400

Nikki Finke reports on her blog that New Line is eager to do Austin Powers 4 with Mike Myers. My favorite part of the story is this nugget:

Interestingly, I’m told that Myers had a character in the original Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery script called The Love Guru but decided not to shoot it and then wrote it out of the series. Nevertheless, when Paramount decided to make The Love Guru, it demanded that New Line sign a pledge that it had no claims to the character.

When I was in law school, I had to write a paper to graduate. I wrote about the most esoteric, lightly decided aspect of intellectual-property law I could find: Fictional character law. In my hypothetical, I had a Mike Myers-like comic performance artist who creates a popular character, makes a hit movie based on that character, then runs into creative differences with the studio over the sequel. Both the performer and the studio want to move ahead on their own with a sequel and each side wants to stop the other from producing their project. Fascinating, no?

I’d have to dig up the paper to see where I landed, but my memory of it has the artist prevailing. What I do know for sure is that the seminal cases came from two characters from the flotsam of 1970s pop culture: Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) and Ted Giannoulas (aka The San Diego Chicken). Anytime a horror-flick TV hostess and a ballpark clown can determine the future of the entertainment industry you have to love it.

Copies of my paper, which I am also pretty sure is embarrassing given that I wrote it 14 years ago before my career as a professional journalist, are not available upon request.

Oh, come on and admit it: This is the cutest dog you’ve...

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:33:13 -0400

Oh, come on and admit it: This is the cutest dog you’ve ever encountered. That’s my boy Jolly. He’s 14 1/2 and he’s still got it. (with kudos to my wife Carol for shooting most of the video and editing it.)

I'm starting to get the feeling my friend Bill didn't have a good stay at the Logan Airport Holiday Inn

Fri, 23 May 2008 11:05:59 -0400

Somewhere, Kemmons Wilson, founder of Holiday Inn, is frowning.

billbarol:

Many thanks for the warm welcome you extended to me last night. I particularly admired the way you’ve chosen to conserve fuel by operating your shuttle vans on a sharply reduced schedule, and the way you’ve chosen to conserve communications bandwidth by not telling anyone. This morning’s Continental Breakfast easily surpassed anything one could claw from the unforgiving earth while trapped in a tiger pit. And the dull, vacant stares of your front desk staff served as a stirring reminder that there is a place in the American work force even for those with no empathy, training or rudimentary communications skills. Rest assured that I will frequent your establishment again, just as soon as the earth plunges into the sun and every other hotel on the planet is reduced to molten lava.

Sincerely,
Bill Barol

That’s Holiday Inn…where the extra “N” is for “Not interested in your problems, jackass!” 1 day ago from Hahlo
You know, you can’t spell “Holiday Inn” without “Go f**k yourself”! 05:46 AM May 22, 2008 from Hahlo
At the Logan Airport Holiday Inn… where “service” is not actually part of our name at all! 05:43 AM May 22, 2008 from Hahlo