July 2009
58 posts
Apple approves hot dog app →
Apple has reversed its rejection of Metaversal Studios’ Hot Dog Down a Hallway app for the iPhone…. An update to Hot Dog Down a Hallway was recently rejected by Apple for “explicit content,” despite the approval of earlier versions that were even given an age rating of nine and up on the App Store.
Apple’s review team initially may have been unaware of the sexual...
Liza Minnelli, Delta Burke are dueling 'Divas' →
Liza Minnelli and Delta Burke are set to play dueling sisters on Lifetime’s upcoming legal dramedy Drop Dead Diva, sources confirm to me exclusively.
On Diva, which premieres July 12, Minnelli plays a psychic who takes her sister (Burke) to court after she opens a competing psychic shop directly across the street from her store. Their episode airs Sept. 20 and also features an encore...
June 2009
63 posts
The movie combo game
lindsaykatai:
lonelysandwich:
bullshit:
ilikemax:
mercurypdx:
nickdouglas:
I describe a film plot based on two movies.
You tell me the combined title.
For example: Plot: suburban family gets mad at a hairy mountain-beast for satirizing them in his roman-a-clef.
Title: Deconstructing Harry and the Hendersons.
So reblog or comment with an answer to the following, but ONLY if you write...
Ashton Kutcher Stars In Ashton Kutcher: The Movie →
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage... →
The way to get from what … mathematicians call a local maximum to the global maximum is to explore a lot of fruitless minima along the way.
Almost poetry, paradise.
“I came here from the Yukon without a single friend. You just gotta dive in and...”
– Oh, Degrassi.
I’ve now spoken with several friends who’ve all independently reported dozing off during the protracted third act of the new Transformers. Michael Bay may not have discovered the fabled “brown note” just yet but he appears to have mastered the Brahms’ note.
Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA →
For the short-term, Aldrin suggests canceling NASA’s troubled and increasingly costly Ares I, instead launching manned capsules on commercial Delta IV, Atlas V, and/or SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets. In the medium-term, NASA should return to the moon with an international consortium, with the ultimate goal of commercial lunar exploitation in mind. Aldrin’s long term plan includes a 2018 comet...
Sometimes a friend badly humming the theme song to a cartoon from your childhood that neither of you can really remember at almost two in the morning is the best sound in the world.
I remember reading somewhere that Paris and Lindsay were pissed off that Jon and Kate had been eating their tabloid-cover lunch these past several weeks. Now they’re each gonna have to get knocked up and have like sixteen abortions between them to approach the four and twenty blackbirds baked into today’s pie.
The AP’s Sandy Cohen on Shuck and Jive—I mean Skids and Mudflap—the “Jar Jar Bots” of the latest Transformers installment:
Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact hatchbacks, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They’re forced to acknowledge that they can’t read. One has a gold tooth.
Actor Reno Wilson, who voices Mudflap and is...
“If I was a prospective buyer I would think twice about paying Finke $1.4 million...”
– Jeffrey Wells
Because I didn’t happen to have a beverage nearby, a little piece of my brain just flew out my nose. Wells has an axe to grind but the image of Nikki Finke as Charlotte Haze is deadly funny.
As for Jay Penske, who’s heading up the acquisition … I went to school with Jay...
Happy Father’s Day. Yes, I realize I’m a day late. That’s how my late father would have wanted it … because, you know.
When extraterrestrials eventually make contact with us they’re going to take one look at our religions and diagnose our entire civilization as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Naturally, we’ll diagnose them as suffering from penis envy.
Whenever I don’t sleep for a few nights (-ish)—usually in the name of productivity, sometimes debauchery—my ego, what there is of it, tends to constrict like the membrane of a snare drum, resonating at the slightest emotional disturbance. Because I know this about myself, I’ve learned to dampen the vibrations of anxiety and self-abnegation, but the beat can be awfully insistent some...
My God, it's full of films! →
(via goldenfiddle)
Preposterous and amazing. Just watch it. Let it wash over you. If only awards-ceremony montages looked like this … and ended with human sacrifices.
Paris Hilton Brings Her Reality Show To Dubai →
The plan is to build My New BFF into a global franchise, with Hilton searching for BFFs around the world.
The vector is virological. My New HPV.
If I play the music loud enough maybe it will fuse all the hydrogen atoms in my body into helium.
Beware the Newtapocalypse, a 2010 bug for the... →
No joke: Every few years I still pop some AAs into my cherished MessagePad 2000 and fire it up just to look at the shitty poetry I wrote as a college freshman.
The rumble of the garage door opening, the growl of a car’s engine dying down—some of the oldest sounds I can recall having a fixed response to: “somebody’s home.”
Lost tweakend
This is probably the nootropics (I took to facilitate my week-long Lost marathon) talking but I kinda wanted those old-timey dudes from Milton’s Paradise Lost at the beginning of the 2009 season finale—Jacob and what’s his face—to hate-fuck on the beach. I will raise this point during brunch.
Almost caught up on Lost. Watching it brute-force makes one thing very apparent: the show has nearly as many pregnant glares and emphatic face slaps as the typical telenovela. Jury’s still out on the guyliner.
I emptied my pockets and watched the ticket stubs from the bad movie flutter like ash.
“Too Fake,” Hockey.
Monsters Inc to get a sequel: so where’s Pixar... →
Pixar’s pipeline is suddenly clogged with sequels.
Watching A View To a Kill on Bravo. Guilty fucking pleasure, replete with a serviceably brassy score by John Barry. Christopher Walken’s evil-genius-billionaire looks and acts like some infernal Madonna-Rue McClanahan hybrid. The sex scene between Roger Moore and Grace Jones is probably the most terrifying coupling of the Reagan years, Arnie and Maria’s wedding night notwithstanding.
Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island →
Thoughts on The Secret of Monkey Island and (omigodomigodomigod) its upcoming re-issue. [thanks, m]
