Archive for the 'entertainment' Category

Dear nbc.com on demand video…

Your interface is a serious stinker. Great idea moving off of iTunes. Gives you a chance to showcase that stinker of an interface *and* force me to listen to the same commercial over and over and over again. Are your advertisers totally hooking you up for that? Because after hearing the same jingles over and over again, I can promise I won’t buy anything being advertised.

That is all. Xoxo, Erik

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Don’t forgot to log out…

This is either April Fools, or he left his laptop logged in. Funny either way.

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I hate the day after reality show finales… [no spoilers]

I only watch two with any regularity: Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model. The PR finale was last night and I didn’t have a chance to watch… this means I not only have to carefully keep my ears closed at the office, and am more or less prevented from reading blogs all day long, since most folks brainlessly put the winners and losers names in blog post titles, or as the first line of the post without a spoiler alert.

I just managed to blur past a post about the PR winner and haven’t spoiled it for myself yet.

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More heart for Torchwood

Martha: So, are you and Captain Jack… [wink wink]
Ianto: We… “dabble.”
Martha: So… what’s his “dabbling” like?
Ianto: Innovative
Martha: Really?
Ianto: Bordering on the avant-garde.
Martha: Wow!
Ianto: [wistful smile] Oh yeah.

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Dylan McOMG

200802031120Warning: This is a really gay fanboy post that ogles Dylan McDermott mercilessly like a delectable cut of Kobe Beef. He is the hottest man alive, and if you disagree with me, then you are wrong. And possibly a little reeree. Move along, nothing to see here.

The TiVo has an anti-screen burn feature: If you let it sit in any menu area for too long it will switch you over to live tv — whatever happens to be on that tuner. Sometimes I get sucked into crap I would never watch. Like Murder She Wrote. And today, its Yet Another Movie in which the dad moves his dysfunctional family out to the countryside, into a spooky creepy farmhouse being haunted by the previous and late occpuants that only the children can see. I really dislike movies in this vein not only for rehashed storylines, but because they tend to build and release tension with 50dB blasts.

I like a good horror movie, but these bore me and give me a headache, so I don’t watch them anymore. And I think hollywood knows this, and have discovered an effective counter: DILFs (Dads I’d Like To beFriend).

ryan reynoldsFirst it was Ryan Reynolds in The Amityville Horror. He’s a good deal younger than me and very much a one off hotness thing for me. The combination of superhero build, cuts all over his face, being angry all the time, and the Best Beard Ever allowed him to slip through my twinky filter.

dylan mcdermottDylan McDermott , on the other hand… well, I’ve always been a giggling fanboy for him. First in Steel Magnolias, crawling through that crying chick’s window in a pair of shorts with the hottest legs ever, later in Home for the Holidays (this is going to sound stupid) drinking orange juice from a bottle in a way that made my toes curl, (… everything he has ever been in…) and now in this dumb The Messengers movie.

I can’t look away, because I might miss Dylan (aka my next ex-husband) doing something that will make me feel funny in my dangerzone. Like opening a letter, tying his shoelace, using a styptic pencil, or doing his taxes. Damn you Hollywood.

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Heroin, she wrote…

murder she wroteI flipped on the TV to tell my TiVo to record an episode of Oprah. NOT, mind you, that I ever watch it (three thumbs down)… but a friend’s wife is going to be on the show, so I’ll ignore my lifetime ban just this once.
When I turned the TV on, Murder, She Wrote was playing. The combination of character actors like Stella Stevens and Donald Moffat combined with generally corny dialog, and jessica’s kitschy western wear sucked me in. I wanted to believe every word Jessica told me. I had to pull myself away to get to the shower.

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All sweeney on sweeney action ALL THE TIME

Windsor Man Charged With Killing 5 People In Fiery Crash - Mozilla Firefox (Build 2007112718)-1
from sfgate

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When Jake Met Dolly

Awesomely gay and just awesome. I love me some jake and dolly. And that’s totally not an euphemism.

200712191141On December 26th, Channel 4 in the UK will air a special called When Jake Met Dolly, in which the Scissor Sisters’ frontman interviews Parton as she arrives in London for her 2008 Backwoods Barbie Tour, and to launch the UK arm of her children’s charity project Imagination. Here are a couple clips from the half-hour program.

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The end is nigh, Signs of the apocalpyse

Winter seasons of big brother. Stuffing empty holes with spinoffs of CSI. This sucks. I want my awesome tv writers well paid and happy at their keyboards.

As original episodes of scripted comedies and dramas dry up because of the Writers Guild of America strike, reality competitions and game shows are likely to reach record prominence on broadcast television in early 2008. (Read More)

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Manquarium

Gillette Venus is doing a silly marketing microsite called Manquarium. Pick from “a variety of bodies” (read hairless gym boys in various shades of beige), optionally upload a face pic, and answer a few questions about what “goddess qualities” are most appreciated by your merman. My current TV crush is Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg) from Heroes
Gillette Venus Breeze - Manquarium - Mozilla Firefox (Build 2007102514)
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Microsite rating: C- (cute idea but shallow execution, particularly a lack of any kind of body and skin tone diversity that might make your guy interesting and representative enough for you to want to send this around to friends)
Greg Grunberg: A++

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