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- Tonight: Santa Monica! Comedy!
- This clip from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace: Funny!
- Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony: Weird!
- Mike Nifong: Douche!
- Best Dance Video-winning Pussycat Dolls: Buttons cannot be loosened! There are only two settings on a button!
Just a normal picture of Cheney talking to his peeps, no?
Then you pull back and realize...he's talking in front of a ginormous phallic symbol. Which, honestly, is just redundant.
I seem to have crossed some invisible boundary between the age where being carded is a nuisance to one where it is flattering. In fact, I actually caught myself feigning nervousness over purchasing a bottle of wine at Trader Joe's yesterday explicitly in the hopes of being carded.
Yikes.
I just got my Veronica Mars Season 2 DVDs, and they've filled me with the sleuthing spirit. Word is that show needs to gain some new viewers at the CW, or it'll end up free to be cancelled...thereby making Megan free to be despondent over the loss of yet another brilliant show.
So as part of my small effort to win viewers for the Mars, here's a season three preview that should give any newbies an overall idea of the show. Enjoy, and for the love of Neptune, share.
[ed. note: I promise next week to not be so darned you tubey...]
Can someone explain the appeal of Lukas Rossi to me? The makeup, the outfits, the eyebrow contortions, the song delivery to the backstage area, the complete look of disdain for everyone else performing, and oh yeah, the inability to sing something without grunting and mucking up the lyrics? I try not to get too concerned about the fate of Supernova, but seriously, this guy is awful. A fate that even Tommy Lee does not deserve. And yet, he has never been in the bottom three. Curious.
The way I see it, there are two explanations here. The first (and more preferable) is that America's voting ineptitude reveals ulterior motives. They, like I, are concerned that joining Supernova would only crush the talents of enjoyable performers like Magni and Dilana. Therefore, allowing Lukas to win will hasten his descent into obscurity. The second is that this isn't the work of Americans at all...Brooke Burke does take care to tell us every week (in a flat uninterested in what she herself is saying voice) that Rock Star is an international affair. This could be the doing of some wily Canadians, looking to inflict their countryman's crap crooning upon us week after week. Sinister indeed.
Either way, unless someone can defend him, I move that my household fast forward through any future Lukas offerings. What say you?
...It's the Employee of the Month sketch comedy you love coupled with the stand-up comedy you're destined to love equally (but no better, we couldn't handle that kind of rejection). Best of all, it's happening three times in predictable succession!
This week's comics are: Melanie Reno, Kip Madsen, Brian Farrell and Paul Hatcher.
See you there! (details are on the pretty picture to your left, which will reveal itself to you in a larger and more legible form upon clicking.)
It's like Without a Trace and 24 and Lost and The Da Vinci Code all rolled into one really silly ball. A really silly ball that can be very enjoyable when up against the rigorous ratings challenge of...nothing else, but one that will have to get considerably less silly to keep viewers named Megan once the full fall schedule begins.
The lovely Lisa and I were reminiscing yesterday about songs from our college years, and I just have to share these two. Because hopefully they make you as happy as they make me...
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Ever since his improbable victory on Big Brother 2, I (and those near me) have touted Will Kirby as the best reality show contestant ever. Who else could tell people he was going to lie, lie, turn and wink to the camera ackowledging that lie, and still somehow stick around? Certainly no one since. Which is why I was kind of nervous about All-Stars. This could only tarnish an untouchable legacy of villainy. Dr. Will was coming in as a known quantity, with a known accomplice in Mike Boogie. On top of that, he's won the damn thing before, making him the largest target in the house.
And then, the genius kicked in again. He threw challenges. He told everyone he hated them. He begged to be voted off. He somehow made friends of his enemies in Season 6, including some of the (supposed) best game players in the show's history. There are 8 people left in the house (shortly, 7) and he's probably target number 3 or 4 on the list. He could win it again.
Maybe you don't watch Big Brother. Maybe no one should, because in the long run it's awfully silly. But I'm wondering (and not rhetorically): has any other reality contestant been as entertaining and intelligent?
First the old men, then freedom, and finally, the sign carrying hippies. 
