Tuesday, October 28, 2008
8:00 - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Let me preface this by saying that I love Peanuts, Snoopy, Charles Schulz and all that good stuff. That being said, the comic strip is starting to disappear from newspapers, the voice of Snoopy died last month, and Linus had that unfortunate anti-semitic DUI incident. How much longer does the Peanuts franchise have? Do kids these days even know Peanuts?
8:00 - House (FOX)
Look, nothing’s going to beat last episode’s hot-naked-lesbian action, or last episode’s Wilson-back-in-action action. Tonight’s character scuttlebutt involves Cuddy adopting a baby or something. Adorable! But it sure ain’t lesbians.
8:00 - NBA Basketball: Cavaliers at Celtics (TNT)
King James faces the reigning champs as a new season of the NBA gets underway. Stick around after for the Trailblazers at Lakers, and watch the hilarity as Greg Oden busts his knee for the season two minutes into the first quarter.
Late Night
Regis Philbin is on Letterman, Seth Rogen and David Gregory are charmingly everymannish on Leno, Tina Fey rekindles her romance with Conan, Steve Martin calms his happy feet on Jon Stewart, and Sherman Alexie does whatever authors I’ve never heard of before do on Colbert.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
It is a Father’s Day week in review! We came back from a too-long vacation and roared into the beginning of the week, but then we slacked off and really failed to close. That, my friends, is what she said.
- We got a new generation of the iphone. Can world peace be far behind?
- Jeff did his first style post!
- We leveled with you, TV this summer is going to be brutal.
- There is a new Sigur Ros album! I don’t like them as much as Jeff does but I thought it was funny he referenced the shorts from Monday.
- Going into tonight’s game it looks like the Celtics have things pretty well wrapped up. I am a complete bandwagoneer, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t appreciated some great basketball.
Don’t forget to call you Dad and Granddad and have a great rest of your weekend.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
8:00 - Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (FX)
Don’t quote us on this, but our sources tells us that this is the only Terminator installment so far that does not feature gratuitous Schwarzenegger ass. Unfortunately, there appears to be a connection between said ass and movie quality.
9:00 - MythBusters (Discovery)
A completely MacGyver themed episode. Nice. Next week: a completely Charles in Charge themed episode. Hmm…
9:00ET - Los Angeles Lakers at Phoenix Suns (ESPN)
The best NBA rivalry you didn’t miss hearing about constantly is back! Trust us, Shaq being an overpriced relic is only going to make the game better.
9:00 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (HBO2)
Pop on Gondry’s greatest and set phasers to ‘numb feelings through alcohol’!
Late Night
Dave goes to his happy place with Amy Sedaris and, I kid you not, the national grocery bagging champion. A fresh-faced young group out of Seattle named the “Foo Fighters” provide music. Leno unites star-crossed lovers Garth Brooks and Christina Ricci at last, and Ferguson chats with Tom Selleck’s moustache for a while (note: Tom Selleck himself may or may not be there). Conan stoops to Randy Jackson, and Stephen Colbert is off sipping appletinis while Jon Stewart rushes to get some Oscar jokes written (”What’s the deal with Juno, am I right?”).
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
It was already weird enough that the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat were going to have to replay the final 51.9 seconds of their December 19 game, following the scoring desk erroneously fouling Shaquille O’Neal out of the game and the Heat’s subsequent loss and protest to the league.
But as we wrote last week, Shaq himself has been traded from the Miami Heat to the Phoenix Suns. Word is the league won’t let the Heat’s new acquisitions play, but there’s also zero chance of the team getting the 325lb teddy bear back, raising the question: who plays in these 51.9 seconds?
Answer: Steel.
That’s right: part man, part machine, all hero. Shaq starred as the Superman-meets-Iron-Man character in the big screen adaptation back in 1997, and fans have been clamoring for him back ever since. Okay, maybe that’s not entirely true seeing as the movie made a whopping $1.6 million, but once this beefy armored center hits the court, it’s all over for the Hawks. Who’s going to mess with a dude holding a sledgehammer? Besides Ron Artest?
Okay, fine. Maybe Steel’s not really the solution.
New answer: Kazaam.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Oh God, oh God, Josh went to New York for the rest of the week and now I’m left in charge. I’ve never done a news summary before! Where do you even find news? I’ve always imagined Josh reading a ticker tape of AP stories coming through the wire every morning.
The big election news on the Democratic side in the aftermath of Tuesday is the rumor that Hillary Clinton has had to lend her campaign $5 million, and several top staffers are going without pay. This is likely a result of trying to keep up with Obama, whose record-breaking fundraising brought in over a million dollars a day in January, projected to continue in February. Meanwhile, there are nearly as many delegate counts as there are delegates, but when it comes down to it, it’s neck and neck - and Howard Dean is getting ready to intervene. Yikes.
A fifth undersea cable providing internet service to the middle east was cut, prompting conspiracy theories abound. While experts promise the cables are beyond the reach of evil-doing parties, we’re busy readying the print version of our blog here for distribution in Iran (Mahmoud could use a few fashion tips).
Attorney General Michael Mukasey wants to block the early release of nearly 20,000 prisoners incarcerated for crack cocaine. Meanwhile, the prisoners just want more crack cocaine.
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