Hello, darlings. Have you not gotten your Edwaaaaaaaard fix today? Well, I bring you something that is most curious, and even weirder than the Hot Topic crap that features Edwaaaaaaard's name these days. Hey 15-year-olds! You wanna buy a car?
OKAY! I have had enough! Today we're talking about good things, dammit. I've had enough of celeb DUIs, the Gosselins, Lindsay Lohan's tragic life and everything else we wake up to every day. So join me in a little celebration of simple pleasures, won't you? I'd like to talk about Improv Everywhere.
Last night was the season premiere of Heroes, brought to you by Boston and clam chowder. I was excited. I was also tired after dealing with important parenting matters. Heroes was to be my escape. It was 2 hours long, now with an extra hour of commercials!
It turns out that I couldn't remember crap from last season. I was lost at times, but instead of a smoke monster I had a warm beer and a lot of questions. Apparently last season didn't leave much of an impression. I checked to make sure House was being recorded.
This has been a big week for the Beatles. Their new game (see insanely cool commercial below) The Beatles: Rock Band is on the top of many a gift list and their entire UK catalog (plus Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters) has been remastered and rereleased with a depth and a clarity that so many of us are missing in our lives right now. Yes, once again we have found ourselves in times of trouble and the Beatles come to us. Words of wisdom and all that.
Like anybody who only "discovers" things AFTER they catapult into the mainstream via a related national phenomenon, I discovered Felicia Day's hilarious web series The Guild only AFTER her appearance in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
If you haven't watched it yet, you should. Particularly if you're a gamer or love a gamer or even if you regularly enjoy taping "kick me" signs on the backs of gamers, like dude, gamers. Man.
There's a lot of funny on the web right now. This isn't part of it. Yet.
That's right, buckle up, reader! I'm bringing funny back. Those other bitches won't know how to act. Unless they laugh, which is pretty much what I'm aiming for.
And by bringing funny back I mean I'm going to show you videos and such that other people made and that I find funny. That's so much easier than being funny myself.
They bet me I couldn't write the word "funny" 10 times in one post. Ha, that's funny.
Rich of FourFour watched Labor Pains (L.Lo's triumphant excruciatingly awful return to the big screen ABC Family Channel) earlier this week and he noticed something. A few of the lines were seemingly ripped from the tabloid headlines that is Lindsay's life. This piece of crap is full of subtext, people. Meta-commentary of the Life of Lohan and the current state of her career. He compiled the following video as evidence, and lo(han), it is perfect.
Rich's full post on the "film" is here.
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For the second time this year, a sports team in my home city, Pittsburgh, won a major championship and provided me with at least a week of sports-related good mood when the Pittsburgh Penguins brought home the Stanley Cup. Of course, the win itself was awesome and capped off a truly exciting season and getting to celebrate has been terrific. But one of the best parts of a big sports event are the montages. I. Love. Montages.
So I was at the bar the other night when I was foolish enough to mention that I wrote for MamaPop, which prompted a bunch of Navy SEALS to corner me in the bathroom between the sink and the hand dryer and beat the hell out of me. Why? In their words:
"MamaPop.com is a species-ist celebrity and pop culture entertainment site that perpetuates the homo sapiens agenda by its constant privileging of the human celebrity apparatus. Didn't you read our manifesto, asshole?"
- Brian the Navy SEAL
Whoah, guys, I tried to protest between punches, what about the time when Black Hockey Jesus interviewed one of Siegfried and Roy's tigers? But my counterexample only redoubled their efforts, possibly because I had embarrassed them with the truth. Damned liberals, always resorting to their fists when their flimsy lies are exposed.
Anyway, I don't want to die, so here's Darren the Waving Goat. After the jump, watch him wave.
I was only in elementary school when 80s duo Roxette were at the pinnacle of their fame, but that in no way diminishes the scope of their awesomeness. Or the serious edge of their hair. God bless the Swedes.
Now I get to live my youth all over again: Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson's management says that the duo will play together for the first time since a 2001 concert in Belgium, after which Fredriksson stopped performing due to a brain tumor. The pair will tour with the Night of the Proms festival and play hits like "Must Have Been Love," "Dangerous," "Listen to Your Heart," "Joyride," and "She's Got the Look," on dates throughout the Netherlands and Germany.
I am, to put it mildly, seriously pumped.
Do you ever find yourself stewing in your own self-pitying and self-loathing juices, completely hating your circumstances in life and the clueless jackasses that you have to co-exist with on the planet every single goddamn day?
That was me over the weekend...well, that's still me right now. But for a few minutes this Saturday, my mood was vastly improved thanks to a friend who tipped me off to a few hilarious web series, namely Greg & Donny and All's Faire.
Billy Bob Thornton hates Canadian, apparently. That, and he seems to take some pretty serious pharmaceuticals. How else to explain this?
This one goes out to all my homies who love Red Bull way too much.
Some of the funniest sh*t you’ll find on You Tube, and definitely something to show to all your friends. Unless those friends happen to be a roomful of hipsters. Don’t show it to them. Not that I’d know from experience or anything. Cough, cough.
MAMAPOP IS SMART POP CULTURE ANALYSIS, COMMENTARY, MERCILESS FUN-MAKING AND OTHER SUNDRY AWESOME, DISHED UP DAILY BY PARENTS, FOR PARENTS, AND ANYONE ELSE WHO UNDERSTANDS THAT PLAYTIME IS BETTER WITH VODKA. PLEASE TO ENJOY. READ MORE...
