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07/23/2008

My Inner Torment


MTV’s Daria’s Jane Lane manages to sum up my feelings towards education at the moment.

Tonight I met someone who knows the most famous person who shares my name. Now I’m one step closer to meeting him at a barbecue; it’s going to be great!  I figure we can do a Patty Duke Show routine together. And, while he’s the most famous person with my name, he’ll have to somehow come to terms with the fact that I’m the (I) on IMDB while he’s the (II). Take that!

07/18/2008

Put Down the Ducky

For my mother:



I’m only able to recognize about one in ten late-80’s celebrities, but Pee-Wee Herman’s kind of hard to miss.

07/17/2008

Too Weird for The Wire: The Flesh and Blood Defense

CrazyMonk points to a great article about “how black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds.”

In the previous year, nearly twenty defendants in other Baltimore cases had begun adopting what lawyers in the federal courthouse came to call “the flesh-and-blood defense.” The defense, such as it is, boils down to this: As officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on the government’s side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast, century-old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have no constitutional authority to bring people to trial. The defendants also believed that a legal distinction could be drawn between their name as written on their indictment and their true identity as a “flesh and blood man.”

It’s long, but good.

07/12/2008

Pictures of Famous People Wearing Top Hats

The top has played an important role in modern history. Without top hats, we wouldn’t have had the Civil War, World War II or Guns n’ Roses. Since the top hat’s impact on important human events is often overlooked and underestimated, here’s a collection of pictures of famous people wearing top hats:

Abraham Lincoln:


Madonna:


Fred Astaire:


Sienna Miller:


Gene Wilder:


Mark Twain:


Marilyn Manson:


Mary Kate Olsen:


Johnny Depp:


Pete Doherty:


Brigham Young:


Slash:


Stevie Nicks:


Britney Spears:


Winston Churchill:


And now, one wild card. An elusive picture showing both Abraham Lincoln AND Winston Churchill where NEITHER are wearing top hats. Could this insult to nature be why we lost the Korean War? I think it’s possible:


By the way, did you notice that Britney Spears and Winston Churchill are in almost the same pose in their top hat pictures? Seems intriguing, doesn’t it?


UPDATE: I’ve added a few more famous people to our top hat collection:

Bob Dylan:


Daniel Day Lewis:


Harpo Marx:


Leonardo DiCaprio:


Marlene Dietrich:


Michael Jackson:


Peter Boyle:


Gillian Anderson:


Tom Petty:

It just occurred to me that, after the success of Hypnobama ‘08, I should make an election bumper stick for the surprising candidacy of Joss Whedon and Wil Wheaton. I haven’t yet decided who will be at the top of the Wheaton/Whedon ‘08 ticket.

06/26/2008

Lore Sjoberg Video: The Incrdible Hulk

You wouldn’t like me when I’m curious!


06/24/2008

The System Sucks




Low quality video embedding! I’m going to figure this out eventually.

Simpsons Characters: 58 out of 63. I’m embarrassed about a few of the ones I missed. Via Reddit.

When I watch episodes of Lost on ABC.com, I don’t see any ads in between segments of the show. Does nobody see ads, or is my ad blocking software removing them? If so, that’s fantastic!

05/09/2008

Up Next: Into the Woods. Fooled You! It’s Into The Woods.

MSNBC has a schlocky Dateline documentary called Into the Woods about “[a] brave high school girl tries to outfox her fugitive kidnapper after being held hostage for ten days in an underground bunker.”


Now, of course there’s also the award winning Sondheim musical of the same name:


It’s understandable how you might confuse the two, and Daniel Kells noticed that Time Warner Cable had in fact done just that:


There’s going to be some very unhappy musical theater geeks tonight (and some very unhappy fans of pedophile kidnappers).

05/04/2008

Mock Trial With J. Reinhold

04/29/2008

Prescient Sliders

Speaking of prescient, here’s a very forward thinking clip from a ten-year-old episode of Sliders:



04/26/2008

Highly Illogical

04/25/2008

I Pray at the Hillary Clinton Temple

My favorite image from the Daily Show clip that CrazyMonk linked to:


It looks like a Soviet propaganda poster. Hell, it looks like THIS Soviet propaganda poster:


Now, let’s combine them:


UPDATE: For CrazyMonk:




Bill Cosby sounds like a parody of himself, even when he’s talking about his disapproval of teenage sex: “Let’s get with these teenage children and their sex and having sex. I’m telling you, you’ve got to talk to your children.”

04/21/2008

This Thing It Came Apart

04/17/2008

The Secret to Health and Vitality?

04/15/2008

Sliders Does Whip It by Devo

The Del Rubio triplets sing Whip It by Devo:

04/13/2008

Library Rap by MC Poindexter and the Study Crew

04/12/2008

Everything I Say…

Where you would rather live: Warp Drive, Picard Lane, Crusher Avenue, Federation Court, or Ryker Court?  I feel pretty confident in assuming that nobody ever chooses Ryker Court.

04/11/2008

Erin Esurance

Erin Esurance is my favorite television commercial character. I can explain neither why I have a favorite television commercial character, nor why it should be Erin Esurance.  Hypnosis may be involved.

Here are some interesting points of note about Erin Esurance:

  1. She has a blog (though it doesn’t have an RSS feed so tracking it is difficult).
  2. She is voiced by Mo Mellady which just has to be a stage name, right? It really should be the stage name of a brassy R&B singer (or a hard core rapper), but I guess that would be too much to ask for.
  3. Doing a Google Image Search for Erin Esurance is… troubling (NSFW) .  Rule 34 of course applies.
  4. They’re animated by GhostBot, who are kind enough to occasionally post step-by-step explanations of how such things get done.
  5. She’s all over YouTube.

I can’t explain why I put this post together.  I promise, I’m as troubled by it as you are.

04/06/2008

Sliders Again

One more small clip from Sliders.


I love the Crying Man.