was listening to david cross on the wtf podcast today. he has had his credibility called into question for doing voiceover work on the alvin and the chipmunks movies but as they have grossed over a billion dollars and provided him with a lifetime of f.u. money, i think he can live with his decision. and as it turns out two of these were written by a high school friends brother (ive mentioned this before i know) who also wrote both kung fu panda movies. he also wrote the animated monsters vs. aliens. these are his five movie credits, total domestic gross over 900 million and 2.4 billion worldwide. he is now the 28th highest domestic grossing writer of all-time. his first non-animated film is in pre-production with freaks & geeks co-creator and bridesmaids director paul feig behind the camera.
clasico!
barcelona faces off against real madrid today at 2est. with a win barcelona can pull within a point of real but with only 5 games to go they would need madrid to lose or tie another game to have a chance at the title.
meanwhile both teams lost their away games in the champions league semi-finals making their meeting up in the finals of that tournament unlikely at this point.
game today is on goltv but streaming at espn3.
Exactly 200 years after their last semi-successful attempt at razing Washington, D.C., the British are finally back to finish the job with Veep. A funny, transatlantic fusillade of the first order, the new HBO comedy — debuting this Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET — smartly takes aim at the softest target in the capital: the vice presidency. Needless to say, it doesn’t miss.
Default email signature on new Samsung phone.
Another reference point, albeit tangential, for my life long quest to get Steve to make a movie about the Oregon town that blew up the whale.
another comedy bang bang preview. premieres june 8th on ifc.
espn launched a new page today to replace their recently retired page 2. this one is called playbook and will focus on sports intersecting with culture, specifically fandom, gaming, pop culture and money. not sure what the difference is between what its replacing, more a rethinking and rebranding effort.
the champions league semifinals snuck up on me. today is the first round matchup between bayern munich and real madrid while chelsea takes on barcelona tomorrow.
pro footballer finally shows restraint.
tonight is the premiere of the judd apatow produced girls on hbo, a comedy about the trials and tribulation of a bunch of twenty-something dames in brooklyn. i will get to it as soon as i finish watching game of thrones, the killing, eastbound and down, the borgias, bobs burgers and huff some glue. i believe the last one is on bravo.
funny thing about the flop was that it was hardly egregious but god bless jeff van grumpy for speaking his mind.
When I look to the future, the thing that frightens me most is not climate change, or the possibility of the lights going out in the lit-up parts of the world, it’s that we may keep this ecocidal civilization going long enough to take everything down with it.
wanna catch a barcelona game? and who doesnt? theyve got a rare game broadcast on espn. guess the pro bowlers tour must be over. just underway.
PICA's new space opens today, one of our fans made this unsolicited commercial for our party.
Here's what the daily rag has to say about it.
Here's what the daily rag has to say about it.
nick kristof on eggs.
and more from the veg site
very cool osprey catching some pretty big fish
Anybody use a pressure cooker? I've been reading tons of good stuff about them lately. (For instance, this metafilter thread which makes me feel incomplete for not having one.)
Posting this product link for my future reference. It's the one Nathan Myhrvold recommends.
Posting this product link for my future reference. It's the one Nathan Myhrvold recommends.
"Matty Simmons’s latest book, Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story of the Making of Animal House, comes out today, and it’s a revealing and fun look back at the behind-the-scenes story of the classic college comedy. I recently had the chance to talk to talk Simmons about the making of Animal House, the legacy of the Lampoon, how he turned down an offer from NBC to produce a Saturday night sketch show in the mid-70s, and why he feels Judd Apatow is in a league of his own when it comes to contemporary comedy."
totally bummed we didn't get here last week.
George Van Tassel began conducting weekly meditation sessions in 1953 in the rooms underneath Giant Rock which, he claimed, led to UFO contacts and finally to an actual encounter with extra-terrestrials when, in August of that year, a saucer landed from the plant Venus, woke Van Tassel up and invited him onto the ship. There the aliens gave him the technique for rejuvenating living cell tissues. In 1954 he and his family began building a structure they called The Integratron to perform the rejuvenation. George described his creation this way, "The Integratron is a machine, a high-voltage electrostatic generator that would supply a broad range of frequencies to recharge the cell structure."
George Van Tassel began conducting weekly meditation sessions in 1953 in the rooms underneath Giant Rock which, he claimed, led to UFO contacts and finally to an actual encounter with extra-terrestrials when, in August of that year, a saucer landed from the plant Venus, woke Van Tassel up and invited him onto the ship. There the aliens gave him the technique for rejuvenating living cell tissues. In 1954 he and his family began building a structure they called The Integratron to perform the rejuvenation. George described his creation this way, "The Integratron is a machine, a high-voltage electrostatic generator that would supply a broad range of frequencies to recharge the cell structure."
