Monday, February 28, 2011

Best Week Ever

Best Week Ever

What Do You Think: Does This Commercial Talk About F*cking Dresses and Goddamn Feather Shoes On Purpose?

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:24 AM PST

This new commercial for Loemann’s is more puzzle than commercial. Does it know it’s funny? Does it intend the censorship of brand names to make it sound like women are excited about f*cking dresses, f*cking watches, and goddamn feather shoes? It’s unknowable.

So, let’s get it sorted out. What’s going on with this commercial? Is it funny on purpose and, therefore, not that funny, or serious on purpose and, therefore, actually funny? What do you think?

OPEN THREAD: Were The Oscars Really That Bad?

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 08:24 AM PST

Twitter was all a-twitbuzz with vehement Oscar hate from the first second of last night’s Oscar broadcast through the final end-of-SNL ‘everyone pallin around onstage’ conclusion. While I too was not a huge fan of last night’s broadcast, the overwhelming momentum of the universal internet hate to me seems incredibly ignorant (an internet first), not because peoples’ criticisms of the show are inaccurate, but because people seem to be completely disregarding the elementary fact that the Oscars are always pretty stupid.

Certainly there’ve been funnier years; Jon Stewart and Ellen Degeneres were both far better-equipped hosts than this year’s duo, and past shows have had the occasional inspired presentation, but as for beginning-to-end Oscar telecasts, it’s just not the Oscars without painfully stilted award intros, obligatory nonsensical montages, presenters who can’t read, musical numbers no one cares about including the performers, a total lack of self-awareness, Academy executives popping in to bore the sh*t out of everyone, and nauseating self-important speeches about having pretended to be a dude in a thing. THIS CRAP HAPPENS EVERY YEAR, people.

The overwhelming universal hate of this year’s Oscars reminds me of the automatic annual complaints about “how bad the Super Bowl commercials were” every year, as though this year’s thirty-second corporate nutshots can’t possibly compare to the glorious yesteryear of frogs saying “Budweiser” and a Pepsi guy beating the sh*t out of a Coke guy (will we ever recapture such magic??) Yes, the Oscars this year were stupid. But we’re also old enough to realize how stupid this self-congratulatory jerkfest is, and we’re all on Twitter and able to express that hate in seconds, so is it any wonder that the end result is a general, snowballed hatred of what is in effect just another installment in a thing that’s always dumb?

To put it another way, what could the Oscars have possibly done to have everyone on Twitter saying “I believe that the Academy Awards broadcast was truly excellent this year. That is my Tweet.” Last night had some painful, paaaaainful moments, but we do all remember the “five nominees each getting complimented by five separate presenters” thing they tried the one year, right?

Your open thread question for the day: Were the Oscars really the worst thing ever? Or were they just comparably stupid or marginally more stupid than they are every year? Debate away in the comments.

You Can’t Process Charlie Sheen With A Normal Brain Says Charlie Sheen

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 07:48 AM PST

Here’s a little background if you’re not yet up to speed. Charlie Sheen was supposed to do an exclusive interview with ABC News. ABC News had huge plans to air different parts of their one of a kind interview on all their news shows, get people talking about the whole thing, and really just rake in that Charlie Sheen interview money. But then, OUT OF THE BLUE, it turns out Charlie Sheen also did an interview with NBC News. It’s almost like you can’t even trust megalomaniac star actors who are on 43,000 drugs anymore.

Anyway, what is happening to Charlie Sheen is undeniably sad. It would be nice if he could step out of the public eye and take care of his problems in private with the help of a loving family and professionals who know how to get people through to the other side of substance abuse. That, however, is not happening, and now we all have to feel like jerks for being wildly entertained by Charlie Sheen explaining on television that he’s “bitching a total frickin’ rockstar from Mars” and that “you can’t process [him] with a normal brain.”

From the Today Show this morning, he’s a clip of the NBC interview:

But remember the movie, Lucas? He was so nice in that.
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