Best Week Ever |
- Wish We Were There: Kathie Lee And Hoda’s Pajama Party
- Assign Weirdo Celebrity Couple Alert T-Pain And Ke$ha A Stupid Name
- Is This A Young Dr. Dre On A Game Show? Who Cares?
- Who Would You Rather (Fancytown Edition): Cory Monteith Or Chord Overstreet?
- Pizza Beret Is Fierce, Delicious
- Man Eats 25,000th Big Mac, Cries Tears Of Grease
- Mysterious New Jersey Hole Probably Made By New Jersey Aliens
- Zach Galifianakis Breaks Into The MSNBC News Room
- We All Liked Bridesmaids, Right?
- Magazines Should Not Do This
- So That’s What Maria Shriver’s Brave Face Looks Like
| Wish We Were There: Kathie Lee And Hoda’s Pajama Party Posted: 19 May 2011 09:07 AM PDT “This is actually going out over the air?” — Matt Lauer Good question, Matt. The beautiful disaster that is the fourth hour of The Today Show is consistently some of the best stuff on television. Kathie Lee Gifford has morphed from weepy-eyed, goodie two-shoed martyr to a sassy, post-menopausal y wino. And her partner in crime, Hoda Kotb, is a Serious Journo-turned-kooky-underdog-in-heels. We adore both women, and would pay money to be in the non-existent audience, especially today, when Hodawoman and KLG held a “pajama party,” where they — and a handful of other ladies — discussed Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s lovechild and sleeping naked. So, yes, Matt. This was live. And it’s the best.
– Eliot Glazer |
| Assign Weirdo Celebrity Couple Alert T-Pain And Ke$ha A Stupid Name Posted: 19 May 2011 08:00 AM PDT
Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson. David Arquette and Courtney Cox. John Travolta and a woman. In our swollen, celebrity-obsessed culture, we very quickly become obsessed not just with famous people, but famous people that don’t seem to make sense in a relationship together. She’s too good for him, or he’s too good for her, or one of them is far too good-looking for the other (you know, like how Christie Brinkley looked hideous next to Billy Joel). It’s all very important stuff. However, we couldn’t have seen the pairing of Leave your suggestions in the comments! – Eliot Glazer |
| Is This A Young Dr. Dre On A Game Show? Who Cares? Posted: 18 May 2011 12:06 PM PDT Some people are saying that this video of a kid on Child’s Play, a game show from the 70′s, is Dr. Dre. Some people are saying it definitely is not Dr. Dre (it’s probably not). Doesn’t matter: footage of this kid talking about the polyamory lifestyle and accessing financial security in women to the host, Bill Cullen (who was probably a very nice man, but because it’s the seventies and he’s got those glasses and he leans in so close to Tiny Dr. Dre/Ronald Blair Wilkinson III, he’s a creep by default) is priceless. Somewhere, Dr. Dre or Ronald Blair Wilkinson III is laughing. [Reddit via Dangerous Minds] – Eliot Glazer |
| Who Would You Rather (Fancytown Edition): Cory Monteith Or Chord Overstreet? Posted: 18 May 2011 11:53 AM PDT
It is very weird, I think, that I, a grown adult, am attracted to actors who portray high school students on Glee. It’s just weird, perpetuating this stereotype that high school students are, like, SEXXXY. They can’t be sexy. I was in high school. You were in high school. We all know that high school students are generally aloof and they smell odd and their zany hormones keep them that way, at least until college when indie music, sex, and tempeh will give them the chance to cool out for a little bit. All that being said, Cory Monteith and Chord Overstreet are both very much legal (in fact, Cory is actually older than me, pushing 30). So that makes me feel a tad less guilty that I can’t choose which actor looks better in a suit and glasses. I’m not a twelve-year-old girl, either, but if I were, I might have to lean – Eliot Glazer |
| Pizza Beret Is Fierce, Delicious Posted: 18 May 2011 03:11 PM PDT Pizza Hats: They’re not just for amusing Google Image searches or autocorrected texts about Pizza Hut anymore:
Wow, that kid is intense. As intense as his beret that is a pizza. Hopefully those researchers compiling statistics about how kids keep losing their virginity younger and younger these days don’t count pizza beret kid in their study, or he’s gonna drag the age down to like negative-three, then have sex with all the researchers. I’m like fifty and even I’m a little intimidated by how cool this kid is — I’m gonna try to impress him by ordering a pizza with my CREDIT CARD then drinking liquor. (TheClearlyDope, via BuzzFeed) |
| Man Eats 25,000th Big Mac, Cries Tears Of Grease Posted: 18 May 2011 01:04 PM PDT Have you heard about this guy who ate 25,000 Big Macs? No? We’ll give you time to down a bottle of Correctol (“The Ladies Laxative”) before continuing… Ah, there you go. Yes, a man named Don Gorske from Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin is the proud owner of probably colon cancer after his feat of downing 25,000 Big Macs over the course of a number of years. If you can’t understand that, maybe learning that he lost all of his taste buds in a chemical plant accident would help you. As far as what side effects this man experienced from his unusual diet, it seems he lost nearly all of his vision, as well as lost directions to all sighted barbers within a 500 mile radius. Better luck next time Don!!! Here to tell us this and more about our new favorite American is Best Morning Ever’s Gabe Liedman… To witness Gorske in his element (eating 1 million Big Macs), click ahead… Don’t forget to tune into Big Morning Buzz Live on VH1 every morning at 9:30! |
| Mysterious New Jersey Hole Probably Made By New Jersey Aliens Posted: 18 May 2011 12:43 PM PDT A mysterious hole appeared in a New Jersey lawn this week, and police still haven’t identified the cause, but never fear – this local news crew is on the scene to provide some rational explanations and rationaller X-Files sound effects. Apparently, the hole was most likely caused by one of the following: 1. A Meteor As my friend @matthewkfanclub put it, “Bored joy-riding alien teens apparently sought for questioning”: As we know from Occam’s Razor, the most likely explanation is the one that makes the fewest new assumptions, and we all immediately assumed it was an alien, therefore it is an alien. PROVEN. What’s that, Occam? I misused your thing? That’s funny, because you misused STAYING ALIVE, so shut up. (via io9) |
| Zach Galifianakis Breaks Into The MSNBC News Room Posted: 18 May 2011 11:31 AM PDT Last Saturday night, Zach Galifianakis was at 30 Rockefeller Center to watch his Hangover 2 co-star Ed Helms host Saturday Night Live. Because Zach is awesome, he decided around 1:30 AM to make his way into the MSNBC news room on a different floor, where he proceeded to — according to the video below — sit at a desk and turn his head when other people turned theirs. He was seated behind anchor Veronica De La Cruz as she delivered the news, quiet as a mouse, but willing to later take a picture with Veronica and the early morning news crew. See, this is why being famous could be so much more awesome for smart people! Sure, you get last-minute reservations at fancy restaurants, and you can cut the line at events without hassle, but imagine the perks of sneaking into a news room when nobody’s looking? That’s the kind of juvenile behavior that could only be demonstrated by someone as brilliantly demented (and famous) as Zach. [via HyperVocal] – Eliot Glazer |
| We All Liked Bridesmaids, Right? Posted: 18 May 2011 11:04 AM PDT
As a blogger (oof, this post is already lame), any time I’m confronted by a movie, tv show, or album that achieves nearly universal praise, I gain the implicit opportunity to write an easy post and generate tons of automatic traffic if I simply decide that I hated that thing. A post entitled “The Dark Knight: A Truly Great Movie In Every Way” will simply never generate as much online interest as a post entitled “Why The Dark Knight Was Totally F’in Gay”. It’s very similar to that realization you have every time you’re watching a play and you think to yourself “You know, I could ruin this for everyone if I just, like, start yelling sh*t?” The reality, of course, is that most of us like things that are universally liked. It’d be super easy to write an attention-whoring post called “Why Breaking Bad Is The Worst Show On TV,” and that post would get linked everywhere (mostly derisively), but I just so happen to love Breaking Bad, as does everybody, and lying or exaggerating for the sake of generating some easy hits on a snarky post just isn’t worth losing my blogger reputation (Hahaha! Not a thing.)
Sure, occasionally we do have strong opinions that differ from the mainstream; I hated the recent Star Trek movie, and wrote a post to this effect and was largely skewered in the comments (that might be too martyr-ey sounding — “called wrong” is more accurate). Michelle wrote a post entitled “Am I The Only One Who Hated Inception?”, which generated lots of “thank you!”s but also plenty of criticism, mostly from me yelling at her across the office because seriously, that is ridiculous. The point I’m getting to is, I saw Bridesmaids and absolutely loved it, and Michelle and Eliot both loved it, and pretty much all my friends enjoyed it too. So what is there to say about it in a blog post? It was a super-watchable, super-likable film with good jokes, great performances, legitimate heart, and relatable characters, and it functions equally well as a full-theater-pleasing slapstick spectacle and a watch-on-your-own, genuinely meaningful and understatedly touching movie with something to say. If I were every other blogger on earth (and many times I am), I’d probably have some opinion about the societal implications of a female-written, female-led comedy succeeding wholeheartedly at the box office, but this concept has already been trumpeted and Tweeted and Tweetpeted to death in the weeks leading up to the movie’s release. If anything, the actual film itself was thoroughly non-controversial nor the least bit concerned with its own identity in the greater comedy canon; writing about the gender implications of Bridesmaids would require delving into the behind-the-scenes buildup to the movie and discussing how it got made and what its success means for future projects, and none of that bears any noticeable impact on the actual movie itself. Surely some people won’t like the movie — either they’ll genuinely hate it for some reason, or non-genuinely hate it to reject the popular opinion, or most likely just think it’s “ok” but not a big deal when weighed against their self-conflated expectations and friends’ superlative praise (aka, getting Inception’d) — but, unfortunately for the easy-travelness of this blog post, I’m not one of them. Bridesmaids was really funny. Now feel free to navigate elsewhere to find that “Bridesmaids An Insult To Both Women And Comedy” post that you know you’ll hate but can’t resist clicking on. |
| Posted: 18 May 2011 10:28 AM PDT Today’s Yikes! Award goes to Glamour Magazine, for whose most recent issue they slapped Olivia Wilde on the cover. NBD, right? Well, here’s where the Yikes! comes in: it’s an issue about “secrets,” which is, like…okay, Glamour. You’re kind of freaking us out right now. But then they go ahead and make a creepy video in which a 2-D Olivia Wilde comes to life, but is somehow stuck in her “sexy pirate” pose, albeit with the opportunity to — what else? — sexily “shush” you because that’s a big ol’ sexy thaaang that girls do, isn’t it? Isn’t that how you lure in readers? To magazines? For women? In 2011? On three: one, two, three, YIKES!
[via The Hairpin] – Eliot Glazer |
| So That’s What Maria Shriver’s Brave Face Looks Like Posted: 18 May 2011 09:19 AM PDT |
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