Monday, October 18, 2010

Best Week Ever

Best Week Ever

Being President Just As Awesome As You Thought It Was As A Kid

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Remember how much you wanted to be president when you were a kid? In fact, you wanted to be a fireman/rabbi/veterinarian/president.  Sort of like Plato’s philosopher king, but with first aid training, Jews, and puppies.  It doesn’t seem as good of an idea now though, the whole being president thing.  There are people dying all over the place, all the money is missing and apparently the planet is melting. Turns out, there’s a relatively small amount of time you get to commit as president towards making soda come out of water fountains. But, there is still one very awesome thing about being president. You get to call up television and tell it what you want on television. From the New York Times Online:

In an episode of "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel to be shown on Dec. 8, President Obama will help determine whether the Greek scientist Archimedes really set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun.

"Mythbusters" has already tried to test this myth. In 2006, with the help of some students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the show declared the myth "busted" because it took far too long for any reflected light to ignite a fire on a distant ship.

But apparently, Mr. Obama wants them to try again.

"Did Greek scientist and polymath Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun?" a press release for the show asks. "Will Adam and Jamie be able to pull this off, or will they have to report back to the president that they failed?"

That is great. Now, obviously, this is P.R. and a thing that went through the press secretary’s office, but it’s much more fun to imagine Obama watching that original episode of Mythbusters and being like, “Nope! No, not satisfied. Call the Mythbusters and have them redo the ship-mirror-fire thing. I am a president.”

Wait, hold on, guys. I’m getting a phone call. Oh, it’s Obama. He wants me to post that Mythbusters GIF. Dude’s getting a little micro-manage-y with the presidential perks.

Biggest Mad Men Shocker: Lane Pryce Showing Up In Walking Dead Promo

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 07:37 AM PDT

During the credits of last night’s Mad Men season finale, AMC ran a promo for its upcoming show Walking Dead which featured the Mad Men actors out-of-character talking about their love of horror movies. After several back-and-forth comments by Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, and Elisabeth Moss, Jared Harris (Lane) showed up for one second to creepily say “And then you can’t sleep!” and make this face:

Ahh! I did not see that twist coming. Probably the second biggest twist of the episode, after Carla being relieved of her duties. Still completely floored by that turn of events.
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