1) Mudvayne, "Happy?" -- Once you've heard Mortiis, Mudvayne is a like a dream. It's not all that hard, and it's got pop in it.
But that doesn't exactly make it interesting. Not hating life while listening to it combined with the genre in which it's working adds up to a 3. [ ]
2) Nelly feat.
Snoop, "Errtime" -- Eh, I really don't think it's hooky enough, and I thought the same about "Goodies," so the amount to which it steals the beat from that is incidental. Must acknowledge Sandler cameo at end of video, which I am amused by. Nelly can do better than this; it's sort of middle-of-the-road ass-shaking and hot cars and a rhythm you can probably dance to, but it's not more than that.
4. [ ]
3) The Used and My Chemical Romance, "Under Pressure" -- Note: You, my friend, are not David Bowie. And you are not Freddie Mercury.
And none of you are really up to doing this song. Imagine the original, only less well done, with much thinner vocals and no real sense of excitement. Plus, the bass is scaled considerably back, which, if you're going to do a fairly faithful cover, why?
The song itself is still good, but bleh. 2, at least partially out of annoyance. [no linky for free; iTunes has it, if you want to pay to hear this]
4) Mariah Carey, "We Belong Together" -- Aw.
This is more typical Mariah than "It's Like That" was, and it's not really very exciting. I know the Stylus folks seem to like it more than I do. The way she delivers the titular line is good, but the rest of it is not very focused (aside from the piano; the piano is good too).
Not really my kind of R B, I think. 4. ( )
5) Squeak E.
Clean feat. Karen O., "Hello Tomorrow" -- A little piece of fluffy nothing, tailored to indie sensibilities, but damn if it doesn't work.
I like it quite a bit, and I sort of don't want to. The Mariah song, previously, is an example of something not quite tailored to someone's voice, but this uses Karen O's hoarse girlishness really nicely. It also holds up without the neat visual accompaniment and is short.
Plus, me lieben der glockenspiel. 7. [do I need to link it?
You've seen the Adidas ad. No doubt you know the song.]
6) Kanye West, "Diamonds" -- but not rated.
For all the general hating on the "for evah evah" bit, that remains my favorite part of the song. 7.
Sweet Jesus, spare me
You know what would be more worthwhile than ? A full-page ad for the Remington beard trimmer. That, at least, would not use the word "clippety." Quite honestly, I'm not sure how much more I can take of the NYT culture coverage. Does this top the "man date"? That would be difficult.
It is comparably nausea-inducing, tho. [ ]
The Oconee Blotter was surprisingly lackluster this week, but we missed in the regular section:
A "ruckus" ensued when a Jefferson woman told a man who came to her Lebanon Church Road home Friday that he couldn't stay there, Jackson County sheriff's deputies reported.
After the woman declined the man's request to stay, he protested, went into a bedroom and attacked a man who was sleeping, according to an incident report. After the attack, the suspect stepped outside and told the man to do the same, and he obliged - with a baseball bat in hand, deputies said.
However, the suspect struck the man in the arm with an iron rod and the victim went inside the residence, deputies said.The suspect then threw the rod and struck a glass sliding door, according to the report.
A second woman dialed 911, but the suspect pulled the telephone chord and the phone struck her in the mouth, deputies said. The suspect left the scene in a 2002 silver Acura.
Nope, not a documentary about mess cooks in Iraq
PBS's attempt at a competitive reality show, , ain't bad. Sure, it looks like my grandma shot it with a video camera that cost about $20, but the cooking is kind of interesting and the judges are looking to reward innovation.First competition was "do something with an egg in ten minutes." made a custard. Everyone else scrambled or poached or omeletted.
I would say he's already got a good shot at going all the way because he has skills and creativity. A lot of the competitors think they have the latter, but haven't shown it yet. Bitching about how limited an egg is?
Not the way to start off.
I think the real question here isn't whether there's going to be a few vigilantes who switch off TV sets.That should be all you need to read. If you must must must see what else Adbusters editor-in-chief has to say, .The question is, what right do airports and bank managers have to force us to watch TV in public places?
I'm totally not encouraging you to throw a pie at him either, but I might point out that civil disobedience can work both ways.
Look, you douches
on the war or something because he admits we're stuck in Iraq and hopes things go well.Does this sound like a dude who loves war?
"The president has created an enormous security problem for the United States where none existed before. But I hope the president is incredibly successful with his policy now that he's there.This is the same argument he made throughout the campaign. shows that pretty clearly. e."
g.,
DEAN: We can't do that. We cannot lose the peace in Iraq.On the other, other hand, a quick look around shows no accusations of flip-flopping. Am I missing it?This situation was created by Bush, who ignored the greater danger in Iran and North Korea and Al Qaida at home to do it. This was a mistake, this war. And the president's gotten into it, now we're going to have to get out of it.
But if we leave Iraq to chaos, Al Qaida may move in, if we leave Iraq to a fundamentalist Shiite regime with Iranian influence, we will be in both circumstances worse off than we were when Saddam Hussein was president.
Or did the copywriter insert that?
, no doubt.
Now, it does demonstrate ingenuity on the cheap, but I will be damned if I ever have one of these in my house. My hypothetical child will eat the crusts of its sandwich rather than throwing the most nutritious part of the bread away. And if it doesn't want to, it can cleverly remove them itself in a more labor-intensive way that teaches it something.
Do other countries cut the crusts off?
What is "rapidly approaching psychosis," Alex?
The state I (and my officemates) are in right now due to only occasionally interrupted whine of what could be a saw but is more likely some kind of power sander going right over our heads, like a giant, angry stingy thing of some sort. For a building as unbelievably dated as it is in many ways, we sure undergo a lot of renovation that doesn't seem to lead to much. At least I don't have a mysterious substance drifting out of my air-conditioning vent.
Yet...
Update: It's a planer. So they say.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
No Ann Coulter? I am outraged
Discovery decides to annoy everyone in the country with (nominees at the link). In some ways, it's lovely that both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates can make the list, both Ellen DeGeneres and Rush Limbaugh, both JFK and Richard Nixon (!!!).
But dollars to donuts Reagan beats Mark Twain in the final rankings.
My favorite sentence in the press release? "Tide Coldwater is a proud partner of GREATEST AMERICAN.
" Nothing says America like carefully washing your clothes in cold water so the colors don't fade and the fabric doesn't shrink. Take that, other countries! [ ]
No, there are a million of you
and how they can be combined. I direct eyes to , slightly incoherent as it may be, and answer this now:What keeps us here? What's so great about America?The mistake here is equating staying put with choosing something actively because it's awesome. There are lots of people who move to America, and I'm sure they can provide you with reasons they did. But don't ask me why I choose to stay.
Why do I choose to do things in the easy way rather than the best way most of the time? Why do most of us? Because I'm fucking lazy and I don't make a lot of money.
This is much closer to the truth than me saying wonderful things about democracy, which is, of course, great, but exists in a lot of places these days.
This is remarkable for one thing only:
Arrest: On April 17, Deputy Laura Teet was running radar on Ga.We didn't know a Beetle could go 81 mph.Highway 316 when she clocked a Volkswagen Beetle going 81 mph. The driver, Jessica Nicole Duncan, 22, at first denied drinking, despite the smell of alcohol, then said she had had a few drinks. Duncan, of Cherokee Avenue, Athens, was charged with DUI and speeding.
This is some weird vandalism:
Damage: On April 17, a Farmington man reported he left his Ford pickup parked in front of Pappa John's off Experiment Station Road and someone put pine straw on the hood and took the tailgate off.And so is this:
Damage: On April 11, a resident of Overlook Ridge reported he went outside his home and his American flag was lying on the ground.This strikes one as excess:A piece was cut off and some profanities were written on it.
Drugs: On April 12, a man developing some property on a frontage road near the Athens Perimeter called deputies to report he had found some buckets containing marijuana plants while he was surveying the land. Deputy Brad Williams arrived and counted 12 plants..A helicopter was called in to check the area from air, but no more plants were found. The marijuana was destroyed.
WNEG, we are so in a fight
Short story made really short: We have a choice of two CBSes. I chose the wrong one to tape and discovered, on arriving home, that it cut out completely about 15 minutes into last night's episode.I see, however, that it mostly would have just pissed me off. I have . They have proved 1) that they are decent people, but also 2) that they are not pussies when it comes to head-shaving (apparently).
Chances are I will end up annoyed as Uchenna Joyce most likely will end up in third place on the final mat, while Ron Kelly squeak it out over Ramber in the last leg, due to some strange turn of luck. That is my realistic but not worst-case prediction.
But for now, I am kinda freaked by . Do I mention enough how that rumored ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" is not only true of the now but kind of mixed as a curse, in that they are at least interesting? He does kind of suck.
But then. My neurons are exploding. I honestly can't tell whether I like this in a "Hollaback Girl" kind of way or in an "America We Stand as One" way.
It is at least worth listening to. ( .)
Damn you, Brendan Benson
I should like you. I should have things to say about your record. And all I can do is keep going back to the and listening to their songs instead.One could say this is their fault or mine, but I prefer to blame it on you for now.
1) , future of the Catholic Church and non-white dudes.
If there is one.
2) . Again, what is the point of all this?
Make him write "I love libraries" 100 times on a whiteboard, put him on probation, and find him a job.
3) Everybody. .
4) Oh, snap! .
5) .
6) or at least understands why others are. I mean, students shouldn't have to pay for college, right? It gets its money from the leprechauns who live at the end of the rainbow.
. asks them to think about some things, also addresses Louis Williams.
7) .
Possible interesting development to result about which no further for now.
8)
9) about a public response to arrests.
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I can't (can I?)
directed me , and I hereby direct you. Interesting, indeed, though not as much of a shocker as "There's No Home for You Here" was when that leaked out.I'm not crazy about this particular vocal range, because I think he's pushing it a little, but that's more personal taste than thinking it's bad. Drums are big and thumpy, and Meg does her cymbal thing (which I really like). Guitar riff is simple but good.
Could go more places, but I think is not bad and provokes curiosity as to what's next. Much buzzing about what the whooshing noises are and suggestions of digital sounds being involved. I would doubt it.
I'd think rather it's something carefully recreated through analog means to sound digital, the same way the guitar on "Seven Nation Army" was lowered to sound like bass. The man is pretty good about sticking to his rules and amusing himself at the same time. [Sidebar: This is a marvelous lead-in to "Blah Blah Blah," which happened to follow it in my computer's queue.
]
I am sure not literally. Nonetheless, I like this combo of hypothetical apron and rifle.
Chipper Jones Trades in Atlanta Braves Uniform for Apron on Turner South's Original Series OFF THE MENU
Turner South, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s regional entertainment network, takes renowned Atlanta Braves player Chipper Jones on an outdoor and cooking adventure during a special episode of its original series OFF THE MENU, airing Tuesday, May 10, at 8 p.m.ET. Jones removes his cleats and puts on an apron and camouflage to literally "catch it and cook it" with Turner South.
OFF THE MENU travels to Jones' Double Dime Ranch in Carrizo Springs, Texas, for a glimpse of the athlete out of his element, with a shooting rifle and wooden spoon in hand rather than a baseball bat.The episode begins with a hunting segment for white tail deer, with Jones; Tory McPhail, host of OFF THE MENU and executive chef at Commander's Palace in New Orleans, La.; and Danny Trace, sous chef at Commander's Palace.
After a day in the wilderness, McPhail teaches Jones how to transform what they've caught into a five-star -quality meal, Texas venison chili.Next, it's into the kitchen with McPhail as he shows viewers how to prepare additional game dishes, such as a seared venison salad and venison bourguignon, a warm hearty dish to make at home or at the camp.
1) .
Seems like it will drag the fuck on and end in what? An aquittal? Are they going to make this homeless guy pay damages?
Because I don't think he has the funds.
2) ? Holla.
3) . You want some ire? I'll give you some ire.
How about the fact that this further penalizes staff, who have endured ridiculous increases in premiums already, often not covered by pitiful cost-of-living increases in salary? How about the fact that fat people aren't being penalized? How about I call bullshit on this rinky-dink cost-cutting crap that will affect the poor disproportionately, as usual, when the state is reporting strong increases in tax collection?
4) Giese on bench. No difference yet.
In trials Thursday, Giese was no stricter than Simpson had been.Well, that was clearly worth pissing everyone off over. , one even more under their collective thumb.She approved two plea bargains and found a local man not guilty of violating a junk-car ordinance.
You mean one that has no standard of proof?
5) reads headline. Might that be because it hasn't been signed into law yet, much less taken effect?
6) Un. Believable. .
This bit isn't even a quote, just part of the article: "Ironically, the more taxpayers put into college spending, the more tuition goes up." Percentage-wise, bitch? "Fully funded" does not mean "put back all the money they stripped out, leaving many parts of the university crippled.
" It mostly means they didn't cut more. In other news, .
7) .
In a manner of speaking.
8) ABH: , . Jason sez .
9) Shipp says 06 will be more than anything.
10) Dang. .
11) . For god's sake, aren't there more important things the University Council could be discussing? (so does SGA).
12) Look, it's bad enough to have Flagpole and the ABH snipping at each other. Is it also necessary to have ? Everything mentioned is an editorial, written by locals.
Just because you disagree with it (and I often do) doesn't mean it's Morris-dictated or anti-Athens.
13) .
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Separated at birth?
Have really been so caught up in Dallas that movies have been less a priority, but at long last made time for this weekend (it had been sitting on top of the TV, borrowed from a friend and not gotten to) and can confirm it was worth it. Consider brain thoroughly exercised.It only about an hour and 40 minutes long, but when one has to pause it every ten minutes and have a discussion about "that's that guy again, and he's pretending to be this but really he's this pretending to be this, and this is what he really meant by that" it does tend to take a bit longer. Looks gorgeous (tip of the hat to ). Fine acting.
and manage to prowl around one another like big cats without hardly even being in the same room together. Love stuff with layers of double-crossing and conflicting loyalties. End maybe goes a teeny bit long, but am enthusiastic about seeing the two sequels.
Like this, except when not
. It consists of books that are really big.Except when . Or really strange and postmodern. Except when .
Or full of typographical trickery. Except, . Maximalist fiction--fiction to the extreme of whatever we want it to be.
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1) Weezer, "Beverly Hills" -- Not bad. Not heights of Weezer, a la first two albums, since it's more like "Undone" than their really harmony-heavy stuff, but also better than stuff of late, which has been boring.
This at least is competent, kinda riffy and chunky with the guitar, decent chorus. Video is painful and therefore interesting. What's the demographic?
What're they going for? People who like both Hugh Hefner and Weezer but understand that one is "cool" and the other is not and that incongruity is funny? Because it's too obvious to be funny.
Repeated shots of monkeys in cage being fed treats suggest the band does, in fact, know what they're up to. 4. [ ]
2) Baby Bash feat.
Akon, "Baby, I'm Back" -- . 6, like everyone. May crawl up to a 7 in a month.
I kind of want to give it one now, but am restraining self. No, no. I can't.
7.
3) Gwen Stefani, "Hollaback Girl" -- . 8.
I want to give it a 9, but part of me doesn't. This shit is bananas, but it could be even more so.
4) Pitbull feat.
Lil' Jon, "Toma" -- Love the beat (low tom sounds, faster beat on top of that, thumb piano-toned higher melody) and the pacing, but find it a little uninspiring on the whole. Not bananas enough? Very danceable though.
Will compromise at a 5. ( ; video is also unexciting, with exception of Fastlane-esque sunglasses Pitbull wears)
5) System of a Down, "B.Y.
O.B." -- Oy.
This is all stuff I've already been listening to. I even went and registered at some site to hear this two weeks ago, leading to emails from System of a Down in my inbox. Will admit I prefer it to most of this metally stuff, esp the weird proggy R.
H.C.P.
chorus(?) and the "la la la"s. Still cannot see myself listening to it on a regular basis, perhaps because of the amount o seriousness.
5. ( )
6) 112 feat. Foxy Brown, "U Already Know" -- Everybody says "twinkle" and twinkle it does.
Love the track. Love the dance moves. Along with Anthony, prefer the original, which is cleaner.
Love, most of all, repetition of "don't ax no questions." Damn it all, I have a weakness for R B. You could write R.
Kelly about it to complain, but Mr. Brown no doubt remembers me making him take me to buy the cassingle of Montell's "This Is How We Do It" years ago, before we were even bonded in wedlock. This almost provides everything I need in a song of this sort.
7. ( )
It's no , but.
..
I like the dance in .The song itself is passable, but the dance (the one with the arm swinging) seems designed for people who would like to dance but know that it usually requires coordination. This much less so.
Why is food an art form?
After they had stood for a moment in prayer, Father Joseph lifted the cover and ladled the soup into the plates, a dark onion soup with croutons. The Bishop tasted it critically and smiled at his companion. After the spoon had travelled to his lips a few times, he put it down and leaning back in his chair remarked,
"Think of it, Blanchet; in all this vast country between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean, there is probably not another human being who could make a soup like this."
"Not unless he is a Frenchman," said Father Joseph. He had tucked a napkin over the front of his cassock and was losing no time in reflection.
"I am not deprecating your individual talent, Joseph," the Bishop continued, "but, when one thinks of it, a soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
" [fr. Death Comes for the Archbishop]
Watch for "Damn Damn Leash.
" It is simple in plot, concept, and execution. It has a beat. And it clocks in under two minutes.
Let this be a lesson to you, noodlers. (real only)
Police Blotter (This is how we learn to make decisions, instructional edition)
This would be the right decision:Threat: On April 7, a local woman called deputies to report her husband told her a few weeks ago he was thinking about killing her.This is probably not:She told the deputy she was going to seek a divorce.
Complaint: On April 5, Deputy Laura Teet was dispatched to meet an upset man on Lavista Drive, who showed her where someone had cut down two trees in his yard. One was under a powerline and the other next to it.Also this, which sounds like a euphemism, but is entirely literal:He suspects his electricity provider performed the deed. He told Teet he was going to take care of this matter himself.
Arrest: On April 8, security at Wal-Mart arrested Dealethai Bush, 30, of Statham on a shoplifting charge.Most random of the week?She was observed putting a movie and some hot-dogs in her purse then leaving the store without paying.
Harassment: On April 7, a resident of Old Mill Drive reported he was awakened by a telephone call about 11:20 p..m. and the caller said, "Your daughter kicked my dog." Then he made a threat and said he was going to sue.
The resident explained his daughter was grown and no longer lived here.
Featuring .
1) Anastacia, "Heavy on My Heart" -- I can only hear 30 seconds of this, but it seems like a representative 30 seconds. It's appealingly big, but not interesting enough and, hell, if you're gonna go big, go much bigger, especially when you look kinda like a drag queen.
I dunno, 2? ( )
2) Razorlight, "Somewhere Else" -- Aw, it ain't so bad. This sort of squashed high-range indie walking the streets song isn't usually my thing, but I didn't mind this at all, surprisingly.
Mike is right that you can't hear the percussion for shit, but I didn't hate it. 3. ( if you have registered)
3) Maroon 5, "Must Get Out" -- It would be so much easier to climb on board the hate train, but I really can't hate these dudes.
This isn't as earwormy as "This Love," but it still has that teaspoon of Stevie Wonder that can easily make me not dislike a tune. 3. (Can't find it easily linkable but am sure it's all over the radio or will be)
4) Brand New Heavies, "Surrender" -- Blue-eyed soul does require soul to gain its name.
This just kind of sucks. 2. (streaming at ; video is there too)
5) Melanie Blatt, "See Me" -- It does seem to go with the movie it's featured in (Robots) but doesn't go enough toward shiny and metallic.
Another okay entry. 3. ( )
6) Kathryn Williams, "Shop Window" -- Can't actually listen to this bastard anywhere.
is sort of unhelpful, but does have a few other tunes that pop up at the very bottom, and if they're similar, it's probably the sort of thing I wouldn't mind listening to if it were on in a bookstore, which it would be. Next Norah Jones characterization is apt-ish. Pretty sound, nice and soft and acoustic, but not interesting enough for me to get super excited about.
Can't rate the song. Will rate artist as a whole a nice 5.
7) Freeloaders, "So Much Love to Give" -- Thump, thump, thump + singy keyboards + good sample.
Good danciness. Doesn't transcend its genre or anything, but is totally enjoyable. 5.
( )
8) The Secret Machines, "Road Leads Where It's Led" -- Mike's U2 comparison is right. And, therefore, I don't think this is all that interesting, but it is listenable (despite 30-second plus intro that was making me very antsy). 3.
(they have a player on that will stream it for you)
9) Daft Punk, "Robot Rock" -- Am still formulating ideas on the entire album (must must write review today). This is one of the better tunes on it. Robots.
And their interpretation of rock. 7, but is bumped up there from 6 for inclusion of robots. ( )
10) Interpol, "C'mere" -- Maybe when I prepare myself to be sort of annoyed and bored by something, I end up liking it far more than I expected.
That is the case here. Normally, I feel very lukewarm about Interpol, but I like this song, which really does have a Smiths tone to it and is accompanied by . Is it all like this and I am usually grouchier?
6.
11) Ciara, "1, 2 Step" -- Thing is, by this point I'm a little tired of this song, which doesn't bode well for it. May prefer her new single, "Oh," on the whole and always thought this might be too stripped down.
But funky noises are still good. 6. [ ]
12) Juliet, "Avalon" -- Eh, Mike got my expectations up too high.
If I'm gonna go for this kind of thing, I'd really rather Kylie most times. It does sound like the tunnel set in, and the whooshes ain't bad, but all told, just a 4.
What do you mean the president's not dead?
Come on, . It's not like he's got some kind of voodoo hex lined up (like the previous commander in chief).
It is, however, about time for an updating of , a list of crossover actors between 24 and the Whedonverse. You can add:
(24 season 4/Buffy)
(24 season 3/Angel)
(24 season 4/Angel)
(24 season 3/Angel)
(24 season 4/stunts on Angel)
(24 season 4/two different characters on Angel)
(24 season 3/Firefly)
(24 season 3/Angel)
(24 season 3/Angel, security guard/commando)
(24 season 4/Buffy Angel)
(24 season 3/Buffy; Rider's bro
(24 season 3/Buffy, where he plays Dr. Kriegel)
It seems to have slowed down a lot, and there are no major characters from either show in this edition.
Maybe they thought it was getting a bit too noticeable. Look, I know y'all can find a traitorous IT guy role for .
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Camille goes crazy over at Salon, talking about her new book focusing on purty pomes and dissing MoDo, the "Heather Has Two Mommies" crowd, and Ward Churchill along the way, e.g.
,
Look at the Ward Churchill case, this guy who was the chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder and who didn't even have a Ph.D. He had absolutely no scholarly training in anthropology or in anything in ethnic studies -- his M.Whoof.A. was in communications. He had no business being rocketed to a tenured position literally overnight in the early '90s, when he had just been teaching adjunct courses as a staffer there.
All of a sudden, he was earning $94,000 a year. There's something deeply corrupt in American academe that was rewarding, in this case, not the color of your skin but a claimed Indian heritage that Churchill can't prove -- and that one American Indian group long ago called fraudulent.
Don't, uh, pull your punches or anything. As usual, take most of it with plenty of salt. I love Camille and think she has many, many useful things to say.
I also respect her advocacy for scholarship that coexists with her appreciation of pop culture. However, she is a hyper lady and firmly in the French tradition of public intellectuals (and dudes on the street) being able to say whatever they want and, thus, occasionally going too far in their statements (farther, i.e.
, than they even really want to go, not farther than they should be allowed to). I think her points about theory are a little outdated by now, but I'm not gonna complain too much.
And you thought it was a hill, bitch
. It's more than you think. This is the page advertising the Athens appearance (which is an annual thing).It links to the home page of SOTM. Note also that the logo (upper left) is the awesomest thing ever.
1) . Apparently, much of our pollution is blown in from Atlanta, but I still think we could use emissions testing, considering the number of cars in this town and the smogginess all through the summer.
2) but could use more money and staff.
ABH brings up the judge situation:
It remains to be seen, however, how new Municipal Court Judge Kay Giese will deal with such ordinance violations, after Mayor Heidi Davison ousted her predecessor Ethelyn Simpson at least partly over questions about the severity of Simpson's sentences.But was it these ordinance violations that were the problem or people parking in their front yards or leaving their trashcans out? ?
Nah, just running workshops and such.
3) on the change from Heery to JJ G re SPLOST. Other late Tuesday happenings.
4) .
5) , but his characterization of the Lanier Gardens Barrow Social Security meeting as a campaign rally is probably not totally off.
6) .
7) , but largely because he's boring, not because he's the devil.
8) .
9) Previously, "brunch," that exciting new concept.
This time? .
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The kids have it right, as usual
Third time will no doubt be the charm. Have caught episodes of Nickelodeon's twice now and been really amused and impressed, but haven't yet bothered to find out what time new episodes actually air. It'll happen.So consider this the latest in a long line of TV shows (especially those made for kids) I encourage you to watch and you generally ignore me on. It is smart and quirky and sort of Parker Lewis-y. And it has that from in it, being evil but still super-competent.
It also gets a little meta at times. has guested a couple of times. Looks to have been created by , the mind behind a lot of Nick's more successful shows and , which, if you've seen it, you know is a good thing.
So. Props to the show. Thumb is pointing up.
Someone's gotta break . Or muddy the situation further by voting for Pet Sounds.
Polls close at midnight.
If you can't stand Wayne Brady's heat.
..
SF Chronicle has an article about .Unfortunately, it's extremely lame.
In a pop-cultural arena where men like Emeril Lagasse tend to dominate the spotlight, a 5-foot, 2-inch woman from Fairfield will debut as television's first Iron Chef wearing mascara.Does she think Emeril doesn't wear him some mascara?
Also, admission that she doesn't, like, have a restaurant. The highlight, however, follows for your amusement:
Cora has already shown she doesn't crumble under pressure. On the Wayne Brady Show, the comedian failed to ruffle Cora's feathers with his incessant jokes and overbearing presence..In fact, she managed to crack wise at Brady's expense after he made a joke about cracked pepper.
"You have been on some cracked pepper," she said, not missing a beat as she threaded yogurt-drenched chicken onto a skewer.
Oh, ess en ay pee! The wittiness is overwhelming my poor delicate senses. Also note that she is gay, which proves that it's not that you have to have a penis to go on the show, you just have to fuck women.
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all night. [ ] [ ]
