• Funnies - Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Daily Kos: Palin Pranked AAAAAH!!!! SO FULL OF WIN

    Daily Kos: Palin Pranked Listen to the hilarious call here. EPIC FAIL. Grandpa McCain isn’t going to be happy about this one. Their website must be getting slammed because it isn’t loading for some. Here is the YouTube [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/QbEwKcs-7Hc" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] (h/t NegSpin): Oh my God!! This is indeed EPIC… at first Palin is falling all over herself thanking him for taking a few minutes to call her, and he drops names of well-known Canadian entertainers, catching her out on not knowing the names of the real French and Canadian dignitaries they “replaced.” Throughout the conversation, Audette…

  • Clan: McTiVo - Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics - SciFi/Fantasy

    Coming This Fall: V – The White House Years

    You’d better hope I’m wrong. I’d heard that a remake of the classic SF TV series “V” was in the works, but take a look at this bizarre clip from YouTube someone put together. I went looking for more “poker tell” citations for the debate tonight, as the Chicago Trib had some in a slideshow, but somehow missed the many times McCain poked out his tongue. Actually, on this clip, he’s revealed as the first Iguana-American to be elected to the Senate and run for President. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/CIZLg_lmx10" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] See? Quite, quite creepy. Don’t let your hamsters…

  • Clan: McTiVo - Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics - SciFi/Fantasy

    Coming This Fall: V – The White House Years

    You’d better hope I’m wrong. I’d heard that a remake of the classic SF TV series “V” was in the works, but take a look at this bizarre clip from YouTube someone put together. I went looking for more “poker tell” citations for the debate tonight, as the Chicago Trib had some in a slideshow, but somehow missed the many times McCain poked out his tongue. Actually, on this clip, he’s revealed as the first Iguana-American to be elected to the Senate and run for President. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/CIZLg_lmx10" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] See? Quite, quite creepy. Don’t let your hamsters…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    TAR: Mr and Mrs Claus Go Back to Beekeeping

    Yes, I took a season off and didn’t watch the 12th season of Amazing Race. At all. Can you believe it? All because we were out of town or something the night of the premiere, and even though it was on TiVo for a couple of weeks, I never got around to watching, and didn’t want to start in the middle. But Sunday night was the premier of the 13th installment – sure to be a lucky one for this long-lived reality show! – and so since I had a little time on my hands, I sat down to watch…

  • Clan: McTiVo - Radio

    Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me has Leonard Nimoy!

    Now listening to the beginning of WWDTM, and later on the celebrity guest is Leonard Nimoy. Can I get a W00t?!?!?! Apparently, Mr Nimoy did our favorite news quiz the honor of showing up in person, causing the staff much joy and making the dreams of at least one total dork come true (that would be host Peter Sagal). There’s an entire set of photos at Flickr, but this is the one that makes me go “AWWWWWWwwww!” As Peter noted just seconds ago, if you don’t know who Nimoy is or why Sagal is so absurdly pleased about his appearance…

  • Clan: McTiVo - Radio

    Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me has Leonard Nimoy!

    Now listening to the beginning of WWDTM, and later on the celebrity guest is Leonard Nimoy. Can I get a W00t?!?!?! Apparently, Mr Nimoy did our favorite news quiz the honor of showing up in person, causing the staff much joy and making the dreams of at least one total dork come true (that would be host Peter Sagal). There’s an entire set of photos at Flickr, but this is the one that makes me go “AWWWWWWwwww!” As Peter noted just seconds ago, if you don’t know who Nimoy is or why Sagal is so absurdly pleased about his appearance…

  • Radio

    Radio Ephemera: Cue the Sun

    Yesterday on my way in, there were few signs in my area of the weekend’s floods, although I never made it to church and we had trouble finding a way through flooded Des Plaines intersections after leaving Steve’s house. WXRT was playing “Here Comes The Sun.” Obvious choice. Then there was a short clip from The Truman Show. The godlike Director said, “Cue the Sun.” And then they played Radiohead; I think it was “climbing the walls House Of Cards.” An unsettling, crashing, creepily apocalyptic choice, just as I crossed the bridge over Salt Creek, which flooded farther to the…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    The Closer: A Heart-Stopper

    Holy crap!  We just watched the season finale of The Closer more or less in real-time, not wanting to wait for TiVo to spool up. It’s not just a cliff-hanger, it’s a heart-stopper. It amazes me how an ordinary TV cop drama can make viewers care so much… or maybe that’s just good drama, as TNT likes to tout. And good characterization, and good writing, and good plotting, and good direction, and good special effects, and so on. Dammit, they’d better start polishing up a new Emmy, or three.