Archive for the 'Entertainment' Category

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I want these so bad.

Gaming

Thanks to Anne and her partner, I’m quickly becoming something of a game nut. Last night we all took Ethan down to the local game store, The Game Preserve, and interrupted the Friday night D&D competition because I wanted to buy The Horse Racing Game (best name ever), a mixture of cribbage and Kentucky […]

The Media Collective Gets Sexism in Action

My friend, a professed gadget geek, decided to take his recording equipment on campus and interview drunk passersby on the sidewalk as they come out of the bars on Purdue University’s main strip. He’s now releasing his recorded material as 2-5 minute podcasts that, as far as experimental radio goes, are pretty damn funny.
In […]

A Lesson in Content and Distribution

The Big Ten Network debuts tomorrow, piquing the interest of many a Midwestern college sports fan. The Big Ten Network is a subsidiary of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is decidedly evil and way too rich for his own good, in partnership with the Big Ten universities. The network plans to carry all […]

LEGO Zelda

Ethan (almost 8) and my nephew (12) spent last week making stop-motion animation using a digital camera and a box of LEGOs. You’ll notice that once the pictures were completed they filmed a Windows slideshow of the pictures to animate the stills. The sound effects are Ethan. Soooo cute, and very creative especially […]

Schadenfreude

“Mom! Mom! Mom!” she shouted as a female deputy escorted her from the courtroom. “It’s not fair. It’s not right!”
But drunk driving is totally cool.

Heh. Indeed.

All of the righteous indignation over the “injustice” done to Anthony Ciolli is completely misplaced. But also entirely entertaining. The news that he’s been sacked made my day. The semi-informed rantings of second rate law students just caps it.
Comment by Thanks - May 3, 2007 at 1:49 pm

Background and context here.
UPDATE: Terrence writes […]

Lost (For a Good Reason) Boys

In truth, I’m just bitter that a certain License to Drive broke my DVD player last year after it was sent to me by a certain libertarian blogger that shall not be named, and I’m (*cough*) certain The Coreys were behind this.
Regardless, they’re back:
Corey Feldman and Corey Haim are reuniting in the name […]

It’s About Time

For the first black Disney princess:
The Walt Disney Co. has started production on an animated musical fairy tale called “The Frog Princess,” which will be set in New Orleans and feature the Walt Disney Studio’s first black princess…
John Lasseter, chief creative officer for Disney and the Disney-owned unit Pixar Animation Studios, said the movie would […]

Magical Negro Strikes Again?

Obviously I haven’t seen “Black Snake Moan” yet, but I can’t get away from the buzz today. Several bloggers I respect are writing about the website and the trailers (see here in particular), and a particularly nasty discussion about the movie posters has erupted at Salon.
It’s the interview with director Craig Brewer at Salon […]

Okay, I May Have To See “Borat”

A deleted scene:

Non-Voting News

Oh my god, y’all. Britney filed for divorce.
UPDATE: Forgive me for being all over this, but Fed-Ex didn’t know Britney was filing for divorce until he found out during an interview. Via text message. And there’s video.

Some days I am thankful for American celebrity.