If Women Ruled the World

A contest for photoshop enthusiasts...
A few more great entries can be seen here.

Nobody's Watching: The TV Pilot

Earlier, I've posted funny clips from the comedy team, Derek and Will, and the Producers of Scrubs and The Family Guy. Remember The Diet Coke and Mentos comedy clip, and the Lost parody... These guys are quite good. They did a pilot for the WB in 2005 that the suits were too dumb to comprehend, and it didn't get picked up. It's split into 3 segs on YouTube, it's rated 4.5 out of 5 stars, and has over 500,000 views...
Be 500,001 here.
The story behind the show is HERE. Very interesting notes about how future TV shows might debut on the internet FIRST, before primetime...

Fun With Pigeons

The Scarecrow... pest repellent.. $69 online.

Humane, Hilarious Bird Sprinkler Saves Hot Tubs

Anyone with a hot-tub, that occasionally gets nailed by the bounty of nature, will appreciate this funny solution to bird crap. It's called the Scarecrow... available online.
($69) Video at Vidmeister

Review: Prison Break Season 3 Premiere

When we last saw our misunderstood heroes, they were surrendering to Panamanian authorities in a jungle, after having to shoot the asian g-man who had that permanent smug smile on his face wiped off by a 32 calibur slug.
Little Question: How did the spook find Michael Scofield and Company after being shot in the warehouse at the end of season 2?
Bigger Question: Why is the show going all "Lost" on us, introducing a plot-line where Michael has to bust some secret prisoner out of the Sona prison, or watch his paramour Sarah Tancretti parish on a Rokr? Why, why, why? The execs (i.e. Brett Ratner) are over-thinking this one, and needlessly introducing a stupid plotline... Its not enough that Michael is interred at a prison that rivals the Turkish nightmare of Midnight Express, we have to have US Agents DEPENDING on him being there....
Very sketchy opening episode.... shades of implausibility approaching the level of 24 Day 6....

3D Motion Portrait Animates Still Photos

Mildly creepy, mildy amazing... A company has invented software that can take a single photograph, and 'animate' it for a variety of uses... observe:


via (Gizmodo)

The Big Bang Theory: Very Funny New Show

My review of the show is Here.
Takes me back to my college days, where I knew EVERY ONE of the characters
on this show, especially the blonde... Hello Debbie's wherever you are..

Amazon Unbox Free Preview Episode of the Pilot is HERE.

My review of Prison Break's:
3rd Season Premiere HERE.

Review: The Big Bang Theory

Overuse of the laugh track underscores just how insecure the Producers of the new CBS comedy "The Big Bang Theory" are. Just like their two lead characters, the producers don't know just how funny their show is to people who would likely watch it, thus undermining their own demographical research, and negating their original hypothesis about its odds of reaching a suitable mass viewership.

In other words, the show is very funny, very charming, not really suitable for anyone under 14, or over 44, not because of all the sex jokes, but because of the dialogue...
It takes me back to my days at Williams Village, at Univ. of Colorado, in 1980, when I was a roommate to 2 electrical engineers, a chemical engineer and good friends with 2 more, The Big Bang Theory wisely stays true to its nerdiness, not dumbing down the dialogue to let the ignorant American's figure out what they're saying... It's almost a foreign language to anyone who has an IQ below 100, and that's fine with me.
I give the show a 9 out of 10, deducting points only for the condescending overuse of the laugh-track. Listen suits, smart people don't need to be told what is funny.
This show is available for FREE PREVIEW on Amazon Unbox right now.

Tech: Unlimited Cell Time ** Comes To Denver

Sprint customers can ..

"Talk all they want while in their homes, without worrying about using their wireless minutes. Unlimited incoming and outgoing calls and nationwide long distance are included while using a Sprint phone at home." DETAILS HERE.
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3 Great Actors Get Their Due

Best supporting actress, comedy series		Jaime Pressly, My Name Is Earl NBC - "Oh, snap! She won!!."
Best supporting actor, comedy series		Jeremy Piven, Entourage HBO - Powerfully funny as Ari Gold.
Best supporting actor, drama series		Terry O'Quinn, Lost ABC - He makes the show......

Good News Items

Good News:
Illinois High School Bans Suggestive High School Dancing (Juking)
Colorado Judge Forces Loud Rap Music Listeners to Listen To Barry Manilow
85 Yr. Old Woman Chases down Purse Snatcher, has him arrested.

Fall 2007 Network TV Grid

My invalueable resource for Couch-Potato time, EPGUIDES.COM, has this falls listing of what shows will air when, so you can weep uncontollably that you don't have a dual-tuner Tivo figure out which shows you MUST see, and which ones you'll just have to pass by. The season "starts" next Monday. Make sure you try Kid Nation, Back To You, Prison Break, Reaper and Survivor: China, all premiering next week. Heroes premieres the 24th.

The Worst Career Advice Parents Can Offer

The full article, an interesting one,... is HERE...

An interesting Flash-based "Quiz" will help you determine your "REAL AGE."
It is here...

Damn Internet: This Is What I'm Up Against- Car Buying Coaches

This guy would be my worst freakin' nightmare...
If I saw him roll up, I'd have to flip him (hand him off) to a newbie.
Arrggh.

Fall TV Season Preview Shows Promise

TV Week has a sampler allowing you to figure out which (IF ANY) of the shows you want to Season Pass on the TIVO.
My early favorites, based on the clips and the vibe:
SUNDAY:
The Sarah Conner Chronicles - Based on Terminator 2 - Fox

MONDAY:
Chuck - NBC - Spy comedy ... Geek twist on Alias/My Name is Earl.
Samantha Who - ABC - Christina Applegate gets amnesia.
The Big Bang Theory - CBS - Nerds living with hottie
Aliens in America - Fox - Pakistani exchange student visits America.
All 4 are comedies, and look promising...

TUESDAY
Reaper - The CW - (Dead Like Me by Kevin Smith)

WEDS.
Pushing Daisies - ABC - Quirky, and visually amazing.
Private Practice - ABC - Good cast.
KID NATION - CBS - FASCINATING REALITY SHOW... Watch the clip!
Back To You - Fox - Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton Comedy

Thursday, Friday and Saturday? Nothing worth a damn appears to be out there.....


Daily Variety Magazine, the industry bible has a blog that did the same thing I did, but watched entire fall episodes... their picks and misses are HERE....
Of course, they largely agree with mwahh.

The Holy Grail Named Best British Film of All Time

In an Amazon.com-UK and IMDB poll of 7,000 brit respondents,
the Grail won with a whopping 25% of the total vote.

1. Monty Python's Holy Grail

2. A Clockwork Orange

3. Trainspotting

4. Lawrence of Arabia

5. The Third Man

6. Shakespeare In Love

7. Monty Python's Life of Brian

8. The Bridge On The River Kwai

9. Sense and Sensibility

10.Love Actually

Time's List of 100 Best TV Shows Of All Time

Is YOUR FAVORITE on the list?

My Top 10 would include:
Deadwood
24
Friends
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
Wings
Frasier
Twin Peaks
Gilligan's Island
Bugs Bunny Cartoon Hour

(Pictured Above, Seth Bullock-Deadwood)

What Happens When Bees Invade? Fireballs!

Pretty cool photo montage of a guy who took matters into his own hands when his swingset was overrun by bees....
The picture set is HERE...

Dude Does A Mean Drum Jam To Nintendo Mario

No Wussy 5 Megapixel Cam Here: How 'Bout 13.5 Gigapixel?

http://view.break.com/360208 - Watch more free videos

Stream Of Consciousness Sept. 1

Hotter than Hades today... 108 in da shade... Spent all day inside in full retreat from the unrelenting global warming... I read that Hollywood attributes this summer's good box office to global warming... Good Gawd... they have no shame... Just heard Britney's "Comeback Song": It's called "Gimme More." I say, Gimme less of it... infantile repetitive nonsense from the bald one. At the opposite end of the spectrum, newer stuff from Collective Soul comes out tomorrow, featuring the single, "Hollywood.." Catchy little dittie.. I heard it live on Jay Leno.... I'm running out of room at the house for the stuff I had at Advanced Video... equipment that I didn't include in the SALE... Oh, I didn't announce that? Sorry. Yeah. Sold. Done-O-Rama... The Big 8-6. I don't miss it yet,.. Not likely to any time soon... Steven went to his first dance, and it was of course, a bit of a snooze... 7th grade dances don't exactly set the standard in entertainment,.,,.. Damn Mexican trucks are a comin... I'm warning you, someone's gonna get killed by some idiot taking his siesta behind the wheel...... I'd like to have a Halloween costume this year from the Holy Grail... I wonder where I'd find that garb... It's looking pretty good for a Sept. start at Valencia Lexus.,.. US Auto sales are at ten year lows, so I'm not gonna try to sell Saturn or Ford.... I hear gas might go down below $2.00 a gallon in CALIFORNIA by Xmas.... WHY????? I put the dog picture up for no good reason... I will start adding my own videos soon, as Blogger now allows direct video posting (No Youtude nonsense)......
Have a good Labor Day!

Countdown of Sexiest Women Over 35. They Forgot Winona..

MSN did some kinda very non-scientific (i.e. they didn't ask me!) listing of the 15 hottest women over age 35....
The List is Here..

Steven's First Week of 7th Grade..

He seems to be adjusting juuussttt fine. He hasn't talked to any girls he didn't know from elementary. He's keeping his head down, and just doing his thing...

He's been asked to come up with a song that already exists describing what school is like for him now... I was poking around the web, looking for lyrics, and stumbled upon a blog describing a music video called Rotten Hell, about 7th grade. Here is the blooger's own words..

I taught seventh grade several years ago. If there is a hell, it must resemble the seventh grade school experience—vicious and seemingly eternal. Statistically, seventh graders learn the least of any grade-school students, and the average person learns less at 12 years old than at any other age during life. Teacher/education specialist/author Chip Wood writes that, developmentally, 12-year-olds probably shouldn't be in a formal school environment at all. Instead, they should all be in an environment resembling a cross between summer camp and the Civilian Conservation Corps. School is hell for twelves, and no place better illustrates man's inhumanity than a middle school cafeteria.

I pray it goes easier for my boy than that.....

In a 2005 commencement speech at Emory, Tom Brokaw said:

" . . . real life is not college; real life is not high school. Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

The world that you're about to enter is filled with junior high adolescent pettiness, pubescent rivalries, the insecurities of 13-year-olds, and the false bravado of 14-year-olds. "

A Video from a kid about his first dance....

Advanced Video Gets Dose Of Dean

As of Friday, the 17th, I was about 90% complete with the sale of the store, and its assets. Things were going smoothly enough. I was advertising on Craigslist everything under the sun, and stuff was flying out the door, admittedly at lower than desired prices. Below is a sample listing...

All Right, You Win - more free stuff

Apparently everyone in the whole freaking city is broke.
You'll just have to live with your conscience if you take the stuff
I have, for free....

Fully functioning JVC VHS VRS's.
Office Chair
Non-recording VHS fullsize camera, suitable for hooking up to a DVD or VHS recorder for auditions... Camera part works great...

2 Work Benches.
Quit a bit more... too much to mention..

I even took Sunday off, as I was exhausted... Monday, as I was going through my voice mail, I get a message from the LA Fire Dept. telling me there had been a flood, that they had to force entry into my store, and to please come take repossession of the store. The message was left a full 24 hours before.... I rushed in to what was left of my store...A million year old pipe burst about 12 inches below ground in the crawlspace between my store and the Medical Marijuana store next door. This was probably another section of the same pipe that burst 2 years before, flooding the then Asian Massage Parlor, next door... It didn't spare me this time. Everything in the store that was near the floor got soaked. The fire dept. took 70 minutes to arrive, according to a fellow store owner. My security alarm never went off, (and the ADT people said they didn't even have me on file.... odd, since they've been charging me for the last 48 months.)The f-ing slumlord of a landlord isn't even bothering to come out and see what happened.... This is a major setback in Project: New Life...
More to come.....

Water Slide for Real Men

Now THESE guys know how to have fun!
Where were these guys when I was in school?
Full Article with pix here.