Heard on Anderson Cooper’s New Year’s Live on CNN from Times Square: Reporter: What are your plans for the holiday? Guy on the Street: Peace, love, happiness and a lot of lotion. God bless New Yorkers. Read more →
Category: The Idiot Box Archive
Spreading Some Christmas TV Cheer
You ever thought, “Damnit, I wish I hadn’t missed A Charlie Brown Christmas. My Tivo broke and I’m going to have to heave it out the windo, I’m so pissed. All it had to do was record Charlie freaking Brown! I hate technology!!!” Much like Scrooge and Christmas, you didn’t miss it no matter how many “spirits” visited you last… Read more →
A Christmas Curiosity
Why is it that mall Santa’s in television commercials are always accompanied by little people dressed as elves when real mall santa’s only have teenage girls for their elves? Read more →
Fox Sports Xtra Asks: Where’s Waldo?
Am I the only one who thinks Keith Calkins ripped off his turtle neck from either Waldo or Freddy Krueger? And what is up with all the turtle necks anyway? I saw one on Texan broadcaster Mark Vandermeer during a feature segment Fox did on him. He was in his house in Houston. I’m thinking pipes and tweed jackets with… Read more →
American Music Awards = Suckitude
Another lame awards show, another waste of time. Some observations from the 2006 AMA’s: It’s pretty bad when Lionel Ritchie re-hashing a hit from 20 years ago (OUTRAGEOUS!) trumps virtually every other performer. Memo to artists everywhere: a good song performed by a great singer with a killer band is ALWAYS a good thing no matter how old the song… Read more →
Obsession by Fox News
No, not a haunting and seductive fragrance but the stench of fear. This weekend, join host E.D. Hill as FOX News examines, “Obsession: The Threat of Radical Islam.” They are the most vital questions of our time: How deadly is the Islamic terror threat to the world and especially to the United States? Do terrorists really want to destroy our… Read more →
Cash is Too Damn Slow
I just saw a Visa ad that I really found funny. Ok, it was for the Visa checkcard, so it isn’t credit or anything, but the fact remains that it was all about le plastique. That’s French for “in debt up to your asshole.” In the ad, a group of people dance around some sort of eating establishment that looks… Read more →
Gee, This Guy Looks Familiar
Newscaster: A serial rapist in the area has been descibed to police by victims as an African American male in his 30’s…uh…with a moustache and…um…well…broad shoulders. Hmmmm… As you can see from…uh…this artist rendering…. Um, ok, the police are requesting that anyone with leads please contact them. If you see anyone that, uh, matches this description or…um…resembles this sketch…er… I… Read more →