Hey! Here's my new job:
www.attackoftheshow.com
I'm the official blogger guy on Video Game Television's daily, live broadcast of comedy, pop-culture, music, comic books and video games show.
It's re-runs this week, but check it out next week for new, exciting shows to enjoy.
Also here's another place where I post sometimes:
www.g4tv.com/blog
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11.22.2005
11.06.2005
My New Job
I have been hired by Comcast Cable, and not as the guy who comes to your house to install your box, either.
I'm a content producer for G4's website. In case you aren't hip, G4 is the videogame channel, so all the hours I've spent exploding things, eating power-ups and finding the extra guy have finally paid off.
No more can my wife give me shit for playing video games, because I'll just go, "It's for WORK! Now play your position and bring me another beer, woman."
After my first 3 days on the job, I can report these important differences between this job and every other job I've ever held: (Danish bon-vivant Marty Barrett suggested I write them down so as not to forget)
1)When I walk into the office in the morning, I don't feel like a crypt door is being closed behind me.
2) My co-workers are interesting, competent people.
3) The company seems to have given some thought to the work enviroment. So far, it's been a tolerable place to spend time.
4)I feel like I was hired because of what I might bring to the company as opposed to being hired because a boss-guy was like, "Well, someone has to do this shit."
I have been hired by Comcast Cable, and not as the guy who comes to your house to install your box, either.
I'm a content producer for G4's website. In case you aren't hip, G4 is the videogame channel, so all the hours I've spent exploding things, eating power-ups and finding the extra guy have finally paid off.
No more can my wife give me shit for playing video games, because I'll just go, "It's for WORK! Now play your position and bring me another beer, woman."
After my first 3 days on the job, I can report these important differences between this job and every other job I've ever held: (Danish bon-vivant Marty Barrett suggested I write them down so as not to forget)
1)When I walk into the office in the morning, I don't feel like a crypt door is being closed behind me.
2) My co-workers are interesting, competent people.
3) The company seems to have given some thought to the work enviroment. So far, it's been a tolerable place to spend time.
4)I feel like I was hired because of what I might bring to the company as opposed to being hired because a boss-guy was like, "Well, someone has to do this shit."
10.23.2005
10.21.2005
A Couple Other Things About Holy Spirit High School
An ancient nun taught my junior year American history class. Her name was Sister Laurita (sp?) and she was almost 600 years old. She was a mean old lady.
I remember two things about her history class.
1) She taught us that Nixon had been tried and convicted by the press and had done nothing wrong.
2) One day, she was very angry at the class for talking too much or something and she yelled at us for a long time. Then, to punctuate her diatribe, she walked to the back of the classroom where my friend John and I sat and said:
"... Don't think I don't smell the marijuana you two smoke back here."
We were like, "WTF?" before WTF had even been invented.
In science class, I remember being taught about evolution and told that it doesn't necessarily contradict Catholic teachings. Pretty weird that we've gotten to the point over the last 20 years where public schools are teaching kids whatever bullshit they're calling creationism as an "alternative theory" to evolution.
If I had kids, I'd be pretty pissed at that nonsense. I'm pissed now, on behalf of other people's children.
An ancient nun taught my junior year American history class. Her name was Sister Laurita (sp?) and she was almost 600 years old. She was a mean old lady.
I remember two things about her history class.
1) She taught us that Nixon had been tried and convicted by the press and had done nothing wrong.
2) One day, she was very angry at the class for talking too much or something and she yelled at us for a long time. Then, to punctuate her diatribe, she walked to the back of the classroom where my friend John and I sat and said:
"... Don't think I don't smell the marijuana you two smoke back here."
We were like, "WTF?" before WTF had even been invented.
In science class, I remember being taught about evolution and told that it doesn't necessarily contradict Catholic teachings. Pretty weird that we've gotten to the point over the last 20 years where public schools are teaching kids whatever bullshit they're calling creationism as an "alternative theory" to evolution.
If I had kids, I'd be pretty pissed at that nonsense. I'm pissed now, on behalf of other people's children.
10.03.2005
American Actress Rebecca Gray Lauded by Area Paper; To Watch Bad News Bears
I'm going to watch the original Bad News Bears this evening with American Actress Rebecca Gray, Danish humorist Martin Barrett and American Baby Marisol Barrett. Ms. Gray recently recieved this review from The Los Angeles Time. Congrats.
I agree with the reviewer: Gray is all about refined virtuousity and 70s Walter Matthau vehicles.
I can not say this about The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training and The Bad News Bears go to Japan. They are terrible movies.
In related news, I'm hosting a showing of The Fish that Saved Pittsburg soon. As I'm sure you know, TFTSP is a mid 70s basketball movie in which a team of scrappy underdogs with heart rise from a terrible record with the help of coach Gabe Kaplan and a mysterious astrologer. I don't want to ruin the ending for you, but suffice to say, after their meteroric rise from the bottom of the league, they win the championship and every hugs each other.
Doctor J. is in the movie. He's not a real doctor, but whatever, I guess.
Also in the movie: South Jersey basketball legend Chris Ford. Last week I was in Margate New Jersey at the 2005 Westival (details coming soon) and we ran into Mr. Ford.
American Dad Ray McAvaddy finally got to ask Mr. Ford this question:
"When they show The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh on TV, do you get paid anything?"
Mr Ford said he gets 25 bucks every time it airs.
Question answered! Yay!!!!!11!!1one!! LOL
9.29.2005
This is what we call a "shout-out" in my neighborhood.
My pal Carly Milne's book has been published.
That's what I call awesome. You go girl. Etc.
You are the fantastic writer/editor of the world, and you look extra-double-alluring with your shirt unbuttoned.
Go to Amazon and buy it, blog reader.
Go to her blog and read, while you're at it, lazy.
9.28.2005
So I wrote this long review/description on UPN's new adult soap opera Sex, Love and Secrets last night, but blogger ate it and now it's gone.
You didn't miss much, but I'm a angry at blogger for being a bastard.
The show uses actual locations in Silver Lake for both establishing shots and some interior scenes. It's disconcerting to see restaraunts, bars and street corners I've urinated on filled with TV people and their straight, white teeth.
Overall, it seems like it was written by people who drove through the neighborhood once on their way to Santa Monica and West Hollywood or other places where assholes live.
Take some Melrose Place, mix it with Reality Bites(!) and throw in a carbon-copy of Desperate Housewives narration, and you get the gist. Robyn and I called every single plot point for the entire hour, as well as how the rest of the season would unfold were the show to be on for more than a month. It won't be. Trust me. By the end, I'm convinced Robyn and I were the only two people in the country still watching.
The transitions between scenes were all those clanging, whirring, super-saturated, time-lapse things you do on a computer, because I guess we used up the nation's supply of star-wipes and spin cuts in the 1970s.
You can tell a show is bad when they try and inject life in it by screwing with the transitions. It's like your TV is screaming at you: "LOOOOK!!!! THE SCENE IS CHANGING!!!!!! HERE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR YOU!!!!!" I'm not fooled.
Also, this one guy had a really funny looking head. That's why he's wearing a hat:
You didn't miss much, but I'm a angry at blogger for being a bastard.
The show uses actual locations in Silver Lake for both establishing shots and some interior scenes. It's disconcerting to see restaraunts, bars and street corners I've urinated on filled with TV people and their straight, white teeth.
Overall, it seems like it was written by people who drove through the neighborhood once on their way to Santa Monica and West Hollywood or other places where assholes live.
Take some Melrose Place, mix it with Reality Bites(!) and throw in a carbon-copy of Desperate Housewives narration, and you get the gist. Robyn and I called every single plot point for the entire hour, as well as how the rest of the season would unfold were the show to be on for more than a month. It won't be. Trust me. By the end, I'm convinced Robyn and I were the only two people in the country still watching.
The transitions between scenes were all those clanging, whirring, super-saturated, time-lapse things you do on a computer, because I guess we used up the nation's supply of star-wipes and spin cuts in the 1970s.
You can tell a show is bad when they try and inject life in it by screwing with the transitions. It's like your TV is screaming at you: "LOOOOK!!!! THE SCENE IS CHANGING!!!!!! HERE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR YOU!!!!!" I'm not fooled.
Also, this one guy had a really funny looking head. That's why he's wearing a hat:
I'm really super impressed with the whole blogging phenomenon that's overtaken White AmeriKKKa. I have something new and interesting to contribute to our society's discourse!
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