3.09.2007

Katie Couric is rotting like a bad tomato


What the hell happened to her? She looks like a wax version of Krusty the Clown melting on the driveway. Her arms are like pantyhose stuffed with tofu.

I kind of feel bad that her ratings suck, but people don't watch CBS for news, they watch it for amazing crime dramas. Still, you'd think there'd be some overlap in the NCIS demographic and the Katie Couric demongraphic.

And Merideth Viera is scary too, but at least she's got a nicer personality. At least when she interviews people she doesn't constantly interject her own opinions. And at least with the way she interacts with the rest of the Today Show team viewers believe there's a chance that she's human on the inside.

3.01.2007

Snow Day

I think the reason that daytime TV sucks so much is probaby that it's the "system's" way of telling us all to go get a job.

2.28.2007

ATTENTION PREDATORS!



Are you tired of lurking in the shadows? Do you long for the attention you deserve? Do you like it when little boys pee on you?

Good News! Now YOU can get your 15 minutes of fame!

NBC is now holding open auditions for it's hit new show, sweeping the country, TO CATCH A PREDATOR. That's right, this is your chance to meet Chris Hanson, the host of TO CATCH A PREDATOR, the host America loves to hate. Sure, he talks funny, and sometimes we don't understand his quirky expressions, but still...you can't take your eyes off of him!

Open tryouts are coming soon to a town near you. To find out more information, just send an Instant Message to MelCareBare13 or coTtoNpaNtieS12 telling our young lovelies the things you like to do when you're home alone watching PBS on Saturday mornings.

Good Luck, America!

2.27.2007

Heroes last night

What the friggin' frig? I love Heroes, definitely my favorite show. I think I can even say, with a certain amount of confidence, that I prefer Heroes to Law and Order now. Anybody that knows me knows that means a lot.

But last night's show was like one giant commercial! There just seemed to be way too many commercial breaks, and this on top of the prominence of that damn Nissan Armada in the Bennet's driveway! I have a problem with a good show selling out like this - not only selling product placements within the show, but then also having too many commercials during the break.

Hell, I kept flipping over to the Thomas Crowne Affair. The original one! I had time to watch some pointless seen with a dunebuggy out in the waves. I guess it wasn't completely pointless, because dunebuggies are cool.

Anyway, too many commercials. NBC has to watch itself, because of a few facts here:

1) Overall, their network sucks. ER is like stinky old cheese that only strange Brits think is awesome. Merideth Viera looks like a creepy witch, although she's nice. I don'think they cover one decent sport anymore. There just aren't many reasons to tune in.

2) GE, as a whole, isn't quite the cash cow it once was, in part due to NBC sucking wind.

3) People like Heroes, but people don't like extra commercials. Plus you already have product placements!

I just think that you gotta leave well enough alone. The show isn't even a year old, and they're already willing to dilute it's 1-hour block of television with these extra ads. I don't think people will respond too well.

Plus, what the hell is the Black Donnelys? It's like Sleepers meets the Boondock Saints in a blender, and comes out all messed up and crappy.

Here's an equation for success, NBC - Monday nights - 9:00 - Heroes. 10:00 - another episode of Heroes. Wednesday, all day - law and order. Thursday - all day - Law and Order and Seinfeld repeats.

2.16.2007

Dave Grohl is Awesome





Why I love Dave Grohl:

Seriously his balls must be made of titanium, with pubes of perfect white gold. This man rocks, and rocks with such authority that you stand up and take notice and you enjoy that rock.

When Dave Grohl was born, I bet his guardian angel needed earplugs to block out the heavan-sent rock aura that surrounds Dave Grohl. He has a psychadelic halo, and this is true absolute fact because a gypsy outside of Fort Myers told me so.

When Dave Grohl was 7 years old a bully pushed him up against a wall and demanded his lunch money. Dave Grohl responded by imediately thumping the rhythm of "Wipeout" all over the bully's face with his little seven-year-old fists until the bully had wet poops streaming down his legs. From that day forward, Dave Grohl brought peace to kids at school.

Dave Grohl probably doesn't remember the first song he wrote, but I bet it was some awe-inspiring ruckus mixing the best parts from "We Will Rock You" and the theme from the A-Team into one huge, messy hella-rock extravaganza.

Dave Grohl, I'm talking directly to you right now, you are righteous.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dave Grohl once rocked a see-through guitar! Can your mind even handle how awesome that is? Probably not. You probably can't even beging to comprehend how rock-amazing Dave Grohl is because you're probably sitting at home sipping Earl Grey and listening to Glen Miller Orchestra.

While you wallow away in your own pathetic, lackluster life petting your stupid cats, Dave Grohl makes out with rabid rotweillers just to prove a point. He tames them. He pulls out a see-through guitar, he starts rocking it while also using his feet on his kick drum and hi-hat, and just rocks the shit out of those rabid, killer beasts until they are calm and docile and amazing.

But those dogs would still tear the crap out of your stupid cats because Dave Grohl wills it.

The best part about Dave Grohl is that he's not all rock-your-face-off all of the time. No, no, no my friends. Dave Grohl knows how to woo the ladies as well. He can go up to a gentle sweetheart like Norah Jones and be like, "let's collaborate," and Norah Jones is totally helpless. She's like, "Yes, Dave Grohl. If you will it, let it be so."

And then, just to prove his point, Dave Grohl puts it on his album. Wrap your minds around that.

When Prince covered a Foo Fighters' song at the superbowl, it made Prince instantly 25 times cooler and, a lot of people don't know this, the following things happened to prince that week:
1) He won two scratch-off games and got like 175 bucks
2) His car got 27 miles-per-gallon for the week, and normally it's around 24
3) Most American's forgot entirely who even played in the superbowl, but everyone loved Prince.

And that's all just because Prince publicly admitted that he loves Dave Grohl!

In a cage match, Dave Grohl could absolutely whoop Britney Spears.

When they toured together, Dave Grohl made Weezer look like the friggin' smurfs. And I like Weezer.

For breakfast, Dave Grohl likes to have two eggs, over medium, and whole wheat toast with spackle on it because THAT'S HOW HARDCORE DAVE GROHL IS! If you can even fathom it, he washes it down with a glass of Draino and then burps up amazing power-chords.

2.14.2007

This is what I'm doing


I just ate a whole pack of pez, all at once.

I've started writing a book. It's about the Oregon Trail, kind of. Not the game, but certainly the game is what sparked my love affair with the history.

The wife is worried that, like my songs, it's going to be all about breaking up. It won't though, because in my book the wife is already dead, and it begins with one of the children dying.

I can't figure out why the wife doesn't think I'm ready for kids yet.

Let week we taught the dog to "speak" because he never barks. Now he barks all the time and always expects a treat for it. Oh well, live and learn.

2.09.2007

What happened to everything?

I haven't written in a while, but that's okay because nobody reads this anyway. Mixed feelings about Anna Nicole passing - on the one hand, should I feel bad? while on the other hand, why would I feel bad?

It's good to see Bob Nardelli taking some heat in his departure from Home Depot. I don't like Home Depot because a) there's never any help, b) I'm always afraid something is going to fall off of the pallett racking and kill me, and c) it's over priced. I can get a three pack of fuses at ACE for less than one fuse at Home Depot. They bullied out the knowledgable, helpful, little guy in many markets to replace him with a business model tailored for contractors.

Anyway, I'm glad that Nardelli's departure is again bringing some attention to overpaid CEOs. You look at his story and you're like, "this guy really didn't do anything all that special during his tenure, and yet he's walking away with MILLIONS!"

Nobody's here but me at work today, and I wonder if they have all quit. I am definitely not qualified to run my own business.