Steven Colbert versus the Decemberists in a Guitarmageddon Shred-down.
No kidding.
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Never Let the Suits Win
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I really, really like John Rogers’s blog. The guy is FUNNY (and damned if I don’t come away half the time having learned something, particularly when it comes to his frequent posts about writing for TV.) But this latest post is by far and away one of the best things I’ve read in months — a story about his time as a stand-up comic and the veteran who took him under his wing.
Trust me: this one’s worth the read.
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Christmastime is Here
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A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS, as performed by the cast of NBC’s SCRUBS.
No, I’m not kidding.
(Video is, obviously, safe for work, what with it being A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS and all. Audio… maybe not as much.)
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Happy Holidays!
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A More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy?
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Via bloggingohio:
The Columbus Dispatch yesterday reported that Rickenbacker Airport, the former SAC base south of town now primarily serving industry and shipping traffic, is in the running as a home for PlanetSpace’s planned shuttle-like tourist flights into orbit beginning in 2008.
PlanetSpace has designed several space vehicles, including what they believe to be a practical, affordable vehicle for earth-to-orbit traffic. The Silver Dart is a flexible hypersonic vehicle capable of a controlled return to Earth from orbit. It will be driven into orbit via booster rockets. Unlike the American shuttle, the Silver Dart will be highly maneuverable, and so can leave orbit at any point and return to bases anywhere on the planet.
…PlanetSpace is currently entertaining bids from various possible U.S. facilities. Columbus is supposedly putting together an offer with the help of the Chamber of Commerce. PlanetSpace claims they will have 500 people employed at the facility within 3 years, and hope to begin flights as early as 2008.
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And for good measure, here’s the Dispatch article from Sunday.
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Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
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While perhaps not in the same category of the kind of screwups Jeremy lambastes their film division for, I think it is clear that Rupert Murdoch’s FOX has, at this moment, reached an absolute and all-time low water mark for television in this country. Yes, lower than all of your WHO WANTS TO MARRY A MULTI-MILLIONAIREs and TEMPTATION ISLANDs and THE SWANs put together and multiplied a thousanfold:
On Monday, Nov. 27 and Wednesday, Nov. 29, O.J. Simpson, acquitted murderer and NFL Hall-of-Famer, will star in a two-part FOX special sensitively titled “O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened.”
…Publisher Judith Regan and Simpson will have a no-holds-barred interview in which he, among other things, “tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes.”
“This is an interview that no one thought would ever happen,” says FOX’s reality programming guru Mike Darnell. “It’s the definitive last chapter in the Trial of the Century.”
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I feel dirty just having read that. And so should you. More here.
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