If you haven’t seen any Terminator movies, or Transformers, this probably won’t amuse you. But if you have, it’s pretty hilarious… 🙂
Larry Spock
Mom sent this along after seeing it on Letterman… Great to see Nathan Lane will be in the greatest movie of 2009… 😛
Failing
It’s ironic, because I failed in the process of making the image…
So, Brooke and I both frequent failblog.org, which is an excellent time-waster that uses videos or pictures of a variety of different “fails.” It would be best if you’d just go, rather than having me explain it.
Anyway, I thought I’d found an excellent fail on U-Verse’s listing for the Star Trek: TNG episode, “The Icarus Factor.” Apparently, however, John Tesh was actually in it, but was uncredited (so it wasn’t in my Star Trek Encyclopedia). A cursory look at IMDB shows that yes, indeed, Tesh did appear in the episode…grrrrrr…
I didn’t want to waste the picture I generated, though. Still kinda silly to see it in a listing on my TV Guide…
Battle Royale
The “media” has apparently been all over this supposed “battle” between Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” and Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show.” The whole thing started last week with Jon Stewart lambasting the financial news network for not seeing this crisis coming, while they were telling their viewers to “buy, buy, buy” a variety of stocks, including the companies that would fold in the coming weeks.
Well, the “media” made with it and ran, calling it a battle between Cramer (whom Stewart referred to, yes, but certainly didn’t focus on) and Stewart, culminating in Cramer coming on the “Daily Show” Thursday night for a looooooong interview…with Stewart, in the end, beating the crap out of Cramer.
Honestly, Jon Stewart is the best interviewer on television, as he can get away with asking almost anything and making his guests look like idiots. I really felt sorry for Jim Cramer. It’s an excellent interview and shines new light on the issue. You all should watch it!
Note: The video above is part 2 of 3 (the most interesting part, I think), but the whole interview is really good.
Great Moments in Presidential Speeches
Update: From David Letterman’s “Great Moments” re-cap on January 16, 2009:
I ran across this page at Rawstory.com and decided to replicate it here, although I already have a similar page up in my Quotes section of the blog. Needless to say, I’m trying to help celebrate the end of the Bush Presidency… w00t, January 20th! Can’t get here soon enough!
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“They misunderestimated me,”
— Bentonville, Arkansas, November 6, 2000
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on … shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again,”
— Nashville, Tennessee, September 17, 2002
“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office,”
— to Israeli journalists in Washington in an interview published May 12, 2008.
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we,”
— Washington, August 5, 2004
“For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times,”
— Tokyo, February 18, 2002
“I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep on the soil of a friend,”
— on the prospect of visiting Denmark, Washington, June 29, 2005
“Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech,”
— Washington April 16, 2008 to Pope Benedict XVI.
“I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office,”
— Washington, June 26, 2008
“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully,”
— Saginaw, Michigan, September 29, 2000
“Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country,”
— Poplar Bluff, Missouri, September 6, 2004
“It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber,”
— Washington, April 10, 2002
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”
— Florence, South Carolina, January 11, 2000
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test,”
— Townsend, Tennessee, February 21, 2001
“My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended… The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free,”
— USS Abraham Lincoln at sea off the coast of San Diego, California, May 1, 2003
“I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense,”
— Washington, April 18, 2006
Carol of the Christmas Pickle
So, many a year ago, we were given a plastic pickle Christmas tree ornament because, apparently, it’s something of a German tradition (though Wikipedia says it’s “completely of American origin”) to hide a pickle on the tree and have the kids look for it. The first one to find the pickle is supposed to get an extra present (although, neither Kristen nor I ever did!).
Anyway, with this in mind, please enjoy the following! 🙂
Auto Bailout
In the words of Jon Stewart: “Wall Street lost $7 trillion without selling anything — at least when Detroit loses money, we get cars.”
Edie: Wonder Dog
So, Edie isn’t the happiest dog when we leave her alone at someone else’s place. She was kind enough to hurt herself over the summer at Brooke’s parent’s house by getting her mouth stuck in the cage doors of the kennel she was in…so this time, at my parent’s house, we locked her up in Pepper’s old kennel (which is a bit bigger and constructed differently than ours).
Well, we got home from church and dinner (a total of, like, 4 – 4.5 hrs?) and found her loose inside the house. “What the heck,” we say…
We go downstairs to check out how exactly she got the door open. Apparently, as the picture above shows, she didn’t get the door open – she tore a new hole in the bars…
Needless to say, this is getting a bit ridiculous. To top it all off, once loose, she got into our cooler and stole some of my deer jerky (courtesy of Uncle Mike…thanks!) and ate some leftover cheese cake “bites,” keeping her awake through most of the night.
Grrrrrr…
A step too far?
So, I heard this mentioned a few weeks ago on a video game blog I listen to: if you don’t like the message of the songs presented in the popular Guitar Hero or Rock Band franchises, you’re in luck, ’cause now there’s Guitar Praise!! You can how have “inspirational fun” with 52 songs from Christian bands like Skillet, Petra and Casting Crowns!
But that’s not all! Remember the seemingly unstoppable”High School Musical” franchise? Well, maybe some of the themes in those movies are questionable…but you’re in luck there too, ’cause now there’s “Sunday School Musical!” An “inspirational story” about a group of kids that enter a music competition to save their church from closing! Watch the trailer – it’s gripping…
So yeah, perhaps I’m wrong (and I usually am…), but isn’t this a step too far? I understand that the “High School Musical” franchise is primarily watched by middle school-aged kids (as opposed to actual high school kids), perhaps exposing them to some themes that aren’t exactly age appropriate…but shouldn’t it be the parent’s responsibility to limit that exposure? Or the fact that music from Guitar Hero or Rock Band are on the radio/TV all the time….wouldn’t it make more sense to talk to your kids about the themes in popular music rather than simply ignoring them and avoiding them? Isn’t it better to teach kids how to handle a variety of media that they may be exposed to on a daily basis…rather than trying to keep it from them only to have them see it on their own at a friend’s house, not knowing how to treat it?
It seems to me that, while I don’t have any kids (besides a very lazy beagle), I’d want to help my children integrate into the world around them efficiently and effectively, rather than shelter them to the point where they may not know how to deal with what’s really out there until they leave home and go to college.
And because it’s amusing…
Katie visited Ted Drewes while she was in town recently…and it’s on YouTube… She doesn’t know what Crab Rangoon is… And we also get to find out why they “call it a concrete”…