Of Course ... But Maybe

Behold the brilliance of Louis C.K.

Anyone Else Working This Xmas?

Yeah I thought so.

Happy Festivus, Citizens!

Also Shit

O'Toole sliced off the top of his finger in a boating accident during the production of "The Lion in Winter." His remedy? The actor dipped the finger in brandy before pushing it back into place and getting it bandaged. Three weeks later he unwrapped the bandage and found he'd put the top of the finger on upside down. "Probably because of the brandy, which I drank," he quipped.

I saw the 70mm re-release of Lawrence of Arabia at a great theater - the Paris, in Manhattan. Stunning. If you ever get a chance, go. Also a great film to get your Guinness on, since - as we all know - we're not allowed to appreciate Alec Guinness in Star Wars.

Alec Guinness Reads From His Diaries:

Shit

Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) dead at 82.  Anybody remember those movies?  "Billy Jack’s Crusade To End The War In Iraq And Restore America To Its Moral Purpose" was probably my favorite.

Battle Of The PBS Stars

God, I used to love SCTV.

The Colourful Mr. Eggleston

Watch it before the BBC pulls it.

My new jam

I am really obsessed with this song. What a voice! She's called Mapei and she has an EP of generic and fairly crappy rap, but this is a preview single from an upcoming album where she's decided to sing. Yummy.

Last One There Pays for the Rest of Us!

See you there.

Yawn

Anybody listening to anything good these days?

'Tis The Season!

Massachusetts Mall Santa Charged with Groping Elf
BOSTON Tue Nov 26, 2013 (Reuters) - A man who worked as a Santa Claus in a Massachusetts shopping mall has been ordered not to put the red suit back on until a court resolves a charge that he groped an adult coworker over the weekend.

We Must Be In That Self-Destructive / Acting Out Phase of the Crumbling Empire...

Seriously: provoking China?

I've Got Your Black Friday Right HERE!

Proud of myself for getting Dave's gift at Walgreens before someone at corporate put up the "item no longer available".

...And Happy Thanksgivukkah!

As the token Gentile* in this group, let me be the first to wish you all Happy Thankgivukkah! We may not be around for the next one (in 79,000 years), except for Joe - who is timeless. Or unless Jay re-formats the Hebrew lunisolar calendar.



*I know, I know. But a little research on ancestry.com and the Ellis Island immigration database helped turn up the following surnames:

Beckerstein
Rowlandberg
Eisencurtis
McGlück
Rosen-Rosenheinz

It was pretty compelling.

Drunky Happsgiving!

May yer beers be merry and yer drinks be numbing. Anyone traveling in the nightmare that is the east coast weather system?

Go Here Now

Waste your whole day with this thing. I dare you.

Friday Jay Reatard Fix*

*Memphis bastards may notice this is not, in fact, Jay Reatard.

Shorter Post For The Time-Conscious Bastard

Well, This Is Cool

From Dangerous Minds:

MAD magazine was at the absolute height of its circulation in the mid 1970s—north of two million of each issue hit the newsstands then—so it was no surprise that television executives wanted in on the action. ABC ordered a pilot for an animated MAD series, but shelved it due to the “adult” humor and apparently because they didn’t want to piss off their bread and butter. Dick DeBartolo (“MAD’s maddest writer!”) said of the ill-fated pilot (eventually aired as a one-off “special” apparently) “Nobody wanted to sponsor a show that made fun of products that were advertised on TV, like car manufacturers.”

The Greatest Television Asset Of All Time

In one of television’s biggest syndication deals, “The Simpsons,” the longest-running scripted show in TV history, will finally be moving to cable television... Fox sold the reruns to its FXX network... and ... has acquired both cable and streaming rights to the more than 550 episodes. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but a representative of one of the other companies that pursued the package said that the bidding was highly competitive and estimated that the per-episode figure reached $1.5 million to $1.6 million. That would put the value of the deal at close to $900 million.

World Toilet Day!

World Toilet Day

Definitely a bastard tradition.
You know what to do.