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"you’re not saying you bought evan rachel wood as the vampire queen of new orleans? i wouldn’t even buy her as the dairy queen of new orleans."
– me, about an hour ago, on twitter, re: the penultimate episode of season 2 of true blood.
three’s a crowd, or: scully jealous scully
terrible moments in dating site profile names.
somehow ”more attentive” just makes it worse…
dear yahoo mail,
are you advertising prostitutes to me now? if so, i appreciate your concern but my sex life is not that bad. yet.
love,
sean
i know jim’s looking at me like that because i’ve been neglecting my blog.
Reblogged from liana
your npr name
Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.
In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. Even (on our most ambitious days) a Cherry Glaser or a Sylvia Poggioli.
So finally, after years of Fresh Air sign-off ambitions, we came up with a system for creating our own NPR Names. Here’s how it works: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.
So I’m Liarna Kassel. And Eric is Jeric Bath. I even have a new nickname for my little brother in Dylsan Rosarita.
for npr news, i’m sejan corniglia in los angeles.
The Sci Fi Channel becomes Syfy with their rebranding and redesign. TVWeek has a full write up on the (supposed) move away from geekdom here. As the science fiction genre continues to expand we have to wonder if the content supercedes the brand.
New York, NY - March 16, 2009 - By changing the name to Syfy, which remains phonetically identical, the new brand broadens perceptions and embraces a wider and more diverse range of imagination-based entertainment including fantasy, paranormal, reality, mystery, action and adventure, as well as science fiction … Imagine Greater will become the new brand message and tagline, inviting both consumers and advertisers into a new era of unlimited imagination, exceptional experiences and greater entertainment.
Read the full press release here
Update: (Ad Age) “Sci-Fi Channel to Rename Itself Syfy”
Wonderful - so now they want to prove an inability to spell and a lack of basic grammatical structure. Seriously folks? SERIOUSLY? This is dumber than New Coke.
as i spent nearly 9 years working there, i know several of my friends are expecting me to comment on the scifi syfy rebranding.
so here’s my comment: eh.
This movie is #80 on imdb’s list of the worst movies of all time, with a rating of 1.9. But come on, look at that title (which includes the two exclamation marks and the question mark). I want to see it just because of that. And look at the plot:
Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a gypsy fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The gypsy turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree.That is certainly more original and interesting than much of what’s on tv. Not only has it a great title and a score so low that it would have to have some interesting twists just to be that bad, but some pseudonymous person has written a passioned defense of watching it precisely for its badness:
Let me confine my recommendation to this: if you’re shopping to buy or rent a notoriously “bad” film, don’t choose a jaded, overblown, written-by-committee, painfully self-conscious finger-wagger made c.1994 at a cost of over 50 million, and which was panned as a 1/2-star flop by every critic and moviegoer, yet managed to not only recoup its investment but launched three big-name careers in the process. No, friend, go with a stinker such as this fetid little endeavor, made on a shoestring, enlisting the dubious cooperation of an uninspired carnival sideshow troupe, and which best of all bears the boisterous but distinctive thumb-print of an overly-ambitious director/lead actor/ out-of-his-depth galoot like Ray Dennis Steckler. I couldn’t explain it properly here in the space allowed, but “Incredibly Weird” seems to unintentionally exude a charmingly flatulent air biscuit of Americana; and if a film must have warts, this one has the ones that are best had. “Incredibly Weird …” - a pleasingly inept offering from the days when a film could be bizarre without giving in completely to the perverse, and could gain an audience with no visible means of sustaining one but its overwrought title and its hopelessly inept charm.I’m guessing watching this would be one of the more interesting things I’ve seen in a while, and I’m not even being ironic.
this is one of the rare movies that’s so wtf-bad that it’s almost as enjoyable in its original raw form as it is in its mst3k version.
fun trivia: the d.p. on this film went on to shoot lots of movies you probably like, and won an oscar for one of them.
