Stewart/Colbert 2008

Proof that I am psychic.

2006-06-23T17:21:27Z

In April, I was complaining about some TV shows, and turns out one of my wishes came true! I'd forgotten that I had predicted stupid Marissa Cooper's death on The OC...

"Every time Marissa and Ryan flip open their phones, stare at the screens and heave a great sigh of anguish, I want to seriously throw something through the TV. I want to see Marissa's phone get crushed by a car, and then I want to see her crushed right after it."

Well, it sort of came true. She was crushed IN a car, not exactly BY a car, but it's practically the same.

i knew christian bale and i had a connection...

2006-06-16T02:39:02Z

You scored as Batman, the Dark Knight. As the Dark Knight of Gotham, Batman is a vigilante who deals out his own brand of justice to the criminals and corrupt of the city. He follows his own code and is often misunderstood. He has few friends or allies, but finds comfort in his cause.

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Batman, the Dark Knight

75%

The Amazing Spider-Man

67%

Indiana Jones

63%

James Bond, Agent 007

63%

Maximus

54%

Captain Jack Sparrow

50%

Neo, the "One"

50%

Lara Croft

50%

The Terminator

50%

El Zorro

38%

William Wallace

38%

Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
created with QuizFarm.com

it would probably be most fun to be jack sparrow though...

a fun time-waster

2006-05-24T14:17:06Z

play dress-up using Jay McCarroll's awesome Project Runway outfits

HOORAY!

2006-04-26T20:10:05Z

Project Runway Season 3 is starting in JULY! Not December! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!

p.s. if anyone wants a free month trial of Netflix, let me know...

my TV rant

2006-04-13T14:33:38Z

Oooh, it's a meaningless post about what I'm watching on TV. But in the past several weeks or so, I've had some pretty strong reactions to what amounts to a whole lot of fiction-that-doesn't-really-matter-and-yet-it-does-because-I-waste-time-watching-it. My criticisms of late: how stupid are these TV characters?

Example #1: Rory on Gilmore Girls
This apparently "smart" girl is incredibly dumb. Way to go getting back (for the second time) with your douchebag of a boyfriend -- after he admitted to sleeping with not one, but MULTIPLE girls while they were "on a break" (gotta love how Ross and Rachel eternalized that phrase). Never mind that he's some yuppy kid with a haircut circa boy band 2000, but he's also a dick (specifically, "the blond dick at Yale." Haha, I love Jess). Wouldn't Rory have freaking learned at this point to stop letting her boyfriend act like an ass? And speaking of that, how long did it take her to forget the wake-up call from her formerly dicky boyfriend Jess? What a breath of fresh [and highly attractive] air he was, cluing her in to how dumb she was being. Yet once he leaves and she is no longer entranced by his hotness and pearls of wisdom, she goes right back to the current dickface. Ugh, I officially can't stand Rory after Tuesday's episode: "Oooh, I'm going to be a total bitch to my boyfriend instead of addressing our issues like a mature person might, then I'll go visit my super hot ex-boyfriend in another state and pretend I'm single again so I can get revenge on my current boyfriend, but wait, I actually love my current boyfriend? And I'm using my old boyfriend, who is no longer a dickface and who obviously wants me and thinks I want him too, to get back at the other one? But I'm going to change my mind and piss all over his feelings too because that's what I do best! Isn't that sort of bitchy of me??? This is all so hard! When did I turn into a total brat????" Come OOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNN. What happened to the cute, likable Rory? I'm watching older seasons on DVD now because I missed a lot of it, and it struck me that back then, she was so cute and interesting. Oh, and Luke is being an ass for keeping an entire part of his life -- his newly discovered kid -- separate from Lorelai, who is in turn being stupid for letting him do it. Seriously, the only voice of reason on this show seems to be Mrs. Kim.

Example #2: Just about everyone on The O.C.
I am so annoyed over how this show has progressed in the past year ("progressed" actually implies growth and development, so it is not the best word here). I have so little respect for most of these characters. Seth keeps lying to Summer, despite his 235 apologies and promises in the past to never lie to her again. And he does it only because he is selfish. Period. Even though I want them to be together, I don't think he deserves her. He needs to grow the hell up. And Ryan is not so far behind. He wastes so much of his life dating the piece of crap that is Marissa, and then when he finally comes to his senses and finds a girl who actually makes him happy, what does he do? He breaks up with her. Why? Umm, just because he's going to college in the fall and she isn't. And it's amazing how in the course of one episode, they go from making plans to live together to breaking up. Marissa is just Marissa -- always an idiot, always annoying, self-absorbed and a ruiner of lives. Just go away already. She is the leading culprit in my biggest pet peeve on The OC: highly dramatic one-sided cell phone calls. I HATE the overuse of this stupid cell phone thing. Every time Marissa and Ryan flip open their phones, stare at the screens and heave a great sigh of anguish, I want to seriously throw something through the TV. I want to see Marissa's phone get crushed by a car, and then I want to see her crushed right after it. And my favorite person on the show, Sandy Cohen, is being all weird and doing shady things at work. At least I think he is; his plotlines are so freaking boring that I've stopped paying attention.

Example #3: News executives at NBC and CBS
Granted, these are not fiction folks (well... we'll let that slide for now). But they still annoy me. I'm sorry but I am not a Katie Couric fan. At least not when it comes to anchoring the evening news. I think she's fine for The Today Show, but for an actual serious news program? It's just another step in the direction of getting "stars" to anchor the news instead of actual "reporters." The Today Show is full of fluff and is a completely separate entity from a nightly news show. However, it has at least a smidgen of news value, unlike The View, where Katie Couric's replacement is coming from. Meredith Vierra???? Not only of The View [of hell] but also of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?? How insulted do the other reporters from The Today Show (and a whole bunch of other shows) feel at being beaten by her? What could be next? A new reality show, "America's Next Top News Personality"? This is all going downhill fast.

conclusion: I miss Project Runway. And at least there's still Lost, Scrubs and Grey's Anatomy.

Download alert

2006-04-12T14:03:31Z

If you use iTunes...

do yourself a favor (quick, before it goes away) and get the current FREE download "Hide Away" by Rock Kills Kid. I think it's really freaking awesome, plus it's freaking free, so why not? (free downloads are at the bottom left corner on the Music Store homepage). I love it when free downloads are so addictive.

I think I'm feeling the need to unload a little rant about some TV characters that are really bothering me these days. Yes, because I am that invested in stupid TV shows. Venting coming soon...

Stealing pens.

2006-04-11T18:54:03Z

I don't know about the rest of you, but isn't it really annoying when someone accidentally steals your pen? And you don't realize it until after the fact and then if you go back to retrieve it, it looks like you are stealing their pen. Especially when the original pen thief has PLENTY of unused pens, while I have a much smaller supply.

Even worse is that I know I've been the pen thief before -- but at least it only happens very rarely and I carry the guilt with me (while enjoying the new pen of course).

**on a completely random note, I have officially come across The Most Boring Book Ever Written. It is -- drum roll -- "The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association." This sorry excuse for literature is my current required reading, and I don't think I've ever read such boring words and remembered so little of what I'd just read 10 seconds before. It's simply awful. But at least it gets my vote for Most Boring Book Ever Written.

The New York Times -- taking cues from the Onion

2006-04-03T15:18:30Z

I think it's sort of funny that The New York Times web site has been revamped... to very weirdly resemble The Onion's site. I wish I had a screenshot of The Onion when it used the same font as the NYT site is using now -- it looked crazy similar. I wonder if that has anything at all to do with why The Onion changed its site font very recently. HMMMMM indeed.

AGH CONAN!

2006-03-21T01:37:26Z

Conan comes to Chicago

Fresh from his triumphant visit to Finland, Conan O'Brien is coming to Chicago.

"Late Night with Conan O'Brien" will broadcast four shows live from the Chicago Theatre starting May 9, NBC announced Monday.

O'Brien will tell viewers how to get tickets to the five Chicago broadcasts on the March 28 edition of his show, which airs 11:35 p.m. weeknights on WMAQ-Ch. 5.

OMG, I MUST GET MYSELF THERE! AND WEAR MY CONAN IS GORGES T-SHIRT!!

could it be??

2006-03-17T19:36:57Z

I think maybe it could...

a trailer for SNAKES ON A PLANE!

HMMM: Sadly, it was taken off youtube. Assholes. I can describe it for you though: it was indeed Samuel L. Jackson and a whole bunch of snakes on a freaking plane. Campy fun all around! There are some pictures on this site to hold you over

<3 more Tim-isms

2006-03-09T22:48:18Z

If you love Tim Gunn too, don't miss out on this extra goodness

p.s. After more thought, I am decidedly annoyed and sad that Chloe won. OK, I should stop now. I'm worn out from being pissed off about televised competitions this week.

Tim Gunn for President/ PR finale

2006-03-09T05:39:01Z

OH DEAR.

Well, at least Santino did not win.

So I must say how I'm a tad disturbed by how attached I am to Project Runway. I just literally LOVE this show. I can't believe how genius it is. And I'm not a nutjob either. It is seriously on a shortlist of things that make me genuinely appreciate life. So it makes sense that the finale tonight stressed the CRAP out of me and when Heidi Klum announced that the winner was Chloe, I almost felt personally punched in the face because I SO wanted Daniel to win. Not that Chloe isn't great in her own right; the more I thought about the stuff she did throughout the show, the more I accepted her win. Buuuuuuuut it still really surprised me! I guess the second I saw that hideous fuchsia dress/overcoat THING circa 1985, I ruled her out. What the HELL was she thinking? What were the judges thinking? Granted, Daniel's collection did not live up to my expectations -- but at least he had a whole lot of different pieces, and stuff that ACTUAL PEOPLE WOULD WEAR. I didn't like that brown dress [that his perfect-up-until-the-moment-it-mattered model tripped on!] but I really loved a few of the other outfits. Then again, maybe he just wasn't creative enough. And maybe he was doomed from the "Kara Saun curse" of winning the most challenges and being the golden boy. Then AGAIN (it's sick how much I analyze this), he is incredibly talented and creative and has a great attitude and is freaking adorable. Same could be said about Chloe as well (and Nick too, while we're at it. Speaking of Nick, I wonder how he and the other two "assistants" felt about helping create those great dresses and having the others get the credit for it?). I guess what really surprised me the most about Chloe winning was that, out of the three, she's the only one who already HAS established herself. She has her own store for crap's sake! Daniel is basically a new puppy in the fashion universe and Santino is, sadly, broke. I feel like the spirit of the grand prize is more about giving someone a chance to take that giant leap from practically nothing. It would've been fitting of them to reward the newbie, or even -- am I really saying this? -- the guy who is dead broke!!

I will say that I was sort of disappointed in this season's final runway shows. Compared to last season's collections (well, Jay's and Kara Saun's. Wendy Crazy-Evil Pepper's inclusion still shocks me to this day), this year was pretty weak. I feel like nothing really "wowed," like Jay's awesome headphone/rock n roll/glamour theme did. And I bet I wasn't the only one who was freaked out by Santino's HOMEMADE runway soundtrack.

OK, so best moment in the whole episode: when the three finalists and their designer "assistants" are all working away like little squirrels and Santino busts out some TIM GUNN for old time's sake. It's been too long!!! I think that made my heart jump a little. It's my favorite aspect of this season, like Austin Scarlett was my favorite aspect of last season. And seeing Tim Gunn -- who is officially the most fabulous man in the world -- in the final scene with Chloe was perfect. Uber cuteness. That's the stuff that makes me loooooooooove it!

So today I came across this picture, and I think it nicely encompasses how delightful and hilarious and utterly wonderful this show is. Even though I feel like Danny Boy was truly robbed, my love for this show cannot die. Undoubtedly (and disturbingly!) my obsession will only grow deeper with time -- and more Tim Gunn!

CARRY ON.

oscar lameness

2006-03-06T05:08:36Z

Agh, I just have to say that I'm really bummed out that the Academy of Motion Pictures Crap and Whatever thought "Crash" was the best picture. And that the three best films (in my own silly opinion) -- Brokeback Mountain, Munich, and Good Night & Good Luck -- only collected three Oscars total (all by only one of them, at that). And I'm also bummed at how FRIGGIN BORING AND LAME the show was. Even Jon Stewart couldn't save it from utter lameness. I am so annoyed that I even FEEL so annoyed, because the Oscars are so overhyped anyway, and yet here I am, getting my panties in a twist about the outcomes. As if they really matter all that much. As if any show that has five of the most pointless, dull film montages and plays shitty orchestral music underneath every acceptance speech even deserves the credit it gets. It's true that the most exciting moment during the whole thing was Three Six Mafia winning their award.

I swear, if Santino ends up winning Project Runway on Wednesday, I am quitting TV award shows and contests.

the wow factor

2006-02-24T16:49:17Z

I've come to the realization that I need to be "wowed." And I'm pretty sure it needs to involve going to another place in the world (to visit, not move. at least not for NOW...hehe). It really disappoints me that I've spent almost every single day of my life in this one country (and the only couple of days I was off of it was in Niagara Falls, Canada, and that barely counts for foreign soil). Lately, seeing people's photos from spending time abroad make me feel incredibly and uncomfortably jealous. If a picture really "wows" me, I really want to actually go and experience it for myself. I don't want to be an American who never leaves the US. The one and only thing that has stopped me so far is money, and I'm thinking by sometime next year I will be able to afford crossing the Atlantic and get away from routines and cars everywhere and Americans and people whose main wardrobe consists of puffy jackets, badly fitted jeans, and UGGly boots. God, that would be enough to wow me.

make it work!

2006-02-23T17:09:18Z

I just bought this shirt. I simply couldn't resist!

Boy, last night's Project Runway and Project Jay were so very entertaining. "What happened to Andre?"...Crazy Guadalupe obviously on drugs...Daniel Franco is straight? Is he for real?... Marla's trying so hard to be hip and trendy now... Daniel V finally got a haircut... As for Project Jay, I've missed him! The "real" Jay, not the semi-bitchy one who appeared this season (what was up with his snottiness while judging?). More Austin Scarlett sightings=excellent. More Wendy Pepper sightings=ack! She is so weirdly full of herself. Weird in that she doesn't have enough freaking talent to BE full of herself. And shame on Heidi Klum for putting Jay through all that shit and not even wearing his damn dress. I loved it when he kept saying how much he hated her, and her family.

Bravo, Bravo.

the real thing

2006-02-14T17:16:03Z

The Daily Show is the most important love...ever.

p.s. I discovered only last night that there are GAMES on the iPod. Not to mention a stop watch. OH MAN!

I take this way too seriously, but it's JUST TOO FUN NOT TO.

2006-01-19T04:35:00Z

For those of you who watch PROJECT FUNWAY,

my picks for the top 3 finalists (in no particular order):

Nick
Chloe
Daniel

Since they are all seemingly very decent, talented individuals, probably at least one of them will not make it into the final competition. Because that's just how PR works, isn't it (hello, Wendy "Evil" Pepper)? AGH, and I am SO SICK of Santino. Why do they keep saying how ridiculous and horrible he is and STILL KEEP HIM? Is it just because he's such a huge asshole? He's like this season's Wendy Pepper: too often misses the mark entirely and is a total biotch. I just hope this season's "Wendy" does not end up in the final three. Damn you, Santino. And your stupid feather/lederhosen/crazy bullshit outfits.

Oh, p.s. Tim Gunn has a Project Runway podcast after each episode. My God, I LOVE him. I love love love this show.

first class idiot

2006-01-16T22:41:32Z

from a Yahoo! news story:

"It seems fitting on Martin Luther King Day that I come and look at the Emancipation Proclamation in its original form," Bush said after putting on a pair of reading glasses to peer at the document kept in a glass case. "Abraham Lincoln recognized that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King lived on that admonition to call our country to a higher calling, and today we celebrate the life of an American who called Americans to account when we didn't live up to our ideals."

All MEN, huh?

You asshole.

(I bet you can't even read.)

happy friday the 13th

2006-01-13T18:50:08Z

Umm, I just liked this reader's letter to the NY Times. Nothing terribly ground-breaking, but I just thought it was well-put. And I agree with him. Big surprise.

To the Editor:

President Bush attempts to define what type of debate on his actions in Iraq is legitimate versus what type is not. Unfortunately, he has never demonstrated the intellectual gravitas to even approach setting such boundaries.

Instead, Mr. Bush speaks in clichés and sound bites in front of friendly audiences who never challenge his point of view.

Until President Bush comes out of his bubble and has an unvarnished, unscripted dialogue with the best and the brightest thinkers he can assemble, regardless of political affiliation, I don't want him lecturing me or anybody else about what is in bounds or out of bounds on this matter.

John Esposito
Huntington, N.Y., Jan. 11, 2006

In other news.... Ithaca in two weeks!!

from Letterman/O'Reilly to O'Brien/Colbert!

2006-01-11T18:23:22Z

Hahahahahaha:

STEPHEN VS. CONAN

The greatness of truthiness

2006-01-11T17:02:46Z

"Friday, January 06, 2006

Truthiness Voted 2005 Word of the Year

In its 16th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted truthiness as the word of the year. Recently popularized on the Colbert Report, a satirical mock news show on the Comedy Central television channel, truthiness refers to the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true. As Stephen Colbert put it, "I don’t trust books. They’re all fact, no heart." Other meanings of the word date as far back as 1824.

The full report, including the winners in other categories, is available for download."

and it's pretty funny too.

I must be a real, live psychic.

2006-01-10T20:24:43Z

I just remembered how I can magically see the future. Or maybe I only used to be able to see the future. But yeah, I think only Jenn will find this remotely interesting, if at all...

We had an 8th grade "memory book" way back in the day (1997, to be precise), and one of the things everyone had to compose was a "will" where you would espouse all your lame inside jokes and memories that would only be understandable to you and your select group of friends. One of the lines you had to complete was "In ten years I will be...." I wrote something like, "23, a writer, wondering what to do next while attending Jennifer's wedding." Now technically, ten years after that would be 2007, but that's a minor difference. But FOR REAL, the DAY AFTER I turn 23 years old this year, I WILL BE ATTENDING JENNIFER'S (NOW IT'S JUST JENN) WEDDING. And I will WITHOUT A DOUBT IN MY MIND be wondering what the hell to do next.

Whhhaaaaaaa? Should I go ahead and quit my day job to open up a psychic booth down at Navy Pier?? Heh, all I need to do before then is get something published and it'll be completely true.

My 13-year-old self really impresses my 22-year-old self. (ummm, the sad part is, would it also work the other way around?)

Dave Letterman is rad.

2006-01-09T22:34:27Z

I don't know how I missed Bill O'Reilly's appearance on David Letterman last week, but it's on the Internet and it's nothing short of IMMENSELY ENTERTAINING. It's moments like these that remind me how much I adore Letterman. He can make Bill O'Reilly's arrogance and ridiculousness even more apparent by not screaming and just being a real human being. If only more people on TV took notes from him:

"I have a feeling that about 60% of what you say is crap."
(do a Ctrl+F and find "letterman" further down the page and there's the full segment)

And the Oscar goes to... Jon?

2006-01-05T18:47:14Z

Hooray for Jon Stewart!

Maybe the Oscars will not be boring this year!

so completely fitting

2006-01-02T18:44:41Z

Starting off the new year with a bang: As some of you may know, I'm planning to visit Ithaca for a weekend at the end of this month, and have been looking forward to it since I booked the flight in early November. But wait....... what is that? The airline I was supposed to fly is NO MORE? WHAT?

Yes, yes. Independence Air has joined the other 5 billion airlines in declaring bankrupcy, only this time the airline actually is ceasing operation as of this Thursday. The only bankrupt airline to actually not fly anymore. Three weeks before I was set to go. I LOVE MY LUCK.

So.... what the hell to do???? I called them as well as United Airlines, and they all are assholes and don't take pity on customers of obsolete airlines. So to buy a whole OTHER ticket with a whole OTHER airline, I'd have to pay at least $60 more than I did originally. AAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH@$@&(!$!^$@%*_)!*!&

I really really really still want to go. I've been looking forward to it for TWO MONTHS, and I desperately want to see people. Especially since Lauren and Julie are also planning to be in town that weekend. I don't know what to do. AGH, this pisses me off SO MUCH.

YES, HAPPY FRIGGIN NEW YEAR

update: I grumbled, but I bought a new ticket. Ithaca, you will have to try harder to keep me away from you.