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Harold and Kumar 2 Teaser Trailer

Last night I was bored and watching Time Warner Movie Trailers on demand when I found this (which was not yet online, but now it is):

Yay!!! I love the Eurotrip line. Can't wait for this movie.

Anyone Looking for a Sublet in Wmsburg 9/1?

The same friend who found a sublet after I posted that she needed one here in April (this site IS good for something after all) is looking, with her 2 roommates, for a subletter for a different room in the apartment. It's in (safe) Williamsburg/Bushwick and it's very cheap. Like, amazingly cheap. I now know the roommates and they're really nice and cool (Hi JC!) They're not going to put it on Craig's List in order to get a more targeted sampling. Anyway, if you know someone who's interested, email me and I'll forward it to my friend.

Meet the Nirvana Baby

MTV.com found kids from iconic album covers and interviewed them, including the Nirvana baby. "But Spencer hasn't seen any royalties from the record's sales..." Um, no shit? Good?

(Via Vulture)

Really, Scientists? Really?

Study Suggests the Most Blatantly Obvious Connection Ever. Shouldn't they be working on Alzheimer's?

I hope they study the expensive car/male endowment thing next!

What's Next? "Ma'am" Instead of "Miss"?

Last night I ran into a nice girl I used to see at shows a few years ago and who had a music blog at the time. She said this, very earnestly/nicely/no subtext:

"Are you still doing the blogging thing? I had to quit when I started college."

AHHH! I felt so old. My friends really enjoyed it, though, of course.

Ritalin Readings July Podcast

It's up!

Finally, A New "I Laughed, I Cried..."

Hear ye, hear ye: from now on:

"(Thing we like) ITS  LIKE A RAINBOW IN MY EYES SO NICE I LIKE IT."

Kim Baker to Change Sienna Miller's Mind About Pittsburgh

My friend Kim Baker just moved to Pittsburgh to become the city's first public art manager. That is too huge a deal not to mention (especially since Kim is the least self-aggrandizing person I've ever met.) GO KIM!!

Comedy Stuff

* We posted the August Ritalin Reading lineup. Also there is now a widget type deal right there to your right that will have the upcoming lineup as soon as it's posted. I was very busy this weekend.

* Speaking of, the aforementioned I Like Attention show last night was SO AWESOME. Every second of it was hysterical - I highly recommend going next month.

I'm Going To This: Max Silvestri's I Like Attention

Max's show has so much ridiculous friend-buzz ("funniest show I've seen in years" type stuff) that I'm breaking my totally set-in-stone personal rule of *NEVER* going out on Sunday nights to be at this month's  I LIKE ATTENTION tomorrow. Just look at this lineup! Flyer:

I Liked the Gretchen Mol Sketch, Though

Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman on The Ten: "Thou Shalt Be Amused"

Halloween Costume Idea: Mystery, J-Dog and The Matador

There is a new show: The Pick Up Artist on Vh1. It's based on that dumb book The Game. It is maybe going to be my favorite show. What's amazing about it is when you watch it you're not really making fun of the contestants because they're nice guys. You're making fun of the pick up experts. (And their hats that you're not allowed to touch until you buy them a drink!)

More later, I'm spontaneously going to the beach. Just watch. that. show. Trust me!

I'm Sorry Corey. No Jossip-Address-Publishing Harm Can Come To You Now

Since neither of us still live in the old building, I got over my fears and wrote about my former neighbor Corey F's new show for NY Mag's The Vulture:

"The Two Coreys: One Cyberstalker's View"

Sincerely: I think Corey (F) will find a better vehicle. This one just isn't the one. At least he comes off well in the show.

Paul Rudd Was Not Always Perfect

As commenters mentioned on the Ten post, Paul Rudd was on Fresh Air last week. It's a cool interview because he talks more about his teenage awkwardness (and Accutane use) than he does his movies. Also Terry clearly has a cruuushh.

Speaking of Inside Jokes

When friends write fan fiction, it's a terrifying, hilarious thing.

The Ten and a Nitpicky PSA

I was really good about managing my expectations on this one, so I'll just say: I recommend it.  I laughed many times and so did the other people in my theater. But that said, I have friends who hated it. I kind of chalk that up to context (see: category tag) and difference in sense of humor (I love a good in-joke, others like broader comedy. Actually, I kind of love both, but the former is so rare in movies.)

I guess I didn't just say "I recommend it" but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who is as unfortunately very susceptible to the whole high expectations/low expectations phenomenon as I am. One thing is certain though: Paul Rudd is totally not sexy in it.

Pretty much completely unrelated: maybe this bothers me because I worked at a movie theater in college, but why is it that people who would never dream of allowing a straw wrapper to fall from their grasp without immediately picking it up off the dirtiest of city sidewalks think it's perfectly okay to leave a movie theater aisle totally destroyed by their garbage? I'm not even talking about strangers, I'm talking about the friend I saw the movie with yesterday! Totally not okay. And I am willing to passive-aggressively call out my friend in a public forum in the hopes that just one person will have an epiphany.      

Why Everyone Should See "The Ten" This Weekend

Because it's important to support artists who are attempting to make good things in a culture where good things are so rarely monetarily rewarded. So this weekend, if you're a fan of The State/Wet Hot American Summer/Good comedy, etc, go see The Ten. Don't wait. You know how important opening weekends are for a movie and these people who have given us so much good comedy deserve to make more in the future!
So, either see The Ten or see something else where The Ten is playing but buy your ticket for The Ten. But, preferably, see The Ten. With a large group! Here's where.

Sorry about the lecture, but it's important! Also, how can you resist Paul Rudd's olive green eyes? Randomly, here's a coloring page I made. Print and color. Click to enlarge:

Tallahassee! The Tragedy!

Though I was initially fascinated by a salacious "scandal" in my sleepy hometown, I'm starting to think everyone should leave Robert Olen Butler and his broken heart alone. It's a hard position to justify ("Do you think Britney Spears should be left alone?") but I think this will be my standard: Public figures should be given attention in exact proportion with the amount of attention they seek -- maybe less, but not more.
Mr. Butler's email was itself irresistible to the media, but he had the choice not to "clarify" it to the press (until he did, it was being interpreted by some, including me, as a master work of subtle passive aggression instead of something Michael Scott would write) and he has the choice now to go back to doing what he does best. In other words, Mr. Butler, if you're Googling yourself, and I hope you're not: take the cardinal rule of blog commenting, flame wars, and hate emails and apply it to this: Say nothing. Do not respond or allow your friends to respond. Don't feed the animals.
UNLESS this is all just a publicity stunt to sell future books. In which case: I think you win.

You Know What's Funny?

People who think that bots republishing random content from their blogs are "plagiarizing" their brilliant blog posts.

Now You're Playing with Power: Paul Rudd Power

I've never seen Paul look so serious as in this Zelda commercial. Also he looks exactly the same!

Ritalin Readings Is Tonight at Mo's!

With a great lineup as always, in no particular order:

Brent Sullivan
Aileen Gallagher
Jesse Popp
Chelsea Peretti
Julie Klausner
Joe Mande

Doors at 7, Show at 7:30. Hosted by me and Gabe Delahaye, Produced by Jon Friedman. Info/tickets.

Wet Hot American Summer Tomorrow at Midnight!

I sent this (completely absurd) email out to a couple friends this morning. Now that we all have our tickets I'm willing to share this totally not-at-all-secret screening info. I'm un-generous that way (Note: it's also playing there tonight.)

Are you ready to experience "THE ULTIMATE"!?

It was the end of July, 2001 - remember those hot, heady days, sticky with innocence and covered with a sweaty glow of retarded laughter? Little did we know, during that sultry "summer of the shark attacks" that our world would soon be turned upside down, and not by Representative Gary Condit or a shark. How could we know, as we sat in cold, nearly empty theaters around the country, memorizing lines and practicing our slow claps, looks of pure wonder and joy on our faces, that we were watching the embodiment of irony's last, death-rattly gasp before it was busted to bits by forces we did not, could not, still don't, understand?

Tomorrow night at midnight at Landmark Sunshine Theater on Houston Street, we can relive the glory of Wet Hot American Summer on the big screen, surrounded by other drunk comedy fans in the full theater that beautiful movie always deserved.

And if you pass this up, the next time I see you I'll say: "You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore."

Yay!

Zip a dee do dah, it's a Lucky Store

"I can't imagine the utterance of this sentence, "I need to go to the Shore Mall to get...", unless it ended with "...scabies."
fourfour brings us along on a tour of the Saddest Mall in America. Hysterical! We had a mall like that in Tallahassee where I saw my first movie ('Song of the South') and bought stamps in bags of 300 for my "I only like the pretty ones" fake philatelic phase. It was called the Northwood Mall and eventually they gave up and now it's the Northwood Office Center and state workers work there.

Ottoman Humping with Samantha Bee

(Via the Indecision 2008 blog): from last night's Daily Show. Just watch to the end:

Who Knew Judi Dench Could Act?

So busy! Here are some things I've recently consumed and recommend:

* Notes on a Scandal (the movie) Yeah, it's been out a while, but wow. I would recommend it to anyone. Genius. Also, I'm not the kind of person who usually notices this type of thing, but even on my crappy old $40 craig's list TV, the use of color in this movie is amazing.

* But Enough About Me by Jancee Dunn. Don't be turned off, as I briefly was, by the subtitle. Reading the book, you realize it was slapped on there by the publisher. It's a great summer Friday read, albeit a little tidy at the end.

* I believe Eliot Glazer said this last week, but it deserves to be said again in as many ways as possible (and this is a particularly funny one): Sex and the City ruined New York.

High Horses Not High Heels

* Vulture: Only 5.9% of today's Emmy-nominated late night comedy writers are women.

* (Possibly) Related:  Women think Sex and the City is funny. (Personally, I think the dearth of women in comedy is less "women aren't funny" and more "women are perceived as not being funny", but nobody's helping the situation by making up words like "shoegasm.")

* Totally Unrelated: Holy $%*, a guy shot himself in the head while being caught on "To Catch a Predator" a year and a half ago.

* Idea: an RSS feed feature that automatically eliminates posts with certain tags from your feed. Inspiration: Harry Potter.

 

You're Not Fooling Anyone, Polar Bear

I got my New Yorker late this week and did a double take when I saw the cover:

Business Time!

Me and Ben Mathis-Lilley "argue" about Flight of the Conchords on NY Mag's The Vulture.  And then basically start quoting lyrics to each other. Boom boom boom!

background: I have a discriminating palate

ME: btw there was a marketplace segment this morning on npr about how popular rats are becoming in chinese cuisine. I swear to god.
FRIEND:  I love that even the NPR you get is racist.

Go Anna Go!

This is absolute required reading.

Fair Use and Bikes

* Virginia Heffernan forced to interview the Evil One:
"I’m looking at it, cropping it, resizing it, drawing on it, making it my own.”
That's so weird that he said that to the Times and that's also coincidentally going to be his defense in the lawsuits against him! Funny!

* "What Eats, Doesn't Shoot, and Leaves" : And you thought your last group hug was awkward!

* The Top Ten Comedy Sketches of All Time (One message boarder's opinion, but a good list nonetheless)  I'm firmly in "The Audition" camp for Mr. Show though, as I keep mentioning over and over as if anyone cares.

* Guess what? I've been hanging out with kids who ride bikes and now I want one too!! Mine got stolen a few years ago and I never replaced it. This one will get stolen too because I'm going to keep it on the street (5th floor walkup), so does anyone have an old crappy one they want to sell me for cheap? If so: email me!

Me and Chuck Klosterman Both Have Blond Hair and Nerdy Glasses

This made me laugh very hard. I guess I need a new facebook photo.

crap blog post from a chick

All I can think of to mention is that an illustrated version of this story is going to be in the new issue of Vice. I saw the illustration and it looks really cool. The part of me is played by a dude.

It is really boring out there (and in here) today.

What I Don't Get About the Whole Jane Thing

(This is now on Huffpo: What I Don't Get About the Whole Jane Thing)

Contest! Zack Galifianakis + Bad Art + Band of Horses

UPDATE: Carey and Kerry guessed correctly. Zach's "brother" is Seth Galifianakis.

I don't usually do contests but come on, this one is like tailor-made (when I found out about this event I said "Zach G, Bad art and Band of Horses? If I don't go I'm NOT ME!")

Tomorrow night at Hiro Ballroom, New York Magazine is having a benefit for New York Cares at which:

* Zach Galifianakis will auction off bad art
* Band of Horses will play a full set

To buy tickets, go here

To enter to win tickets, send me an email with the name of Zach Galifianakis's "brother" in the subject line by midnight EST tonight. 

And They Say Bloggers Are Cynical

* Zulkey has an excellent and really informative interview with Anil Dash. It rocks. His part of the tag is "bloggers/blogging". "celebrity douchebags" is next...

* I've seen about 20 blog posts about Britney Spears' posting that her umbrella incident was all about her preparing for a role, but I haven't seen a single one that acknowledges that she is clearly being sarcastic. I mean, it's not like she's mastered the art of parody but it still seems obvious. I can't believe I just posted about BS.

* Jezebel is my kind of site and required daily reading. I can't believe I once thought it was going to be for the scary sadshaw demo. Totally the opposite. Nice!

I Love Flight of the Conchords

I keep talking to people who haven't seen Flight of the Conchords yet. This is unacceptable. I watch each episode approximately 4 times and it's, like, the best show on TV right now! One of the most common excuses people have is "I don't have HBO." Well, get it for one month! It's worth it! Geez. What is wrong in the world today? It must be all the Inner City Pressure (I'm just going to let this be huge, whatever):

"Turn Your Head to the Side. What You See is Called An 'Emoticon'"

This was probably on boingboing or slashfark or whatever but someone in my office sent it out:
"A Network Called 'Internet'", a Canadian news report from 1993. It's interesting aside from the whole "weren't we silly back then!" aspect and I suggest watching the whole video.

I Kid Because I Love

I know this is a little late, but I keep meaning to get to it and forgetting and Emily's post just reminded me: I totally broke up with a longtime boyfriend on March 13, 2004. That band guy? What's his face? Anyway, please leave your condolences and tell your own breakup stories and ask me out in the comments. Thanks!

Also: should I eat ice cream and if so, what kind?

My 30 Hour Seattle Adventure, And Links

This past weekend I went to Seattle for 30 hours to be a bridesmaid in my friend Christy's wedding (which was really fun!) and only slept 4 of them and met (namedrop) fimoculous Rex and scratched my cornea on the plane yesterday and had a total blast! Not a moment of boredom and if you know me, that is saying a lot. I mean, I'm bored now. As, I'm sure, are you.

So: links!!

* Defamer has a nice wrap-up of the finale of the show I hated SO MUCH yet watched every single episode of.

* I wrote a comedy-geek-indie-record-store -clerk-earnestly-mad indignant rant about Esquire's up and coming comedians list. Something had to be said, okay?

* Also via Defamer: there is a baby who looks just like Chris Farley. I know you're clicking. You can't help yourself.

* Claire Zulkey sent me an email saying "This girl reminds me of you." Thanks, Claire!

Ritalin Podcast

Gabe has gone and put up the latest Ritalin Readings podcast, which I still wish was broken up into sections (hint hint). The readers were awesome, as always!

Pirates? Gold? What?

Rather than write my own, I'm just going to defer to the disclaimer written by the folks at This Just In, who found this amazingness: "Probably the Best Video We've Found Yet"

She reminds me of a six year old telling a lie.

and really, there's only like, two funny parts.

You're picking on the wrong show, The Onion...

Jesse Lange for (Junior Class) President!

* I have a huge crush on this 16 year old kid who stands up to Bill O'Reilly. Watch the whole thing. He's like a young Brad Pitt, with balls!! "Rising Junior", indeed!

* (There are) 100 Things Funny (about): The Washlet.  The parody possibilities are endless (and surely forthcoming on Youtube. Off the top: "A Washlet Named Hal".)

* Ritalin Readings is still tomorrow and is still going to be awesome. See below for details. Yay!

Tuesday's Ritalin Readings: Trauma-Rama

The lineup for Tuesday's Ritalin Reading (7:30pm at Mo Pitkin's) is really great:

* Jon Daly and Brett Gelman (Cracked Out)
* Eliot Glazer
* Dan Kennedy
* Jack Kukoda
* Rachel Sklar

The theme is "Most Embarrassing Moments." I'm actually reading at this one instead of being useless! (I have a lot of embarrassing moments.)

Quick!

Vote for my Gawker tshirt slogan before it disappears! (it is: (Full Disclosure: I Know Everyone)) Joke explanation: I hate the full disclosure name drop.

Yeah, this is what I'm caring about right this second.

Paula Zahn is my New BFF

I have seen Paula Zahn no fewer than three times this week on the street outside my office (explainable because of proximity to CNN HQ). Last night, the third time I saw her, I'm almost positive she recognized me and thought "That random person on the street AGAIN???"

Also, I'm here to report that Paula Zahn is very very pretty. I just wish I saw my bf Amanda (Celeste Wells) Miller more often. I am going to make up a fake best friendship with Paula in my head and report back. Stay tuned!

Unintentionally Funny All Over the Place

* There is a guy counting to a million. Of course. Gabe: "Our children are going to hate us so hard for the way we wasted the internet." Also Gabe: "I'm excited for when we put the internet in the garbage and walk away" (but he says this every time I send him a link to anything.)

* Arthur Bradford plays a practical joke at a wedding, and it is funny.

* Top 10 Unintentionally Funny TV Intros. (via Last Stop)

* 100 Things Funny: "Connie, the oldest horse said "Let's play a drinking game and a smoking game" (Update: Link fixed)

Nick D'Agosto Joins the Cast of "Heroes"

The guy from Election and The Office continues his meteoric rise:

"The actor will play Claire's boyfriend, West, who is said to have "a very cool superpower."

I bet it's his face! I guess I have to start watching "Heroes." Also, everyone I know who has seen his movie "Rocket Science" (out 8/10) says it's really good.

Earlier: This is Now a Nicholas D'Agosto Fan Site

John and Sarah are Trying to Break My Heart

What do you do on your last day in New York? If you're John and Sarah Green, you make a video and score it with the appropriate Mountain Goats song and let the crying begin!