Month: June 2012

One of the major turning points for the 'indie' podcasting culture was when Apple put podcasting inside iTunes and gave corporate-produced media prominence over the then-burgeoning indie podcasters. They've gradually push podcasting down further into the app – and on the iPhone you can't even subscribe to a podcast from within the Music app. Apple's […]

'Why do you yell at people? How can you sleep in your car at night? Do you kiss your pimp with that mouth?' Vulgar Conan clip has everyone talking – CNN.com Video Jack McBrayer from "30 Rock" and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog are insulted at a famous Chicago hot dog stand.

A $32k/yr private elementary school from the Blue Man Group sounds like a glorious swindle. If you are dumb enough to pay that much for elementary school- you deserve to get ripped off and have illiterate idiot children. A blue man 'dupe': Parent panic at 32G 'progressive' school The Blue School is one big play […]

Saw this blowing up while I was in a meeting. I can think of no reason on this earth there should ever be a secret trade agreements with other countries (not counting defense-ish stuff). Obama Trade Document Leaked- Reveals New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises WASHINGTON — A critical document from President Barack Obama's […]

When I think of all the new dot-this or dot-that's that are going to be added I think about how long it took to get consumers to type in 'http://' or 'www' and then not type 'www' and how hard it is to say URLs over the phone or on TV. It will be fun […]

Andrew Zimmern: "I predict- two years from now- Filipino food will be what we will have been talking about for six months … I think that's going to be the next big thing. I want to go on record — this is not something that's hot now somewhere and will get hot everywhere else. It's […]

Asshole racist remark from an insult comic. "President Obama is a personal friend of mine-" said Rickles. "He was over to the house yesterday- but the mop broke." TV Land to Cut Don Rickles' Obama Joke From Shirley MacLaine AFI Tribute (Exclusive)

FunnyJunk is threatening to file a federal lawsuit against The Oatmeal unless I pay him $20-000 in damages -. Remember FunnyJunk? Almost exactly a year ago I published a blog post about my comics being stolen- re-hosted- and monetized on FunnyJunk's website. The owner of the site responded and some of the comics were taken […]

Nope. Sorry. You're thinking of Modern Family: 'The comedy in the past 10 years prior to our show had an edge to it. It was satirical. There was a cynicism about the comedy. [New Girl] came along at the right time for — this weird alchemy that happened — is that we were willing for […]

Malcolm Gladwell's past as a corporate shill: Malcolm Gladwell Unmasked 'Gladwell has shilled for Big Tobacco- Pharma and defended Enron-style financial fraud- all while earning hundreds of thousands of dollars as a corporate speaker- sometimes from the same companies and industries that he covers as a journalist.'