Archive for the 'entertainment' Category

Sundance 2007, Day One

Friday, January 26th, 2007

  I don't mean day one of the festival. I mean day one of the festival for my friends and me. The festival has been going strong for several days now. We arrived in Utah yesterday afternoon. This marks my third consecutive year at the Sundance Film Festival. We arrived yesterday in time to catch [...]

The O.C. canceled

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

First it was Marissa. Now it's the whole show. It's sad, but apparently true. I guess it's too late for another Chrismukkah miracle.

Please Kanye, don’t hurt ‘em!

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

WPvideo 1.10 It's not because MTV Europe doesn't care about Black people, Kanye. Spending a million dollars and hiring Pamela Anderson does not guarantee an award winning music video. Kanye's lucky that wasn't Jeff Tweedy up there. Jeff might have punched him out. Kanye West a Sore Loser at MTV awards [MSN News]

I am trying to break your face

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Accounts differ on exactly what happened, but a fan got a little too close for comfort at a recent Wilco show when he managed to get on stage and attempted to kiss Jeff Tweedy. Apparently, Tweedy grabbed the guy by his neck and smacked him in the face. Read Pitchfork’s coverage and the Billboard blog’s [...]

Links of the day

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Time Out Chicago seeks out cheap eats in their latest issue. It should hit newstands today. You can get a preview on the Time Out Chicago website. Check it out now because it might not be there by the time the next issue comes out. Billy Corgan has been living in Courtney Love’s house for [...]

Screech hawks t-shirts to save his house

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Another child star falls on hard times: Dustin Diamond, famous for his role as Screech on Saved by the Bell, is pleading for help to save his Wisconsin home from foreclosure. He’s foregoing the traditional fund raising methods of selling lemonade, washing cars, holding bake sales, and selling candy bars. Instead, he is selling autographed [...]

Links of the day

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

The Intonation Music Festival is this weekend at Union Park. Samsung unveiled a new line of ultra-slim phones that best Motorola’s offerings. The thinnest one is only 6.9mm thick. Backlight Visualizer for iTunes on MacOS X: Makes your keyboard backlight pulse to the beat of the music. Here’s a video demonstration. Video of a comcast [...]

Reunited and it feels so good

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

According to E! Online, the two Coreys are reuniting to work on The Coreys, a new TV show currently looking for a network. I hope someone picks them up. The first few episodes should be entertaining just based purely on the novelty of the show. We’ll have to see how the former teen stars fare [...]

The Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

This is the funniest thing I have seen on Saturday Night Live in years. View it at: NBC SNL or YouTube or YouTube

Sonograms by Cruise

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Just because you can afford something doesn’t mean you should buy it. Owning an ultrasound machine does not make you qualified to perform or interpret a sonogram. Tom Cruise thought it would be a good idea to buy an ultrasound machine and perform his own sonograms on Katie Holmes, his pregnant fiancee. He then thought [...]

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