Posts Tagged ‘blogosphere’
SNL: The Mark of Inconsistency
by NONPOPULIST / blogosphere / comedy / SNL / Comments
Hello, do not adjust your monitor. You are on a computer, not a 1950’s television. Yes, Edge was dead for a bit, but now it has been reanimated for your perverse pleasure. Tunison decided to let it die, but he did not follow that decision up with a head shot. You see what I did there? The blog is like a zombie. Edge is now mostly being outsourced to blogfrica. I am one of those who have been hired for my cheap, yet efficient labor, Nonpopulist. I run The Nonpopulist and contribute at The Gally Blog. This is just the latest in my expanding volunteer media empire. Christmas Ape is rumored to still be in the mix so consider him your Homer Simpson as you let outsourcing ‘take you away.’
We are not doing anything groundbreaking here, folks. We are simply talking about culture which, as you can see from the above tagline, is for losers. We are still talking about it, though. Cue cricket noises if they have not started already.
NBC has announced the upcoming lineup of hosts and musical guests.[NBC.com] This week, April 3rd, is a repeat of Jennifer Lopez’s recent hosting gig. Nothing to see there. If you were going to rerun an episode why not rebroadcast Zach Galifianakis’ show on the strength of the monologue alone (see video above.) The other upcoming Saturday Night Live episodes will feature:
April 10th: Tina Fey with musical guest Justin Bieber
Great as long as Fey doesn’t do the Sarah Palin impression or get anywhere near the update desk. Bieber, the ire of people who pay attention to trending topics on twitter, will be an easy fast forward with my dvr remote.
April 17th: Ryan Phillippe with musical guest Ke$ha
not much to say on either of these two except *eye blink*.
April 24th: Gabourey Sidibe with musical guest MGMT
I haven’t seen Precious yet, but I saw Gabourey on The Tonight Show way back when Conan O’Brien was still the host and the girl has personality.
May 8th: Betty White with musical guest unknown as of yet.
As a closet fan of The Golden Girls this makes me happy. She has some of the best comedic timing of all time.
Saturday Night Live was once a cultural touchstone emanating relevancy with poignant insight. Now it mostly feels of a church youth group trying to put on a funny sketch. The show is baffling in its inconsistency, yet I still DVR it every week. You can follow me on twitter if you like @nonpopulist. The other new writers should be chiming in soon enough. This hit is just to get you back to even.
Update Your Slurs: Fauxhemian
by MICHAEL TUNISON / blogosphere / fauxhemians / hipsters / Comments
Fauxhemian is the new hipster, which was once upon a time the new black. So hath determined the readership of Gawker, who voted the term to replace the hackneyed pejorative that is hipster. Honestly, I’ll say that I’m sad to see it go. I think I’ll write it an elegiac tone poem.
No Litchi Either
by MICHAEL TUNISON / blogosphere / fud / Comments
Yes, there are places in the world where durians are common enough that cabbies need to post signs in their cars asking that you don’t bring them on board. It’s almost as though the exotic spiked plant might be indigenous to regions that are not ours. But we will gawk and titter because different equals HIGHlarity. Ha! Uncommon fruit!
So Much For My Traffic Dropping Privileges
by MICHAEL TUNISON / blogosphere / Comments
Spotted on a sign outside Beerland Bar in Austin during the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference: further confirmation that bloggers like myself are capable of great acts of jerkwheatery. Granted, the writer of the sign has an obscene store of smarm, but he’s only been goaded this far because bloggers tried to put on airs because of their site traffic. I mean, please, it’s the amount of free swag from desperate publicists that really matters.
Quick and Edgy: Quick, While The Tourney Went to Commercial
by MICHAEL TUNISON / blogosphere / movies / sports / TV / Comments
There’s a good chance you’ve spent a sizable parts of yesterday and today watching college basketball. This will likely continue into the weekend. Any tournament watching experience can only be enriched by this Gus Johnson soundboard. RISE AND CLICK!
“Parks and Recreation’s” Ron F’n Swanson provides self-defense tips so you won’t have to count on the sorry government to save you.
Preliminary reports from hipster outposts suggest MacGruber may actually kinda, sorta not suck. Completely. At times.
Pilipina’s Got Talent. Frightening, otherworldly, kill-it-with-fire talent.
A short film based on Charles Burns’ harrowing classic graphic novel “Black Hole” has been posted online. Thanks to MTV’s Splash Page for digging it up.
[Top video courtesy HotHotJapanHot]
Good Thing Reagan Didn’t Live To Meet This Man
by MICHAEL TUNISON / blogosphere / naughty words / Comments
I can’t write this guy’s old name on this blog and I can’t write out what he changed his name to either, but both are rather strong words on condemnation to government policies. They’re also quite entertaining. Somehow I don’t think he eats out much, but I’d like to be there when he leaves his name with the hostess.
Boba Fett In “The Bounty Hunter”
by MICHAEL TUNISON / blogosphere / Photoshops / Comments
Boba Fett might be the most overrated character in all of fiction. He walks around a couple Star Wars movies like he’s a badass, looks cool, does nothing, then gets killed. But he does do looking cool fairly well. I’ll give him that. And that what he’s doing in this Photoshopped version of The Bounty Hunter poster. If that means Jennifer Aniston ends up frozen in carbonite, then it’s twice the victory for all of us.
Insomnia Fuel: Man Babies
by MICHAEL TUNISON / blogosphere / nightmare fuel / Comments
Babies, with man faces. You will curse me for showing them to you, yet you cannot avoid clicking the link. You will try, perhaps even close this page and sign off the Internet. But the thought of it will gnaw at you. Draw you back in. You will imbibe alcohol to dispel it, but the spirits will only make the nagging louder. Finally, you submit, laughing off your silly anxieties. And then: death.
— January 20‚ 2009 —
Concerned With Facebook Privacy?
There are tools to help if you are concerned with Facebook privacy. And if you were unsure you should be concerned with your privacy on Facebook. The CNN SciTechBlog highlights four of them. Why can’t Google and Facebook chill out a little and not be so concerned with knowing every detail about us in order to monetize every penny they can. Clam down, guys, we just want to use the damn internet. If we want to buy something we’ll let you know.
THREADZombie Awareness Month?
So we can just make up awareness months now? The Zombie Research Society has dubbed May ‘Zombie Awareness Month,’ and it doesn’t appear to be a joke, maybe. You are encouraged to wear a gray ribbon to signify your awareness of zombies for the month of May. This can not be real. On their website they offer a lifetime membership in the society for $25. This is ingeniously crazy. I totally just liked the ZRS on FB.
THREADThe NFL Throwing TV Elbows
Is the NFL a television juggernaut or what? NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said ratings are up 30% from last year’s draft. Thursday night was the first ever NFL draft in prime time, and the major networks will have to take notice when the official ratings come out. Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com reports the league is declaring last night’s first round a success and speculates the draft in prime time will most likely become a yearly tradition. Next year I am predicting there will be a lot of reruns aired against the draft if the networks are smart… which they aren’t.
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