Friday fun stuff

[yendi]

In another episode of "Adam's late for the party," I'd never even heard of Rocketboom.com until last night's CSI. See? TV can be informative.

The CSI rerun I watched at 7, incidentally, had Reunion's Amanda Righetti in a blink-or-you'll-miss-it role. Not that it's really possible to blink and miss her, but this was way early in her career.

KOL update: I'm up to 473 pounds worth of familiars. I'm hoping for the Black Hole Terrarium trophy by the end of the weekend, although since one of the three remaining ten-pound familiars is my pet rock, it may be close. The rock, the Potato, and the Balloon Monkey are all still at ten, and my leprechaun is at sixteen pounds. Everything else is at nineteen or twenty. Once I finish that, it's off to ascension for me.

Over in the House, the Republicans rejected the only man more corrupt than Delay in favor of, well, the only man to ever get caught handing out big tobacco bribe money on the House floor. Let's hear it for the reformist. Oh, wait. He came in third in the election.

Over in movies, the Tarantino/Rodriguez combo horror flick Grindhouse has officially been greenlit! Woohoo!

Finally, who knew? The best-selling iTunes shows amongst all the new MTV Networks shows? The various stand-up comedy specials. Not really a surprise -- a good comedy routine is something I might want to watch multiple times, so makes for a better purchase. Still, nice to see MItch Hedberg getting some posthumous recognition.

Comments

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

Heh..I didn't realize it was a real site! That's very cool.

[yendi]

*nod* A this point, I pretty much check out any and all urls shown on TV shows, just in case.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I'll assume RocketBoom isn't worksafe and not look at it right now (i.e., while at work). Can the site be explained quickly to n00bs like me? And please understand I've seen maybe a minute of CSI this entire decade.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Finally, who knew? The best-selling iTunes shows amongst all the new MTV Networks shows? The various stand-up comedy specials. Not really a surprise -- a good comedy routine is something I might want to watch multiple times, so makes for a better purchase. Still, nice to see MItch Hedberg getting some posthumous recognition.

I predict in the next two years this will lead to more Lonely Island-like development deals for web-only comedy content. Either that or Dane Cook will reach an enormous size and devour us all as Gozer The Destroyer.

[yendi]

It seems that I'm the only person alive who doesn't think that Dane Cook is either All That or a Bag of Chips.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I quite agree. His Lovecraftian consumption of us all was a comment on his sudden and disturbing ubiquity.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Of him, I only know what I saw just now on Dane Cook's IMDb listing (and hey, ever thought that Neil Diamond should sing an "IMDb" theme song? "I-M, D-B! [horns] Movieeeees to seeeee!" [more horns]...). Hazard of being TV-less, I guess. Is he the one we can call Aaron Burr for the way he's droppin' Hamiltons?

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

If it helps at all, I'd never heard of rocketboom.com until I read this post.

[yendi]

That's one of those rules of life -- it's always okay to be late to the party, as long as someone else is later.

[gladstone.livejournal.com]

I only heard about Rocketboom a couple of weeks ago. You can subscribe to it on your TiVo if you have a broadband connection. Last night's CSI was the most pointless guest appearance in the history of ever, however.

[yendi]

I saw the Tivo info on their site, but we don't have the broadband Tivo connection. That said, I went ahead and subbed via iPod.