Hodgman – free
If you’ve enjoyed John Hodgman as the resident expert on The Daily Show (say, patiently explaining the tubes of the internet), on the comedy defying I’m A Mac ads (how can a comedy duo with two straight men work? And by straight, I mean, of course, not-gay. No, wait…), or my personal favorite, his quick cameo in the latest Wired, wherein he calls the European Hadron particle collider, the Massive Hardon Collider. And then corrects himself. “I meant to say, ‘Massive Erection Collider'”, then have I got something for you.
I just turned on iTunes (Canadian store – I don’t know if it’s the same at other stores, the US one in particular) and you can download the abridged version of Hodgman’s “The Areas of My Expertise.” Free. And you’re thinking, “Oh, well, abridged. So, it’s a sampler.”
It’s 7 hours long.
Go get it.
Tits Up: Buy the Cheerleader, Be a Creep.
Tits Up is a recurring feature where I will chronicle gratuitous T&A and the objectification of women throughout fandom and the geekverse at large, especially in mainstream superhero comic books.
I’m all for supporting charity, in pretty much ANY form.
BUT.
It is more than slightly creepy for a charity to sell a mildly sexual pin-up of an underage girl to raise funds. Even if she is on television.
The Hero Initiative, you have gone…TITS UP.
Previously: Tits Up: Ex Machina
"Junior!"
One of my favorite places for hilarious bile on the internet is Ain’t It Cool News. Their Talkbackers have a consistent, special gift for finding the most cruel and unforgiving ways to rip on whatever the fanboy topic of the day might be.
A leitmotif, if you will, of the Talkbackers’ hate is mock titles of the fourth Indiana Jones installment. Every story about the flick guarantees tens of these sarcastic jabs.
So it is with GREAT GLEE that I bring you the latest of these Talkbacks. (Scroll down past the story itself, of course–who gives a shit who plays Indy’s son? The film’s gonna blow chunks regardless.)
“Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Reverse Mortgage,” indeed.
I read these and wept with laughter.
Earbuddies
Thanks to Daily Candy, which just linked to the awesome Pixel Girl Shop, I now want the most useless iPod accessory ever: Emotibud Earbuds. Look how cute, you guys! If festooning my earbuds with adorably extraneous charms is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
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Items of note:
For all my peeps in Oakland: The Parkway is hosting a special “Once More, With Feeling “Buffy sing-along tonight! The Parkway is home of so many lovely memories for me. Were it not for that theater, I would have never witnessed Mark Wahlberg and China Chow’s amazing, chicken-stuffing love scene or Meg Ryan’s unbelievably unsafe bike ride. For those of us far away from the Bay Area, the Joss Whedon-directed eppy of The Office also airs tonight. Huzzah!
I meant to link to this earlier, but do check out this post from Ragnell and then take a gander at what a green Eva Mendes would look like. I think she’s pretty much perfect.
Finally, in addition to the BSG duties, I am now reviewing Heroes for iPod Observer.
