[CMoore.com] Awesome to Crap

Speaking of first to worst - I caught a rerun of Psych, season one, and was reminded how awesome the show was when it began. The first season is well written, tight, funny, and smart. Sean is likable, Gus has plenty of lines, the cop-psychic interplay is fun, and the pacing is fantastic.

By season three, the protagonist (Sean) is a smarmy asshole, Gus has basically disappeared, product placements are overwhelming the plot, and the show feels stale. Once again, the old adage holds:

In season one, the actors work for the writers
Season two, they work together
By season three, the writers work for the actors

As a case study in this truism, see the behavior of Heigl, Katherine.

Sorry Psych. It was good while it lasted.

[CMoore.com] Oops

Sorry guys, my bad.

[CMoore.com] Today is my Favorite YouTube Day Ever

[CMoore.com] I can't decide

this is either the gayest or most heterosexual piece since Chuck Berry’s “My Dingaling”

Can’t decide. Brain aneurysm!

[CMoore.com] That's the Most Heterosexual Thing I've Ever Seen

Also, frickkin awesome

[CMoore.com] Cunning and Sneaky

[CMoore.com] Kiss that meme goodbye

Time to put “fail” in the “dude, where’s my car?” pile.

When Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson testified before the Senate banking committee last month about Paulson’s proposed bailout bill, a demonstrator in the audience held up an 8.5-by-11 piece of paper with one word scrawled on it in block letters: “FAIL.” Earlier in September, Sarah Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson was dubbed by some bloggers an “epic fail.” Grist magazine invoked the phrase when John McCain told a Maine TV reporter that Sarah Palin “knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States.” And just last week on the Atlantic’s Web site, Ta-Nehisi Coates found the theory that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Barack Obama’s memoir so “desperate” he called it an “Epic Fail.”

[CMoore.com] Good timing

Managed to get the lens right on the bastid’s face wut killed ya

… actually, I’m calling fake, but it’s a good un.

[CMoore.com] This may be the worst thing I've ever seen

I can’t believe it took me 30 years to find it.

No, wait. Seriously? They filmed that? It made it past editing and was actually released? Inconceivable!

[CMoore.com] Kermit Bale

Christian Bale == Kermit… with photographic evidence

[CMoore.com] 10 Most Challenged Books, 2007

Also known as my new reading list

1) "And Tango Makes Three," by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
Reasons: Anti-Ethnic, Sexism, Homosexuality, Anti-Family, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

2) The Chocolate War," by Robert Cormier
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Violence

3) "Olive's Ocean," by Kevin Henkes
Reasons: Sexually Explicit and Offensive Language

4) "The Golden Compass," by Philip Pullman
Reasons: Religious Viewpoint

5) "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain
Reasons: Racism

6) "The Color Purple," by Alice Walker
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language,

7) “TTYL," by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou
Reasons: Sexually Explicit

9) "It's Perfectly Normal," by Robie Harris
Reasons: Sex Education, Sexually Explicit

10) “The Perks of Being A Wallflower," by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

I’m kind of sad I’ve only read four of those, actually.

[CMoore.com] When Lipsyncing is a good thing

I knew it was bad, but that’s just… wow.

[CMoore.com] Disappointed by America yet again

HGTV’s next design star has approximately 1/10th the talent and 1/100th the design skills. Even if the methodology wasn’t screwed up (texting A or B is a blow to the person with B), even if Jen has nothing but matching the demographic of the watchers, I thought the obvious talent disparity on this, the worst of the Design Star seasons was such that the better designer would win.

Oh well.

Matt, you got jobbed.

[CMoore.com] This may be my new favorite blog

[CMoore.com] Hate to say I told you so

… but I told you so!

Welcome back, billmon.

[CMoore.com] Jessica Simpson Epic Fail

So the never-had-talent tries to reinvent herself as a country star. It did not go well.

Audiences booed and clapped as the singer, 28, opened for Sara Evans on Saturday at the Country Thunder USA festival in Randall, Wisconsin.

“I don’t know what your perception is of Jessica Simpson or what tabloid you buy, but I just want you to know that I’m just a girl from Texas,” Simpson told the crowd. “I’m just like you. I’m doing what I love and dating a boy.“

J. Simp, honey, it’s not the singing they were booing. You have to know your audience, and cowboys like to keep that shit on the downlow, know what I’m sayin?

[CMoore.com] One Badass Leopard

Behold, as a leopard attacks and kills a crocodile. With pictures!

Man, I don’t know what the croc said, but that leopard musta been pissed to do that.

[CMoore.com] You know who I love?

Joss Whedon.

Check out his Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog shorts. Aaaaawesome! (Neil Patrick Harris, Nate Fillion, and Felicia Day are the actors)

[CMoore.com] Separated at Birth?

from the amazing mind of ghostfinger, compare and discuss:

2.5 men set:

with Laverne and Shirley, the California year(s):

Same set or same set designer?

[CMoore.com] I am aware of all internet traditions

And now, you too, can finally keep up with my awesome cultural references. Except you can’t. Because I’ll always be ahead of you. Just try and keep up, bitches!

(seriously, though, this will at least get you, and you know who you are, past the “dude, where’s my car?” stage of lame-o ness)

[CMoore.com] A Little Help for My Fred

[CMoore.com] PSA - Help Save Helpline - 1.800.SUICIDE

Give what you can, share where you may.

[CMoore.com] Carlin on Bullshit

[CMoore.com] Bummer

Edgy comic George Carlin dies at 71

Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs, dirty words and the demise of humanity, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday. He was 71.

Carlin was amazing. His routines were those of a 2%er who managed to actually connect with the rest of the world. From religion to sex to politics to culture to plain reason, he was a veritable cornucopia of wit and humor.

In sum, I have this to say: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.

[CMoore.com] Design Star Music

OK, it’s got to be said - WTF is up with that cheesy-ass music they’re using this year when they show the “after” shots on the room? Seriously, it’s awful 80s-era euro synth trash mixed with muzak.

Also, this is the cryingest season ever.

The show has fundamental problems - it’s entirely focused on the “design” part and not at all focused on the “TV” part; there is no reason for any winner to have a show at the end, and the competition is not geared toward the “thematic show with personality” part which is kind of, you know, crucial for a personality-based show - but the competition is fun (for a comparison on how to do it correctly, see the Next Food Network Star where there’s a huge emphasis on the contestant’s theme and TV style, not just their cooking). If you want to see a floundering train wreck of a show, watch either of the last two seasons winners, which are flat out boring shows.

Also, the viewers’ choice person (Stephanie) looks like someone I know +35 lbs.

Also also, these people cry more than fuckin Ricky on Project Runway. And they only kept that Kentucky woman (Tracy) in for the conflict/drama. Maybe she has BPD with the level of enmity going on there. Then again, she does seem like a pretty huge assmunch and not a team player in the slightest so it’s probably deserved.

Anyhoo, the music during the reveals in the Design Star thingee this year is poke-your-eyes-out awful.

[CMoore.com] YouMeme Watch 02

[CMoore.com] YouMeme watch 01

Pitted, so pitted

Thought I’d share some vids as they start entering the zeitgeist

[CMoore.com] Meta pop music video

Great video by Weezer

… I love the warmth and acceptance of all the freaky YouTube miniceleb memes.

Weezer isn’t my favorite band, but the video? Good stuff. You’ve got afroninja, the leave Britney alone! kid, Miss South Carolina… and hugs all around.

[CMoore.com] Now THAT is what I call graffiti!

Holy crap this is awesome

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

[CMoore.com] The effects of fear and our diminished existence

One graphic nicely sums up our age of irrational and overcontrolling fear. We’re doing it to ourselves, people.

[CMoore.com] It's an oldy but a goody

I had totally forgotten about this series of exchanges between Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, etc) and Mark Brazil (that shitty 70s show, general insane douchebag-slash-multimillionaire). But just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s not worthwhile! (also - interested in ghostfinger’s take on Brazil’s particular form of mental instability).

This came about from the real estalker where I noticed that Brazil is eating his shorts on real estate deals (lost a mil on a sale last year, going to lose as much on today’s listing) … and it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

[CMoore.com] In case you wanted to try out a baseball league

Thought I’d give a simple points league a try and what do you know? ESPN has a free and easy setup thing.

Group: Always Room for More
Password: leskanic

http://games.espn.go.com/bbc/group?groupID=4220

[CMoore.com] Wanna buy a house?

The Humphrey Estate is on the market. For a mere $48 mil. (outside of Atlanta, of all places)

Check it out, though, it’s … remarkable.

[CMoore.com] New Pattern

Interspersing recipes with totally awesome clips from Japanese TV

Enjoy! It’s faaaaaantastic

[CMoore.com] Someone had to approve this

I don’t know who, but my guess is that certain someone is a GENIUS