ok.
One wonders why retail stores close, and yet…
D.C. Billing
“Fourth episode of the grisly serial killer drama [HANNIBAL] featured Molly Shannon’s character brainwashing kids, leading them to kill other children.
Episode four was slated to air next week. Peacock will instead move directly to episode five. While the drama is serialized, NBC claims there will be no continuity issues, noting that TV critics have seen episodes three and five, and not four.
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NBC pulled the fourth episode of Hannibal scheduled to air next week. Because Molly Shannon can never apparently be forgiven for the Chechnyan cause that is Superstar: Dare to Dream.
Or, you know, because people are more comfortable censoring fictional things than actually confronting major issues.
compare/contrast: when someone writes an infitely better plot for a tyler perry movie about cheating wives. →
in which roadside films tweets a link to a "review" of MUD by jeff wells, but it's really just about a Criterion of REPO MAN →
I waited almost two years for this mash-up.
THE WHY WOULD YOU EAT THAT CHALLENGE: THE GAUNTLET
This is by far the most epic episode of the Why Would You Eat That Challenge we have ever done. Why?
- We shot it on an amazing castle set.
- The foods are Snake Wine, Mopane Worms and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper aka the world’s hottest pepper (twice as hot as the ghost chili) I had it. It’s fucking awful.
- Our Tasters are James Ashby of SMBC Theater and Paul Prado of 5 Second Films. They are promoting their new channel, Broke Eats.
- I dress up like a pretty pretty princess.
- We act all Games of Thronesy in it.
trinidad moruga scorpion pepper, you’re on my bucket list with a durian milkshake.
these are cards that 4chan sent to wesley snipes while he was in jail.
“Anyone who watches the show can put two and two together. Abbott walked because his character, Charlie Dattolo, strikes at least some of us (i.e., myself) as arich, stone-faced, totally-stuck-on-himself little prick who is probably hung like a cashew. He’s off and on with Allison Williams‘ character but mainly he wants to fuck her occasionally. Or so it seems to me.”
i dunno. i hate to think what would happen if some scammer got a hold of my account and years down the line my great-great-adopted grandchild would have to fight him for it in the glooberweb or whatever the fuck will exist in the future.
beisdes—i exhausted finding and reading every subreddit i could think of on my phone. and my zite/flipboard are connected to my twitter. not to mention i can’t access vine or instagram without at least one account.
and those last three sentences alone are making my grandparents spin in their grave when it comes to how their offspring “gets news."
and yet, 35,050 tweets later there is no way to erase that mark of shame from the times you had to promote material for current, freelance jobs, a blog about a dog with a head stuck in a color wheel, poor decisions while under an influence, poor influences while deciding they sounded brilliant, “live-tweets" or embarrassing photos of michael moore after you spit a gin and tonic on him.
whoops 2
hushpuppy is going to recite poetry tomorrow on the White House lawn.
If you have access to C-SPAN around 1:30 pm tomorrow do watch.
whoops
All this leg breaking in handball made me realize I forgot I had a screener for “Zero Charisma."
And today is Tabletop Day!
ARGH. Now slate will never take my pitches.
on fear and loathing in skyrim
All weekend long there is a sale on DLC in Skyrim. Skyrim is a massively open world role-playing game that you can play either in first person or third person. It is the (I forget without looking at wikipedia)th game in The Elder Scrolls series. DLC means “rather than you buy a complete game we can now continue to make additions for $15-20 years after you paid $69.99 thus making you spend almost $129.99 on a video game today."
So all weekend long there is a sale on DLC in Skyrim and one of the sale items is the DLC “Hearthfire." This addition allows you to build your house, adopt a child and have mansions while you battle underground creatures and use your thu’um (that I can remember without Wikipedia so fuck haters) to kill the dragon menace.
And yet I can’t bring myself to buy it out of a continuing fear to own a home or have a kid. Also fighting dragons and then riding my invincible horse Shadowmere off cliffs for fun before respawning like Bill Murray.
There’s no real metaphor here aside from I have no idea about the NCAA and Wichita State and Ohio State are battling each other in a very intense game of handball.
“Yo uh yeah this John uh this Pat Sh…ya kno from the 240 uh yeah uh I got your number cuz I heard uh yo uh John had the hook up for uh to uh ask for ray k bye.”
geoff boucher to trevor groth: i bet i can build a geek-baiting film festival faster than you. →
a scene from a scrapped story
interviewer:Hi, my name's [interviewer] and I'm doing a piece about interactive second-screen experiences and what the major studios have planned for them.
interviewee:oh great, how can we help.
interviewer:well, i'd love to know how Paramount is moving forward with the experience--especially when it comes to VOD and brands like Iron Man and Thor.
interviewee:...
interviewer:...
interviewee:hold on.
10 minutes later
interviewee 2:hi, interviewee said you had some questions about our future branding with interactivity and brands like iron man?
interviewer:yes. as you know, microsoft revealed smartglass for windows 8 and xbox yesterday and--
interviewee 2:well, i'm sorry. we have nothing to do with that.
interviewer:oh, ok. then can you comment on why Paramount brands like Star Trek and produced films like Iron Man, Thor and Captain America were such integral parts of their tech demo?
interviewee 2:...and...you're at e3 now?
interviewer:no, but I watched the demo.
interviewee 2:well, no comment obviously. how could you watch the demo if you weren't at e3?
interviewer:...it streamed live. on YouTube.
interviewee 2:...please hold.
click.
interviewee 3:hi, i was told you had some questions. please call back in a week.
every week for a month.
paramount reception:hi, interviewers 1 through 3 are busy. they're on vacation. together. forever.
interviewer:...really?
paramount reception:forever.
click.
the end.