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From the Desk of the Editor in Chief: I feel Dizzay!

2012-06-01T16:21:00.001-07:00

Beloved Joanne, a one time reader of the blog who has been slacking off for over a year now sent me the video you'll see after the jump. In her words it is "Hilarious" you can see my comments after the video.

In a related note, I was searching on google for a graphic to pair with "funny video" and two interesting images popped up 3rd and 4th. I have no idea why, maybe someone could explain it to me in the comments? Go ahead and try for yourself. http://images.google.com and search for "funny video."

For those too lazy I've included the photos here for your convenience.

Photos: thecomedynet.com

Photo: justpaste.it

See the video that inspired this post after the jump!

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America's Next Top Model Recap: The British Came

2012-05-31T16:58:00.001-07:00

ANTM Ep13 : Cycle 18 Finale

By Dancer

Here we are at the finale! On the first show when they gave us two groups USA vs UK it was destined that there would be one of each in the finale, and that's exactly what we've got.

The final two Sophie & Laura enjoy their victory of being the final two back at the house. To camera they both recognize that while they personally like the other person they arecompetition.

Tyra mail turns up soon after they get settled in: Tomorrow is going to be a BLAST the message says. Of course it’s going to be their Covergirl shoot, in this competition there are no surprises when you get this close to the end, but Sophie isn’t so sure it’s for Covergirl…. (personal note: Sophie don’t go disappointing me now!)

(will Sophie disappoint Dancer? Who will triumph on the runway? On the Cover Girl photo shoot? Will Tyra make it all about her at one point? Will the girls take time for high tea? find out....after the jump!)

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From the Desk of the Editor in Chief: Drake Gets Stunted!

2012-05-31T11:28:00.000-07:00

Rapper Drake, who is responsible for lyrics such as these...

cocksure
Photo: brotherswithnogame.com

Owww, hoes turn they heads like, owls

I'm the man of the hour Triple entendre, don't even ask me how

Con Edison flow, I'm connected to a higher power

Bright life'd make your whole city light up

A trillion-watt light bulb, when I'm in the nightclub

I just landed in that G450

Caught the Mayweather fight, 'cause the satellite was crispy

was recently "stunted" after tweeting "The first million is the hardest"

Find out how and by whom (the really interesting part) after the jump!

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America's Next Top Model Recap: Meta Recap of a Recap

2012-05-30T08:03:00.000-07:00

ANTM Ep12 : Meh, it’s a recap

By Dancer

Oh yeah, there is always a recap… and they had a double elimination so here we are.

Before watching the show I’d been thinking to past seasons and remembering how the TwL crew would pick favorites before the first episode and how the San Diego crew would have ANTM nights where T would complain if there was too much clucking and not enough wine.

But then there was Angelea-gate and that just squashed the interest in the show.

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Okay, Now One with FLASH!

2012-05-29T08:25:00.000-07:00

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GreenTech Geek: Welcome to the Grok Chronicles

2012-05-28T20:47:00.001-07:00

Meet Grok.

The more one learns about the concept of sustainability, the more one sees that it encompasses and touches on a wide variety of considerations: environmental, social, and economic. The "social" area covers a lot, including human health, health care access, and availability of health-related resources to various communities and populations.

Those of us fortunate enough to live in a resource-rich country have many choices available in terms of what to eat or not to eat in order to support or not support our health. Recently I've been on a quest for healthier ways to eat, and that quest led me to an approach called the Paleo Diet (or Paleolithic Diet).

"The what?" you say? Find out, after the jump ...

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Game of Thrones Recap: Blackwater

2012-05-28T09:44:00.000-07:00

Stannis Baratheon is Coming!

The Battle of Blackwater

by T

Had you told me one year ago that Stannis Baratheon was going to storm King's Landing with 20,000 men, to seize the Iron Throne from King Joffrey and the rest of Lannisters, who had an army of only 7,000 at their disposal, I would have said, "Good! I hope they show King Joffrey the same mercy that little prick gave to dead Ned Stark! And when they're done with him I hope they execute his bitch mother!"

Yup. What a difference a year makes. On the precipice of the Battle of Blackwater, I've done a bit of flip-flopping. While I still want King Joffrey's head on a pike (as does everyone, except his mother), I've grown quite fond of Tyrion Lannister and fear for his safety. I've also grown equally fond of his hateful sibling, Cersei, and her ever present glass of vino, which has been poured from the ever present "takes the edge off," decanter. I have an uneasy feeling that one, or both, of them will join dead Ned Stark in a permanent dirt nap. Although he would make a much better King than Joffrey (but who wouldn't?), I'm mad at Stannis for what he did to his brother, Renly.

Now, let's get on with this recap of Blackwater, Game of Thrones Season 2, Episode 8...

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TWL Instant Message Movie Review: Men in Black 3

2012-05-26T00:25:00.001-07:00

The threesome of stars: Barbra Streisand's stepson,
Mr. Jada Pinkett Smith, and Al Gore's college roomie
at that university Zuck went to. Photo: Sony.

Is the third time a charm for Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, who return to the Men in Black franchise? Or will the addition of Josh Brolin throw off their mojo? Here's the 15 minute instant message session where CaliforniaKara and SDMattchew hash out their thoughts on the Barry Sonnenfeld-helmed Men in Black 3.

SPOILER ALERT: If you don't want to know any details about plot or casting, stop reading now.

californiakara: Did you know director Barry Sonnenfeld got his start "'refining' his craft on several hardcore porn films" Matt? Gotta love IMDB.

sdmattchew: That I did not know.

sdmattchew: He should have brought some of that old magic to this film. Some porn jokes might have stopped me from getting irritated by that cockamamey time travel plotline they tried out on us.

californiakara: You know, it's funny, up until the last 11 or so minutes, I was thinking, "Meh, fun popcorn flick. Fun enough for a summer movie."

sdmattchew: I agree completely. I didn't walk away loving it, but I wouldn't have gotten out of my leather recliner at the luxury theater and stormed out on it, either.

californiakara: True, there's no way I would've wasted a perfectly good surf and turf sushi roll and waiter service. Good thing it wasn't a stinker of a movie!

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Gingerbreadmama Gossip nibble: Today, a bigger bite of the juicy stuff.

2012-05-25T19:39:00.000-07:00

Britney Walks off set, A porn star is arrested for DUI and John Mayer’s Fifty Shades of Grey usage

by Gingerbreadmama

Found
Update: Actor Nick Stahl has been found and is seeking treatment in rehab. Reports state that he’d been “spotted in the skid row area of Los Angeles last week, and his wife had said she believed drugs may have played a part in his disappearance.”

When they found him he looked very refreshed.
Photo: usmagazine.com

The Diva rears her head? Or was it something she ate?
Picture this…first day shooting your first TV show in your first real getting your sh*t back together job and…you walk off the set? Well, that is precisely what Ms. Britney did on the set of X-Factor during the Austin auditions. Reports state she walked off after a “contestant butchered her 2011 hit song, "Hold It Against Me."

The show continued filming (would there be any doubt, its Simon I just love controversy with crazy women Cowell). Sources say that four more contestants “auditioned in front of Simon Cowell, L.A. Reid, and Demi Lovato, and Spears' empty seat until the show took a recess”.

Nature Calls
Photo: businessinsider.com

Her handlers say she just needed a break and a source close to the production explained, “The judges are allowed to get up at any point. The show isn't so strictly structured as American Idol is. When Britney got up, she went to fix a small wardrobe issue and had a bathroom break." Um, sure, ok. Maybe she should lay off the Texas-sized chili dogs or take her Xanax earlier in the day so it can kick in before the first auditions starts.

Britney tweeted twice about her departure. “Texas has a lot of talent — seriously! Loving @TheXFactorUSA auditions so far” and "#Britneywalksoff??? LOL was just taking a little break people. I am having the BEST time!!!"

Apparently she returned after her “break” and completed filming the auditions without incident.

This isn't a nibble at all this week, its a full on wrap, see for yourself after the jump!

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T's Trailer Park Presents: Geek Pride Day Edition!

2012-05-25T10:42:00.001-07:00

Today is Geek Pride Day. I know because Krazy-Kim sent me the following: Geek Pride day is an initiative to promote geek culture, celebrated on 25 May. The date was chosen as to commemorate the release of the first Star Wars film, A New Hope on 25 May 1977 (see Star Wars Day), but shares the same date as two other similar fan "holidays": Towel Day, for fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams, and the Glorious 25 May for fans of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

Well that's nice. I have tons of trailers and featurettes such as The Dark Knight Rises, The Walking Dead, James Bond-Skyfall, The Great Gatsby, the red band Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Anchorman 2, and Prometheus....
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Lex In the Afternoon: Liquor? I Never Touched Her!

2012-05-24T11:44:00.001-07:00

Step right up! Step right up for another mind blowing edition of Lex in the Afternoon!

This column collects funny/interesting things I've seen while searching the Internets.

There won't be a whole lotta talk today. But there is a lot of funny.

There is also some content that is NSFW so do not click "more here" if you are at work or easily offended.

Before we get on with it I have some....

Let's get on with it...

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Glee Recap: Goodbye

2012-05-23T19:47:00.002-07:00

I'll Remember

by CaliforniaKara

Kill me. Kill me now. Burt Hummel doing the "Single Ladies" dance on Glee, as a graduation gift to Kurt. Complete with Brittany and Tina dancing background, just like in Kurt's basement during Season 1 "Preggers."

Thank you, Mike O'Malley, for making my year. I can die happy.

If, by some chance you were hit by an asteroid last night, you can watch the clip below:

Seriously, this brings me so much joy. And that wasn't all the hilarity Glee had in store for us this evening!
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America's Next Top Model Recap: Final 3 Go Go Sees!

2012-05-23T06:01:00.001-07:00

ANTM Ep11 : Do You Smell That?

By Dancer

And then there was THREE!

Clearly ahead of schedule Eboni got the needed boot but Alisha also left due to her broken spirit.

The three girls contemplate the reality of the situation. Sophie reveals that she’s tried to become a model while waitressing. Annalise, to camera, goes on about her chances about being the best model with a strong emphasis on her personality. And Laura is proud to be the final American and that she’s had best photo twice in a row.

Tyra mail: Get up and go for it in the pearl of the East. Yep, it’s Go See’s time! They all know it and Laura begins to crumble. She flashes back to Toronto and LA and her piss poor performance where she was un-hired because of her walk. Laura’s downfall is the fact that her catwalk sucks! Seriously, that girl does not have a models walk.

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Game of Thrones Recap: The Prince of Winterfell

2012-05-22T21:39:00.000-07:00

The Trouble With Mothers and Sisters

by T

Game of Thrones season 2 episode 8, The Prince of Winterfell, was all about character development and interaction as we barrel towards the certain to be stressful, Battle of Blackwater. Of course, on GOT, any given conversation tends to be seasoned with threats, nefarious intent, double-dealing, and flat out rudeness.

As a bonus, this episode also doubles as a "cunt" drinking game. If you take a shot of liquor every time a character says "cunt," you may wake up the next morning feeling as if you'd been on the losing side of the Battle of Blackwater. Also in typical GOT style, "cunt" is a term used equally for both sexes.

Let's get on with the season 2 episode 8 Game of Thrones recap, after the jump!

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GreenTech Geek: Angels Among Us (Part 2 of 2)

2012-05-21T22:20:00.000-07:00

Now back to the two local fellows I teased you with a couple of weeks ago, before news of a certain presidential candidate doing a certain thing to a certain somebody with a certain pair of scissors at a certain high school directed my attention away from these angels, the intended subject of last week's post.

I recently learned of two San Diego guys doing good things in the city and in the world; one I met in person while sitting in front of a coffee shop on Adams Avenue; the other I read about in the newspaper.

Find out who these guys are, and why they are in fact angels among us, after the break.

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Supernatural Recap: Survival of the Fittest

2012-05-20T17:43:00.002-07:00

Have Fun Storming the Castle!

by Joshowa

Where do you even start with something has anticlimactic as this season's end? Is anyone else feeling seriously disappointed? Supernatural has a tradition of jaw-dropping finales, but this time, instead of saying, "Whoa," it was more like, "What the?"

Sure, Dick is dead (thank heavens) and Dean and Castiel end up in someplace completely unexpected, but overall this season's closer was messier than Lindasy Lohan's rap sheet.

Read more to find out why Survival of the Fittest should get a Darwin Award.

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Gingerbreadmama Gossip nibble: A missing actor, J.Lo departing AI – wha?, and a bitch slap!

2012-05-18T19:21:00.001-07:00

A smaller bite of the juicy stuff.

by Gingerbreadmama

The Bits

Donna Summer, 63, died of lung cancer, but her family put out a statement clarifying that she was a non-smoker.

Talented with some fat lips that were put to good use.
Photo: thesun.co.uk

Actor Nick Stahl has been reported missing. According to reports, he was last seen on May 9. He’s had some past trouble with drugs and alcohol and he and his wife were separated. UPDATE! He's been emailing his friends and pledging to go to rehab. Maybe he just needed some attention.

Needed some me time
Photo: gossipboy.ca

Jaden Smith, son of Will, asked President Obama about aliens during a visit to the White House. According to Will, the President responded, “I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of extraterrestrials, but I can tell you if there had been a top-secret meeting and if there would have had to have been a discussion about it, it would have taken place in this room.” One can’t help note that this tidbit is coming out right before Men in Black 3 is being released.
Joey Lawrence is joining the Chippendales cast in Las Vegas, strippin’, singin’ and dancin’. He will begin his “limited guest-hosting gig on June 7 and will continue until the 24th”

Doesn't really look like the Whoa! dude from Blossom anymore.
Photo: edgecastcdn.net

This post is just getting warmed up, its got a return of one of our most sought after "ass"ets after the jump!

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T's Trailer Park Presents: Magic Mike-Once More With Stripping

2012-05-18T15:42:00.001-07:00

The previous trailer for Magic Mike focused on Channing Tatum's character falling in love.

The newest trailer, not so much.

This time they're strip strip stripping away! Check out the trailer for the film based on Channing's Tatum true story of stripping for dollars...

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T's Trailer Park - CW Keeps it Cute

2012-05-18T11:52:00.000-07:00

The Carrie Diaries. Beauty and the ~~Scratch~~ Beast and (Green) Arrow

All images and videos courtesy of the CW

Say what you will about CW, they certainly have a vision.I can only imagine their casting sessions. “Go find some hot people to fill out the casts of our new shows. Smallville has ended, so those people are available now, that’s obviously a really good place to start. Oh and find me some non-threatening black people so we can pepper each show with one or two of them for ‘diversity’. Oh yes! We are building a show around Meryl Streeps daughter, Emily Owens, M.D. She looks 'relatable'. You know, in what the CW considers ‘relatable,’ so we need to cast a hot guy who doesn’t own many shirts as distraction. The guy that was Green Arrow on Smallville comes to mind and we know he’s not busy because we gave that role to someone else. And don’t get any funny ideas about casting someone busted for our Beauty and the Beast remake! We will ugly him up with a scratch!”

Meryl Streep's daughter, Mamie Gummar, is on the CW. How did this happen?

See previews for Arrow, Beauty & the Beast, and Emily Owens, M.D. and (UPDATE!)the prequel to Sex The Carrie Diaries, after the jump!

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The End of Summer

2012-05-17T14:49:00.000-07:00

Donna Summer is dead. I'd forgotten about her until the news broke this morning so I won't blather on about it but in a show of respect for the fallen icon, I've embedded my favorite Donna Summer song, the appropriately titled, Last Dance (Fun Fact: This song played at the end of every night at this horrible, gritty, alternative club I frequented on the regular when I was in college. All night long they played loud, mean-spirited, guitar screeching industrial music but right before the lights came up...BOOM! I grew to love this song because I absolutely hated that club but the guy I was dating at the time didn't, so...), and the Editor In Chief's favorite Donna Summer, song...after the jump!

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Glee Recap: Props and Nationals

2012-05-16T22:37:00.000-07:00

Freaky Friday

by CaliforniaKara

To be able to appreciate -- really, truly enjoy -- this double-feature dose of Glee, you need to invoke Coleridge's willing suspension of disbelief.

No, not because we get the fantastic triple threat of Lindsay Lohan, Perez Hilton and Rex Lee (Lloyd, Ari's assistant from Entourage) as Nationals' judges, or that the writers made Rachel seem like a human being again, or even that the show was back on its campy track.

It's because...

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T's Trailer Park Presents: The Super-Sized Amazing Spider-Man Preview

2012-05-16T06:02:00.001-07:00

Yesterday morning, a fat, bulging, four minute preview to the The Amazing Spider-Man was released and no one told me about it. Rude.

Anyway, here's two things I learned from this preview:

1. The new Spider-Man has quite the ego. He absolutely refuses to leave his mask on.
2. The movie includes a sequence that features the dumbest kid on the planet. If I had a kid that dumb I'd throw him back into the water after Spider-Man rescued him.

I've embedded the super preview for the downtrodden and those who were also kept out of the loop, as a courtesy...
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GreenTech Geek: Atta Girl!

2012-05-15T17:06:00.000-07:00

This week's column was to be a continuation of last week's 'Angels Among Us.' Stay tuned for that next week. Alas, sometimes the force of current events usurps even the most intrepid blogger's ability to stick to a planned columnal trajectory. Such is the case with me this week. Recent news leaves me just having to get something off my chest. And here it is ...

When I first heard the news last week about presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney being a high school bully, I tried to discern why my stomach turned so much and why a feeling of such disgust swept over me … even more than might be the case for an ordinarily compassionate human being.

Find out why, after the jump ...

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America's Next Top Model Recap: 2 Girls 1 Cut

2012-05-15T14:44:00.001-07:00

ANTM Ep10 : Everybody was Kung-Fu Smizing

By Dancer

Off with her head! Queen Catherine was sent packing.

And then there were five: 3 Brits & 2 Yanks. Back at the house the reality that the competition was individual and not teams any longer sunk into the pretty little head of Eboni. Granted her only USA teammate is Laura, and Laura can’t stand her so Eboni seems to be feeling a bit concerned.

On their way to the next challenge in Hong Kong Laura makes the ~~virgins~~ other girls uncomfortable by talking about sex…..all the time, according to them. Alisha is (surprisingly to me) pulling out the prude card when Laura talks about sex and how buildings are representations of men’s ‘parts’ (my guess is that Larua says parts instead of penis because a-she knows they are all prudes & b-somewhere in her the ANTM Sell Your Soul contract it was probably a not allowed word).

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Game of Thrones Recap: A Man Without Honor

2012-05-14T22:48:00.000-07:00

Kid Crispies

by T

After A Man Without Honor aired on HBO Sunday, the announcer spat, "Only two more episodes to go...." I got pissed and spat, "Um...NO! There are three more! Get it right!"

That announcer should be beheaded for making millions second-guess themselves.

This episode could have been titled, Keeping Sh*t Real in the Dark Ages, because that's exactly what Cersei and her lover, Jaime the King Slayer, who just happens to be her twin and father of her children, did in this outing.

I've got your recap for Season 2 Episode 7 of Games of Thrones here!

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