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Joke #00198

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:46:08 -0400

From the Week of May 7th, 2012:
In a new interview James Cameron says that the only movies he plans on making from now on are documentaries and sequels to Avatar. America has announced that they only plan on seeing half of those choices.

Joke #00197

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:25:34 -0400

From the Week of May 7th, 2012:
Two men this week filed a 2 million dollar federal lawsuit against John Travolta alleging that the actor groped them and tried to force a sexual encounter during a private massage at a hotel in Atlanta. Travolta claims that he only told the masseuse that he wanted to “hand JIVE.”

Joke #00196

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:02:12 -0400

From the Week of May 7th, 2012:
Producers of the AMC series Mad Men had to pay 250,000 dollars for the rights to use the Beatles’ song “Tomorrow Never Knows” in a recent episode. Although that sounds like a lot, it’s nothing compared to the price of using a Beatles song that people would recognize.

Joke #00195

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:46:13 -0400

From the Week of May 7th, 2012:
A new study shows that 79 percent of married couples who separate will continue on to get a divorce. The other 21 percent are brought back together by their scheming twin daughters.

Joke #00194

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:26:36 -0400

From the Week of May 7th, 2012:
A new report lists the US as the 25th best place in the world to be a mother, which is up from 31st place last year. In last place again this year: a high school prom.

Joke #00193

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:06:40 -0400

From the Week of May 7th, 2012:
Mitt Romney on Tuesday criticized President Obama saying that the country is not going “forward, but sideways or worse,” though some would say that’s better than Romney’s plan to move the country backwards to 1890.

Joke #00192

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:20:00 -0400

From the Week of May 7th, 2012:
A federal judge this week ruled in favor of Victor Willis, from the Village People, in his effort to regain control of the rights to their hit song “YMCA” from two publishing companies. That’s the way the court systems work in this country: always siding with the cops.

I’m very happy with how this article came out. Check it...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:26:28 -0400

I’m very happy with how this article came out. Check it out.

When you realize that “Where is My Mind” by The...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:02:51 -0400

When you realize that “Where is My Mind” by The Pixies and “The One that Got Away” by Katy Perry have the exact same chord progression, one is left with only one option.

Vocals by Katy Perry, Guitars by me, Instrumentation written by The Pixies

More dumb Katy Perry Frankensteining by me available here.

Wasted Words: Show 129

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:41:05 -0400

Wasted Words: Show 129:

This week I appeared as a guest on one of my favorite podcasts, “Wasted Words.” I asked the panelists what their ideal restaurant would look like immediately after explaining that I don’t care that much about food.

Check it out, but only if you like to enjoy fun things!

Introducing Kitchen Archive: Old recipes, new generation

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:59:22 -0400

Introducing Kitchen Archive: Old recipes, new generation:

mocahill:

Kitchen Archive is my new food blog devoted to old family recipes and recipes from my growing collection of community cookbooks. I promise lots of baked goods, recipes written in poetic verse, and some finds from my grandmothers’ recipe clippings (e.g. 1960s diet guides and retro food packaging).

My wife is an excellent writer and an excellent cook. If either of these attributes interest you, might I suggest her new blog?

Time Warner Cable Presents: Movies As They Should Be Seen - “The...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:15:56 -0400

Time Warner Cable Presents: Movies As They Should Be Seen - “The 400 Blows”

A big finish for TWC’s look at classic cinema as they show their version of the film that launched a different kind of French Revolution: François Truffaut’s “The Four Hundred Blows.”

Time Warner Cable Presents: Movies As They Should Be Seen -...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:32:08 -0400

Time Warner Cable Presents: Movies As They Should Be Seen - “Donnie Darko”

Part three of TWC’s look at film classics. Come back tomorrow for the final installment and…a twist?!

Time Warner Cable Presents: Movies As They Should Be Seen -...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:39:57 -0400

Time Warner Cable Presents: Movies As They Should Be Seen - “Swordfish”

Part two of TWC’s look at cinema history. Check back tomorrow for more film studies!

Time Warner Cable Presents: Movies As They Should Be Seen -...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:50:31 -0400

Time Warner Cable Presents: Movies As They Should Be Seen - “Citizen Kane”

I’ll be posting a new one of these each day this week so keep checking back for more film classics!

For the title of my newest article on Splitsider about a show...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:43:50 -0400

For the title of my newest article on Splitsider about a show featuring a young Jason Bateman, I reused a really stupid joke that I originally wrote for my site in 2008.

“It’s Your Move” may have been a good show when it started, but unfortunately by the time I they got to their final episode, anything good had been drained from it.

Wonderful, Thanks.: Episode Twenty-Seven - Autumn with Pete and Pete Co-Creator Will McRobb

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:41:26 -0400

Wonderful, Thanks.: Episode Twenty-Seven - Autumn with Pete and Pete Co-Creator Will McRobb:

wonderfulthanks:

Word: Autumn
Guest: Will McRobb
Bio: I’ll start with the big one: Will McRobb, along with Chris Viscardi, was one of the co-creators of Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Since then he’s worked on a long list of television shows and films.He is a father, a recent…

mocahill: Day 75: Girl Scout Cookie avalanche on...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:01:45 -0400

mocahill:

Day 75: Girl Scout Cookie avalanche on Flickr.

Communication is always important in a marriage, but it’s especially important during Girl Scout Cookie season.

Our house was like “The Gift of the Magi” if Dela and her husband both bought each other Girl Scout cookies.

Episode Twenty-Six - Mixtapes with Mike Doughty

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:44:17 -0400

wonderfulthanks:

Word: Mixtapes
Guest: Mike Doughty
Bio: Wanna know who’s fun to talk to? Mike Doughty. Additionally, he is also the author of The Book of Drugs, solo musician, former leader of Soul Coughing and a prolific tweeter. If you’re a fan of things that are great, then you are probably already familiar with this guy.

Discussed: Fire, illegal downloads, New Yorker, fictional band names.

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So, this happened. And it was super fun.

Joke #00191

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:45:05 -0500

From the week of February 26th, 2012:
The final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English will soon be published and feature definitions for such words as “bubbler,” which is a water fountain in Wisconsin, “dry-land fish,” which is a mushroom in Kentucky, and Santorum, which in some communities in America refers to a senator from Pennsylvania.