It's About G.D. Time I saw This: Monkeys Eating Jello

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I Live for Stuff Like This

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My Kinda Woman: Update

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

Remember when I posted this awesome video of a news anchorwoman swearing when she thought she was at a commercial break?



She was back in the news today because she said she used to drink before newscasts in the '80s. She's like a female Ron Burgundy, and still my kinda woman (but was even moreso in the '80s.)








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The Cocaine Diary

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

I caught this on BBC America last night and was really impressed. It's a documentary about the Cocaine business within Columbia- how destructive it is, how violent, and how nearly everyone involved regrets their affiliation with it, but feels they have no choice. What makes this documentary unique is its documentarian- Alex James, the bassist for the wildly popular Britpop band Blur. After he admitted that he'd blown £1,000,000 on "cocaine and champagne" (it took me like 4 minutes to learn how to type the pound symbol, so I hope you appreciated it), the President of Columbia sent him an unsolicited letter asking him to come document what the narcotrafficing does to his country. Alex agreed and made this documentary, it's only 30 minutes and is pretty interesting.

Part1


Part2


Part3



And just to stay with the theme, here's a brief video showing how cocaine is made. Anytime you mix gasoline, amonia, lime, sulfuric acid and then gasoline again, you know it's gonna be good for you and just how grandma used to make it.











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David Wells Admitting he Flatulated on National TV

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Stay Learn to be classy, David Wells. Yet another Yankee "great" acting the ass.










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Chamillionaire Felt that Michael Jordan was Ridin' Dirty

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One of my favorite rap one-hit wonders (so far at least) speaks up about getting dissed by Michael Jordan.









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My Kinda Woman

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

This contains the f-word, so it's probably NSFW but this made me laugh so hard I teared up. You just have to watch and listen.










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Knut is Gonna Put a Hurtin' on That B&%ch!!!!

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My main man Knut is reaching his adulthood and is feeling his oats (or fish)!









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Life Is Awesome

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Malibu, The best American Gladiator of all time was just a cop/stripper on this episode of Married with Children!! Below is a clip of Malibu flaunting his awesomeness with no regard whatsoever for non-awesomeness.








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When a Monkey and Hound Monkey Around: Orangutan and Dog Homeys

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Any friendship built upon monkey biscuits is a solid one.




It's also nice to see the guy working with Orangutans calls them "Orang-o-tangs"







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ManBearPig

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As genius as I find South Park, and as indecisive as I can sometimes be, it surprises me that I have a clear-cut favorite episode. This one titled Manbearpig- you can watch the full episode at the link, I recommend it if you have the time. Here's a synopsis if you don't have the time- the South Park kids wind up trapped in a cave with Al Gore. The cave scenes are a bit of an homage to Goonies and Al Gore feels the need to step in be their protector from the biggest threat to planet Earth. The threat comes from Manbearpig- "half man, half bear, and half pig". Being that Al Gore appears to be the only person who has every heard of Manbearpig, he feels pretty darn important in his protecting the world from such a vicious, heinous entity. To know Manbearpig is to be terrified of him, conversely, if you AREN'T afraid of Manbearpig, that's even scarier. Whether you know it or not, Manbearpig is to be feared.

While the episode spoofs Al Gore being the lone protector to us from Global Warming, I find a lot of parallels today coming from the right wing reactionaries. I'm not saying its all Conservatives, or all Republicans, but the right wing certainly has a few fear mongers among them. I found the video below to be pretty similar to Al Gore protecting the South Park kids from Manbearpig.











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TR Salutes: Larry Johnson's Hair Tackle of Troy Polamalu

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Sure it's a few years year old, but I still love it. It's easily my favorite NFL play of the past 5 years and represents all that is good about sport (as they say in England).

I can't wait until this guy gets an interception.










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Delonte West popped carrying 2 Guns and a Shotgun

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Here is a repost from 4/24/09

Delonte west got popped for carrying two guns AND a handgun on his motorcycle last night.



This is a reposting from 4/24/09 from this blog.

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

This is funny/horrendous.

When he pleads ignorance, people believe him.

My Over-Thought/Over-Reaching Metaphor of America

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


I'll post the YouTube clip, you can think about a possible metaphor, and scroll down to see if it's similar to mine. The clip is worksafe and is a tv commercial from 2007 you've probably seen before.




I think this clip sums up what's wrong with America.

There are plenty great things about our country, but I think this neatly sums up the bad stuff. It hits upon: vapid celebrity glamorization, talentless people becoming celebrities, consumer culture, the acceptability of ignorance, sex selling, using all of the aforementioned to sell a product that encourages sloth, and in the clip she is dressed as her Daisy Duke character- which is a from a warrantless movie-ization of a television classic that highlights what is rotten in the state of Hollywood.

While Ms. Simpson gained initial (semi) stardom from a music career, she become a mega-watt celebrity from a reality show. What about her on the show made her famous? Her marked stupidity and large boobies. She parlayed these two (well, three, I guess) into a career that was long on commercialism and short on talent. Because she is pretty yet untalented, her team of handlers found projects for her- largely products that already existed for her to do again, worse than the originals, and sell to American consumers. She re-did a Goldie Hawn movie, the Dukes of Hazard, and the only song of hers I can recall is her remake of Berlin's Take My Breath Away, which no one felt needed to be redone. Had she been more talented, she could have written her own songs or been signed to original movies. She wasn't, so didn't.

I'm not trying to put her down personally, I don't blame her for accepting what people offered to her. The reason this clip is a metaphor is because of her system of handlers who perpetuated such crass commercialism.

What resulted from her unoriginality? DirectTV said, "Wow, people will respect her as an authority figure regarding their selection of cable providers. Sure, we could have a respected intellectual cite polling data that shows the popularity of our product, or even hard evidence of our product's superiority, but would people listen to them? Sex sells beer, clothing, beauty products, grooming accessories, eye glasses, I bet it can sell cable television too! But we'll have to parlay her stupidity into something useful. Maybe we'll have her recite some technical mumbo jumbo that consumers don't understand, and instead of educating the consumer, we'll imply that their understanding is unimportant, no, glamorous! Yeah, that's it! Our message will be- let other people think for you, especially a famously unintelligent woman with big boobies!"

And maybe it worked. I have no idea how successful, or not, this advertising campaign was for DirectTv.

Two years later Ms. Simpson is now known primarily as a pop culture puppet whose career is currently in a tailspin. But there is good news- Hollywood is still cranking out prefab movies, the test scores of American students continue to hit all-time lows relative to other countries, and new celebrity puppets are popping up all the time.









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Thanks for Coming out, Wolf Blitzer.

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Wolf Blitzer- the least trusted name on Jeopardy.

While watching Conan the other night I saw them show Andy Richter's Celebrity Jeopardy rehearsal. It was Andy, Dana Delaney and Wolf Blitzer. In the rehearsal (shown below) Andy beat the pants off the other two, which didn't shock me- the funniest person in the room is often the overall smartest. What did surprise me is what a wooden moron Wolf Blitzer is. I used to think that he was relatively quiet on his show out of respect for his guests and deferring to them as often as he could. Now I think he just has nothing to say. He finished Double Jeopardy in BOTH the rehearsal and the actual Jeopardy episode's with a negative dollar amount.

The show is basically The Andy Richter show, with an occasionally outlandishly wrong Blitzer answer. At times I thought, "Jeez Andy, shut up and let someone else talk." before realizing it wasn't a conversation but a competition.

To quote G.W. Bush, "Wolfie, You're doing a heck of a job."


The Rehearsal


The Actual Episode Part 1


Part 2



Wolfie, keep effin' that chicken.











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Ernie Anastos, I Didn't Realize Anchors are Allowed to say That

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This video contains the F-Word, so it's probably not worksafe. Being that it contains a vulgarity, I promise to be offended once I stop laughing. I wish the punchline weren't written atop the YouTube window, because it would be hilarious if you didn't know it was coming.

Great Work, Ernie Anastos






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Extending a Helping, Chimp Hand

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Click here to see Anjana's first appearance on Where Awesome Happens from 10/13/08






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Stay on the Lookout for This Kinda Stuff Today. 9/11

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


I wonder if someone will combine capitalizing on Michael Jackson's death with 9/11 today. That would be very American. 9/11.



9/11.








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Today's Melodious ode to Chivalry-Based Romance

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Until I remembered this song existed, I totally forgot it existed.

I will add that it is not safe for work, but not because of the potentially offensive title and subsequent lyrical content. It's NSFW because I think talk of intimacy and pure romance is taboo at the workplace since people think you're either bragging, lying or just trying to induce jealousy and none of those are good ideas for intra-office politics. Plus, referring to someone as suffering from a psychological ailment, like being crazy, is considered to be in poor taste.

Lookout Cannon in D, the duel is afoot......













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Big ups to Natty Light

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

The beer of my alma mater (every college has a favorite cheap beer) is now doing television commercials. They know how to market to me still. This commercial is like every other stereotypical beer advert except for one sorta subtle and genius addition. It has the usual suspects- beer, pizza, an everyday "dude" stoner type with, who we are lead to believe is his girlfriend who is clearly way too hot for him. But notice what this gentleman scholar is watching on TV to top off his awesome. Naturday.







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