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Writer's Strike Destroys Late Night Television

With nobody to write jokes for them, Conan O'Brien and Stephen Colbert have turned to attacking each other over bragging rights for creating Mike Huckabee's career. 

Sitar Hero

A couple different people have mentioned the sitar in casual conversation with me recently.  This is a commercial for Channel V, an international music cable channel.  I post it here for anyone that appreciates the sitar (or Guns 'n Roses.)

Happy Festivus!

Happy Festivus, everyone!

Why don't I start right in with the airing of the grievances?

To everyone on my blogroll:  you should have blogged more.  Try to do a better job next year.

To the guy going the wrong way through the new roundabout this evening: what part of "one way" is so hard for you to understand?

To the federal government:  I don't have time to list all the grievances, so I'll just take this by branch. 

• Executive branch:  You've just been nasty as of late.
• Legislative branch:  I'm really disappointed in you.
• Judicial branch:  Does "a system of checks and balances" sound familiar?  Step up the checking and balancing, would you?

To the stores I frequent that started "rewards programs" this year: I find it more rewarding to shop at stores where they don't try to sell me on registering for something anytime I buy something.

More grievances will be aired at the feats of strength.  Meet me later at the unadorned aluminum pole.

What ever happened to Jerry Seinfeld?

If you've been wondering how Jerry Seinfeld's doing these days, you're in luck because he's been all over TV promoting his new movie lately.  It seems like it's been so long since his sitcom went off the air, doesn't it?  What was the deal with that, anyway?  I can't remember -- did NBC just finally get sick of him and fire him?  I bet Larry King can get to the bottom of this.

I've been lagging on NaNoWriMo lately, but I have not given up.  I'll get going on writing my novel... and then I'll finish a scene and I won't be sure what's next.  Getting away from it for a little while gives me time to come up with something interesting to do.  I'm working without an outline here...

In Chris Baty's No Plot? No Problem! he talks about Tim Lohnes.  Tim had -- at the time of the book going to print -- successfully completed National Novel Writing Month five times.  Each time, his writing would peter out after a few days.  And then he'd write about 70% of his novel on the last few days of the month. 

Tim Lohnes. 

Never surrender.

Quality Simpson Merchandising

Oh, wait, no.  It's crap.

News Media: Public Service or Entertainment

Ted Koppel may be off the air, but let it not be said that Nightline has lost any of the relevance and decorum that Koppel was well known for.

Will It Blend?

I'm sure these are a part of some tv infomercial, but I'd never seen them before.  Watch as this Ron Popeil wannabe uses his blender to blend.... unusual things...  Don't try this stuff with the Magic Bullet!

A rake...

Golf balls...

Marbles...

YouTube: Now With Less Comedy

Word is that YouTube is taking down clips of the Daily Show and other Comedy Central content.  I did a quick search on YouTube, and it looks like a lot of stuff has been taken down, but there's still a lot still there. 

Enjoy while you can.

YouTube Good/Badness

If you missed the news, a 16 and 18-year-old were arrested recently for allegedly threatening an Omaha-area school shooting in a video they posted on YouTube.  The clips of the video they've shown on tv feature the ever-popular emo clown make-up that the kids are crazy about.

In other YouTube news, the "Nobody's Watching" guys did a fine remake of that OK Go video with the treadmills. 

Stay classy, YouTube.