Back in March of 2005 you will remember we posted a picture of Time Mullet Guy. He has been around a while, but is still a good friend of Groderz. We like to see him doing well.
Enjoy.
Mullet Man: Space Traveler
Mullet Watch
Break Your Self
Mohawk Man
This one doesn't even make sense
Ok, this one is only funny if you watch the whole thing and wait for Link to play his song.
Safety Not Guaranteed!
Monday, February 13, 2006
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Fresh from the blogosphere
Is this for realz? This is cut and paste directly from February's issue of Sky, Delta's in-flight magazine. It's flash cards for children, I guess. Anyway, I like the juxtaposition of vocabulary. Notice anything?
UPDATE: The photo has been removed from the Web version! I grabbed a copy of the actual magazine on my way to San Jose.
UPDATE: The photo has been removed from the Web version! I grabbed a copy of the actual magazine on my way to San Jose.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Monday, February 06, 2006
Life Imitates Art
Thank you to the nice people at Transbuddha.com for this recreation of a typical game of Punch-Out! Click the image to watch.
Chapelle actually IS a lunatic
My wife TiVo'd the Oprah interview with Dave Chapelle last week. To tell the truth, it just made me sad. The interview started off with him rambling without actually saying anything or answering any questions, much like the Tom Cruise interview, except without the ADD hyperactivity.
You can click the image to watch part of the interview.
When he finally started talking about why he fled to Africa without even telling his wife and kids, he gave these as his reasons:
1) He was filming a skit, and one of the staff (like a mic operator or something) laughed at one of the jokes. But Dave could tell that this guy was laughing at him, not with him, and that there was something evil and racist about it. I put this as number one, because Dave himself listed this as his number-one reason he needed to flee to Africa.
2) Everyone, including his co-writer that he's worked with since he was a teenager, was trying to convince Dave that he was crazy. This was done as a plot to get him to take pills so that they could control him and take his money. As evidence of this, he came into work one day and found that there was just a wall where his office used to be, but everyone was trying to convince him (as part of the above plot) that the walls and his office and everything were all where they were supposed to be. I wish I was making this up.
3) When one of the skits they wrote involved Dave wearing a dress, he decided at the last minute he wouldn't do it. The writers and producers all tried to talk him into going through with it, which confused and angered him. After some research, Dave realized that all comedians were put into dresses at one point or another by their producers, and that this was done intentionally to prove to the public that the comedians were really just prostitutes being pimped out. In fact, Dave realized that the whole point of this particular skit was to prove to everyone that Dave Chapelle was just someone's prostitute.
4) And so on...
Oprah tried to steer the conversation towards sanity, making it a discussion about responsible social commentary in comedy sketches, and why she won't do certain kinds of shows anymore. Dave contributed to this by saying that he would finish the current season only if the DVD sales profits could go to all his fans, the Katrina victims, his old high school..., at which point Oprah cut him off and told him that he can't just start promising millions of dollars to people on national TV. Dave responded with, "well, I didn't say I'd actually give them the money."
He was extremely laid back during the whole interview and slurred his speech, much more so that the usual laid-back nature of his character. His eyes were also very glazed. I'm pretty sure he's on heavy meds.
I imagine that my interpretation of the interview was a very critical one, others may think he is entirely reasonable and just had a hard time dealing with sudden wealth and a lot of money-grabbers. But if everyone around you is telling you that you aren't well mentally, and you determine it's a conspiracy to take your money, then you probably need to listen to them a little more.
You can click the image to watch part of the interview.
When he finally started talking about why he fled to Africa without even telling his wife and kids, he gave these as his reasons:
1) He was filming a skit, and one of the staff (like a mic operator or something) laughed at one of the jokes. But Dave could tell that this guy was laughing at him, not with him, and that there was something evil and racist about it. I put this as number one, because Dave himself listed this as his number-one reason he needed to flee to Africa.
2) Everyone, including his co-writer that he's worked with since he was a teenager, was trying to convince Dave that he was crazy. This was done as a plot to get him to take pills so that they could control him and take his money. As evidence of this, he came into work one day and found that there was just a wall where his office used to be, but everyone was trying to convince him (as part of the above plot) that the walls and his office and everything were all where they were supposed to be. I wish I was making this up.
3) When one of the skits they wrote involved Dave wearing a dress, he decided at the last minute he wouldn't do it. The writers and producers all tried to talk him into going through with it, which confused and angered him. After some research, Dave realized that all comedians were put into dresses at one point or another by their producers, and that this was done intentionally to prove to the public that the comedians were really just prostitutes being pimped out. In fact, Dave realized that the whole point of this particular skit was to prove to everyone that Dave Chapelle was just someone's prostitute.
4) And so on...
Oprah tried to steer the conversation towards sanity, making it a discussion about responsible social commentary in comedy sketches, and why she won't do certain kinds of shows anymore. Dave contributed to this by saying that he would finish the current season only if the DVD sales profits could go to all his fans, the Katrina victims, his old high school..., at which point Oprah cut him off and told him that he can't just start promising millions of dollars to people on national TV. Dave responded with, "well, I didn't say I'd actually give them the money."
He was extremely laid back during the whole interview and slurred his speech, much more so that the usual laid-back nature of his character. His eyes were also very glazed. I'm pretty sure he's on heavy meds.
I imagine that my interpretation of the interview was a very critical one, others may think he is entirely reasonable and just had a hard time dealing with sudden wealth and a lot of money-grabbers. But if everyone around you is telling you that you aren't well mentally, and you determine it's a conspiracy to take your money, then you probably need to listen to them a little more.
Friday, February 03, 2006
SNL actually CAN be funny without Will Ferrell
I know this is about 6 weeks old. But in "Internet time," stuff is already old before it's even new yet, so I don't care.
These guys do an excellent job of exemplifying and satirizing a certain segment of American youth. Acting tough while rapping about Web sites, cupcakes, $10 bills, movie trivia, and fantasy/sci-fi... genius.
This clip is known as "Chonic of Narnia," "Chronic(what)cles of Narnia," and various other names, though I think the actual title is "Lazy Sunday."
These guys do an excellent job of exemplifying and satirizing a certain segment of American youth. Acting tough while rapping about Web sites, cupcakes, $10 bills, movie trivia, and fantasy/sci-fi... genius.
This clip is known as "Chonic of Narnia," "Chronic(what)cles of Narnia," and various other names, though I think the actual title is "Lazy Sunday."
Hollywood Narcissism (what else is new)
Groderz is normally too sophisticated and not annoying enough to fall into the trap of the activist/political blog, the internet already has way too many we-want-to-change-the-way-you-think blogs, but yesterday this article in Newsweek caught my attention. Basically George Clooney is a moron. Now that he has directed two whole movies and was nominated for an Oscar he considers himself part of the directorial elite. Newsweek had the audacity to include him in a roundtable of directors, openly discussing all-things Oscar and Hollywood. The following two quotes perfectly summarize the difference between him and Steven Spielberg:
SPIELBERG: Audiences are very smart. We never give them enough credit for being able to have a kind of radar that makes them, without a single ad in the newspaper, suddenly say, "I'm interested in seeing 'The Squid and the Whale'." There's just something in the air.
CLOONEY: But on the other hand, I'll wager that every one of our films, when you first tested it with an audience, tested much lower than after it was reviewed. Sometimes people need reviews to explain what a film is, to put it into some sort of perspective.
Thanks go out to Spielberg for recognizing that audiences are very smart. But on the other hand audiences are very stupid and need well-trained film critics to explain films to them, especially films with Clooney's high caliber subject matter. What he should have said was "The type of films we make are too complex and dynamic for the average viewer to understand, they need to have the plot and story explained to them so they don't look stupid."
Spielberg is an artist with vision and refined technical skills. Even if he does let some duds slip by, Minority Report, War of the Worlds, he is still talented and has a deep respect for his craft. Clooney, on the other hand, is a hack and has a certain slime-value that is highly coveted in Hollywood today. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you, this guy is either really pompous or totally clueless, probably both.
Although I guess I should thank Clooney for reaffirming what I already thought about him.
SPIELBERG: Audiences are very smart. We never give them enough credit for being able to have a kind of radar that makes them, without a single ad in the newspaper, suddenly say, "I'm interested in seeing 'The Squid and the Whale'." There's just something in the air.
CLOONEY: But on the other hand, I'll wager that every one of our films, when you first tested it with an audience, tested much lower than after it was reviewed. Sometimes people need reviews to explain what a film is, to put it into some sort of perspective.
Thanks go out to Spielberg for recognizing that audiences are very smart. But on the other hand audiences are very stupid and need well-trained film critics to explain films to them, especially films with Clooney's high caliber subject matter. What he should have said was "The type of films we make are too complex and dynamic for the average viewer to understand, they need to have the plot and story explained to them so they don't look stupid."
Spielberg is an artist with vision and refined technical skills. Even if he does let some duds slip by, Minority Report, War of the Worlds, he is still talented and has a deep respect for his craft. Clooney, on the other hand, is a hack and has a certain slime-value that is highly coveted in Hollywood today. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you, this guy is either really pompous or totally clueless, probably both.
Although I guess I should thank Clooney for reaffirming what I already thought about him.
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