The Stuff

I was bored, and when I’m bored I spend money on things that I think might distract me from my slow crawl to the grave. So I bought Metal Gear Solid 4 for the PS3… and inside of 30 minutes I realized that I should have spent my money elsewhere. $60… that’s a lot of drinks, a nice meal, Japanese snacks, a tank of gas (and a road trip). Anyway, had I listened to Yahtzee Croshaw first, I would have saved $60 or spent it in one of the aforementioned ways. Always wait for Yahtzee’s review before buying a game.

Yahtzee’s review of Metal Gear Solid 4.

This video should explain the previous post:

Be sure to watch That Mitchell and Webb Look on BBC or BBC America, don’t fast forward through the commercials, patronize all their advertisers, and then buy their DVDs. Normally I would offer a link to Amazon to where you can buy their DVDs, but never in the 12 years I’ve posted such links has anyone ever purchased an item.

The Fail Blog is freaking funny!

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Maria Bamford will appear on Season 3 of Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show. Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job is best when guest comedians show up in skits.

Update: Season 3 will also feature Italians:

Catching up on the Will It Blend videos. I would like one of these. Not the iPhone 3G, but the blender.

Will It Blend: iPhone 3G

Will It Blend: the new Weezer album.

Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille, King of Queens), Brian Posehn (Sarah Silverman Show), Maria Bamford and Zach Galifianakis. The Comedians of Comedy. Last show ever coming up.

Zero Punctuation vs. Web Comics. He’s always right.

TV Funhouse was an absolutely insane (no exaggeration) TV show created by Robert Smigel, the rotten mind behind the Saturday TV Funhouse cartoons on Saturday Night Live and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. The show featured a cast of degenerate animal puppets (Anipals), actual live animals and Your Pal Doug, and a format similar to live action kids shows like Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers. Each week Doug struggled to get the animal cast to follow the format and theme of the show, but invariably the animals would sneak off to un-family friendly places like cock fights, whore houses, or Las Vegas. In the Christmas special the Anipals incapacitated Doug and made drugs from his spinal fluid — which for me pretty much summed up the insanity of the mid-late 1990s American cultural landscape in under 30 minutes.

The DVD is of the show will FINALLY be released on July 22nd. I recommend it. It’s a buy.

Peep Show E0504 is up on the YouTube, and it just keeps getting better. This episode revolves around Jeremy’s chance to inherit a small fortune (20 pounds — which he thinks will make him a millionaire), and Mark’s chance to be a war historian.

“Older people are still people, they’re just people who think when they open a new window on the computer, the previous window is disappeared for good.”

The humor is crass and offensive, but the situations are completely believable, and of course, hilarious.

part 1, part 2, part 3.

Penn and Teller have been around for what, 20, 25 years? I’ve always found them entertaining, particularly Penn’s interviews.

Now Penn is doing a video blog on Crackle.com, and if you like the guy, they’re worth a listen.

Here’s his take on New York and San Francisco — the 2 most pompous cities in the world.

I found this lecture by Dr. Jim Kakalios on the physics of superheros to be super entertaining. There are several others on YouTube. And, there’s a book you can buy. I bought a superused copy on Amazon.

Thanks to The Total Recall for the tip.