As a student of propaganda, I’m always interested in the pageantry that goes in to things like debates, especially when it comes to the Town Hall format. Every single person in the room has been screened, so even though they might be able to ask whatever questions they want, the questions they will be asking are already known. Six million questions were submitted by normal people around the country, but who decides which questions will be read? What will Tom Brokaw ask? Only time shall tell…
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Saturday, December 23, 2006
I don’t usually watch that much television, but when I heard about NBC’s new game show “Identity”, I had to check it out. Hosted by Penn of Penn & Teller fame, I have concluded that it is a complete load of horse crap. Observe:
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A few good men posted some videos made for Microsoft starring Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant of The Office, and they are seriously every bit as painful and great as the show itself!
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Oh Iceland. She has given the world many great things, and Lazy Town is no exception. As cracked out as most of the things to come out of Iceland, Lazy Town is the brainchild of Magnús Scheving, Icelandic super-athlete, who created the show for kids as a motivational fitness program. It then got picked up internationally and now airs on Nick Jr.
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I’m not sure when this happened, but The Hanso Foundation has a very fancy flash website now with all kinds of video… definitely a must-visit for any LOST fan (although with the way the show’s been going, I’ll understand if you decide not to check it out).
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Ok, I really think it’s official now. Ska is alive and well in Japan.
Tonight I saw the first episode of the Japanese drama “What’s Wrong with Money?” on my personal dream channel iaTV. I’m not sure who did the theme song, but it is unmistakably a ska band! This coupled with Tokyo’s Japanese Ska Festival last year is more evidence that we had of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster that ska is alive and well in Japan!
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Saturday, January 7, 2006
Surely by now you’ve seen the Comcast commercial with the boy stacking cups like a mad man. Sure, impressive, but do you know where he got his talents? His older sister, Emily Fox, the world’s fastest cup stacker.
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