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Today is the best today today can be.

Things. Stuff. Again, a post that's basically a clearinghouse of crap. Nothing insightful. No call to action and no relevant musings on anything of importance in your life. Just click the links, i'm too lazy today.

Venture Brothers update. Looks like June 2008 for Season Three, but they've also started Season Four, so there shouldn't be a huge delay between the two.

Buy this today.

The Joker. Worst kept secret on the web. Not the Heath Ledger part. But the make up job. Fanboys get their manties in a bunch about the weirdest damn things. How about we see how his acting is before we pass judgments, okay?

World War Z - An Oral History of the Zombie War. Easily one of the best books i've ever read. And i'm still in the process of reading it. I find myself re-reading chapters after having just completed them because i like it so much. Might make a great stocking stuffer for your friends and family. Also it could be used as a test of how cool a potential life mate is. You get them this, they wrinkle their nose, you punch them in the mouth, do dirty sex to their bloody face and walk out forever. Or not. Whichever.

Retiring Republican Senator Trent Lott loves teh gayeh hookers? Probably not, but at this point it wouldn't surprise me.

NPH News. Neil Patrick Harris appears in an episode of Food Networks Dinner: Impossible. They make food for sixteen of the top magicians in the world. NPH cooks. And also, he is a magician. Is there nothing that man can't do? (And yes, this again highlights my odd television watching behavior.) Look for the cameo by Siegfried.

Have i bored you yet? Good. Find better sites. Then send them to me.

Dude.

I want your wife.

Modern Drunkard lists the 12 Most Important Drinks of the Day.

Michael Showalter, the guy from Stella, and friend of David Wain and Michael Ian Black discusses his new album AND A STATE REUNION!

A hen inside a duck inside a turkey. A turducken. Believe. It is real.

Things to get you through this Friday...

Celebrity crap:
Awful Plastic Surgery. I don't know why this site makes me feel better.

Music:
Okay, so you're at work. You forgot your mp3 player, or you just don't bring music to work. But you want a free internet jukebox that has a large collection of music, and allows you to create your own playlist. Songza has a wide selection of music, some of it unexpected (like some live Von Bondies stuff from this September and the Paybacks on riff2).

Music info:
Brooklyn Vegan has non-stop info.
Web Vomit has intelligent info and opinion. As does Fivethreedialtone.

Humor:
Wayne Fontes. Possibly the greatest clown in all of football. He was the coach of the Detroit Lions from, i believe, 1988 until i want to say 1996. He was a joke. But no more than the Detroit Lions themselves. I give you The Wayne Fontes Fan Club.

The Office. With this writers strike on (is it still on?) we won't be seeing new episodes of stuff for awhile. But NBC has put full episodes of this season online of most of their shows, including The Office online in High Def.

Games:
Adult Swim has the best games. My latest fave: Viva Caligula.

Misc. Web Stuff:

English Russia dot com is entertaining, especially for stuff like this: Russians thought this was real. Even though it's OBVIOUSLY an AT-AT walker from Star Wars with a nazi symbol photoshopped on the side. Also, sometimes someone will take a camera to a ghost town in Russia that used to be a state run industrial complex that has been abandoned for quite some time. I find that stuff fascinating (maybe because that process seems to be slowly happening here in Detroit).

Hope this helps you through your Friday. Have a good weekend, kids. Do something crazy fun.

Haaa!
Sweet Jesus that's SMOOTH.

He no nuts, he's crazy!

I don't know why this kind of excites me, knowing full well there's a serious chance they'll eff this one up, but Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has wrapped principle photography and is heading into post. Tentatively scheduled for a May 22nd 2008 release.

Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide, wrote what i'm told is a great book called World War Z about a zombie infestation. (We own it, just waiting for my wife to get through it before i dive in.) Anyhow, there is a movie now "in production" according to IMDB. Do me a favor. Click on the link for J. Michael Straczynski, the guy writing the screen play. I don't want to spoil it for you, but his credits include episodes of "He-Man" "She-Ra" "Babylon 5" and "Murder She Wrote". So, my hopes are not too high.

So. Time for me to eat some crow. I said the Lions would only get five wins this year. They are currently 6-2. I guess i'll go ahead and purchase my Superbowl tickets right now. I can only hope to see another interception, 66 yard return for a touchdown by a 370 pound man at least one more time this season. Watching his corpulent body heaving itself into the end zone is dead sexy. Girls everywhere probably went wild.

The Detroit Institute of Art will be re-opening soon. I'm gay for ancient greek and roman stuff, so i kind of want to check it out when it does re-open.

On a final note. The term "kicking ass and taking names". Are you kicking ass so awesomely that you can multi task and write down the names of the next people to get their asses handed to them by you WHILE doing said ass kicking? Or maybe you're using the mic in your mp3 player, and just dictating the names. If that's the case, do you have a secretary transcribing it later? I have too much time on my hands.

Baseball rant, please ignore.


WHAT. THE. FUCK?!???


I raised my eyebrow when the Tigers dealt two top tier minor leaguers to the Braves for an aging short stop to replace Carlos Guillen, and i was a bit saddened by the fact that it's obvious Sean Casey isn't coming back. But when you're number 1 flame thrower, the guy who everyone fears, who was out three quarters of a season last year, THE guy, when he hurts himself for the second season in a row, this time "moving personal items", i mean. GAAAAAAAAH!!!!! Last year it was a video game, this year it's moving stuff, next year he's going to roll over in his sleep and fall out of his bed and break is back.

WHOSE READY FOR ANOTHER LETDOWN?


Has no one learned anything about FOX? (note: those are in fact Fox execs standing next to Joss. This photo happened after the deal was struck.)

I guess some Whedon is better than none.