What were Oscar voters thinking?
The Oscars have come and gone, and the big winner at this year’s Oscars was the Iraq war movie, The Hurt Locker. It won Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Directing. The big loser in this year’s Oscars was Avatar. Even though it now holds the record for the highest grossing movie of all time, it won very few Oscars. It took home Oscars for Art Direction, Cinematography, and Visual Effects.
In my opinion, Avatar only deserved one of those Oscars if it deserved any Oscars at all.
The fact that it could even be nominated for Cinematography and Visual Effects, let alone win those categories, is a complete farce. How can a movie that is mostly computer generated win in cinematography? It wasn’t so much shot through a lens as it was programed on a computer. The same applies to visual effects. The visual effects were animated with a computer. The visual effects in Avatar did not take place in the real world. They instead only existed inside a computer.
Instead of nominating Avatar for Cinematography and Visual Effects, it should have been nominated as best Animated Feature Film with all the other animated movies.
Tecmo Super Bowl returns
As if there isn’t already enough reason to look eagerly to the return of spring, Tecmo Bowl is coming to the Xbox 360 and the PS3 Spring 2010.
Tecmo Super Bowl was a game that came out in the late 80’s or the early 90’s — I don’t remember which — and it was 16-bit goodness. When I played the Los Angeles Raiders and I controlled Bo Jackson, I was literally unstoppable. It was a lot of fun.
Unlike the current Madden game franchise, you didn’t have to be a football genius to play it. In fact, a lack of knowledge of all things football might have actually been an advantage. You didn’t have to take note of the safeties before the ball snapped. You didn’t have to look for the blitz. You just played. It was fun.
Kate Hoit wants you to know she really does not like ‘The Hurt Locker’
Kate Hoit of VoteVets.org and gikate.com has authored a poorly written blog post on The Huffington Post to share with the world (at least the liberal world) just what she thinks of the movie The Hurt Locker.
Spoiler alert, she doesn’t like it:
Military personnel everywhere should be celebrating: the war flick The Hurt Locker has been nominated for nine Oscar’s [sic]. American’s [sic] were so curious about the war and the soldiers who fight in it they bought 10 dollar movie tickets. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences thinks it’s worthy; finally soldiers of the Iraq war have been embraced. Problem is, it’s Hollywood’s version of the Iraq war and of the soldiers who fight it. And their version is inaccurate.
Speaking of things that are inaccurate, contrary to what Hoit says, The Hurt Locker isn’t a product of Hollywood. It’s an independent movie made outside the traditional Hollywood system for only $11 million. To say that The Hurt Locker is Hollywood’s version of Iraq is silly.
Hollywood had nothing to do with making this movie.
The movie was written by a man named Mark Boal. He was in Iraq working as a freelance reporter and was embedded with a real life Army bomb squad, the people tasked with the very important job of neutralizing IEDs, the improvised explosive devices, that Iraqi insurgents have used to kill so many of our service members in Iraq. He took things that he had experienced in Iraq and crafted them into the fictional stories seen in the movie. Though the movie is not a documentary about Army soldiers in Iraq or a training film for Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Army technicians, it is based on real-life experiences. It shouldn’t be dismissed because as Kate Hoit complains, the soldiers in the movie roll their sleeves up or don’t wear the proper type of camouflaged battle fatigues. Nit-picks such as these are just silly.
Perhaps Boal and Hoit just remember Iraq a little differently.
If you haven’t seen the movie, you really ought to. Of all the movies I watched from last year, it was one of the best.
Credit when credit is due
I just finished watching the movie Flash of Genius, the movie staring Greg Kinnear about Robert Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper, and I’m left with the feeling that Robert Kearns was a raging asshole. I mean, sure, the Ford Motor Company blatantly stole his invention, but the man put getting credit for his invention above everything else.
He put it in front of his job as a professor of electrical engineering. He put it in front of his wife and kids.
I just don’t get that. He had a loving wife and six healthy, happy children, but that wasn’t good enough for him. No, he wanted credit. Because he was consumed with wanting the world to know that he was the one that was smart enough to think of putting a capacitor, a transistor, and a variable resister in a circuit that allowed a driver to alter the speed of the windshield wipers, he destroyed his marriage and alienated his children.
A truly smart guy would have realized his wife and family were more important than recognition for an invention. The honest truth is that the world doesn’t care who invented the intermittent windshield wiper.
The movie ends with Kearns taking Ford Motor company to court for stealing his invention. He represented himself and was assisted by his children who slowly came around to realize that the only way they would ever be in their father’s life was if they helped him with his stupid lawsuit. The jury decided in favor of Kearns and awarded him over $10 million dollars in damages.
He finally had the credit he so desperately coveted, yet he couldn’t celebrate his victory with his wife because they were by then divorced. The movie made it fairly clear that she had moved on with her life. He had over $10 million and the recognition of inventing the intermittent windshield wiper, but he lost the love of a good woman because of it.
In my opinion, that made him the loser and more than a little stupid.
Paranormal Activity is the dumbest movie I’ve seen all year
I finally got around to seeing the movie Paranormal Activity and I’ve got to say that I wasn’t impressed. I heard so much hype about this movie and I was left feeling extremely underwhelmed and disappointed after watching it.
How can anyone get scared watching this movie? I don’t get it.
The premise of the movie is that a couple “engaged to be engaged” is being harassed at night while they sleep by a demon. She’s a professional student. He’s a day-trader. In other words, just the type of people you would want a demon to inflict havoc upon.
The demon has been harassing the woman her entire life. She can remember as a young girl seeing it standing at the foot of her bed in the middle of the night. If you would think that she developed a tolerance to the sound of doors closing or footsteps in the middle of the night, you would be wrong. She freaks out like it’s the first time she’s been exposed to it each and every time it happens.
The movie steals a lot from The Blair Witch Project, except that movie was good and original. This one, not so much. Paranormal Activity uses the same choppy, low-tech camera work that was in The Blair Witch Project.
The Blair Witch Project took place in the Maryland woods. Paranormal Activity takes place in a San Diego stucco subdivision home. While the woods at night can scare almost anyone, especially if someone is not used to them, I fail to see what’s so scary about a modern home in the San Diego burbs.
If it wasn’t for the hype surrounding this movie, I doubt it would have generated the money that it was able to. In the end, that is the only thing that is scary about this movie: that a movie that cost only eleven grand to make could earn $107 million at the box office.
Best news I’ve heard all year
Though technically it’s too late to be classified as a Christmas miracle, according to Chris Cornell’s Twitter, the greatest rock back of all time, Soundgarden, is getting back together.
Praise the Lord!
This by far is the greatest news I’ve heard all year. They broke up in 1997. Chris Cornell hooked up with the members of Rage Against the Machine to form the band Audioslave. Though I enjoyed Audioslave, they were no Soundgarden.
I just have to see them perform live.
What’s a SonicTap?
Direct TV announced that it’s dumping XM satellite radio and will replace it with SonicTap. I’ve never heard of the service.
I think something like this just goes to show the stupidity of treating XM and Sirius as though they are two separate companies. They’re not. It’s one company with one CEO and one board of directors. It only has one product, satellite subscriber based radio. Instead of treating XM and Sirius as though they are two separate entities, the idea ought to be promoting one unified brand name.
Before the two companies were allowed to merge by the federal government, both companies were causing confusion and indecision in the marketplace. Not only did consumers have to decide whether they wanted to pay to listen to radio, they were required to then decide which of the two competing services they wanted to choose. If they bought a Sirius radio, they could not listen to XM. If they bought an XM radio, they could not listen to Sirius.
Unfortunately, they are still required to choose.
The sale of video tape recorders didn’t take off until VHS beat out Betamax. The same thing happened with HD video. Sales in both players and media didn’t take off until Blu-ray beat out HD-DVD. The marketplace has shown that when consumers are forced to decide between two competing technologies, they simply wait.
If Sirius XM was offering only one service and then concentrated of promoting that one service, maybe they wouldn’t be losing business to something named after the mocumentary movie This is Spinal Tap.
Photo: Flickr user Rodc
I guess nobody at the Chicago Tribune listens to Sirius XM on the iPhone
The Chicago Tribune has an article concerning Howard Stern and his chances of resigning with Sirius XM radio. His five year, $500 million, four-days-a-week contract is set to expire at the end of the next year. That means now is the time for Howard Stern and Sirius XM to begin negotiating a new contract.
About the only thing that is clear at this point is that there is no way he will get another $500 million contract.
Back when he scored the original $500 million contract, Sirius and XM were locked into a satellite radio war. Sirius needed Stern because they needed a big name to add to their lineup. Now Sirius and XM are the same company. At least they are supposed to be. They are still run as though they are two separate entities.
The point is, Sirius and XM aren’t about to get into a bidding war for the services of Howard Stern. So what does this mean for Howard Stern? According to the Chicago Tribune, maybe he will become a podcaster:
Stern could leave to start a new venture, perhaps a subscription service that sends his show to PCs and mobile devices. Sirius already streams Stern’s shows online and through the iPhone. Or he could explore more options in cable TV, where his first pay-per-view special, “Howard Stern’s Negligee and Underpants Party,” was offered in 1988.
Contrary to the Chicago Tribune, Howard Stern is not available on the iPhone. His show is about the only things you cannot listen to via the Sirius XM iPhone app. What’s funny about this is that he was pushing for a Sirius XM iPhone app for some time. Evidently his $500 million contract did not allow Sirius XM to stream his show over the iPhone. You can listen to his show on the computer, just not the iPhone.
Terminator Salvation has one of the worst movie endings I’ve ever seen
I finally got around to watching Terminator Salvation this past weekend and I’ve got to say that this movie had one of the worst endings I’ve ever seen.
Other than that, the movie wasn’t half bad.
Anyone seeing the trailers for the movie knows that it was bursting with CGI special effects. The special effects are so good that it almost makes up for the fact that the movie ends with one of the most ridiculous movie endings of the century, which technically, is really only the past nine years.
If you haven’t seen the movie yet and you don’t want to have the ending spoiled for you, than maybe you should stop reading this. Read the full article »
Donny Osmond is your new dancing overlord
Donny Osmond won last night’s Dancing with the Stars finale beating out his fellow star finalists, Kelly Osbourne and Mya.
Unfortunately, I know who Kelly Osbourne is, but I have no clue who Mya is.
I started watching Dancing with the Stars the last few weeks and I’ve got to admit, it was worth watching. I was impressed just how serious the contestants took the competition. They really poured themselves into it. I know squat about ballroom dancing, but I know what it looks like when people take something serious and work hard towards a goal.
Creepy gay kid who lost ‘American Idol’ acts creepy at American Music Awards
Adam Lambert, the runner-up on season 8 of American Idol, performed at the American Music Awards last night. The award show was televised by ABC. During Lambert’s performance, he made out with a male keyboard player and forced a female dancer’s head to his crotch in a sexually suggestive manner.
At least she looked to be female.
Make no mistake, Adam Lambert is one creepy dude. That fact that he’s gay has nothing to do with it. Anyone – gay or straight – that walks another human being on a leash like they were a dog on stage in front of millions is a creep.
Sirius XM compares Howard Stern to two dead guys and a retired basketball player
Sirius XM started running a strange commercial yesterday that seems to imply that Howard Stern is just like Elvis, Richard Prior, and Michael Jordan. Elvis and Richard Prior are dead and Michael Jordan hasn’t played basketball in years. Is this really what Sirius XM wants to do, compare the guy they pay $100 million a year to two dead guys and retired basketball player?
I guess I understand that since they pay Howard Stern so much money, Sirius XM feels an obligation to put him front and center in any national ad campaign. The problem is that his he only works four days a week and has 10 weeks of vacation a year. Getting people to subscribe to Sirius XM because of Howard Stern may backfire when these people realize that Howard has every Friday off and spends a lot of time on vacation.
There is a lot more on Sirius XM than Howard Stern.
Jon Gosselin sues TLC
Jon Gosselin has filed a $5 million lawsuit against TLC claiming that the network dedicated to learning damaged his reputation and career by preventing him from working with other media outlets. He also claims in his lawsuit that TLC owes him $175,000 for Jon and Kate Plus Eight episodes that have already been aired. In accordance with a contract he and his soon to be ex-wife signed in 2008, he gets $22,500 for each half-hour episode and $45,000 for each one-hour episode.
I’m not sure he even has to be in the episode to get the money. TLC probably didn’t foresee a future where Jon and Kate would be separated and no longer appearing together on the show.
Jon Gosselin filed the lawsuit here in Maryland at the District Court in Rockville, where Discovery Communications, TLC’s parent company, is headquartered.
Since Jon Gosselin is under contract with TLC, it’s a shame that they cannot simply reassign him to another show on the network. I’m sure I’m not the only one that would get a real kick out of seeing Jon work as a deckhand on The Deadliest Catch. After spending 48 hours on his feet pulling up crab pots in below freezing temperatures on the Bering Sea, he might just decide that being married to Kate isn’t so bad after all.
Larry King inappropriately asks Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean a question
Carrie Prejean, the former surgically altered, gay hating, Miss California USA, first claimed she was being shut out by the liberal media. Then while being interviewed by Larry King on CNN, which I’ve been told is an extremely liberal news network, she got angry over one King’s questions saying that it was “inappropriate.”
She got so angry that she removed her microphone. She then pretended that since she did not have her microphone on, she could not hear Larry King when he tried to ask her another question. I’m not sure that’s how it works. Microphones don’t allow you to hear, they allow you to be heard.
The two are much different.
If you are thinking that the inappropriate question posed by Larry King had to do with a solo sex video Carrie Prejean sent to a former boyfriend, you would be wrong. It was about the recent lawsuit she filed against the Miss California pageant for firing her. Larry asked why she agreed to drop the lawsuit since she claimed she was fighting for her religious freedom.
Personally, I was looking forward to the lawsuit. It’s not often you see a woman with a $5,000 boob job and her very own solo porn movie claim that her religious freedoms were being trampled upon. It’s sounded interesting to say the least.
Sharon Osbourne is a hypocrite
Sharon Osbourne, a woman famous for being the wife of Ozzy Osbourne, got some attention last week after she went on The Opie and Anthony Show on Sirius XM Radio and made cracks about Susan Boyle, the Scottish woman made famous for singing on I Dreamed a Dream on Britain’s Got Talent.
Susan Boyle is not what you would call a beautiful woman. Perhaps that’s an understatement.
Sharon Osbourne couldn’t resist the low hanging fruit when it came to Susan Boyle’s appearance. This was after Osbourne gave Boyle a standing ovation after she sang on America’s Got Talent, where Osbourne serves as a judge, a position her earned, well, because she’s married to the man that sang Crazy Train some 29 years ago.
Sharon Osbourne is a hypocrite. She can dish it out, but she cannot take it. She made news earlier this year after she threw a drink in Megan Hauserman’s face, a former Playboy Playmate. They were both on MTV discussing Rock Of Love Charm School, a reality show they both had been on. Evidently Sharon Osbourne was the host of the show and Hauserman was a contestant.
When Megan Hauserman talked about having her dog spayed so that it couldn’t have puppies, Sharon Osbourne interjected that she too should go have a similar operation so she would not be able to reproduce. Hauserman responded to this by saying that Sharon Osbourne was only famous because she was married to a brain dead rock star.
Not only did Sharon Osbourne throw the drink, she grabbed and pulled at Hauserman’s hair. Once again, Sharon Osbourne can dish it out, she just cannot take it.
Lifelong New York Yankees fan jumps ship after only one game
Former executive producer of the Ron and Fez Show and lifelong, die-hard New York Yankees fan Earl Douglas has stopped supporting the New York Yankees and has evidently decided to instead support the Philadelphia Phillies. As this photo shows, he has even gone to the extent for replacing his Yankees hat with a Phillies hat.
Seeing Earl Douglas wear something other than a Yankees cap is a lot like seeing Rush Limbaugh wearing an Obama t-shirt.
The Phillies beat the Yankees last night in game one of the World Series, 6-1. If the Yankees win tonight, will Earl Douglas go back to being a Yankees fan? Will he only go back to supporting the Yankees if they win the World Series?
It should be noted that even though the Yankees have the highest payroll in baseball ($208 million), they haven’t won a World Series since 2000.
Hopefully, it’s a trend that will continue. Like Earl Douglas, I hate the New York Yankees.
Doctor Rush Limbaugh talks about HN1N1, AIDS, and how he’s three times smarter than Kathleen Sebelius
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh spoke about the “hype” of HN1N1 virus and in doing so, claimed that AIDS in Africa is “hyped” too so that “they” can get some of that sweet AIDS donation money. Dr. Rush claimed that everything in Africa is called AIDS (near the 2:00 mark). He makes the argument that if simple colds and the regular, less lethal flu are classified as the swine flu, the money will flow.
And who exactly would be making money off of the supposed hype of the HN1N1 virus? My guess is that it would be the pharmaceutical companies that are working in overdrive producing enough of the vaccine. It is the pharmaceutical companies that would me getting rich because of a false fear over the threat of a HN1N1 pandemic.
So does that mean Rush is speaking out against the pharmaceutical industry?
Rush then goes on to speak about U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and how his IQ is three times higher than her IQ and that he is much more “informed, educated, and smart” than she is. That’s interesting in that Rush is a college dropout while Sebelius not only graduated college, she went on to earn a Master’s degree.
How exactly is Rush better educated than Sebelius?
I actually find most of what Limbaugh has to say about any given topic quite entertaining. Though I disagree with 99.99% of the stuff he says, I cannot help but admit that he is a master as what he does. Nobody comes close to his level of skill at talking into a microphone for three hours a day. I think most of what he says is quite harmless. The problem is when he talks about something such as the HN1N1 virus. The swine flu is not something to fool around with. In 1918, a massive swine flu pandemic took place and an estimated 50 to 100 million people died worldwide. If even one person heard his rant about the supposed hype and then decided not to go and get a swine flu shot, that is one person too many.
Rush Limbaugh tells CNN reporter Carol Costello to go sit on a fire hydrant
CNN reporter Carol Costello did a segment yesterday as part of an ongoing series on political talk radio and she started with the king of political talk radio, Rush Limbaugh. This of course irritated Limbaugh. Not only did he refer to Costello as his “stalker”, he encouraged her to go sit on a fire hydrant to improve her day.
Whatever that means.
And to think he’s surprised that the NFL doesn’t want him to join their cabal of team owners.
The ironic thing is that Limbaugh used to date CNN news reporter Daryn Kagan, who left the cable news network in 2006. Kagan used to work with Costello at CNN. Did Kagan perhaps tell Limbaugh something personal about Costello involving fire hydrants?
It just seems like a weird comment to make, even for a recovering drug addict like Limbaugh.
Looks like Balloon Boy’s father is in trouble with the law
Evidently orchestrating a hoax involving a Mylar weather balloon and your 6-year-old son is against the law. Go figure.
Richard Heene, father of Falcon Heene, the Fort Collins, Colorado boy made famous after it was believed he was ridding in an experimental helium balloon, according to Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden, will be charged in connection to the hoax. A hoax designed by Richard Heene in the hopes that the publicity would get him back on TV. The Heene family appeared on the ABC reality show Wife Swap. It’s this stupid show where women from two families “swap” places and then we the television viewers get to watch the high jinks that somehow always ensue.
It’s as though the families are working off a script or something.
The boy of course was not in the balloon, but instead was hiding in a box in the attic. The family later appeared on CNN and 6-year-old Falcon blurted out “we did this for a show.” Unfortunately for CNN, Wolf Blitzer was conducting the interview and he was too stupid to realize what young Falcon had just said.
Sheriff’s deputies and detectives were seen entering the Heene home early this morning to conduct a search of the home. Undoubtedly they found lots and lots of evidence that can be used against Heene. This guy appears to be too stupid to have gotten rid of anything that would point to his guilt.
Shepard Fairey is a liar
Shepard Fairey, the artist that created the iconic poster of then Senator Barack Obama with the word “Hope”, has admitted that he lied when he said he didn’t base the poster on an Associated Press photo. A photo taken by photographer Mannie Garcia and owned by the AP.
Last February, the AP claimed that Fairey based the poster on one of their copyrighted photos. Fairey responded to this by suing the AP. He said that his poster was protected under fair use and besides, he used a different photo. A photo not owned by the AP.
Fairey posted the following statement on his website:
In an effort to keep everyone up to date on my legal battle to uphold the principle of fair use in copyright laws, I wanted to notify you of a recent development in my case against The Associated Press (AP).
On October 9, 2009, my lawyers sent a letter to the AP and to the photographer Mannie Garcia, through their lawyers, notifying them that I intend to amend my court pleadings. Throughout the case, there has been a question as to which Mannie Garcia photo I used as a reference to design the HOPE image. The AP claimed it was one photo, and I claimed it was another.
The new filings state for the record that the AP is correct about which photo I used as a reference and that I was mistaken. While I initially believed that the photo I referenced was a different one, I discovered early on in the case that I was wrong.
In an attempt to conceal my mistake I submitted false images and deleted other images. I sincerely apologize for my lapse in judgment and I take full responsibility for my actions which were mine alone. I am taking every step to correct the information and I regret I did not come forward sooner.
I am very sorry to have hurt and disappointed colleagues, friends, and family who have supported me in this difficult case and trying time in my life.
I am also sorry because my actions may distract from what should be the real focus of my case – the right to fair use so that all artists can create freely. Regardless of which of the two images was used, the fair use issue should be the same.
- Shepard
‘Zombieland’
Zombieland, directed by Ruben Fleischer and starting Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, is a fantastic movie. I love zombies. I love comedies. Oddly enough, the two genres go together like chocolate and peanut butter. First there was Shaun of the Dead and now Zombieland.
Who knew the undead apocalypse could be so funny?
Woody Harrelson is fantastic. He hasn’t been this funny since Cheers. Then again, I don’t know if he’s played a comedic role lately. Most of the movies he’s appeared in lately have been dramas.
Zombieland isn’t a drama.
There’s a major cameo in the movie that I don’t want to spoil for anyone. He didn’t appear in any of the commercials or the trailers, so I don’t want to mention who it is.
Speaking of commercials, the Johnny Cash song, Country Boy, appeared in the commercials for Zombieland, but didn’t appear in the movie. I hate when this happens. After seeing the commercial for Zombieland numerous times, I identify the the song with the movie. It’s annoying when the song doesn’t appear in the film.
Because ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ ain’t a kids movie
Newsweek sat down with Where The Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak to talk about the live action adaptation of his book. Joining in on the interview was the film director Spike Jonze and novelist-screenwriter Dave Eggers.
This was my favorite part of the interview:
What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?
Sendak: I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate.
Because kids can handle it?
Sendak: If they can’t handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it’s not a question that can be answered.
Jonze: Dave, you want to field that one?
Eggers: The part about kids wetting their pants? Should kids wear diapers when they go to the movies? I think adults should wear diapers going to it, too. I think everyone should be prepared for any eventuality.
I must say, I like the cut of Sendak’s jib. Truer words have never been spoken, “If they can’t handle it, go home.” Not only does this bit of advice apply to this movie, but to just about everything else in life.
If you take your children to a movie and they become frightened to the extent that they are clearly disturbed and causing a scene, then by all means leave the theater. Why would someone even have to be told this?
I’m looking forward to seeing this movie. I never read Where The Wild Things Are when I was a kid and I don’t know why. It’s a story that features monsters. As a kid, I loved all things monster related even more than I loved macaroni & cheese or ice cream sandwiches. I can remember seeing this book in the library, I just never read it.
Jon Gosselin drained the marital bank account
Kate Gosselin says that her soon-to-be ex-husband Jon Gosselin withdrew more than $200,000 from the couple’s joint bank account last week without her knowledge, leaving her with only a mere $1,000. She told NBC that she now has a stack of bills that need to be paid and she has no way of paying them.
Isn’t this just what people do when they go through a divorce? One spouse drains the bank account before the other spouse thinks of doing themselves?
Evidently a judge issued an order a while back stating that neither Gosselin could take money out without first getting it approved by the court, but what does something like that mean to Jon Gosselin? He’s a rebel. He wears Ed Hardy shirts adorned with tigers and dragons. He smokes cigarettes and rides ATVs. He dates teenage whores and wears studs in both earlobes.
Rules and judges are for squares, and Jon Gosselin ain’t no square.
He’s also out of a job. Not that he really had a job, but it was announced last week the TLC is dropping his name from the show. Instead of Jon & Kate Plus 8, the show will now be called Kate Plus 8.
David Letterman admits to having sexual relationships with female employees
CBS Late Show host David Letterman announced on last night’s show that he has had sexual relationships with female employees and that because of these affairs, he was the target of an extortion attempt. Letterman said he worked with the Manhattan district attorney’s office concerning the extortion attempt. It all came to a head only yesterday when Letterman issued a fake $2 million check to the individual attempting to extort him and the person was immediately arrested.
The Associated Press is reporting that the person attempting to extort Letterman is Robert J. Halderman, a producer for the CBS television investigative news show 48 Hours. CBS has announced that Halderman has been suspended, pending the criminal case.
As far as sexual affairs go, sleeping around with your own employees is especially creepy. It’s hard to tell just how much Letterman’s position of power played into the minds of his sexual partners. Did any of them feel undue pressure to have sex with him? Did any of them worry about getting fired if they didn’t have sex with Letterman?
How long before this story becomes an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent?
‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′ renamed ‘Kate Plus 8′
The train wreak of a TV show that is known as Jon & Kate Plus 8 has changed it’s name to just Kate Plus 8. Who didn’t see this coming? I figured the show was getting a name change as soon as Jon Gosselin left his wife Kate and started running around acting like a weirdo with girls practicably just out of high school.
Entertainers have to know their audience. They have to know what their audience expects of them and do their best to match those expectations. That means if you are an evangelical preacher, you can’t get caught buying methamphetamine from a gay prostitute like that self-hater Ted Haggard did. His audience, people that attended his church, would not put up with stuff that. He should have known that. Jon Gosselin’s audience consisted of married women in their 30’s and 40’s. He should have thought of them before he started running around wearing those crappy looking Ed Hardy clothes. His audience probably didn’t appreciate it much when he started publicly catting around with the 22-year old daughter of his wife’s plastic surgeon.
Hopefully Kate Gosselin will hit him up for a bazillion dollars a month in child support. How much do men have to pay for eight kids? Normally the only men that have to pay child support for that many kids play in the NFL.
Smoking is now officially no longer cool
Kids today need no further proof that smoking is bad than to see this photo of Jon Gosselin sitting on top a ATV with a real life cancer stick dangling out of his mouth. See kids, smoking is so stupid, the Hawaiian looking guy on that reality show with all the kids does it. Smoking ain’t cool, Jon Gosselin does it.
It’s a powerful anti-smoking message to send to our nation’s youth, or to anyone else that doesn’t want to look like a tard. Like Jon Gosselin.
Walking like House has ruined Hugh Laurie’s knees
Hugh Laurie, the British actor that plays the not-so-lovable Doctor House on the hit Fox TV show House told the Daily Mail that walking with a severe limp is creating havoc on his 50 year old knees. In fact, he even said that it might require him to quit the show.
I’ve always wondered what the constant limping did to the actor’s knees and/or hip. I know from personal experience that when an injury causes you to limp or walk differently, it often causes pain or even an actual secondary injury somewhere else.
Would Hugh Laurie actually quit the show because of it? I’ve got to think that the part of Doctor Gregory House has got to be a dream job for an actor like Laurie, knee pain or not. Perhaps the Daily Mail got that part wrong. It wouldn’t be the only thing they got wrong in the article. For instance:
As Dr House, he walks with a limp in his right leg – the result of a gunshot wound.
Ah, no, that’s not what caused the limp. House experienced a muscle infarction in his right thigh. Be the time it was properly diagnosed, the muscle surrounding the infarction was dead and had to be cut out. He’s got a huge chunk of this thigh missing.
If it was me, I’d just get the entire leg amputated. The only thing worse than not being able to walk normally is to be in constant pain.
It’s a good thing Michael Jackson is made from mostly man-made substances
If you thought that Michael Jackson was buried shortly after his memorial service nearly two months ago, you would be wrong. He will be buried tonight starting at 7 p.m. at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California. I guess it’s a good thing that at the time of his death, most of his body parts had been replaced with plastic and other non-organic substances.
If he was a regular person, he would really start to stink by now.
Singer Gladys Knight will perform. I didn’t even know that she was still alive. Hasn’t Michael Jackson’s death already involved enough musical performances? Just put him in the ground and be done with it.
Chima kicked of ‘Big Brother 11′ by the producers
Looks like there was quite the drama yesterday in the Big Brother 11 house. One of the contestants, Chima Simone, 32, was removed from the show by the producers for constantly breaking the reality show’s rules. Not only was she removed from the Big Brother house, she will not be allowed to participate in the jury or be involved in any other Big Brother events.
Supposedly the events that lead up to what transpired will be addressed in tonight’s episode. If not tonight, then probably Tuesday’s episode.
I can’t help but think this throws a monkey wrench into everything. According to the people that have been watching the live feeds (people can sign up to watch what happens in the house 24/7 over the Internet) Chima was one of the two house guests nominated for eviction this week. Because one of the two nominees is now gone, the producers were forced into having a new Head of House (HoH) competition so that the new HoH could nominate two new people. This meant that Michelle Noonan, the current HoH, really got cheated this week.
I’m not really surprised that Chima was kicked off the show. She always seemed like a total nutcase, more so than the other nutcases on the show. I think you have to be a nutcase just to want to be on Big Brother, but she always stood out from the rest when it came to mental stability.
As in, she didn’t have any.
Last week she got into a huge argument with one of her fellow house guests, Russell Kairouz, 24, supposedly a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. While arguing, Chima called Russell, who I guess is of middle-eastern decent, a “terrorist.” When Russell accused her of using a racial slur against him, she claimed that it had nothing to do with his race, but his actions in the Big Brother house.
It sounded a lot like a racial slur to me.
‘There Goes the Neighborhood’ is the greatest TV show of all time
Sunday night was the premiere of There Goes the Neighborhood, a CBS reality show that puts neighboring families in a metropolitan Atlanta neighborhood against each other in a competition where the winning family earns $250,000. A 20-foot wall was constructed around the eight families competing and they are cut off from the rest of the world. No TV, no electricity, no telephones, and no Internet. They cannot leave until they are kicked out by the other families in the form of a vote.
Families compete in a competition where the winning family becomes “King of the Neighborhood”. Not only do they get a prize for their win, they get to select two families for eviction. The other families then vote on which family to kick out of the game. The losing family then has to leave and go stay in a hotel until the show is over.
If it sounds like the greatest thing to ever appear on television, that’s because it is.
Unlike other reality TV shows that feature people stabbing strangers in the back for the possibility of winning some money, these people are stabbing their own neighbors in the back.
In the first episode, families competed in a contest that featured a fire house that had to be untangled so that it could be used to wash the mud off a loved one to reveal a set of three numbers printed on a t-shirt. Once the mud was off and the numbers exposed, the two family members raced to a box where they used the three numbers to unlock a combination lock. Though they had the three numbers, they did not know in what order they went. In other words, it was total luck who won and who lost.
The first family to be kicked off the show looked like they were devastated. Not only because they would now not be in contention to win the $250,000, but because they had been good friends with the other families, especially the “King of the Neighborhood” family that nominated them for eviction.
It’s one thing to stab complete strangers, people you will never see again, in the back for the sake of reality TV. It’s a whole different thing to screw over the people who live next door to you, people you’ve known for years.
It’s fascinating to watch.
The world loves G.I. Joe
Paramount’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra opened this weekend and raked in $100.5 million worldwide making it the largest grossing movie based on an action figure.
This movie wasn’t even reviewed by critics because the studio wouldn’t allow them to see it. If a reviewer wanted to see G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, he or she was going have to wait till Friday and pay their ten bucks like everyone else.
I’ve never quite understood this tactic. Normally the studios do this when they know the movie sucks and the critics are going to destroy it with their negative words. This makes no sense to me because people don’t care what critics say.
People don’t care what critics have to say about a movie, whether it’s negative or positive. The 2005 Joss Whedon movie Serenity, based on the short lived but totally excellent science fiction TV show Firefly was reviewed very positively by movie critics. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 81%. Anything above 50% is considered good. Even though the critics loved Serenity, it grossed only a little over $39K worldwide it’s entire theatrical run.
Critics just do not matter.
WJFK 106.7 FM switches formats
Washington D.C. radio station WJFK 106.7 FM is making a programing switch. Starting Monday, July 20, it becomes Sportsradio 106.7 “The Fan.”
Afternoon drive show The Mike O’Meara Show, featuring Mike O’Meara, former co-host of The Don and Mike Show, is getting the axe. The morning show The Junkies will remain, once again becoming The Sports Junkies.
The afternoons will feature a show co-hosted by former Redskins linebacker LaVar Arrington. Let’s see if he gets hurt behind the mic as frequently as he did while playing for the Skins.
I’m not sure where this leaves Mike O’Meara. Maybe he can go to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and join fellow The Don and Mike Show co-host Don Geronimo on WGMD 92.7 FM.
I’m guessing that has a 0.0 percent chance of happening.
It’s going to be weird not having Mike O’Meara on the radio. I was a regular listener to The Don and Mike Show when it was syndicated to one of the crappy Hagerstown AM stations. I would also listen to it on WJFK when I worked in Thurmont. I had to really play with the radio to get a half-decent signal. Even then, it was normally a little scratchy. The signal coming out of WJFK was fairly weak.
I’ve been listening to the The Mike O’Meara Show via the podcast on iTunes. The show wasn’t quite the same without Don Geronimo, but it was still worth listening to.
Ian Halperin on The Opie and Anthony Show
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Canadian investigative journalist Ian Halperin appeared on The Opie and Anthony Show today on Sirius XM to discuss his new unauthorized biography on Michael Jackson, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson. The interview quickly turns into an out of control shouting match between Halperin and Opie, Anthony, and regular show contributor comedian Jimmy Norton.
Mostly Ian Halperin and Jimmy Norton shouted back and forth, not allowing each other to get their point across. A written transcript of the show would just be a series of broken sentences and quite confusing to read.
Not that it wasn’t confusing to listen to at times.
The true gem of the interview was when Halperin asked if anyone in the studio knew what the capital of Canada was. I was surprised that nobody knew the answer. I thought it was funny because I once had a similar experience in Australia. At a bar in Darwin, a drunk man who claimed to be a citizen of Yugoslavia challenged me to identify his nation’s capital. I didn’t know the answer. I still don’t know the answer, but the joke’s on him because Yugoslavia isn’t even a country anymore.
Jimmy Norton also made a comment about filmmaker Michael Moore being from Canada. At least I think he did. It’s begins right around the 35 minute mark. With all the shouting going on, it was kind of hard to really tell. That point is, he’s not. Michael Moore is from Michigan. I thought everyone knew that. I guess not.
I thought Ian Halperin came off sounding like a real douche, but then again, he wrote an biography on Michael Jackson, detailing the late pop star’s addiction to prescription drugs and closet homosexuality.
Writing a book like that would require him to be a douche.
Chris “Mad Dog” Russo has an epic melt down
I’ve had a unwritten rule here at Bent Corner that I would never post two YouTube videos back to back. What good is a rule (even an unwritten rule) if you cannot break it?
On Thursday afternoon, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo while hosting his Mad Dog Radio show on Sirius XM satellite radio had an epic meltdown, going off on his staff including firing his program director Steve Torre live on the air. As if working for Chris Russo wasn’t bad enough, Torre has to experience the indignity of being fired live on the air.
Luckily for Torre, Mad Dog did it on his show which means nobody heard it.
Russo was signed away from WFAN radio in New York where he co-hosted a show, Mike and the Mad Dog with Mike Francesa to Sirius XM last year to a 5-year, $15 million contract. For some unknown reason, Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin thought that Chris Russo would have some sort of national appeal. It’s as if just because something is popular in New York City, it will be popular all over the country.
Supposedly his entire channel is one of the least listened to on Sirius XM satellite radio and he blames not himself for this, but everyone else. In his rant, he talks about needing to travel through America looking for talk show hosts that can talk about the cast from Gone With The Wind (huh?) and the ‘62 Giants.
The problem with the Mad Dog Radio channel begins and ends with Chris Russo. The man is truly an awful radio host. He has some type of speech impediment that makes him sound a lot like Elmer Fudd. He can’t even pronounce the word “radio” correctly. Instead, he pronounces it as “wadio“.
Why would anyone want to work for him, especially after the way he threw everyone that worked for him under the bus?
Jet unplugged on The Opie and Anthony Show
Jet stopped by the Opie and Anthony Show (XM Radio channel 202, Sirius Radio channel 197) and did an acoustic version of She’s a Genius, a cut off their new upcoming album, Shaka Rock. It sounded so good that it makes me wonder, why do bands even record with anything but acoustic instruments?
Sometimes I think simpler is just better.
Sirius XM raising their rates
Remember when the FCC and Congress stepped in and changed the laws that allowed XM Radio and Sirius Radio to merge? Part of the deal included the agreement that the merged company could not raise it’s rates for a predefined amount of time. I don’t remember how long the price freeze was going to be in place, and I’m too lazy to go look it up right now, but I know that it was going to be a while before my rates went up.
That’s about to change. I got an email today from XM Radio telling me that my monthly fee is going up an additional $1.98 a month. From the email:
Music royalty rights were established by the U.S. Congress as part of the Copyright Act. This Act requires payment of copyright music royalties to recording artists, musicians and recording companies who hold copyrights in sound recordings.
These royalties have recently increased dramatically, principally as a result of a decision made by the Copyright Royalty Board, which is designated by the Library of Congress to set royalty rates for sound recordings. Beginning on July 29, 2009, a “U.S. Music Royalty Fee” of $1.98/month* for primary subscriptions and $.97/month* for multi-receiver subscriptions will be effective upon your next renewal. This fee will be used directly to offset increased payments from XM to the recording industry.
The real kicker is that I don’t even listen to music on XM Radio. They canceled the only music channel I ever listened to, the Punk Channel. When I want to listen to recorded music, I listen to my iPod.
I only listen to XM Radio for the live talk. I listen to Opie and Anthony, Ron and Fez, the Dan Patrick Show, the Steve Czaban Show, CNN, and Howard Stern. I used to listen to World Soccer Daily until they started asking listening for “donations”.
Why should a person like me who only listens to talk radio have to pay royalties to the music industry?
The answer is that I shouldn’t, but I have no way of stopping it. If I want to continue listening to live talk and news on satellite radio, I will have to pay it.
I’m already paying $4.04 more each month to listen to the “Best of Sirius”. Mostly that’s so I can listen to Howard Stern. I’m also paying another $2.99 a month to listen to Sirius XM on the computer and my iPhone. Since he only does a show four days a week, and his show for some reason is not available on the iPhone, I’m going to go ahead and cancel the “Best of Sirius”.
Jon and Kate call it quits
Shocker of all shockers, Jon and Kate Gosselin are legally separating. They filled papers and everything.
If you have never watched their reality show, Jon and Kate Plus 8 and you were only were going by what you’ve seen in the tabloids (or this video) you might just think that Kate Gosselin is the victim in all this.
I can assure you that she is not.
She has got to be one of the meanest, nastiest woman to have ever appeared on the reality TV show. And that’s saying a lot. I don’t know who she treats worse – her soon to be ex-husband or her eight kids.
They both say in this video that they are going to share custody of their eight children and that the children will remain living in the home while the parents rotate in and out. If you’ve watched the show, you know that Kate is rarely ever home. She’s usually traveling around giving speeches on how to be a terrific mother or to pimp one of her books.
My guess is that they will both end of seeking sole custody of the eight kids. The parent that doesn’t get custody will end up owing the other parent about a bazillion dollars in child support every month. That could be problematic since neither Jon or Kate has a job.
Is Howard Stern going back to regular radio?
There’s currently a rumor going around the World Wide Internet Web involving Howard Stern. Rumor has it that the King of All Media will be leaving Sirius XM Radio at the end of his current contract (December 18, 2010) and returning to good old fashioned regular terrestrial radio.
I’m not buying it.
I don’t think he wants to do regular radio any more than he wants to do satellite radio. I fully expect him to leave radio entirely, both terrestrial and satellite, when his current contract is over.
When he left CBS Radio for Sirius at the end of 2005, he signed a five year contract for $500 million. With that kind of money, he never has work ever again. If he ever were to do radio again, it would be solely because he wanted to do it. It would be because he loved his craft so much, he just had to do it.
If Howard Stern loves radio so much, why does he take each and every Friday off?
Part of his original contract with Sirius stipulated that not only did he get ten (10) weeks of vacation a year, he only has to work four (4) days a week. He only does a live radio show Monday through Thursday. On Friday, the show is a montage of segments from that week.
Howard Stern doesn’t have to take every Friday off. Sirius XM is not forcing him to take three-days off every week. He doesn’t do a live show on Fridays because he doesn’t have to.
Once his contract his up at the end of 2010, I don’t see him doing any more radio, terrestrial or satellite.
What’s The Learning Channel teaching with ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′?
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what exactly The Learning Channel is trying to teach people with it’s hit reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8. Whatever it is, it must be really important. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be on The Learning Channel. It claims to be the only television network dedicated to lifelong learning for viewers who want to grow up, not old.
From what I can tell, the only thing people can learn from Jon & Kate Plus 8 is that men should avoid marrying bitchy women addicted to fertility drugs. That’s the only thing I’ve ever learned from the show. Not that I needed that particular lesson taught to me.
Jon and Kate Gosselin have been in the tabloids lately because of rumors that Jon and Kate have essentially split up. They are also saying that Jon is seeing another woman. I don’t know if that’s true, but I say anything he can do that stops him from putting the business end of a loaded shotgun in his mouth, is more than okay. At least I’m not going to judge him for it.
‘Terminator: Salvation’ comes in short at the box office
The long Memorial Day weekend is not even offer yet, but it looks as though Terminator: Salvation will be coming up short at the box office. Most movie experts thought it would be the number one movie this weekend. It was not. Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, made the most money, $53.5 million from Friday-Sunday compared to $43 million made by Terminator: Salvation.
What I find interesting about this is that both movies were panned by the critics. I think what this shows is that people are more willing to go see a negatively reviewed movie if they are confident they will still gets some laughs. If you’ve seen any of the commercials for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, you know that it has at the very least a few funny parts. What does Terminator: Salvation have other than Christian Bale blowing stuff up?
Not that a movie needs anything more than that.
There’s also the fact that people will kids can take them to go see Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian no matter their age. Even though Terminator: Salvation is rated PG-13 and not R, I don’t think it’s the type of movie most people will want to take their young children to go see. The fact is, people with young children can take their kids with them to go see Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. If they want to go see Terminator: Salvation, they would have to find someone to watch their kids while they go watch Christian Bale kill robots.
Seeing Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is just easier.
The kind of creepy, massivly talented kid lost on ‘American Idol’
Adam Lambert, the favorite to win this year’s American Idol came up short last night and lost to the other guy, Kris Allen.
Adam Lambert was robbed.
Not that it really matters. Both Adam Lambert and Kris Allen will both get recording contracts. It’s not like the winner of American Idol gets a large amount of money or one of those tricked out homes from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. They don’t even get a trophy or a special sash.
I think people will quickly forget about Kris Allen. Adam Lambert, not so much. I think he has the best voice out of anyone to ever be on American Idol.
It looks like Jason Lee will finally be able to shave off that stupid mustache
It looks like NBC has decided to cancel My Name Is Earl. Evidently Jeff Ingold, executive vice president of comedy programming, called creator Greg Garcia with the news only 30 minutes before the new Fall schedule was released to the media.
Classy.
In case you’ve never watched My Name Is Earl, it was only one of the best comedy shows on TV. It featured a funny and talented ensemble cast and in my opinion, the very best writing on TV. There’s signs that ABC might be picking the show up. Maybe they will, maybe they wont. I just don’t understand stuff like this.
What happened to NBC? They used to have some of the best shows on TV.
The judges on ‘American Idol’ really don’t like Allison Iraheta
The theme for last night’s American Idol was rock n’ roll. The celebrity guest “mentor” was former Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist Slash. I’m not sure what his qualifications are for teaching or mentoring young people on how to sing.
Hopefully he didn’t teach them how to shoot black tar heroin, because he knows a thing or two about that.
Allison Iraheta did Janis Joplin’s Cry Baby. It sounded great. The judges didn’t really like it. Mostly they thought it sounded too much like Janis Joplin. Paula Abdul put her giant cup of vodka down for a moment to say that Iraheta could play Janis Joplin in a movie.
How is telling a 17-year old girl, the only girl still in the competition, that she sounded too much like the greatest female rock signer of all time a criticism?
It was rock n’ roll night. It’s like criticizing a high school baseball player by telling him they hit the ball too much like Babe Ruth.
Wizards of the Coast sues eight people over file sharing
Wizards of the Coast is trying to crack down on people that post Dungeons & Dragons products to the various file sharing networks. From ICv2:
Wizards of the Coast has filed three lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against eight defendants located in the United States, Poland and the Philippines alleging copyright infringement of its recently released Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook 2. The lawsuit contends that the defendants illegally distributed the Player’s Handbook 2 via free file-sharing Websites, and that these uploads resulted in a substantial number of lost sales and revenue for Wizards of the Coast.
Evidently Wizards of the Coast was selling PDF versions of there popular Dungeons & Dragons role playing system. That was until they realized that people could take these PDF files and share them on Bit Torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay.
Oops.
I realize that this is a civil lawsuit, but wouldn’t it be something to go to prison for something Dungeons & Dragons related?
I’m not sure they will have any luck suing somebody that resides in the Philippines for copyright infringement. The country has what you might describe as a very relaxed view on copyrights, or for that matter, crime in general.
I think by suing a few of their customers for file sharing, Wizards of the Coast may only be exacerbating the problem of unauthorized file sharing. By taking this action and then publicizing the fact, they are broadcasting to the world that their intellectual property is available for free at the various file sharing sites. The people they are suing are people that actually paid them for the PDF files.
Suing these people wont stop these specific PDF files from being shared in the future.
They killed Kutner
Kal Penn, the actor that plays Dr. Kutner on House, is leaving the show so that he can go work in the Obama White House. Instead of writing him off the show by having House get made at him and firing him, they had the character unexpectedly take his own life. He shot himself in the head.
To say that I didn’t see this coming is a huge understatement. Out of all the characters on House, Kutner was probably the most normal and least screwed up character on the show. In other words, he was probably the least likely one to eat his own gun.
And that’s precisely why House is such a good show.
Kutner’s suicide left his fellow doctors disorientatied and confused. None of them saw any signs of depression or deep saddness coming from Kutner that might make one turn to suicide, and it’s something the viewer could relate to. By the end of the episode, I too felt like I had actually lost someone I knew. I had to remind myself that Kutner was only as fictitous character on a TV show and that none of it was real.
Dr. Lawrence Kutner will be missed.
Howard Stern is out of touch
This morning on the Howard Stern show, Howard and the gang were making fun of a new Imus in the Morning commercial that is a spoof of the very popular “Hello, I’m a Mac…” ads.
Howard, the former king of all media, had no clue what was going on with the Imus ad because he said that he wasn’t familiar with the popular Mac commercials.
Fred tried to help him out by describing them as “IBM vs. Apple” commercials.
How does someone who is even slightly familiour with pop culture not know about these commericals?
No baseball for Sirius satellite radio subscribers
The Major League Baseball (MLB) season starts tomorrow and it looks like Sirius XM subscribers who subscribe to the satellite radio service with a Sirius radio will not be able to listen to games like their XM counterparts, even if they are paying extra for the “Best of XM” package.
The reason for this is that even though the two satellite radio providers were finally allowed by the Federal government to merge into one company, Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin insists on running the merged satellite radio company as though it is really two separate companies. Though he was able to quickly strike a deal with the NFL, the NHL, NASCAR, and the NBA to allow both XM and Sirius to broadcast live games and/or events, he was not able to work something out with MLB.
MLB wanted more money to allow games to be broadcast on Sirius. XM Radio had already pre-paid MLB for the rights to broadcast every game up to March of 2011.
I think this is a problem in that out of all the major sports, baseball is the only one that is actually worth listening to on the radio. When I listen to a baseball game on the radio, I can easily see the game play out in my mind’s eye. I’ve listened to games on the radio and then later watched highlights of these same games on ESPN. The events transpired exactly like what I imagined.
I can’t say the same thing for any other sport.
Don Geronimo is on Twitter
Former co-host of The Don and Mike Show, Washington D.C. radio legend Don Geronimo (real name Mike Source) might not be on the radio right now, but he’s on Twitter.
He “retired” from the radio last year. He left the Don and Mike Show and evidently he signed a no-compete contract with CBS Radio that prohibits him from doing radio right now. In fact, he wrote on a recent Twitter post that he cannot even do a podcast.
I’m enjoying reading his frequent Twitter updates. I’d rather hear him on the radio, but I’ll take what I can get.
Anthony Cumia appeared on Howard Stern in 1994
Did you know that Anthony Cumia from the Opie and Anthony Show once appeared on the Howard Stern Show? I had no idea. He appeared on Howard’s show back in December 1994 for some kind of impression contest.
He was contestant #7.
I found this video by pure accident. I was looking for something else when I stumbled upon this.
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