June 19, 2009

Oh look. It's a ghost. Yawn.

Do any of you watch and enjoy the T.V. shows Ghosthunters, Ghost Adventures, or The Scariest Places On Earth? If so, sorry if I offend you with what I am about to say. First of all, I don't believe in ghosts, so that's part of my disdain for these shows, but not only that, these shows don't even provide a cheap thrill! They're actually more comedies than anything that's thrilling!
I hate these dumb shows with all my heart! These shows are ridiculous! They are dumb. (Have I said dumb enough?)
Let me count the ways these shows are dumb for each dumb show. Maybe you'll agree or nod your head with a knowing-"yeah that guy is telling it like it is about those f#$^% up, sh!#@ headed, mother@$%^&% shows." Well, maybe you won't say it exactly like that, but something along those lines. Well here goes. I am stating my case.

Ghosthunters: (My wife likes to watch Ghosthunters so I try not to make fun of it too much in front of her!)

1. When Joe the Plumber lookalike Jason Hawes says with a straight face, "this may be a residual haunting" to some homeowner, that's just.....dumb. Residual haunting....

2. When Grant Wilson says "This is an EVP. (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) This will record any supernatural voices that our human ears will not pick up." I would love to be on the set to tell him, "Yeah right!" "That's probably your 2 year-old playing with his toys, and that other noise is Jason taking a crap!"


3. The show is horribly edited-It's choppy as hell. Homeowners with "ghosts" are asked something about their experiences with "their" ghosts, at the beginning or the end of the segment, so they give them about a minute or two to talk, then baldy and greasy will cut them off, by jumping out of their seats and say, "ok lets set up," or will shake their hand at the end of segment. It seems all interactions on this show are like this. Even the ghosts are cut off. They could be experiencing a lot of "phenomena," but still, Joe the Plumber and Grant will tell everyone to start packing up-they gotta go! Caspar be damned.

The Scariest Places on Earth:
1. hosted by Linda Blair and narrated by Zelda Rubinstein of Poltergeist fame-Zelda tries to sound scary, but really-those voiceovers of hers! They make her sound like she just got up from a long nap! And poor Linda sounds tired and in need of a nap!


2. The "scary" parts consist of showing people's faces, filmed with nightvision lenses, screaming about something they just heard and which the TV audience does not hear. "Arrrgh! Did you hear that?!" (no we didn't) "Oh God! Did you just hear THAT?!" (again we didn't hear THAT either) That's pretty much it-just repeat that 10 times.


Ghost Adventures:
Boy-imaginative title huh? This one is the worst in my opinion. It consists of an idiot (Zak Bagans) yelling at ghosts with his stupid, greasy, shitty hair. "Hey dude-ghost! Come on out and fight like a real ghost, dude!" This guy is irritating! Most of the time, Bagans will hear something that only he can hear, or be tapped on the shoulder (very convienient that only Zak seems to get tapped or nudged by ghosts!) He'll jump up and shout "Dude! Did you just hear that?!" Most of the time no one has, but sometimes there is the faint sound of something, maybe someone's stomach growling.

This blog did an excellent job of describing this show and Bagans-and I concur wholeheartedly, so I will let you click the link to check it. His description of Mr. Bagans is perfect. (the description of this show is about 1/2 way down the article) C'mon, Ghost! Wait, Wait, I Didn't Mean It! - Sheldon The ...


I would love to see a parody of these shows... oh, wait a minute. Here's a couple of clips from YT comedy group Fried Nothing Television friednothing




June 18, 2009

Oooooww... Face! Book!

I recently joined Facebook at the urging of a fellow special education teacher. I don't know-I just can't get that "into it" so far. It's a little overwhelming for me. Although I do enjoy the "chat" feature and "chatted" with Lisa from That is Why for a while the other day! There's just too much info for me. I log on, and check out stuff, but I can't take it all in. Maybe it will take some time getting used to. My little questions with Facebook aren't the same are these individuals though:



Geez this is stupid! I mean she's stupid. This is from a comedy troupe called Quiet Library QuietLibrary Boy oh boy! You need to check these people out on their Youtube channel if you haven't already! Internet sketch comedy is often dark, running the limits of taste (Derrickcomedy and Thewhitestkidsuknow for example) and "edgy," and these guys do have some clips that are very dark, but well played out, and ultimately funny as hell!

June 14, 2009

Are you with me on this?

I sometimes watch Chris Matthews' Hardball. As I have said before in other posts, I don't watch much TV. In watching this show, I find Matthews to be sometimes kind of irritating.

It's his manner of speaking, and his pronunciation of words that gets me.

I know I am being nit-picky, superficial and silly but this affects my ability to watch Hardball. His pronunciation of certain words or names like Cheney get to me. He pronounces the name "Cheeney." Yes, there's an interesting controversy about this particular pronunciation: Liz Cheney v. Lynne Cheney/Chris Matthews on Pronunciation . (So maybe he's actually correct here!)
But there are other little things he says that just add up to irritation-at least to me. He pronounced Holocaust several times the other day as "Hollycaust"; he pronouced zealot, which I would pronounce and I would assume most other people would pronounce as "zeh-lut"; as "zeh-lot"- accenting the first syllable, instead of balancing both. He reads news items incorrectly all the time. They're all jumbled up, mixed up. He starts reading a quote, then has to start over-all the time. He asks people for their viewpoints, then interrupts them while they are speaking to ask about something else.
Also, that weird, downward-turned mouth of his. What's with that?! Is it just me?!

I know-it's stupid.

I subscribe to The Frank Factor channel on Youtube.
TheFrankFactor He's like an uncensored, raging Billo, but on the complete opposite side of the political spectrum. I check him out when I need an antidote for the righty stuff I sometimes check out. If you check him out, keep in mind that he is raging! He uses a lot of cussing to get his point across!
He uses the term "fucktard" a lot! I can't help it but when I think of the term "fucktard," I think along these lines:


June 3, 2009

New Music News and Other Crap

While Dick Cheney has been hitting the talk show circuit in earnest,he also has been trying something new lately-music! Yes, Dick has decided, what the heck-he was gonna go for it, and try doing a little rapping. He always knew he had it in him.
This is the front and back of his debut offering-"Jus' Dickin' Around"



I have always liked the show Just Shoot Me. We even got a DVD of the series a few years back. One of my favorite characters was Kevin, played by Brian Posehn. The guy was born for comedy-just look at him! Funny delivery, voice, looks-you can't go wrong with that! I hadn't realized he was such a funny standup comedian. (NSFW)

May 31, 2009

So there I was minding my own business....

...trying desperately to find that one video clip of Valerie Bertinelli in her blue bikini by the pool. (Thanks Marie Osmond-what a ditz you are! Without your silly, jealous, maybe prudish(?) comments about the 49 year-old Valerie in a bikini and the subsequent gossip show's reports-that included a glimpse of Val in said bikini-I would not have known there was such a glorious testimony to the effects of someone like Val working her...a-well...extra pounds off-she still has curves! and it gives me uhhm...inspiration to work out myself.)
I know-most of this post sounds like so many double entendres! Most-(really-no kidding!) are not meant to be-they just came out ....awww forget it!

So... I came across some Youtube clips of gorgeous Valerie! Little did I know that I would also come across some of the weirdest, funniest YT comments I have seen in a while! *Just to let you know-as with many Youtube comments-these are some of the most nasty, profane, silly, immature, sexist, and mean spirited digital diatribes unleashed against people. Sometimes they can be kinda funny to point out though!

*(Click to enlarge)On one clip- (channel names/commenter names taken off to protect the innocent, even though I know you can check them out on YT yourself. People don't need any more or unwanted attention on YT) There's one guy who comments about the clip fairly innocuously-but gets his head chewed off by another commenter. At the end of the exchange, the 1st guy gets the last laugh!
In another VB clip "pants around the ankles guy" shows up again! Relentless, he is!



I checked out "super angry commenter's" (from the first screenshot) channel. Looks like someone's got anger issues!



Yes-Ms. Bertinelli has inspired many comments. Including guys(?) who want Valerie to wear a certain type of bikini...and horny guys who get ridiculed by other guys...
...and what's with the "pink polka dot" guy!? In another VB bikini clip (yes-I checked them all out!) he's still got "designs" on Valerie's swimwear!



Finally-of all the strange, horny, disgusting comments directed at Valerie, the next two have to be the strangest! What is the deal with the Illuminati amidst the hottie?! I mean, you're seeing all these slobbering guys' comments, and then this weird stuff about aliens and Alex Jones pops up! I don't get it!





I really need to lose some since we're talking about extra pounds! Speaking of weight issues...just saw a repeat TV medical show about that heaviest man in the world. Ugh! Reminds me of this clip!

May 27, 2009

Ok....what the hell are you people after!?

This is kinda freakin' me out, ok?


What are you people looking for?! Tell me! I have been looking at my Sitemeter readings for the last week or so, and for some reason a bunch of people have been looking at this archive: http://c3fun.blogspot.com/2008_02_24_archive.html It contains a response to a tag from Jen at Casual Slack, an Onion News video about Nascar, a dumb poem I did about flying like a bird, a thing about Adam Levine, and a dumb thing I did about Obama and Hillary before the Primary.


Could it be the Adam Levine thing? Some twisted people trying to find pics of him? Can't be my stuff. The Onion thing can be found on Youtube proper, so that's out. What the heck is it?! It's driving me nuts since these visits just seemed to jump all of a sudden.

Let me know-are there some Adam Levine crazies out there? Most of the time I can tell what caused the jump from my usual say, 10 daily visits to maybe 50-60. Not this time. But I do have suspicions it's you Adam Levine nuts. Am I right?


I saw this funny guy Andy Borowitz' stuff on the Huffington Post, a little while back, and from then I have been hooked on his funny stories! I subscribed to his zany little news reports. Check them out, and get a free subscription-these news stories are funny as hell!
borowitzreport.com
Crazy, screwy, somewhat Onionish, (but probably sometimes funnier) observations about our world today that's for sure! Here are a couple of his recent items:

Cheney to Travel Around Country in Sound Truck

Gingrich: Pelosi Not Good Enough Liar to be Speaker

This new one kills me:

Harassed By Photographers, Susan Boyle Dons Disguise - Borowitz Report

Maybe you saw this maybe not...

I apologize for not being around to comment lately-I will be able to later this week...pretty busy lately...
With the CA Supreme Court decision handed down recently, these come to mind...
The NOM's "Gathering Storm" commercial/fodder for satire inspired many to parody its lameness. There were many really funny storms that were produced from the original gathering storm-including Colbert's and Lizz Winstead's very funny edition.
This one, done with Xtranormal's movie-making tools Xtranormal Text-to-Movie is one you may have missed, but it's pretty f'n hilarious. I have wanted to do one of these Xtranormal movies for a while since I heard about it. Now that I have a little extra time, I'll give it a try!



Geez I almost feel like getting a Mac lately-If we could afford the damn thing! I have been having a lot of trouble with setting up a wireless network and also trouble with IE 8 and 7 not displaying my work's webmail and Comcast's webmail correctly! Windows can suck sometimes! I have XP and it sucks also!