From After Elton's Angry Puppy Video Blog (Your Gay Guide to Sci Fi, Horror, Gaming, Tech, Comics, and Stuff We Like)":
"In this week's Angry Puppy, Marc and Lee try to talk about Heroes and The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but end up in a discussion on when and what they can forgive in sci fi writing. Also in this episode, they review the gay horror short In the Closet and Milo Ventimiglia's gore-iffic Pathology (now on DVD)."
These guys give really funny, really smart, and really dead-on critiques of all the best TV shows. They love "True Blood!"
And I learned that Milo Ventimiglia shows his butt in "Pathology."
Check out their vlog after the jump!
I included a mention of this in the Bar Snacks section, but, after thinking about it, I've decided to gather together an entire post.
Arts Technica has an exhaustive review of the phone.
Engadget has a review with pictures.
And then Gizmodo has an exhaustive review and really great pictures: "There is a lot riding on the shoulders of T-Mobile's G1 Android phone. In some ways, it carries the collective hopes of Linux, open source and Google fans everywhere. It's open, collaborative and community-based, in other words, everything the iPhone and Windows Mobile aren't."
John Deering, copyright 2008 Creators Syndicate
Hilary Rosen calls it for Obama: "There simply are not enough undecided voters in the key battleground states."
Candidates' Neckties: What Their Knots Mean
Cesar Chavez's granddaughter opposes Prop 8:"Rights of women, rights of gays and lesbians and the rights of immigrants are all linked," Chavez said.
YouTube for President?
"From Bill Clinton to John McCain," Senator Barack Obama has proved adept at driving very smart politicians out of their comfort zone, leading them to make comments or embrace tactics that end up backfiring."
Was There Too Much Sex And Profanity In The HBO Presidential Debate?
(Language NSFW)
"Scissor Sisters played two secret shows at New York’s annual music showcase, CMJ, with a new drummer no less. Using the fake names 'Debbie’s Harry' and 'Queef Latina.'"
Via The Miami New Times:
The call came in to Tower 41 Condominium, a salmon-pink set of buildings on Pine Tree Drive, on February 22, 2006. Why, asked real estate broker Ricardo Herran, had his client's application to live there been rejected?
In a hushed voice, a curly-haired secretary told him: "It's two men.... Residents are conservative."
The Miami-Dade Equal Opportunity Board (EOB) found this past August 22 that the Tower 41 Condominium Association had discriminated against Bloomfield and his partner Jose Gonzalez based on sexual orientation. This finding might cost the condo owners money in court. And on gay-friendly Miami Beach, it could damage the building's reputation as a peaceful, welcoming place.
This is a reminder that we can't take our rights (even the most basic -- housing) for granted.
From Science Daily:
New research has provided the first detailed look at the internal head skeleton of Tiktaalik roseae, the 375-million-year-old fossil animal that represents an important intermediate step in the evolutionary transition from fish to animals that walked on land.
The new study reminds us that the gradual transition from aquatic to terrestrial lifestyles required much more than the evolution of limbs . . . Fish in deep water move and feed in three-dimensional space and can easily orient their body in the direction of their prey. A neck, seen for the first time in the fossil record in Tiktaalik, is advantageous in settings where the body is relatively fixed, as is the case in shallow water and on land where the body is supported by appendages planted against a substrate.
Jay Leno embarrasses Zac Efron.
TV networks off so slow start
Andy Roddick auctions off nude tennis lessonJon Wertheim's weekly Tennis Mailbag
Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Nastia Liukin to appear on Gossip Girl
Interview with Project Runway's Jerell Scott
Google crushes the iPhone?
Lost's JJ Abrams talks about his version of Star Trek."I think a movie that shows people of various races working together and surviving hundreds of years from now is not a bad message to put out right now."Ellen DeGeneres tees it up Wednesday in Las Vegas adJustin Timberlake's charity golf event
Angelina Jolie on The Today Show
The winner and my take on last night's episode after the jump!
Leanne wins Project Runway! I'm so excited! And I'm using so many exclamation points because when Leanne was announced the winner I'm nearly certain Michael Kors (!) and Nina Garcia (!) yawned and waved to Leanne (!) and murmured, "Congrats, Leanne, you really deserved it. See you around. Or something." That was their celebration. That's it. Leanne deserves more enthusiasm than that!
I mean, last season Heidi gave Christian a piggyback ride. On the Project Runway runway. Last night, Heidi skeptically touched Leanne's unwashed hair and kissed her on just one cheek! I'm sure Leanne did celebrate (I think!) in her own awkward way, and she really did deserve the win. (Entertainment Weekly has a great look back at PR's top all-time designers and their best looks.)
I feel bad for Korto, but, like Uli from a few seasons ago, her clothes were just a little bit more about wearability than they were about fashion. Leanne does things with clothes that help to create the idea of Fashion. And that's why she won.
Poor Kenley. I don't think she lost because she ripped off other designers. I think she lost because she ripped off other designers the entire season! I mean, Christian took a hit after last season's seasons finale because a few of his dresses were a little too inspired by other designers. But that was the only time the judges called him out on that, and he still won. Kenley even said, "The judges have called me out on that four times this season! I'm insulted!" Well, then, stop copying other designers.
Kenley reminds me of the girl who uses a dictionary to cheat on a spelling test and then gets mad when the teacher points out that she cheated by using a dictionary. Spell on your own, Kenley! Once she admits that there are people who know more than she does, she'll be fine.
In any event, congratulations Leanne!
No matter who wins the election, we will have a left-handed President. Watching the debate last night, it finally hit me that we'd have a left-hander no matter what, which is great by left-handed me.
I did some poking around, and I learned that not since the three-way left-handed race between George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot has the country been guaranteed a left-handed leader. Did you know Al Gore was left-handed, too? Maybe we should vote like this: Vote for the left-handed candidate unless he is Republican. If we were to vote like that, we'd get Clinton, Gore, and Obama.
Other left-handed Presidents: James Garfield, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford. And possibly Herbert Hoover.
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Daily Song
Mariah Carey
"I'll Be Lovin U"
(Designer Drug Remix)
Television
The Simpson's Tree House of Horror Preview (2:29)
via I Am A TV Junkie
Politics
Margaret Cho: "No on 8, not Yes"
via HOMOTracker
Movies
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (1:41)
I didn't even know this was coming up. It's looks kinda scary.
Music Video
Thom Skinner "We Don't Talk"
Daily Song
The Simpson's Tree House of Horror Preview (2:29) via iamatvjunkie
Movies
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (1:41)
I didn't even know this was coming up. It's looks kinda scary.
Politics
Margaret Cho and via HOMOTracker
Music Video
Thom Skinner "We Don't Talk"
Pink News is reporting that six people were arrested on the Florida University campus:
Members of a gay rights "Equality Ride" protest were arrested yesterday as they attempted to enter a university campus chapel.Six members of LGBT equality group Soulforce Q, were arrested on trespassing charges at Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBAU). PBAU does not exclude gay students from its 3,200 population, but does ban "homosexual behaviour" amongst its members.
How great was it last night when Campbell Brown released poll information that said two-thirds of those polled do not want another debate? Campbell could barely contain her laughter. Even "Joe Plumber" nodded off during a debate that the New York Post called, uh, "blistering."
After a debate last night that Paul Begala said "dragged on" (before he quickly backtracked and said, "Went on, went on"), it's pretty clear that, unless there is an "October surprise," Obama will be President. Sure, Obama is "professorial." But the one word that came to mind last night as I watched McCain be non-professorial was "coot." I think "the professor" beats the "the maverick." Regardless of "The Bradley Effect."
One of my favorite CNN analysts, Donna Brazile, has written a an article for CNN.com. She writes:
After two years of talking about the 2008 presidential campaign ad nauseam, I still get one question repeatedly: Is America ready yet? My firm answer after being on the road nonstop and witnessing the crowds of ordinary people standing together for a cause greater than themselves is that the country is poised to write a new American chapter.I'm going to quote her, too.