Monday, April 26, 2010

Ask Away (Super NSFW)

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If you can find something online today that's funnier than this ...


... then you can hush my mouth and call me an African American. I'm not just saying that because of the role I played in its creation.

Today my wondrous wife launched her ... what could you call it? Web show? Advice column? Window into whimsy? Whatever -- Ask Supasista is completely NSFW and it's a freaking scream. I figured that if I was still laughing at things after hearing them over and over while she edited this (she refuses to wear headphones ... you'll see why), then that's hitting the mark.

Feel free to check it out and let her know what you think.

Playing (Music): "Set Me Free" by Lloyd feat. Mystikal

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

TV imitates comics


So, the show Psych has this episode called "Think Tank" which has the two main characters Sean and Gus are recruited into a consulting group of experts in various fields to consider every single possible scenario in which a Richard Branson-styled billionaire will be assassinated. Before the second commercial break, I had a suspicion that the snippy security consultant Walter Snowden was, in fact, part of the problem.

The funny part about this is that a while ago, comic book company Boom! Studios had a comic called Unthinkable where -- hang on -- "following the events of September 11th, novelist Alan Ripley is recruited into a government think tank alongside several other creative minds. Their job is to conjure up the wildest disaster scenarios they can possibly think of, but the think tank is eventually closed and Ripley is sent on his way. Years later, the attacks that Ripley and his compatriots hypothesized start coming to fruition."

Sure, there's an Unthinkable movie in the works, but this is a cute end run, "borrowing" the ideas of popular fiction. I notice these things, sadly.

Watching (Hulu): Psych, "Think Tank"

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