Pop Them All!
On Roku. Because this is how bored you are.
Posted on April 7, 2020
Trump’s Favorite Network (It Isn’t Fox)
By Last Week Tonight
“The whole selling point for OAN is that they are Fox News with even less shame and even fewer scruples.”
Posted on April 6, 2020
Jonathan Pie On Lockdown, Pt. 3: Tele-Vision
Facades Are Falling
“Suddenly we’re seeing colleagues not just as colleagues but as husbands and wives and parents – parents, it has to be said, to some fucking horrible children. And you realize most of your colleagues have a nicer house than you.”
Posted on April 2, 2020
The John Oliver Coronavirus Chronicles
Journalism Done Right
The only coronavirus newscast you really need.
1. Coronavirus I (March 2).
“As coronavirus spreads to the U.S., John Oliver discusses what’s being done to fight the illness, what’s gone wrong, and how to stay safe.”
Posted on March 31, 2020
Glenn Beck’s Turn In The Volcano
By David Rutter
Best scene from Men in Black as later played out in real life:
Outer-Space Bug Who Crash-Landed Into The Backyard To Edgar: “Place projectile weapon on ground.”
Vincent D’Onofrio As The Even-More-Hideous-Spiritually-Than-The-Bug Edgar: “You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!”
Bug in the ground to Edgar: “Your proposal is acceptable.”
Giant insect appendages emerge from the hole, grab Edgar and then there’s a loud slurp. Thereupon Vince as Edgar is subsumed into the giant creepy-crawler’s digestive system for the rest of the movie.
The tableau offers dramatic fulfillment.
I recalled it fondly this week when graceless bloviator Glenn Beck spoke for his political allies about the coronavirus and its effect on the economy: “Even if we all get sick, I would rather die than kill the country.”
Posted on March 29, 2020
Jonathan Pie On Lockdown, Pt. 2: Spare Bedroom Shithole
Loving The Smell Of Cole Slaw In The Morning
“I think it’s worth pointing out that some people have been behaving like dicks!”
Posted on March 27, 2020
Jonathan Pie: Lockdown
Low-Footprint Content
“What the fuck is a VPN? Why does everyone in IT think that everyone else works in IT? I don’t work in IT, you work in IT. That’s what you’re for. You work in IT so I don’t have to.”
Posted on March 24, 2020
24 Hours With HGTV
Sheltering In Place
11 p.m.: My Lottery Dream Home: South Shore Score
11:32 pm: My Lottery Dream Home: Florida Windfall
12:01 a.m.: My Lottery Dream Home: Buy Now, Inherit Later
12:30 a.m.: My Lottery Dream Home: IT Geek to Rich and Chic
1 a.m.: My Lottery Dream Home: Athol Family Dream Home
1:30 a.m.: My Lottery Dream Home: Million Dollar Bull’s-Eye
2 a.m.: My Lottery Dream Home: Waterfront Windfall
2:30 a.m.: My Lottery Dream Home: Cabin Fever
Posted on March 21, 2020
Day In The Life Of A Chicago TV Repairman
By bigdog8882/via YouTube
“Another day of riding through Chicago neighborhoods on the South side, and also Harvey, IL. My television repair company Marc Anthony Television Repair, provides in-home TV repair service to the entire city of Chicago, suburbs, and Northwest Indiana. Today I’ll be taking you on a tour of the Washington Heights neighborhood (my old spot), the Woodlawn neighborhood, the South Shore neighborhood, and Harvey. So just sit back and enjoy the tour and the chill music in the background.”
Dude covered 63.2 miles over 5 hours, 37 minutes.
Posted on March 4, 2020
MSNBC In ‘Full-Blown Freakout’ Over Bernie Sanders
By Jake Johnson/Common Dreams
As it became clear Saturday evening that Sen. Bernie Sanders would run away with the Nevada caucus and secure his position as the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary, MSNBC anchors and contributors lashed out at the senator and his supporters in bizarre and sometimes hysterical fashion, descending into what one observer could only describe as a “full-blown freakout.”
Earlier in the Democratic primary process, the Comcast-owned network was notorious for ignoring the senator from Vermont, and covering him negatively when it covered him at all.
But Saturday marked a clear escalation in hostility from MSNBC’s on-air personalities as Sanders’ diverse coalition of supporters propelled him to a landslide victory in Nevada, the third consecutive state in which the senator has won the popular vote.
Posted on February 23, 2020