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I can only assume that weather forecasting is so boring that meteorologists are forced to come up with new exciting terminology for weather events that we’ve already experienced.
I know what a “weather bomb” likely is, but seriously, what the hell are they doing using a phrase like “weather bomb”?

Yeah, I made up Thunder Farts.  What new weather terminology can you come up with?

Hey, the PEI Revue hits the stage this Thursday, Friday and Saturday (Jan.18-20) at the Carrefour Theatre at 8pm each night.
Tickets are $22.00 tax included.  Well worth the money.

If you like to laugh, and like to see/hear jokes/sketches about this province called Prince Edward Island, you should check it out.  Sketch comedy, songs and Lorne Elliot stand-up.  A great way to spend a night in the dead of winter.

Website:  www.peirevue.com

I made it to 9 minutes and 20 seconds into Little Mosque on the Prairie before I decided it wasn’t for me.

Seeing other blogs getting tagged by the “5 things we don’t know about you” game of blog-tag that’s been going around, and not being tagged myself, made me so very depressed.  Not because I wasn’t getting tagged, but because I knew I ultimately would be tagged, and then I’d have to choose whether to go along with it and join in, or ignore it.  Well, I was tagged and now the question is:  will I or won’t I?

Well, here’s my answer:

1) I am bothered by that Brita television ad.  You know the one: There’s a glass of water on a table in an apartment (or house?).  We hear a toilet flush, and see the water in the glass lower and then rise up, as if it was a toilet.  The woman comes out of the bathroom, sits down at the table, and goes to drink the glass of water.  The text comes up and says something like:  The same water that goes to your toilet goes to your kitchen tap”.  I get bugged when I see that ad because I don’t like the way it manipulates people.  It implies that the water from your tap is dirty because it’s from the same source that goes to your toilet.  So what if the same water goes to your toilet and to your tap?  As long as the water isn’t going from your toilet to your tap, then no worries about the toilet, right?.  That bugs me.  (And don’t even get me going on those forest-shitting bears who wipe their hairy asses with toilet paper!)

2) In the entirety of my life to date, there hasn’t been a lot of death in my family, or even my extended family.  Now, though, many of my relatives (parents, aunts, uncles, brothers) are getting up there in age.  For the past few years, I’ve been preparing myself for an onslaught of death to people I love and the emotional mess that this will cause me.  Any time a phone rings at home, at an unusual hour, I expect and prepare for it to be a call telling me so-and-so just died.  I’ve got death on my mind.

3) There are a few words I continually mis-type, every time I type them.  For instance, I always type it “Charlottetwon”.  Not as bad as Rod, the guy I work with.  He always types “discount” as “discocunt”.

4) I just turned down what may have been pretty easy money on a potentially long-term, periodic acting gig because I wasn’t very impressed with the material or the .  I am torn between feeling good for having standards and feeling bad for not taking the easy money.  I will probably hate myself when the project succeeds and improves, and I am left with nothing.

5) I rarely arrive late to things. While this is often a good thing, sometimes I take measures too far to ensure I arrive on time or earlier.  I have begun to allow myself not to be on time if doing so causes me too much agitation.  I have begun to be more selfish.

So, I’ve done the first part of the assignment.  I will not, however, forward the request to others.  This arm of the 5 Things Meme ends right here.

Is there anyone in the entertainment world uglier than Rosie O’Donnell?  And I’m, in no way, talking about physical appearance. And then to get embroiled in a ridiculous, petty argument with Donald Trump, who himself is downright ugly.

I’ve been trying to avoid paying attention to this dispute, but it’s so gloriously ugly that I’m finding myself enjoying the one-downsmanship.

Oh, and Barbara Walters is ugly too.

I watched Mike Judge’s (“Beavis and Butthead”, “King of the Hill”, “Office Space”) latest film, “Idiocracy” the other night.  The movie was completed in 2004, but the studio basically abandoned it and chose not to promote or distribute it in any meaningful way.  Apparently, it was released only in seven cities, three of them in Texas, none in New York.
First off, I can understand if someone watched this movie and hated it.  I laughed way more than I thought I would, and I quite enjoyed it.  It’s got some down-time moments, and there are scenes that don’t quite work, but I suspect some of that may have been a result of Judge not getting money from the studio to polish those scenes.
Luke Wilson plays an average guy who is hibernated for 500 years (Maya Rudolph plays his average female co-hibernator).  They wake up in the year 2505.  In the interim, the population of the world has been totally dumbed down.  Imagine a world where the height of culture is a TV show called “Ow! My Balls!”.  Idiocy, crass commercialism, and instant gratification rule the day and everyone is a moron.  So, compartively speaking, Wilson’s character is seen as the smartest person in the world.  He has trouble fitting in, though, since language has devolved to such a state that someone who speaks even semi-coherently is considered “faggy”.  Wilson is terrific, and Rudolph avoids playing herself as an SNL character and plays it straight and effectively.  There are also some terrific performances by others in the cast who are playing the idiots.
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie.  Grateful for the laughs it gave me, I was able to look beyond the few trouble spots it has.  Definitely a comedy worth searching out.

Technorati Tags: idiocracy, review, criticism, film, comedy

So, last week I spent two afternoons dressed up as a giant cigarette.  It was for some TV ads for Smoker’s Helpline.  It was a great looking costume.  However, for one of the ads, I was required to be in the back seat of a minivan.  At over 7 feet of cigarette and me, I didn’t really fit, so they had to take the seat out and I kind of crawled in and perched myself on the floor. It wasn’t that uncomfortable a position, but I came out of the experience with a sore neck.  Kind of like a pinched nerve type of dealy.  That was Thursday, and today my neck is still sore.
Part of the problem is that I’ve been having difficulties with my pillow in bed.  It’s too flat, yet if I combine it with a second pillow, it’s too tall.

Anyway, is there any way I can sue Big Tobacco for my sore neck problem?  Successfully sue, I might add.

Hey!  Did you know that the first annual PEI Revue is less than two weeks away?

What’s the PEI Revue, you ask.  Well, it’s a comedic look back at the year that just passed by on PEI.  It plays at the Carrefour Theatre Jan.18-20.

It’s gonna be pretty funny, I think.  More details to come as the event approaches.

After a couple of roles where I kind of got turned off of Paul Giamatti, I’d like to thank him for his performance in The Illusionist.  I thought he was terrific.  And I quite liked the movie, too.

And speaking of illusionists, those who are into being deceived and misdirected and befuddled, and who know how to find things on torrent sites, well, you should download search out “Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes“.  It’s a taped performance of his most recent stage show.  It’s quite enjoyable, and the ending should really impress.  Thanks, by the way, to DaveM for turning me on to Derren Brown.

(See how I misdirected you there?  I started off by talking about Paul Giamatti in the movie The Illusionist, but I ended up selling you a pitch for a video.  Sorry, no links in this post)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Thomas Haden Church / BROKEN TRAIL
Robert Duvall / BROKEN TRAIL
Jeremy Irons / ELIZABETH I
William H. Macy / NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES
Matthew Perry / THE RON CLARK STORY
Annekenstein Pick: Robert Duvall

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Annette Bening / MRS. HARRIS
Shirley Jones / HIDDEN PLACES
Cloris Leachman / MRS. HARRIS
Helen Mirren / ELIZABETH I
Greta Scacchi / BROKEN TRAIL
Annekenstein Pick: Annette Bening

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
James Gandolfini / THE SOPRANOS
Michael C. Hall / DEXTER
Hugh Laurie / HOUSE
James Spader / BOSTON LEGAL
Kiefer Sutherland / 24
Annekenstein Pick: (tough category) Hugh Laurie  (personal fave: Michael C. Hall)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Patricia Arquette / MEDIUM
Edie Falco / THE SOPRANOS
Mariska Hargitay / LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT
Kyra Sedgwick / THE CLOSER
Chandra Wilson / GREY’S ANATOMY
Annekestein Pick:  Edie Falco

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin / 30 ROCK
Steve Carell / THE OFFICE
Jason Lee / MY NAME IS EARL
Jeremy Piven / ENTOURAGE
Tony Shalhoub / MONK
Annekenstein Pick:  Steve Carell

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
America Ferrera / UGLY BETTY
Felicity Huffman / DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
Julia Louis-Dreyfus / THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE
Megan Mullally / WILL & GRACE
Mary-Louise Parker / WEEDS
Jaime Pressly / MY NAME IS EARL
Annekenstein Pick:  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
24 – FOX
BOSTON LEGAL – ABC
DEADWOOD – HBO
GREY’S ANATOMY – ABC
THE SOPRANOS – HBO
Annekenstein Pick:  Deadwood

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES – ABC
ENTOURAGE – HBO
THE OFFICE – NBC
UGLY BETTY – ABC
WEEDS – SHOWTIME
Annekenstein Pick: The Office