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This Should Come as No Surprise

4 Nov

Well I suppose if there’s a Thank You, Theo web site, then it’s not surprising to learn there’s also a Larry Lucchino Sucks site too. And this new site is not just a chance for fans to say how much they love Theo (and by the way, as of 8:10 p.m. on Thursday, 1443 people had done so). It’s a protest site where you can do things like contribute to a top 10 list, email the Sox to air your views, and learn how “Larry Lucchino Ate My Baby.”

And here I thought things would quiet down by week’s end. I guess this is going to last all winter long …

"Don’t Look at the Storm. Look at Me."

26 Oct


Want to know what Hurricane Wilma was like yesterday on the Massachusetts coast? (Or at least how one person saw it?) If you’ve got the download speed, the ability to hear sound, and, like, 5 minutes, check out this strange but funny video blog (aka: vlog). It’s a first-hand, eyewitness account by a guy brave enough (or, perhaps more accurately, stupid enough) to venture out with a digital video camera. God bless him. The film is basically storm footage as shot by the Blair Witch Project crew and Saturday Night Live‘s Fred Armisen.

My favorite quote? When the guy says, “It’s kind of like being in Amsterdam, only … only it’s not.”

A warning, though: It starts out sorta slow, but about a minute in (when the sound kicks in and the subtitles start) it gets better. And keep watching when the picture fades to black — there’s more. The ending, when a funny-looking kid walks by, is quick but funny.

Word.

20 Oct

I think I may have coined two words during dinner tonight.

monoblogamist (mon-o-blog-a-mist) n. A person who regularly only reads one blog, either by choice, or due to time constraints or lack of interest, or because the blog he or she has found is so entertaining that no other site can compete. David likes reading “Martin’s Musings” and has decided not to read any other blogs out of loyalty to Martin. — also: monoblogamy, the practice of only reading one blog

polyblogamist (pol-ee-blog-a-mist) n. A person with the habit of reading multiple blogs regularly. Heather is a blog fan who reads “Martin’s Musings,” “Planet Gordon” and “Universal Hub” daily. — also: polyblogamy, the practice of reading multiple blogs

Use these today and help spread the word(s).

Salt of the Earth

18 Oct

Thanks to my sister and her fiancee for one of the best laughs I’ve had in a long time.

On Epicurious, the online recipe site, you’ll find recipes for most every dish — including “Salted Water for Boiling.” (Yes, I guess some people need a recipe for that.) But that’s not the laugh, see.

The site allows for comments from readers, and this particular recipe, which went up in November 2001, has so far accumulated 637. That’s six hundred and thirty seven reviews about boiled saltwater. Here’s one posted just a couple days ago by “kinwart,” a reader from from Southern California:

I hated this recipe. I didn’t have any water so I used juice and I don’t like salt so I substituted with baking powder. It was nasty. Don’t waste your time.

When you have the time and want a laugh, click here to read the other 636. (It’ll help if you’re in a particularly silly mood.) You’ll thank me later.

Dating for Dummies

15 Oct

Well, as long as I haven’t had many dating exploits to write about lately, I thought I’d link y’all to a new site I found today: Dating Dummy. Like me, the guy who writes this blog is 30-something and looking for love in the big city (in his case, San Diego). Supposedly, he met the person he’s currently dating via her blog, so I guess there’s hope for me, right? Anyone cute and single and female out there reading my site?

(Just kidding. Not sure that’s how I’d want to meet someone — though I also suppose these days I can’t be too choosy.)

But hey, if you’d like to live vicariously through this guy’s blog, it seems like things between him and ICG (i.e.: Irresistibly Charming Girl) are going very well, despite the fact that he lives in California and she lives in — well, he hasn’t quite said yet, though it looks like Cleveland. (Am I right, Dan? Is this Cleveland?)

This guy also has a photgraphy blog called Photography Dummy, if you like that sort of thing.

It’s funny sometimes what you find when you browse around the blogosphere and keep clicking on people’s links. Damned rainy days when I’m cooped up indoors …

Hitting the Links

22 Sep

So maybe my more adventurous readers have clicked on the links to the right of this web site to see the other blogs I’ve pointed folks to. Thought I’d take a second to mention the new site I’ve listed there. Thanks to a tip by my old friend Doug, whose Planet Gordon site I’m a regular reader of, I have added the site TVgasm. Basically, the site’s what it may sound like: an orgasm of TV stuff: episode recaps written with a healthy dose of attitude, plus industry news and gossip.

But wait — there’s more. In the “Hotties” section, you can critique the attractiveness of various TV personalities (a mix of actual actors and reality cast members and other folks), and in the “Snark” section, you can put in someone’s name and get a, well, snarky comment about them. It’s good for a laugh.

Today the site’s full of info about The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, America’s Next Top Model, and of course, Lost, which the site’s writers call “the best hour of TV ever.” (Maybe not ever, but it was a pretty damn good show last night.) I’m sure there’ll be a great recap of The O.C. tomorrow if the recap of Laguna Beach is any indication.

While I’m at it, maybe I should plug some of the other sites if any of y’all have yet to check them out:

* Anna Rubin is my friend Anna’s blog. She and her husband are moving to Australia (actually, he’s already there) and the site serves as a primer on the country and a journal of the moving experience.
* Doug Gordon is an old friend from summer camp who gained notoriety (and all kinds of press mentions) for documenting the experience of being the male in an engaged couple on his site. Now he’s turning much of the content, and other wisdom he learned from the experience, into a book, due out in January. (Color me jealous.) But he posts daily about other stuff too if you’re like me and not even close to being married.
* David Poland is the blog of a film writer I like. I read his other site, The Hot Button, daily.
* I’m not exactly sure what my friend Dan Friedell‘s blog is all about, but it covers fantasy sports and other miscellaneous topics. Personally, I loved his “I have feet” posting.
* Jeff Wells is another film writer that I like. He posts new columns every Wednesday and Friday.
* My old college roommate Seth Rosen started his blog to document his training for a triathalon this summer, and now that the race is over his postings have become less frequent. But, if running and athletic training is your thing, his site was a good read, and I’m hoping he starts posting more frequently real soon.
* Finally, if you like kids, then read Simon Ezra, which documents the “fun” that a friend of a friend has being the mother of a young son.

Those are the other blogs. As I say above, if you’ve got a blog or you know of a good one I should be reading, please let me know and I’ll put up a link. Apparently I have a loyal group of readers and I’m happy to spread the word.

I Love the Internet

12 Sep


On Saturday night, I posted something about how great the U2/Mary J. Blige duet of “One” was at the “Shelter from the Storm” Hurricane Katrina telethon. Maybe you’ve heard something about the performance from someone else in the past two days; apparently, more than 23 million people watched it. Mary J. Blige totally revitalized that song, with the same kind of powerful, emotional performance she gave at the Grammy Awards in 2004 when she sang “No More Drama.” In this case, saying it was a “typical” performance is a compliment.

Anyway, it took less than two days for my posting to be picked up at a blog-watching site and for someone I don’t even know to send me a link to an MP3 of the performance. Amazing how the Internet works sometimes.

If you’ve got the bandwidth, I strongly suggest downloading this track. It’s free. Just follow the link, scroll down to the very bottom, and click on the “free” button. Then scroll down to the bottom again, wait for the countdown clock in the next-to-last paragraph to expire, and click on the Download link. And if you go to this guy’s site, you’ll find other downloads from Friday’s telethon, including Neil Young’s “When God Made Me” and Foo Fighters’ “Born on the Bayou,” plus the “When the Saints Go Marching In” finale from last week’s show.

In related news, have also found an MP3 of Kelly Clarkson performing the Ray LaMontagne song “Shelter,” at the MTV/VH1/CMT telethon Saturday night. Want to hear? Just click on the link at this fan site, under the heading for “React Now: Music & Relief.”

Ah yes, the Internet is a wonderful thing.

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