what I'm thinking about right now
Last night four of the surviving members of Monty Python appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote a documentary series about the legendary comedy troupe premiering later this month on IFC.
“Did you ever think that the show would be a disaster?” Fallon asked.
“Just shortly after you started the monologue,” replied Eric Idle.
“No, not this show,” said Fallon. “Your show.”
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Another option: the LIBRARY.
We all have Facebook friends we met once at a party a few years ago and haven’t seen or spoken to since. Rebecca Ramgren is one of those for me.
I don’t know if that makes my comment on her status better or worse.
One of my clients is a media distribution company that primarily sells educational DVDs to schools. They’re in trouble financially right now for many reasons, but the main one is that the owner cares much more about making money than satisfying his customers.
For example, some of their less popular programs are on DVD-Rs instead of professionally-pressed DVDs, as they’re cheaper to produce and can be made as they are ordered.
However, DVD-Rs are notoriously finicky and don’t work in all DVD players, so there’s a good chance when someone orders one of those titles, they won’t be able to get it to play.
The owner’s solution: an insert titled “DVD-R Player & Computer Compatibility” that states that if the disc won’t play in your DVD player but will in another, the problem is with your player and not the disc.
Also included in the insert: “We reserve the right to refuse the replacement and/or refund of DVD-Rs when due to compatibility.”
In other words, if it doesn’t work, it’s not our problem.
And we’re keeping your money.
My grandmother is a woman of her word.
Last night my friend Mike made his first ever network television appearance on a new ABC show called The Forgotten. Clip here.
Sunday he was on Curb Your Enthusiasm in a scene with Jeff Garlin at a Lakers game.
Very cool to see him making it happen.
It’s Wednesday so here’s a picture of me having fun at Fun Country.
Yes I know Roman Polanski has had a rough life (escaping the ghetto during the Holocaust, the brutal death of his wife Sharon Tate and their unborn child at the hands of the Manson family) but that doesn’t excuse what he did to a 13 year-old girl back in 1977, even if now that she’s an adult she’s moved on.
If you’re curious about what happened, read the transcript from her interview with police after the incident. Here’s the summary: he got her drunk on champagne and Quaaludes, took off her underwear and, against her clear objections, performed oral sex on her and forced her to have both vaginal and anal intercourse.
In the midst of raping her, a woman came into the house, knocked on the door of the room they were in and asked, “Roman, are you in there?”
“Yes,” he answered. ”I just got out of the jacuzzi and I’m getting dressed.” Then he got up, went over, cracked open the door and had a brief conversation with the woman. In the meantime, the victim got up, put her underwear back on and started walking to the door, but he intercepted her, sat her back down and resumed raping her.
A 13 year-old girl.
Abigail Breslin is 13.
Imagine him doing that to Abigail Breslin and ask yourself, do you think he should go to jail for more than the 42 days he served in 1978 for psychiatric evaluation?
As many as 700 people are living in drains underneath the Las Vegas Strip.
September 23?
Pee Wee Herman promoting his new stage show, which runs from November 19 through December 20 at the Henry Fonda Theater in LA.
Looks pretty good for 57.
UPDATE: David (the boytoitano) and Brian Boitano
