Archive: January 25, 2011

So I’ve been watching this new Fox series called Bob’s Burger on Hulu and it’s actually pretty amusing. It’s about a dysfunctional family that owns and runs a burger joint that’s just simply not doing so well. The kids are retarded, the mom is a bit clueless, and the dad is bitter and the only [...]

Thanks to Egotastic I can now accept the fact that photoshoots are no longer being shot with professional grade cameras. They are, in fact, being shot now with point and shoots. This industry is changing for sure.

April O’Neil has never looked better in any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake! Check out this short web series called “Fight The Foot” that retells the beginnings of the TMNT story in a darker tone than ever before. No silly turtle jokes here. It’s all fighting and mystery and oddly enough, it only features Raphael…for [...]

ok

Hmm, interesting…BoingBoing has several links to websites that give an explanation as to how the word “OK” came into common use. Historians cannot agree really on how “OK” came to be, but one such theory/story suggests that it was popularized after it became a secret code to symbolize stupider Americans who spelled “all correct” as [...]

overcrowded-train

Photo: AP / Pavel Rahman Seriously, how do people NOT get run over when boarding trains like this in Bangladesh? There are more insane photos like this over at The Frame.

I’m still getting used to the format and humor in IFC’s Portlandia and while I didn’t love the first episode as much as I thought I would, it’s shorts like these posted to IFC’s YouTube channel that give me hope that Portlandia will be a great show [eventually].