Awkward...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Last night, American Idol was just short of a flaming disaster. The judges were weird, the little sit-downs were worse, and 2/3 of the contestants were either not very good or just plain awful. Oh yeah, and this happened:
Track of the Week: KanYe West's "Welcome to Heartbreak"
One of my favorite tracks from one of the best albums of 2008. The new video was made using a technique called "data moshing." Pretty cool stuff:
The Potty Dance & Conan's Last Week
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
I'd like to meet the mastermind behind this:
Also, this is Conan O'Brien's last week hosting Late Night before taking over The Tonight Show. Conan's always been my favorite late night host; I still remember watching his first show with my dad when I was about 12 years old...
Over the past few weeks, they've been replaying some of Conan's best bits, and last night they played excerpts from his dinner with an associate producer. Conan gets more funny as the clip progresses (and as his wine glass gets less full). Here's hoping the Late Night crew can translate its awesomeness to an earlier time slot:
"W" 7th Worst... For Now
Monday, February 16, 2009
C-Span conducted a survey of 65 historians for a President's Day list, which ranks all 42 former presidents from best to worst. You can see the entire list here.It's way too early to tell where George W. is going to settle in at, but my guess is it definitely won't be 36th. His legacy probably won't be determined until at least the end of Obama's (possibly) first term, and it'll probably take longer. Only time will tell how favorably (or unfavorably) history looks back on his presidency, but I'm honestly surprised he's ranked as highly as he is at this point. I'm also shocked that he was actually ranked behind the guy (Hoover) that did absolutely nothing when the stock market crashed and the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 25% at the onset of the Great Depression.
In a totally unsurprising move, the surveyed historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as America's greatest president. Ironically, his term was sandwiched between those of the two presidents ranked at the very bottom of the list. Will G.W. Bush be the Buchanan to Obama's Lincoln? I guess we'll see...
Entertainment Weekly also posted a list of the ten greatest TV/Movie presidents of all time. Anybody else wonder where we'd be if 24's David Palmer was running the show the last eight years?Joaquin Phoenix Has Derailed
Sunday, February 15, 2009
...or maybe he hasn't. Either way, here it is, in case you missed it:
Also, this is pretty funny:
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