In case you’ve ever wondered what a giant Neil Patrick Harris looming menacingly above a modern American city might look like, wonder no more, as the promotional effort for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog begins.
Archive for March, 2008
“Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles,” reports Politco. “A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seeking payment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from a certified letter.”
It was bad enough last year, the overwhelmingly-stupid rise of certain houseguests on Big Brother believing that God was deeply and keenly interested in their success on the show.
But now? Several houseguests — led by the new Head of Household, Natalie, the “bikini barista” from Oregon who has a new numerological theory about the game every week, each one somehow and mysteriously favoring her, even if it then turns out to be complete bullshit — have dubbed themselves Team Christ. Because, as a group, they fervently believe that God has been giving them signs and moving the game along in their favor.
As one of their opponents said on tonight’s show: “One of those idiots is going to win half a million dollars.”
Is there some sort of rule — unwritten or otherwise — which requires, under threat of some sort of unspecified penalty, hipster baristas to play unlistenable music at completely inappropriate volumes? Is this actually a hipster thing, or some sort of hipster wannabe thing? Am I just getting old or is this actually irritating and they, in their typical little hipster ways, simply don’t care?
So, add to the fire and some unspecified family stuff going on back east the fact that it currently appears to be raining, snowing, and hailing all at the same time. Clearly, the world is spinning off its axis.
Addendum: Add to this that now I can’t even listen to this bizarre Red Sox exhibition game in addition to not being able to watch it, because all of the MLB Gameday Audio feeds for it have stopped working, right before game time.