To recap: 1. Worst Cooks in America 2. The Colbert Report 3. The Office 4. Community 5. Skins [UK] 6. Portlandia 7. Justified 8. The Onion Sportsdome 9. Jimmy Kimmel Live! 10. House 11. Bob's Burgers 12. Bob's Burgers 13. Archer 14. The Celebrity Apprentice…
Date Archives December 2011
See you in Vancouver
I can't fall asleep anymore without thinking about death – my parents' deaths, and my own death. It's difficult to be at peace with death when every night, your heart is oppressed with despair over death. I recently jolted awake from early-stage sleep because I…
I love you, everything burrito
I conceived an Adventure Time + Attack the Block mash-up — Finn as Moses, Jake as a monster — and my sweep of the Internet for any existing Adventure Time + Attack the Block mash-ups morphed into a hunt for the oddest Adventure Time mash-ups…
Defenestrate
A Year of Disappointment at the Movie Box Office With five days left in 2011, ticket sales in North America are running about $500 million behind last year — despite higher prices — prompting a round of soul searching by studios trying to determine what…
The only warmth is a warmth alone
Freeman: The creepy Lakers fan's son just flashed his right hand at the camera. He had on three rings. Me: Hey! That's the man in that animated GIF! "Creepy Lakers fan," eh? • All-Star Lineup of TV Walk-Ons – Major League Baseball's All-Cameo Team
Stay What You Are
I'm currently reading Those Guys Have All the Fun, the oral history of ESPN. Because I can't highlight my copy: The story goes that ESPN president George Bodenheimer attended the first Disney board meeting in Orlando, Florida, just after the company had bought Pixar, the…
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
51. Beethoven (Saturday Night Live, S37E10) Honourable mention: » Tracy Morgan dancing (Saturday Night Live, S37E10) » The haunting designed to push the family out of the house (American Horror Story, S01E12) #clipoftheweek
The Year in Fighting
Previously on Adam Riff™: • The Top 10 Staged Fights of 2007 • The Top 5 Fight Scenes of 2008 • The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2009 • The Year in Fighting (2010) Hat tip, X Factor… Best Group Fight: Georgetown Hoyas vs. Bayi…
The morrow is a bird
Dear media critics: Your favourite albums of the year are the Showtime comedies of music. Rory: What? Jon: I'm trying it out as an analogy. Jon: Guh. Why doesn't the header appear in IE? Jon: Internet Explorer is like a vegetarian guest at a dinner…
Things that I cannot bring myself to buy
1. The Road to Somewhere: An American Memoir by James A. Reeves. I retain hope that a local library will someday acquire a copy. 2. A second pair of pants, preferably jeans. 3. A nose hair trimmer, or a petite nail clipper. My existing nail…