Evidently, Sony doesn't want you to see any YouTube videos I embed on Adam Riff™. [grumbles] Still in Vegas. I wonder why Disney hasn't cease-and-desisted the duo posing for photographs as Mickey and Minnie Mouse outside Caesars Palace. Most of the costumed photo ops on…
Date Archives September 2012
Caesars Phallus
Greetings from Las Vegas. After two years away, I see that construction of Echelon Place on the Strip is still suspended. Apple should buy the land from Boyd Gaming and build an Apple resort and casino. This is my first time staying at the Venetian….
Never Let Me Go
Today marks the 12th anniversary of Adam Riff™ – a full Chinese zodiac cycle. Many of our peers from the past dozen years now produce content primarily for big-time media and entertainment outlets, and some days, I envy their ability to just move on. Some…
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
36. Stop Snitchin' (Breaking Bad, S05E08) Honourable Mention Finn vs. Jake (Adventure Time, S04E11a) The WWE Universe decides that Kane and Daniel Bryan must hug it out (WWE Raw, 09-03-12) #clipoftheweek
We're dead in the future, but we're not dead yet
[sigh] Fuck it. Impromptu trip to Vegas! $100 on the Blues to win the Stanley Cup! Caesars Palace's $17 million, 25,000 square-foot Bacchanal buffet – billed as the Strip's biggest, with 524 menu items – opens on Monday. Maybe I'll film myself trying to eat…
Apple Shampoo
Is there a rule that the set/visual design of Family Feud cannot be elegant? Why does Steve Harvey react incredulously to dirty answers when survey questions seem designed to elicit them? The Pyramid, GSN's second revival of The $10/25/50/100,000 Pyramid, premiered this week with Community's…
Press Your Luck
Best I can find is $141 to Detroit via American, and $139 from Chicago via Virgin, for a total of $280. one day later FUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! The price of the outbound American ticket I wanted increased by $60 overnight. Hurricane Isaac? Hmm… I can get negate…
Coming Attractions
Split Your Jeans, But Don't Break Your Dick is documentary short on the controversial Caribbean dance craze known as "daggering." #comingattractions
Les anglais se réveillent
I just finished reading Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff. To quote its paperback cover: "A post-millennial spectacular—dizzyingly readable." — Thomas Pynchon It's difficult to synopsize, but the story involves a negro holocaust; a mutant shark named after a German…