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PERHAPS WE DID, IN FACT, GIVE HIM UP, LET HIM DOWN AND SAY GOODBYE: Last year at this time, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade rickrolled itself , and we all speculated as to a series of future such appearances (Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest, the Obama Inauguration, ...
Television
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve
Ryan Seacrest
The Super Bowl
THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF CLOWNS -- A TRAMP, AN AUGUSTE, A WHITEFACE AND A CHARACTER: I cannot say enough good things about Modern Family. The show just knows its characters so well, structures its episodes well and delivers the comedy expertly. "People are gonna stare! They're not used to ...
Television
Modern Family
30 Rock
THE GAME THAT I GO OUT THERE AND DIE FOR AND PLAY EVERY GAME LIKE IT'S MY LAST: I said my goodbye to Allen Iverson when the 76ers traded him in 2006 , but if Stephen A. is right it's over-over now. What a shame. The Inquirer helpfully brings us back to the 2000-01 season , one of the most ...
Celebrities
Michael Jordan
THE BLUEGRASS SELF-DENIAL: According to a new survey, the new product launched in 2009 most remembered by consumers is Kentucky Fried Chicken's effort to negate one of the words in its title . Also on the top ten list: the Blackberry Storm, Beatles Rock Band game and (even though we discussed ...
Music
The Beatles
ONE OF THE ROUGHEST GAMES AROUND FOR THE ATARI GAME SYSTEM: AdWeek collects ten celebrity computer/video game commercials from the 1980s , including the late Phil Hartman promoting Activision's Ice Hockey and a pre-adolescent Jack Black pitching Pitfall. [My other favorite early Black ...
Movies
Jack Black
FOUR MONTHS OF GLUM: Fox has announced its midseason schedule. There will be no new Glee from December 10 until April 13 , at which point it will take the post-Idol competition slot to compete directly against the final episodes of Lost.
Television
Glee
ELECTRIC MAYHEM: The fine folks at the Muppets give us a new version of "Bohemian Rhapsody." Particular credit for not relying on just the big name characters, but pulling out the obscure.
Other
YOU BETCHA, WE ... WERE MORONS: Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse revisits the Twins' decision to take hometown high-schooler Joe Mauer over USC's Mark Prior with the first pick in the 2001 MLB Draft .
Other
"IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER HOW HE DID IT": So that guy who they thought cheated his way to third place at the National Sudoku Tournament? Puzzlemaster Will Shortz had him retested at the Inquirer's headquarters and has disqualified him , seeing as he was unable to come anywhere close to ...
Other
THE 5TH PHASE? PARKING: So thanks to my friends Eric and Becky I was able to attend last night's Eagles-Bears game at Chicago's Soldier Field. (To those friends I wasn't able to see while I was out there, sorry! Brief trip.) This was my first time ever attending an Eagles road game, and so ...
Celebrities
Eagles
IT'S NEITHER A MANDOLIN, NOR MINIATURE. MAYBE THE CLUEMONGER WON'T NOTICE: Not a particularly exciting leg of TAR, but it was nice to see a Detour that allowed some some lead changes and the needle-in-a-haystack Roadblock was kind of fun.
Movies
Detour
I DO RADIO COMMERCIALS FOR PRODUCTS: As we enter into the week of Thanksgiving, time for an ALOTT5MA holiday tradition-- Jed Bartlet calls the Butterball Hotline .
Other
THINGS I LEARNED FROM THE APOCALYPSE: (Warning: contains 2012 spoilers, not that a single particularly unexpected thing happens in this movie anyway.) You will probably die during the apocalypse. When the apocalypse comes, it's a good idea to live in the Midwest--at least there, you'll have ...
Movies
DON'T FORGET TO MASSAGE THE GRAPES: Has it really been five-and-a-half years since Jimmy Fallon was last funny ?
Movies
Jimmy Fallon
PAUL RUDD = LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM? The folks at American Polymath interview Chuck Klosterman , and while I appreciated his dual answer to "What is your favorite era in Elvis Presley’s (or Grbac) career?", it's another question in the interview that's a grab bag of fun for the readers of this ...
Celebrities
Paul Rudd
Chuck
Elvis Presley
Fleetwood Mac
DID YOU HERE THE ONE ABOUT SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL? Newsweek really goes out on a limb in this list of 12 Unfunny Comics , zagging rather than zigging with takedowns of such revered comedic geniuses as Pauly Shore, Carrot Top, and even poor old Yakov Smirnoff. When Jeff Dunham is the most ...
Television
Pauly Shore
MY NAME IS RICHIE CUNNINGHAM, AND THIS IS MY LOVELY WIFE: Oprah Winfrey will end her talk show in September 2011 . There will be much time, obviously, to quantify and reflect upon her impact on American life -- in commerce, in literature, in spirituality and self-assessment, in reviving the ...
