Cuppabits October 30th
by WaltOur 9mo. old puppy that likes to chew on things decided my wallet was her new chew toy, so there I am at Wal-Mart at 7:30AM this morning choosing between wallet styles. I wasn't the only person in the store, but it was painfully early for Wal-Mart, even for a 24 hour one. The wallet display is in the middle of the watch and jewelry section, and all was vacant save for me. While I was fondling the various versions of Italian leather constructed with love from some sweat shop NOT in Italy, up walks another gentleman, also there to buy a wallet. At 7:30 in the morning. Okay, it's a big Wal-Mart, prolly not a big coincidence with two guys wanting to buy a wallet at the same time. He mentions Oprah's factoid that men get new wallets on the average of every ten years. I show him my ripped up wallet, indicating that my wallet hadn't died from age but from dog, and we go back to looking at wallets where I'm now choosing between the super cheap and the cheap and velcro closure style.
When up walks a third man to buy a wallet. One display, three wallet buyers, 7:35AM. We all decide this is too weird, and grab wallets and leave to go pay. I don't think I've been in a coincidence like that in a while.
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Fortunately, my puppy doesn't have this problem:
The owners of a cocker spaniel have told how their beloved pet became addicted to licking poisonous toads for their mind-bending properties.
Laura Mirsch said her dog Lady returned to their new home from one binge at the local pond "disoriented and withdrawn, soporific and glassy-eyed".
Partying with Paris Hilton's new dog, perhaps?
"She looked up at me, leaned her head over and opened her mouth like she was going to throw up, and out plopped this disgusting toad."
It quickly became clear that the incident was not a one-off party thing: this Lady had a problem.
Laura Mirsch said: "We couldn't keep our dog's addiction a secret any longer. The neighbours all knew that Lady was a drug addict, and soon the other dogs weren't allowed to play with her."
Wow. Can you UN-teach an old dog from his new tricks?
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MySpace accounts with music that's copyrighted will be cleansed ASAP. Gracenote will be going through and helping MySpace issue the smackdown. [TechCrunch] Now, when MySpace pages load, you'll be treated to really REALLY crappy music instead of the normally crappy music. Readers of Cuppabits will know we've already made the call on the peak of MySpace - and we'll be chronicling the downfall MySpace into the abyss of "Who gives a crap?" area of pop culture.
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Did I say to go ahead and replace the older version of Firefox on your computer with Firefox 2.0? No, I don't think so. You can wait another week.
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Studio 60 off the schedule for this week, replaced by Friday Night Lights.
Rumor has it the show is toasted. The detractors were killing the show from the first episode, but I actually wanted to see where it was going. It did suffer from the "Make Me Care" problem, because there wasn't any characters we cared about in the show. Example: Ever catch the HBO production of ROME? Big historical characters, but a decent chunk of the show also involves the day to day troubles of much smaller folk. No, it's not perfect, but that's the method.
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The scariest thing about a touch screen voting machine is that it's NOT a very scary costume
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The TOP 10 HORROR MOVIE VILLAINS courtesy of Radar Magazine
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Nicole Ritchie, who checked into a clinic that would help her eat a sammich, flees the clinic, parties like it's 1999, and passes out in the club.
Nicole, bikini season is over. Eat something!
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And finally, Bill Maher shows off the easiest costume for Halloween -- Steve Irwin and Stingray tail:
UPDATE: After being reminded by the Perfessor that Maher was only mimicing the upcoming South Park episode, I went on a quest to find the South Park version:
I like it. Timely, tasteless... Yep, I just found my costume for this year!
Meanwhile, if you go to a costume party, I'd love to see your pics!
October 30th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Cute, but Maher so obviously stole it from this past week’s South Park episode where Satan wanted to throw himself a “Hellacious†party, and a dead Irwin showed up. I like Maher, but I would have expected better of him than ripping off South Park.
Oh yeah, as to the wallet thing, I’m thinking that it was simply an odd confluence of events that conspired to bring you three together at that critical moment in the history of the planet, or that could just be me.
Finally, here’s to hoping that you are wrong about Studio 60 as it is the only show of the new season about which I actually care.
The Perfessor
October 30th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Did you get lighter fluid?
October 30th, 2006 at 10:13 am
no lighter fluid. I decided I'm just going to rub two dogs together.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:42 am
My nomination for top 10 horror movie villians.
IRS agents from Harry's War...the scariest movie ever.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:58 am
Meanwhile, my dogs were great and chewed nothing this weekend! I did, however, find bit of rawhide all around the house this weekend while cleaning up.
I think you might've actually enjoyed the South Park Steve Irwin scene. Someone spots him, points him out to Satan, Satan goes up to him, "Dude, it's a little soon for there to be these kinds of joke costumes" etc etc SI: "No, I really am Steve Irwin" Satan: "Oh, then NO Costume! GET OUT!!!" Basically. It was a great episode, but then again I love super-homosexual Satan.
And as for MySpace, I believe it will peak and downfall, but at the same time, there's a part of me that thinks it will live on forever. It's like a breakthrough in communication because you can use it for everything and it's free. Now, if we could just get all the damn emo kids off of there!
October 30th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Oh, #2, I totally did love the South Park episode. This season has proven to be riotously funny. I’m just pointing out that Maher (whom I also enjoy) probably saw it as well, and simply co-opted it.
The Perfessor
October 30th, 2006 at 11:27 am
This season has been great, I can't believe it's #10! But that comment was more for Walt who has no fancy telemevision and thus does not catch the new episodes of such shows.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:33 am
Oh, I catch all the shows I want. Just not when they air.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Oh yeah, it just slays me that the two of you chat here in this space (and, I’m willing to bet in Alison’s space and other sites as well). Needless this is more often than I speak with my own wife.
The Perfessor
October 30th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Psst! Ted, so long as we’re talking about top 10 horror movie villains why not click over to here and tell us all about your scariest film horror experience ever, and you just might win an autographed (horror) anthology of your very own, eh?
The Perfessor