Or he’s the old LL Cool J, or LL Cool J has always been James Todd Smith. But whatever the case I am simply writing to express my appreciation for the Cool. As his appearance Wednesday night on Project Runway (sorry Suede, but you needed to go) showed us, the man is a fantastic looking fourty. Seriously. The man was born in 1968, or so the wiki tells me. I was a fan of his ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’ video back in 1991 (special attention to the Unplugged version) and it seems he’s calling a comeback now with strategic appearances on popular shows. Come on, appearing as a hip-hop mogul called Ridikolus on 30 Rock? Superb. The already mentioned Project Runway guest judge appearance. And, the highest achievement of coolness possible, appearing on the new season of Sesame Street. So yeah, props to the Cool. And does anyone else remember the movie Toys? He played the military minded cousin of Robin Williams’ character? He was the son of the bad uncle who took over the toy company? Anyone? Well, I was a huge fan of that movie. I suppose that’s all I’ve got to say. Yay LL. Take it away Elmo…
Upon rewatching the SNL Clinton+Palin skit I’ve come to the conclusion that the support given to the previous acronyms for FLIRG (see Our wish has come true!!!) doesn’t make grammatical sense. Poehler says, “And don’t refer to me as A FLIRG/FLERG.” So unless FLIRG is of the ‘First Lady I’d…..’ ilk, we can’t put it in the sentence. I do like the urbandictionary definition for flerg of basically being a limp dick, and it would make grammatical sense. But then Poehler’s following line of googling “what it stands for” still makes me lean towards an acronym. Unfortunately, all the ‘First Lady I’d…..’ versions I’ve seen have been acknowledged to have only been invented in the last two days since the skit, so I can’t go with those. So for now I’ll say that the urbandictionary def is plausible. But until Tina Fey or Amy Poehler actually says something definitive, this Mythbuster won’t say confirmed.
And now for some great moments in Fey+Poehler history…
The IT Crowd tackles Lady Problems. Not Sara Palin, but maybe they’ll have an episode about that in the new season. Start at about 3:40 and go to about 5:20 to get the best of “that time of the month” euphemisms that British TV has to offer. Watch the whole episode if you’ve got the time. There’s still a fabulous dance party yet to come!
I found it!!! The previously mentioned Will Arnett segment from Sesame Street has finally surfaced on the internet (thank you person who TiVoed it). Unfortunately Arnett’s entrance and first trick are absent. To fill you in on the missing section: the entrance music is reminiscent of GOB’s theme song from Arrested Development, and I’ll give away the secret to his first trick, he uses addition…
Apparently these days you know you’ve really made it if you get to appear on Sesame Street. Or maybe everyone I like just happens to appear on Sesame Street. Meaning I was flipping channels this morning and happened to land on Sesame Street while Will Arnett was on it! He was a magician (oh GOB, how we miss you) helping Elmo, Big Bird and another monster with counting, all while using his AMAZING magic abilities. After watching the wonderful cross the Sesame Street writers made between their show and Arrested Development I decided it must be a clip posted for the children! But apparently it isn’t up yet. Makes me think that the episode I saw this morning was a new one, not a repeat, so we’ll all have to wait patiently for it. Season 39 looks like its gonna be pretty chock full of amazingness. In the meantime, we’ll let Feist help us with our counting…
(Obviously the Sesame Street people are talented, hip, with-it folks. Not only exemplified by those they get on the show – NPH, Feist, Will Arnett – but check out the similarities between the Feist Sesame Street clip and the actual video for her song. I love me some Sesame Street. Hey sisterkungfuhustler, if the public health thing and the dinosaur-bear gig at the Museum of Natural History don’t work out, we should try to be on Sesame Street. Maybe they’ll let us clean the dressing rooms.)
Having just watched The Birdcage my love for Hank Azaria was utterly and truly reconfirmed. How can you not love a gay Guatemalan maid who wants to be the diva drag queen? I also have high respect for good actors who will prance around in a pink thong, wear fabulous jean cut-off short shorts and sing “She Works Hard For The Money” all in one movie.
I wish this clip lasted about ten seconds longer because one of Azaria’s best lines follows immediately after, “I do not wear shoes, they make me fall down.” Which leads to this…
So if you haven’t seen this movie (where have you been living?), do it. Nathan Lane is quintessentially the mothering gay man and is really fantastic. Robin Williams isn’t even bad, he actually inhabits his character better in this movie than in most others where he simply seems to be doing impersonations the whole time. And don’t miss Gene Hackman with some wonderful lines that are even funnier now that everyone knows who the Jeb Bushes are.
But back to Hank Azaria. I love him. You know you love him. Really, what would this world be like without him? No disastrously tanned and buff SCUBA instructor, no Tuesdays with Morrie (yes, I saw the tv film, yes I read the book, yes they are sappy, but it was Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria, I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist), no Bartok (both The Magnificent and the bat in Anastasia), no Apu, no Moe, no Comic Book Guy, no Lou, no Carl, no Chief Wiggum, essentially, you couldn’t have The Simpsons without Azaria. I would have given my left boob to see him in the original Broadway cast of Spamalot. He even made Helen Hunt cool.
No, it isn’t. But, after watching, you’ll know about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC!), and the Higgs Boson (the so called God Particle…it makes gravity. Maybe…if it exists…and doesn’t destroy the universe.)
I’ve always wanted a Grand Unified Theory.
Also, FOX NEWS THINKS WE SHOULD WORRY. But they always think that.
If these girls were cool, they’d reference Julie Ruin, or at the very least Le Tigre, who did the valley girl rapping over electronic beats first. Anyway, words do not describe how much this video/song makes me want to die. This video is just viral marketing for American Apparel, right?
I don’t usually have much patience for long youtube videos, but this one is amazing (and not really that long, only 10 min).
I like one lady’s description of ‘direct action’ near the end. Usually when I hear ‘direct action,’ people are talking about some form of protest (or sometimes destruction), not about the direct action of fixing up an empty house so that people can live in it.
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