• Radio

    Clear Channel Signs Air America

    Clear Channel Communications, Inc., has signed a deal to broadcast Air America Radio on its Miami outlet, WINZ-AM, RadioInk reported Friday. Oh, delicious irony – citing both the popularity of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and AAR’s great ratings make it irresistable to a network that supposedly has strong corporate ties to the Bush League. And CC execs are also aware that putting a liberal radio show in South Florida, aka Electoral Ground Zero, can’t hurt ratings in a presidential election year.

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Holy Crap, What’s She Done?

    Yeah, well, I’ve been hankering after a 3 column layout for a while now, and this one works in both IE6 and Firefox. My old 2 column layout does not play well in Firefox: probably something icky to do with either divs, or it doesn’t understand the width expressed as a percentage. It only took all day. However, part of yesterday and much of today were spent chasing after a 3 column solution that simply would not work; I found a much more workable one that was easier to adapt at the Moveable Type support forum. For the record, the…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    “Wanna Get Lei’d” Jokes Inevitable

    MEDFORD, Ore. – A nylon necklace strung with condoms has sparked outrage at the county fair. Strangely enough, the necklace kits were very, very popular with older teens, the target group for a Planned Parenthood promotion aimed at making contraceptive use normal and less embarassing. However, due to the obligatory “numerous complaints” from parents whose kids were not among those making the condom leis, Planned Parenthood agreed after meeting with fair officials to stop the promotion. It wasn’t difficult for them to come to this agreement, because they ran out of supplies for making the condom leis, which consisted of…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Oh Ho Ho: Timing Is Everything

    Just in time to make the major news organizations “hot” sheets for tomorow… the weekend before the DNC takes over Boston. Timing is everything, and both sides play the game. The Pentagon had said that the payroll records for that time period had been inadvertently destroyed. “Previous attempts to locate the missing records at the Federal Records Center had been unsuccessful due to the incorrect records accession numbers provided,” the Pentagon’s Office of Freedom of Information chief C.Y. Talbott said in a letter Friday to The Associated Press. “The correct numbers were obtained … and the records were found.” Talbott…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    The Musical(?) Stylings Shatner And Jackson

    Joey reports via a friend’s blog that William Shatner will commit albumery again, this time with actual musicians of note Ben Folds and Joe Jackson, on a project titled (wait for it)… Has Been. I hope this is true, I would totally shell out for it. Joey concludes with a quote that ought to have been part of Original, Classic, and Still the Cheesiest Star Trek Canon: Yeoman Rand, you common ensign, you’ve started a warp core breach… IN MY PANTS. Also not to be missed: a plea for Wil Wheaton to collaborate on something that sounds like it’ll be…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Serenity Has Been Slashdotted

    Although the movie isn’t due to open until April 22nd next year, Whedon is ready to show the first clip from from Serenity, the motion picture based on the Firefly series. He’ll do it this weekend at Comic-Con, also present will be the cast from the series/movie (all 9 actors), editor Lisa Lassek, special effects guru Loni Peristere and producer Chris Buchanan. It will take place on Sunday July 25th, 1-2pm, Room 20, afterwards there will be a signing session in room 28DE. Aaaahhhhh!! Aaaaaaaaah!!!! If I had planned farther in advance and maybe smacked David over the head with…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Dropping The Velvet Hammer

    Miss Alli, Our Lady of the Recaps, intervenes before things get out of hand in a discussion of the recent TAR episode that happened to touch on religion: But of course, the topic is the team. And generalizing about religion is about the least fun a moderator can have short of being spattered with hot bacon grease, so let’s not.

  • Clan: McTiVo

    TAR5 Episode 3: Choco-choke-a-rama

    Miss Alli’s recaplet is up at TWOP: Even a classy show sometimes wrings a good episode out of a bunch of people competing in the Jerkweed Olympics, and such is the case with this week’s episode. Colin starts to show a certain icy, dead-eyed stare that tiptoes all over the line between “I am intense” and “I am in prison,” while either Marshall or Lance actually becomes a caricature of himself by taking the step from Guy Who Almost Seems Like He Would Yell “Bitch” Out Of A Car Window to Guy Who Actually Does. Mirna and Charla express their…

  • Only in Utah...

    I’ll Tell You How I Really Feel

    Vandal Edits Swear Words in Library Books LAYTON, Utah – A self-appointed editor of library books has given new meaning to “purple prose.” The do-it-yourself censor is turning swear words into “darns” and “hecks” in purple ink. “They believe it’s within their right to deface public property and impose what they believe on others,” library director Pete Giacoma said. God FUCKING dammit. Emphasis bloody well added. I’ve been thinking about this for a while – not only do I believe in the separation of church and state, I think that overt PDPs should be outlawed. Yeah, I have a problem…