It’s a good day in shadow campaigner land, and not only because Obama mopped the floor with John McCain last night — Entourage was renewed for a 6th season after only five episodes so far this year. S5 has been awesomely hilarious I think. I nearly cried when the boys were in the desert last week high on magic mushrooms trying to find their dog.
And since good things often come in twos: HBO ordered up a second season of True Blood only 10 days after the series premiered. I happen to love the vamp show, despite what anyone else says. I think it gets better every week.
And to round out the news involving my favorite TV shows I suppose, David Duchovny, star of my belovedCalifornication, is reportedly out of sex rehab and doing well. So there’s that. Good job DD.
Last night Tom Brokaw asked Obama and McCain to rank what their top priorities would be during their first term in office. McCain ducked the question (probably because “War” wasn’t one of the options) but Obama took it and replied: Energy, Health care, Education… in that order.
I’m going to go ahead and rank my top priorities for the rest of this season, despite how difficult it may be: Californication, True Blood, Entourage… in that order.
David Duchovny, star of my beloved tv show Californication,is said to be “doing really well” in rehab for sex addicts, whatever that means.
Think Progress catches McCain in another bald-faced lie, this time about privatizing Social Security. Honestly, this is getting ridiculous.
No surprise here: John McCain owns 13 cars to Barack Obama’s 1. But here’s a question: did McCain flip flop on – of all things – who paid for his 23 year old, unemployed daughter’s Prius?
Executives at the failed Lehman Bros. could receive 2.5 billion in bonuses, but Treasury Secretary Paulson doesn’t think now is the time to discuss the matter of golden parachutes.
The much anticipated presidential debates are kicking off this Friday and will focus on U.S. foreign policy. Both campaigns will try to lower expectations like crazy this week.
Meghan Fox, Hollywood’s ”new Angelina,” takes my mind off of politics for a minute by asking an important question: ”Who’s given a handjob since the seventh grade?”
And a whistleblower named Tom Gosinski (above) is coming forth with allegations about John and Cindy McCain that, if true, are incredibly shocking…
Raw Story has more, but don’t expect to see any of it explored by the mainstream press, since they pretty much treat John McCain’s past (anger issues, corruption, infidelities, et cetera) as off limits.
Ok, that wasn’t a serious question … but jeez, talk about art imitating life: MD favorite & star of the hit show Californication, David Duchovny, recently checked himself into rehab, allegedly for a sex addiction.
Or … an addiction to internet porn, depending on who you talk to.
I’m aware that this isn’t exactly breaking news, but I’ve been so busy this week giving blirth (blog birth) to stuff on John McCain’s new trophy candidate that I’ve neglected a bunch of other topics.
One being: Showtime’s Californication returns for a second season this month! Woohoooo!
Californication is, without a doubt, the greatest show you’ve probably never heard of. My write up on it from June is here.
And to get the blood pumping for the return of Hank Moody, below are a couple choice quotes from Season 1.
The first is a breakup line that was used on Hank, which I must confess, if any woman ever said to me while throwing me the peace sign I honestly believe I’d be more proud than sad.
The second quote is one of Hank’s mini-rants about how phrases like “LOL” and “LMFAO” are slowly making us dumber and dumber, as a species.
The clip above is a hilarious / brutal exchange from the pilot episode where Hank demoralizes a woman during a blind date (spoiler alert: he later falls in love with her only to have her leave him (see quote 1)).
The trailer for season 2 is here, I suggest you tune in.
HBO has been in a slow bleed since Sex & the City and The Sopranos went off the air. Entourage is the network’s only “hit” program left, as all their much-hyped new shows (Flight of the Concords, Tell Me You Love Me, In Treatment, John from Cincinnati, et al) have pretty much flopped.
Plus, rival network Showtime has exploded on the scene in recent years with a slew of high-quality programs like Weeds, Dexter, Californication, Brotherhood and The Tudors, all of which are well written and well acted and have had the result of making Showtime a much better place for premium TV shows as of late.*
Well, HBO is now seeking salvation. And they think Martin Scorsese and David Simon (creator of The Wire) can make it happen for them. (more…)
By 2015, 17 percent of all residents in the U.S. will have received cosmetic surgery, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
The ASPS also predicts that within the next seven years there will be more than 55 million cosmetic surgery procedures performed in the U.S. — that’s nearly one procedure for every five Americans.
So, what “work” are we tripping over ourselves to get done?
In 2007 the top procedures, for women and men, were:
Women:
Breast augmentation: 399,440 procedures
Liposuction: 398,848
Eyelid surgery: 208,199
Men:
Liposuction: 57,980 procedures
Eyelid surgery: 32,564
Nose reshaping: 31,713
Some forms of plastic surgery legitimately and dramatically improve people’s quality of life, and in those cases cosmetic surgery can be a blessing.
But the majority of these procedures are done because we’re increasingly afraid of growing old, and because women are made to feel inferior unless they’re sporting a huge rack.
I don’t pass judgment on anyone who’s had work done or plans to, but the question seems to me, to paraphrase Hank Moody: Why does our society seem so hell-bent on destroying its female population?
So, this has been my first couple days doing the “blog” thing. My first blog post, ever, came on Wednesday. It was long and no body read it (not even my pimp, larkny, who begged asked me to start posting on MD) but I had a really enjoyable time writing it. And I guess that’s the point.
So here’s a quote I find appropriate for the moment from my favorite person ever; it pretty much sums up how I felt about the blogosphere before popping my cherry on 6/4 and subsequently proving to be even more of a hypocrite than originally feared.
Radio Host asks: “What’s your current obsession?”
Moody:
“Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all its really given us has been Howard Dean’s aborted candidacy and 24-hour a day access to kiddie porn.
…And people don’t write anymore, they blog; instead of talking they text.No punctuation, no grammar.‘LOL’ this and ‘LMFAO’ that.It seems to me like it’s just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with another bunch of stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King’s English.”
– Hank Moody of Californication, writer turned self-loathing blogger
“You drink too much, write too little, and the only exercise you get is in the bedroom. You love women but you hate yourself, so that any woman who really does like you is ultimately deemed a fool. And since that woman could pretty much be anyone, this one is saying goodbye.”
– from Californication
This is, without a doubt, the greatest breakup line I’ve ever heard or ever will hear. If a woman broke up with me saying that I wouldn’t even be sad. I’d be more proud than anything.
Lark
shadow campaigner
