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Eric's Daily Waste of Time, Part XVII

Code Pink Tries To Arrest Karl Rove

If you’re sitting at home getting angry while watching MSNBC, and the thought “what this situation calls for is handcuffs” pops into your head, than your problem has nothing to do with politics.

CARTOON-OFF! The New Yorker vs XKCD

As much as I *heart* XKCD, I score this one a tie, 2-to-2.

blakeley:

Mediapost: “Eric Krangel grins with his date while Richard Blakeley looms like a wild salmon.”

If anyone can bring salmon into style, it’s Blakeley.

I promise

jgh: We Millenials are such an earnestly annoying bunch.

LOLZ.

Sometimes Tumblr makes me feel like a time traveler, disoriented after the obligatory flux capacitor mishap. I guess an earnest grating hyperawareness was the inevitable counter-response to a “Generation X” decade of irony, grunge, Kurt Cobain and apathetic affectation.

(Pssst… “flux capacitor” is a pop culture reference to Back To The Future, 80s movie. Fun flick, worth putting on your Netflix queue.)

“We will now use the power of the Continuum Transfunctioner to banish you to Hoboken, New Jersey.” — Totally Gay Nordic Dudes, Dude, Where’s My Car?

Go nuts, Tumblr

Are your secrets scandalous and salacious?

Would people run AWAY or TOWARDS you if they knew the real you?

Are you ready to bare all, in more ways than one?

A new series “TV Diaries” is sweeping the nation for the grittiest, and most provocative people who have stories to tell…

If you think your life will keep America turning pages about you, then WE WANT YOU.

The Conlin Company is currently casting guys, girls or duo’s, who are bold, provocative, sexy, and shhhh! secretive and willing to open up their lives to America for cash prizes.

THEY SAY YOU CAN’T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT’S COVER –

BUT CAN YOU?

If you are interested in applying for “TV Diaries”:

· Make a video blog telling us why you should be chosen for the show.

· The video should be no more than 3 – 5 minutes in length.

· Try to show us about your life, instead of just telling us.

· The more creative you can be with shooting, editing, locations, etc. the better!

· Help us get to know you (personality, lifestyle, friends) through your blog.

· Send your video to us at tvdiaries@theconlincompany.com (Yousendit.com is a free and easy site to do this.) Please DO NOT post to Youtube.com and send us a link, PLEASE SEND THE VIDEO TO OUR EMAIL ADDRESS. THANKS!

CONTENT (What you should have in your video sumission):

Remember to get creative, THIS is your audition. Answer the following questions AND keep the video interesting and lively. Sitting in front of a camera and talking should only be a part of the video, not the whole thing.

· Start out by introducing yourself:

Tell us your name, age, occupation and where you are from.

· Do you post videos online? How often? How long have you been doing it?

· What is your motivation for video blogging?

· What is a typical day like for you? Work? Social life?

· Are you single, in a relationship or married?

· Tell us about the 5 most important people in your life.

· What is your motto in life?

· What is the wildest thing you’ve ever done?

· Is there any thing in life you regret? (Please explain)

· How do you describe your personality?

· Is there anything that embarrasses you?

· What is one thing we can’t tell just by looking at you? (peculiar talents/interests/qualities)

· Why do you want to share your life’s experiences with the world?

· What are your goals in life?

· If you could change anything about yourself physically, mentally or emotionally what would it be?

· What special skills do you possess that would make your diary stand out from the rest of your competitors?

· Why would you be a good candidate for the show?

Ummm…. McCain gives Obama a friendly pat on the back, then when Obama sticks out his hand, McCain doesn’t snub him, he points Obama to his wife.

Y’all know McCain has crippling injuries to his arms from torture received as a POW, and can’t button his own shirt or comb his own hair, right? Maybe it was a refusal to shake, or maybe it was avoiding ending up on live camera in an even more awkward moment of being unable to extend his arms out far. Seriously, Obama is one lanky guy, tall and with really long arms.

I’m giving him benefit of the doubt.

jgh:claudia:thedailywhat:

McCain refuses to shake Obama’s hand.

Asshole. If McCain can’t handle basic social niceties with political rivals how will he handle dealing with dangerous world leaders?

thewordunheard:soupsoup:thedailywhat

WIN.

Sarah Palin Plays The Flute — Miss Alaska, talent competition

“You would think that the permanent secretary of an academy that pretends to wisdom but has historically overlooked Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov, to name just a few non-Nobelists, would spare us the categorical lectures” — David Remnick of the New Yorker, responding to comments by Nobel Prize top juror Horace Engdahl that Americans were unlikely to win a Nobel for Literature because “Europe still is the center of the literary world … not the United States.”  As quoted by the AP.

davereed:

Sidney J. Mussburger and Norville Barnes, from my very favorite movie of all time

In my top 3.  Hudsucker Proxy, for the uninformed.  Very highly recommended.

Oh, and if you’ve never had “Newman’s Own” Lemonade, that’s highly recommended too.

The Sarah Palin swimsuit video.

Memo from a pageview whore

Dear Tumblr,

I promise only to reblog my professional writing I really think this audience will find interesting.

Thanks, Eric

The Story of Muxtape

muxtape:

What happened, and where we’re going. Muxtape is relaunching as a service exclusively for bands.

Silicon Alley Insider: Muxtape Is Dead. Long Live Muxtape!

davereed:emples:(via alumina:into:whatson: randominternet:joy of tech)

i know it’s wrong that i find this funny