Voices I do: Click above to see the list

I like doing impressions. For a constantly growing list, click above.

If you have a request during our next phone call or in-person meeting, I prefer a script typed in Arial font.

Ben Folds Five: The Reunion (on MySpace)

Go watch/listen to an awesome Ben Folds Five reunion.

They do the entire “album” of “The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner.”

Enjoy!

Quote of the Day

This one goes out to the Phillies…

“So, here’s some advice I wish I woulda got when I was your age:
Live every week like it’s Shark Week.”

–Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan on “30 Rock”)

My blogapology to misdirected readers.

Thanks to WordPress’s really cool technology, I can see that a bunch of readers were referred here from another blog (at Reason.com) – which had hyperlinked the terms “cache out the yin-yang” to my little ramblins’.

However, I really didn’t get into discussing that Seinfeldian quote – which is one of my favorites.

Courtesy of my very good friends at Seinfeldscripts.com, here’s the scene:

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[Blogger's Note: George has recommended "Soda" as a baby name to Susan's cousin, but the cousin didn't like the idea. He told Susan privately that he had already chosen "Seven" as the name for their first child, boy or girl. Susan did not like this idea, despite the name being a tribute to New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle. And we fade up...

[Restaurant]

George and Susan are having dinner.

GEORGE: Aw c’mon. It’s a fantastic name. It’s a real original, nobody else is gonna have it and I absolutely love it.

SUSAN: Well, I dunno how original it’s gonna be any more.

GEORGE: Why not?

SUSAN: Well I was telling Carrie about our argument, and when I told them the name, they just loved it.

GEORGE: So, what’re you saying?

SUSAN: They’re gonna name their baby Seven.

GEORGE: (disbelief) What?! They’re stealing the name?! That’s my name, I made it up!

SUSAN: I can’t believe that they’re using it.

GEORGE: (anger) Well now it’s not gonna be original! It’s gonna lose all its cache!

SUSAN: I dunno how much cache it had to begin with.

GEORGE: (rage) Oh, it’s got cache, baby! It’s got cache up the yin-yang!!!

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Too funny.

Stolen from The Daily Kos.

Speaking of Seinfeld…

The Seinfeld Campus Tour Heads to The Big Apple:
The Seinfeld Campus Tour, a 26-city, 10,000 mile portable Seinfeld experience from Sony Pictures Television, is heading to Union Square Park in New York City between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. this Thursday, Sept. 4. The 60-foot, Seinfeld-branded bus will help integrate the show into the digital, multi-tasking lifestyle of college students and members of the 70-million-plus millennial demographic. For more information, click on www.seinfeld.com.

(Courtesy: The Programming Insider e-newsletter from Mediaweek)

Among Seinfeld Googlers, I’m huge.

I Googled “cache yin yang” (without the commas), and my blog entry mentioning those terms was the #1 recommended site.

And yes, my mother is very proud.

The greatest new show on MTV

Anybody who loves pop culture like I do knows about “My Super Sweet 16″ on MTV. It’s the show where they show the most unbelievably spoiled kids in the history of the world, spending thousands and thousands of their parents’ dollars on an unnecessary (and undeserved) party that usually culminates in them getting a $50,000 automobile with a red bow on it.

But now, in their infinite wisdom, MTV is introducing “Exiled.” They’re taking some of their former Sweet 16ers (with their parents’ permission) and sending them to places like India and Morocco and Thailand to live in poor communities – ostensibly to teach them things that their parents never did. You know, like how to think about somebody other than themselves or collect camel dung.

I guess watching these incredibly spoiled brats learn hard “life lessons” is pretty awesome, although it’s hard to blame them completely. These parents have done a horrible, horrible job in raising these kids. In the interviews, they keep saying that they’ve “sheltered” their kids and were too “overprotective.”

Hey idiots, what you did wrong was never say “no” to your brats.

So tune in to Exiled with me and let’s watch spoiled kids get tortured.

Some of the best news…

Arrested Development – The Movie:
According to today’s New York Post, there is a big-screen version of Arrested Development in the works for 2009.

(source: The Programming Insider from Mediaweek)

RIP, George Carlin

Another comedy great is gone. As a very lame tribute, I would like to note something that would hopefully annoy Mr. Carlin enough to rant…

Our local paper published an online “article” from The Associated Press, which was basically just quotes of some of Mr. Carlin’s best and funniest observations.

And below the “article,” the AP had their legal mumbo-jumbo, copied here verbatim:

“© 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy.”

So it’s OK for the AP to redistribute Mr. Carlin’s material – without, by the way, citing where they got it – but we can’t copy and paste it?

You know what, at least the Internet is awesome and we can go find, as Jon Stewart said last night, HOURS of Mr. Carlin’s video.