Paramount is hoping to do the impossible: Make Star Trek cool. And not just any cool, but “hipster” cool. Good luck with that, guys. (CHUD)
Coke and Pepsi are trying out brand new, revolutionary marketing techniques using some familar faces. (Webster’s)
Seth Rogen is worrying that he might be alienating all the chubsters out there who look up to him. But what he’s forgetting is the extra boost he’ll get from his female fans, because, rowr. (Celebitchy)
On the heels of his announced return to Conan’s side, Andy Richter talks to A.V. Club about past projects, and what he’s learned from them. (A.V. Club)
Dave Letterman finally married his girlfriend of 23 years. Hey, if she can finally land Letterman it gives me hope that someone might actually even marry me someday. (DListed)
Aw, man. I love Colbert and all, but I was really hoping the new space station would be named “Serenity.” What a load of crap, the guy already has some eagles ‘n shit. What else does he need? (ScreenJunkies)
Warner Brothers are rolling out a brand new DVD custom ordering system for titles never before released. Awesome! (WeAreMovieGeeks)
Cinday Crawford is nekkid and covered in foam for Allure magazine. Why? Because she can. (Yeeeah!)
Diablo Cody has a “Fempire?” I hope that’s not contagious. (FilmDrunk)
How have I never seen this website before? I actually have a few good ones from the 80’s and 90’s I am thinking of submitting myself, because my shame and self-depreciation knows no bounds. Thanks, Lainey! (SexyPeople)
Back to the Future was actually this close to being called Spaceman from Pluto. I literally just shuddered at the thought. (mental floss)
Yuh-ikes. If summers at the Jersey Shore weren’t terrifying enough as it is, the Jerz damn near got its Brazilian waxing rights revoked. (QuizLaw)
Hearing about these new Ben & Jerry’s flavors actually made my head loll back and drool start coming out of my mouth. (TIB)
I used to work somewhere that had casual Fridays revoked, and let me know you it is NO laughing matter. (PassiveAggressiveNotes)
Amazing. Who would have ever thought to put Silence of the Lambs to music, and also to Legos? Enjoy:
Pajiba Love brought to you by Stacey Nosek, who can be reached via email here.
We don't have casual Fridays in my office. We have casual every days - unless visiting a client site is involved. And that's the way I like it!
I used to work for a US company (in the UK) & they had a stringent dress code. They also had no fuckin a/c. And during a heatwave, we were treated to daily visits from the snooty Human Resources beeyotch, making sure all the men had their ties on, and girls were wearing pantyhose. After a week of that, I made sure next time she came around my Canestan ointment and the talc for my heat rash were prominently displayed on my desk. Then I took the week off sick with thrush. Stupid dress codes...
Posted by: Tarn at March 24, 2009 1:12 PM
Re: Sexy People.
Wayne & Jeffery will be taking your soul now. Somebody get jM. We need a cleansing.
Posted by: admin at March 24, 2009 1:16 PM
That Silence of the Lambs musical is freaking old. I first heard it in college 8 years ago. The full soundtrack can be found at www.jonandal.com. This is the first time I've seen the legos though. That's some good stuff.
Posted by: Bistro at March 24, 2009 1:21 PM
There is nothing more fabulous than opening a link about new B&J flavors, only to see an ad for reducing the appearance of cellulite right next to pictures of the ice creamy goodness.
Advertising brilliance, right there.
Posted by: elyssadc at March 24, 2009 1:28 PM
admin, even I can't fight evil that pure. It's... it's... it's beautiful.
Posted by: jM at March 24, 2009 1:28 PM
“That’s the weird thing about losing weight, strangers (compliment) you. It does (make me uncomfortable) a little but I don’t know them…”
No, Mr. Rogen. The strange part about losing weight is that people you know come up to you to compliment you on "how good you look now" like you were some hideous monster before losing a little weight. Excuse me while I go return to the dank, cobweb ridden pit under the theater to escape the pitchforks and torches when my weight inevitably swings up again, lest I demonize the town and scare the children.
Posted by: Robert at March 24, 2009 1:34 PM
Bah. I hoped that green chick was She-Hulk or at least Gamorra . . . I think I have a thing for green women. How the hell did that happen?
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 24, 2009 1:36 PM
There is nothing more fabulous than opening a link about new B&J flavors,
I didn't see the ampersand at first and thought that women and gay men would really appreciate that.
The CHUD link has made me punchy.
Posted by: admin at March 24, 2009 1:38 PM
re: Sexy People
I swear that Peter from the Peter and Stacy picture is the basis for the Bat Boy of Weekly World News fame. Also, who knew that they made a Bat Boy musical?
Posted by: tamatha at March 24, 2009 1:44 PM
Mmmmmmm, marzipan. Also, what is up with all the nut allergies these days? Is it just me, or is every kid allergic to fucking peanuts? No one was allergic to nuts when I was a kid. The amount of peanut butter that flowed out of my grade school cafeteria could kill a small country populated entirely of today's 8-year olds.
Posted by: Kolby at March 24, 2009 1:50 PM
Thanks to Jeremy's fuck-marry-kill post, I had a dream where Seth Rogen and I were married, and he was making me pancakes. That was the dream; him making pancakes in the kitchen.
It was possibly the best dream ever.
And dang, he is looking might foxy. I love curly hair.
And if anyone was allergic to nuts when I was a kid, they shut up and ate their PB&J just like everyone else. And liked it. And if they got sick or died they did it quietly, without interrupting Sister Hedwig's algebra lesson.
Posted by: Kolby at March 24, 2009 1:53 PM
I didn't see the ampersand at first and thought that women and gay men would really appreciate that.
Hell, I still really appreciated it. Although a BJ flavoured B&J? Hells to the yeah.
Not only did I know there was a Bat Boy musical, tamatha, I know at least one person who actually saw it. Yep. I believe she subsequently staged it for her college.
Kolby, seriously, what is up with that? Is that real, or just another thing to be "sensitive" about?
And summers at the Jersey shore are quite terrifying enough, thank you. It's why I only go to Barnegat Light now, where all the family places are. It's marginally less scary. And also, marginally less obnoxious. And also, there's Old Barney. Great, now I wanna go down the shore, and I can't even get a wax.
What gets me is, when one kids has a nut allergy (I understand that they can be fatal) in an entire school, NOBODY can bring anything with nuts in it. My kids can't take PB&J or a peanut butter cup to school because someone elses kid may be stupid enough to lick it!
My friends kids had a kid in their school that was allergic to eggs, so EVERYONE ELSE had to go buy special eggless bread for their kids lunches. Give me a fucking break.
Posted by: admin at March 24, 2009 2:37 PM
admin
What confuses me is, if I was the nut-allergic or egg-allergic kid, I STILL wouldn't trust things to be safe. Because who knows who forgot, or who didn't think, or what's listed as ingredient 9 out of 1000. I would be afraid of being lulled into a false sense of security and then - oops - ded.
Posted by: twig at March 24, 2009 2:41 PM
You know, that's true about a lot of kids being allergic to peanuts these days. I used to work at a camp where we would sometimes get "peanut kids." We would shut the damn place down and disinfect the grounds, as well as change out any food in the concession stands or cafeteria that might have ever brushed past a peanut so that those kids didn't swell up and die while they were there. However, we still allowed them to use all kinds of old-ass rusty equipment. I don't get it. Are kids these days becoming more sensitive to certain foods and immune from tetanus? Is it like going blind and suddenly getting an amazing sense of hearing? Snicker bars will kill them, but go ahead and let them jam that rusty nail into their eyeball. They'll be alright.
Posted by: Tae at March 24, 2009 2:45 PM
I know, admin! I can't have peanuts on a plane cause the dust can get in the air and circulate through the cabin in the processed air system and kill anyone with an allergy. Seriously, eggs? who the hell is allergic to eggs? And why don't you teach your kids not to lick other kids' bread, then?
It's like when the idiots around the corner from me yell at me to "slow down" when I'm doing well below the speed limit because they don't think they should have to teach their spawn not to play in front of moving vehicles. Personally, I'm pretty sure if you're too stupid to get out of the way, then you deserve to get run over.
It just goes to show that kids these days are pussies. When I was in grade school I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow with loaves of focaccia bread duct taped to my feet. Sister Presentation would slathered you with peanut butter and made you sit outside if you forgot your multiplication tables, there was only ONE COPY EACH of the Samantha series of the American Girls books, and my skirt was itchy. Bullshit.
I wish I were allergic to peanuts. Then I would suicide-bomb Nicholas Cage's house of suck by standing in front of it and consuming an entire jar of crunchy peanut butter with a Payday bar.
I might go ahead and invite his good friend Dane Cook over for a bite, while I'm at it.
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at March 24, 2009 2:54 PM
Liking Star Trek is all about embracing your inner nerd. Coolness cannot and will not ever be a part of it.
Re: Rogen--I too like my guys a little on the chubby side. But no beards!
Aw, Colbert won the space station naming thingy? With all due respect to Colbert, it's not exactly the greatest sounding name. Of anything. Serenity needed the exposure (albeit tiny) more.
Wow, what do people wear if they don't wear jeans? I've worked in dingy labs for 12 years and I had no idea there were other forms of leg-coverings.
I don't know what I would do if I developed an allergy to peanuts. Peanut butter is like eating jizz direct from god.
Posted by: Snath at March 24, 2009 3:01 PM
Wow, what do people wear if they don't wear jeans?
Mantyhose.
Posted by: admin at March 24, 2009 3:02 PM
Only Snath could make me envision a Holy Money Shot.
Posted by: admin at March 24, 2009 3:03 PM
Hehe...greetings!
I have never worn jeans. Ever. Okay, that one time when I was 8 and I had a "there's something about mary" moment with some tight-ass jeans that caused me to swear off denim my entire life...but that's it! I've worn cargo pants, khakis, dress pants, BDU pants, and shorts all my life. It is possible, ladies and gentlemen.
I used to have a beard and am rocking the gut. Does that make me uber-sexy? Well, yes...but that has nothing to do with it.
Julie...we had to walk downhill over steep slopes filled with bramble bushes and thornhedges. On our hands and knees. Both ways. In the rain.
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at March 24, 2009 3:05 PM
With mittens on.
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at March 24, 2009 3:06 PM
I have a couple of friends who have massive, debilitating migraines if they eat damn near anything - eggs, milk, wheat, chocolate, etc. One of them has developed a taste for more Asian cooking, heavy on the rice and soy. The other one didn't eat anything but spirulina for a while there.
Blue-green algae. Which is still better than a migraine but not by much.
Seconding Snath again, I don't know what I'd do without peanut butter. Especially the Teddie brand here in Massachusetts. Holy hell that is some good shit.
Posted by: twig at March 24, 2009 3:10 PM
Shoot, walking both ways to school, uphill or down, ain't nothin'. I got all y'all beat. I had to go to church before school. At 7:30. EVERY DAY.
Posted by: Kolby at March 24, 2009 3:10 PM
As much as I really wanted Node 3 of the Internation Space Station to be named Serenity, I'm OK with naming it Colbert.
Why? Because Node 3 is the node that recycles shit. Literally. It has the zero gravity vacu-suck toilet, and the thingy that converts urine to drinking water, and the other thingy that converts water to oxygen to breath. Colbert is perfect for Node 3.
And if NASA has any sense, they'll name Node 4 themselves and name it Serenity. (Nodes 1 and 2 are Harmony and Unity.)
Posted by: BWeaves (from a different IP address) at March 24, 2009 3:11 PM
SHADOWS!!! You gorgeous rascal you.
I have never worn jeans. Ever
I am stunned. And silent. Stunned silence. That is me.
I'm sorry, Julie but you're a wimp. I had to share one pair of socks and one pair of shoes with my brother and sister. One of us would get the left shoe, one would get the right shoe and the other one would get socks. You'd think socks would be great, and they were. Until it rained. Then whoever had shoes could just hop uphill both ways for seven miles, but your socks just got muddy and wet and made it impossible to run from the irradiated dogs that chased us to and from the coal mine were we worked. As shovels.
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 24, 2009 3:15 PM
"We had to live in fast-food container, on t' motorway. Work in t' mine for thirty-seven hours a day for tuppence, and when we got home dad would beat us to death with his willy."
Posted by: twig at March 24, 2009 3:28 PM
We used to have to get up a half hour before we went to bed and lick the gravel road clean with our tongues. We lived in a shoe box in the middle of that road and when we got home, our father would stab us to death with a butter knife.
/Apologies to Monty Python
Posted by: Codeman at March 24, 2009 3:31 PM
Re: Peanut allergies
A friend of mine went to elementary school with someone who was so allergic to peanuts that none of the other kids could eat peanut butter during the school week, because if one child had peanut butter on his breath from the night before, the kid would have a reaction. The parents took the kid out of school to be homeschooled after one to many close experiences.
I on the other hand had an amazing elementary school experience. None of this "up-the-hill" hard knocks shit for me. I went to a magnet school where I was identified as AG and so I went to smarty-smart pants extra classes where we read Romeo & Juliet and did word problems for fucking fun. We also had a rock pit that had sharks' teeth in it that was just outside our art lab and in one afternoon I found THREE sharks teeth. I miss elementary school... Such an amazing time. I'd even relive the moment where I was pushed off a ledge by a little boy who didn't want me sitting next to him and the hair wrap I'd gotten at Disney World was yanked out of my head, while waiting to get school pictures done.
But middle school can get fucked.
Posted by: Kayanne at March 24, 2009 3:57 PM
Pure hilarity.
Posted by: RicaB at March 24, 2009 4:09 PM
Anyone else going to fire up a giant PB&J when they get home? I can't be the only one.
Posted by: Kolby at March 24, 2009 4:09 PM
Damn, my above comment was supposed to link to the photo of an old friend that I'd stolen from his parents' house and then submitted to sexypeople. Click my name to see it. And it really is pure hilarity.
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at March 24, 2009 4:18 PM
I have some really great pictures I could submit to that website. I used to have giant glasses and a duck tail. So very sexy.
And yes, Kolby, I am definitely hankering for a PB&J when I get home.
Posted by: Snath at March 24, 2009 4:18 PM
Re: Bat Boy
Not only did I know there's a musical, but I have seen said musical, and I know a girl who performed in said musical!
/hold me, Bat Boy
//love me, Bat Boy
Posted by: RicaB at March 24, 2009 4:18 PM
Sadly, I could never contribute to that site. My awkwardness was so intense, it couldn't actually be captured on film. I didn't look all that weird... but to see me in motion... that was epic awkwardness.
Sweater vests tend to be a steadying influence TK.
Posted by: admin at March 24, 2009 4:32 PM
OK, this is weird. I just overheard the secretary talking to her husband, letting him know she may be late tonight and that he should just make their daughter a PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLLY SANDWICH for dinner. Alright, maybe it's not that weird. But it is.
Posted by: Kolby at March 24, 2009 4:38 PM
But middle school can get fucked.
Yeah, being gifted in middle school just meant harder homework and more of it. Just cause I'm smart doesn't mean I'm a great student! Mom and I agreed to downshift before my grades got really crappy in 8th grade.
Wow, what do people wear if they don't wear jeans?
Duh. Dickies! I bought a pair of jeans last February, not having worn them in ten years, for an 80s costume party. Of course the idea was to be tacky, but I just went as an English Smiths fan. Now I wear that pair occasionally. I like the roominess of the back pockets, but the size and awkwardness of the front pockets are why I stopped wearing them in the first place. I told you people I'm prepared and have lots of stuff on my person, right? Yeah, that doesn't work well with those pockets. At all.
Well, a suit's actually the best, as you've got at least two more sizable pockets in the jacket! My longsleeved Dickies coveralls come close though, they even have a pocket on the shoulder!
Tell me the name of the boy who pushed you. I'll kick his ass.
Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at March 24, 2009 7:47 PM
yeah, i'll gay-bash that little punk! WOOOOOO!!!
Posted by: gp at March 24, 2009 7:54 PM
I'd straight bash him too.
Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at March 24, 2009 7:57 PM
Possibly even bi-curiously bitch slap him.
Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at March 24, 2009 7:57 PM
Aww, I wake up from a flu-induced K.O. to see that? Jake & gp I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I honestly can't remember the kid's name to save my life... Although he may have been blonde.
Anyway, I think the only proof I have of that day is the school picture of me in my puppy dog (dalmations!) vest, missing a hair wrap, and with eyes misty from obviously having been crying for a while. I even had to take my picture during another class's slotted time, because while my class was going I was alligator tearing-it up bad enough to touch my teacher's soul.
Posted by: Kayanne at March 24, 2009 8:01 PM
dammit, stacey, it's PHASERS! geez. at least get the jargon right.
without ST (the original) i would not have mr. buns. yes, that's why we were introduced in the first place. DD is very lucky not to have been named roddenberry.
Posted by: bionic bunny at March 24, 2009 8:26 PM
"Fudge covered macadamia nuts"...
I'll be in my bunk...
LOVED sexy people! I sent my '83 Jazz Class zombie picture in - we did Thriller.
As to the nut thing - my kid has two allergic kids in his class...and of course they both came to the birthday party this last weekend. Took me a week to find sunflower seed butter so I could approximate PB&J sandwiches and still be nutless.
And you know what? Yah, it sucks to not be able to send in a million varieties of recess snacks because of the 'maybe' nut content but:
My 28 year old brother recently went into anaphylactic shock after touching a cat - out of nowhere. If you'd seen someone you love swell up in three minutes so bad it's like they're wearing puffy sweaters UNDER THEIR SKIN and they gotta HOLD THEIR HEAVY FACE ON and they can't breathe and you're running to the kitchen looking for a pointy thing to jab into the neck for an airway...
well shit! I will not be responsible for that happening to a little guy, and I wouldn't let my kid take the blame for it either. The worst thing I ever saw - way too traumatic.
A choice between personal inconvenience and knowingly endangering a life - well, I think the right answer is clear. Sorry to be sanctimonious about it - I hope they sort out the why so those parents can relax a bit.
(also, one of the nut allergy kids was so scared of the seed butter resembling peanut butter - he actually threw up the two bites he ate. Poor thing.)
Posted by: replica at March 25, 2009 3:53 AM
I work with a dude who *suspects* he is allergic to peanut butter and, thus, avoids anything that *may* have peanuts entirely. He also makes a huge scene about the whole thing. Of course, we're all laughing hysterically at him behind his back. Who am I kidding? It's totally to his face.
I think I'll make some delicious peanut butter cookies for the office next week.
Heee!!! That sexy people blog is the best thing ever!