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I loved the Hapsburg simile.

I dunno...As irritating as it was, "NBC Goes Green" did give birth to the Greenzo episode of 30 Rock, which was pretty fucking good. Although 30 Rock is always pretty fucking good, so come to think of it, fuck Greenzo and fuck David Schwimmer. Also, fuck Friends, fuck Jennifer Aniston's hair, fuck the theme song and fuck the Rachel/Ross bullshit in the ear.

You shouldn't volunteer because Dwight from The Office tells you to. Although I would totally sign up for a week at Schrute Beet Farm. You volunteer because you have a calling, whether that is from your God, your conscience, whatever. I volunteer with a dog rescue group, and I'm pretty sure that we don't want a bunch of yuppie douchetards to show up for just one week. We need help all year. If you just come for one week, you are there just long enough to get in everyone's way and fuck everything up.

Also, don't be afraid to get dirty! Most people think they can just hang out and show the dogs to potential parents. We need help cleaning out the kennels too! I clean literal shit out of dog kennels once a week, not because I have to, and certainly not because some rich asshole told me to. I do it because these dogs deserve better than what they have been dealt in life. If your heart is not in it, don't even bother. I can't even remember how many times I have found a stray dog, and while I was trying to catch it, or feed it people come up to me and say, "I wish I could help." Well stop wishing and get off your lazy fucking ass and help!

Don't breed or buy while shelter pets die!

Actually, this "theme week" should scare the hell out of you. It's not coming from the major media's minds - this was done on a direct order from the White House. And no, I'm not some conspiracy nut (though there are a few I do believe).

This "theme week" goes hand-in-hand with Obama's plan to "encourage" (read: force) people into donating their time and efforts to causes and ideas they may not support for the nation's supposed good. This is pure propaganda and it's being swallowed whole.

Good point B-Unit. Just like FDR "encouraged" people to collect aluminum, or, as mentioned above, like Nancy Reagan "encouraged" kids to stay off drugs. Clearly sinister.

I've got plenty of beef with the media, but a lame PSA week is not a reason to get your panties in a bunch. Unless you just like the way it feels.

This is my function in life. I spread information. Sometimes I do it in a classroom. Sometimes in a laboratory. Sometimes it's just on Pajiba. It's all born of the same compulsion to be an insufferable, pedantic pain in the ass.

When forced to deliver a lecture full of rather dry facts, I feel the least I can do for my students is a good pop culture reference or twelve. Lectures on evolution have included references as broad as baby-eating dingoes and as obscure as Hulkamania. The 3 or 4 modern kids in a lecture hall of 200 who titter at that one are my peeps.

In this case, acknowledgment of Ms. Cook is not particularly dry. Leastways, I am not particularly dry when delivering the information, as the old addiction rears its head, and I wipe the cold sweat from my brow with shaky hands.

I must live one day at a time. I have tried to cultivate a more trendy addiction to Zooey Deschanel (not working) or Tina Fey (getting there), but the closest I have gotten is a confirmed man-crush on Neil Patrick Harris.

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at October 19, 2009 10:16 AM

You know, Jeremy, that gives me a GREAT idea for a 30 Rock episode! Corporate synergy and name recognition (with a dash of Sweeps Week stunt casting) HERE WE COME!

30 Rock: Episode 413, Crazy Planet

Greenzo returns and impregnates Liz's wild friend Claire after a one night stand. Nine months later, they produce a child that only their comingled bloodlines could ever produce. A child wreckless and without direction. A child born of chaos and bad scripting, but could really have a shot if given a little discipline and focus. A child who could only be named...

Earth 2

Excuse me, y'all, but the White House (no matter who is in office) should not be able to demand the networks run programming that promotes its own agenda - and have the networks kowtow without resistance. Would you be fine with a week's worth of pro-health care TV? Or let's abolish the 2nd Amendment week? Or how about nuke Iran programs? Propaganda is propaganda now matter the sheep's wool is hides beneath.