Disappointment of the Conchords
The road to my first viewing of Flight of the Conchords was a long one. The comical New Zealand duo, who specialize in funny songs, premiered their comedy show on HBO in June of 2007. And then, the hype started. Being part of a deadpan comedy duo myself (see Mustache Rangers), everyone decided that this television program was right up my alley. Even the other part of my duo that isn’t me would ramble on and on about the funnies he had been watching. The Onion would plug it before their comedy videos. My friends from the Minneapolis improv scene would ask me if I had seen it and become...
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While memorials should be set in place to fondly remember those who have passed on, sometimes they are the saddest things in the world. Unless you are a squirrel who has no concept of conciseness, you’ve probably been lying in bed thinking about your own mortality recently. It is an enormous thing to try and wrap your head around. Oddly enough, death only matters to the living. But enough philosophical baloney. Aside from lying awake in the dark, nothing snaps you into the mortality line of thought faster than slightly sad memorials. For example, and as pictured, a memorial drinking...
Read MoreMost Overused Piece of Movie Trivia
You made it just under the line, Neatorama. The next person or entity who informs me that Alfred Hitchcock used chocolate syrup as fake blood in the shower scene of Psycho is getting punched in the neck. Is the chocolate syrup trick really the most astounding bit of trivia in film history? IMDB tells us that at least 700k movies have been made. If we estimate each movie at about 1.5 hours in length, that’s 1,050,000 hours, or 63 million minutes, of on screen entertainment. Let us also assume each scene lasts about 2 minutes. That’s 31.5 million scenes. Out of the 31.5 million...
Read MoreSadly Anxious
While driving home from a hilarious viewing of Walk Hard…actually, that should be “a viewing of the hilarious Walk Hard.” My apologies. I did not mean to imply that my particular vision of the film was funny in any way. Aside from being horribly nearsighted, my eyes are quite normal. Let’s move back to the story. While heading for home in a beat up red Mirage, my wife recommended that we stop at Culver’s for a quick and delicious dinner. Well, she just recommended Culver’s. I added the “quick and delicious” part internally. With I continued to...
Read MoreCartoons Buy Houses
It all started out innocently enough. My car was taking me for a lovely drive down to Matt’s Bar to cram an original Jucy Lucy into my mouth with some friends. As my car traveled down Cedar Ave (Minnesota blog!), it was inevitable that my car and I would cross Lake Street. And there, my dear friends, is where I saw the resurrection of a caveman! Fine, let me explain in detail. There is a company called HomeVestors that purchases what they call “ugly houses.” At some cocaine fueled meeting, HomeVestors decided that people buying houses wasn’t a very interesting or new...
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