Boondock Saints II – This Week’s Sign of the Apocalypse…of Print
Posted on | November 18, 2009 | No Comments
Back circa 1999, the independent film Boondock Saints was panned so hard by critics that it lasted at least both days in theaters. Quick as a hiccup it went to DVD and a funny thing happened: it became perhaps the greatest cult-following movie this side of El Mariachi, if not Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Ten Years Later, Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is released on Halloween Weekend 2009.
Movie Critics sharpened up their quills for their over-the-top reviews: Read more
Tags: boondock saints > boondock saints ii > boondock saints wider release
When Not to Ask Someone to Be Your FaceBook Fan – Time.Com Fail
Posted on | October 28, 2009 | No Comments
More and more, people are realizing that New Media is getting older. Thousands of people a year are already passing on, leaving amongst other things, their online profiles.
Handling a dead loved one’s online profile seems superfluous until FaceBook suggests that you friend someone who’s dead. Hopefully you won’t have to deal with this issue for a long, long time. In the end, how to handle a passed loved one’s legacy is a sensitive topic that needs a solidified, documented process that not only makes it easier for surviving member to handle their loved ones online legacy, but is also fraud-proof.
It’s already too easy to make the masses believe that Subway’s Jared is dead.
Time.com took a stab at handling the topic and approached it with the grace and respect of a drunk bull in a china shop during a weekend sale.
Take a look at the above image. Click on the article. Sh*t.
In their first paragraph Time.com spelled out the FaceBook feature allowing surviving members to turn pages of those who’ve passed into memorials. Then in between that paragraph and the proceeding paragraph which spells out the policy in greater detail, Time.com slinked in a link to their FaceBook fan page.
C-Ho Mesothelioma Rating: 2 out of 10.
Dipsh*ts.
There are times to self-promote. Speaking of how to treat the memory of the dead is not one of those times. It’s like the cemetery plot salesmen who tied to upsell my grandmother’s tombstone. He wasn’t playing on my grandfather’s sense of guilt. He was hoping my grandfather wasn’t paying attention. I think he even tried to sell my grandfather a reinforced coffin that could withstand a class 3 hurricane – an essential asset to any coffin buried in the Chicago area.
Then there was the time where the mortuary tried to sell me on a cruise so I could spread my hillbilly father’s ashes in the Caribbean…
Apparently everyone needs to go to the Island eventually.
How Time.com could handle this Better
1) Put a link to your fanpage on the side columns. FaceBook makes widgets for this sh*t. Here, Time.com. Check out this link to the how to add a Face Book Fan Page widget on your website.
2) Add links to pages family members can go to so they can sign up and have their loved ones profiles taken care of.
3) Don’t sell me a cemetery plot.
Tags: dead facebook pages > dead loved ones facebook page > dead loved ones twitter account > deceased twitter accounts
The CW…. You Suck in a Way that Would Make Yahoo! Proud
Posted on | September 15, 2009 | No Comments
I had a couple ideas for my newest post. I’ll get back to both of them in the coming days, but right now I need to take a moment to mock and belittle the useless, uncreative whores at the CW Network.
30 seconds ago I saw a preview for The Vampire Diaries. Based solely on the preview, and with absolutely no desire to watch the show, I will now sum up the meeting that took place and led to this show being created:
—————————————————————————–
Random CW executive: My 13 year old daughter really seems to like these books about vampires.
Other CW executive: Like Dracula and shit? That’s kind of morbid and fucked up.
1st excutive: No, not like Dracula. More like Anne Rice’s version of vampires. She just can’t get enough of these things.
2nd executive: Hmmm…Anne Rice’s vampires were pretty effeminate and liked to dress like the people in Amadeus, but they also explored issues of religion and humanity, and occasionally they would rip people’s throats out and do horribly obscene shit to them. Your daughter may need to see a therapist.
1st executive: Well, not exactly like the Anne Rice vampires, just the effeminate, dull parts. And without any of the interesting or violent parts. Mostly the books are about a sad, lonely mormon girl who creates stories about how super-awesome it would be if anyone liked her.
2nd executive: that sounds pretty dull.
1st executive: Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. But then I was watching HBO the other night and I saw this show True Blood, and I thought, “Hey, wouldn’t it be awesome if we had a show like True Blood, but without any of that horrific violence or gratuitous nudity? Or any interesting characters or storylines? Instead, we’ll just use a whole bunch of attractive 20 years old’s who can’t act and a couple horrible writers who will work for $6 a day and might or might not have seen an old episode of Buffy once.
2nd executive: So, pretty much exactly like every single show on our network…but the obnoxious, effeminate, borderline-retarded characters are vampires?
1st executive: Exactly!
2nd executive: I LOVE IT! Now let’s go roll around in the big pile of money we’ve made by exploiting insecure and/or retarded teenage girls!
————————————————————————-
CW Network, you suck huge amounts of ass.
C-HO Mesothelioma Rating – 6.0 – making shittier and shittier versions of shitty products is an important step along the way to Idiocratic Rule
Tags: awful television > corporate whore > corporate whoredom > max power > the cw > the vampire diaries > true blood > twilight > vampires > Yahoo sucks
How to Game Wikipedia’s WikiTrust
Posted on | September 7, 2009 | No Comments
(CNN takes a look at the ‘wonder’ of Wikipedia’s WikiTrust)
For those of you still stuck in 2003, Wikipedia has released its super-uber “WikiTrust” system for use on all its platform. The color-coded system will show readers how much Wikipedia trusts the content. The longer the content stays on the page, the more Wikipedia trusts the content, the lighter the color gets around the content. The more Wikipedia trusts the editor, the quicker the editor’s content is trusted.
Read more
Tags: wiki trust > wikipedia color code > wikipedia color code system > wikipedia colors > wikitrust
iPhone Stalker App Video Is the Stephen Colbert of Parodies
Posted on | September 4, 2009 | No Comments
(Video found at Today’s Big Thing)
We got this iPhone Stalker Apps parody video from one of our readers (thanks, Di). At first we found it humorous but then a scary revelation hit:
“This parody a little too realistic to be funny.”
Tags: iphone humor > iphone parodies > iphone stalker > iphone stalker app > stephen colbert satire
