If Only More Newscasters Were Like Her

The clip above is from an MSNBC morning news show that broadcasted today. It features three of the newscasters reporting on the day’s stories, as usual, but when journalist Mika Brzezinski is supposed to start off with the “lead story” she immediately apologizes for the content, then after a second thought flat out refuses to discuss the topic.

What was the topic that she refused to report on? Paris. Effing. Hilton.

The clip jumps a few times, showing Mika getting more and more frustrated with both her fellow newscasters and the producer (which I assume is shouting obscenities in her ear) who still try to get her to do the story. She even goes so far as to steal a lighter out of one of the other newscasters pockets and attempts to BURN the damn story on live television. Before she can set fire to MSNBC’s studios they wrestle it away from her, but not before she rips the copy to shreds.

The producers even go so far as to print out another copy, which she promptly stands up and shreds in a nearby waste bin.

Kudos to her. If only everyone else in the media would do the same, Paris would lose all her powers and die on a coke binge somewhere. The media not paying attention to her is like Kryptonite to Superman.

Source: Perez Hilton

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Posted by Haggis on June 28th, 2007 @ 5:43 pm.

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New Music Roundup (Summer 2007)

It’s summertime, so while we’re being inundated by the latest Gwen Stefani single or whatever shit-tastic garbage commercial radio is trying to shove down our throats, I thought I’d take a moment and recommend a few recent, or sort-of-recent, albums that I’ve been listening to. Some are quite mainstream (Maroon 5, Nine Inch Nails), some are rising stars (Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen), and one that nobody knows but should (The Eames Era).

As always, I welcome all comments, hate mail, and other recommendations. If you’d like to see what I’m listening to right now, here’s my last.fm link which has every song I’ve heard for the past year or so.

Maroon 5 - It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
I’ve been an early fan of Maroon 5, when they first released Harder to Breath as a single several years ago. On a whim, I got an opportunity to catch them live when they opened at a tiny club in Houston (Numbers, represent!) for the 90s one-hit-wonder Cowboy Mouth (remember Jenny Says? Yeah, them.) They put on a hell of a show, and I’ve been a follower of theirs since then.

Of course I was impatient for the next album from the ex-Kara’s Flowers bandmates, since frontman Adam Levine had been spending so much time recording with everyone else in the music industry (Kanye West, Alicia Keyes). When I got the word that the new album was coming, I think I literally cheered out loud.
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Posted by Haggis on June 6th, 2007 @ 7:37 pm.

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Mikey Likes It…Smokin’, Not So Much

Long time, no see, eh?

I realize my absence may have been unnoticed by some, but I also know that some of you Interwebians wondered. Let me put your basest fears to rest. Not dead, not incapacitated, and only marginally closer to the stroke that’s been impending for about 7 or 8 years now.

No, what sent me on my electronic hiatus was a trailer. One simple, short, well-disguised travesty of justice. The trailer in question is, as anyone who knows me is probably aware, Rob Zombie’s “re-imagining” (his words, not mine) of the epic slasher flick, Halloween.

For the uninitiated, the Halloween mythos follows the bloody, screamy story of Michael Myers, the preeminent slasher figure of modern film-making. The original film, written and directed by horror legend John Carpenter (who, by the by, also composed its prolific theme music), follows the story of Laurie Strode (played into cinematic history by Jamie Lee Curtis), a teenager being stalked by Myers for, at least in the beginning, unknown reasons.

As the story goes, Michael Myers viciously murdered his own sister, who apparently was not a very nice girl, with a butcher knife. In the original film, Myers’ motivations are vague, and somewhat supernatural. He stalks Laurie and her requisitely moronic friends until they’re dead and she’s saved by the inestimable Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance), who has treated Myers for years. Not much of a plot, eh?

The beauty of Halloween was not the plot, or the acting (although Pleasance is decent and Curtis is passable), or even the quintessential theme. It’s the cinematography that elevates this film beyond a simple horror flick. There is no more gripping scene than that of Dr. Loomis, standing silent and aghast as he looks down from the balcony of the old Myers house, at the pile of leaves where Myers’ corpse should be. This scene, among many, is one of the reasons I’ve always admired this film. In point of fact, critics and moviegoers of the time (the film was released in 1978) agreed. Not only does it rank as one of the most critically well received of the horror genre, but has become a part of popular culture.

Now get ready to flame, Interwebians.
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Posted by Smokin on May 7th, 2007 @ 1:24 pm.

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Something’s Missing

Friends - check
Money - check
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Opposite sex - check
Guitar - check
Microphone - check
Messages waiting on me when I come home - check

How come everything I think I need always comes with batteries?
What do you think it means?

- John Mayer, “Something’s Missing”
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Posted by Haggis on May 7th, 2007 @ 12:00 pm.

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I Love My New HDTV That I Can’t Watch

I just recently ponied up the cash for a brand new Olevia 27″ HDTV (shown above) I found for a really decent price on NewEgg. This is my first foray into the land of Hi-Def programming, so I’ve been pretty excited to get it in my hands.

It arrived, in all it’s crystal clear beauty, on Thursday afternoon. I immediately connected it to my Media Center computer, but was pretty unimpressed with the quality that the S-Video cable was producing. By clever researching and plenty of good user reviews, I picked this particular unit because of the inputs on the back; one of which is a VGA input, the same as for a normal computer monitor.

I went to Radio Shack and picked up a VGA extension cable to connect it from the extra VGA-connection on my video card. After setting the resolution at a whopping 1360×768, I checked out the quality again with a few DivX movies and a DVD and I couldn’t be happier. You can read 10pt text on an internet browser on the screen, something that is impossible on a standard definition TV (ie, a regular-ass TV set).

The next step was to upgrade my digital cable box to an HDTV version so I could receive the local channels and the few cable channels that are broadcasting in HD. I had to drive over to the Time Warner service center to get it, which took up my whole lunch hour on Friday. The things I sacrifice for good TV.

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Posted by Haggis on April 23rd, 2007 @ 3:47 pm.

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60 Days of Vista

I’ve written in the past about Windows Vista, back when it was still in beta or even the release candidates. Around late November I found a link on Slashdot or Neowin for a Microsoft promotion called “Power Together” that offered training videos on some of the features for the new operating system, as well as the new Microsoft Office 2007.

After watching three videos in their entirety (and believe me, they were BORING), you get a free copy of either Vista Business or Office 2007 Pro, of if you watched six, you get both.

I finished the videos and sometime around late January I received both copies of my free software, valued over $600 or so. Just to show my appreciation for Microsoft’s good will, I even did the “anytime upgrade” to Vista Ultimate so I could use the Media Center functions that are only available on Home Premium and Ultimate versions.

Now after almost two months of using Windows Vista, I have finally reached a final verdict about the shiny new operating system: It blows.

What, really? Not expecting that answer from me, since I’ve been a virtual fanboy for the new version since they announced it a few years ago? I’m as surprised as you are, and let me break down the top five reasons why I am disowning myself from the heap of overcoded junk:

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Posted by Haggis on March 21st, 2007 @ 9:04 am.

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Made With White Meat

While feasting on a 50 piece bucket of chicken McNuggets from the local McDonald’s, we noticed this odd packaging design on the outside.

Look very closely at the picture above, and if you don’t get it, hover over the picture for a clue.

More pics of the bucket below:

Note: I’m probably a glutten for punishment, but I’ve submitted this story to Digg and Netscape. Click here to vote on Digg, and click here to vote on Netscape. -Thanks!

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Posted by Haggis on February 18th, 2007 @ 5:03 pm.

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