Info Meme

Jon Stewart is set to appear on Bill O’Reilly’s show on Wednesday. They know they have ratings gold, and actually plan to split the interview up over Wednesday and Thursday. Stewart hasn’t trekked over to see Bill on his own turf since 2004. Hopefully related: The 8 Greatest Jon Stewart Pwnages. Please let the list go up to eleven by the weekend.

I’ve been known to toss spare change to the homeless, and I harbor no illusions as to what they did with the money. But if I’d seen any of these guys, I would have bought them a steak dinner just for the honesty and creativity.

Lionsgate and Crest Animation are going to give Pixar a run for it’s money with Norm of the North, about a polar bear whose melting environment causes him to take refuge in an arctic research station until rescued and becoming a performing bear for a major corporation, only to find it was that same corporation that caused global warming. Or something like that. It has dancing polar bears with lemming sidekicks, you’ll love it.

Googling with Kittens.

In news of the disturbing kind, American Psycho the Musical is a go for Broadway. No word on nudity, an Adonis-like actor for the lead, or if it involves the audience getting sprayed with blood during the murders, but here’s hoping!

MTV, CMT and VH1 are reportedly doing something big with music on 10-10-10. They won’t say what it is, or even if it involves them playing actual music videos, but they still sent out those fancy “save the date cards.”

All the rumors are official: Warner is converting the final two Harry Potter films and Clash of the Titans to 3-D so they can charge more. This also involves delaying Clash of the Titans a week, which caused all sorts of release date changes by every major studio. Sadly, the biggest casualty is the J-Lo vehicle, The Backup Plan, which is backing up a bunch. At least she’s got padding back there.

38 Years of Super Bowl Commercials. Not a homo anywhere. They may as well make it 39 years.

Vancouver is having a warm winter. That would be lovely, but they’re hosting the Winter Olympics in ten days, so they could use some snow. So they’re trucking it in from two hours away, at Mount Allison. Most disturbing to me is that it’s not just so that skiers have something to ski on – they’re also trucking in pure virgin snow to make the television shots look more wintry and pretty. O.K. there is one thing more disturbing about this: there was a budget for it.

Towleroad alerts us to the fact that The Daily Beast had a writer try out Grindr, the hookup software for the iPhone. And from the sounds of it, he threw himself into his work.

TheOnion.com alerts us to the fact that the bald eagle, symbol of America doesn’t necessarily support all the war efforts our country has been involved in. Some of the issues are nuanced, and eagles are individuals, and may not even agree amongst themselves if we should bomb Yemen.

Life In Three Acts is coming to New York at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn. The play recreates conversations between gay activist Bette Bourne and playwright Mark Ravenhill. It has been on a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Techcrunch has some wild speculation of what a mythical Google Tablet will look like. They even have pictures of it in action, except it doesn’t exist. But if it did exist, there’s a chance it might look and work like these pictures. Or even the video. At least it will support Flash. Seriously, Apple, you’d already have my credit card if you supported Flash on the iPad. Get over it, everything runs on the crappy Adobe software.

In what appears to be an obvious bribe to get another season of Smallville, The CW has ordered a pilot of the Tom Welling-produced Hellcats, set in competitive college cheerleading. If that doesn’t have beefcake and gay characters, preferably all in the same guys, I’ll give up the entire network because that would just be silly.

Photo Meme

You've probably heard that there's a new live-action/CGI Smurfs movie under development. The producers of said project occasionally leak concept art that people pray to be fake. This is another such piece of art. But it comes with a story that the movie will be set in New York City because Smurf Village is in Central Park. Shoot me now.

Shouldn't he be, well, blue?

I'm not entirely sure what's going on in this picture because I thought the only cast members that needed to shave their faces were Will, Puck, and Sue Sylvester. The evil look on Finn is classic, and the sweater on Artie in the back is disturbing.

Anything you need to tell us Brittany?

NASA's story is that this is a new comet as the result of two asteroids they'd never noticed before colliding. With their new budget cuts I'm not sure they'd be willing to spill the details even if they knew. And why does it appear to have an X-Box logo on it?

Or is there an X-Men movie coming out I missed?

I stared at this seven hours yesterday and it stayed hung up. Windows XP?

I haven't talked much about Repo Men because the good trailer is red band and I can't show it here, but it looks gruesome. The poster that just came out illustrates where our health care is headed though.

I'll never be able to afford the liver.

This latest ad is supposed to be from Helsinki for Viagra.

This is the coolest mug in the history of the universe. You put hot liquid in and it's like dropping a quarter in the machine - Pac man and the ghosts appear. They have a Space Invaders version for sale too.

I might have gone with ghosts turning blue with heat, but not as dramatic.

Need to keep a handgun around, but don't want to be bothered with a safe? The Armatix Pistol/Wristwatch is for you. The safety is electronic, and will only release if the gun is in close proximity to the watch. No idea what happens if the burglar gets the gun and you're struggling with him if that's close enough to make the lights go green, but doesn't it look cool? And it should for $9,700.

Thanks, I'll just stay unarmed. That watch is too ugly.

These next two pictures go together. The way I found them, I have no clue if it's a joke or not, but I expect that it is. The fact that a brand of shocks is painted on the road is a dead giveaway. Still, it's an interesting concept that harkens back to a good Roadrunner/Coyote cartoon. Stick on potholes to get motorists to slow down. Beats a speed bump any day.

Applied to the pavement, people slow to straddle the hole.

Peel up to remove.