Friday, May 25, 2007
By Charley Daniels
Alexis Bledel was on Letterman tonight, and I learned some gossip. But before I get to that, I want to say that I italicized “Letterman” so it wouldn’t sound perverted (you know, like: “she got on him”? But that italicization [of “on”] meant the opposite — it was supposed to connote something dirty, whereas the first use of italics didn’t mean that at all. And when I italicized “that” in the last explanation, it was more for emphasis — not like when I meant italics as a definite sign of something dirty, or after that when I used italics to emphasize the dirty connotation in the other sentence. Or before that, when italics were actually used to prevent a dirty connotation. Anyway, you get the point. Right?).
Regardless of all that, tonight we learned that the going rate on Gilmore Girls must not have been enough for Bledel to get herself Invisalign. Because if she had Invisalign, she wouldn’t have been so self-conscious about smiling. Basically, Alexis Bledel has braces and she was obviously self-conscious about it during her appearance on David Letterman’s show.
This has been my attempt to become a celebrity gossip blog. What do you think?
Next-day update: Unless, of course, she got the braces for some role she’s playing (in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, perhaps?). But if that’s the case, she should have mentioned them and laughed about it instead of being all closed-mouthed and weird.
Monday, May 21, 2007
By Charley Daniels
Last week the broadcast networks presented their fall schedules to advertisers in an attempt to trick them into spending money on TV instead of the internet. For most of us, the only thing that’s really interesting about the annual event is that we get to find out what’s returning to TV, what’s been canceled, and what’s been picked up.
TVWeek has the complete schedule, along with exclusive clips from the new fall series. None of the new shows interests me much this fall, although Bionic Woman might be fun. ABC has a comedy pilot based on the Geico caveman commercials. Yeah, that’s … interesting?
So at least some good shows are returning, because fall looks pretty bleak for new series. The midseason schedule is a little more promising, with The Sarah Connor Chronicles, based on the Terminator films, and The Return of Jezebel James, starring Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose. Sure, there’s a good chance Sarah Connor will be awful, but the source material is so good you can’t help but hope.
Wait, do you even care about any of this? Most people come here because they know me or they’ve just searched Google for “dinosaur poo.” Either way this entry is probably fairly disappointing, yeah? Maybe there will be jokes about prehistoric droppings in that caveman show?
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
By Charley Daniels
Think about your answer carefully.
I’m pretty sure I’ve told you about Homeless Frank before, but it’s worth bringing up again. The latest installment is Frank’s thoughts on Tony Snow’s cancer:
Tony Snow’s like a monkey I saw on tv. Damn chimp saw a candy in a glass bottle, grabbed it and was too goddamn stupid to let go to get his hand out.
That Homeless Frank — what a nut!
In other news, I’m off to Mexico next week for a friend’s wedding. Some friends, actually. Been a while since I’ve felt like I had a real vacation, so I plan to fully vacate for the whole week, if you know what I mean. And if you do, let me know because I’m not 100 percent sure myself.
