Weblog Sin Pies

By Charley Daniels

From the “seen it before but am posting it anyway” department: Effects of drugs and alcohol on spider webs.

Is it weird that this makes me want a drink?

By Charley Daniels

Just when I was wondering aloud, “What’s the pop culture significance of the Tony Awards?” Triumph has the answer. Well, an answer, anyway:

Original here.

Via TV Squad.

By Charley Daniels

The show Ultimate Fighter is basically The Real World, but without women. Oh, and at the end of every episode two people who live in the house try to kick and punch each other’s heads off. It really is destination television. Seriously.

By Charley Daniels

For months I’ve tried to write at least 12 or 15 polls per day for BuzzDash. What can I say, I’m a dedicated member of the polls-as-entertainment community. You should be too.

Some days it’s tough, and I sit there staring at the wall. On those days, I often come up with questions like this:

But other days nothing happens. I stare, sometimes so hard the fire alarm goes off — or it would, if it were set to detect intense staring. And on those days, almost without fail, one word pops into my head: “dribble.” Or variations: “dribbling,” “dribbles,” etc. I don’t know why. What is my mind trying to tell me? I usually push the thought away and focus on other things, but the next time I try to come up with poll questions, it almost always returns. It’s never there during other times, even if I’m concentrating really hard. At work, when I’m having trouble recrafting sentences, it’s not there. When I’m watching Jeopardy! and the answer is stuck on the tip of my tongue, but I have to say something, anything, because it’s almost too late, I never blurt out, “DRIBBLING!” Subconsciously, I really want to write a question about dribbling, I guess. I mean, what else could it be? So I did:

Granted, there’s nothing really special about this question, but I’m hoping it cures me of this distracting affliction. So far so good.

By Charley Daniels

The CompUSA story has a happy ending. But not because CompUSA is a decent company. Digg got hold of the original Lost Remote post, and you can guess what happened after that. Viva la revolution, y’all!

Hey, 10 years ago CompUSA wouldn’t have refunded the guy his money. But it turns out there is such a thing as bad publicity, and it works! Occasionally. Take the news yesterday that CBS is likely going to renew Jericho, a show that was basically dead in the water coming out of upfronts last month. The fans weren’t having that. They sent the network lots of nuts — thousands of pounds by many accounts — which on the surface seems completely idiotic, but there is a story behind the significance. I’m not going to tell that story, just trust me.

Anyway, you can imagine CBS’s nut storage facilities filled rather quickly, and the squirrels were getting to be a problem (CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler is allergic to squirrels). This last part may or may not be true.

The point is, the network caved, or is caving, sources say, and CompUSA righted one of its wrongs, all thanks to the online community. And maybe squirrels.

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