This is the sort of segment that Jon Stewart does best, but he must have a lot of help from busy staffers, digging up all those damning video clips.
A man named Laurie
I knew this iconic instrumental tune from a zillion places…
… and thanks to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop station on Slacker I now know that it was written by Laurie Johnson, the same guy who wrote this familiar theme.
Logitech 50% off
Hot on the heels of Logitech Squeezeboxing their CEO out the door, I got this e-mail offer for half-off any single Logitech product.
I suspected it might be a phish, so rather than click on the link in the ad that went to logitech-newsletter2.com, I went to logitech.com to look at the Squeezebox Touch, an item that I’ve been very interested in, but not for $300.
I doubted the discount code in the e-mail ad would work, but whatta ya know… it did.
So I ordered it and will hook it up to the living room stereo, where it will sit next to a 25-year-old turntable. Slacker is one of the music services Logitech has, and lately I’ve been listening to their BBC Radiophonic Workshop station. It has all sorts of stuff, from classic British movie and TV themes to avant-garde jazz to sound effects.
The SuperPAC strikes back
The second Colbert SuperPAC ad for Iowa should be here. If it isn’t, go to this link.
SuperPAC Wars: A New Hope
Stephen Colbert puts his mouth where my money is:
http://youtu.be/CrygYmTsTfU
Follow-up: Hey! The video’s been pulled. They could simply have prevented embedding which, ah, they have just done. But this link will work.
Stupid !@@!$@#$##$%^ idiots!
Verizon FiOS workers are on strike. I don’t know if one of them screwed up the TV schedule, or if TCM’s information was wrong, but I set the DVR to record an old, rare movie for somebody — something that isn’t available on video — and it recorded only the first hour of it! AAUGH!! I am so sick and fu*king tired of damned stupid mistakes like this. If we are now supposed to be recording based on program data and not time, THEN THE DATA HAS TO BE !@#$%^&* CORRECT!!!!!! Or, if the running time is in doubt, as was the case here apparently, at least record too much, and not too little. I am REALLY PIS*ED OFF about this!
Follow-up: Tonight, the FiOS DVR listed G-Men from 1935 as the movie at 8, but the original 1932 Scarface was shown. The entry on TCM’s web site was correct. Somebody, somewhere, is screwing up.