Eric Covener’s Journal

Artie Lange Deathwatch

Artie Lange was on the first few seasons of Mad TV, co-starred in Norm McDonald’s Dirty Work, and replaced Jackie the Joke Man on the Howard Stern show. He’s also been described in as the heir to the Belushi crown.

“It is now clear that Artie has no will to live.”
–Robin Quivers

“My favorite Artie story has to be the time he had one of his on-the-road eating frenzies and eventually passed out in his hotel room with a half-eaten Toblerone stuck to his stomach. That Dana is one lucky woman.” –Boom

Why does TNTHD refuse to show movies letterboxed in 2.35:1?

So many programs on this abomination of a network are presented mostly scaled to 16/9 and in some bizarre way also cropped. I swear I saw a pan/scan on Rush Hour today.

The State Trivia

Tom and M. Ian Black: Did you really use $240 worth of puddin’ for the Barry and Levon skit, and how did it feel to stick your butt in it?

Yes it was real pudding, and, again, it felt great.

How IBM Conned My Execs Out Of Millions

Edit: Awesome novelty account quote from the comments:

What I hate, too, is they always pair up a fairly competent dude with a total fucking assclown who doesn’t know jack shit. That said on a recent project we started out small with a prove it to us attitude, and when they didn’t deliver, they got clowned like Leroy Brown. We wuz all up in they face, with the don’t pull this extend the schedule shit on me son! Do I look like a motherfuckin bitch? Then why you tryin’ to fuck me!? I want a fuckin sales pitch, I’ll call the phone company and listen to the hold message motherfucker! Don’t TEST. That’s how you need to deal with triflin crumbsnatchas like IGS. Keep the pimp hand strong, yo.

so umm, any of you know what’s going on by the creamery?

bukkake
must have gotten pretty messy, there’s an assload of police/fire/ambulance

maybe someone drowned

Katherin Hepburn?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that two years after the National Do Not Call Registry took effect, regulators say the system is working, but only six federal fines have been issued. More than half of registered consumers say they’re still getting unwanted calls, according to a recent phone survey.

The Flying Saucer

Isn’t this how some of the scenarios in War Games began?

In this first military confrontation with Palestinian militants since the pullout, Israel is intent on establishing new rules of combat that will permit it greater freedom of action against the Palestinians than it allowed itself when it was an occupying power. Officials have warned that there would be “zero tolerance” after the withdrawal and that Israel would regard an attack upon it from Gaza as an attack on its sovereignty by a foreign entity.

Emphasis at the end backs up my guess as to why they’d hand over the gaza strip at all…

Speaking of watermellon, I think Back to School is ripe for a remake.

loltatic mid-post derail:

Well, when I go to check IMDB to see the name of Rocky’s “Paulie” in Back to School, I see there is another Back to School listed for 2006. And it’s a remake.

They won’t cast it the way I had hoped. DJ Quaill, Frankie Whaley, and Larry David.

The only person listed so far is Cedric the Entertainer.