Eric Covener’s Journal

Best in-movie pseudo music videos:

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/06/16/five-awesome-intentionally-funny-music-videos-in-movies/

Including Empire Records, Naked Gun, Eurotrip

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1656168.html

If you like your pooch at your feet while dining outside Raleigh restaurants, your doggie dinner dates are numbered.

Wake County food safety officials, citing their interpretation of state rules, have started telling restaurants that canines are no longer allowed at outside tables.

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/

You’ve committed your life to Jesus. You know you’re saved. But when the Rapture comes what’s to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind.

Via Ryan.

(05:08:34 PM) zr0e: sorry ted, i don’t remember.
(05:08:47 PM) CovInHer: issat a rounders line
(05:08:54 PM) zr0e: well he says sorry john
(05:08:59 PM) zr0e: have u ever seen rounders?
(05:09:24 PM) CovInHer: No, I’m exceptionally good at guessing movies I’ve never seen when people paraphrase them

… 26 dollars for the assorted crap picked up throughout Target while waiting for it to be ready. Well played target.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/08/18/9873193.aspx

Here is our list of action-ons.

The obfuscation is now complete. Nobody knows whether this is a list of things they want to do, a list of things for which management has given their approval, a list of things for which work has begun, or a list of things which have been completed! The only thing that is clear from that sentence is that there’s a list of some sort.

I’m surrounded by people blathering on about terms made up in the last month that have no rigorous meaning, so I can sympathise.

Gotta get back to Harold’s in the old Grey Matter convention venue in New Jersey

We get a new season of Curb in September. Ridicoulous end to season 6 below (with Vivica Fox dressing down Susie Essman)