all up in your television

(cross posted from Team America: World Rickshaw Runners: THE BLOG)

According to the Adventurists’ “person who organises things and looks after sponsors,” otherwise known as Lamorna, a French TV channel is interested in documenting the plight of their fellow french peoples.

I’m not exactly sure whether this particular event gets a lot of television exposure but its sister event, The Mongol Rally (the one that started it all), seems to get a lot of press time and even face time on European TV.

No word on their american counterparts tho, at least none from that I’ve been able to find and I really cannot imagine why. This is something I definitely see being broadcast on a Travel Channel, or a Current.tv, or even Discovery. Or Deco Drive.

Did I mention we’re the team coming out of Miami?

This event and its cause could definitely use a little more exposure and maybe a few more trailers like this one:

On a totally unrelated note, Team America: World Rickshaw Runners is looking for sponsors. We’d love to plaster your logo all over our tuk-tuk and have it shown on Miami and French television.

they hate whitey!!!!

First, our newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor is deemed a racist, and now this:

I don’t think one can say this enough, but the folks at Fox & Friends are terrible! After Beck certifies that Obama is indeed a black supremacist, Kilmeade once again shows the world his total lack of grasp of the issue of race.

Waw.

the great bale out

Stephen Colbert Bales out. (check below.)

Christian Bale Bales out on a director of photography. LINK.

The Great Bale Out of 2009 – The REmix.

Dan Marino almost Bales out. LINK.

OH GOOD!!!!

more about “the great bale out“, posted with vodpod

president barack hussein obama

I’ve been wanting to post this for a minute, and I suppose it’s always better late than never, and what better time to enjoy a photo essay on the next president of the United States of America than while we count down to this momentous occasion:  LINK.

live and direct:

more about “the next prez of the united states“, posted with vodpod

Sanchez calls out Wurzelbacher

Thank God. Thank the “liberal media.” And (I never thought I’d say something like this but) thank you Rick.

It seems I’m not the only one who thinks Joe the reporter should try yet another field.

Malcolm Gladwell discusses Outliers

I picked up Gladwell’s latest book, Outliers, and so far so good. I think this one may have more applied relevance than his previous two, and I’m only halfway done. What I love about him is that he’s so incredibly adept at organizing and communicating these seemingly tangential ocurrences and ideas and produce the most interesting theories, which I’d say range from just plain clever to tremendously insightful.

Here he is discussing Outliers with Charlie Rose (he’s on the first 30 mins so disregard the Geoff Colvin image and press play):

linkage

1. Audaciously dope postbourgie’s quadmoniker writes an excellent post about the speech that won’t happen. (Meaning Hillary’s speech on gender.) Link.
2. In case you missed it, Frontline: Bush’s War -the full series (and extras) available online. Link.
3. Critical Miami takes a trip to the Florida Keys. I doubt he needs the link, but this is some good stuff. Link.
4. This American Life – Live! (The Movie!) One night only! May 1st! South Beach & The Falls only! (Anyone wanna watch this, let me know!) Link. Complete Theatre List.
5. And last but not least, watch your favorites. Anytime. For free. Link.

jimmy kimmel *hearts* ben affleck

Kimmel gets back at Sarah Silverman for f###ing Matt Damon (and manages to keep it surprisingly funny):

this posting is not filtered.

A couple of things.

I’m not the biggest T.V. watcher, but whatever watching I do, it mostly happens around late night. Normally it’s something along the lines of MMA repeats, Family Guy, or Law and Order reruns (o.k. throw a little Monk and Psych in there for the hell of it); if you’re not getting by now, I’m not big on the late night circuit either (although I do think Letterman >>> Leno). Most of the time the stuff serves as background noise.

I gotta say though, Dennis Miller’s Sports Unfiltered on the Versus Network (apparently not everybody gets it; Tuesdays or Wednesdays at 10 p.m.) is something to post about. My guess is that it helps if you’re into sports and humor (notice that no “or” is included in that statement). And also, that you get Dennis Miller humor.

This is the second show I catch, although I’m sure it helped that they featured a few MMA fighters and that he had “extensive” Miami Dolphin coverage (about 2 jokes; 2 extensive jokes). I wouldn’t call it background noise. I’ve always thought he’s a funny guy. His show tonight focused on tough guys… his major downfall was not featuring Tim Tebow.

Basically, I’m not chalking this up to the strike -viewers be forewarned.

Bill Moyers interviews Jon Stewart

Bill Moyers of PBS talks to Jon Stewart about The Daily Show, the war in Iraq, democrats and republicans, and why he is taken seriously (but shouldn’t be) by people of certain demographics.

I recommend you watch the video (about 30 mins long), because The Daily Show clips in it are a riot.

Otherwise, you can read the transcript here.