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Go Ahead, Try This At Home.

Nate — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:49:35 +0000

This is how you do a marketing video. Crazy card skills. (Thanks, Mike.)

4. 8. 15. 16. 23. 42.

Jay — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:06:54 +0000

I used to hate Lost. I would scoff at my fiancée for ruining an hour of our Wednesday night. I would pull my headphones on while co-workers prattled on about numbers and smoke monsters and guys named Jacob. One day, a former colleague gave me Season One on DVD and implored me to at least watch the pilot episode. So I did. Then I watched all five seasons in the span of about four months. The final season of Lost starts tonight, and I’m irrationally excited.

The Sound You Hear is a Thousand Cars Crashing Simultaneously.

Jay — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:01:54 +0000

The NFL announced plans yesterday to bring its titanically successful NFL RedZone channel to cellphones, starting next season. Yeah, I said it.

Does the NFL RedZone alert you when your marriage enters the red zone?

In the War of Conan vs. Jay, Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About Dave?

Jay — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:02:00 +0000

Here’s my theory on why Conan’s ratings dropped. Although I think it’s fairly obvious, I haven’t heard anyone out there saying it. Here goes:

Conan used to be on at 12:30. Jay was on at 11:30. Dave was also on at 11:30.
“Conan people” tend to also be “Dave people,” which meant that…
Those people could watch Dave, then watch Conan.
When Jay went to 10, and Conan went to 11:30, that meant Conan was running against Dave.
Viewers then had to make a choice between Conan and Dave. Maybe out of habit, maybe out of loyalty, maybe because of that sex scandal, they watched Dave. Let’s assume they DVR’d Conan to watch at 12:30 (DVR viewings don’t yet count in the ratings). Who knows?
Conan’s ratings plummet.

Whaddya think? Do you buy it?

Blue Christmas.

Jay — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:15:51 +0000

I thought Avatar—excuse me, James Cameron’s Avatar—was going to be terrible. Really terrible. “Waterworld starring Jar Jar Binks” terrible. I even gloated about how terrible I knew it was going to be.

Well, allow me to be the last one to tell you: It’s not terrible. Not even close. Against all odds, it may be the only 2009 film I’ve seen in the theater that I’d happily pay another $11 to see again. Make no mistake, it’s still a James Cameron movie—overlong, laughable dialogue, ham-fisted themes, Sigourney Weaver—but it just looks incredible.

Here’s James Cameron and fellow visionary, epic (not to mention filthy rich) filmmaker Peter Jackson having a conversation about how visionary and epic they both are. The “filthy rich” part is implied.

(via Slate)