Mario Brothers: The movie. Not to be confused with this actual piece of Hollywood trash, this is done in beautiful low res NES pixels in Flash and is quite moving: Parts 1, 2, 3 (via monkeyfilter)

I wonder how much of tomorrow's Howard Stern show will be about this instead of the tirade of Jay Leno hate that has been making my moring commute so enjoyable every day this week.

Capalert, the christian film review site notorious for having a very low tolerance for filmed violence loves this blood and gore fest. Some of my all time favorites are their reviews of South Park, Blair Witch Project, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and the first 8 minutes of Jackass: The Movie (which was all he could take).

Pink Floyd fans, whatever you do, DO NOT click on this link! Consider yourselves warned. (via enormous fun)

I cannot even put into words how angry this article makes me. (edited to put it into words a little bit better)

The original Washington Intern Gone Bad weighs in on the latest intern scandal.

Checking out my referers today, I got another hit from a yahoo search for Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, which is what I typically refer to the queen of right wing fluffers, Ann Coulter. I decided to broaden that search by adding Ann Coulter's name to it. It hardly came as a surprise that I'm not the only one who thinks of this vile propagandist in this way. Thinking about some successful google bombings for things like Miserable Failure and Santorum (the frothy mixture looks like it has slipped to number two - better get back to work on this, people!), I thought who else is as deserving of a google bombing than the woman who has added such wonderful gems to the political discourse as these? So, here's what I want y'all to do... if you have a website or blog, please add the following links: Ann Coulter (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071650/), and Ilsa She Wolf of the SS (http://www.anncoulter.com). Put it in your sig files for any message boards you are on. Don't you want to hear her whine about how unfairly she's being treated by us internet lefty types?

The other night, Anne and I watched the Sid and Marty Krofft marathon on TVLand. It was the first time either of us have seen those shows since we were kids. We caught The Bugaloos, H.R. Pufnstuff, Land of the Lost (our all time favorite) and a bizarre live show of The World of Sid and Marty Krofft at the Hollywood Bowl. Now I'm completely obsessed with making a psychedelic kids show. I would need a serious budget for costumes and sets to pull that off, not to mention an orchestra, a choreographer, puppeteers, wireless mics to go inside the big costume heads, and an actual soundstage. I'm still debating if I want to put an ad on craigslist to try to get a crew together on this.

I'm not sure if this guy is as popular in the rest of the country as he is here in the Bay Area, but I can't turn on the radio anymore without hearing his rendition of She Bangs. Meet William Hung. He's a civil engineering student at UC Berkeley and the latest Bay Area music sensation. Oh yeah, and he's more talented than Lars Ulrich.

Something I learned from yesterday's whale watching expedition: without any whales, it's just an expensive, cold and rough boat ride. At least we didn't get sick like just about everyone else on the boat. We had double protection of some chewable anti-seasickness drug that knocked us out and these wristbands that put pressure on a point that supposedly keeps you from getting sick. The drugs just kicked our butts and made us cranky and I still felt a little bit wooshy a few times out there. We went to sleep at 8pm last night and slept close to 12 hours. Anne still feels a little groggy and both of our bodies still hurt from sitting on hard surfaces and being bounced around for hours. It's going to be a very long time before either of us gets on a boat again.

OK, back from the game show without that TiVo, but I placed a respectable second place and got to plug the movie. My prize was a few shirts that didn't fit. If any of you got to this blog because you heard me on the radio, please say hello. I'll give away a free Live 105 shirt to the first three Bay Area people to buy a Washington Interns Gone Bad DVD. First one gets a black sweatshirt. The other two are t-shirts, one black L and one white XL. I lost to a very worthy opponent. Madden was very cool and Ben Johnson is just hysterical. More on this later. We need to try to get a restful night's sleep before a long day of whale watching tomorrow.

Just when you thought Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS Ann Coulter couldn't sink any lower, she goes and says this.

Gameshow update: I just found out what the prize is which I'll be playing for. It's a TiVo!!!

After being considered too weak to be on The Weakest Link and after miserably failing the Jeopardy test, finally I will be on a gameshow. If you're here in the Bay Area, you can tune in to 105.3 this Friday night at 8PM to hear me whoop a little trivia ass (I hope), win some prizes (I hope) and get to plug my film to all the people who actually listen to the radio from 8 to 10 on a Friday night (I really hope).

It looks like the Muppets will not be asked to produce any halftime entertainment any time soon.

Washington Interns Gone Bad's favorite right wing senator, Rick Santorum, is in the news again today. The frothy mixture that his name has become synonymous with is now google's number one search result for "santorum." That's even cooler than pimping him for free publicity.

A pig just flew past my window and Bill O'Reilly actually apologized for trusting Bush about the WMDs in Iraq. I don't think he was too happy about it and he offered a few too many excuses, but it's a start I suppose. (via freakgirl)

BREAKING NEWS: It looks like another wacky religious fundimentalist has taken over an airlpane. No fighter jets were sent to escort it to the ground and nobody died. An investigation is coming soon. Janet Jackson's breast has no comment.

Inside the zany world of reality TV dating shows.

Major congrats to Zoe for getting some great press (and to the rest of the DC area bloggers mentioned - I may be in San Francisco, but I'm still a DC Blogger at heart!).

Scary!

Check this out: actual documents from the Treasury department showing the underside of life within the Bush administration. "These documents are drawn from a collection of 19,000 files of Paul H. O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury Secretary for the first two years of the Presidency of George W. Bush. Like all Treasury Secretaries, O'Neill was the top domestic appointment of the President and also a principal of the National Security Council. The files, which range from memoranda to the President to handwritten notes to "sensitive" internal reports, cover a sweeping array of foreign and domestic issues. They also display the attending political and personal matters that often determine policy... ...Documents cited in the "The Price of Loyalty" are presented with explanations of context and little comment. They speak, as does all irrefutable evidence, for themselves. "

Oh yeah, if you haven't seen the Lil GnR audition video yet, what the hell are you waiting for? It's one of the funniest things I've seen in ages!

Odds and ends: I've launched my dad's website at BudBuckley.com. I've gotten through another few pages on the new screenplay. I was just contacted by a writer at the Washington Post about a location that was used in Washington Interns Gone Bad (Bistro Au Ghetto) which might wind up getting mentioned in the story. My blog entry is the only thing that comes up when googling for Bistro Au Ghetto. In addition to being a graphic artist at work, I've been made the office manager as well and part of my job will now entail ordering materials, scheduling work and being the go-between with new clients and our estimator. My boss is going to be out of town for the next two weeks and that's pretty much when I'll be starting these duties. I like being able to order materials since I've missed a few days due to not having materials ready when we needed them. I'll also be in charge of mailing lists and direct mail. I've also booked an exciting valentines day excursion for Anne and I (she already knows, so I'm not ruining any surprise by blogging about it). I'm not sure if I'll be shooting video as it might be a little wet.

After 3 years of people buzzing about this, finally George W. Bush's record of being AWOL is a campaign issue. So if the media were so "liberal," why is it that stories like this stagnate for months and even years before the press picks up on them?

Got some time to waste? Waste it on this. (via enormous fun)

Michael Powell and the FCC need to get their priorities straight. Hundreds of thousands of people send in letters, emails and faxes of concern over the deregulation of media ownership and they go ahead and relax those rules anyway. But a woman's breast gets shown during the superbowl halftime show for a split second and they immediately start an investigation. Let's put this into perspective, shall we? The vice president allows Enron executives to draft national energy policy after they fleeced California and were in the process of fleecing their shareholders, employees and retirees and there's no investigation. Three thousand Americans die in a terrorist attack that more than likely could have been prevented and the government drags their feet on any investigation. The president lies about weapons of mass destruction to send us to a war where over 500 of our troops have already died and they drag their feet on any investigation. But one bare boobie winds up on TV and there's an immediate investigation? Excuse me, but WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY??? I'll bet John Ashcroft is having a custom set of drapes made for Janet (Ms. Jackson if you're nasty).

Like pretty much every year, I didn't watch the Superbowl yesterday. Did I miss anything? (NSFW)