I’m doing it! Today! Live! At 5p PT!
My friend Jarrett Grode made the following silent film to go with the above picture for Starzlife. It made me laugh, so now I pass the laughings onto YOU…at no additional cost.
“Nose Aerobics.” It’s a thing. It’s a thing somebody thought of and talked another person into making it a physical reality.
From the site InventionZoo.com (who claim “Clever Products for Clever People”–sarcastically, I imagine):
With numerous games to play, this is how it works: Attach the stem to the glasses, put the glasses on, then attach any one of the different games to the end of the stem and get ready for fun. By moving your head, you create the action to play the game or solve the puzzle. As seen on the “Rosie O’Donnell Show.” Guaranteed laughs!
Ages 5 and up.
Every element of that paragraph sound like fun’s opposite to me. I have devised a more appropriate marketing pitch:
Discourage Even The Randiest Of Tykes From Diddling Their Middle With The “Nose Aerobics” Time-Vacuum System!
Ages 5 and “up.”
via @EmilyKrasinski
Mike Phirman took this picture of me last night in the parking lot of a TGI Fridays, the only open good-time eatery we could find when we arrived in St. Louis at 11pm.
“Computer Problem Busters” sounds like it was named in Japan and translated back into English. You have to admire their consistency! Their website (computerproblembusters.com) is just as straightforward and uninspired! This kind of grass-roots, no-nonsense nerdery makes me think they might actually know what they’re doing.
*Side note: Mike kept being irritated by the string of cliche 90s megamix hits that were playing in Fridays. The playlist could have been named “Frat Party Rape Night.” Then I reminded him that if you heard these songs out in the world, you would sarcastically say to yourself, “Where the f*ck am I? TGI Fridays??” Then it all made sense.
As long as Soapbox keeps making and leaking these to me, I’ll keep postin’ ‘em. And from what I understand, there will be more. For the first time in ages this wave of new vids make the Muppets feel like “The Muppet Show” again.
Hurray!
I must give credit to AT&T for at the very least giving the IMPRESSION that they care about their customers by letting them report geotagged coverage issues with their “Mark the Spot” app. This makes me very happy because while “network congestion” may be SOME of their problem, everyone with a working brain knows that numerous consistent dead zones, like the FIVE I hit on my way to work every day, are a symptom of poor coverage.
The app is very easy to use. Launch it, select the coverage issue you’re having, geotag it with “Current Location” (which ironically you will need coverage for) OR enter a location you’re still angry about dropping a call, and simply SUBMIT.
I sincerely hope they are constructively utilizing this info, but even if it’s a dummy-crosswalk-button-designed-to-make-you-think-you’re-accomplishing-something, it is very satisfying to have a complaint outlet besides just “The Heavens.” Also, I really believe AT&T is eager to “turn shit around,” and this app with their announced “2000 new towers next year” plan is further proof.
Now download and USE IT. I’m sure they are just as sick of hearing that they are the worst company on the planet as you are of telling them that.
*fingers crossed*
To celebrate the release of Paul F. Tompkins’s’s’s latest stand-up release Freak Wharf, I had the honor of sitting down with him as the inaugural personality for my 1Q1A series:
CH: So how are you, Paul?
PFT: Great.
CH: Thank you for being here.
PFT: My pleasure.
If you enjoy comedy, pick up Freak Wharf digitally on iTunes or in the physical universe from AST Records.
Actually, it’s just a Canadian trailer for their Canadian mini-series that airs next month in Canadia. (Get on the comedy ball, Uncle Sam)
If you visit this site often then there is a good chance you are a KITH fan, as the typical Nerdist Venn diagram heavily intersects with theirs.
Really looking forward to this! It seems to have that great, classic “Kids” vibe to it.
via @erinbiba
