Archive for February, 2008

Worst Valentines Day Gifts and Cool Gift Alternatives

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Leave it to the Japanese to cut to the heart of Valentine’s Day with robotic efficiency.
In Japan, female workers are expected to give Valentines chocolates to their male co-workers. This is called giri-choko from the words giri (”obligation”) and choko, (”chocolate”).
Obligation chocolate doesn’t exactly sound yummy.
Still, we have a funny feeling that most gifts exchanged […]

2008 Grammy Winners Winehouse West and Who is Herbie Hancock?

Monday, February 11th, 2008

The 50th annual Grammys aired with fewer boring acceptance speeches than usual—and seemingly fewer awards than usual. Most of the awards from the show’s 110 categories are not presented as part of the television broadcast.
This is a good thing, since among the many riveting categories are Best Polka Album, Best Album Notes, and Best Surround […]

Winehouse Not the Only Musician Banned in America

Friday, February 8th, 2008

With the recent controversy surrounding what appears to be a video of Amy Winehouse smoking crack, it seems that things just keep getting worse for the troubled singer.

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Although the singer has been nominated for several awards for her album Back to Black and the hit single, “Rehab”, it was recently announced that […]

Fight Club Musical by Trent Reznor and other bad ideas

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

The first rule of Fight Club is “Don’t talk about fight club,” but maybe it should be “Don’t make a musical about fight club.” Just don’t tell author Chuck Palahniuk or Trent Reznor.

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The acclaimed author, along with film director David Fincher, recently confirmed to MTV News that they are in talks to develop […]

2008 Grammy Preview and 5 Reasons to Tune Out

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Even a Hollywood writers strike couldn’t prevent this miserable show from clawing its way onto the airwaves. The 50th Annual Grammy Awards airs Sunday February 10 on CBS. But don’t waste your time. Go read a book or download music that doesn’t suck instead.
Here are just a few of the reasons we won’t be tuning […]

Super Tuesday Results McCain vs Hannah Montana

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Super Tuesday is the day that 24 states hold primary elections to determine which candidate their delegates will back at the national convention (which is where the parties officially nominate a presidential candidate from among the field of contenders).

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It’s a tight race between Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and Republicans John McCain […]

2008 Super Bowl Halftime Music Still Lame

Monday, February 4th, 2008

There was a time when the entertainment at football games was limited to the conventional marching band routine.

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However, things have changed, and for the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the musical acts fill the half-time show get nearly as much publicity as the teams in the big game, like 2008 Super Bowl Winner New […]

Bart Simpson is a Scientologist! Who else is?

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Fox News and the Huffington Post just reported that Nancy Cartwright (the actress who provides the voice for Bart Simpson), is a Scientologist. Not only that, but she just donated $10 million to this cult of Tom Cruise (which is TWICE her yearly salary from the Simpsons, which airs on Fox).

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