I have two gmail accounts — one for website stuff, and another for personal use. And the photo that’s associated with the personal one is now a black man giving a speech. I don’t know how this happened. I have no idea who the person is, or how it became the icon for my private email.
The photo is to the right. Any ideas? What’s going on?? Is that Rog? WTS? I need closure on this thing.
And just so you know… here’s how many unread messages I have in my Surf Report account. I get an avalanche of boolshit every day, mostly from mailing lists I’ve subscribed to, various Google Alerts, people trying to separate me from my money, and website notifications. I could probably clean it up, and by the looks of things… that might not be such a bad idea.
This morning I was scrolling through the website email, and there was one from Amazon, advertising DVD box sets of old TV shows. I clicked through, and saw this one. Holy crapnuggets! That’s the holy grail!! I’ve been waiting for that set to be released, for 20 years. How did I not know?! I think a little bit of pee might have escaped when my brain realized what it was seeing on the computer screen.
Get a Life is one of the most absurd shows to ever appear on network TV. How it lasted two full seasons is a mystery. It’s completely bizarre and ridiculous, and I loved every minute of it. Most of the episodes haven’t been seen since they were originally aired, because of legal issues involving the music, blah blah blah. It’s always the music…
Anyway, I’m excited and will be purchasing that thing straigh’ away. Then I’ll make the boys watch it with me, and it’ll be a soft-focus montage of all three of us laughing our asses off. They like Cabin Boy, one of my all-time favorites, so they’ll definitely enjoy Get a Life.
And speaking of Cabin Boy, it’s apparently now one of the go-to choices whenever a “worst movie ever made” discussion breaks out. Are people insane?! That movie is fantastic, from beginning to end. But it’s part of the worst-movie narrative now, and facts don’t matter once the narrative takes hold.
Another one that’s automatically mentioned: Ishtar. I’ve never seen it, don’t know anything about it, and suspect most people are like me. Yet they know they’re supposed to say Ishtar. I’m getting bitter.
Some more automatic answers:
Worst movie: Titanic
Best movie: Citizen Kane
Worst song: We Built This City
Best song: Satisfaction
I think people are generally full of shit. Present company excluded. Of course, they’re right about We Built This City, and Titanic is a turd… but still. I think there’s a whole lotta parroting going on. They’re full of shit, even when they’re right.
What are some other automatic answers that the general population is programmed to regurgitate? Valid, or otherwise? Please use the comments link below. I’m especially interested in the non-valid ones… What movies, TV shows, songs, albums, etc. have a completely skewed reputation in your opinion?
And I’m going to eat a gigantic salad for lunch now. I’d prefer an Asiago Ranch Chicken Club from Wendy’s, but will be having a homemade salad instead. Hopefully it will help me get into heaven, or some shit. Pass the beer nuts.
See you guys again tomorrow.
Now playing in the bunker
Treat yourself to something cool at Amazon!
Dammit!
Mystery solved: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1OrSQVN2Q
You will not ever get into heaven if you are eating salad. I prefer not to eat anything that has ever cast a shadow.
I have a really amazing app on my cell phone called “Google Goggles.” You take a photo with your phone, and Goggles scours the Internet for the item in your photo, and two seconds later tells you what it is. I took a photo of Jeff’s black-man icon, and here’s where Goggles pointed me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHHQu4CIos
That is truly O-Mazing.
I did not know Jeff could sing.
I happen to love we built this city.
Best UFO album w/o Michael Schenker – everyone says No Place to Run, but I think it’s The Wild, The Willing and the Innocent.
Yeah, well, he didn’t say anything about it not be OBSCURE.
Wow, my English is sorely lacking at the moment. I meant ” he didn’t say it couldn’t be OBSCURE”
I always wondered if anyone else ever appreciated Chris Elliot’s bizzareness.
Andy Kaufman’s right up there in bizarreness and genius.
I thought Chris Elliot was hilarious in “Ground Hog Day”, too.
I saw him in a brief tv show recently, made me wonder why he dropped off the face of tv. I also happen to work with a guy who looks like Chris Elliot.
Chris Elliot’s bizzareness never really won any time on our TV back then, tho I remember the show.
I appreciate Andy Kaufman’s approach, and knowing that might have been what Chris Elliot was trying to pull off back then does not help shed a better light on him.
Guys, if you have not googled his daughter, Abby, yet. You would be surprised. She’s a cute girl .
Frank Zappa
Phish
Worst song – Mustang Sally
Best Song – No idea, I’m a better judge of what sucks and what I like usually never sees the radio.
Best Movie – The Accountant (2001)
Worst Movie – I’m going out on a limb here and I’m going to say the Red Dawn remake that is coming out next week. I will watch it, but I don’t think I’ll love it.
I can’t think of any “automatic” question/answers so I’m going to steal Jeff’s and change the answers:
Worst movie: Their Answer: Waterworld. My Answer Reds
Best movie: Their Answer The Wizard of Oz. My Answer: March of the Wooden Soldiers
Worst song: Their Answer: Wonderful Tonight. My answer: Tom Sawyer
Best song: Their answer: Stairway to Heaven. My Answer: Tangled up in Blue
Have you seen Waterworld?
About 5 minutes worth. Was it any good?
No!
Worst movie: Anything Twilight related
Best movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Worst song: Rico Suave
Best song: I’m Yours
I am reluctant to post this, so if you don’t want your bubble burst Jeff, don’t read this entry.
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If the music issue in a TV show is unresolved, they will overdub the “offending” song… And ruin the whole setup.
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Best Movie: The Big Lebowski. Yes, it was funny, I did enjoy it, but it certainly was not the hilarious start to finish movie many make it out to be.
Most people are lemmings and cannot form their own opinions. A buddy and I went into a Whole Foods supermarket yesterday, and we were amazed at the profusion of lemmingdom. Every single one of the people we saw, I guarantee, thought that they had broken out of the imagined corporate straightjacket into which society puts us, but they were all gobbling up the pseudo-organic corporate crack that Whole Foods pushes and wearing the same hipster clothes and eyeglasses made by corporations. Sheeple, man.
Though I actually enjoy Whole Foods (minus the “organic” propaganda), I couldn’t agree with you more. The air is filled with a stink of “I’m better than you” attitudes, but they do have some good quality stuff.
Worst Movie: Pearl Harbour
Best Movie: Fight Club
Worst Song: Macarena (this an make you spontaneously shit yourself)
Best Song: No such thing…..
And I’d just like to announce that I just watched a total solar eclipse down the beach!
Weird and awesome.
Worst car
Automatic answer- Yugo (ok, a pretty valid answer).
My answer-anything with a British electrical system.
Is an automotive “British Electrical System” an Oxymoron, a Paradox or a Contradiction?
“British Electrical System” is a contraction of “I smell wires burning, who put a 30 amp fuse on that circuit, and where’s the fire extinguisher?” 1980 Triumph Spitfire…
I dunno about “Satisfaction” being the best song, but I say “Satisfaction” is the best music video ever, and here’s the proof… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5bYDhZBFLA
Oh, and what’s with the TWO closable banners on top of the page now? I understand and can deal with one, but TWO???
There is no worst song; if you think you’ve found it, there will be 10 more that are worse. Likewise movies. Best song: I Wanna Be Sedated, or maybe Birdland. Best movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Sturgeon’s Law applies, of course.
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“She up’n R-U-N-N-O-F-T!”
“We thought, you was a TOAD!”
ohhhh O’ Brother!!!! that is right up there with Shawshank for me! Hell I went out and bought the soundtrack, too!
Worst Movie Ever: “O-Mazing Grace”, Youtube, 2012
I concur.
xcruser88x – nice find
Swami Bologna – Yeah I was going to do that very same thing with the image if no one else had. You don’t need the app, google image search is available to everyone. I use it all the time for strange bugs, birds and plants.
However, knowing who it is or where it came from does not explain how it became Jeff’s avatar for his gmail inbox. Strange.
Cleaning up the inbox:
It seems I found a fast way that not everyone knows about?
First, set your inbox to display a shit ton of emails as possible on one page (its in the settings) then you choiose “check all UNREAD emails”in your inbox. This way you do not have to fear losing something you have read and want to keep, PLUS you are going down a long list of emails and only UNCHECKING the ones you want to keep.
Just remember the 2nd and remaining pages of email you load will have these loaded at the top of the new pile, so you will re-uncheck them to keep them again.
Oh yeh, email. I use an antique text-based mail reader. The banner at the top looks like:
MESSAGE INDEX Folder: INBOX Message 54,421 of 54,424 NEW
It’s that small because I once accidentally deleted everything.
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Jeff, are you sure you didn’t mean this one?
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Get-a-Life/70072624?strkid=1838179109_1_0&strackid=1ffbe7c6fecc9ce5_1_srl&trkid=222336
Let me tell you something, “Raising Arizona” is right up there with “Dude, Where’s My Car?” for biggest logs of shit I’ve ever witnessed. Maybe I don’t “get it”? Well, maybe I don’t wanna “get it” eat shit.
Bizarre is good, and I’m bizarre. But crap is crap. I don’t care.
That’s black Jesus on your inbox picture.
Other things that people like:
McRib = Fuck you. It’s shit. Like eating a kitchen sponge.
Social Justice = anything but. Fuck you.
Cats = Not funny or clever. Fuck you.
Cheezburger (or what the fuck ever) = Die please.
Star Wars = Fuck you, weirdo. Go jackoff.
This site use to be somewhat family friendly…….
You haven’t been around long, have you?
GFY
Love,
-Dude
Q: What’s for dinner?
A: A bowl of corn, motherfuckers!
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I loved Titanic. Sorry. Not necessarily the love story of Jack and Rose, but more the history of the ship itself and the real life passengers. I have several books about it and am just fascinated by the whole story.
Best movie….without doubt, The Godfather.
Worst? Chariots of Fire. Gawd…shoot me.
And since I like country music, I have to go with “In Color” by Jamie Johnson for the best. The worst in country? Are you kidding? It’s country for cripes sakes…..I don’t have enough time to list all of that crap.
Man, this seems like it should be right up my alley.
I just don’t have much to write lately.
I love Cabin Boy! What’s wrong with people?
Best song: either Hot Rod Lincoln or Dead Flowers
Best movie: either Blazing saddles or Young Frankenstein
Sorry, just can’t make up my mind on these things.