http://www.destinyland.org The happiest blog on earth en-us http://www.cloud9.net/~destiny/favicon.ico http://www.destinyland.org http://www.destinyland.org/henry-the-eighth.htm In 1910, a British dance hall star sang a ditty about a man whose wife had had seven previous husbands. 57 years later, it was re-recorded by Herman's Hermits, and in 1967 became "the fastest-selling song in history," according to Wikipedia. "I am Henry the Eighth, I am. Henry the Eighth I am, I am. I got married to the woman next door. She's been married seven times before. And every one was a Henry. She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam. I'm her eighth old man named Henry Henry the Eighth I am. (Second verse! Same as the first...) But there's a strange second verse that hasn't been been popular since 1910. Archive.org has a recording of the original 1910 version which reveals how the marriage worked out. The undertaker called and to the wife I heard him say "Have you got any orders, mum? We're very slack today? I packed up number seven for you for the golden gates. Let's have a pound upon account of Henry the eighth." Oh, when he measured me with half a yard of string. I dropped upon me maribound and sang "God save the king"... http://www.destinyland.org/Devo-sues-McDonalds.htm Devo just sued McDonalds over a toy giveaway. It's a doll wearing a red "power dome" -- on which Devo holds a trademark and copyright. "They didn't ask us anything," says Devo's Gerald Casale. "Plus, we don't like McDonald's, and we don't like American Idol, so we're doubly offended." The band also allege that the toy plays a "Devo-esque song". http://www.destinyland.org/the-meaning-of-me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard.htm It was against the law," Paul Simon sang. "What the mama saw. It was against the law." It's one of the great enigmas of pop music what exactly did she see? The song is "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard." But what incident is it describing? It made the mama "spit on the ground every time my name gets mentioned," according to the mysterious lyrics, and made papa determined to stick him "in the house of detention." In a couple of days they come and take me away but the press let the story leak. And when the radical priest come to get me released we's all on the cover of Newsweek It's bothered me for years, so I finally researched the song on Wikipedia. Click here for Paul Simon's answer http://www.destinyland.org/watch-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-TV-clip.htm "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" also became a TV series in 1986. 22 years later, someone has magically obtained over two minutes of video footage from the series. (Jeff Spicoli was played by Dean Cameron instead of Sean Penn -- but they kept the same actors for teachers Mr. Hand and Mr. Varga.) The word usually used to describe this series is "short-lived" http://www.destinyland.org/Steve-Carell-jokes-in-Wired.htm Steve Carell wrote a funny article in Wired called How to Act Brilliant. Here's just the headings for some of Steve's funny bits of advice. Engage in Reading-Type Behavior Get the Abs of Einstein Match Your Shoes to Your Belt Don't Chew Your Food http://www.destinyland.org/Disco-Tex-and-his-Sex-O-Lettes.htm 1975 was a strange time. (Image) They had one top ten hit in 1975 -- called "Get Dancin' " -- and if you look up its lyrics, here's what you get. Doo doo doo, doo doo doo, Doo doo doo, doo doo doo, Doo-doo-doot, doo-doo-doot Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! There's a little bit more -- but officially the song had exactly two lyrics. Here comes D.J. Disco Tex truckin with his Sex-O-Lettes Get dancing! Guaranteed to rock the boat, Machine gun rap n' locomote Get dancin' It pads things out with an over-the-top riff from a former hairdresser who now billed himself as "Sir Monti Rock III" America needs you! We need you to go dance! We need you to get together, and boogie woogie woogie woogie! RADAR LOVE IS HERE! THE STAR OF STARS! THIS IS YOUR NIGHT! THIS IS YOUR LIFE! Nobody cares how you wear your hair, darling. Just keep doing it! You can't think of all the wrong All the wrong of the world You can't think of all the bad things you do You just get out. Get dancing One music critic called it "As calculated, stagy, and utterly bizarre an attempt at rocketing someone to fame as humanly possible, Get Dancin' sounds like what would happen if a Broadway production squad with no ideas of their own found themselves at a prime Parliament/Funkadelic show and decided to see what they could do with it. http://www.destinyland.org/the-german-i-dream-of-jeannie-opening.htm Not only did Depatie-Freleng create The Pink Panther cartoons. They also did the opening credits for I Dream of Jeannie. Wait, it gets stranger. Click on the images to view the American and German openings When I Dream of Jeannie was shown in Germany, an entirely new opening sequence was created using a more Germanic wish-granting housewife. Even stranger, the original opening was live-action. (And yes, DePatie-Freleng also did "Here Comes the Grump.") http://www.destinyland.org/here-comes-the-grump.htm Nearly 40 years ago, a cartoon aired for two years -- then disappeared. (Although 20 years ago it was re-broadcast on Spanish television as Ahi viene cascarrabias, and later on the Sci Fi channel.) But imagine my delight when a cartoon I last saw at the age of six turned up on YouTube. Here comes the Grump! Here comes the Grump! http://www.destinyland.org/50-versions-of-the-Monkees-Daydream-Believer-versions.htm Behold! The future! Today Amazon released a new toy that embeds playlists of song samples directly into your web page. To celebrate, I've created my own special exhibit. 40 years of the Monkees song "Daydream Believer." Amazon found over 50 versions, each strangely trying to mimick the vulnerable "cred" of Davy Jones. Yes, it feels strange seeing a playlist that reads... Daydream Believer Daydream Believer Daydream Believer Daydream Believer But I thought the first one was the most interesting. In October of 2000 a bizarre tribute album assembled 15 hardcore indie bands for a "mid fidelity rock tribute" to the Monkees called Through the Looking Glass. And the band "Carter" did this anthem-like dirge. Here's my "liner notes" for the rest... 2. In 1968 anything sounded cutting edge if it included a sitar sounded cutting edge and "Lord Sitar" was happy to oblige. He tucked the Monkees song in between his versions of "I am the Walrus" and "I Can See for Miles" 3. Off the 2005 "Resolution [Explicit]," the alternative band Blue Kite imagines the song as a sinister and insinuating journey into their tortured souls of darkness. 4. Hey, British football fans. Rabid fans of Sunderland recorded a tribute to manager Peter Reid which became a top-50 hit in 1999 after changing the title to "Cheer up, Peter Reid." They took their name from the teams' colors, calling themselves Simply Red (and White) . (There's more...) http://www.destinyland.org/archie-comic-does-common-people-lyrics.htm I almost forgot about this... Archie explains to Jughead about that girl "whose dad was loaded," and before long she's telling him "I want to live like common people...I want to sleep with common people...." Veronica never got a smackdown like this before... It's a mashup of the lyrics to the subversive Pulp song "Common People" with the hopelessly square comic strip Archie. ( I wish more people on the net would do stuff like this.) http://www.destinyland.org/the-archies-secret-singer.htm But The Archies got all their voices from a man named Ron Dante. He was Archie, Jughead, and Reggie -- and according to Wikipedia, he even sang in a falsetto voice as Betty for the song "Jingle, Jangle." "In 1969, Ron [also] recorded an album under the group name of The Cufflinks... Providing both lead and background vocals through overdubbing, Dante hit the U.S. Top Ten with the single "Tracy", at the same time that The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" was at the top spot on the same chart. Dante was anonymous on both tracks..." "We recorded maybe thirty or forty songs in a three or four week period, and 'Sugar Sugar' was just another song," Ron remembers. In fact, he recorded over 100 songs for the Archies' show and five albums. But over 40 of those songs were never released on CD. "[T]here is a chance that I will get my hands on the masters someday and release them on my own label," he vows in this interview. In 1971 the cartoon band even issued a pretentious "Summer Prayer for Peace." Dante's voice sang the "Coke is..." counterpart on the famous "I'd like to teach the wrold to sing" commercial. The Archies burned through three different female vocalists... http://www.destinyland.org/susie-bright-on-the-DC-Madam.htm Susie Bright has a message for the D.C. Madam. Jeane, I am so sorry. I know you swore to me that you'd never serve another term in prison for prostitution, or anything else. You almost lost your eyesight the first time. I'm sure you asked your lawyers if there was any hope for your sentencing, and I guess it must have looked bleak. I know how pissed you were. This was an act of revenge, and I know who you're determined to haunt.... http://www.destinyland.org/david-weinberger-quote.htm "Perhaps the web isn't shortening our attention span. Perhaps the world is just getting more interesting..." (From David Weinberger's "Small Pieces, Loosely Joined") http://www.destinyland.org/helium/how-i-reviewed-300-bad-movies-and-earned-900.htm I feel like I committed the perfect crime. For 100 days Helium.com promised their members up to $3 for every 400-word article they wrote. So I cranked out nearly 300 quick articles, and now they owe me about $900. But of course it wasn't that simple... http://www.destinyland.org/devo-through-being-cool.htm MTV offers lyrics to Devo songs on their web page. But they got frightened by the title of Devo's famous "Are we not men" song, and couldn't bring themselves to write "Jocko Homo" on their page. [There's more...] http://www.destinyland.org/amazon-women-on-the-moon.htm Enjoy this short clip from Amazon Women on the Moon http://www.destinyland.org/Buckley-Elvis.htm William F. Buckley talks about Graceland. Buckley had actually had kind words for young Elvis Presley, but he still bemoaned... "...the spiritual inclination of the American people, who do not require that the memory being venerated should have been a martyr or a prophet. Just someone truly singular and mythogenic, who contributed to his own legend his suicidal ending as a victim of the drugs he inveighed against with the strange, disquieting, appealing innocence that marked his entire life." http://www.destinyland.org/pink-panther-first.htm Ladies and gentlemen... The very first Pink Panther cartoon. It was released in 1964 after the opening credits of the first Peter Sellers movie -- and it won an Oscar... http://www.destinyland.org/johnny-tremain.htm Over? Nothing is over. It's only a beginning. A kindling of the flame. The 1957 movie Johnny Tremain ends with the story of Paul Revere's ride, the battle of old North Bridge, and "The Shot Heard Round the World." The colonies will go to war with Britain after all... Feed it, lads, as you fed it with your blood today. It is the spark of liberty that you've touched a-fire. Its light must grow until every dark corner has vanished and it illuminates the world. http://www.destinyland.org/jan-and-dean-granny.htm There's an entire web site about Jan and Dean's 1964 song "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena." It was written by a med student (who later became a doctor), who'd been friends with Jan Berry. [T]he "union man" would knock on the door precisely as the second hand would hit the "twelve," marking the end of the third hour. If the session didn't end at that second, it was "overtime pay" for the musicians--which was about triple the ordinary rates... There are six minutes left until the three-hour deadline is up. Jan rushes out into the room and passes out the sheet music to "Little Old Lady." Take One . . . No good. Take Two is finished as the "union man" starts knocking on the door... It spends the Summer of '64 climbing all the way to Number Three on the Billboard pop charts. http://www.destinyland.org/more-tribbles.htm More Tribbles, More Troubles. A sequel to the famous Star Trek episode about tribbles was written in 1973 by its original author as part of the often-overlooked Saturday morning cartoon, Star Trek: The Animated Series. Apparently Cyrano Jones escaped from his tribble-collecting duty using a stolen tribble-eating predator developed by the Klingons. Now the Enterprise is, again, on a grain transport mission at the exact moment when the Klingons attack the space trader's ship. Inevitably he's beamed aboard -- along with his tribbles. I watched the episode tonight, and then discovered that it also has a bunch of fan pages on the web. Ultimately Mr. Spock has the best line of dialogue, after the Klingons have disabled the Enterprise's phasers and photon torpedoes. "We could always throw Tribbles at them." http://www.destinyland.org/elvira.htm She's Elvira: Mistress of the Beer. Here's a really fascinating article about the career of Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson and how she revived the fortunes of crappy beer maker, Coor's. According to this article... * She became the first female celebrity to ever endorse a beer. * Coor's cancelled her contract because worried people would think they were Satanists. * They hired her back, because Coor's distributors insisted. "As long as we had Elvira, we were the preferred beer supplier for Halloween." * Those life-sized Elvira cut-outs were a problem -- because frat boys kept stealing them. http://www.destinyland.org/blossom.htm Everyone knows I have a thing for Schoolhouse Rock singer Blossom Dearie. "Blossom Dearie's voice, critic Whitney Balliett once wrote, would scarcely reach the second story of a doll house. But that has never stopped her from swinging like mad." Unfortunately, YouTube has disabled embedding for the 9-minute video at that link. So here instead is a sad geek singing his acapella version of Blossom Dearie's "Once Upon a Summertime." http://www.destinyland.org/whitman-spider.htm A poem by Walt Whitman: "A noiseless patient spider I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant, vast surrounding It launched forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself. Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand Surrounded, detatched, in measureless oceans of space Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them. Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul." I just read this article where various career writers suggest that we don't read enough in the internet age. That our culture is becoming shallow and snarky. It got me thinking about how exhiliarating reading used to feel when I was younger, and all that mysterious grandeur of going to the library. Oh well. Enjoy my next post, "Ant-Man likes Ms. Marvel's Butt." http://www.destinyland.org/antman.htm You know who else likes Ms. Marvel's butt? Ant-Man. You already know he's kind of a lech if you're reading Marvel comics' The Irredeemable Ant-Man. ("The world's most unlikeable super hero.") Young security guard Eric O'Grady stole the Ant-Man suit, and is living on the run. And being young, irresponsible, and able-to-shrink-down-to-ant-size, he's been using his powers to peep on the ladies while they're showering... In Ant-Man #7, he stows away in a blonde woman's purse. (And yes, those were tampons in the background.) He realizes she's a super hero, but then decides maybe her apartment will be as cool as Batman's. "I bet this broad's got all kinds of cool stuff back at her lair. I could probably make off with a dinosaur, or a giant penny." And then, it happens. Hm. My 'Ant-Senses' are telling me that sounds unmistakably not unlike a shower running. I must go immediately -- to investigate. It's followed by eight small panels of Eric O'Grady, sitting motionless on Ms. Marvel's shower head and smiling. "You'd think this would get old after a while," he thinks, "but you know -- it really doesn't." Marvel Comics captures the strange scene in their cover for the next issue. Eventually Ant-Man realizes he's sealed into her flying headquarters, and broods on the ceiling. ("Crap. I'm not going to get my giant penny.") "Ms. Marvel, Ms. Marvel... I hadn't even heard of you before today, but let me tell you a secret... You're my all-time favorite super hero." http://www.destinyland.org/ice-t.htm Ice-T's story. (From the book Always Too Soon: Voices of Support For Those Who Have Lost Both Parents) "I've always felt like an outsider. Every Thanksgiving, every Christmas, it was me, sitting at someone else's table. It was that vibe like when you're over at somebody's house and they’re whispering in the kitchen, 'Why is he here?' I came into life so hard that when I see other adults who say they need or want their parents, it seems corny to me. When there’s nobody to hug you when you cry, eventually you stop crying. I think that’s how I ended up getting called 'Ice.'" http://www.destinyland.org/king-harvest.htm In the early 1970s, four American ex-patriates in Paris had formed a band called King Harvest. But their one hit single was released after the band broke up... It reached #13 on the U.S. charts in 1972, and stayed on the charts longer than any other song that year (except one). The band re-united for their first (and last) American tour. (Their opening act was a young stand-up comic named Jay Leno.) Then they broke up again. (Though some members of the band later toured with the Beach Boys.) All that remains is the song. "Dancing in the moonlight / Everybody's feeling warm and bright. It's such a fine and natural sight / Everybody's dancing in the moonlight..." [I had no idea it was recorded in Paris ] http://www.destinyland.org/ms-marvel-butt.htm Marvel comic books received comments from their readers about the costume on Ms. Marvel. "I wouldn't mind if you made the back show off her butt a little more... And if you made it a thong, I wouldn't complain about that either." The reader said he'd especially liked the way Frank Cho drew Ms. Marvel's butt. (Though the character is currently drawn by Roberto DeLaTorre.) In reply, the comic's writer remembered the first thing Frank Cho ever said to him. "Hey, nice to meet you. You gotta tell DeLaTorre to start drawing her boobs bigger." http://www.destinyland.org/bratz.htm "A day after the recall of millions of Chinese-made toys because of the lead content of their paint, critics are trashing Bratz: The Movie...because of the lead content of its story." (See, this is why I enjoy reading "Studio Briefing" at IMDB.com.) Ty Burr in the Boston Globe describes it this way: "It's pure marketing chum for tweeners: a proudly shallow, purposefully bland ode to girly-girl narcissism. I could actually feel my brain stem shrivel up as I watched it." Amy Biancolli in the Houston Chronicle begins her review this way: "O.M.G. ! This movie is SO BAD! I can't believe I just spent an hour and a half of my life, like, watching it, when I could have been totally trying on hairbands instead!" And Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune dismisses it as "the most horrifying film of 2007." http://www.destinyland.org/devo-2-now.htm Devo sold their songs to Disney. But the check must've cleared. Now Devo song-writer Gerry Casale is revealing how surreal the collaboration was. ...they picked the songs, then acted horrified -- the top Taliban at Disney -- when they got the lyrics. "What? Beautiful world for you, but not for me! You can't say that." I'd say, "But you picked the song. What do you want me to say?" "Make it say me, too!" It was fantastic. It was an exercise in proving our point. Even better. 59-year-old Casale hopes that when the album's audience is older, "they're gonna go to the internet and find out about the real Devo. "Hopefully it teaches them another lesson about censorship and the corporation." http://www.destinyland.org/wake.htm I loved Punisher War Journal #4. "A group of B-grade supervillains get together at a wake for the recently deceased 'Stilt-Man'..." What happened to us, man? The world used to tremble before us. The world used to shake. We were huge... http://www.destinyland.org/nancy-top.htm The Nancy comic strip attracted new interest last year after some bloggers discovered "the Sexiest Nancy panel ever." Today I found pictures of more Nancy comic book covers which could be construed as hinting at kinky sadomasochistic themes. Finally, since we're talking about it, I'm also posting my own "artist's conception" for the origins of the sexiest Nancy panel ever. NOTE: This post was inspired by the re-surrected 1960 comic... Linus Versus the Pooping Robot. http://www.destinyland.org/ebert-40.htm (More power to ya, Roger...) http://www.destinyland.org/mapasaurus.htm Hey, Super Bowl watchers. Grim Reaper's Steve Grimmett wants to sell you a satellite navigation system! http://www.destinyland.org/train-robber.htm A great story from 1891. The Newark Courier-Gazette re-tells the story of the Great Train Robbery. http://www.destinyland.org/uncanny-butts.htm SPIDER-MAN: Don't you guys realize that it's all gone wrong? That if you don't get off your uncanny X-butts, it's going to get even worse? http://www.destinyland.org/jones-personal-penguin.htm In this video, Davy Jones sings that he wants to be your personal penguin. http://www.destinyland.org/saved-by-the-fight.htm And now a homemade video on YouTube, teaching Saved by the Bell viewers a valuable lesson. "Don't fuck with AC Slater." http://www.destinyland.org/office-site.htm "With a corporate office in New York City, Dunder-Mifflin has branches in Buffalo, Stamford, Albany, Utica, Scranton, Akron, Camden, Nashua and Yonkers..." I always enjoy visiting NBC's web site for The Office. It's got deleted scenes, original "webisodes", and fake public service announcements - and even a fake web site for the paper company where the show takes place. Dunder-Mifflin Inc. (stock symbol DMI) is a mid-cap regional paper- and office-supply distributor with an emphasis on servicing small-business clients.... It turns out that Dwight Schrute even has a blog. http://www.destinyland.org/snakes-on-a-sudoku.htm "When we said we wanted to combine the excitement of Snakes on a Plane with the intellectual stimulation of sudoku, everyone said we were crazy. Well, who's crazy now? [Oh no, you didn't....] We totally took regular sudoku puzzles, got rid of those safe 3-by-3 squares, and replaced them with deadly snakes. There are over 1,500 snakes in this book, and Agent Flynn [Samuel L. Jackson] isn't here to help you." I saw it in the bookstore tonight. Though, honestly, I was disappointed that the puzzles inside had actually kept the 3-by-3 squares after all. There were two fan-created Sudoko puzzles on the Snakes on a Blog fan site that actually twisted the 9 digits into snake-shaped polygons. http://www.destinyland.org/aldo-mania.htm Fan-made videos celebratethe end of the Aldo Kelrast storyline in the newspaper comic strip Mary Worth. http://www.destinyland.org/bowie-extras.htm David Bowie does an amazing cameo on Extras. http://www.destinyland.org/elmo-DeNiro.htm Elmo talks to Robert DeNiro in this two-minute clip from PBS. It's method acting enhanced with muppets. Elsewhere you can watch Elmo singing a song with the Goo Goo Dolls. http://www.destinyland.org/soap-tds.htm The Daily Show, Samuel L. Jackson, and Snakes on a Plane. It's happening! It's happening! It opens in theatres tonight at 10 p.m. http://www.destinyland.org/letterman-carson.htm Johnny Carson isn't dead. He's making cameos in those David Letterman clips on YouTube. I love how he radiates excitement as he leaves the stage. Shakes hands, waves, then a two-handed wave with a smile and a nod, a big smile to the right, and one last wave http://www.destinyland.org/anton-maiden-tribute.htm Anton Gustavsson was a "conspicuously uncool" 19-year-old in Sweden. He was a computer programmer with an ordinary voice who nonetheless recorded his impassioned vocals for Iron Maiden songs over simple computer MIDI music files in 1999. His honest energy endeared him to an online audience, and he became the prime example of a "DIY celebrity", even distributing a CD on an alternative label. (Click here to listen to Anton Maiden mp3s). Sadly, four years later Anton committed suicide. He was 23 years old. This April someone uploaded an Anton Maiden tribute video to Youtube. As Anton sings "Run to the Hills," it flashes pictures of him as a young boy... http://www.destinyland.org/destinyland-jpg.htm Welcome to Destiny-land! The blog with good clean fun for every one!!!! Just kidding. I borrowed that image from Destinyland.com, some kind of youth ministry/nursery school/real estate debt re-financer. http://www.destinyland.org/steely-vs-luke.htm Steely Dan's letter to Luke Wilson is amazing. http://www.destinyland.org/lsd-no-hitter.htm "I thought it was an off day," pitcher Dock Ellis wrote in his autobiography. So he'd dropped acid with his girlfriend in a Los Angeles hotel room. Glancing at the newspaper, she then realized that he was scheduled to play that day. Six hours later, he was on the mound. "I can only remember bits and pieces of the game..." he wrote in 1984. But it's lovingly remembered in an article from GettingIt.com. ("I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zeroed in on the catcher's glove... sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't...") When the game was over - he'd pitched a no-hitter. http://www.destinyland.org/real-cancun-consensus.htm A great moment in western civilization is preserved in this Amazon DVD review. "It was a thing of beauty what happened back in 2003. People of all races, nationalities, socioeconomic backgrounds, political affiliations, religions, and any other differences you can think of that polarize us finally agreed on one thing. We all took a stand against the syphilitic evil of reality programming by laughing The Real Cancun out of the theaters. Of course, any uprising of this magnitude is bound to have opposition. The bad guys aligned themselves with the thirty-three people left, most of them in the 14-16 year old age bracket, who still watch eMpTyV (and buy any products that eMpTyV hawks) and a bunch of horny frat boys waiting for something to tide them over until the next Girls Gone Wild DVD hit the shelves. When the smoke cleared, the good guys were victorious for a change. Now for network television. WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!!! " "4 of 6 people found this review helpful." Reviewer: Habitual Linestepper "The Thompsonian Institute of Bad Reviews" http://www.destinyland.org/devo-misrhymes.htm And let us not forget to toast Everyone who might have missed the boat And to everybody else who waits Till the next one sails in again... I thought that would be a beautiful epigram for a book about the dotcom days in the 90s. But though the Devo song is called "That's Good," someone else has a different opinion This is some of the laziest rhyming I've ever heard. These lyrics are especially bad, because earlier in the song the lyics to this part of the structure did indeed rhyme. ("Ain't it true, there's just no doubt / There's some things that we can't do without...") That's not good at all! It's just one of many examples submitted to a site listing nearly 400 artists who are guilty of badly-rhymed lyrics. Also available: misheard lyrics and made up lyrics. http://www.destinyland.org/greg_brady_stoned.htm It's the most notorious moment in the history of The Brady Bunch. It's the scene where the 17-year-old actor playing Greg is actually stoned. Now you can watch the scene online. (1:52 into the clip...) Former child star Barry Williams remember this moment in his biography I was a teenaged Greg. (Chapter 17 - "One toke over the line.") He'd been given a day off, when some friends of his older brother visited. "I was introduced to a thin, hand-rolled, yellow joint. 'Listen, man' said one of the buds, 'toke slow -- this is some real heavy shit.'" "'Cooool,' I thought... Several drags later, the stuff had kicked in hard." Which is when the Brady Bunch's assistant director called him back to the studio "to shoot the driveway scene"... The makeup man helpfully handed him a bottle of visine - and then Barry strutted onto the set, "thinking to myself that my now-heightened sense of consciousness and intensity might give me a chance to completely recreate my role..." Williams high-fived the crew, "feeling very cool." When they'd gathered on the set, Williams "saw it as crying out for innovation and improvisation." His biography's confession includes detailed memories of the minutes that followed. * "In my mind, I made up a history for the bike; why it needed air, what happened to the tire, where I had been riding it at the time. When rehearsal began, I proceeded to get involved with the spokes of the wheel, forming a relationship with each individual spoke, and then trying to come up with a more aerodynamic design for them." * "Instead of merely crossing over to the car and standing there as expected, I invented a new saunter..." * "Instead of just standing and listening to [Mr. and Mrs. Brady] while they were talking, I opened the car door and stood on its threshold to reach boat height and worked on loosening the straps." * "I experimented with my speaking patterns and inflections, giving each individual word undue weight and significance: YOU didn't SAY anything ABOUT getting a boat, Dad You DIDn"T say ANYTHING about GETTING a boat, Dad. YOU didn't SAY ANYTHING ASBOUT getting a BOAT, DAD! * In subsequent rehearsals I changed my lines altogether, or simply made up new ones as we went along. But when the filming actually started, Williams suddenly became paraonid. "I was now second- and third-guessing my every move, my every word, my every action." And then - the cameras rolled. (Brady calliope music) Williams waves, trips over the bike pump. Mrs. Brady opens the sliding door. Greg: Hi dad! Mr. Brady: Hi! Greg: (pause) Uh (laughs) you didn't say anything about getting a boat! Mr. Brady: ...I thought with a little work, we could fix it up! Greg: Far out!! To this day you can still see Greg sleepily waving 'hi" to his dad in the clip - and then tripping over the bike pump. "I pretended not to notice my stumble...I continued on like nothing happened and hoped somebody else would mess up." How does Williams sum up the experience? "Getting stoned instead left me...feeling as phony as the turf in the Brady's backyard. "Maybe I should've just smoked that." Ironically, the name of this episode is "Law and Disorder." Bobby is appointed the school's safety monitor, but misses obvious reckless behavior... See also: Greg singing You've got to be in love (to sing a love song) from the Brady Bunch episode "Johnny Bravo" Jamie Foxx's incredible version of the Brady Bunch theme (including impersonations of Babyface, Luther Vandross, and Prince) The Brady Bunch variety hour: Disco Greg and the family perform Attitude Dancing and The Hustle. Plus showtunes! One from a Chorus Line and Corner of the Sky from Pippin Peter Gabriel's 2002 music video, The Barry Williams Show http://www.destinyland.org/monkeys-uncle.htm Devo 2.0 sings the Annette Funicello/Beach Boys song "The Monkey's Uncle" in this demented homegrown anime video on YouTube. The original song was recorded 41 years ago for this 1965 Disney movie. The Devo 2.0 version appears on a new CD with cover versions of Disney songs. http://www.destinyland.org/gurewitch-movies.htm I just discovered that the creator of the comic strip Perry Bible Fellowship has also created some short movies. * Ken's new specs is a one-minute adaptation of one of the strip's comics. * A Kiss for Joe features cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch himself. * The woman he kisses appears in a parody of a kung fu movie where she fights to defend the golden turtle. * There's a fascinating 9-minute documentary about her and the strange word game she's played in her head since the age of 7. * There's a long experimental film that switches to a beautifully surreal style for its second half. * One fully-animated (and very naughty) cartoon unexpectedly ending with a forest of trees. * A short live-action movie offering a metaphor for love. http://www.destinyland.org/help-the-uk.htm To the U.K. surfer who typed in "Are you ready Steve Uhuh lyrics." The song you're looking for is "Ballroom Blitz." This is called "Taking your referrer's log too seriously." http://www.destinyland.org/cleese-on-chapman.htm John Cleese gave a remarkable eulogy for Graham Chapman. Even more amazing - it was followed by Eric Idle singing "Always look on the bright side of life." http://www.destinyland.org/devo-lyric.htm Sunday night, somewhere in England, a mysterious post-industrial figure types into Google U.K. song meaning girl u want devo Since I'm now the #2 match, I felt compelled to find the answer... "It's about the essence of desire," says co-author Gerald Casale. "...aching desire. She sings from somewhere you can't see, like the famous myth of the sirens that used to lure the sailors to their deaths by singing to them in the night. "They'd go try to find these girls that didn't really exist, and the boat would crash on the rocks and they'd die." Thanks to YouTube, we can watch Devo performing this song (live in 1982) as well as many others! http://www.destinyland.org/snakes-on-jesse-helms.htm The phrase even crept into Rolling Stone's interview with a think tank scholar who was explaining Jesse Helms' campaigning style. "It was about provoking a visceral, gut-level response. It's not rational. It's....'Snakes on a Plane'." http://www.destinyland.org/snakes-on-a-book.htm I was browsing my local bookstore when I spotted it. "Snakes on a Plane" - the book. "A snake jumped right out of this book like a spring-loaded projectile of venom and bit me right on the nose!" writes one Amazon reviewer. "It's just THAT intense!" ("7 of 7 people found this review helpful...") I think this photograph sums up my generation. It's caption? "I'm enjoying Snakes on a Plane in Print." http://www.destinyland.org/richards-depp.htm Johnny Depp has played pirate Jack Sparrow in two Pirates of the Caribbean movies - and said he modelled his character on Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. It's been confirmed. The next movie in the series will include an appearance by Keith Richards himself. In the third film, the main characters "sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle," according to the plot summary at IMDB.com. "The Golden Age of Piracy is finally at its end. The East India Trading Company has amassed an enormous fleet with one purpose in mind: riding the waters of all pirates... Our heroes must face Lord Cutler Beckett, Davy Jones and Admiral James Norrington in a titanic showdown that could eliminate the freedom-loving pirates from the seven seas -- forever." Rumor has it that Keith Richards will be playing: Jack Sparrow's father. http://www.destinyland.org/ebert-says.htm Roger Ebert's wife told the Chicago Tribune: "[P]lease give the big guy the space and time needed to recover until he is ready to use those thumbs again." Today she added, "Roger would also want you to go out to the movies. He gives you permission to see even those movies that don't have his personal "Thumbs Up." http://www.destinyland.org/devo-disney.htm It was weird when Devo announced their next album would be sung entirely by cute kids from the Disney channel. Now Disney has released nine complete music videos on a web page. Girl U Want Uncontrollable Urge Freedom of Choice Whip It Beautiful World Big Mess That's Good Cyclops Peek a Boo "Cyclops" is one of the first new Devo tracks in 20 years. And then there's the Disney kids' version of Devo's 1982 classic "Peek A Boo." ("I know what you do, 'cause I do it too.") "The way that we weren't is what we'll become. So please pay attention while I show you some of what's about to happen." http://www.destinyland.org/altman-cartoon.htm John Grisham only wrote one story that became a movie without first being published as a book. A hot lawyer (Kenneth Branagh) squares off against a mentally disturbed backwoods Southerner (Robert Duvall) in the 1998 film The Gingerbread Man. But the great film-maker Robert Altman was chosen to direct, adding his own distinctive visual touches — chaotic atmosphere, bad weather, unexpected cruelty, and full-frontal nudity. Amazon's review applauds the intrigue in "the combination of Grisham's mainstream mystery and the offbeat style of [the] maverick director...The Gingerbread Man demonstrates [his] skill in bringing a fresh, characteristically offbeat approach to conventional material..." Both Altman and Grisham have given thought to the lawyer's character, though for Altman his complaint is simply "the minute he gets outside his own element, he's dog meat." The thriller leads the attorney into increasingly dangerous situations. Now here's where it gets weird. The Internet Movie Database gives a traditional summary for the movie's gnarly plot. ("Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss...") But for the movie's poster, they display this. "To my knowledge," I emailed the web site, "Robert Altman did not direct Adventures of the Wishing Chair, and John Grisham did not write its screenplay." Again, to summarize: In the movie: Not in the movie: I wonder which child in the armchair was the lawyer's one-night stand? http://www.destinyland.org/cars.htm "But wait. Maybe we don't want to hear Paul Newman's voice coming out of a car." Yeah, the movie didn't really work for me either. But I applaud the film-makers' obvious love for Route 66. Even in the closing credits, Pixar included a list of Route 66 businesses that had inspired them. And Salon's reviewer also points out that the voice of the small-town sheriff in Radiator Springs was provided by the author of a book about Route 66. The closing credits also included Pixar's traditional list of "production babies". http://www.destinyland.org/alternate-ending.htm A bittersweet fan suggests their intriguing idea for filming the last episode of That 70s Show without the actor who played Eric. "The last scene could have been [Eric] in 2045 (as Newhart, of course), daydreaming about Donna, wondering what became of her." http://www.destinyland.org/70s-finale.htm Eric told Donna he was sorry... I finally watched the last episode of "That 70s Show." TV.com reports some interesting trivia about the closing credits. "The gang is in the Vista Cruiser, singing along with 'Hello It's Me' by Todd Rundgren; they're coming home from the Todd Rundgren concert... that they went to in the pilot." The episode takes place, of course, on the last night of the 70s - December 31, 1979. Which creates an opportunity for even more trivia. "The outfit that Kitty wears in the New Year's Eve party scene (red blouse, flowered skirt)...is the same outfit she wears when she is first seen in the party scene in That '70s Pilot." But you know who got really sentimental? The show's actors. Laura Pepron, who played Donna, tells E that the first time the cast read the last episode, "We were all just crying...I'm probably going to watch it just by myself, not in front of a lot of people because it's really special, and I'm probably going to be crying like a little baby." And the actor who played Hyde added that while they were working on the last episode, "There were people losing it." And -- one more time -- Eric told Donna he was sorry... http://www.destinyland.org/rukeyser.htm Four years before his death, 69-year-old Louis Rukeyser found a nasty network surprise. Maryland Public Television tried to oust the commentator from the position he'd held 32 years. (AOL Time-Warner had offered them more money to re-brand the show as product placement for Fortune magazine.) Not missing a beat, the shrewd, unflappable host used his weekly monologue (mp3) to urge viewers to follow him to a different network. "It turns out that the woods are full of smart television executives," he chuckled. His debut on CNBC drew the largest audience in CNBC history. Within four weeks, 61% of PBS stations across America had chosen to re-broadcast it. The old PBS show (without Rukeyser) lost half its audience almost immediately. When asked if there was room on TV for both shows, the Wall Street commentator joked: "I'll let the market decide. http://www.destinyland.org/black-and-tan-ice-cream.htm Forbidden ice cream? I've always liked drinking Black and Tans - and apparently Ben and Jerry's does too. They created a new ice cream flavor with "blended real cream stout" ice cream - and a swirl of chocolate. And they named the flavor "Black and Tan." This got them in trouble. Tonight Reuters ran a story from Dublin reminding us that the "Black and Tan" was a notorious British paramilitary unit from the 1920s. Wikipedia describes their violent history and the origins of the actual name. "Any reference on our part to the British Army unit was absolutely unintentional and no ill-will was ever intended," said a Ben and Jerry's spokesman. "Ben and Jerry's was built on the philosophies of peace and love," he added. http://www.destinyland.org/Nancy-Drew.htm I've been reading Nancy Drew mysteries - but in their original texts. Her first adventures were written in the 1920s, and they often startle you with their stodgy language and the racism and cruelty of their time. For a few excerpts, read my book report on The Mystery of the Ivory Charm... http://www.destinyland.org/qwantz.htm "Hello my name is Ryan North and this is my comic, and it is called Dinosaur Comics! I hope you think it's pretty okay!" Who would win in a fight, Superman or Batman? The answer is "Batman!" Superman has strength! Batman has BATMAN SKILLS. As T-Rex stomps a house, he argues stupidly with Dromiceiomimus and Utah Raptor about comic books. I love this comic strip! http://www.destinyland.org/its-like-snakes-on-a-plane-man.htm As I've travelled through life, I've never found myself pausing to ask: How does "Urban Dictionary" define this phrase? I'm actually not even sure what "Urban Dictionary" is, but they're one of Google's top matches for the phrase "Snakes on a Plane." It was kind of interesting watching them going through the motions of a definition. A simple existential observation that has the same meaning as "Whaddya gonna do?" There's about four more examples on that page... I've got my own definition. I play Quake III a lot, and am always switching in new goofy names for my avatar. ("You were fragged by...Gilligan!" "You were fragged by....a pwetty widdle girl.") Lately it's been "Snakes on a Plane." And I have this fantasy that somehow through the games I've played, my lousy Quake-playing strategies will become immortalized. "So our avatars were spawning in the red cathedral area, and suddenly there's all these grenades raining down from the high window. Some lamer was continuously firing grenade after grenade in the hopes that one would randomly hit us. "So the floor of the cathedral is covered with grenades. Everywhere you step - boom! There's something bad there! It's, like, I dunno, what would you call that?" It's like snakes on a plane, man. Snakes on a plane.... http://www.destinyland.org/soap-trailer.htm SAMUEL L. JACKSON: Enough is enough. I've had it with these snakes... Today the world changes. The way we relate to cinema has reached a turning point. From this day on, nothing will ever be the same. New Line Cinema just released their trailer for Snakes on a Plane. http://www.destinyland.org/girl-scouts-are-trying-to-kill-me.htm A 2004 article in the San Francisco Chronicle notes that FDA and medical researchers agree trans fats are "the most dangerous fat in the human diet". At the time the Girl Scouts' spokeswoman acknowledged the need for healthier alternatives in their cookies, then claimed that "We're fast-tracking that ourselves." It's two years later, and there's still 2 grams of dangerous trans fats in my Do-si-Dos. The Girl Scouts are trying to kill us!!! Er, wait. Apparently there's more to the story. "By next year's drive, all Girl Scout cookies will be free of the fat that scientists now tell us is more harmful to our hearts than saturated fat.... The Scouts have [already] taken the villainous substance out of three of their most popular cookies: Thin Mints, Caramel deLites and Peanut Butter Patties. http://www.destinyland.org/cosbys.htm It's a silly parody of Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby's lawyers just sent my friend Andy a cease-and-desist over it. More here... http://www.destinyland.org/snakes-on-a-plane-2.htm NPR asks the questions you want to hear... MICHELLE NORRIS: I'm looking into your future. You've got two films that are coming out soon that both involve snakes. What's up with the snakes? SAMUEL L. JACKSON: Well, actually, only one involves snakes. Black Snake Mountain is a blues song by Blind Lemon Jefferson that happens to be the title of this particular film. Snakes on a Plane is...pretty much what it sounds like. I want to do films sometimes that excited me when I was a kid. And I always liked horror and adventure movies. And when I opened the cover on that particular script, and it said "Snakes on a Plane," I was immediately kind of viscerally struck with a "Oh yeah." It turned out to be exactly what I thought. You know, somebody turns loose a big crate-load of poisonous snakes on an airplane, and we kind of fight the snakes 'til we get to our destination. And it's just one of those popcorn kind of moments where – you know, you go into a movie, you don't have to think about what's happening, you know what's going to happen. You know? There's gonna be snakes loose on this plane, some people are gonna get bitten, and there's gonna be some victims, and you hope you're a survivor. You know. You just want to have that experience and excite people who are sitting there watching it. So people who have a fear of flying and people who have a fear of snakes you know, are gonna have like a double whammy going with that. It's kind of going to be great. http://www.destinyland.org/superbowl-ads.htm This year's Super Bowl ads are online! Here are the highlights... * ABC's Lost adapted Robert Palmer's classic video "Addicted to Love" * Jessica Simpson traumatizes a teenaged boy with Pizza Hut's pop-able "cheese bites" * These cave-men need FedEx! * A mud flap's naked woman silhouette comes to life! Others that were somewhat clever.... * Bud Light stashed in a "magic" refrigerator behind a secret revolving door. * MasterCard ticks off the cost of "priceless" items bought by... MacGyver. * GoDaddy wants you to go to their web site and watch the SuperBowl ads they couldn't show. But alot of them were just baffling. A streaker sheep? The Whopper-ettes? A giant robot impregnates a female monster to spawn a hummer? I have to say that my favorite ad was "Dragon," the folded-paper animation for United Airlines. http://www.destinyland.org/phil-pitt.htm Things you didn't know about the Pittsburgh Steelers. During World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. They twice merged with other NFL franchises in order to field a team. * During the 1943 season, they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles forming the "Phil-Pitt Eagles" and were known as the "Steagles". This team went 5-4-1. * In 1944 they merged with the Chicago Cardinals and were known as "Card-Pitt" and informally known as the "Car-Pitts" or "Carpets". I decided to look up this year's Super Bowl teams on Wikipedia. I also learned that the 1938 Steelers had a player named Byron White, who later left professional football to become a Supreme Court Justice. And what does Wikipedia say about the Seattle Seahawks? In 1979, the Seahawks set the NFL record for the lowest total offense in one game (minus 7 yards) in a 24-0 loss to the Los Angeles Rams at the Kingdome. http://www.destinyland.org/tab-underground.htm The New Yorker ran an interesting article about the Tab underground. They're fans of the discontinued soft drink Tab, who have found creative ways to procure the mostly-off-the-market soft drink. http://www.destinyland.org/starbucks-language.htm GBM: I ain’t goin nowhere without my mocha. Manager: Then we’ll call the police. On both of you. Me: For what? Not speaking the Starbucks language? Watch what happens when you refuse to say "venti" instead of "large" in the Starbucks Complaint contest. http://www.destinyland.org/no-arms.htm Its the most bizarre movie dialogue ever written. Delivered on title cards in the 1927 silent classic The Unknown. "On your wedding night she would see your arms....and hate you!" "No, Cojo...she would never hate me...she would forgive me!" "But you forget...she saw her father strangled by a hand with two thumbs." And then, Lon Chaney lights a cigarette with his feet.... He plays a circus freak who's been pretending to have no arms... http://www.destinyland.org/barry-cold-case.htm The Rocky Horror Picture Show - filmed 30 years ago - starred Barry Bostwick as the nerdy "Brad Majors." Bostwick was 29. 30 years later Bostwick (now 59), played a serial killer in an episode of the CBS TV show Cold Case. The detectives trace his character's history to 1977, when he may have murdered a Philadelphia doorman. As a troubled Mormon teenager, he'd searched for a woman as pure as Mary Magdalene. And eventually a female co-worker agreed to take him to a movie. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Besides footage of the traumatic date at the movie, the episode included several songs from the film in its flashbacks. Rocky Horror fans would recognize "Superheroes," "I'm Going Home," "Hot Patootie," "Over at the Frankenstein place", and - inevitably - Eddie. "From the day he was born, he was trouble...." http://www.destinyland.org/homer-mails.htm In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer gives out his emails address. (chunkylover53@aol.com). Curious web surfers emailed him - and they got some funny responses. Dear Nerd, I didn't even know the internet was on computers these days, let alone some kind of electric mail dealie. Please send all future letters (and beer) to: 642 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield USA then a zip code. Praise Jebus! What's going on? I was trying to bid on a Weird Al Yankovic t-shirt on Ebay, and now everyone in the world is sending me electric letters like crazy! I'm so confused. Confused and tired. Homer Simpson, local man P.S. If you know Weird Al, tell him to send me a t-shirt. http://www.destinyland.org/chipmunks-59.htm The famous Christmas song by the Chipmunks was released 46 years ago. On its album cover, they still looked more like wild squirrels. (Image) http://www.destinyland.org/festivus.htm Happy festivus!!! The holiday was invented in 1966 by Dan O'Keefe - whose son Daniel became a writer for the TV show Seinfeld. In 1997 he wrote the episode where George's father insists on celebrating Festivus rather than the more burdensome Christmas. Wikipedia reports that the writer's father discovered the holiday in a book of obscure European celebrations. (He later wrote a book about "the social theory of magic" as a ritual with real social significance.) He was also inspired by Samuel Beckett's play "Crapp's Last Tape," in which an elderly man plays a tape recording he's made of his grievances throughout his life. Next year when December 23 rolls around, be sure to shout out: Happy Festivus! It's even better than Chrismukkah. (As seen on The O.C.) Link via Kevin Drum http://www.destinyland.org/avenue-q-song-order.htm I was listening to mp3s of the Avenue Q soundtrack - and didn't realize they were in random order. I'd been applauding the musical for its brashness in opening with the number "You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (when you're Making Love)." But I was surprised when it ended Kate Monster dumping Princeton. She sings "There's a fine, fine line between a fairy tale and a lie...I don't have the time to waste on you anymore...." In a final nod to reality, this version of the musical ends with the gang consoling a heartbroken Princeton that at least "There Is A Life Outside Your Apartment." And the number ends when he picks up "Lucy the Slut" and takes her back to his apartment. http://www.destinyland.org/death-on-vegas.htm This scene should be awarded with the prize for the most silly character death ever produced on TV....She flies off the roof... I can't believe what I saw. Last week the writers of Las Vegas killed off the character of Monica, the hated new owner of James Caan's casino. She was wearing a wing-like cape which caught an unfortunate breeze on the casino's roof. In this week's episode: they dump her ashes in a toilet. Although I have this theory that Monica faked her death. (Leaving the casino to a charity before Ed could re-claim it.) http://www.destinyland.org/archiving.htm I've moved my older posts into the archive. But the three most popular blurbs from the last year are going to stay on this page - below! http://www.destinyland.org/augustus-gloop-lyrics.htm The Oompah Loompahs were even scarier in the original book. In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, they sing their stern judgments with extensive and gleeful details about the fates of the bad children. For example, Augustus Gloop. A hundred knives go slice, slice, slice; We add some sugar, cream, and spice; We boil him for a minute more, Until we're absolutely sure.... For Tim Burton's movie, Danny Elfman changed that lyric to "We boil it for a minute more..." In fact, Dahl's lyrics were apparently so vicious, that Elfman had to trim out most of them. As an example, here's Roald Dahl's original lyrics for the Augustus Gloop song. Italics show the only lines that Danny Elfman kept. Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great big greedy nincompoop! How long could we allow this beast To gorge and guzzle, feed and feast On everything he wanted to? Great Scott! It simply wouldn't do! However long this pig might live, We're positive he'd never give Even the smallest bit of fun Or happiness to anyone. So what we do in cases such As this, we use the gentle touch, And carefully we take the brat And turn him into something that Will give great pleasure to us all -- A doll, for instance, or a ball, Or marbles or a rocking horse. But this revolting boy, of course, Was so unutterably vile, So greedy, foul, and infantile He left a most disgusting taste Inside our mouths, and so in haste We chose a thing that, come what may, Would take the nasty taste away. 'Come on!' we cried, 'The time is ripe To send him shooting up the pipe! He has to go! It has to be!' And very soon, he's going to see Inside the room to which he's gone Some funny things are going on. But don't, dear children, be alarmed; Augustus Gloop will not be harmed, Although, of course, we must admit He will be altered quite a bit. He'll be quite changed from what he's been, When he goes through the fudge machine: Slowly, wheels go round and round, and cogs begin to grind and pound; A hundred knives go slice, slice, slice; We add some sugar, cream, and spice; We boil [him/it] for a minute more, Until we're absolutely sure That all the greed and all the gall Is boiled away for once and all. Then out he comes! And now! By grace! A miracle has taken place! This boy, who only just before Was loathed by men from shore to shore, This greedy brute, this louse's ear, Is loved by people everywhere! For who could hate or bear a grudge Against a luscious bit of fudge?" http://www.destinyland.org/funky_winkerbean_censorship.htm Japanese "anime" comic books - artsy drawings, sometimes with adult themes- are a target for small-town censors in this naturalistic drama about a comic book store owner. Surprisingly, it's appearing in installments in the newspaper comic strip Funky Winkerbean. http://www.destinyland.org/colbert-on-blogs.htm Jon Stewart's The Daily Show did a long segment last night about bloggers. The highlight was its interview with Stephen Colbert.