Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Happy Holidays Jerks!
I was compelled to make a funny little video that was inspired by the great Mel Brooks.
Over the holidays Old Navy ran a whole bunch of commercials for some of the shit clothes that they sell. You know the stuff they pay little kids 2 cents (How come computers don't have a cents sign? What the fuck! "¢" I found one online!) a month to make! And then they sell it to you for $4.99 and it falls apart after you wash it twice. You know, that shit? "Festive Fleeces everyone! The blood of children on every one!" But I digress.
Anyway, all these Old Navy commercials featured a bunch of hunky guys, or bears, running around without shirts on! And every time I saw one of these commercials, I would break into "The French Mistake," from the VERY un-politically correct movie Blazing Saddles. (Do you know they offered Johnny Carson, Gene Wilder's role and he said "no?")
Yatta Yatta Yatta, I made this video. Plus I've attached the scene from Blazing Saddles! Notice the similarities!
Oh Balls! I can't embed the scene from Blazing Saddles. Here's the stupid link...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Wonton Weekend!
Back in the mid-90's I was extremely bored. So bored I went out and got a public access TV show on the Buffalo cable carrier. It was literally as easy as taking two classes and a written test. I missed one of the classes and cheated on the test. And my show, Brainstorm, was born!(I named the show after my relationship with my girlfriend at the time. I'm Brad, her name was/is Rain and we fought a lot. She hit me with her car once.)
Needless to say, Brainstorm was a pretty awful show. I barely knew how to edit anything. I didn't have any good ideas. And I was fighting with my girlfriend constantly. There's one hour long episode of me and the douches I used to hang out with back then sitting around my apartment talking about Star Trek. I also used to tape me and my friend Mike playing video games. And just throw all that on the air.
Unfortunately, I have all the episodes, a whopping six of them, on some giant sized video tapes that are being stored in the basement of Micheal's Catering Hall in Orchard Park, NY. (Are you getting lost in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season? Let Micheal's cater your office or family Christmas/Chaka Chan party.) I have no access to them, and even if I did, I have no way to transfer them to digital.
So, you can imagine how shocked I was when a former intern of mine unearthed this classic Brainstorm clip on Youtube! I'm singing "Sliver" by Nirvana, which I remember being really into at the time, with my friend John Destefano's band, Crunchy Frog. Although for this performance and for one brief Rock 'N Roll moment we were Wonton Weekend!!!!
I came up with the name Wonton Weekend when I was in college. You see one weekend... oh F it. Watch the stupid video and CRINGE!!!! And those were my REAL glasses.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Where Are Turtle's Balls? And Why Is Entourage Sucking Balls?
Hey Dickeaters! It's been a long time! So, I got a job on a morning show and I just haven't had the time or energy to write my stupid blog. But lately I've been feeling stifled and figured I'd pick up this blogging thing again.
This week's episode of Entourage was entitled "Hair" (The Sixth Ep of Season Seven.) and it was a total and complete pile of unbelievable SHIT!!! Infuriating in its gall!! How dare the writers of this once awesome show? HOW DARE THEY? It's like they pulled a rotten diaper out of the dumpster and poured its contents on the dinner table and said "we didn't have time to make anything better, so dig in jerks!"
This whole season has been toilet paper. (I'm really into excrement analogies in this blog.) But this episode was the cure de crai? What's that thing the frogs say? Kir di gra? (I'm in the process of Googling it. Ah, here it is.) Coup de grace! This episode is the mother f'ing death blow!
Quick recap for those who don't know... Entourage is a show on HBO. It follows Vinny Chase, an actor and his entourage. Drama is his has-been brother, E is his retarded little friend, Turtle is the completely useless guy, and Ari Gold, his truly awesome agent. Smoking weed and getting laid have always been very important nuances of the show as the crew deals with navigating Hollywood.
Having said that...
Am I really supposed to believe after watching six seasons of Turtle bang a countless number of Vince's castoffs, a hooker from the whore house next door and participate in a three-way with Drama, that he's never had a girl with no bush?! REALLY!!! In L.A.! And even if that's true, the sight of one would make him lose his wood?
I'm no freakin' playa, but I've cum across (pun intended) that phenomenon quite a bit since college! And I was in college in the early 9o's!!!! I had a front row seat for the receding "hair pie," to use a phrase from Revenge Of The Nerds. I saw it go from untamed, to the triangle, to the Mohawk or landing strip, to the Hitler mustache, to the bare minimum of what it is today.
And on top of the no bush thing, when did Turtle become a whiny little fucking bitch!!! This whole storyline with him and the Hispanic chick is a hollowed out pair of balls filled with warm piss and garlic served in a dirty ashtray!
Turtle has been in Hollywood with Vince for fucking years! He's pulled every fucking scam there is to get laid and thankfully we never actually had to see him do it! But in this "Hair" episode some fucking genius thought it would be great to show Turtle banging. Good call! Probably the same guy that decided to just completely alter the universe of the show and make him a ball-less pussy! Give Turtle his balls back!!
And take the balls out of the show's mouth while you're at it.
The rest of the episode was a basket of forced drama. Whatever was going on with Ari and the rest of the jerkoffs sucks! Why is E buddies with that guy he's working with? He's a total a-hole d-bag! And speaking of a-holes! Why the heck would you bring Billy Walsh back and cut his balls off too!
It's kinda cool that Vinny is now "dating" the porn star Sasha Grey and becoming a drunk, but that's about it. And in a nice twist in the end of the episode, we get to see Sasha naked and her full bush as she descended into the pool while Vince is passsed out. Enjoy the most G rated picture I could find of Sasha's "Hair."
But whatever you do... don't shop at American Apparel.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
What Does This Word Make You Think Of?
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Because Some Asswipe Designed The NY Times Building To Look Like A Ladder
Senator, is your greatest concern, in life, that a terrorist will get a bomb into town and then, like Spiderman, climb to the top of a building to detonate it? Or do you just love the sound of your own voice?
I also think your proposed "skyscraper threat assessment task force" sounds foolish. Can I be on the STATF? What are they going to do, put out a list of the easiest buildings to climb? And then what? Will the buildings actually have to do anything to become less climbable? Or would the STATF have just handed every adrenaline junkie from Queens to California a list of "Easy Climbs In The Big Apple?" How much is this bullshit task force going to cost?
There isn't a task force in the world that is going to stop the next fool from trying to climb a building for no reason. How dare you try and equate a dumbass headline grabbing stunt to terrorism!?
I expect nothing less than a Senator that lives in the REAL world representing Brooklyn. Not somebody that would use GOP scare tactics to make a moutain out of a molehill.
GFY,
Brad Maybe
The Senator responded four days later!
Brad trust me, I have had to admit that I was wrong many times. I am far from perfect but extremely sincere about those issue that are important to me.
Best,
Eric
NYS Senator
In conclusion, I'm awesome.
(Editor's Note: This email exchange has been edited to make the author look a little funnier and a little smarter. But I'll forward you the actual emails if you want to read them! They're not that much different.)
Thursday, March 11, 2010
License To Carry A Meat Thermometer UPDATED
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Sleeping Dogs
Monday, March 8, 2010
The NY Post Thinks You're An Idiot
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Respect The Pitch! And How I Made A Yankees Fan Cry.
The Real Reason John Mayer Is A Dick
Thursday, February 25, 2010
An Open Letter To The Producers Of Pornographic Movies
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Screw You Guys, I'm Bulldozing My Home
Sunday, February 21, 2010
My Olympic Crushes
Elton John Thinks EVERYBODY Is Gay
In an interview with Parade magazine, Elton John referred to Jesus Christ as a "gay man."
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Star Trek Casting Announcement!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Time I Got Mugged
Couple years back, I got mugged. I look back on it and think it was more of an aggressive panhandling then a mugging, but it was seven years ago and I still tell the story all the time. I never get sick of it so, I thought I’d write it down… in blogform. I even attached a visual aid! Check out the horribly stitched together picture. I’m the white guy.
September 8, 2003. A warm late summer evening that began with a trip to the Bronx. If you’re going to be a victim of a crime, the Bronx is probably the sexiest place on earth that could happen. Fortunately, no muggings, gang beatings, forced acts of sodomy or stray bullets ruined my first trip to Yankee Stadium. I’m a Mets fan, but got offered a free ticket to see the Bombers play a makeup game against Toronto. The game was unbelievably poorly attended and the Blue Jays kicked ass, 9-3. I had a perfect buzz and was chanting “Let’s go BJ’s” with impunity!
I had attended the game with my friend Bram and after the Yankees were finished pooping all over the field, we both headed back to Jersey City. I lived about fifteen blocks away from Bram, or one stop on the Path train. Because it was early and the season opener of Monday Night Football was on, we decided to watch the game at Bram’s house. On the way there, I used my last twenty dollar bill to buy smokes and a six-pack. Being 2003, this purchase only ran about twelve or thirteen bucks.
The Eagles ended up losing to the Buccaneers, 17-0, in what was the first game in their new stadium. McNabb!
Leaving Bram’s I had three options on how to get home:
1. Path train. I would have had to backtrack a few blocks and wait up to thirty minutes for a train.
2. Cab. Jersey City cab drivers like to pick up additional fairs while you’re in the cab. It’s like a little bus. So, fuck those assholes. Whenever I did end up taking a cab in Jersey City, I would never shut the door when I got out. Just to annoy the dickhead cabbie.
3. Walk. As my lazy Mom would say, from the time I was ten years old until I got my driver’s license, “It’s a nice night, you kids can walk,” because she never picked me up from anywhere EVER!
It was a nice night so I decided to hoof it, and off I went up the hill that is Montgomery Avenue. I figured this decision was a calculated risk. It was after midnight on a school night and I only had to walk passed two housing projects. Well wouldn’t you know it? There was some trouble waiting for me across the street from housing project No. 2.
If you haven’t taken a look at my visual aid, so cleverly titled “The Scene Of The Crime,” yet. Please take a gander at that right now.
If you’ll notice the sunken plaza parking lot to the right of me, “The Victim,” it was down there that I first noticed “The Perp.” As I was walking along the sidewalk, “The Perp” was shadowing me down in the plaza parking lot. (Incidentally, that plaza is home to Chun Bo Chinese Restaurant. Over the next four years I will spend about $10,000 on General Tso’s Shrimp. Call ‘em and order some of that shit! (201) 369.0010.) Anyway, I don’t think too much about my shadow down in the parking lot, because he’s got no way to get up to me… I thought. That’s when I noticed the stairs. And then two seconds after that, guess who was running up those stairs?
At this point, I'm going over the inventory of my pockets in my mind. iPod, cell phone, empty wallet, and the wad of seven or eight singles in my front right pocket.
Having completed my inventory, I put my head down and just tried to keep it moving. As I passed my shadow at the top of the stairs, he stepped right in front of me and said “You better run it.”
Having no idea if I should run or blow my nose, I quickly gave “The Perp” a quick once over and noticed several things:
1. I was at least six inches taller and fifty pounds bigger than him.
2. His left hand was in the pocket of his jacket like he was pointing a gun, or his finger at me.
3. His right hand was holding a boom box and a lit cigarette.
4. He had a scarf over his mouth.
5. He was standing at the top of the staircase.
“Pardon me?” I say. He repeated his original statement, “You better run it.” Maybe because I was drunk, or maybe cause he was so little, or maybe because I would have bet my life on the fact that he didn’t have a gun, I decided to play dumb smartass. If this guy was going to mug me, he had better come right out and say it! “You better run it?” Like the white guy walking passed the projects after midnight is gonna have a copy of the Urban Dictionary on him? He might as well have said, “See a broad to get that booty ack, lay ‘em down and smack ‘em yack ‘em,” and I would have had the same reaction. I’m sorry I don’t speak jive.
“I’m sorry, man,” I say. “I don’t know what you’re saying? Do you want me to leave really fast?” And then my little friend took it up a notch. His voice hardened and he wanted to let me know he wasn’t playing with the big dumb guy anymore. “YOU BETTER FUCKING RUN IT!” Realistically, at this point, if I just forked over my seven or eight dollars and got out of there, I didn’t care.
So, I act like it dawns on me. “Oh, do you want this?” I say as I pull my wad of crumpled up singles out of my pocket. And then the dumb motherfucker uses the hand he’s supposedly holding his “gun” with to take the money out of my hand. Well, he certainly wasn’t going to put down his boom box and cigarette.
I quickly tried to decide if I should punch and then push him down the stairs, or skip the punch and just push him. That’s when I noticed “Some Asshole” a few feet ahead. He was just standing there watching me get mugged. Quick glance behind me revealed “Another Asshole” just standing there. Sadly, both Assholes were a lot bigger than me.
In retrospect, had either “Some Asshole” or “Another Asshole” been running the proceedings at the first “You better run it,” I would have forked over my money, iPod, cell phone, bent over and pulled my pants down and then offered to pay for a cab to take us to an ATM so they could drain my checking account.
After Lil’ Perppy took all my money and I realized that I was at a major disadvantage I said, “So, if we’re done? I’m gonna run it now.” And I just walked away very briskly.
I often wonder what my money was spent on. I like to think that my assailants used to the money to buy a book for one of their children, or medicine for a sick grandparent. Or, at the very least, instead of buying the three dollar bottle of malt liquor, they splurged and bought a four dollar bottle of malt liquor.
I called the cops when I got home and described the three guys and told them exactly where they mugged me, but they refused to do anything unless I went to the station to fill out a report. I would have had to walk passed at least one set of projects to get to the police station, so I just decided to cut my losses and call it a night.
To this day, “You better run it,” is usually one of the first things Bram says to me whenever I see him. And that's the story about the time I got mugged.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Sell Me A Cell Phone Old Man!
No disrespect to Eric Clapton, but him hocking cell phones is like Miley Cyrus doing a series of commercials for adult diapers. “Hey y’all! When my dad, Billy Ray, lost control of his bowels he turned to Depends Undergarments. Now when he parties in the U.S.A., he can piss and shit himself all he wants.”
I watch the old Slowhand in this commercial and think, “I wonder if he uses the senior discount when he eats dinner at 4 o’clock at Denny’s?”
I get it, Creamboy plays a Fender, it’s the limited edition Fender 3G myTouch with sunburst inspired design and it’s got the cool little guitar thing on there. Plus it comes with free music from Avril Lavigne! But Mr. Clapton is two years older than my mother and she doesn’t even know how to turn her cell phone on. She just hits buttons until “it lights up.”
During the spot, they’re playing one of his lamer songs, “I’ve Got A Rock N Roll Heart.” An 80's mid-charter that was written by six people and on which the Sheriff Shooter proclaims, "I get off on '57 Chevys." Who wants to think of an old guy getting a boner from a car? Coincidentally, the '57 Chevy is my mother's favorite car. She used to give handjobs in them in the 60's. My favorite part of the commercial is when 73-year-old Buddy Guy calls old Clap for a chat. "Oh hey Buddy, I’m just hanging out and trying to sell state-of-the-art technology to teenagers. What? You fell and broke your hip?”
I’d like to see the old Yardbird selling some more age appropriate products. Like something for erectile dysfunction, the Acorn Stairlift or even the Shoedini!!! By the way, Gilbert Godfrey is doing a wonderful job voicing those spots.
Just a little sidebar. If you want to make a million dollars in the next 10 years. Think of some shitty product that can help old people bend over less, stay warmer, or not fall over.
Well like I said, I don’t mean to disrespect a living legend. “Layla” is perfect in Goodfellas. And I love hearing “Wonderful Tonight” at weddings. And ONLY at weddings. I like to complain just to complain.