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It's Friday July the 31 around 7:49AM and

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Trailer

Was kind of hoping the trailer for this would be awesome, and IT IS.

It's Friday July the 31 around 7:35AM and

Anderson Cooper Report on Bachelorette Jillian Harris

Kind of think Anderson Cooper got just a bit awesome right now. He on Regis's show and asks Jillian Harris - our own Bachelorette - the one, come on, the only, question anybody gives a crap about. How many guys did she sleep with anyway? (Via Gawker)

Bonus points for liberal use of the term "canoodling". Oh, Jillian you little minx.

It's Wednesday July the 29 around 8:43AM and

Tiffani Thiessen is busy

Tiffani Thiessen is Busy from Tiffani Thiessen

It's Wednesday July the 29 around 8:07AM and

Breaking: It's Hot

This just in, It's hot out there. In the immortal words of Good Morning, Vietnam's Adrian Cronauer, "The weather out there today is hot and shitty with continued hot and shitty in the afternoon. Tomorrow a chance of continued crappy with a pissy weather front coming down from the north. Basically, it's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut."

It's Saturday July the 25 around 9:28AM and

Internet 1,308 - World 0

What did we even do before the Interwebs. I mean really. Here is the perfect design for t-shirts or creepy van air-brushing artwork. Keyboard cat as wolf moon. Genius.

It's Tuesday July the 21 around 8:26AM and

Saddest Photos In the World #475

"A Lonely Imperial Walker" via Break.com. It just breaks your heart, doesn't it.

It's Sunday July the 19 around 11:32AM and

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Wes Anderson is back this fall with the stop motion telling of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox. The stills look kind of amazing. Can't wait to see a fox with Bill Murray's voice to be on the screen.

It's Sunday July the 19 around 10:52AM and

Walter Cronkite (1916 - 2009)

Walter Cronkite passed away on Friday. The summer of death continues! The famed newsman was 92. Nobody under 40 probably even watched one of his newscasts live - being off the air by '81, but he was a legend to many. Although maybe don't go so over the top Clooney.

Everyone is playing the clips of Cronkite on they day President Kennedy was killed or the first landing on the moon. But I think the above clip is even better. He's on the phone while on air, breaking the news of LBJ's death. It's so old school. It's great. I mean, compared to any of the anchors today, I'm looking at you Wolf Blitzer, it's pretty clear why everyone is fussing.

It's Sunday July the 19 around 10:47AM and

I just don't know what to do with Myself - The White Stripes (2003)

Great Sunday Video. Sofia Coppola + Burt Bacharach + White Stripes + Kate Moss? I mean really, this is why fabulous, the word, was invented I think. Especially great when you are at the office while the other kids are out playing. (Truth be told, the air conditioning is kinda of awesome. As is the free coffee).

It's Sunday July the 19 around 10:23AM and

Jesse LeDoux Dunny

Photo Credit: Bernbabybern

Presents rule. Got this rad Kidrobot Dunny this week. I don't know what's better, that he seems to be French or that he has a fake beard and mustache? Either way he's designed by Portland, Oregon artist Jesse LeDoux and he's super rad.

It's Friday July the 17 around 8:11AM and

Quote of the day: Information Wants to be free & Lou Grant

"The point of the book seems to be, I don't know, some baloney about "we should not fear free." I've only read reviews of the book but the point seems to be that if you give away stuff for free, it will lead inexorably to money-making opportunities.
I'm not sure how, but I believe that this is related to the idiotic argument made by web maniacs that everyone is entitled to everything free on the web. Why should all intellectual property be free? Um ... because ... um ... "information wants to be free"... or some such childish nonsense."

This is the Ad Contrarian on Chris Anderson's dumb book on free. So good. I hate free. It's a stupid concept. I love money and wish you would send me lots of it for reading this blog. So consider yourself lucky. But whatever. Here's a bonus of Lou Grant meeting Mary Richards for the first time. Need this on DVD!

It's Friday July the 17 around 8:03AM and

We Choose To Go to the Moon...

Yesterday, July 16, was the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch that went to the moon. On August 8th, VW ran this ad. It's still completely awesome. This, not so much. PS: Nixon was a genius. (Via Copyranter)

UPDATE: Check out Kottke for a giant bunch of Apollo 11 links.

It's Tuesday July the 14 around 7:45AM and

Kool-Aid brings back Kool-Aid Man: Oh Yeah!

I like that the Kool-Aid Man is back. Guys in mascot suits, love it. And love that he is in shorts too.

It's Tuesday July the 14 around 6:48AM and

Movie Trailer: TipToes (1993)

This was a joke movie trailer right? 1993 never seen heart warming comedy Tiptoes. Gary Oldman playing Benjamin Button before Bratt Pitt? I mean that is amazing. I'm guessing some bottom feeding PR flacks for Beckinsale and McConaughey have been trying to make this go away for like 6 years or so. It's still here. Need this on DVD. Now.

It's Tuesday July the 14 around 6:28AM and

Must Read: Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs

"The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindleddry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates."

That's how Matt Taibbi starts off his latest piece in Rolling Stone. If you want a terrifying, gut-wrenching, and blood boiling read, Taibbi is the go-to guy right now. Go now if only for the last third of his 12-pager, where he debunks the solutions for last years fake oil bubble (more drilling or hybrids) and opens our eyes to the next government engineered, Al Gore approved, bubble to take our money, the green friendly carbon credit trading future.

It's Wednesday July the 8 around 7:47AM and

Here's to: Men who are idiots

The man who can’t visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. Indeed. (via Godbles)

It's Wednesday July the 8 around 7:36AM and

I'm on a boat: shoe edition

Can I say that i do enjoy living in a world where boat shoes exist? It's not like I could actually wear them ever, but I just like that they are there, and that some people are wearing them. I like them in theory. Although, part of me thinks that they should only be worn while boating, or really what's the point. They need to be that smug. Complex has the dish on the 10 best boat shoes this summer.

It's Sunday July the 5 around 9:38AM and

Weekend Pool Bloopers

I could watch pool bloopers and pool fails pretty much all day long. I mean ALL day long. Enjoy this my friends.

It's Sunday July the 5 around 9:24AM and

Praise Be: Edward Norton in a Woody Allen Movie

Still waiting to see Woody Allen's latest to Whatever Works, even though it sounds like it's not one of his best (Might check it out this afternoon). It's hard to hit home runs every time at the plate.

Like the above scene from Everyone Says I Love You where he got Edward Norton to dance, sing, and just be all kinds of awesome. Here's another clip of him and Drew Barrymore. This is exactly what I'd be like in a musical. Clumsy, sloppy, and ridiculous.

It's Sunday July the 5 around 9:12AM and

Smoking Design

Looks like America is going full Canadian in there cigarette packaging, Design firm Pentagram took that idea, kicked it up a notch, and turned those negatives into a 'I want' product for core smokers. It's what they described as, "embrace the restrictions and make cigarettes look truly dangerous." And it is awesome.