On last night's episode of 30 Rock, the funniest sitcom on network television by a very wide margin, our fair state was the target of two surreal yet amusing zingers.
Early on, NBC page Kenneth (Jack McBrayer, to the right of the attached photo) is trying to convince cluelessly vain comic Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan, far left) that diet is linked to diabetes. Jordan responds by declaring that this claim is "a white myth -- like Larry Bird, and Colorado." Later, even more cluelessly vain star J
My twin daughters are subscribers to Seventeen magazine -- they're only fifteen, which goes to show how advanced they are -- and last night, Lora, the older of the pair (by fourteen minutes), curled up with the just-delivered March issue, which sports a cover photo of Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester (pictured). Upon turning to the Meester profile, she came upon what struck her -- and me -- as a surprising passage: "When she was a teen, her brother was involved in a high-profile sex scandal w
Q: What's the highest rated television show in the history of everything?
A: American Idol.
Q: And who is the most high-profile judge on American Idol?
A: Simon Cowell.
That's right. And if there's one organization in the world that knows how to exploit celebrity (even if it happens to be "celebrity" of the singing game show variety), it would be PETA--more specifically, it would be the marketing geniuses who slave away in PETA's evil Fortress of Solitude coming up with campaig
Cobra Starship
Hot Mess
(Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen)
Don't know why clueless reviewers continue to refer to Cobra Starship as "an emo band." At this point, the main emotion they display is giddiness, and frankly, that's a blessed relief. From the group's beginnings, frontman Gabe Saporta, Ryland Blackinton and the rest decided to embrace mindless dance beats and keytars as opposed to using their songs as forums to bitch about every bad date they've ever endured, and Hot Mess pushes even
