One Step Closer to the Porn Video

That’s awesome! Shouldn’t they hold the cue cards closer to the camera or something?

Fucking retard. He can barely read. Maybe this is why the Talibunny made him crazy.

A Republican telling me I should get a government-provided coupon to acquire electronics? FAIL

Jesus Christ, why doesn’t he just sit on Michigan Avenue with a hat asking for spare change? And doesn’t he mean Sam, not Joe, since that is his real name and all? What is next – Celebrity Mole? Dancing With the Stars? Surreal World?

The thing that really pisses me off is that he is probably going to be able to milk this for a while and he will end up with a nicer house than I can ever hope to have. Total. Bullshit.

@homofascist: He’s milking the wrong cow — this joint and the vanity book publisher aren’t exactly starting at the top.

@nojo: Yeah.

And I like the way it looks like he’s kind of floating in space against that backdrop/green screen/whatever.

@JNOV: It’s a shitty greenscreen — check out the radioactive glow around his head. This is a low-rent as you can get. He must have passed on Best Buy as a matter of principle.

@nojo: Seriously. I knew you’d know, cinematographer extraordinaire. I was going to mention his glow, but I didn’t want to take a cheap shot at those with follicular issues. This video just tickles me. My kid could produce something better with his cell phone.

@nojo: Nice Tweet.

And the 2009 GAYVN award for “best new bottom in a feature video” goes to…

I’m enjoying the Colbert Holiday special with baked’s boyfriend Jon Stewart singing about Hannukah, and my favorite high Texan Willie Nelson singing about who the hell knows what.

The organic, shiatsu-massaged turkey carcass is brining nicely on the deck in the cooler, in case anyone was asking.

Happy Thanksgiving, and praise to the Native Americans who kept my moronic Irish and Scottish ancestors from starving (though my Irish/Scot ancestors didn’t make it to the new land until the early 1900s.)

@SanFranLefty: John Legend steals the show.

@nojo: He’s keeping it real, yo.

SamImeanJoe reads real good.

Obama is about to become president, but THIS is the largest transition in the history of our country? The irony is not lost on me.

Also, wtf does switching to digital teevees have to do with our national security? Did I miss a memo?

@SanFranLefty: And to you, and everyone else, too. I will be hightailing it to Mr. Colbert’s home state to see the parents since they have to work the day after. That, and to swing through Augusta to go drinking with old newspaper friends on Saturday.

@nojo: I thought Elvis showed his comedic chops, although not as great as when he hosted for Letterman. Willie’s ode to stonerdom was shockingly overt. In general, I thought the special was kind of flat, but it helped that I grew up on those Andy Williams/Perry Como/Kings Family specials!

@RomeGirl: I believe the argument is that the move to digital makes more spectrum available for emergency telecoms. But it flies in the face of this great country’s survivalist tradition: all of those tailgate ready TVs that plug into the Dodge Tacoma cigarette lighter go black when we switch to digital, so you can forget about watching Lucy and Ethel in between bursts of the EBS shriek when the bombs start falling.

@nabisco: I wondered if anyone who wasn’t forced to watch Como/Crosby/Williams growing up could appreciate the awesomeness of the satire.

@Mistress Cynica: Ma Nabisco couldn’t stop laughing at the “period costume” and decor. Turns out they had those shows growing up behind the Iron Curtain as well, but the guest stars were usually dissident poets taken out and shot for their reactionary beliefs.

What? No comments on the awesomeness that was the Toby Keith segment? I was laughing so hard I had to set my drink down. It was a total mockery and I’m sure he was playing it straight.

I thought that Colbert won his Emmy for that one. Top that, Manilow!

@Mistress Cynica: Andy Williams ranks with Gene Rayburn in microphone wielding.

@nojo: There are apparently still tickets for this year’s show.

@redmanlaw: Yeah, Keith made for good theater. Didn’t he come out for Eagle in the end?

@redmanlaw: Toby also hosted SNL the night before, and did a very creditable job. I think he’s in on it.

@nojo:
Does this mean that Toby’s a Dixie Chicks fan?

@ManchuCandidate: Toby apparently hates everyone in Nashville and in Country Music in general and has turned full-on rebel. Its kinda funny, because its not so much political as some kind of redneck code of honor, I’m no phony, all you all are ass-kissers thing. He’s the most succesful, highest-grossing, biggest hits country star the last few years, but the CMAs dissed him, no nominations at all, and he has been on a year long tirade against the ass-kissers who suck up and get the awards.

@Prommie:
For once, Toby and I agree on sumting.

The local boonies radio station I grew up with played a mix of country and disco (?)–don’t ask–so I get a little misty eyed when I hear 70s country not that I’ll admit it out loud (I will say that I ended up making out with a girl from ‘Bama when I visited a friend in SF because I knew my C&W so it’s not all that embarrassing.)

Toby’s right. Today’s Country is shite. No sixpack. No hounddogs. No pickup trucks. No Elvira. Er, you never heard that from me.

@nojo: Aren’t you thinking of Tim McGraw?

@mellbell: You’re right. They all look alike to me.

@nojo: Racist.

@mellbell: But the Man in Black is one of my favorite singers!

@ManchuCandidate: She’s Acting Single, I’m Drinking Doubles, Take This Job and Shove It, She Got the Gold Mine, and I Got The Shaft, The Red Neck National Anthem, Red Necks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer, Okie From Muskogee, Ol’ Waylon, oh yeah.