This Saturday I attended a Lan Party house party from an invite from my buddy Praxis. Now I’ve been to some lan parties, and Lucky (better known as the hobbit) has some sweet hardware to host lan parties, but we have nothing on these guys. Mickey, the host and the guys that were there are part of Austin Modders.
Aside from mucho file sharing we got in a bit of WIC, I got a taste of Supreme Commander, and Praxis and I snuck in some Team Fortress 2 when Mickey wasn’t looking. Unfortunately since I have been feeling under the weather and still recovering from a cold I didn’t feel up to par and booked out a bit early (if you call midnight early).
Props to Justin, while I don’t really like him, this damn thing was hillarious.
Racy Timberlake ‘Box’ Video Wins Emmy
Sept. 9, 2007, 11:28 AM EST
An off-color “Saturday Night Live” video featuring Justin Timberlake and strategically placed gift boxes was honored at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
“(Blank) in a Box,” last December’s fake music video performed by Timberlake and “SNL” cast member Andy Samberg, is about wrapping a part of the male anatomy and presenting it to a loved one as a holiday present.
“I think it’s safe to say that when we first set out to make this song, we were all thinking ‘Emmy!’” Samberg said in accepting the award Saturday for best original music and lyrics.
“The other thing we were thinking was, ‘Hey! Here’s this young up and comer, Justin Timberlake, who is clearly very talented and could clearly use a break,’” Samberg said. “So, Justin, if you’re out there, congrats to you, kid.’”
The video, which beat out competition that included two songs from a musical edition of “Scrubs,” became an Internet sensation. It garnered millions of views on YouTube and NBC’s Web site, which posted an un-bleeped version.
The Creative Arts Emmys, which recognize technical and other achievements for the 2006-07 season, will air Sept. 15 on E!, the night before the Primetime Emmy Awards on Fox.
Timberlake was elsewhere Saturday: He had a concert scheduled in Tacoma, Wash. But his tour takes him to Los Angeles on Primetime Emmys night, raising the possibility he could perform “Box” at the ceremony.
As Samberg arrived at the creative arts awards, he told The Associated Press that he had yet to be asked by the TV academy to perform the song with Timberlake on the Fox broadcast — but he was willing, he said.
Other winners Saturday included the four actors who received awards for series guest roles: Elaine Stritch for “30 Rock,” Leslie Caron for “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” John Goodman for “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and Stanley Tucci for “Monk.”
“I think I was nominated in 1951 for the most promising newcomer.
I’m glad I finally realized my potential,” Caron said.
Spike Lee’s New Orleans documentary, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” received three awards, including a directing trophy.
“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” won a leading five awards. The film, which chronicles events leading up to the assassination of Sitting Bull and the Sioux massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890, is up for more Emmy honors, including best TV movie, next weekend.
“This project has been a labor of love and a labor of conscience for everyone who worked on it,” said executive producer Dick Wolf.
Entertainment industry executive Rich Frank, former president of Television Academy, received the Syd Cassyd Founders Award.
HBO collected the most trophies, 15, followed by NBC with 12, CBS with nine and Cartoon Network with eight. Fox earned seven awards, PBS six and ABC four.
Most people that read this site know of my somewhat inexplicable love for the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. I’ve watched it since I was a kid, and it’s one of those things I look forward to every year… or at least, I had.
This year, I watched about 20 minutes of it. I have the last 90 minutes of it recorded, but haven’t watched it and likely won’t.
There has been a slow buildup to this year, really. I noticed it a couple of years ago, that I wasn’t watching as much as I had in years past. I used to really fight to stay up as late as possible to watch it on Sunday nights, and to watch during Labor Day itself. Now, I’ll catch some of it but won’t go out of my way to watch it.
So, we have a symptom. What’s the cause, you ask? What could have eroded my love for this institution?
Jann Karl, that’s what.
See, Jerry’s getting older. He’s getting on in years, and has had a lot of health scares of late. He’s not able to go through the entire telethon like he used to- for God’s sake, he’s 82! Dude deserves some rest, given he’s devoted the better part of SIX DECADES to this cause.
So, I get that. Perfectly logical.
Except…
Except that the co-host situation is really bugging the crap out of me. See, Jann Karl is one of those entertainment reporters with the fake blond hair, the fake grin plastered and JUUUUST enough lack of a soul to make you think that when she’s truly touched by the child whose life will be shortened by some horrific disease, in actuality she’s faking it.
Yes, I know she isn’t faking it. Yes, I know she’s really touched. The problem is… well, I can’t stand her. Not only that, but the woman I can’t stand has become something of the secondary host of this show.
I’m probably not alone. Though The money keeps being “one dollar more” each year (and this year, a couple million dollars more), I can’t imagine that viewership is as high as in the past.
So, we know the problem. What’s the solution?
It’s simple. Point of fact, it’s already there in two people. One’s a congenial talk show host, the other’s one of the wittiest comics working today. They work the midnight to 8 shift (Pacific time, natch) while Jerry rests.
I refer, of course, to Tom Bergeron and Bob Zany.
Think about it. Jerry and Ed McMahon are both very old. They’ve done their bit for king and country, really they have. The two men can let the next generation take on their cause, and spend their few remaining years with family (including Jerry’s kinda-getting-hot daughter). Plus, these two guys are already in the system! They know what’s involved, and they could take this mantle on for decades if needed. Not only that, but Tom’s riding that “Dancing With The Stars” comet of success and Bob’s quicker than anyone with a line.
Instead, we get Jann fricking Karl.
I’ll continue to watch,mind you. I’ll continue to donate- and I encourage you to do the same. But they’ve lost me as a devotee, and hopefully they can regain my loyalty to the show.
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