The iTunes Music Store is finally available in Mexico. Apple says American users should stay clear of the Mexican version, unless they want their computer to get diarrhea. [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: News
Keywords: itunes mexico
Added: Fri, 7 Aug 2009

Nicolas Cage owes 6.2 million dollars to the IRS. I guess there is a new tax on shitty movies.  [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: nicolas cage irs
Added: Thu, 6 Aug 2009

The Arena Football League may soon have to shut down due to a lack of interest. You can read all about it in this week's "Stuff You Thought Already Happened". [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Sports
Keywords: arena football
Added: Thu, 6 Aug 2009

CNN's 'Showbiz Tonight' has named Octomom the most controversial celebrity mom. In a related story Wolf Blitzer has named 'Showbiz Tonight' the most embarrassing thing on CNN. [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Entertainment
Keywords:
Added: Mon, 27 Jul 2009

President Obama will meet with Professor Henry Gates and the officer who arrested him this week at the White House for a few beers. The three men say they are not looking forward to the next day, when they will have to retrace their steps, find their buddy and give Mike Tyson his tiger back.  [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Political
Keywords:
Added: Mon, 27 Jul 2009

I saw this on the subway the other day:



I hope no one noticed me taking this picture.



New Yorkers will tell you that subway graffiti is not uncommon, in particlar on the subway. Even in more particular is the practice of drawing a penis next to someone’s mouth. My pal Nasry even has a joke about how he is afraid to have his own TV show because it will inevitably lead to penises being drawn next to his face. (So far so good!)
But in this case I have to take exception. This girl doesn’t deserve this. I could understand if it was some skanky Bravo reality show about cutting hair or real housewives or “The Cougar”* which seem to fill the subway. Those ads cry out for penis drawings. This is a young lady trying to better herself by getting an education. She’s stuck with a shitty sounding book too: Fields of Reading. If reading Catcher in the Rye is the equivalent of finding a million dollars in a suitcase, Fields of Reading sounds like the equivalent of well... having a dick drawn on your face.

Plus, not to pile on here but it’s Queens College, it’s not like she is at MIT and needs to be taken down a peg. Does this guy (shot in the dark it is a male) really feel like he has to publicly shame her just for taking any form of initiative in her life? “Yeah whatever with your reading and classes, this is all the thing attached to your neck is for.”
Also, is this hovering, unattached penis supposed to be his? It appears to be either flaccid, tiny or both. I guess good art is supposed to generate discussion.
I know, I haven’t touched on the buckteeth or the mustache, because the penis really is the main point of the graffiti, in the same way bacon is the main point of a BLT. But it does once again compound the confusion if the artist is suggesting that is his penis. Why is the penis interested in a woman with facial hair and horrible teeth?
I just hope this doesn’t discourage young New York women from following their dreams, for fear that it will surely only lead to a man forcibly sodomizing their mouths while they try to do some homework under an Elm. Women, if you are reading this allow me to assure you that only happens like half of the time.
Now if you’ll excuse me, all I can think about is eating a BLT.
-Mike
*Has anyone told self-proclaimed cougars that the term more or less means old slut? That’s how I use it anyway. They should really be aiming for the classification of hot chick, without any age-related sub category. [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Blogs
Keywords: subway
Added: Mon, 1 Jun 2009

Heath Ledger won the Oscar for his performance as the Joker at last night's Academy Award ceremonies, beating out Robert Downey Jr. among others. Even though this proves that Ledger was the superior actor Downey remains the superior drug-taker. [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: heath ledger robert downey jr. oscar joker
Added: Mon, 23 Feb 2009

There is a new movie coming out called The International about an evil bank. How evil? Real evil. This is apparently an attempt capture the ol’ zeitgeist of current affairs. This has worked great in past movies such as The Net (the internet is evil) Strange Days (virtual reality not only will exist and matter, but it will also be evil) Anti-Trust (Microsoft is successful and therefore evil). Oh did I say it worked great? I meant to say they were all really really shitty shitty movies. Not sure how I mixed that up.

Now the idea of a evil bank sounds like it might be a little complicated and over the heads of the average movie-goer so the trailer makes sure to make in nice and easy for everyone to understand. Oh did I say that they make it easy to understand? I meant to say they made it fucking stupid. What is with me today?

The trailer starts with a person using an ATM: 
Then the following cryptic message, meant to pull you into the exciting world of banking: 
Whoa. Something else? Something else? Other than what? They don’t say. Normal bank stuff I guess. Okay, you have me hooked trailer, this bank is up to no good. You even have the guy from Children of Men involved. But now you better bring the thunder so I know you just how high the stakes are:
  
HOLY SHIT! HANG ON! NO WAY! Is he going to push the murder button on the ATM? He better not! HE BETTER NOT! This movie is fucking crazy! It looks like the screen says something like “Believing in A Better Tomorrow” but this bank doesn’t do that. They have ATMs that murder people somehow! ADMs is more like it! This bank is bad motha flippin news! My bank just tries to scam me into a bullshit credit protection service and gives me free pens that don’t work that well. These guys murder from touch screens!

The extortion and corruption are even scarier because I have no idea how they would work. I mean I’ve been extorted by an ATM before but it was in a bodega or a strip club, not an actual bank. ($2.75 my ass!) I guess for the extortion you have to bring your victim to another ATM. Corruption would be a little harder though, I imagine there is a lot of face time & paper work required to pull off something like that.

This is clearly a movie meant for the summer blockbuster season, not February. Boy are the movie studios faces gonna be red when they realize their mistake!
This almost reminds me of another trailer I saw for a movie about an evil fast food chain:  

 
 
 
 

That number 5 will go straight to your hips! [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Blogs
Keywords: movies banks clive owen
Added: Sat, 31 Jan 2009

A new poll finds that 64 percent of Republicans want to see Governor Sara Palin make a run for the White House in 2012, putting them on the same page as 100 percent of Democrats, joke-writers and metaphorical glass ceiling repairmen. [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Political
Keywords: palin gop alaska 2012
Added: Sat, 8 Nov 2008

You know what’s stupid? Harry Potter. I don’t care for it. Never read the books, can’t sit though the movies. But it is one of the few things in Science Fiction/Fantasy that I am not a huge fan of so bashing it is one of my few opportunities to act like I’m somewhat cool.

“Are you really a Harry Potter fan? Seriously? It would be one thing if it was Star Trek, Star wars, Battlestar Galactica, Superman , Batman, Spiderman, The Hulk, X Men, that run of Daredevil comics written by Kevin Smith, Dr. Who, The first few seasons of X-Files, Lord of the Rings, Iron Man, pretty much any movie where someone wears a costume to fight crime, Lost, Heroes, Alien Nation, Narnia, ET, Mac & Me, Babylon 5, Twilight Zone or Small Wonder.”

“But Harry Potter? You need to get a life my man.”

Another nerdy thing I don’t care for is that show Smallville. In case you haven’t heard, it’s a show about young Superman where the producers have promised viewers that you will never see him fly or wear the iconic blue and read uniform.

Which is a smart move, because people really hate it when Superman does either of those things.

All that flying and dressing like Superman really held the Christopher Reeve movies back.

I want to see superman wearing blue jeans and crocs as he rides a 10 year old Vespa to fight Lex Luthor.

That reminds me, I’m pitching a new cooking show to the food network where you never see a kitchen- or food.

Take that 8 year old show on the CW that no one watches! [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Blogs
Keywords: smallville harry potter nerds
Added: Fri, 18 Apr 2008

From The Offices of Satan, Lord of the Underworld

Dear Minions,

Halloween will soon be here, where you will take to the streets to corrupt the minds of mankind through ancient pagan rituals that will ultimately lead to our complete domination of all existence. What a glorious time! Rise my minions! Rise!

But you know, as I walk around the office, I hear murmurs. People say Halloween has become stale, secular and that people could care less about lil' ol me.
The other day I overheard one minion saying thee whole thing had been reduced to nothing more than giving fun-sized mounds bars to kids dressed like Optimus Prime.

At first I was mad, but I had to admit, he had a point. Our hearts have just not been in it this year. His heart especially, because I forced him to eat it while it was still beating then sent him to writhe in a lake of fire for all eternity, but you get the idea.

The only people who still think Halloween is actually demonic are Mormons and the idiots who worship me. I can’t say I blame them, in the last few years the holiday has been corrupted and commercialized to the point that even I hardly recognize it.

I say lets put the me back in Halloween. Let’s make this the most satanic (or me-ic) day of reckoning ever. I have a few ideas to get us started:

1. Purchase UNICEF.

2. Eliminate all decorations that feature skeleton’s smiling or dancing. Totally unrealistic.

3. Encourage the consumption of excessive amounts of dark chocolate, which as we all know is positively sinful.

4. Witches and vampires, the mascots of the holiday, are no longer scary. Too add to their mystique, spread the rumor that Witches are racists and Vampires have AIDS.

5. Step up our links with the living via Ouija boards, Heavy Metal Music and the face of every smiling baby.

6. Reach out to modern, empowered women by doing away with slutty nurses outfits in favor of slutty doctor’s outfits.

7. If you see trash in the hallway, pick it up, even if it’s not yours. (That’s not a Halloween tip, just something that I think everyone would benefit from.)

I like to think we are all part of a team here in the underworld, even a family. Now lets turn this around before I summon flying flesh eating insects with spinning blades for hands to murder you and your families over and over. Just kidding... sort of.

See you in hell,

Satan



PS- Whoever has been taking other people’s food out of the fridge, be aware that we have installed a camera in the break room. [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Blogs
Keywords:
Added: Mon, 29 Oct 2007

This week New York City rolled out an official condom based on the city's subway system to promote safe sex.

Not to be outdone New Jersey Governor John Corzine anounced plans for his state to develop a "new kinda pullin out" based on the Jersey Turnpike. Insiders say the phrase "what exit are you?" will play a key role. [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: News
Keywords:
Added: Sat, 17 Feb 2007

Bush attached a signing statement to a postal reform act that some say will allow the government to look through people's mail without a warrant. Which is kind of like signing a lease for your apartment, but writing at the bottom that you can piss down the heating vent whenever you want. [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: News
Keywords: bush postal
Added: Thu, 4 Jan 2007

The Democrats seem poised to make a full comeback in 08, having truly learned from their past mistakes. Two early contenders for the nation's top job: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. That's right a New York career woman and a black guy with a terrorist name. Here we come red states! Their third lesser know candidate is actually this picture: There ya go flyovers! Everything you hate! See ya at the polls! [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: Political
Keywords:
Added: Sat, 16 Dec 2006

Yoko Ono's driver is in some hot water after handing her a letter saying "he had people on standby waiting to kill her on his orders." Yet another outstanding group Ono is responsible for breaking up. [more]

Author: Mike Trainor
Category: News
Keywords: yoko beatles
Added: Fri, 15 Dec 2006