Date Archives December 2012
You Are God
Sad Whopper There's phoning it in, and then there's fast food kids' meal toys nowadays. Why even bother? Just print QR codes leading to mobile games and videos on kids' meal bags. Fast food kids' meal toys peaked with McDonald's' Super Mario Bros. 3 collection….
The Booth at the End
Y'all can have Lindsay Lohan. I'll take Bai Ling. Coachella Massacre 2: Electric Bonnaroo. The world awakens one day to discover that all guns on Earth have disappeared – has this premise been dramatized? "Why are you shouting?" I hear that regularly. A: Because you…
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
50. 12.12.12 (The League, S04E11) Honourable Mention Monty Python LSD Trip (Fringe, S05E09) Stray Observations This stolen penis storyline… (Misfits, S04E07) "I just thought if we got together, we could change the channel from the Feud Network to Comity Central." (The Simpsons, S24E07) Tina in…
Rough Sleeper
Should I? On Christmas Eve, the same chef is cooking a National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation-inspired dinner. see also: Breaking Bad-inspired dinner I saw an ad on a taxicab that read "Syracuse: New York's College Team." Uhhhhh no. That would be Michigan. "Regal E-Walk Stadium 13…
I'm Always Tired
Has MythBusters tested whether it really matters if your seat back is in its upright position during take-off and landing – whether stewards are rightfully scrupulous over seemingly negligible degrees of recline (in coach, at least)? Has anyone written a paper on the psychology of…
Breaking Bad, The Wire-style (All 5 Seasons)
intros for all five seasons of Breaking Bad, cut in the same style as The Wire—right down to the variations of "Way Down in the Hole"
New York Is Finishing School For Cynics Like Us
Previously (2004) on Adam Riff™: UCLA has a new logo. Keith Bright Strategic Design created the new logo at a cost of $98,000. "UCLA could have paid me $50 and I could have typed out 'UCLA' in Helvetica font, italicized it and it would've been…