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Bad-ass kids

Fri, 11 May 2007 16:42:18 -0500

No one likes to be yelled at.

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:58:25 -0500

Truth.com time

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:11:15 -0500

Ho HO Ho

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:18:26 -0500

The holidays are here again, and unlike most jobs, that mmeans Planetarium will actually be MORE likely to post more than once a week. That's how we do things here in Awesomeville. Anyway, the gift-giving time is upon us, which means it's again behoven upon us to get some rad stuff for other people. Here at Planetarium offices getting other people something incredibly awesome is usually easy, since it merely involves an autographed picture of us. However, this year we are mixing it up a little and debating perhaps just posting an autographed picture of ourselves up on the site to save both time and money. But then again, we don't want to crash the Internet. This sight of us has been known to automatically set computers on fire from the sheer radness.

My Computer At Work Remembers My Password to This Site.

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:58:33 -0500

Which is DEEPLY unsettling, frankly. Regardless, it's almost the middle of December, and still quite unseasonably warm here in the remote outback of New York City. The lack of snow is almost as strange as the fact that Planetarium has yet to see The Fountain. It sounds like a movie that's very easy to make fun of, which means that we'll probably like it quite a bit, as art that unabashedly wears its trying-to-change-the-world-love-is-all-you-need-style heart on its sleeve often does. (Unless it's music, in which case there's a likely chance that we'll find it shudderingly bad).

Like Planetarium? Then get us something off of our Amazon wish list, and we'll love you forever. Holiday shopping has definitely gotten easier in the age of the Internets. Friends have been doing "funny" performances lately, which has made us a little nostalgic for the days of comedy when we strode the earth as a Colossus. Ah well. For the time being, grad school will have to continue to fit the bill.

P.S. The post was brought to you in an earnest effort to demonstrate that Planetarium COULD do a PB&J post any time it wanted to - we just usually choose to fill your tme with other antics.

pics, for when words fail.

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:59:27 -0500

Tina Fey is my hero.

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:45:13 -0500

Why, you ask? No, not just for Mean Girls and other brilliant work. It's for the best reason reason of all: She called Paris Hilton a piece of shit on national radio.

Ha ha SWEET!

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:14:50 -0500

We will happily eat crow about our predictions. And Entertainment Weekly has a good theory about why the Republicans lost so bad:

"America wants change. Sir Kev the Federlionhearted? Out. Bobby Brown? Prerogative revoked. Ryan Phillippe? Deported to Iwo Jima. The Republican Party? Thumped.

It’s called "breakup vibes," a concept you’ll remember from freshman year of college. One couple on the hall splits, and pretty soon, everybody’s either single or realigned. Am I crediting Nick Lachey with the defeat of the Republican Party? Yes, I think I am."

Voting blows.

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:26:19 -0500

Not really in general, though. More just like "in America". Why? Because here's Planetarium's super-top-secret-awesome prediction for the 2006 mid-term elections: The Republicans are going to maintain control of both the House AND the Senate. How could that be, you ask? Glad you're curious. The reason is simple: They're going to steal the elction, just like they did in 2004.
It won't be a big blatant steal, either. They don't need to do that any more. If 2004 proved anything, it was that through a slow, semi-legal process of purging voter rolls, mishandling ballots, setting up voting machine "mishaps" in key swing districts, and so on and so forth, they can bring democracy to an effective halt and nobody will seem to give much of a fuck. Remember how crazy and angry people got after the '04 election, because of the kinds of disenfranchisement and stealing of votes that happened in Ohio? No? That's because there WASN'T ANY. As long as Dancing With the Stars is still on at its regular time, people don't really give a shit. This sounds cynical, we know. But it will seem less so when you wake up Wednesday morning and we were proven right.

Monday Movie Mashup

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:03:49 -0500

So in honor of it being the NIGHT BEFORE HALLOWEEN (spooooky!), we present a smattering of the films we've seen lately, in easy-to-digest capsule-review format. Enjoy!

SAW III: Not bad. But seriously? One of the grossest movies we've ever seen. Seriously, they ramped up the disgusting by a factor of at least 10. No one needs to see brain surgery conducted, ever. Even surgeons. They usually look away while they're doing that shit.

Thank You For Smoking: Overrated. And honestly? We think it might be a little evil. It seems like the kind of smarmy coastal self-congratulatory claptrap that's killing Studio 60. Like, it's a movie for kind of evil people who know that their jobs are kind of evil to pat themselves on the back, have a laugh, and say, "See? We're just good ol' folks like you, average American!" Bet George Bush LOVES this movie.

The Departed: Awesome. Like you didn't already know that. Although when did they pass a law saying that everyone who gets shot in Boston must get shot in the head?

Peeping Tom: A British movie from 1960 that is utterly brilliant. You can't take your eyes off of it. Big ups to this one.

The Prestige: Okay, to be honest, we haven't seen it yet. But we're TOTES going to. Aren't you? The dude who made Batman Begins is pitting Wolverine against Batman! How awesome is that?!?

okay

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:15:13 -0500

so we still haven't figured out the whole uploading photos from the personal computer thing. Which is odd, when you think about how easy it is to paste on photos that are ALREADY out there on the stupid internets:

In other news, will the mighty power of blogging forever be fumbled in our mighty hands?
UPDATE: We just noticed that the stupid site cuts off the other half of this picture, thus negating its very funniness. So just click on the image and go to the source to see why it's awesome. Dammit, we REALLY need to learn a few things.

it's monday, right?

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:50:38 -0500

ha-ha. oops.

something cool with be coming once Planetarium learns how to upload photos from our home computer onto the internet. It's apparently really difficult. Bizarre.

thought for the week

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:48:22 -0500

Monday update!!!!

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:58:58 -0500

Get f'ing pumped!!! WHOOOOO!!!!!

okay, then. Robert Downey Jr. has been confirmed as officially tapped to play the role of motherfucking IRON MAN in the next Marvel superhero franchise gearing up. This, in our opinion, is rad. Downey is one of the best actors living right now, and totally insane to boot, so for them to gamble on entrusting him with the is very cool indeed.

Also, Scarlett Johannsen was voted sexiest woman alive, but does anyone really care any more? She's totally 5 minutes ago-dot-com.

To continue the Hollywood theme...

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:53:08 -0500

It would seem that Ben Affleck just may get a new lease on acting life with the rave reviews he's been pulling in for his work as George Reeves in Hollywoodland. While we'll have the review of that film here soon, it seems a lot less notable than the fact that Mr. Affleck just won the Venice Film Fest's best actor award for this role. Scary, or scarily cooool? Answer: just scary. But to make things more fun (because we here at Planetarium are all about the fun) check out this priceless clip from 2004 of a very very drunk Ben Affleck on Canadian TV, doing things that would get most of us slapped VERY hard.