Bill Oakley, one half of the ethnic comedy duo "Oakley & Weinstein," has a brand-new blog in which he lists unpopular food carts in Portland, Oregon. Here's a sampler:
100% Vegan Styrofoam Cupcakes (SW 4th & Hall)
Neglectful Mom's Empty Bag Lunches (SE 3rd & Ankeny)
Vintage & Collectible Milk (NE 23rd & Alberta)
All fans of "Allied Biscuit" and "TableTime" are invited to attend. [Portland's Least Popular Food Carts via @thatbilloakley]
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Alan K. Simpson, the Republican co-chairman of President Obama's bipartisan fiscal commission, removed his "size 15 feet" from his mouth to apologize to a critic on Wednesday for a stinging letter in which he compared Social Security to "a milk cow with 310 million tits."[New York Times]]]>
In a stunning career move never before accomplished, former Vanity Fair editor John Ortved made the leap from penning a whole bunch of words about The Simpsons to typing a dating blog for Glamour magazine, where he regularly explores questions like "Do You Have a Set Number of Dates Before You'll Sleep With a Guy?" and "Do You Ever Film 'It?'? Should You Ever?" Could there be a correlation between Simpsons nerdiness and sex smarts? Developing... [Glamour]
Shocking news from AOL's DailyFinance... terrorists are infiltrating beloved national conglomerates and using them to fund terrorists... even News Corp., parent company of Fox News and The Simpsons has fallen prey to their wily schemes... it's too late to stop it... they're already here...
For example, News Corp.'s second-largest shareholder, after the Murdoch family, is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (pictured at left, and above right), the nephew of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, and one of the world's richest men.
Through his Kingdom Holding Co., Alwaleed owns about 7% of News Corp., or about $3 billion of the media giant.
Saudi Arabia, which is ruled by Alwaleed's uncle King Abdullah, is, of course, an authoritarian petro-monarchy that actually is governed by Sharia law and is known as one of the top global sponsors of terrorism. A spokesperson for the Saudi embassy in Washington says that while Alwaleed is part of the royal family, he isn't a member of the government, but rather a private citizen.
Could this so-called media mogul be lining his coffers with the profits from Simpsons merchandise, and then giving that money to his terrorist pals??? It's not unpossible and we can't take any chances.
It's time to strike back. Nielsen families, stop watching The Simpsons. Internet video-watchers, stop watching The Simpsons on Hulu. Stop purchasing products advertised during The Simpsons. Next time you're at the store, walk right past the aisle filled with Krusty alarm clocks and Maggie plush dolls, don't even look at the Simpsons fruit snacks: they're not worth the risk. No more Homer t-shirts, no more Simpsons DVDs, no more Milhouse asthma inhalers. Do your patriotic duty: buy bootleg Black Bart Simpson t-shirts at swap meets. We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day! [DailyFinance via AlterNet]
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Last month, we were in a funk, because at Comic-Con executive producer Al Jean said they were writing a 2011 Christmas episode featuring Homer and Marge as grandparents, which would apparently confirm a 23rd season.
But in a recent interview, Jean jokingly suggests otherwise:
My math could be incorrect, but I believe your 500th episode will be airing this season. Are there plans for an extended special to celebrate this milestone?
Al Jean: I'm afraid your math is incorrect. Our current record schedule will take us to episode 493, so if Fox wants 500, then I'm afraid they will have to pick up season 23, hint, hint.
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As all Gleeks know, the cast of TV's megahit Glee will be guest-starring in an upcoming Simpsons episode entitled "Elementary School Musical," scheduled to air September 26, 2010. But rubbercat.net/simpsons has EXCLUSIVELY obtained your first look at how your favorite Glee characters will look Simpsonized:
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Bongo Comics, the independent comic book company owned by Matt Groening, has finally joined the 1990s and will launch a website tomorrow, which will feature news items, blog posts, and, most amazing of all, a list of "all Matt Groening's comic-book, trade-book, and calendar publications." Bongo, which publishes Simpsons, Futurama, and NewsRadio comics, has owned the domain www.bongocomics.com since 1996 but until now only used it for e-mail purposes.
Still no word on the long-dormant MattGroening.com, which has been "under construction" since 2000. [The Beat]
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It appears Fox has scrapped the traditional 2-D look of the show in favor of slicker 3-D CGI. Now, many misguided Simpsons purists will surely decry the change in dimensions, but keep in mind that The Simpsons Ride was CGI and many Simpsons directors (David Silverman, Brad Bird, Jim Reardon) have plenty of Pixar experience, so this was inevitable. Developing... ]]>
Coincidentally, Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer) portrayed Pekar in a stage adaptation of his long-running comic American Splendor. [SMITH Magazine via Twitter]
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Huffington Post blogger Harry Shearer was once again hosed by the TV gods, who failed to nominate him for a prestigious "Emmy" orange blimp award in the category of "Best Voice-Talkin' Guy." Shearer, voice of Mr. Burns, Smithers, Lenny, and Principal Skinner, among others, has only been nominated in that category once (in 2009) and is the only regular Simpsons cast member to have not won it (the others somehow all won in 1992, WTF?). Dan Castalleneta (Homer), Hank Azaria (Moe), and Anne Hathaway (the princess in that godawful 20th anniversary episode) are nominated this year along with Seth Green, Dave Foley, and Coach McGuirk. [Los Angeles Times]]]>
Back in 2002, a more innocent time when we were told Saddam Hussein could attack us again at any moment, Futurama was on death watch. Since its premiere, Fox had shuffled its timeslot multiple times, and it eventually wound up in the 7 o'clock hour, the almost-but-not-quite-primetime hour where TV shows go to die (bad news for American Dad) and football pre-emptions occur every other week. Together with a lack of advertising and the fact that it was a niche show to begin with, Futurama could only manage to wring out a pitiful 6.4 million viewers when the show was mercifully put out to pasture by Fox.
In 2010, The Simpsons, which has held the same timeslot for sixteen straight seasons and has always had the full support of the network, recieved 5.74 million viewers for its season finale, which featured guest appearances by four American Idol judges and host Ryan Seacrest. [No Homers Club/Media Life Magazine]
]]>Comic book company Bongo Comics is rolling out a five-issue comic book miniseries called Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book, centering around comic book guy Comic Book Guy, the once-funny Simpsons character who got overused and is now just plain irritating. [TFAW.com]]]>