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Trippin' on the suitcase

The following is a pretty pointless post with various pics of my suitcase and trip planning so there’s a pretty great chance you’ll die from boredom if you do intend to read this post.
You have been warned.

Moving on.

Preparing for la vida local is not an easy task. It indeed requires tremoundous thinking beforehand, and by thinking I mean praying that your suitcase won’t get lost or stolen by some dude at the airport.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at my wonderful picture album collection awkwardly named “A trip down memory lane“. Oh my God. I think I just had an orgasm thinking about that word play.

We’ll start off gently with the little mascot I like to bring with me on every trip:

Yeah, he’ll get the job done.

Now on to the magnificent suitcase:

“Sesame open up” would be the most clichéd sentence right now, so I’ll just go with the bland but still powerful (in that it is not powerful) sentence:
“Suitcase open up”!
And voilà.

Holy crap, clothes! And an…other bag?
This is like a Kinder Surprise but, you know, not in chocolate…

Are you as hungry as I am right now?

Anyway.

With good trip planning comes great money exchange. This is why I decided to photograph my hundreds and thousands of dollars, and then got a call from the Secret Services.

Oh, what the hell, here is my joyfull richness in all its splendor:

The Old and the Beautiful.
But what is Elizabeth II doing on a dollar bill?

Damn, that post was hi-la-rious.
You are now going to die.

P.S.: Sorry for the poor quality of the pics, I have a fail camera.

And FYI, TheWB.com has finally launched.
The future is now (maybe)!

Which one is Piggy?

Folks, I’m sorry to tell you (but not really to do) that Monday I’ll be leaving you for the Big Apple (and for 2 weeks).
How sad (or awesome for me) is that?

So much to do and so little time!

I need to print out my short scripts because I have a little meeting with Tisch next Friday.
And I haven’t bought yet my suitcase.
Dammit.

Anyway, beyond my awesomely not particularly interesting life I was fortunately able to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report because me love me some Comedy Central late-night show.
I especially loved this little segment that was on last night:


The mixture of an MSNBC implosion coupled with not-so-subtle innuendoes in a Cenac/Bee/Stewart sketch is just…priceless?

Online shows and college love

You know how I talked about The WB’s online launch on August 27?
Well now there’s another, again, new kid on the block.
And his name is Strike.TV

Yes, that’s Kristen Wiig.

The idea for Strike.TV, like Whedon’s Dr. Horrible, was thought out during, you’ll never guess this, the writer’s strike.
Strike.TV allows for screenwriters to create a content that will be filmed and produced, while still maintaining ownership of their work.

The writers behind the site’s content include writers for The Office, How I Met Your Mother and much more (see the above trailer).
Several original series will be available on the website such as Global Warming, with Aasif Mandvi and Kristen Wiig.

The site will be paid, similarly to Hulu, with short ads before the program.
Strike.TV is expected to open to everyone later this month.

And what about that “college love”?
Well you certainly know that ABC, NBC and Coe like to stream their shows online, and also like to cash in the checks they earn with the ads in them.
Fox is soon going to join them with Fringe and The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
On September 8 and 9, both premiere will be streamed simultaneously with their TV broadcast.
The catch is that this stream will only be available to college students, or rather people surfing the web with .edu domains. Why .edu domains in particular you may wonder. Well Bill Bradford (the VP of “content strategy”) saw that .edu domains were among the top visitors for Fox’s website and came up with the streaming idea.
Brilliant.
Especially when you know that “.edu people” are also the number one people to download illegally shows, such as, you know, the leaked Fringe pilot.