I hate when I leave Comedy Central on and suddenly Mind of Mencia comes on. That show is such a total piece of crap. Every single show involves Carlos Mencia doing about 6 gimmicks and a bunch of racial jokes. But as I was considering plunging into a rant about why the show sucks, I realized many people have already done the job for me.

The best:

The following paragraph is specifically for Carlos...

Yelling a joke doesn't make it funnier. Doing little twitches while telling a joke doesn't make it funnier. Pointing at the camera or various people in the audience doesn't make it funnier. Laughing hysterically at your own jokes doesn't make them funnier. Relying on stereotypes for 99.8% of your material doesn't make you funnier. Having your own show doesn't make you funny. Your not funny, nor are you by any means a respected comedian, but rather, you are a commercialized joke, a fat vulture feeding on the remains of the Chappelle show. Perhaps when you take the time to construct a joke coherently, rather than fall back on "in-yo-face"-it y, will you truly know what it means to be a comedian.

Carlos, there's nothing like perpetuating racial stereotypes under the guise of "comedy." Granted, you're not the only comedian that does it, but you're the only one that misses the whole comedy part. Oh yeah, someone pass on that "yelling a joke doesn't make it funnier" advice to Joe Rogan too.

Apparently Ford lost $12.6 billion in 2006...the company's worst loss ever. In a big surprise, the high costs of fuel caused people to buy fewer gas-guzzling trucks. And in order to get rid of costly employees, Ford has to payout large amounts of money since the employees they want to remove are union workers.

The second part makes sense (it may cost money now, but will result in savings), but whoever thought to get rid of the Taurus line of cars is an idiot...when gas prices go up it's time to produce more cars, not less.

Well, the 2-week wait to the Super Bowl is just too long. So here's what's got me excited on a shorter-term basis...Smokin' Aces which comes out this week and has everybody in it: Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Andy Garcia, Peter Berg, Common, and Alicia Keys.

It just looks like an awesome movie from the trailer.

Bears, baby! What an incredible game...they were firing on all cylinders. Could this be their year?

Michael Vick got busted yesterday for carrying marijuana at Miami International Airport. But the real story is how he got busted:

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was reluctant to throw away his 20-ounce water bottle at a Miami International Airport security checkpoint Wednesday morning.

The reason, police say: The plastic bottle had a secret compartment that, when opened, had a dark residue and a pungent odor of marijuana.

Vick boarded his 8:20 a.m. AirTran flight to Atlanta before screeners called police. Now Miami-Dade police are examining the bottle and could charge him if it tests positive for drugs.

Apparently the TSA screener was suspicious of why he was reluctant to throw away his water bottle and investigated, discovering the secret compartment.

Here's something completely wild. So in Kill Bill, Tarantino decided to make 2 movies out of what was really supposed to be 1 movie. With Grindhouse, he's doing just the opposite. From Yahoo Movies:

Recreating the "grindhouse" theater experience of the 1970s, directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino present two feature-length movies in a one ticket event, complete with fake trailers and other elements to transport you back in time.

The first movie will be Rodriguez's "Planet Terror", about a town besieged by zombie-like infested "sickos", as the sheriff's department finds itself teaming up with a woman (McGowan) who has a machine gun for a leg and her partner, a martial arts expert (Freddy Rodriguez).

In Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof", the beautiful women working on a movie set find themselves stalked by a murderous psycho named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), whose modus operandi is running them over with his black Dodge Charger, which is emblazoned on the hood with a white skull and lightning bolts.

There's a trailer on Yahoo.

If you've ever been on an international flight that required a stopover and a change in time zones, you've likely experienced this. Airlines decide that when you head to a destination in a different time zone, they should provide you with meals according to that time zone...even on a 9-hour flight. But what happens if that's not your final stop? Well now they're giving you meals that are no longer on the schedule you're used to, but also not on the schedule you need to get used to either.

Well, in the case of the flight from Chicago to India with a stopover in London, this is exactly what happened. Towards the end of the flight I was hungry for dinner, as it was around that time in Chicago. India is on an 11.5 hour time difference, so it would have been early morning there. But in London, it was the middle of the night, so there's no meal. And then later when I'm tired they're trying to serve me breakfast.

Sure, the meals make sense to anyone headed to London, but anyone with any other destination is getting totally thrown off. As if jet lag and sleep problems weren't enough already.

Welcome to 2007! My New Year's resolution is to post more frequently...we'll see how it pans out :) What's yours?

Also, there may be some new design changes on the horizon, so keep your eyes peeled!

As I am travelling out of the country, this blog is on hiatus for a few weeks. I'll be resuming posting by January 15th, so Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to you all!

So I was browsing IMDB recently, and decided to check out what Steve Carell's got coming up besides more of the hilarious The Office episodes, and Evan Almighty, the sequel to Bruce Almighty (trailer).

He's got 2 more movies, High T and Dan in Real Life. According to Canmag's description of High T:

'T' as in testosterone that is. From the mind of George Wing, the guy behind 50 First Dates [which was surprisingly not bad], comes the upcoming comedy High T, a film about a guy [Carell] who begins taking testosterone shots. Because of the increased 'T', the characters mood begins to widely vary from extremely aggressive to crying like a baby.

According to IMDB, the premise of Dan in Real Life is "A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother's girlfriend." The brother? Dane Cook. I'm kind of lukewarm about him, but I hope the movie does well.