About a half hour ago, the phone rang…
Phone voice: Hi, I’m calling from CityTV. We’d like to interview you for a news piece tonight about Googlebombing.
Me: (Uncontrollable fit of laughter)
Phone voice: I see I’ve reached the right person.
It looks as though they’d seen my A Special Message to My Deadbeat Ex-Housemate entry, in which I started to Googlebomb my deadbeat ex-housemate. They’re coming to the office to shoot the piece, and I believe it’ll air tonight.
Despite the fact that the Catmas holiday has come and gone, and even though I’m really a dog person (I think of cats as “egg rolls waiting to happen”), I still update the Catmas site every now and again. Click here to take a look at today’s darkly funny cat picture…
(You might want to read the entry titled A Special Message to My Deadbeat Ex-Housemate first.)
As of this morning, a Google search for deadbeat ex-housemate, both with and without quotes, returns the weblog of my deadbeat ex-housemate as the number one result in both Canada and the U.S..
I also got an email from him last night, in which he explained his current situation. Hey, I’m a nice guy and am willing to wait a little longer, but I want my replies to my questions and some guarantees that I will be paid back. That money could buy a lot of appliances for the home that the Ginger Ninja and I shall eventually buy.
Thanks to everyone who chimed in with a comment. I’ve made a note that there are still some legal options available to me, but I also have a “nuclear option” which I have not yet disclosed. Yes, I know that I’m beginning to sound like a James Bond villain.
Anyhow, I am pleased. Sastified grinning will commence in 3…2…1…
This has been sitting in my collection of draft blog entries; I thought I’d fire these out before they got too stale.
A study to be published next year in the Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media states that Comedy Central’s hit satire show, The Daily Show is as “substantive” as “real” news. It’s both an endorsement for The Daily Show as well as a black mark on “real” news.
For your viewing pleasure, here’s a surprisingly reasonable-sounding Joe Scarborough report on MSNBC covering the story, rich with some great clips from The Daily Show. [8.4MB QuickTime video]
Speaking of Stewart, be sure to check out this New York magazine piece on Stephen Colbert, a very thorough piece on my favourite fake right-wing commentator. I knew he was Catholic but had no idea that he still taught Sunday school. I’d catch a class if he held one here in Accordion City.
Steve Jobs, clean-shaven and wearing a tie. What the hell?!
Over at Global Nerdy, the tech news blog that my buddy George and I write, here are the latest stories:
“Bobby, if you don’t pose for this picture, your friend Mr. Insulin goes bye-bye.”
I thought my idea of going as manta ray-spiked Steve Irwin was awful (my catchphrase would be “What’s wrong? Too soon?”), but it pales in comparison to the children’s “toilet” costume pictured here. With kids being the way they are, unfortunate wearers of this costume would be on the vanguard of a new and humiliating form of beat-down, which I will leave to the reader to imagine.
Also in the catalog is this costume, which is nearly as bad:
(Links found via Reddit.)