Miss this week’s infoMania? Here’s a recap. Conor Knighton takes a look at the Palin bonanza following the release of her new book ‘Going Rogue’ as part of his look at the week in media. Also includes new books from Coolio and Heidi and Spencer Pratt, ‘Chef Academy,’ Lou Dobbs’ departure from CNN, and Bon Jovi’s appearance on ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio.’
infoMania again did a great job of being purely hilarious. It seems like the only way that cable news can describe the health bill is in terms of baseball. News simply does not know how to celebrate women in sports, unless maybe they are having threesomes.
This started off as the scariest Halloween that I’ve ever experienced. I’m not scared of very many things. This is a list of things that scare me:
Sharks
MS-13
Sharks are carnivorous sea creatures. MS-13 is a Salvadorian street gang. Both are known for savage murder. I wasn’t near the ocean, so fear number one was not a concern. Fear number two became a concern, when I found out where the Halloween party was.
The party was at a historic hotel next to MacArthur Park. I knew the park for its lake, and gang-related drug warfare. After finding hearing the location of the party, I developed a plan to avoid all trouble. Run up Alvarado, to Sixth, and dash into the party, without getting murdered. Easy-peasy. But things changed when we were invited to pre-party on Alvarado and 11th.
Alvarado and 11th is the heart of MS-13 territory!
This week’s infoMania sneak peek is a That’s Gay segment.
Bryan looks at the strange, strange world of gay conversion. There are ex-gay therapists out there, who want to pet ashamed homosexuals until they go hetero. Interesting methods, I wonder if they work.
infoMania airs every Thursday night at 10pm, only on Current TV.
Balloon Boy was the fastest meme to ever happen. I’ve covered some of the impact on the internet, but infoMania keeps you up on what the rest of the world was doing during those fateful six hours.
Video games, mugs, key rings, barfing on live TV, mouse pads.
I particularly like the Balloon Boy mouse pad, because both are obsolete. Though the mouse pad’s obsolescence has been sustained for much longer than that of the Balloon Boy.
I had my headphones, so I wasn’t paying attention when the yelling started. Brett told me to pull out my camera, because breaking news was happening. Ben Hoffman, friendliest man in the world, had broke! He was yelling, and the whole office didn’t know why. Brett takes you on a tour of the infoMania office, and the loud noises coming from Ben’s office.
Stay tuned to this week’s infoMania to find out what made Ben so mad!
Are you a rap music loving, hyper-localist? Are you disappointed that most hip hop focuses on urban life in New York or Los Angeles? Why can’t they rap about where you’re from? I mean PT Barnum was born in Bridgeport, why don’t rappers talk about that?
The infoMania office has been blessed with a well-stocked kitchen. They have produce, cold cuts, and soup. Unfortunately the can opener hasn’t been seen since mid-June. The mountains of canned soup, haven’t been accessed since.
This adversity, was not going to stop Brett Erlich. You see, Mr. Erlich, had an insatiable desire for soup “I was hungry, and the weather conditions made me want soup.” When he found out that there wasn’t a can opener he uttered “uhhhhg (that’s four h’s and one g)” out of pure sadness.
