Tag: sunday funnies
Sunday Funnies: Daily print media gets to know their audience
Sunday Funnies: Maybe we shouldn’t give Google any ideas…
Facebook got all the press this week answering privacy questions, but isn’t this just a matter of time?
Sunday Funnies: The REAL 30th anniversary this weekend
Despite Google’s little Pac-Man doodle on Friday, this weekend is more notable because Friday was the 30th anniversary of the release of The Empire Strikes Back.
The Empire Strikes Back might be the best sequel ever, and is regarded as the best of the Star Wars trilogy. But one can only wonder if it would have been as successful with the original ending:
Here’s a bonus one – this is what passed for a trailer in 1980, for the sequel to what was, at the time, the highest grossing movie ever:
Sunday Funnies: How Social Networks are Made
Introducing Gink, the next big internet fad…
Sunday Funnies: Here comes summer of George movie season
Sometimes, when you go to a movie, you don’t want a gripping action drama like Prognosis Negative or Death Blow, but you aren’t in the mood for a lighthearted comedy like Sack Lunch. Sometimes you want a great story of triumph – and failing that, you’ll settle for a retelling of the George Costanza saga:
If you liked The English Patient it’s right up your alley…
Sunday Funnies: iPad’s Playhouse
The iPad didn’t need any extra promotion when it launched last weekend, thanks to some advance marketing which put devices in the hands of key influentials – like Pee Wee Herman.
On an unrelated not, the iPad is apparently great for watching movies, if you’d rather enjoy them in the comfort of your own home instead of going out to a theater.
Sunday Funnies: Say hello to our little friends
When I was in first grade, I played Peter Pan in a school play. The costume was embarrassing. Why, oh why, did I not have forward-thinking teachers who would have simply lifted the plot of Scarface?
Sunday Funnies: The next big debate
With the government health care overhaul being made official tonight, the next big thing will be the financial reform bill, as Democrats try to get back on the American peoples’ good side. How will they do it? Maybe by creating a giant (and, in many ways, redundant) oversight agency to police the financial markets. Sure, it speaks to a problem that happened two years ago, but Wall Street is an easy straw man.
Funny or Die does a good job acting as the White House’s comedy video department – they stick to the message and, frankly, produce hilarious videos. Here, they use the ghosts of Saturday Night Live presidential impersonators past (with Jim Carrey filling in for the late Phil Hartman as Ronald Reagan) to plug the next overreaching government program.
Roll over, Liberty.
Sunday Funnies: Today, all funnies are local
Charlie Rangel’s ethics problems have led to his electorally vulnerable Democrat colleagues giving back campaign donations from Rangel’s PAC in an effort to distance themselves from the erstwhile Ways and Means Chair. (Incidentally, Rangel has this backward: usually step one is people giving you bags of money, and step two is the ethics investigation.)
The Republican Party of Virginia is asking why two Virginia Congressmen – including my own Representative, Gerry Connolly – haven’t given theirs back:
Jim Eltringham 