Daily Blend: Thursday, April 22, 2010

It’s only fitting that my TV remote died last night when trying to partake in my nightly routine – watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and then gently let myself off to sleep on the thoughts of funnymen in suits carrying eighteen times the weight of most news networks combined – and having changed the batteries this morning, it’s now only natural to find that the twits in charge of programming and scheduling kindly set the timing back about 20 minutes, thereby ensuring that 3/4 of The Daily Show plays during The Colbert Report’s lot and that, subsequently, 3/4 of Colbert is missing. Bloody fucknuggets. Why do the fates hate me?

• Let’s hope Avatar 2 isn’t set to go blub blub blub.

• Great Fark headline: “Geek spends hundreds of hours hand-crafteding a model of Bilbo's Hobbit Hole. If that's not cool enough, aforementioned geek is female. Now she's going to be stalked by things creepier than Nazgul” Touché, Subby. Touché.

• The Top 50 author vs. author put-downs of all time (sorta). Yes, JK Rowling (Harry Potter heptalogy) is included, once. And only once. You got that?!
  (via Fark)

• Boobquake 2010 has exploded: what started as Jen’s little sarcastic joke in response to an Islamic cleric’s claim that earthquakes are caused by “women who do not dress modestly” has officially hit the news. Boobquake might even be mentioned in the Canadian Globe & Mail in the near future, as well as on Irish radio (and another). Also, Farked. Also, more media. Also, everywhere else that matters (or almost). You see?! You see how easy it is to get famous these days?! One silly boob joke and you’re an instant celebrity … *pouts*
  (via @jennifurret)

• And the Asshole of the Year Award goes to: this guy for refusing to let his physically and mentally disabled ex see their three young kids – in addition to demanding she pay child support.
  (via Fark)

• PWNed. In more ways than he can (probably, possibly) count.

• Who knew a super-huge ball of flaming gas could be so mesmerizingly beautiful? Seriously, I want high-res. NOW. (Also, this.)
  (via Fark)

• Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), the frequent flier’s hero.
  (via Fark)

As always, if you have any story suggestions, feel free to send them in.