Archive for the ‘Interweb’ Category

Homemade Horrors: The Worst of eBay

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

With Halloween quickly approaching, I thought I’d take a look at one of the scariest things on the internet – homemade band merchandise being sold on eBay. A look through the listings for any popular artist will reveal an assortment of extremely unofficial merchandise featuring an array of poor artwork, misspellings, and general bad taste. Let’s take a look at 10 of these gems available for purchase on eBay right now… (more…)

TV Shows That You Aren’t Watching

Monday, October 20th, 2008

TV Shows That You Aren't Watching

Video Yearbook (FUSE, Mon-Fri 4:00pm)
I remember when I was in high school complaining about how MTV didn’t show videos anymore. Thing is, back in the 90s they actually did show some videos — I mean, we all remember seeing clips like Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain” and Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight Tonight.” Well, now that MTV actually doesn’t show videos at all, you can catch your old favorites on FUSE’s Video Yearbook. A particularly fun show because (more…)

Five Things I Hate About YouTube

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Camera phone video sucks

There’s things we all love about YouTube — old tv shows, music videos, people getting kicked in the balls. However, I’ve noticed it’s become increasingly hard to find anything you’re looking for, since it’s been infested with a never-ending stream of crap that absolutely no one is looking for. Let’s take a minute to talk about some of that crap…

Slide-effin-Shows

When I click on something that says “The Comic Genius of Will Ferrell,” I’m not expecting to see a slideshow of pictures of the comedian with a HIM song as accompaniment. That in no way shows me the comic genius of Will Ferrell. It shows me that you have a weird obsession with white guys with fro hair, and possibly the dude from HIM. If you’re gonna do this, at least label it correctly. Which leads me to my next annoyance… (more…)