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Dessa: A Minnesota Original Music Special On TPT This Sunday

David Erickson — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:38:29 +0000

MN Original is airing Dessa: A Minnesota Original Music Special this Sunday at 10 PM on TPT2 about Dessa Darling, a spoken word artist, author, and MC from Minneapolis. She is best known as a member of the Doomtree Hip-Hop Collective. Found at YouTube from MNoriginal. (Watch The Chaconne by Dessa at my daily Audiolicious.tv music blog.

Sadie Hawkins by Dessa

Found at YouTube from MNoriginal.

How To Catch A Baseball At A Game

David Erickson — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:00:35 +0000

Steve Hartman’s interviews Zack Hample, who has snagged nearly 3,000 baseballs at major league games. Hample tells how he does it. Found at YouTube from CBS.

Freakazoid: Victoria Jackson

David Erickson — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:51:04 +0000

This is breathtaking. Form Saturday Night Live star Victoria Jackson is so crazy even Fox News is uncomfortable with her rantings.

Safety Fart

David Erickson — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:50:52 +0000

Sure, call me juvenile. I don’t care. I giggled at this, as I often do when watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force:

This, of course, is a parody of the 80s hit, Safety Dance:

Pot Cookie Monster

David Erickson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:55:04 +0000

Tina Fey Vs. Sarah Palin

David Erickson — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:13:12 +0000

Katie Couric interviews Sarah Palin:

Compare that to Tina Fey‘s parody of the interview. Sadly, there’s really not a lot of difference between the two:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

David Erickson — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:20:00 +0000

My DVR describes Aqua Teen Hunger Force as "food items solve crimes." They are food items but I can’t recall them ever solving crimes. This is one of my favorite shows and, if you’re not familiar with it, is yet another example of the genius that is [adult swim].

The Hunger Force of the series consists of Master Shake is a self-centered milkshake. Frylock is a goateed box of french fries who plays the straight-man, has a jewel embedded in his back, and can shoot lasers from his eyes. Meatwad is a gullible glob of meat who can morph into the shape of a hot dog or an igloo.

Carl is their disgusting next door neighbor. He’s human…well, sub-human. Many of the episodes open with a short scene featuring Dr. Weird, a mad scientist, and his assistant, Steve.

The intergalactic characters include the Mooninites and the Plutonians.

The Mooninite characters include Ignignokt and Err, a couple of smart-assed two-dimentional pixelated game sprites lifted right out of any 80s arcade game. The Plutonians consist of Oglethorpe and Emory, a couple of spikey and stupid extraterrestrials. Oglethorrpe has an Austrian accent.

This is a typically great episode that includes most of the characters:

Halo Vs. Donkey Kong

David Erickson — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:58:26 +0000

Cartoon Network is one of the best channels on cable and [adult swim] is largely the reason why. This is a hilarious segment from Seth Green‘s brilliant show, Robot Chicken, about what might happen if you pitted Halo against Donkey Kong:

links for 2006-03-16

David Erickson — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:18:09 +0000

AOL Television: In2TV

AOL’s video search engine offers classic television shows.

(tags: iptv video Television)

Kirby Puckett Memorial

David Erickson — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:20:05 +0000

The Kirby Puckett memorial will be held today at 7 p.m. at the Metrodome. Doors open and 6 p.m. Out of staters can watch the event live at the Twins Web site.

Locally, the memorial will be carried live on television on Fox WFTC 29 and KSTC 45. On radio, KFAN (1130 AM) and KTLK (100.3 FM) will broadcast the memorial. The Twins flagship station, WCCO AM, will not carry the even on air because of a previous commitment, but will have a live feed on their web site.

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