Drunk Affleck gives Canadian tv a reason for living

from, of all ironic places, that bloggy American tattletale of Hollywoodland, Defamer.

anne-marie losique interviews a drunk ben affleck from his lap

interviews” eh? Not the word I’d use for it. Bot ee doze a fontosTEEK hack-senn Quebecois, oui?

Operation Global Media Domination: the network situation

TIASince Hurricane Lucy Gao hit, stats haven’t been nearly as much fun to check as usual. They’ve been bigger, juicier, and technically more exotic, but only half as much fun, because I always know that my top posts are going to be Lucy Gao‘s email, Lucy Gao doesn’t need a PA, she needs an enema, and Lucy Gao Revealed, plus Beautiful Agony, the Mentos boys, and Blackzilla, which I did not realize was the name of a popular line of porn flicks when I posted it.

No, really. I didn’t.

But now it looks like the hurricane is finally winding down, and to that I say it is ABOUT FUCKING TIME!

Yes, I liked having 3300 hits a day. I liked being the #2 blog on WordPress. But I’d rather be loved for my entire blog than just for five frickin’ posts, people!!! What good is it being the Pavarotti of the goddam blogosphere if all people ever see is Lucy Fucking Gao and their beloved mango porn??? Eh? I ask you that!

In any case, it appears that the storm has abated and I have managed to keep nearly 50% of my new readers, although 10% of them have only come by googling “vanityfair.com,” for which I am the #2 result. And I’m kidding myself if I think I don’t owe it, in some sense, to Lucy Freaking Gao, who even got me a link from CBS News, FFS y’all! Even though it’s only half as good for hits as a link from the front page of WordPress. Shhhh, don’t tell the producers!

I have also learned, from my comments on Chartreuse and Guido‘s blogs, that references to the size of one’s breasts are excellent for hits, although moreso with Americans than with Brits. Benny Hill was born in the wrong country, Itellya.

In any case, I am inexpressably grateful to Graydon Carter and Vanity Fair for knocking that snobbish intern off her throne and giving me, at last, some surprises in the Stats page.

Hail our new #1 post! (which we know we owe entirely to people searching for Suri Cruise pix, but we’re not real choosy over here if you haven’t already noticed)

caption o’ the day: from Gawker’s VMA coverage

Team Cougar Unite!

Cougar Force Unite!

must-see movie of 1964: the beach girls and the monster

What’s that coming over the highway retaining wall?

Is it a monster? Is it a monster?

Archetypally silly beach movie, featuring nobody you ever heard of “and the glamorous, famed dancing Watusi girls from Hollywood‘s famed Whiskey a Go Go nightclub!”

Hip chicks are shaking
in the knees
because there’s a MONSTER on the beach!!!

Music by Frank Sinatra, Jr.

If you see this ghoul, play it cool.

Yeh, yeh, yeh, this one will kill you!

Seriously, you MUST watch this till the Furry Frankie sings. If you weren’t screaming before, this will do the trick.

the Simpsons vs Star Trek

From a WordPress blog I can’t seem to find at the moment; sorry, if it’s you, leave a comment and I’ll update the entry.

The Simpsons theme meets capitan Kirk. Performed with Rhodes piano, Theremin and funnel.

What he does not say is that it’s performed by a COMPLETE LUNATIC! I love this whackjob, and so do 380,000 other people, primarily sexy Scandinavians, according to the YouTube stats. I bet he never has to suffer through a chilly Arctic night alone.