Holy jeeze, it has Clive Owen AND David Tennant, AKA DOCTOR WHO in it?

The Anglophile center of my brain just imploded.

You must be some sort of cave troll if you haven’t been watching this show. Here’s the season 2 promo and it has the Seinfeld in it.

Gary found some big happy news for fans of funny British people! Looks like the Little Britain guys are developing a show for HBO, featuring some of their most famous creations (Vicky Pollard 08!) but probably throwing in a fair amount of new American characters.

Finally. Something on American TV that doesn’t have Doogie Howser or Anne Heche in it. Do not write to me and tell me that How I Met Your Mother is funny. I do not care. CBS doesn’t even work on my TV.

Just a few of the best photos from Gary and I:

Photo by Madmojo

Photo by Optionthis

Photo by Madmojo

Photo by Madmojo

Photo by Optionthis

Photo by Madmojo

See Gary’s photos from the ‘Con
See Sherrie’s photos from the ‘Con

Brian dug this up. Does anybody else out there remember this? Stand up and tell us if you were more of a Frogger person or a Qbert addict.

MEAL OF THE YEAR 2006 – This Hot Dog from Skooby’s.
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Hey guys, I had a huge cup of coffee and then prodded Gary and Brian with sharp sticks and I must have prodded them in the magic spot, because look, we actually have our best of 2006 lists together BEFORE we got drunk on New Years. I see how this works! Work first, puke later. It’s called time management and I just figured it out!

2006 Music G&S Both Loved
Cat Power – The Greatest
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards

Gary’s Picks
Asobi Seksu – Citrus
Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
Girl Talk – Night Ripper
The Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control
Mirah – Joyride: Remixes
Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain

Gary’s Favorite 06 Discoveries
Detektivbyrån
Amy Winehouse
The Long Blondes
Mew
The Pipettes

Gary’s Most Anticipated 2007 Albums
Apples in Stereo – New Magnetic Wonder
Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
RJD2 – The Third Hand
Ted Leo – Living with the Living

Sherrie’s 2006 Picks
Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
Built to Spill – You in Reverse
Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
Lady Sovereign – Public Warning
Mogwai – Mr. Beast
Ratatat – Classics
Sufjan Stevens – Songs for Christmas

Sherrie’s Most Memorable Shows of 2006
Madonna at Coachella (YEAH I SAID IT)
Built to Spill at the Troubadour
Belle & Sebastian with the L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl
Willie Nelson at the Hollywood Bowl
Wolfparade at the Wiltern
Wolfmother at the Palladium

Sherrie’s List of TV Shows She Didn’t Watch Once Despite Enthusiasm of Coworkers, Friends and Loved Ones
Grey’s Whatever
Studio 60 on the Sunset Whatever
House (Whatever)
How I Met My Whatever and Kids
Everything Else on CBS

Brian’s Most Anticipated Movies of 2007
Hot Fuzz
Grindhouse
Synecdoche, New York
Super Bad
Snow Angels
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
Be Kind Rewind
Rocket Science
Knocked Up
Foot Fist Way
Year of the Dog

Brian’s Five Preferred Ways to Waste Time in 2006
Bully
Guitar Hero 2
Wii Sports
Okami
Legend of Zelda – Twilight Princess

That is all. Save your ‘you pansy ass hipster nerd’ comments…well, for our comments field.

Truly something insanely awesome is happening in the Cosmos. Waits was on Letterman last night and I stupidly missed it. Don’t be a me and miss him again tonight – Jon Stewart mentioned during at the end of Monday’s show that Waits will perform as well.

Recommended playlist for preparation: All of Rain Dogs, the 2nd disc of Waits’ new Orphans collection, and half of Bone Machine, everything followed by a bottle of whiskey.

This is installment number two of Citizenrobot’s Totally Could Win 08 series. Number 1 was James Woods.

I already knew Tina Fey was my hero. She’s smart, she wears glasses, she’s purty, she can write and speak English in a very clear, concise fashion. I credit her leadership with slowly pulling SNL out of the giggling imbecile years of Horatio Sans and Jimmy Fallon. (I didn’t see Mean Girls despite the egging of so many of my friends but that is because I went to an all-girls high school and I’m afraid of whatever Nam-style flashbacks that could occur after viewing.)

But NOW she’s skyrocketed into 100% full on deity worship range (up there with Johnny Depp, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and In and Out burgers) with her recent comments about Paris Hilton’s many, many deficiencies from her “Fraggle rock hair” to her “man hands”.

Fey also says the nasty bint is proud to be stupid (so it’s not some clever act, you idiots), thereby inspiring hundreds of thousands of impressionable little girls with no other role models to want to grow up to be an obnoxious gringo ho-bag.

Fey interview is not up on the Stern/Sirius site yet, but we will keep you posted. FEY 08!

The Simpsons are gonna get all political up in your Tivo on November 5th. They usually don’t hit the nail right on its damn head and have avoided most political discussion in the last 10 years of the Simpsons in exchange for crappy stunt casting (anyone remember Kid Rock?!) and weak recycled jokes about how Homer is a bad father and a dolt.

In the segment, aliens invade Springfield to prevent mankind from obtaining “weapons of mass disintegration,” but their mission, called “Operation Enduring Occupation,” turns into a quagmire. “You said we would be greeted as liberators!” accuses one alien.

This is a refreshing piece of news even though…just like WestCoast has repeated told me, the Simpsons has sucked since Season 8.

Radar Online – Simpsons Pitch Tent in Anti-War Camp

According to Gayot.com:

Three Los Angeles-based chefs will compete on Season Four of Food Network series “Iron Chef America”: Ben Ford (Ford’s Filling Station), David Myers (Sona), and Robert Gadsby (Noe). The episodes will begin airing in February 2007.

They join the ranks of John Shook/Vinny Dotolo of Blue Palms, Ludovic Lefebvre of Bastide, Christophe Eme of Ortolan, Govind Armstrong of Table 8, Mary Sue Milliken/Susan Feniger of the Border Grill and Cuidad, Neal Fraser of Grace who have all battled against assorted Iron Chefs in the past. I had to google every damn name off the Wikipedia stat entry for Iron Chef America to see who was an LA chef because god knows I don’t want to give any credit to someone in San Francisco. *snooty sniff*

I am excited even though February 2007 is quite some time away, in fact, is a lightyear away in online/blog time. So I am super preblogging this bitch.