A book: The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family.

"God, if you really are God, you'll get me tickets to that game. Why do you mock me O Lord?" --Homer

A web site: The Simpsons Archive has it all. The have really cool things like episode capsules which give you everything you ever wanted to know about a Simpsons episode and more.

A favorite episode of mine is Dancin' Homer. I saw it in a movie theatre. Oh yeah. It was the best way to watch a Simpsons episode. Imagine sitting in a theatre with others who are laughing at the same silly references that you thought no one else got. The theatre was in the Museum of Television & Radio where you can watch and listen to over 100,000 television and radio programs. Next month they are showing, "From Albert Brooks to the TV Funhouse: Selected Short Films from Saturday Night Live." If you go there you can also sign up to personally view almost any TV show ever made. I watched the first episode of The Odd Couple. It was still funny. It even included the original commercials.

I wonder how long it'll take for major media outlets to start covering the Free TV's Wil Wheaton campaign?

...on a recent trip to Russia, TV's WIL WHEATON was arrested by KGB agents for Acts Against the Soviet State.

I hope he's all right because I'm addicted to his weblog.

It's alive. It's alive. Daypop searches the living web.

Movie-A-Minute.

Titanic
Leonardo DiCaprio
Your social class is stuffy. Let's dance with the ship's rats and have fun.

Kate Winslet
You have captured my heart. Let's run around the ship and giggle.
(The ship SINKS.)

Leonardo DiCaprio
Never let go.

Kate Winslet
I promise.
(lets go)

via [ 3bruces ], two in a row. They rock!

Virtual Strippers.
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I just got AT&T Broadband Digital Cable installed. First impressions, A Dating Story and A Wedding Story are still there! Whew. I think I have a little addiction problem going on. The Dating Story has a much nicer tone than Blind Date.

The on screen guide has 1/3 of the screen taken up by ads. What a waste. When you change channels there's a delay before the station displays. What's that all about?

With six versions of HBO and a ton of new stations I'll need to spend some time researching all my new options.

While I'm away watching TV, you can have fun at the new Alan Thicke weblog or you could just get serious and go see the Wil Wheaton weblog. It's holding up after days of continued viewing.

Bill Simmons reviews Summer Catch.

Jessica Biel ...is... the token "ravenously attractive rich chick who's also really nice and doesn't exist in real life in any way, shape or form"

I love Bill Simmons... I mean Jessica Biel... D'oh... You know what I mean.

Eightball Magazine says:

Fact: 6 out of 10 Americans believe Joan of Arc is Noah's Wife.

via [ skomsvold ], an interesting guy who, if I'm reading his writings correctly and making the correct assumptions, replaced his Drug Addiction with Coffee.

We love Nomar Garciaparra in Boston. We love him so much that a local ice cream store, JP Licks, has named a flavor after him, Cherry Garciaparra. It's Vanilla, Cherry Chunks and Chocolate bits!

It's their local take on Cherry Garcia, which was Ben & Jerry's #1 flavor for July 2001!

Kevin Smith's First Kiss Comic.

I read this in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday and found the online link at the always amusing The Ultimate Insult.

I showed the comic to my wife, who took one look at it and gave me a look that said, "you want me to read a comic?" I keep telling her that if she just gave The Simpsons a chance, she'd like it. Then again, maybe not.

Kenny Kramer is running for Mayor of New York.

THE SPORTS CLUB/LA - Boston

The Sports Club/LA in Boston is a 100,000 square foot luxury sports and fitness complex designed to fulfill your every fitness need.

Last night we went to the grand opening of the Sports Club/LA - Boston. Wow! What a place. It's located just across from the Boston Common. As we entered the club there were models in black dresses serving champagne. Nice touch. We took a tour through the club. The main exercise room has a beautiful view of Boston including the State House.

The tour included the woman's locker room. Guess what? They don't have ski lifts in there!

At the conclusion of the tour we ended up in the basketball court, which was transformed into a tropical island. They did a lot better dressing up the gym than my high school class did back in the day. And back in high school we certainly didn't have an open bar, chicken, salmon, etc...

Guys, this is the club to join if you want to meet some beautiful women. Of course you'll need to have gotten over your high school fear of asking girls out. Try just talking to them first. If that doesn't work, you still have the excersise equipment with personal cable TV.

Judas Priest Distances Themselves From Rock Star

The New York Times' headline read, "Metal-Head becomes Metal-God." The August 1997 story by Andrew C. Revkin was about Tim "Ripper" Owens, a devout Judas Priest follower from Ohio who played in a Priest cover band. When original Priest vocalist Rob Halford quit the band in 1992, two fans sent the group a grainy videotape of Owens, whose singing voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Halford's. After viewing the tape, the band auditioned, and subsequently hired, the young American to be their new vocalist.

The Rock Star Soundtrack comes out today and has a great song by Everclear.

The Ultimate Internet Mind Virus

I know this guy whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. So anyway, one day he went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over.

Here's the antidote.

Roger Avary's Journal has all the behind the scenes info you'd ever want to read about and more for his movie The Rules of Attraction.

via [ parallax view ]

Last night I saw Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, and Graham Parker at a free concert in Boston.

You know how you go to these things hoping to hear all the old songs from the 80's, and all they want to do is play you new stuff from their soon to be released album? There's Graham Parker singing, "My Kids Go Through Clothes". Geesh.

I guess the best thing to do would be to buy a record player and just listen to the old stuff when I'm down in the basement.

Teacher finds an island of talent.

''These shows have a kind of simplicity and purity that has to do with the people who live here,'' said Andre Bishop, the director of New York City's Lincoln Center, who has a summer house across the harbor and saw the musical Thursday night. ''There is a kind of truthfulness that would be the envy of many highly trained and gifted actors.''

Cindy Bullens did the music.

Rageboy brought his weblog back from the dead. You might find some interesting and humorous content there. We'll see.

He calls it The EGR Weblog.

Wil Wheaton's Weblog.

A woman dies leaping through her car's sunroof when events convince her that Jesus has returned.

via [ Rageboy ]