This is so amazing. Not only does it feature an out-of-character Stephen Colbert but it’s an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson about cool science things.

Funny AND educational. Take that NPR.

I love this song so much it’s interrupting my life.

Mixology Certification

Went to Pegu Club for fancy cocktails. Really goes to show that a well made drink goes a long way!

Link:
http://www.peguclub.com/flash/index.html 

Girl with the Froggy Tattoo

Can’t wait for this! These parody trailers have been so amazing that I’m worried the movie itself can’t live up to the expectations.

Then again, the muppets can do anything!

Community – Biology 101

Jeff: We’ve parted ways with our closest, oldest, craziest, most racist, oldest, elderly crazy friend. And he’s not coming back.
Pierce: I’m back!

I have to admit I was disappointed that Community set up such a great premise last season and resolved it so fast. The Pierce cliff-hanger was a great move that had a lot of build up beforehand and to have the problem resolve itself with some quick exposition (hey, I went to new-age rehab/therapy and I’m nice now!). Well, it’s a bit of a cop out.

Otherwise the episode was typical for Community. Which means it was amazing. From the opening musical number to the David Lynch dream sequence to the Doctor Who and Cougar Town parodies, it was  all brilliant.

And Inspector Spacetime may be the best show I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

A Teen Girl’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

What do you need to worry about during a Zombie Apocalypse?

Not getting invited to the cool kid’s funeral and your crush becoming a zombie and eating another girl.

Being a teenager during a Zombie Apocalypse is hard!

Last year was my favorite season of Doctor Who ever (or at least tied with the Catherine Tate season). But this year is shaping up to be my least favorite. Apart from the riveting premiere (a baby astronaut kills the Doctor!) and Neil Gaiman’s superb “The Doctor’s Wife,” the point of this season seems to have gotten lost somewhere in space.

Like a companion, viewers of Doctor Who have to take a lot on faith. We can follow convoluted and pointless time jumps. We can watch a season build up to the Doctor’s eventual death (and yet somehow still worry that he’ll die in Let’s Kill Hitler?) And we can watch a complex and fascinating female character devolve into a sexist stereotype (I’m looking at you, River Song). But we still maintain faith that the Doctor, and the writers, have a plan. And it’s an awesome one.

So we’re basically Amy in the God Complex. This episode is a stellar example of how Doctor Who doesn’t really know what it wants to do or say. It is an episode full of great ideas but it doesn’t know how to put them together to make something meaningful. Yet we keep faith that no matter how many times we get knocked around (or left behind, in Amy’s case) we have faith that the Doctor, and the writers, ultimately know where its going.

The further in the season we go, the less faith I have. At this point last season the running threat of the cracks in the universe was already strongly established. Right now, we have some vague references to The Silence which is either an alien group or a religion, or both, and we have a psychotic daughter of Rory and Amy looking to kill her future lover (are they lovers?). What is this season really about?

I bet the writers would say, the Doctor. The Doctor is the Big Bad for this season and it’s going to be him confronting his own actions that will be the real battle. If that’s the case, they better blow it out of the water because that is a story they’ve already told so many times.

With all that said, I’m really looking forward to next week’s sequel to The Lodger. That was an episode last season that did everything right!