As a once and future New Yorker, I can’t say I’m surprised that mild billionaire Michael Bloomberg (who’s now convinced he’s a king – bonus points if you caught that reference) easily won last November’s election and will be serving a third term as mayor of New York City. The man spent $102 million of his own money on his campaign – an ungodly sum of money, but a mere a drop in the bucket when you consider that he has $17 billion sitting in his coffers. I’m not complaining, of course; if you’ve got the means, who am I…
Day: December 5, 2009
Synergy Does Something Right
Kelsey Grammer has voiced Sideshow Bob eleven times, most recently in a pointless cameo in Season 20’s reprehensible “Wedding for Disaster”. IGN made a list of the top ten Sideshow Bob episodes and, to their enormous, synergy defying credit, they not only left out “Wedding for Disaster” but skunked all the Zombie Simpson episodes at the bottom of the list. The four Zombie Simpsons era episodes are numbers 10 through 7 and the good episodes come from number 6 up to the top. Everything fits and there isn’t one jarringly highly ranked bad one. Bravo. (via Springfield Springfield’s Twitter feed,…
Quote of the Day
"Forget about the badge, when to we get the freakin’ guns!" – Nameless Police Recruit "Hey, I told you, you don’t get your gun until you tell me your name." – Chief Wiggum "I’ve had it up to here with your ‘rules’!" – Nameless Police Recruit