Overrated Music, More Tim & Eric, Sad Alec Baldwin and Iron Man Fun in Philly

Quite Possibly, The Greatest TV Show Ever: Tim & Eric, I mean “Jim and Derrick,” are all Turbo Fueled up and are X-tremely in your face with their tats, trucker hats and mad piercings… “Hey G4 and Fuse, you can suck it! There’s a new graphics-heavy, stoner-hip-hop-skater-slacker tech culture show in town!” View this: Awesome Show!

Rick Rubin, Tupac, Floyd… All Overrated! I’ve never read Blender before, but after thoroughly enjoying this spot-on list, I might start. Good Stuff: The 33 Most Overrated People, Places, Trends and Other Junk in Rock.

Alec Baldwin is a Pretty Sad Guy: Despite being hilarious on 30 Rock, good ol’ Jack “Don’t ever make me talk to a woman that old again” Donaghy is not a happy camper in real life. That’s what a messy divorce, one bad phone call and more than a few movie bombs will do to a guy.

Still, you gotta love him and the endearing Republican (with an actual soul!) character he portrays, especially when he explains a tuxedo he is wearing in the office by saying:

“It’s after six. What am I, a farmer?”

Baldwin is also a tad bitter at NBC for not giving 30 Rock enough respect and moving it’s time slot around, I completely agree. I also agree with his assessment of their other shows (I know Scrubs is now gonzo, but still…):

They’ve gone out of their way to wring the last drops out of ‘My Name Is Earl’ and ‘Scrubs.’ Those shows are done! They’re cooked! Yet they do a one-hour episode of ‘Earl’! You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!”

Read the New Yorker Article.

Build Your Own “Iron Man” Arc Reactor! Attention Philly nerds with tools and an undying love of Tony Stark: On Thursday, October 2nd, The Hacktory and Geekadelphia are teaming to throw an “Iron Man” viewing party at Indy Hall. You will also be schooled in the art of Arc Reactor building. Really. Details here.

PowerPoint Made Fun: Read at work in business stealth mode.

How Palin Will Beat the Press: Slate’s Jack Shafer has an idea:

Instead of letting Palin talk directly and frequently to the press, the McCain campaign will dress her in bunting and rush her from one controlled setting the next—small towns, firebases in Iraq and Afghanistan, “town halls,” important funerals, church conventions, and American Legion halls (essentially George W. Bush’s current itinerary). There she’ll play the role of Spiro Agnew to McCain’s Nixon, dismissing reporters’ tough questions as effete, impudent, sacrilegious, snobby, intrusive, unpatriotic, hostile, disrespectful, chauvinistic, “East Coast,” unfair, unbalanced, liberal, biased, trivial, hypothetical, elitist, and as partisan attempts to lasso her with a “gotcha.”

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