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BACK when I became aware that BBC America existed, I knew we had to get it added to our Charter cable lineup. An extra $30 a month seemed a small price to pay so I could have a channel that would be actually worth watching. At least that’s what I thought at the time…
It didn’t take me long to realise that BBC America isn’t really the BBC. It’s also not worth the $30 extra and it’s very probably going to be dumped when we move and get Verizon’s FIOS service. I barely watch it; the only time I tune in is […]
DEAR LIZ:
I’m not sure how to go about this. I mean you are, after all, the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and I am but a lowly subject, albeit one who’s 6,000 miles away from your benevolent gaze. But I was reading the news earlier today and was so deeply affected by one story that I have to write to Your Highness and ask a very important question.
How do I go about nominating Charlie Sheen for an honorary knighthood?
Now bear with me, as I realise honorary knighthoods aren’t dealt out willy-nilly to any old Johnny […]
SO ZACHARY CHESSER — the douchebag from Virginia who threatened South Park creators after their episode portraying Mohammed in a bear suit — has been sentenced to 25 years in jail. Let’s see — we have a white American who converted to Islam, threatened the makers of a wildly popular cartoon, planned to fly abroad to join a militant Islamic group, communicated threats, solicited others to carry out acts of violence and provided “material support” to jihadists in Somalia. If he doesn’t have a six-foot-wide arsehole by 2014 then there is no justice in this […]
SO THE History Channel has pulled a miniseries on The Kennedys because it’s “not a fit for the History brand”. Apparently the “dramatic interpretation” of the former presidents’ life isn’t a suitable subject for a channel devoted to history, as long as that history involves either the Nazis or some form of pseudohistoric shite about 2012 or ancient aliens.
The History Channel used to be one of my favourite stations. Amidst 500 channels of pure crap there was always something on that was worth watching, even if it was yet another recreation of the Battle of Stalingrad or a five-part series on […]
SO THIS woman:
1. Makes a habit of dating small green lizards of the genus Phelsuma.
2. Is a bit of a bunny-boiler.
3. Doesn’t appreciate being stood up and possibly missing a night of hot reptile lovin’.
Either way, it’s disturbing.
Why can’t Geico go back to doing ads like this?
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LESLIE NIELSEN died tonight aged 84. An actor who started off in drama and then discovered he could deliver the funniest lines in the most deadpan way, his roles in Airplane! and the Naked Gun movies are classics. But it was as Frank Drebin on the TV show Police Squad!, which formed the basis for the Naked Gun films, where Nielsen delivered cracking lines such as:
Frank: “Is there a ransom note?“ Ed: “Yes, the butler found it; it was tied to this window and thrown into the rock garden. I sent the note to the lab; they’re demanding one […]
WHILE staying with the parents back in May I got to watch a lot of kids’ TV with little Siân. Some of it’s good (Oliver, Grandpa’s Gallery), some not good (Siân, I’d chuck myself in front of a bus for you, but Fireman Sam is awful). But one show in particular caught my attention and proved to be 20 minutes of great telly: Waybuloo.
Waybuloo (bear with me here) is what the Teletubbies would have been if a) they’d had CGI and b) weren’t shite. The show follows four characters called Piplings as they explore and interact with their environment. It’s colourful, gentle, calming, and, […]
August 24th, 2010 | Category: TV |
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THE return of Futurama has me stiffer than Michale Jackson’s plastic-infused corpse. Not only do I once again welcome our robot overlords, I’m bloody glad the first couple of episodes of Series 6 are a lot better than the mediocre-to-awful movies.
Anyway, here’s the top five six things from the first two eps:
6. Hypnotoad
A classic character returns for the firALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD!
5. Leela and Fry terminators
I just love the idea of a pair of Terminators — complete with the Governator’s accent — wandering around New New York. Hopefully they’ll appear again.
4. Professor Farnsworth’s surplus […]
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