Craig Ferguson usually answers two or three emails on his show each night. So I sent him the following:
Craig,
Scientists tell us that there are 60 billion neutrinos striking every square centimeter of the Earth each second.
Do you believe that? And does it worry you?
--JT
I wonder if he'll answer...
This is the monologue that Craig Ferguson did on Sep 10. I didn't realize it was on YouTube or I'd have passed it along earlier.
He's by turns funny, serious, impassioned. Worth a look.
Rachel Maddow begins her show tonight at 9PM on <spit> MSNBC.
Rachel Maddow is the smartest person on the teevee.
I haven't been this excited about a teevee show since, oh, the fifth season of St. Elsewhere.
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show takes aim at the hypocrisy of the Republican politicians and the conservative pundits.
I'm reading Dan Koeppel's excellent book, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, so I'm in a Chiquita Banana kind of mood.
Note that in the original jingle of the mid-1940's, Chiquita Banana claims that because bananas like the climate of the very tropical equator, "You should never put bananas in the refrigerator."
This was nonsense, of course, and the company knew it, given that bananas had to be shipped to this country in heavily refrigerated vessels.
But it was a good way to boost sales...
I enjoy well-executed illusions like this one...
This is an amazing video of a herd of buffalo trying to fight off a group of lions in order to save a calf. The nytimes reports that the National Geographic Channel has produced a documentary about this incident.
Watch Stephen Colbert interview a most unusual subject.
The Dick Van Dyke Show is one of my all-time favorite television programs. Like nearly everyone else, I loved the opening titles.
For season two they shot a total of two different opening title sequences: one where Dick takes a pratfall over the living room ottoman and one where he averts disaster. These were randomly edited into the top of each show.
In season three they added a third sequence where Dick misses the ottoman but nearly trips himself anyway. You can notice that the first two were filmed at the same time (August 14, 1962 after finishing the episode titled "The Two Faces of Rob") because the cast is wearing the same outfits, but in the third sequence they are dressed differently.
Here are all three sequences mixed together.
And here they are again, but slowed down. Notice that even the initial shots of the first two sequences are distinctly different takes.
