Day: June 7, 2010

The McBournie Minute: For your viewing pleasure

I know everyone’s still upset/ shocked/ pleased about the season finales of their favorite shows, and in some cases, series finales, but for the most part, I don’t care. For me, summer entrainment is where it’s at.

It’s sort of ironic that the one time of year when I actually want to be outside doing something is the time that the networks are actually up for trying something up my alley. First off, I would like to say that I do watch television during the non-summer months, but the only shows I watch with any regularity are 24, Scrubs and NCIS. Two out of three no longer exist. Meanwhile, the summer lineup is just about to start.

I think it is also important to say that yes, I have on demand, and yes, I get TV series seasons on Netflix, but movie channel shows, so as much as I would love to include Dexter here, I will not. This is for network and cable shows only. Let’s get to the run-down: Continue reading The McBournie Minute: For your viewing pleasure

Thank god it wasn’t a sex scandal

The Guys prepared for the worst when we heard the longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas retired in an uproar. Fortunately, there is no sex tape, just some anti-Semitism.

In a Youtube video last week, Thomas suggested that Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine,” and “go home” to “Poland, Germany … and America and everywhere else.”

Of course, the big issue for the other correspondents is her prime front row seat in the White House press room. Sides are already being staked out as the news reporters are suggesting that the seat isn’t appropriate for opinion writers.

See? It’s just like if you were forced to resign from your job for taking an nonobjective side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Fake viagra is the most egregious fake blue pill of them all

So it’s a Friday night and you’re looking for a good time. Me? I tend have a few drinks with friends. But maybe you need some Viagra to get you through the shame of having to deal with a hooker (not that there’s anything wrong with that in Las Vegas).

The National Police Agency in Japan has announced that even more yakuza have been arrested in an Osaka drug ring for selling fake Viagra to thrill seekers like yourself. Two Yamaguchi-gumi members were arrested again on charges of unauthorized pharmaceutical sales, with a third member also getting thrown in the clink.

The police found 13,000 fake Viagra tablets in a Naniwa condo, which they believe is one of the bases for the drug ring. Officials suspect that the drug profits are being redirected back to the organization itself. The three yakuza who were arrested are suspected of selling 120 pills without a license to three men for about 39,000 yen between April 27 and May 5.

So what’s wrong with the fake Viagra? No, the problem is that it’s equivalent to about two regular Viagra. You might think that having a raging hard-on that could take down small cities with one fell swoop wouldn’t be that bad, except for when you watch an episode of House or E.R. and realize how exactly to rid yourself of a little condition called priapism. That, and the fake pills can cause heart attacks and death. Yeep.

I guess it’s lucky for the customers of the yakuza that they made it out unscathed. Although one of them even had the audacity to complain, “It was relatively cheap and it worked. What’s the crime in that?” Double yeep.

Clean Plate Club or get out

If reality television is any indicator, to be a chef, you have to yell and scream a lot to be good at making food. Taking this knowledge, news from one Australian restaurant makes more and more sense.

If you order something at Wafu, you had better be ready to clean your plate–or else. Chef Yukako Ichikawa will charge you 30% extra if you don’t eat everything you are given. On top of that, you will be asked to eat somewhere else in the future.