Day: April 26, 2012

MasterChugs Theater: ‘The Trip’

Road trips by their very nature tend to be part plan, part improvisation, part fun, part irritation. And so it goes in The Trip, starring British comic actor Steve Coogan and his frequent pranking partner, Rob Brydon.

They’re doing another riff on the “characters” Steve and Rob, who were responsible for most of the tongue-in-cheekiness of Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story. This latest bit of silliness reunites them with filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, who seems to have endless patience with their antics, having worked with them on 2005’s Tristram and 2002’s 24 Hour Party People. The Trip began as a six-episode faux documentary series on British TV in 2010. Now, it’s been nipped and tucked to about half of its original size and released as a film, which might sound improbable but surprisingly works. As this is near total improvisation, there is no writing credit, and that holds up remarkably well too. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘The Trip’

Bit by bit, Anchorman invades our world

Here at SG, we don’t exactly hold weathermen in high regards. Meteorology just isn’t one of the sciences that interests us much, and furthermore, we think that most anyone could do their job. It’s a deservedly thankless and full of blame job. If they get it right, great, they’re actually doing their job. But if they get the weather wrong, and when I mean wrong, I mean, wrong, then they have now earned a tongue lashing and internet beating.

Regardless, and I hope animals are listening, they’re our future pinatas. They don’t belong to creatures, they belong to human beings. Don’t send your mob enforcer equivalents to beat up our weathermen. We’ll send the real mob enforcers to do the job, thank you very much.

Chick-fil-A turns to viral marketing

If there is one deadly animal we all come in contact with, it’s cows. First, they say red meat is bad for you; second, their milk goes bad; and third, can you say “stampede?”

But cow are not the dumb creatures we think they are. In fact, they are just farm animals biding their time until they can make their move. That’s why the town of Brush, Colorado was racked with fear this week when a cow walked up to a McDonald’s drive-thru window. Hell-bent on exacting revenge against the human race, Darcy the milk cow broke out of her pen (her owner is a student named Zach, apparently having a pet cow is big out west) and walked a half mile to McDonald’s where she demanded that people stop eating her kin. The cow was arrested.