The McBournie Minute: The show’s not dead, it’s hiding in the attic

By this time next week, the fourth season of Arrested Development will have been released by Netflix, and no doubt watched and rewatched by the show’s legions of fans. Hopefully, it will also pick up some new fans, ones that weren’t old enough to get it or just didn’t have it on their radar  seven years ago. Anyone who has watched the buzz grow in recent weeks can have no doubt that the crescendo is close.

Netflix has certainly proven it is capable of creating, fostering, producing, pimping and delivering a solid television series–certainly more so than in 2011, when the deal was announced. The company has launched several shows, but the only one worth any serious mention is House of Cards, which demonstrated that a streaming media service can match the storytelling style of HBO, if only for a few fleeting weeks. But Arrested Development is nowhere near as tough of an assignment. All they have to do is let their people work, and it appears they have.

Unfortunately, it’s still going to be disappointing. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: The show’s not dead, it’s hiding in the attic

Dumb kid’s prank escalates in Rube Goldberg-esque fashion

“That jumped up a notch.” It’s a phrase The Guys are quite fond of, mainly because we first heard it in Anchorman. That said, it’s not exactly a phrase that should be used in jest, but only when the situation accurately calls for it.

The kids at Cosby High School should’ve used the word. One teenager decided that the smart thing to do would be to fly his remote control helicopter in a classroom. Normally, this might be a most whimsical thing, except … it hit a fire sprinkler. Which proceeded to empty its contents into the room.

And the school.
During test time.
And the contents had been stuck in the pipes for years.
And some of the students taking exams may have to retake them.

So, uh … that jumped up a notch.

Oink, dude

There’s grass-fed meat and then there’s grass-fed meat.

In Washington state, one rancher is experimenting with how to make pork taste even better by feeding pigs marijuana. It works exactly like you’d think. While pigs can’t really get high, they can get the munchies. Making the pigs even hungrier will make them eat even more, and butchers hope, give the meat a little more a little tastier. Who knows, maybe you will even get a contact high from your morning bacon.

Still, there’s no reason we should be using the legalization of marijuana to benefit our animal foes. It’s the gateway drug, and no one wants to eat heroin-addled pork.

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At this point, we can't tell if Marissa Mayer is running Yahoo ironically. Keeping the exclamation point in the logo indicates that this could all just be hipster corporate management.
At this point, we can’t tell if Marissa Mayer is running Yahoo ironically. Keeping the exclamation point in the logo indicates that this could all just be hipster corporate management.

Yahoo, the Web monolith that helped you write your 8th grade report on Spain, just spent $1.1 billion more than anyone else ever has for a Tumblr account.

CEO and former Google employee, Marissa Mayer, believes that buying the Internet-ancient free-to-use blog site is exactly what the Ask Jeeves-contemporary needs to branch into “revolutionary” social networking.

Yahoo previously bought Flickr for $35 million and GeoCities for $3.6 billion, making Mayer the CEO of either the Internet’s first online museum or elephant graveyard.