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30 Days and 30 Blogs Part 3
Day 4

I think we can all agree that it seems like people (Americans specifically) are getting dumber every day. Even if we’re not, it feels like corporations treat us like we are. Our media is dumbed down, our products have all sorts of safety warnings and features to stop us from hurting ourselves…clearly corporate America thinks we’re morons. Or so I thought, until I was at the grocery store the other day and I saw this:

So cucumbers are a good source of “terpenes & phytosterols,” huh? Great. WTF is terpenes & phytosterols? Does anyone walking through this supermarket know what those two words mean? This isn’t some high-end, Whole Foods type obnoxious liberal hang out…this is a regular Safeway. You can buy Cheez Whiz and pork rinds only a few isles over. Those words could mean “poison” and “otter farts” and 99.9% of the people wouldn’t know it. I don’t know what those words mean even now. (I know I could look them up and find out what they mean…but now I’m choosing to remain ignorant on principle.)

Yet they’re being touted proudly as though everyone has a working knowledge of these two obscure words and is in fact SEEKING those two things out. They act like they’re answering our silent prayers.

“Oh Lord, I need more terpenes & phytosterols, but I know not where to find them. Where can I…hold on…what’s this?! Cucumbers are a good source of terpenes & phytosterols?! Halleluiah!!! My worries are over!”

FYI-The title of this blog is in reference to a Jerry Seinfeld bit that I KNOW I’m coming dangerously close to ripping off. It’s from his CD, “I’m Telling You For The Last Time.” I was going to link to the bit, but I can’t find a recording of the CD on-line…only the video version where he doesn’t do that part of the joke.

He says, “They know we don’t know. They make up words all the time like ‘Now with an extra drop of Retsyn!’

Like we’re all going “FINALLY WE’RE GETTING SOME MORE RETSYN!!!”

Anyway, here’s the bit that leads up to that line. If you’re smart, the album is on Amazon and iTunes.

30 Days and 30 Blogs Part 3
Day 3

2013 has been a banner year for upsetting fan boys at the box office. EVen though “geek culture” has hit the mainstream, not all the geeks are happy about it. I thought I’d look at some of the major fan boy nerd rages at the movies this year and see what side I’m on. Fair warning…spoiler alerts to come. Read the rest of this entry »

30 Days and 30 Blogs Part 3
Day 2

So after almost a year of me complaining about the movie Man of Steel, I feel the need to write a thank you letter to Zack Snyder.

Is it because I saw Man of Steel and the final product completely turned me around like Star Trek (2009) and Casino Royale? Nope. I keep going back and forth about whether the movie was even better than Superman Returns. It was a decent movie but it couldn’t decide if it wanted to be as “serious” as the Dark Knight or as “fun” as Iron Man…so it was really neither. (The first two Spider-Man movies struck that ballance much better, in my opinion.)

The reason I’m writing a thank you note to Zack Snyder, is that his misguided attempt at a Superman movie has really turned up the intensity on my love for the Christopher Reeve movies as well as the character in general. Read the rest of this entry »

Day 1
That’s right. I’m doing this again. I’ll be blogging every day in the month of September. I have a lot more going on then the last few times I’ve tried this, so we’ll see how it works out.

Hopefully, you’ll see 30 uninterpreted days of mediocre commentary from one of your 3 favorite TANcast personalities.

And the good news is, since Man of Steel has already come and gone, it probably wont be a buncj of blogs whining about the lack of John Williams score in Man of Steel.

…probably. No guarantees, though.

This week the boys discuss phone etiquette, Tim demolishes the English accent, Tim’s neighbors have backyard sex, Andy’s basement floods, and Andy loses a friend to cancer.

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This week the boys discuss Ben Affleck being cast as Batman, review a few flicks, and degenerate into nonsense as ususal.

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This week Noah pees next to a celebrity, the boys discuss pooping at work, and some you’ll hear some tv/movie reviews.

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This week…uh…too many different topics this week. “Highlights” include time travle sex, Tim’s laptop crashes, and delicious burgers.

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This week on TANcast: Medical issues in Andy’s house, the boys revisit old glories, Tim weighs in on the Superman/Batman movie, and the boys watch some random movies.

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TANcast Theater returns in this mini-episode featuring a dramatic reading of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish…by Batman and Bane.

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