March 12th, 2009 . by Andy (TANcast's #1 Ear-Rapist)
Years ago, America Online flooded everyone’s mailboxes (real ones, not “inboxes”) with floppy diskettes and CDs promising easy access to Teh Intarwebz. Millions bought in, signed up, and logged on. Of those, tens or hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, were idiots, children, or idiot children.
Human discourse has not been the same since.
Everyone likes to talk about democracy, freedom of expression, and equality in fluffy abstract terms, but a recent stroll through Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and iTouchMyselfPod was a more concrete exploration of what these terms really mean.
Simply put, the democratizing influence of convincing every mouth-breather that their American Life would be best spent on America Online has led to them believing that they should, nay, must make their every opinion known to all their peers surfing the tubes.
March 10th, 2009 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
So for those who’ve never seen my Kingdom Comedy series on YouTube, I created a bunch of previews for future movies based on Disneyland rides. Well I broke them down to individual videos so that you could watch one without watching all of them. I put them on Funny or Die so if you wanna check ’em out and forward your favorite one(s) to your friends who might like ’em, please feel free 🙂 (Also remember to click “funny”…’cause I don’t wanna die)
Not sure why but i really like seeing what people carry around with them. So here is what I carry.
Here is a quick rundown of what I carry around in my bag:
Moleskine Notebook
Gameboy DS
iPhone 8gb (1st gen)
iPod Classic 160gb
Leatherman
Mini Tri-pod
Small Case for Digital Camera
Travel tissue
Ziplock plastic bag
Orbit Gum (I acquired a lot working at Google)
Various charger
March 8th, 2009 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
This episode of TANcast features a seen-unseen-unseen review of the new Watchmen movie, a listener e-mail that leads to talk of private parts and the doctors office, poor service in the Apple Store, the perils of boxer briefs, Andy has a job interview, Andy isn’t watching 24, Lost, or Dollhouse,
This week’s TANlaugh was courtesy of Andy’s Dad
This week’s Listener E-mail was from Murray
Send your jokes and/or e-mails to:
Tim (at) TANcast.com
Andy (at) TANcast.com
Noah (at) TANcast.com
March 3rd, 2009 . by Andy (TANcast's #1 Ear-Rapist)
One day at work, I fell into a hole in the Internet. My memory of all time before that is hazy and indistinct, like a dream soon to fade at the morning. It was as if bash.org’s Quote Database was all there had ever been of my real life, and the rest was just an idiot’s scrawl on a bathroom stall.
I tried to blog about this phenomenon at the time, but could not claw my way back to the murky void of The Real long enough to give a full accounting of it.
I don’t think I accomplished much that day, other than spastic laughter held barely in check by the back of my knuckles and grim looks from management. I didn’t dare climb back in afterward; I had lost enough of my life and I could only just recollect having a childhood somewhere where the text was not perennially fixed-width.
Six months later I lost my job and tried to write this all up again. I loaded the site, read this, and promptly lost another day. In my head, bloodninja/eminemBNJA is 100% serious and earnest. It is significantly funnier that way.
Beware, though: If your taste in humor treads the same razor’s edge of geeky, lowbrow, highbrow, dickish, conceptual, offbeat stupidity that mine does, expect to lose yourself as well.
March 3rd, 2009 . by Andy (TANcast's #1 Ear-Rapist)
This is the first in what will become a series of posts: Stupid recipes you’ll probably never need or want but which Andy either finds delicious or made up to feel clever.
For the initial entry, a classic from my childhood…
Cottage Cheese, Yogurt, and Applesauce
Procure a jar of applesauce. Any brand and style will do, though I find the best to be the finely-pureed variety without skins or added flavor (cinnamon, etc.).
Procure a tub of cottage cheese. Again, any brand, style, and degree of health-consciousness will do. It’s my understanding that small-curd is tangier than the large-curd type, but I usually go by desired texture. Arachnid and footstool are optional.
Procure some yogurt of the fruit-in or fruit-on-the-bottom variety. Any fruit will do. I typically prefer raspberry, blackberry, or boysenberry.
Combine cottage cheese, yogurt, an applesauce in approximately equal amounts in a bowl of suitable volume (2-3 cups or ~0.5 L).
Stir until well-mixed.
Find an unoccupied, private space.
Enjoy your delicious treat without asshole roommates happening by and comparing its appearance to a drunken sorority girl’s vomit.
I’m sure Tim will attest to the fact that I have, in fact, eaten this concoction in his presence, and that he was thoroughly disgusted by my doing so. I hope that you either enjoy this or else shake your head and wonder at the evil of it.
March 2nd, 2009 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
This week starts off with a return to hating on the Octuplets Lady and monkeys, Andy and Noah talk more about their iPhones, Tim tells of his bad luck in Vegas, the perils of private porn perusal are pondered, f*** my life brings demented joy, LeVar Burton and Michael Ian Black declare war via Twitter, Obama talks to joint session of congress and TANcast gives their in-depth analysis, the TANboys marvel at some dedicated “creative people,” the boys talk Princess Diaries, Fanboys, Watchmen, and Dark Knight in IMAX, then they analyze the 80’s cartoon phenomenon that was M.A.S.K., and finally the economy takes it’s toll on some more businesses.
