October 2nd, 2014 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
I loved the movie Taken. The speech from the trailer is still one if the most bad as monologues ever. I had the movie on my DVR forever (until Comcrap made us change DVRs).
Then they made Taken 2. I never did see the sequel. It seemed like an odd thing for the movie to even have a sequel. I mean they came up with a fairly plausible premise; someone wanted revenge on Loam Noeson for all the people he killed in the first flick. But as I recall, the reviews weren’t that great.
Well, now they’ve made a third movie, “TAK3N.” (Oy) The trailer dropped the other day and it features one of my least favorite things sequels do…
Why did they have to kill off Famka?! I hate that! I hate when they kill off characters just to make the story more “dramatic.” I hated it in X-Men 3, Alien 3, Star Trek: Generations, Terminator 3 Pirates of the Caribbean 3, and tons of other movies that I generally disliked. I even hated it in movies I liked such as Rocky Balboa, Star Trek 2, Avengers, and Skyfall.
If you have to kill off a major, well-liked character just to keep me interested in your plot…you need to write a better plot!
October 1st, 2014 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Okay, ladies, I apologize. That graphic is a bit much. Once I finished making it, I debated even using it. I wanted to use a horror movie with “3” in the title for this month of blogging (Since I’ve already done it twice). Piranha 3DD just seemed like the funniest. But then I had to come up with a graphic. I was going to just slap “Blogtober 3DD” on the poster and call it a day, but then I thought if it was animated, it would be funnier. So I searched for animated gifs from the flick and came across (Absolutely no pun intended) that piece of genius you see above you.
What can I say? It made me laugh. And that’s what I was going for. Then it struck me how funny it is that this blog…and all the blogs this month…are not likely to have anything to do with boobs or really anything sexual. That just made it irresistible as a misleading way to advertise this month of blogging.
That being said, I hope it doesn’t offend anyone. I really hope it doesn’t put you off from reading the rest of this month’s blogs.
Wait..where are you going? Stop! Come back! What if I keep it “fair an balanced?” Check this out:
I’m just making it worse aren’t I?
Well, all of this was to announce that I’m blogging everyday again this month. So…yeah.
September 30th, 2014 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
I am typing this blog on my repaired laptop! WOO HOO!!! I did not think it would be ready this soon. They had to replace the mother board. (A piece of information that really makes yesterday’s blog make more sense)
Well now I’m using my mouse like a champ, I posted an encore episode of the podcast, and I was even able to design the FINAL product for Shoptember!
September 30th, 2014 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Flashback to August 2013 as Noah pees next to a celebrity, the boys discuss pooping at work, and you’ll hear some tv/movie reviews.
00:00 – 01:17 Preshow
01:17 – 03:49 Intro
03:49 – 13:44 TANlaughs (Listener submitted jokes)
13:44 – 15:53 Kick My Feet Back and Forth (“Cute” Kid Stories)
15:53 – 43:16 WTSF (Strange tales from San Francisco)
43:16 – 51:02 Steamn’ Pile of Streamin’
51:09 – 54:26 Random Jibber Jabber
54:26 – 56:07 Wrap Up
56:07 – 60:48 ????
[CONTENT WARNING]TANcast features mature language and immature hosts but is NOT a representation of the stand up act of Tim Babb. Listener discretion is advised.
September 29th, 2014 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
As I’ve written about previously, my laptop is broken. That’s why last week’s podcast was a little substandard (even for us).
Well apparently the cosmos REALLY wants to shut down our show because now Noah’s laptop is having issues too. So with two of the three TANcasters’ computers out of commission, we didn’t record a show this week. The closest we came was this iMessage exchange…
September 28th, 2014 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
As I type up this blog into my phone, I’m in the green room of the San Jose Improv. Just finished doing 20 minutes of comedy. Now Mr. John Witherspoon is on stage. I’m enjoying the wonderful hospitality of the waitstaff. They just brought me some delicious taquitos.
The opener, Layla, and I talked comedy in the Bay Area for a while. Now I’m alone with my thoughts (unless you count the comedy of John Witherspoon pumping through the green room speakers that keeps making me laugh)
But this is a weird moment. I have an hour to wait. I’ve told my jokes, but now I have to wait until the headliner is done to talk to the audience on the way out…and maybe sell one of these sweet dishwasher magnets…
Ok shilling over, back to the blog…It’s weird because I’ve just done the fun part, telling the jokes. Now I have to wait to talk with the audience and see if I made a lasting impression. It’s a strange nervous energy. I don’t really have anything to prepare for, but I can’t relax for some reason
Ah well, back to the taquitos.
1 hour later…
Now the show is over, everyone has filled out, and I’m waiting to get paid.
The crowd seemed very nice on the way out. No one yelled “you suck!” So, I call that a win.
A few minutes later…
One last update…I just walked to my car and on the way, I saw this on the ground:
SOMEONE clearly was not impressed with my show and won’t be buying a CD. But then…why’d they take the card?
September 26th, 2014 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Warning: This is a cop out blog. It may not be worth your time (unlike the literary gold I’ve been squirting out up until this point)
I am tired! I don’t know why, but I can’t seem to get to bed before 2am anymore. Not sure when THAT started. But even if I’ve done most of the things I need to do before bed, I’ll put off the one last thing while I watch one more video or read one more article…next thing you know, it’s 2am.
And that’s a shame because now I’m too tired to blog. I had a fun idea for pitching the plot of the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I also was planning to do a blog dishing out some serious snark on a Jezebel article. But I don’t have the energy to be creative or snarky. (As these last few paragraphs demonstrate, I clearly don’t even have the energy to be funny.
It doesn’t help that I’m still working on my Windows XP desktop which is maddeningly slow and has a fan louder than a jet engine. How hot can that damn tower be? Throttle back the fan, chief! So it took me forever to design today’s TANstore product…
September 25th, 2014 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Little known fact, I’m actually a comedian. I know, I don’t really post much about it these days what with the kid and the pregnant wife and all…but I actually am a stand up comic. If you’re in the San Francisco bay area, you’ve got TWO chances to see me coming up! Click on the pictures for details, links to buy tickets, and all that good stuff…
But enough of this shameless self promotion, it’s time for some shameless product promotion. It’s a great gift idea for Dad this Christmas…
Then, over a year later, some dude came by to comment on it. And since I’ve committed to a new blog every day this month, instead of replying in the comments, I’m writing a whole new blog to respond.
First let’s get a taste of what the guy had to say
The Big Bang Theory definitely offends me as a nerd
Oh boy…this was the start of a very lengthy comment, my friends. For your sake, I’m going to just pick and choose little bits from this “Andy story” style comment. Read the rest of this entry »
