Blu-ray version of There Will Be Blood, which goes on sale today in North America, is sold out, and it’s only 3 a.m. on the east coast.

Is it the killer title Blu-ray camp has been looking for, or did Paramount screw up manufacturing and couldn’t deliver enough discs on the release date?

The premiere’s at 6 p.m. ET on [adult swim], which, of course, is not available in Canada.

I guess I’ll be watching it… umm… some other way that may or may not be entirely legal.

Update: The first episode has now been posted in full.

HBO needs to option Alexyss K. Tylor’s book immediately and produce a series about four skanky thirty-something black women living in Atlanta.

Can you imagine it: replays of each woman’s sexual encounter interspersed with the main character’s cute, funny remarks analyzing the situation in terms of “vagina power” and “penis power”?

[via Attempt to be Hip and Gawker]

Update: CollegeHumor has posted the video.
http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1754914

So now, my few thoughts on the crazy dude.

• The killer is 1) Asian 2) nerd 3) angry. I bet there are a lot of people at Waterloo who are afraid to go to school. By a lot of people, I mean the white guys who do not associate themselves with non-whites and therefore have perception of minorities purely based on television stereotypes.
• The killer 1) is an English major 2) apparently wrote some crazy violent shits for assignments 3) was set to graduate this year, which means there is probably quite a sizable mass of writings accumulated. A headline expected in two months time: “Regents of Virginia Tech and the killer’s parents receive multimillion dollar book advance from {HarperCollins, Random House, Simon & Schuster}.”
• There is going to be a really offensive post on this subject from 125 Columbia.

Well, The New Republic is about to become even less relevant (as if that was even possible) thanks to its new owner: CanWest Global Communications Corporation. Can-fucking-West. If you didn’t know already, the Asper family, which controls CanWest, are fucking bat-shit crazy conservative Zionists. And, they like to use their media holdings to present their insane perception of the world as “reality.” Just watch Global National on the day something happens in Israel if you are not convinced.

Obviously, it is in the Aspers’ personal interests to prop up a dying Zionist rag, especially the one based out of Washington, D.C. But, this exercise in throwing shovels of cash into a bottomless well, an arrangement strikingly resemblant to the one between the Moonies and The Washington Times/UPI, is definitely not in the interest of the parties who actually own CanWest, which are not the Aspers¹. And, guess what? If you’re Canadian, every time you watch Family Guy (which is syndicated on GlobalTV), The New Republic is going to get a penny.

1. The Asper family has a majority of votes in CanWest Global despite having a minority stake in the company thanks to the company’s multi-class share system. Most of the shares owned by the Aspers belong to the class that grants multiple votes to each share while shares issued to non-Aspers have one vote each or none at all. To be fair, it’s not just CanWest that has this multi-class system. Rogers, Shaw, CHUM (before it was acquired by CTVglobemedia), and The New York Times Co. have (or, in case of CHUM, had) multi-class system, granting founding families with minority interests in the companies the majority of votes. It should however be noted that the families that control Rogers, Shaw, and NYT are not insane.

The worst news ever.

• “Hostile Acts” by Tad Friend. Published on newyorker.com and presumably also in print.

I was so fucking impressed with this article after I read it for the first time. Who other than a critic for a magazine as sharp as The New Yorker could observe that what Sarah Silverman really does through her offensive jokes is holding a mirror against the audience (metaphorically) and mocking their latent bigoted beliefs (also metaphorically)?

However, at another glance, the article proved to be rather disappointing. Take the last two sentences from the third paragraph counting up from the bottom:

His arrival reveals the fractures in the group—Sarah despises him, and Steve and Brian don’t even bother to be polite—and we realize that all of them are fundamentally loners who grew up in front of the TV. They enjoy bantering, as people on TV do, but they aren’t up for shouldering one another’s burdens.

The article blames the characters’ antisocial predisposition on “gr[owing] up in front of the TV” and being “loners.” This notion is not supported by the rest of the article, nor is it supported by the content of the show (as I watched it). In addition, to my knowledge, there is no scientific proof that this link exists. So in other words, what the fuck?

It’s not yet being broadcast in Canada though. The homeless man in the clip is Zach Galifianakis who I honestly don’t find funny but like anyways because he seems to know all the right people (he’s kinda like a male version of Janeane Garofalo).

One can only hope Comedy Central won’t kill this show prematurely like it did previous attempts to break away from the traditional sitcom format such as Stella and Strangers With Candy.

I am left to guess it to be either an insipid rip-off of Michel Gondry’s masterpiece “Let Forever Be” or some sort of a video tribute to Satan.

Sadly, this is not the worst part of the campaign. The newly-designed product page for Intel Core 2 Duo sports a puzzle where visitors are asked to figure out which retarded mime represents which Intel product or “product” (I am talking about you Intel Viiv).

Someone’s going to hell for this.