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Easy to Assemble on 11/14/2011 9:39:36 AM by Maria
If you had to guess this gentleman's name would it be:
A: Lars
B: Bjorn
C: Chip
The only way to know for sure is to watch this Easy To Assemble episode!
(We're leaning toward "Chip", too.)
Today we're going to give you another last-minute Halloween costume idea. Since today brings us a
new episode of Easy To Assemble, we suggest dressing like a member of their cast. Pick one. Anyone. They wear a
uniform so it doesn't really matter which one, does it? We could say Illeana or Corey Feldman but we'll use the picture of
Eric Lange because he was also on LOST and that makes sense in some parallel universe, we're sure.
What you need:
- yellow polo shirt
- iron-on letters (at least the i-k-e-a)
- blue lanyard and a fake IKEA ID
- yellow pants OR regular blue jeans
If you can't find all of these things, an alternative would be to befriend an IKEA worker and ask him or her very nicely if they will lend you their uniform. But we hear they're pretty attached to those things...sleeping in them and wearing them beneath their suits on fancy occasions like the opera*, so, it might be difficult to find someone who'll just hand their uniform over to you
willy-nilly.
So maybe you could just wrap yourself up in IKEA instruction booklets and wield an allen wrench while swigging lingonberry juice straight from the box. Hey, it's a thought. Happy Halloween!
*no idea of any of that is true
This is what we've looked like while waiting for this season of Easy To Assemble to start.
Note the large bottle of alcohol on the bedside table.
"You are home. You just don't know it yet."
This season of
Easy To Assemble is all about finding your way "home." And that's a nice idea, right? Home. Where the heart is. Where you hang your hat. Where the buffalo roam. Where you sometimes have to slide head-first in order to beat the throw from left field to make sure you're safe.
Home.
And we're pretty glad that Easy To Assemble's home is My Damn Channel, you know? We like to think that we know original web series better than almost anyone, and Easy To Assemble is one of the best web series around, at least according to the
LA Times. So... while it may have taken a little longer than we originally anticipated to bring Season 3 "Finding North" to you, it feels like going home for us to be able to present it to you now since
This is what we do. This is the caliber of talent we work with. This is how it's supposed to go for us. This is home.
Oh, and there's some "making out" in the
first episode so you should totally watch it just for that.
Here are some interesting facts about Today:
It's the day before
Easy To Assemble Season 3 "Finding North" premieres! Oh! And we have a new trailer for you to watch! What a coincidence!
It's the anniversary of the
1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake aka
"The Last Time the Giants and the A's faced each other in the World Series"!
(Credit: Brant Ward / The Chronicle 1989)
It's
National Pasta Day... which is not to be confused with
WORLD Pasta Day!
It's
Eminem's birthday!
And--yes-- we know this isn't a birthday cake
for Eminem, but it's funnier this way! And this post needs all the help it can get.
Illeana Douglas and Mary Lynn Rajskub
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
As you
may have heard,
Easy To Assemble: Season 3, "Finding North" premieres on My Damn Channel on October 18th.
To celebrate, we had a good old-fashioned Hollywood premiere at the Egyptian Theatre. See who was there:
John Cho
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Andy Dick and Dave Foley
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Carly Craig
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Craig Bierko and his dog
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Corey Feldman
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
And, of course, My Damn Channel CEO/Founder Rob Barnett with Easy To Assemble creator/star Illeana Douglas and director Michael Kang.
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
We have more pictures on our
Facebook page and actor/blogger
Lynn Chen has a nice wrap-up of the event
here.
So we're pretty excited to premiere the first episode on October 18th. Until then, may the lingonberry juice be free-flowing:
(photo via Lynn Chen)
They're back.
Illeana Douglas, Justine Bateman and their IKEA co-workers are on a Swedish tour in Season 3, "Finding North." Will Illeana ever get her award for
Coworker of The Year? Is Justine still
Forty and Bitter?
Will anyone ever tell us if lingonberries are delicious mostly because we doubt they exist in the world outside IKEA stores? Will they take a side trip to China,
where many people treat IKEA stores like amusement parks? Will they go to Germany
where IKEA restaurants are more popular than McDonalds? Will anyone just come over to our house and help us put some
BILLY bookshelves together?
We'll all just have to wait and see! (Unless you really want to help us with some furniture-building. That can happen immediately.)
So, it's Sunday night and we're just chilling at home watching HBO and
True Blood comes on, and, yeah, there's vampires and werewolves and fairies and blood and sex but then there's also something kind of familiar...
Brit Morgan!
In
True Blood, she plays "Debbie Pelt," a paranoid, hyper-sexed, formerly drug-using, possibly crazy werewolf:
In
Gigi, she plays a paranoid, hyper-sexed, currently drug-using, probably crazy prostitute:
Now you can see how we recognized her: she's got this crazy-lady character thing down pretty well.
So that's how our Sunday night played out: we sat in front of the TV watching HBO. If we watched
Entourage we'd tell you how
Illeana Douglas plays Ari Gold's sister-in-law, but we don't watch that show. If we're going to watch a show about soulless blood-suckers, we'll watch the show about vampires, not Hollywood agents, thank you very much.
We'll be here all week, folks.
Illeana Douglas, creator and star of
Easy To Assemble, will be reading for
Celebrity Autobiography in Los Angeles, California on 2/20 and in Green Bay, Wisconsin on 3/12. Two giants of My Damn Channel
aligning their forces together!
So if you're from either of those areas - or want to travel thousands of miles cuz it'll be worth it - get your tickets
here.
And to check out more Celebrity Autobiography news, visit their
homepage.
Illeana Douglas dropped by The Adam Carolla Show to give us an update on everything going on in her world including her cameo on the season finale of Entourage, this Sunday (9/12) at 10pm on HBO.
Listen to Illeana's entire interview with Adam here.
And while you're at it, get ready for SEASON THREE of Easy to Assemble by watching
Flying Solo.
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Illeana Douglas on 7/12/2010 12:43:48 PM by
Maria
It has been so hot in New York we've been melting. So we decided to hit the road and get outta dodge. (Yes, that is redundant, but we don't care.)
First we went to New Orleans to see the Celebrity Autobiography LIVE benefit for the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund. Creators Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel brought out the big guns with Ryan Reynolds, John Goodman, Jennifer Coolidge, Mario Cantone, Bryan Batt and more, raising over $10,000!!! Check out this clip from the local NOLA morning show: