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Matt Warren with tags
Super Bowl,
photoshop,
ketchup,
wings,
football on 2/4/2011 11:28:32 AM by Matt Warren
For the serious sports fan, this weekend is arguably the biggest weekend of the year. The Super Bowl is perhaps our biggest unofficial holiday, providing slobs and stats nerds of every race, religion, and economic background an opportunity to F up some seven-layer dip and blow their paycheck on ridiculous prop bets. But not everyone's into football. And that's fine, because for these people a whole cottage-industry of nonathletic "Bowls" have sprung up to service almost every niche and fetish. There's the Bud Bowl, the Puppy Bowl, the Lingerie Bowl. But why stop there? Here are our ideas for some additions to the pantheon of esoteric specialty bowls...
The Condiment Bowl
Watch as Catsup and Ketchup go head to head to determine, once and for all time, which spelling is correct. Don't be alarmed if, at the end of the grudge match, the field is smeared in gooey red liquid from goal post to goal post. That's just, you know, delicious ketchup. Go ahead. Dip your curly fries in there.
The Soup Art Bowl
Okay, this one's a bit of a stretch, but what about a knock down drag out fight between Andy Warhol's iconic Campbells soup can paintings? Maybe like, I don't know, hot dog bean vs. New England Clam Chowder? Yeah, that works.
The Sharktocopter Bowl
Just because. Who cares if it's Photoshopped? This picture is rad.
Posted in
Streamy Awards with tags
Streamy Awards,
My Damn Channel,
Daily Grace,
Red Carpet,
Grace Helbig,
Michelle Vargas,
Virginia Reiff,
David Wain,
Illeana Douglas,
Jason Sklar,
Randy Sklar,
IKEA,
Easy To Assemble,
Wainy Days,
Back on Topps,
Sparhusen,
Rob Mailhouse,
Todd Spahr,
Web Television,
Kodak on 4/11/2010 9:28:30 AM by Rob Barnett
Tonight's the night web television's best are honored by the Streamy Awards.
We hit the red carpet with all the web couture we got.
Grace Helbig, Michelle Vargas, and Virginia Reiff bring you My Damn Channel coverage on our home page and our new www.MyDamnChannel.tumblr.com.
And My Damn Channel goes LIVE for the first time ever. The ceremony starts at 5:30p PST.
Look for David Wain, Illeana Douglas, Jason Sklar, Randy Sklar, Sparhusen, Todd Spahr, Rob Mailhouse, Justine Bateman, Douglas NINJA Sarine, and all our fellow nominees and nerds.
My Damn Channel BIG announcements coming from here at the Streamys too on what's new.
The 2010 Streamy Awards honor excellence in original web television and those who create it.
The annual ceremony will be live online from LA on Sunday, April 11. The official red carpet live stream starts at 4p pst.
It's a HOT NIGHT for NERDS.
We're feeling guilty about getting too many nominations (14). Time to put the spotlight on ALL good humans making the best in original video online. Magnanimus, huh?
We're asking all talented humans to make short promos for the Streamy Awards - to inspire more people to seek out the best original video on the web.
Two requests only. Keep your film in the :30-2:00 zone and include a graphic that says:
Watch the Streamy Awards LIVE
Sunday, April 11 at 5:30p PST
www.Streamys.org
We need your videos ASAP - NO later than Thursday, April 1 (yes - that day).
We'll feature many/most on My Damn Channel for 11 days leading up to the Streamys, 4/11.
If we ROFLOL, and experience deep, emotional sensations, you'll be all over the My Damn Channel home page and on our other syndication partners.
Get tech specs and learn how to send us your videos by emailing DAN here.
It's been a week since we relaunched My Damn Channel. We're 90-95% of where we need to be with the new redesign. We're attacking that last 5-10% with the help of loyal co-cons writing and attacking us with ideas to fix last fixes. We're also gathering your hit lists for additional ideas to make your house and this new Enterprise more 'be all.'
The new Star Trek entered our brains the same night as our relaunch.
The amount of online communication bout our fave TV franchise is staggering.
Full disclosure - before we continue - somewhere here - in a box - there are 79 memorex audio cassettes - the ones with the 2 little white things in 'em - holding the recordings of every single original episode of the series - taped by a little fat white kid - off the speaker on the tiny TV in our kitchen back in Fort Lee, NJ. When you listen closely - you can hear Mom YELLING: "DINNER!" And you can hear me YELLING back: "SHUT UP! I'M TAPING "STAR TREK!!!'"
If you published any form of digital media in the past week, you're likely part of a mass collective of humans who are 'one' with the 43 year-old phenom of Star Trek.
Here then - a list - to ask ourselves WHY:
Star Trek Assumptions:
1. We need to believe in heroes and in the possibility that we are capable of heroic acts.
2. The future needs an organizing principle to deliver answers we seek.
3. We long for the past while embracing the future.
4. Obama reminds us of Spock.
5. Kirk represents the ideal leader (or father figure, brother, husband, best friend, lawyer, coach, boss, starship captain.)
6. We want to have sex with a green-skinned goddess.
7. We like to see things explode.
8. We like to sit in dark rooms and fantasize with an about others.
9. J.J.
10. Nerd is the new black.
Found this amazing video yesterday of William Shatner being made to watch the new movie trailer. Watch his face: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEJXdEcV7U