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Pitt! Clooney! The “Yes I Am” Guy!

August 26th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 10 Comments

While we were working on our latest Riff of Ocean’s 11, the nagging thought that I had seen the guy who plays obligatory Techno-nerd Livingston Dell before.

Turns out that he was the star of one of Bud Light’s famous early 90’s ad campaigns, the “Yes I Am” guy:

This was a simpler time, when […]

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Goodnight moon, hello sweet sweet money

August 19th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 10 Comments

We’ve all read Goodnight Moon, or at least had it read to us.  It turns out that contrary to popular belief, the Old Lady Whispering ‘Hush’, is not the most intriguing character in the Goodnight Moon saga.  This interesting Wall Street Journal article by Joshua Prager (his book about Bobby Thomson’s Shot Heard Round the […]

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The Huttfather

August 18th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 4 Comments

Stinky the Hutt-mania is not deterred by the Clone Wars dismal showing at the box office!
Leaving the gun and taking the cannoli was never too big of a problem for Jabba the Hutt, but who knows how these recent events will affect the crime boss!

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Latest domain name purchase

August 16th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 34 Comments

I’ve gone ahead and purchased stinkythehutt.com.  Sorry for not consulting with everyone ahead of time, but I felt it was necessary to take quick action.  Any ideas about how to best put it to use would be appreciated.
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Tags: RiffTrax · movies · silly

Stinky The Hutt round-up

August 15th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 47 Comments

Jabba the Hutt’s kidnapped son “Stinky” is now officially my favorite character in the entire Star Wars universe.  Here is a round up of some various info about him:
From Harry Knowles Aint it Cool review:
Then they introduced Baby Jabba aka Rotta the Huttlet aka Stinky. At the point of this character’s introduction - it officially […]

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Tags: RiffTrax · movies

Which of these Star Wars Handmaidens is not like the others?

August 14th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 24 Comments

With the world abuzz about the direct to video Star Wars movie coming out this weekend, I thought it appropriate to pay a visit to wookiepedia and research minutae about Star Wars.  It turns out that all of the queens handmaidens have names, even though they don’t matter and you don’t care.  Here is the […]

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Tags: RiffTrax · people conor will see in hell

Schnappi in English on the Ukelele

August 12th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 7 Comments

My friend Richard is spending several months traveling over in Europe, and has been spending the past few weeks visiting relatives in Germany.  Needless to say, his young cousins were amazed with his shocking familiarity with Schnappi, and even more amazed that he had friends at home who were asking him to bring back any […]

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Tags: RiffTrax · music · schnappi

Wild Boar Bacon!

August 12th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 13 Comments

A new butcher shop has opened in La Jolla and it carries Wild Boar Bacon!  Homegrown Meats is the new go to place for grass fed beef raised near San Diego but it’s the Wild Boar Bacon that is flying off the shelves, selling three times more than the regular bacon, according to the butcher.  […]

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Money for nothing, Sexman for free

August 11th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 25 Comments

It’s been six months since I made the business deal of a lifetime, snatching up the domain name pruane2forever.com to document the ongoing genius of everyone’s favorite vulgar Canadian pre-teen.  My motives were based on more than just admiration for the man though.  I had a google adsense account with $82 in it from my […]

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Tags: Memes · RiffTrax · silly

Helpful Product Reviews

August 7th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 24 Comments

I’m wondering if anybody can guess what product this review was posted for on amazon.com:

This is the kind of thing that you’d usually find written in a notebook amongst pictures of babies with the eyes razored out and the lyrics to “Fade to Black“, but you’ll find the actual product that inspired it after the […]

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Hop Shortage Update

July 31st, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 11 Comments

The worldwide Hop Shortage has hit us all hard.  We’ve pondered its devastating effects at O’Briens over a cold Racer 5, as we lament that this years Exponential Hoppiness tasting was limited to just three separate vintages of the worlds greatest beer.  We rended our garments and were heard to lament “Damn You Hop shorta-Hey, […]

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Tags: RiffTrax · beer

Jar Jar Like Me

July 28th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 7 Comments

Despite my mom’s Hot Dog picture getting destroyed in the voting by that happy-feeted sailor I still wore my Jar Jar Shirt downtown to our live show on Saturday. Throughout the whole experience, which was described by various friends of mine in attendance as a “laugh-o-rama”, “laughfest” and “this is what you do all day?”, […]

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Gimme Back My Hutt!!!

July 24th, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 27 Comments

My weekend involved far more Star Wars discussion than should be allowed by law, and during the course of it, some of my friends revealed that they were not aware of the impending disaster that is “Clone Wars“.  Nor were they aware that the plot of this movie evidently depends on the kidnapping of Jabba […]

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Tags: RiffTrax · movies · silly · video

Go Mom!

July 23rd, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 31 Comments

Clearly, I am a man who values his dignity.  But occasionally, under extraordinary circumstances, I’m willing to do something slightly foolish - as long as there’s a good reason. Be it raising money for charity, attending a costume party, or walking down the street dressed like an idiot to see what people do, some things […]

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Where have I been?

July 22nd, 2008 by Conor Lastowka · 22 Comments

Has it really been two weeks since I posted anything on the blog?  Where the hell have I been?
Answer:  Cooking bacon!
Friday night it became necessary to cook up 8 pounds of bacon, a process that took a long time, three pans, resulted in more than 32 ounces of liquid grease and finished at 2:30 in […]

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