“Family Guy” Tackles “Star Trek: The Next Generation”

As should be clear by now, I’m a huge “Family Guy” fan and as I recently admitted, I’m also kind of a huge “Star Trek: The Next Generation” fan. SO, as you can imagine, I’m pretty excited for Sunday’s “Family Guy” episode, where the Griffin family attends a Star Trek convention and Stewie later kidnaps the cast.

Nine of the original cast members, including Patrick Stewart – lent their voices to the episode (is there anyone they didn’t get?).

Fox has posted a 2-minute preview clip, which also includes interview snippets with creator Seth MacFarlane:

Sure, there’s the potential for a lot alienating inside jokes but who cares – I’ll get them and I’ll love it.

Trivia: Patrick Stewart has lent his voice to the show before, mostly notably for one of my favorite quotes ever:  (Stewart speaking to Lois about a mess he made in the bathroom) “Lois, my post-sex pee stream forked in half and got everywhere.” I think of that quote – in Stewart’s voice –  everytime I, well, you get the idea…

Guide: AIDS And The Horse You’re Sleeping With

A+!

Clearly this child is onto The Gay’s Agenda to bring marrige equality to all man-horse relationships.

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Flower in the woods on my grandparents’ farm, upstate. Click pic to enlarge.

Earth Hour: Saturday, 8:30 PM Local Time

Earth Hour encourages you to turn your lights off this Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30 PM in your local time zone to support anti-global warming efforts ahead of the  upcoming Global Climate Change Conference.

From the site:

This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.

[…] WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.

Interestingly, Earth Hour is not asking you to go without all your electronic devices… just lights. In fact, they’re encouraging you to take photos (um, with flash, I guess) to upload to Flickr, videos to upload to YouTube, and to even live blog your hour.

I probably won’t be home at 8:30 PM this Saturday, so my lights will already be off.

PS: This is one of the comments (and the accompanying profile pic) currently on the Earth Hour website:

I plan to turn on every light, every electronic device and am planning to spank my monkey to the glory of excessive energy usage during this hour!!! Go ahead buy into the ********* as if you will make any difference.

Love it!

Update: Newsday is reporting that (some? all?) Times Square billboards, the Chrysler and Empire State buildings, and the decorative light “necklaces” on East River bridges will all go off in observance of the event.

Straight Guys Spend The Night Spooning On “Survivor”

I don’t know how the hell two straight guys in Tocantins are getting more man time than me.

Seriously, WTF.

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