Thursday, April 9, 2009

Random Musings

- Is Kristen Wiig in every movie? Since 2007 she has been in Ghost Town, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Semi-pro, Pretty Bird, Knocked Up, The Brothers Solomon, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, and Adventureland. This year she will also star in Whip It!, All Good Things, and the following movie Extract.


Besides being on SNL she also managed to make guest appearances on 30 Rock and Flight of the Conchords. Oh, and she is also currently doing voice work for an animated feature called Despicable Me.

- Did Ryan Reynolds make the single biggest upgrade ever by going from Alanis Morrissette to Scarlet Johansson? Scarjo is so hot, right now, that even Alanis couldn't rip her through song.

- Why did it take so long for Windows commercials to show the price difference with Apple? Were the marketing whiz kids (yes I know an oxymoron) over at Windows just sitting on this while they continued to lose market share?

- During halftime of the NIT championship game I caught the ER tribute episode. If NBC is still looking for why the ratings went down over the years I think I have the answer. You went from George Clooney to John Stamos. John freaking Stamos.

- Check out this cool interactive map charting the spread of Wal-Mart. I also feel like this was the same strategy used by the Confederacy in the Civil War.

- Speaking of the bars and stars, how come "The Confederacy" is still available for use. Recently formed Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and African countries have really dropped the ball. All I know is that if I was founding a nation today it would definitely be called the Confederacy.

2 comments:

Pete said...

I've noticed the same thing regarding Kristin Wiig. She also appears to be in roughly 95% of SNL sketches every week. Maybe she has compromising photos of Lorne Michaels?

Tom said...

My personal opinion for her popularity is that she is best looking SNL cast member of all time, although that new chick Abby Elliot is giving her a run for her money. Every writer and actor wants her so they put her in their skits and movies.