Archive for January, 2009

Try Trivia: Video Podcast (!) for 1/26

I’ve been threatening a video podcast for a long time. Here’s a version of something I think I could do every week. I’m desperately looking for input, but regardless, I think blip is going to be where I host it. If you feel like subscribing to it, well, I’d love it if you did. For [...]

Monday, January 26th, 2009

I love this picture.

I’ll add a link to it later tonight, but one of tonight’s answers is in this photograph Click through for a bigger version of the hint, which a few of you got: See you later tonight, sexy people.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Shoutout: Paul Paquet

Just wanted to make sure I mentioned that among our guests last Wednesday was the esteemed Mr. Paul Paquet, curator of the Trivia Hall of Fame and part time trivia columnist , as well as the hardest-wrking quiz host in Ottawa, Ontario. He apparently runs eight events a week. Eight. Talk about taking to trivia as a [...]

Friday, January 16th, 2009

How The Book Publishing Industry Really Works

 The Internet marketing team at McMillan Publishing has graciously provided us with this informal video showing us how digital promotion works. I had no idea the Great Gatsby was merely a particularly inspired mad-lib, and that the industry relies so completely on the work of swarthy Italian lumberjacks. Every day, learn a new thing.

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Bush’s Farewell Speech

SHOUT OUT TO MY HOMIEZ, B-DOLE & LIDDY, MY MAIN HOMEBOY CHAIN-CHAIN, B-ROCK AND HIS POSSE WHO GONE SAVE ALL US ASSES, ALL YOU CRAZY MUTHAFUCKAS IN THA FOX ROOM WHO CAUGHT MY FARTS AND FLUFFED MY SHIT, I GOT YOU, BABY! I AIN’T NEVER GONE FORGET YOU RIGHTEOUS JIGGAZ ON THE SUPREME COURT, I [...]

Friday, January 16th, 2009