From the SNL comic duo Chris Par­nell and Andy Sam­berg that brought you Lazy Sun­day and Dick in a Box comes Jizz in My Pants.

This song par­ody …songody? …par­o­dong? This par­o­dong aired on Decem­ber 6, 2008 and although as funny if not more than the other two shorts, Jizz in My Pants still has not gained enough trac­tion to receive the title of “viral”. I would argue that this has to do with Hulu’s clamp­ing down on their videos being dis­trib­uted through YouTube. Lazy Sun­day and Dick in a Box did so much to bring buzz back to the long stale Sat­ur­day Night Live that if the execs over at NBC took their heads out of their asses for one minute, they’d real­ize that YouTube does more help than harm. I’m not even sure the above Hulu embed will still work by the time you guys are read­ing this. Hulu has been so incon­sis­tent with their video libraries it’s ridicu­lous, one week a clip is up the other week it’s gone. Now they’ve even pulled out from Boxee.

The whole viral phe­non­menon will not work if view­ers feel like they are being tricked by NBC into being pawns for NBC’s over­all mar­ket­ing strat­egy.  There is a cer­tain unspo­ken trust between sender and receiver; and as alruis­tic web denizens, we would rather not pass along unwanted adver­tiz­ing to friends who trust us to not lit­ter their inboxes with spam.

Orig­i­nal Sin

A sur­vey of Catholic con­fes­sions is out. A 95-year-old Jesuit scholar looked at which of the seven deadly sins are com­mit­ted most fre­quently. Among men, lust took first prize, with glut­tony com­ing in sec­ond. For women, pride was the big­gie, fol­lowed by envy. The pope’s per­sonal the­olo­gian told the Vat­i­can news­pa­per that “men and women sin in dif­fer­ent ways.”

I kind of always knew this but it’s nice to have a study come out and doc­u­ment it. Espe­cially liv­ing in the uber-superfucial, (does that make it super super ficial?) sin-tastic city of Los Ange­les, I am fre­quently made wit­ness to the sins of both men and women.  No where bet­ter is this more evi­dent than at a Korean Club like Vel­vet Room or Le Cer­cle. You have old rich men drink­ing way too much chas­ing girls way too young. And you have young Korean girls giv­ing the stink eye to any Korean girl they think is of equal or more beauty than them­selves. And you’d think these girls would be nice to the girls they per­cive as uglier but that is not the case either. These girls shun the less pretty like Brit­ney Spears avoids tal­ent. As if ugly was a dis­ease that was con­ta­gious and could rub off on your own beauty. And finally, you have old Korean women, who should have got­ten out of club­bing years ago, eying the young Korean girls with envy. …ahhhh, the Los Ange­les Korean night scene. I love it.

Ipod Kills Pedestrian

Ok, this made a big stir a short while back so I won’t spend a lot of time rant­ing on it, but I just heard a story on NPR talk­ing about a new ad cam­paign in San Fran­cisco that warns about the dan­gers of cross­ing the street while dis­tracted. …Duh! Well actu­ally, I believe PSAs are a much bet­ter way of get­ting this mes­sage across than pass­ing a law for­bid­ding the use of hand­held devices in cross­walks like that politi­cian in New York tried to do. I under­stand that avoid­able street col­li­sions can strain our already over taxed med­ical sys­tem but I feel that there is a big­ger issue at hand. Are we cre­at­ing laws that just serve the stu­pid while over reg­u­lat­ing the rest of the pop­u­la­tion? Are we in fact dilut­ing our gene pool to a point where peo­ple who don’t deserve to breed are saved long enough to put ill equipped prog­eny on this earth? I under­stand that it is a con­stant bat­tle to keep the pub­lic safe from new dan­gers that evolv­ing tech­nol­ogy present but some­times we have to defer to COMMON SENSE. But where to draw the line? Are we just cre­at­ing a soci­ety of idiots that nat­ural selec­tion would have elim­i­nated gen­er­a­tions ago? If I’m not smart enough to look both ways before I cross the street and need laws to pro­tect me from myself, do I have the com­mon sense needed to raise chil­dren? I argue no. We’re talk­ing preser­va­tion of our species here people.

Alco­hol Shot Gun

Prob­a­bly in a drunken moment of inspi­ra­tion, some alco­holic decided to take the phrase “a shot of alco­hol” lit­eral and came up with this inge­nious piece of gad­getry. It’s too bad it looks like this gad­get is just a pro­to­type; cause if it wasn’t, I’d buy one. I’d take it to Rit­ual and start mak­ing some friends. I’d wear a ban­doleer of dif­fer­ent alco­hols and go around pick­ing fights so I could duel. Open mouths at 10 paces. Then every night could end with a money shot.

Ban­doleer

UrbanTrend, via 7Gadgets, via DVICE

Amer­i­can Apparel in Lit­tle Tokyo

I’m in Lit­tle Tokyo right now blog­ging by Black­berry and I’ve been forced to go into Amer­i­can Apparel. Don’t get me wrong, I love their T’s when tal­ented design­ers use them for their shirts. Heck, I’ve even used their basic T’s for shirts that I’ve designed. But an Amer­i­can Apparel store? And not just one, there seems to be a new one pop­ping up every other month in every other neigh­bor­hood. I could under­stand an Amer­ica Apparel sec­tion in like a Macy’s but their stuff is so gaudy and tragic by itself. Its like a Madonna video from each decade threw up in there, and they called it a store. Leg warm­ers, rain­bow col­ors, who wears this stuff? Just cause you have a bunch of mer­chan­dise doesn’t war­rant open­ing a chain of stores and strik­ing a blow to the fash­ion con­scious every­where. This is one trend that I hope passes soon.

Con­fused inside Amer­i­can Apparel in Lit­tle Tokyo