Link Love for Carolla
Permalink | Tweet This! | | November 24, 2008 by John in Adam Carolla
I’ve corrected an oversight and added a banner for The Adam Carolla Radio Show to my sidebar (Disclaimer: I don’t get paid for those banners). I’ve only been listening to it for a few years now.
I derived it from the show logo:
Bonus link: The Unofficial Adam Carolla Message Board
I only have two decorations on my car…
Permalink | Tweet This! | | June 18, 2008 by John in Adam Carolla, Auto
…but I have at least a 5 sticker road rage temper. Aggro Drivers More Likely To Have Bumper Stickers, Says Dude In Lab Coat (first heard on the Adam Carolla Radio Show, where I perked up after hearing my Alma Mater mentioned):
Psychologist William Szlemko of Colorado State University has been studying the aggressive-driving tendencies of those who personalize their cars with stickers, vanity plates, etc., and he claims that his study shows that the more personalized “territorial markers” on a car, the more aggressive its driver is likely to be.
In another news article they said it doesn’t matter if the stickers are peaceful (”Visualize World Peace,” “Free Tibet,” et al), the results were the same.
I have a Triumph sticker that has seen the ice scraper one too many times, and an embossed fish with “N’CHIPS” in the center.
Germany or Florida? Round Two
Permalink | Tweet This! | | March 23, 2008 by John in Adam Carolla, Interesting/Trivia
A mother in a psychiatrist’s office for supervised visitation with her 15-year-old son pulled out a dagger and drywall knife and stabbed the boy in the abdomen, then cut his throat, [the police officer] said Saturday.
[The mother], 55, was arrested on charges of attempted murder and carrying a concealed weapon Saturday morning…
Germany or Florida? Answer after the jump…
Germany or Florida?
Permalink | Tweet This! | | March 5, 2008 by John in Adam Carolla, In the News, Interesting/Trivia
There’s a bit they run occasionally on The Adam Carolla Show called “Germany or Florida.” One of the staff reads some wacked out news story and the host and sidekick(s) try to guess if it happened in Germany or Florida.
So here’s my version, with a few edits to hide the location. Answer after the jump.
The two men [...] had already tried a traditional recipe using their own blood.
But they were caught trying to recruit fellow servicemen and family members to ensure a constant flow of raw materials.
One of the soldiers posted pictures of himself on a popular [...] website siphoning off their blood and adding it to a recipe for the traditional [blood] sausage using onions, bacon, spices and breadcrumbs.
The incident only came to the attention of senior officers after one of their fellow soldiers reported the fact that he had been asked to donate some blood for the scheme.
The man is reported to have said: “I have been asked to give blood for sausage-making and I want to know if this is against regulations.”
There Should Be A Law
Permalink | Tweet This! | | August 30, 2007 by John in Adam Carolla, Entertainment, Gadgets, Tom Leykis, Video Games
Tom Leykis and Adam Carolla should not be allowed to go on vacation during the same week. It’s not right. It’s not fair. I can only take so much of Dave Ramsey and Leo Laporte. I scoured the iTunes store last night and right now I’m listening to a podcast about Halo 3 from Bungie, the company who developed the franchise.
Libertarian Defined
Permalink | Tweet This! | | April 28, 2007 by John in Adam Carolla, Humor, In the News, Penn Jillette, Tom Leykis
Libertarian (The Devil’s Dictionary X™):
- a political curiosity; a person whose political view consists of knowing what’s right and then closing one’s eyes.
compare with Democrat and Republican.- a Druid; a political kamikaze; a harmlessly unelectable psychopath.
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Favorite Podcast of 2006
Permalink | Tweet This! | | January 2, 2007 by John in Adam Carolla, Entertainment, Penn Jillette, Ramsey, Tom Leykis
Since I became addicted to podcasts (listening - god forbid I should start recording) I tend to get fanatical about listening to one in particular each year. Oh sure, I have dozens I listen to with topics as varied as Photoshop Tips, Superman, Marvel comics, Battlestar Galactica (producer’s commentary), web design and more. But it seems that one captivates me more than the others, and these favs tend to run in annual cycles.
In 2005 it was the Dave Ramsey Show. In a radical departure, 2006 was the year of the Tom Leykis Show (mildly NSFW). The two could not be more different if they tried (and I’m sure if they met they would share an intense mutual disgust).
Interestingly enough, I don’t “believe in” or follow everything that either hosts say or do. But both are certainly entertaining in their own way, and that’s primarily why they do what they do (in that being entertaining is the best way to make money).
Close runner-ups are the Penn Jillette show, the show with Ze Frank and the Adam Carolla show. These pod/vid-casts are staples in my daily podcast routine.
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Kids
Permalink | Tweet This! | | September 5, 2006 by John in Adam Carolla
Paraphrasing from the Adam Carolla radio show:
“Kids aren’t the future. Some kids are the future. Some kids are baby Hitlers. Some kids will OD by the age of 21. Some kids will live their lives on the dole. So saying kids are the future is wrong. Some kids are the future.”
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