Three reblogs

Posted on January 24, 2006 by Scott Jennings| 12 Comments

From Joystiq and other places: E3 to clean up its act, thousands of models to return to the porn industry. Thank god. Here’s a radical thought – maybe this year, I can go to E3 and, oh, I don’t know, get hands-on time with new games coming out next year. It’s a wacky concept, but it Just! Might! Work! (Edit: OK, false alarm. Everyone back to your boobiecams.)

From Greg Costikyan: Someone is so missing the point here. When Disney repackages the music you listened to as a sullen teenager in a perky kid-friendly brand, you know you’re REALLY old. This is NOT my beautiful house.

And finally, Something Awful teaches us the finer points of MMO etiquette. You should listen to them, as Goon guilds are ALWAYS paragons of virtue and kindness.

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  • Walter Y

    See, if you had small children in your house, you would realize that Disney is just jumping on the Kidz Bop bandwagon.

    These incessant commercials permeate all children’s television.

    http://www.kidzbop.com/music/index.do?sid0=2&page_id=27 – Great for a sleepover party, with Hey YA! . . . shake it like a polaroid picture, kids.

    And the sk8ter boi video is really sumpin

    -Walt

  • Dren

    Yes, very annoying, but these things have been the stongest push for my daughter to care about reading (the Karoake versions.) Sad, but true.

  • Aufero

    This is the first time I’ve felt fortunate my teenagers are old enough to be far more interested in the E3 link than the Disney one.

  • http://serenya_loreden.livejournal.com Loredena

    Teeny boppers as Devo is wrong on SO many levels. I must be old.

  • Chumprock

    I know little about media law. That has to be doen with Devo’s permission, right?

    *hunts down Mark Motherbaugh*

  • scottj

    Probably. They were involved in reworking “Whip It” for Swiffer a while back.

    http://www.boingboing.net/2003/08/14/devo_sells_out_again.html

  • Xyntar

    Those kidz bop commercials always make me laugh.

    Watching little kids ‘rock out’ to songs filled with sexual references while claiming to be kid safe or some such is amusing.

  • Freakazoid

    If an album like that is allowed to live, where’s the opposite? I want my explicit, heavy metal rendition of The Kingston Trio.

  • Turlow

    The booth babe story has made the mainstream. It’s now being carried by Reuters! I got it thru Yahoo. http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060124/tc_nm/media_videogames_dc

  • http://www.eqclerics.org Boanerges

    Interesting… made page one on MSNBC

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11008605/

  • http://www.sachant.com Sachant

    I wouldn’t mind if the booth babes went away so I could SEE the games instead of being trampled by the drool factor over booth babes.

    Also on msnbc http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10803766/

    At least Detroit’s models are usually dressed well and KNOW about what they are standing next to.

    As for the kiddie music. Everytime I see those ads I want to stop up my ears. I cringe and hope my daughter doesn’t decide she wants one. I also find the humor in small children singing songs that are for most accounts about some sexual behavior or very adult relationship. It makes me shake my head every time. It’s no wonder our kids are growing up so fast.

  • Walter Yarbrough

    So,

    My daughter just called me over to ask me to watch a specific Polly Pocket accessory commercial and Kidz Bop 9 came on . . . featuring Photograph and Wake Me Up When September Ends . . .

    “like my father’s come to pass – twenty years has gone so fast” – “In this melancholy ballad, Billie Joe, backed by the support of the other members of Green Day, takes a trip back to his painful childhood and thinks about the day he lost his innocence when his father died. Like any traumatic event, Billie Joe never truly recovered, and he can’t believe that twenty years have passed since the day.”

    And, Photograph, of course . . .

    “Kim’s the first girl I kissed
    I was so nervous that I nearly missed
    She’s had a couple of kids since then
    I haven’t seen her since God knows when “

    PS. No, of course she’s not getting the Polly Pocket thing