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• The Paris Hiltonization of South Korean Weddings

  Sometimes we forget how lucky we are to live a place where class doesn't have a whole helluva lot to do with what we accomplish in life and love. We've all seen that cute, smart guy marry the stupid white-trash girl and we've seen the smart, successful woman marry the unemployed stoner. As Sarah Palin has shown us, you can do anything as long as you want it bad enough; it's the beauty of America.  Unfortunately, in many cultures, marriages are still arranged or lovers are only allowed to marry within their social class. In South Korea, "weddings have become symbols of greed and waste, as families try to outdo each other with extravagant offerings. Houses have replaced housewares, while fur coats are now standard presents for new mothers-in-law." It hasn't always been like that in South Korea, though. Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 02:32 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: marriage, Lost, cars, tv shows, south korea, sun, dowry, hummers, seoul, lost the show

• While You Were Sleeping: James Franco and Sean Penn Go At It

  Doris Lessing, our Hero In Residence, on the teen pregnancy "craze": "I hear girls saying, 'Oh I'm not going to bring a child into this wicked world,' which means they are going to be pregnant next week." Happy 47th to Barack Obama yesterday. Unfortunately, his staff lost their big present to him. The Eva Mendes Calvin Klein ad has been banned from TV... Read More... Posted Aug 05 2008, 09:39 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: Lost, Barack Obama, james franco, cars, cnn, celebrities, doris lessing, sean penn, morgan freeman, actors, acting, car accident, montreal, iggy pop

• The Wire: We Was Robbed (of an Emmy Nomination)

  The Wire, the HBO series which some critics believe is the closest thing to Shakespeare we've ever come, has failed in its final attempt to capture a Best Drama Emmy nod. The lucky ones (Damages, 30 Rock) and the losers (Grey's Anatomy, many more), in a full rundown after the jump... Read More... Posted Jul 17 2008, 11:40 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: 30 rock, mad men, Lost, television, the wire, alec baldwin, nominations, Emmy's, house, grey's anatomy, steve carell, tony shalhoub, damages

• What Do We Think About Vanity Fair's Fake Celebrities?

  Who are these nyphms, Vanity Fair, and why should we care about them? Here's the abridged survey... Read More... Posted Jul 09 2008, 09:58 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Lost, jodie foster, brad pitt, ipod, models, vanity fair, video game, blake lively, gossip girl, big love, americacan idol

• Video of the Day: The World's Greatest Slip 'N Slide

  When was the last time you saw professional athletes laughing and enjoying themselves, putting on a real show for the fans that has nothing to do with how many home runs their muscles have earned them or how much better than Michael Jordan they think they are? (Yeah, we mean you, Kobe Bryant.) Over the weekend, the Texas Rangers faced the New York Mets at Shea Stadium, a site which is soon to be demolished... Read More... Posted Jun 16 2008, 01:58 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: video of the day, sports, Lost, New York City, athletes, baseball, childhood

• Lost: We Kind-Of Wish They'd Used These Alternate Endings

  VIA THE REMOTE ISLAND: Remember when we weren't too thrilled with the ending of Lost's season finale? Well, now it's even worse, 'cause we finally broke down and watched the two endings that they filmed but didn't use -- and they're both better than what we got. Maybe not in terms of overall plot cohesion -- but that's been a concern since when exactly? Read more...  Posted Jun 02 2008, 02:42 PM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: bryan christian, Lost, the remote island, tv blog, alternate endings

• While You Were Sleeping: The Scientologists Planned Their Invasion of New York

  Remember Silvio Berlusconi, the guy who hired the hot new Italian minister who was our Crush of the Week last week? Well, we now know she doesn't support "pointless" gay pride. If that means teddy bears (stuffed, not human) with nipple rings and rainbow t-shirts, we would almost get where she's coming from (because pierced teddy bears always freaked us out), but as a politician she probably shouldn't have said it out loud. Except it appears that's not what she meant at all. [Queerty]  Would you wear undewear-wear-wear-eh-eh-eh designed by Rihanna? [ICYDN] If you look hard enough, you can see Angelina Jolie's nipple in this picture. [Fleshbot] Read More... Posted May 20 2008, 10:41 AM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: nip slips, sloppy seconds, underwear, Lost, rihanna, pete doherty, tom cruise, katie holmes, suri cruise, scientology, Broadway, angelina joile, children, gays, gay pride, nipple, Silvio Berlusconi, plays, arthur miller, matthew fox

• Who Would You Rather?: Evangeline Lilly In A Manshirt or Tina Fey Scarfing A Sandwich

  'Cause we're kind of torn. Click through for a pic of Ms. Lilly -- and make your voice be heard! Read More... Posted May 02 2008, 05:20 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: tina fey, 30 rock, Lost, who would you rather?, Evangeline Lilly

• While You Were Sleeping: Michelle Rodriguez Talked About Her Vagina, Sex With Dogs

  The New York Times accidentally published a reporter's terribly misspelled notes. But hey, we're lucky to get the first and last letter of a word down during a phone interview. Or ntes usuallly lok a lttl smthng ike this. [Wonkette]  Little Rudy Huxtable is going to play a hooker in the upcoming Tyler Perry movie. Remember when she rubbed cream on her chest to try and make her boobs come in? Yeah, where can we get some of that? [Yahoo!]  Pope Benedict XVI met with sex abuse victims. [NYT]  Some people have way too much time on their hands; we sometimes wish we were one of them. [Netorama] Read More... Posted Apr 18 2008, 09:13 AM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: new york times, michelle rodriguez, Lost, guns, lesbians, catholics, plastic surgery, the Pope, the cosby show, jerking off, the simpsons, while you were sleeping, irony, the miwest, sexual abuse, spider pig

• Sloppy Seconds: Sienna Miller Had a Bikini Malfunction, And We Have Pictures

  Christina Ricci is looking great, if a little too skinny, in the upcoming issue of Blackbook Magazine. [Pop on the Pop] Aww. Geek love. Ain't it sweet? A programmer proposed to his girlfriend by reprogramming her favorite (cell phone?) game, Bejeweled, to actually do the asking once she reached a certain score. Score! [Yahoo!]  Are Michael and Dinah Lohan officially the worst parents in the history of the world? [FameCrawler] We're all for people voting, but if we hear one more word from The Hills' Heidi Montag about this election, we're moving to China. Especially since she's NOT EVEN REGISTERED TO VOTE. [MTV] (Sienna Miller malfunction, and more, after the jump.)  Read More... Posted Apr 15 2008, 05:19 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: britney spears, christina ricci, sloppy seconds, Lost, sienna miller, pictures, proposals, skinny, wardrobe malfunction, the daily mail, michael lohan dinah lohan, geek love, uma thurman, grey's anatomy

• Video of the Day: Kate from "Lost" Is Looking to Meet Singles Just Like You

  No lie, guys, we are so hurting for more episodes of Lost. We've kind of always felt that way -- like, even in the worst of the third season, we'd be all like "God, I could watch this all night." Sorry, "we." Anyway, hey, we're not mentioning this just to whine or screw with our collective tenses. We're making a piss poor excuse for posting a video of Evangeline Lilly that's been on Google Video for a long time, since all the way back in... let's see, what does the video's page say... Wha? 2002? But... Google Video was invented in 2005, and Lost started in 2004... Holy shit, that guy with the timewarp theory is totally right!!! (Ha, we kid. We don't know what the deal is with the dates, but the video's real... unless all these Diggers work for Bad Robot or something. Which when you think about it... that'd be crazy... or... would it?)  Posted Mar 28 2008, 11:56 AM by Bryan Christian with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: video of the day, Lost, phone sex, Livelinks, Evangeline Lilly, anyone else smell viral marketing?, Google Video, singles chat lines

• Sloppy Seconds: Eva Mendes' New Underwear Modeling Gig

  An Australian man was gunned down in his driveway by a robot packing a .22 semi-automatic pistol. Don't worry, though, the robots aren't taking over the world just yet. The man built the robot and programmed it to kill him.  Hey kids, if you're going to smuggle pot across international borders, why not use soda cans or text books? You know, something the kids are into these days. We hear The Hills DVDs are all the rage. We once had a boyfriend get a shit-ton of pot through airport security tucked deep into a jar of Nutella. But cans of vegetables? Hominy at that? Industrial size cans of hominy?! If you haven't watched last night's LOST yet, then you probably don't want to click this link to find out which character is gay, gay, gay.  Read More... Posted Mar 21 2008, 05:46 PM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: gay, sloppy seconds, underwear, Lost, eva mendes, robots, the internets, marijuana, proposals, australia, rehab, pot, mexico, suicide, modeling, good morning america, twitter, marriage proposals

• "Lost" Writers Need Your Ideas. STAT!

  Is Jin really dead or is he still on the Island? Does Ji Yeon really not belong to Jin after all? Because the time/space continuum was all fucked up and even though it looked like Sun was eight weeks pregnant on Juliette's ultrasound and they thought they'd been on the island more than eight weeks, maybe they actually hadn't? Because wouldn't she be dead right now if she'd conceived on the Island? Even if she got off? And what the fuck is the four-toed statue? And the black smoke monster? And what does it have to do with time travel? And who is the guy on the ship with the big teeth and the wife beater? And why do I hate him so much? Is it really 1988 on the Island? Is that why Locke can walk? Because the 2004 version of the passengers of flight Oceanic815 landed in the ocean while the 1988 version is on the Island, alive and still kicking? But how does that explain Aaron? Wouldn't Claire have gone back to being, like, four? Ah! Aaron? Fucking Kate! Ahhhhhhh! Well, the writers of "Lost" seem to be just as lost as we are because they want you to upload your "video theories" to ABC.com. This is their super-clever, "interactive" way of asking you to do their job, because apparently, they've dug themselves a plot so deep, even they can't find their way out of it. Read More... Posted Mar 20 2008, 12:15 PM by Emily Farris with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Lost, Disney, abc, abc.com, theories

• Sloppy Seconds: Julianne Moore Calls Eliot Spitzer "A F*cking Embarrassment"

  Actress Julianne Moore is pissed about soon-to-be-former governor Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal, calling it "a fucking embarrassment." We wonder how much she donated to his campaign. We didn't donate any time or money to Eliot, so we're a little underwhelmed by the whole thing. Holy shit. A recent study has found that one in four teenage girls has a sexual infection. This makes us feel either really old or really naive.  Ladies, just in case you were wondering where all the single guys are, here's a map with ratios of single women to single men... further evidence that if we don't want to turn into a Sex and the City character or a bag lady, we need to get the hell out of New York City.  Once your character dies on LOST, there's not much to do but move on to another career until everybody forgets that you're Charlie, from Drive Shaft.   Some crazy guys are trying to save Neverland Ranch before Michael Jackson's face implodes. Well, they're at least trying to save Neverland Ranch.  Posted Mar 12 2008, 05:27 PM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: michael jackson, sloppy seconds, stds, Lost, julianne moore, sexually transmitted diseases, Eliot Spitzer, teenage girls, neverland ranch

• Crush of the Week: The Newest Couple on "Lost" (With Bonus Boob Talk)

  Maybe you didn't see last week's episode of the best show ever set on an island not to feature Hervé Villechaize? Well, seeing as how we're trying to provide a spoiler-free experience here, you might wanna move along (or maybe come back after catching up). Otherwise, see ya after the jump. Read More... Posted Mar 10 2008, 05:00 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: crush of the week, Lost, no we're not gonna spoil it by putting it in the tags, spoiler-free

• Video of the Day: What the F*ck Happens Next in LOST?

  This makes us a little sad for the future of our new favorite show obesssion. via videosift.com Posted Mar 07 2008, 04:20 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: video of the day, Lost

• Scanner Highs and Lows: We Like to Play Dress Up

  It's true, we like to put on high heels and feather boas and maybe, just maybe, we'll get dressed up to go to the theater. Read More... Posted Feb 08 2008, 04:57 PM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: anna nicole smith, high heels, police, dead people, Lost, highs and lows, scanner emily, wet hot american summer, captions, voting, peru, sawyer, burlesque, theater

• Totally Bummed by Our Sawyer Nickname

  We've recently become addicted to LOST. We caught the end of last season and learned a few days ago that we can watch every single episode from every single season in HD on ABC.com. We're trying to watch the first three seasons before Thursday night, when a new episode airs, but it's been keeping us up until 3:30 or so every night and we're not even halfway through the first season. We forget how prolific television was before the writers' strike. Anyway, we got super excited about Sawyer's Nickname Generator at ABC.com, because how cute is Freckles? Well, we're not so happy with our nickname. Not at all. In fact, we're almost heartbroken. Could he not come up with anything better for us? Read More... Posted Feb 05 2008, 03:14 PM by Emily Farris with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: writers strike, Lost, tv shows, abc, nicknames, sawyer

• File Under: The Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen

  With the writers' strike going on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, The New York Times reminds us of that which Scanner Bryan has already told us once: we're facing a harsh winter chock-full of bad reality shows, including but not limited to, the return of "American Gladiators." Luckily, "Lost" will be back. Previously: Not Another Writers' Strike Video Posted Dec 10 2007, 12:00 PM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: new york times, reality shows, scanner bryan, Lost, american gladiators, television

• Even After "Cloverfield" HD Trailer, We're Kind of Unconvinced

  Before we begin, let us be clear: we are totally seeing Cloverfield, the J.J. Abrams-produced monster (it seems) movie that has been shrouded in mystery—and which now has a new HD trailer available on apple.com. It looks like just the sort of flick we love—panicky, urban, and apocalyptic—and does the one thing that 1998's otherwise ridiculous Godzilla remake did right 60% of the time: it gets the visual perspective of walking in New York correct, which makes it all the more impressive when shit goes boom. That having been said, even after watching the trailer and re-watching the teaser, we're still not sure if it's gonna be all that and a bag of chips. For one thing, with all the pretty people in a frenzy, it kinda looks like a Banana Republic ad on PCP. For another, the trailers make things seem like the mysterious monster when, in fact, they're clearly guys in hazmat suits (screengrabbed at right). Isn't a little early for a bait-and-switch? Would a single frame of the monster have killed ya, J.J.? Or do we barely ever see the monster in the first place—you know, just like on Lost? Thoughts? Anyone here more excited about the obviously-slicker but possibly-less-disappointing I Am Legend? Posted Nov 20 2007, 08:42 AM by Bryan Christian with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: movies, Cloverfield, Lost, trailers, I Am Legend, New York City