Guardian & Sinestro Concept Art?

Here are some more supposed concept designs for the Green Lantern film. Sinestro looks like Diedrich Bader in Office Space or A Vampire in Brooklyn. The Guardians look like tall retards, which would be the opposite of how they are portrayed in the book. I am beginning to suspect that all these concept design pieces are not actually from the movie. I liked the Tomar-Re, Kilowog and Abin Sure designs, but these look really dumb.

Chuck Cast vs. First Class

Check out the latest episode of Chuck Cast, in which i co-host with Colleen. It has been a while since i have Podcasted, but doing Chuck Cast reminded me how much fun it was. Hopefully i will be able to return to a show in one form or another.

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LOST: The Final Thoughts

Starting on Tuesday, i will be posting blogs about my thoughts on the final season of LOST. Please join the conversation in the comment section, i would love to hear from you!

Abin Sur, Tomar-Re & Kilowog Concept Art?

"Well, Kilowog will be..." "Tomar-Re is in it. Sinestro is in it. Abin Sur is in it. All the origin people."
- Martin Campbell (dir. Green Lantern)

ComicBookMovie.Com has posted the images above and claim that these are actual concept designs for Abin Sur, Tomar-Re and Kilowog from the upcoming Green Lantern motion picture.

I have no idea if these are real leaked designs from the production or not. If they aren't, I am sure the actual designs will look very similar. Another thing, even if these are actually designs from the production it doesn't mean that these are the final designs. In any case, they are still fun to look at. Kudos to whoever "brought these characters to life".

Consider me stoked!!

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Season 6

I have to tell you that I am pretty fired up for LOST in one week, but at the same time a little sad. Much like Charlie knowing that he was going to die toward the end of season 3, it is sad knowing that we are coming to the end of the show. Although I am glad that the producers are getting to tell the story that they want to tell, I am not looking forward to all of these characters being expendable. Since day one I always said,"I hope that Hurley makes it all the way to the end". Well, with the end drawing near it means that no matter what happens, these characters are all gonna be gone. I hope that this season blows me away all the way until the end!

Conan O'Brien

When i was in my mid teens i used to spend my summer nights going to bed late after watching Late Night with David Letterman. I loved the fact that i could watch funny bits, oddity acts and see some of my favorite movie stars talk candidly. There was no internet, so it was a great way e exposed to larger world that i didn't know existed. It definitely shaped my mind as well as my sense of humor. In 1993 there was going to be a new host of Late Night and i knew that i had to see what this guy would do.

Right off the bat i knew that i was going to like Conan and Andy. They were way younger than Dave (at least in my mind) and being a 16 year old kid myself, i loved the fact that they were way more quirky than dave and felt like outcasts. You could tell that they were going to try something completely different and i was 100% on board for the ride. I remember John Goodman coming out as the first guest. There was a huge fanfare and Conan put a gigantic medal around his neck that said "First Guest". The show was rocky, but was so far out there, that it kept my interest.

Around the time i was 18 years old, my personal life began to change, but there was one constant. Conan O'Brien. If it was a school night, i would either stay up way late, or just tape it on the VCR in my room. A lot of times, especially as my father left and i was a senior in high school, i would just stay up late and watch Conan. It was comforting to know that no matter how shitty my day was, that i could go to bed on a light note.

Tonight marks the last time that Conan O'Brien will perform on NBC. Seven months ago he brought over the whole gang from Late Night and started to do The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. It was announce 5 years ago and there were high hopes for the next evolution in this great dynasty. I have Tivoed and watched every episode of the Tonight Show, in fact, i have been watching every single episode of Conan since i got my Tivo over eight years ago. Five nights a week for almost a decade and now it is all over, and only seven months after the first episode of The Tonight Show.

If you have been following my Facebook page, you know that i have been very vocal about the horrible news surrounding Conan's demise on NBC. Conan was the television equivalent of comfort food. It was the one thing that i could always rely on. I was very upset about the rumors that had been swimming around the internet, but when those rumors became a reality, i was devastated. I was so upset that i decided to brave the heinous weather last monday and join in the "I'm with CoCo" rally. There was nothing more gratifying than being at that rally. There was so much love for Conan and the staff that we felt like one big family. I got to talk to a bunch of the Tonight Show staffers, including head writer Mike Sweeney, who brought a bunch of us Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien hats from the nbc store.

I was so happy to be able to go to one of Conan's Tonight Show tapings last december. If i didn't go to that show, i would have forever regretted it. It was an amazing experience that i was lucky enough to share with my sister and wife.

In a couple of hours the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien will end. It will be the end of a great era of my life. Conan has been a part of my life since i was 16 years old. I have been watching Conan for half of my life and i cannot thank him enough for 17 years of entertainment.


I will forever support Conan O'Brien!

I'm With CoCo and G4!

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Blarg Sketchbook - "Hometown"

My friend Justin Shady has a website called THE BLARG. For the last few months he has been doing a feature called "Sketchbook". Justin sends out a key word or phrase to contributers, who use it as inspiration to show off their artistic talent. This month's phrase was "Hometown".

CHECK OUT my piece titled "Downey, CA" and let me know what you think!

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"I'm With CoCo" Rally!

This is a video from the Tonight Show Insider. It was rainy and miserable, but COMPLETELY worth every minute of it!!

I'M WITH COCO!

Broken Lizard

Last night, the gang behind Beerfest, Club Dread, Puddle Cruiser, Slammin' Salmon and Super Troopers were performing at the Improv in Brea. Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske and Kevin Heffernan make up the comedy troupe Broken Lizard. My friend Jocelyn purchased me and Stevi tickets for our upcoming birthday and we had a blast!

The show was pretty great. It started off with some audience participation in which the guys, dressed as their Vermont State Trooper counterparts. There was some standup comedy from Lemme, Soter and Jay. I think of all of the standup acts, Jay's was my favorite. He went into a long rant about how he was currently changing into a woman. It was so hilarious that i could not do it justice by trying to retell it. I guess you are just going to have to go to the show.

In between the standup performances, there was some great storytelling moments. The one that stands out is the time that Lemme and Heffernan met their idol Patrick Swayze. It was a fantastic story full of ups and downs.

The most interesting story of the whole night came at the end of the show. At the end of the night all five members came up on stage and started to tell stories about how they all came to meet each other. Heffernan told a story about how Lemme stole his jacket at one party, only to discover the same jacket in the coat room at a party months later with Lemme's student ID in the pocket.

Jay then told the story about how he met Erik Stolhanske. They were both in college, working in the set dressing class for theater. They were both hammering sets. They got to talking when they started to discuss a rivalry that they had between both of their home towns. Stolhanske started talking shit on Jay's home town of Chicago and then it started to get physical. To prove that he was tougher than Jay, Erik took the hammer he was using and whacked himself in the ankle. Trying to hold back the pain, Stolhanske told Jay that his home town was full of pussies. Jay decided that he was not a pussy, so he whacked his own ankle with a hammer. Both of them wincing in pain, Stolhanske decided that he still wants to one-up Jay, so he runs full speed toward a brick wall and kicks the shit out of it. He screams in pain. Jay follows suit. Then, in a brilliant move, Erik grabs a pneumatic staple gun and holds it up against his calf. Jay says that he cannot believe how fucking nuts this dude is, but knows if he pulls the trigger he won't be able to pussy out now. Erik pulls the trigger sending a staple into his calf. Erik yells and Jay grabs the gun. Jay mentions that he is going to shoot the staple into his thigh, because he hopes that the extra meat on the bones would soften the blow. At this point in the show, Jay pulls out a hammer and says "That is when Erik stopped me from shooting the staple into my leg and shows me this". Jay starts whacking Erik's leg with the hammer repeatedly on stage. Paul Soter gets up, grabs a mic stand and also starts wailing on Erik's leg. Then it is revealed to the audience that Erik Stolhanske has a prosthetic leg and has been pulling this prank for years!!

The show ended with Team USA doing rowboats against "The Germans" (three audience members), with the Broken Lizard guys blowing away the competition. It was a terrific night and wish it could have lasted three hours longer. I would love to hang out with these guys for one night, they are absolutely hilarious!!

Big News, from Conan O'Brien!

People of Earth:

In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I’ve been absurdly lucky. That said, I’ve been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my bosses are demanding an immediate decision.

Six years ago, I signed a contract with NBC to take over The Tonight Show in June of 2009. Like a lot of us, I grew up watching Johnny Carson every night and the chance to one day sit in that chair has meant everything to me. I worked long and hard to get that opportunity, passed up far more lucrative offers, and since 2004 I have spent literally hundreds of hours thinking of ways to extend the franchise long into the future. It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule. Building a lasting audience at 11:30 is impossible without both.

But sadly, we were never given that chance. After only seven months, with my Tonight Show in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.

Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the Tonight Show to 12:05 to accommodate the Jay Leno Show at 11:35. For 60 years the Tonight Show has aired immediately following the late local news. I sincerely believe that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn’t the Tonight Show. Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the Late Night show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot. That would hurt the other NBC franchise that I love, and it would be unfair to Jimmy.

So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it. My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard and we are very proud of our contribution to the legacy of The Tonight Show. But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction. Some people will make the argument that with DVRs and the Internet a time slot doesn’t matter. But with the Tonight Show, I believe nothing could matter more.

There has been speculation about my going to another network but, to set the record straight, I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next. My hope is that NBC and I can resolve this quickly so that my staff, crew, and I can do a show we can be proud of, for a company that values our work.

Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it’s always been that way.

Yours,

Conan

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