Bullitt list -- 07.01.09

Today's category: Speaking of...

• So some geniuses at a sex conference in Amsterdam (yeah, big surprise) have announced that having sex every day can increase a couple's odds of conceiving a child. The study was led by Australia's King of the Obvious David Greening of IVF Sydney (IVF stands for "I value fucking").
  
  The study also had some other surprising findings:
  • The use of alcohol can help lead to daily sexual intercourse.
  • Avoiding the use of contraceptives can significantly increase the odds of conceiving a child.
  • Australian men really, really like participating in these kinds of studies.
    
    
• And speaking of children, I took my kid to go see the new Pixar animated feature UP the other day. Pretty good flick. I liked it. I give it a thumbs up and a recommendation.
  
  But one thing really stood out to me almost from the beginning of the movie. The character Russell has an amazing resemblance to a local KC blogger. See if you agree. Here's a pic of the character from the movie.
  And here's a pic of someone who, in my opinion, could have been separated from Russell.
  So whadyathink Internet? Am I right or am I right.
  


• And speaking of uncanny resemblances (and movies), Sacha Baron Cohen's latest joint, Bruno, is set to open in theaters on July 10. Judging by the trailers, it's pretty much the same thing we saw in Borat, but instead of a fictitious moronic Kazakh journalist making fun of people, it's a fictitious moronic Austrian gay male supermodel making fun of people.
  
  Pretty derivative, since the whole moronic male supermodel thing was done to death by Ben Stiller in Zoolander eight years ago.
  
  
• And speaking about being done to death, it seems like celebrities are dropping like flies these days. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson (if you believe the media stories) Billy Mays... they all make it seem like being a celebrity is a death sentence anymore.
  
  The truth is, being a human is a death sentence. And I've got news for you, there are going to be more and more frequent celebrity deaths in the years ahead. You see in our celebrity-obsessed culture we're suffering from a glut of "celebrities." It's getting to the point that, not far in the future, everyone will be a celebrity.
  
  C'mon people, have some standards. Having an internet video show doesn't make you a celebrity.


• And speaking of internet video, Bloomberg reported the other day that popular programs like The Simpsons are now commanding higher advertising rates on websites like Hulu.com and TV.com than they are on prime time television.
  
  It looks like advertisers are getting wise to the facts that a) people just skip through the ads on the DVR/Tivo, and 2) people actively seeking out content online are loyal fans and more valuable as an audience than people passively watching content on TV.

tagged: Bullitt, movies, Up, Bruno, Zoolander, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Stiller, Ben Stiller, pop culture, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Hulu, TV, The Simpsons