
Excuse Me, But I Need To Be Alone For A Few Moments
While looking for a good photo of Carrie Fisher for yesterday’s Star Wars anniversary post, I stumbled across these.

While looking for a good photo of Carrie Fisher for yesterday’s Star Wars anniversary post, I stumbled across these.

Tina Fey got glammed up* for an Esquire photo shoot, and had this to say:
“The idea of the photo shoot is something like my wild night out. The irony being that I don’t do that. I got an e-mail [from Esquire] with a list of the potential setups, and my e-mail back was like, Well, I need to decline being handcuffed to a bed. I won’t straddle anyone. I won’t make out with a cop. There are certain things, I totally get them as a premise. And they’re all good fun, and if I were a young single model, they would be appropriate, but, you know, I’m a mom. And my kid’s going to find this someday. I don’t want to be handcuffed to a bed in Esquire. What are you nuts? I’m not going to make out with a cop that I’m handcuffed to. I got to get my kid into kindergarten. I guess that’s more of a Montessori way of learning, when they handcuff you to things.”
And THIS, in a nutshell, is my objection to people having babies. As my friend Dave put it:
Parenthood. It makes funny people less funny.
Also less likely to be photographed handcuffed to a bed.
*Really, Tina, after fifty or so sexed-up magazine photo spreads it’s okay to just go ahead and admit that you’re hot.

Here are some of the search phrases currently bringing people to Thiel-a-Vision:
The top entry, with 13 hits, is “Batman digs this day.” Ironically, my use of that phrase was itself a reference to the blog that they’re actually trying to find.
“Dave Thiel” is second with seven hits, and “Spock” is third with four. “Sarah Jane Simth” brought three people here, despite the misspelling.
“Neil Patrick Harris penis” is holding strong with three hits, even though the only discussion of “Neil Patrick Harris penis” to be found here is my fascination with the people who come here looking for “Neil Patrick Harris penis.” I really, really can’t help you.
There were also three hits for “hotbabes at the doctor,” which I’m fairly certain one cannot find here, and two for “Tina Fey in fishnets,” which one can, in fact, find here. Twice.
My favorite search phrase, without question, is the following: “who did the fucking artwork for the star wars unleashed leia figure and no i don’t want any ebay fucking ad.” That’s someone working out their frustration via Google, that is. I will bet that search took him to a lot of eBay ads.
By the way, I don’t know who did the fucking artwork for the Star Wars Unleashed Leia figure. My guess it’s the same person who did the art for the rest of the line. Hope that helps.

One of the benefits of my new blogging home is that now I get web stat reports. And my favorite feature is the list of search terms that brought folks to my humble page.
The current top term, with 20 hits, is “dave thiel.” “Tina fey” received eight hits. My recent post regarding the trailer for The Bike King and the Ten Commandments snagged another eight hits under different search permutations.
Other notable terms: “the watchmen blue penis” (two hits), “legion of super ticklish” (two more), and “the seven faces of dr lao hulu” (one hit).
But my favorite is the last one on the list, a completely inexplicable entry that reads: “star wars create your own jedi knight trained by obi won made from lego and play it not a video game and you can play it.”
So, to whomever it was who desperately searched the World Wide Web for “star wars create your own jedi knight trained by obi won made from lego and play it not a video game and you can play it” and wound up here, welcome. I hope that you found what you were looking for.

Okay, one more Hulu clip, this time from last week’s 30 Rock. This excerpt is from the gang’s attempt to make Tracy believe he’s in outer space, but that’s not why I’m highlighting it.
I could watch Liz’s Muppet walk all day.

I’ve been too busy to blog lately, what with the pledge drive in full swing. So instead, please enjoy this fine Vanity Fair article about Tina Fey. (Especially the photo on page one! Thank you, Alec Baldwin, for encouraging Fey to unbutton.)

Here’s the season finale of 30 Rock, entitled “Cooter.” That’s Tina Fey’s favorite euphemism for the female hoo-hoo, but here it’s doubly appropriate as Liz has a pregnancy scare and Jack meets his new, unfortunately-nicknamed boss in the fading, sorely-in-denial Bush Administration. A bag of Spanish cheese curls–whose name translates to “Taste of Solitude”–figures into the plot, as does a box of pen caps, a porn video game, a secret military project and a trip to the Beijing Olympics.
And just why does Liz’ new boss keep a toy car in her mouth?

Two photos from last Thursday’s 30 Rock episode, “Sandwich Day.” On the left, Liz Lemon uses television magic to make her best impression on an old boyfriend. On the right, she reminisces about staying up late in college, drawing D&D maps: “And behind this trap door, more orcs. That’ll really piss off Semihr.”
Guess which one I like better?


Actually, the red dress wins. But frizzy DM Liz comes close!
