Thurdsday Nights Means one thing: New InfoMania!

plfields — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:34:50 +0000

If you are not familiar with Al Gore and Joe Hyatt’s Current TV, you should be. Anyone who considers themselves a tertiary consumer of information should tune in to the network for a perspective different form that of the main stream media. Indeed even if Al Gore did invent the internet, inventing Current TV is way more impressive. Their low-budget investigative journalism show Vanguard is Emmy nominated, but the real treasure on Current is InfoMania. A new episode airs tonight at 10 PM (9 PM central time). In case you are unfamiliar with the show it is basically in “the soup” format, but with jokes that aren’t just funny but also exceptionally poignant. Conor Knighton hosts starting the show off with the biggest clips of the week and also a magazine segment entitled We’ve Got You Covered. What ever madness the media has drummed up Conor is sure to expose it for the idiotic dribble it is with the most snide and unerring wit. However the show just keeps getting better. Ben Hoffman hosts the InfoMania editorial. It features him standing on a soapbox and berating whatever it is that is pissing him off that week. He also sometimes does the tech reports which are also hilarious. In one centered around the Wii Fit he exclaims, “well I have two resolutions for 2010. Get in shape and Interact with less people.” The latter resolution seems exactly the point of all our technical innovations. Why talk in person when you can call. Why call when you can text. Why text when you can just post on facebook. Soon babies will be born via the internet and come out of the womb attached to a computer chair. After Hoffman finishes berating us with his pessimism the incredibly dry Sergio Cilli explains why the top five videos or top fives songs pulled of either Itunes or some other big list are terrible. Once Sergio makes fun of what ever is dominating the radio Sarah Haskin normally reports in a segment entitled target women. Sarah deliciously tears apart the products and fads companies aim at women. Constantly playing a stereo typical self-conscious female while at the same time staying so sarcastic that even British people would find her cold. “When your a woman, happiness is only one purchase of away!” she chides in the 2009 “Retrospectacular.” Not surprisingly she is a Chicago native where the only thing chillier than the weather is peoples sense of humor. Anyways thats the end of this short post. I’m taking it easy on this on because InfoMania is almost on. I have to go find my favorite chair, necessary food stuffs, and veg-out. I suggest you tune in and do the same. If you don’t get Current TV run out and fire bomb your cable company. No just kidding. You can check it out hulu.com or current.com.

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Thurdsday Nights Means one thing: New InfoMania!