The Daily Steakfry: 9/20/11

**This should be the central feature of my blog (unless I magically find time to write longer things). It will simply be a rundown of the day's pop culture news, plus maybe a quick review of something or a music recommendation. I'm still looking for a good title, and I'll be trying things out every day (like today's dumb one). Suggestions are universally loved.**

This took me a long time to write (hey, I'm out of the habit), so the news will span like two days.

The Emmys Fallout: I usually find news for this rundown by reading the Entertainment section of Google News. Today, that's dominated by the Emmys. Yeah, it's annoying.

Jon Huntsman Makes Kurt Cobain Reference in GOP Debate: This guy is hip as shit. I like him more all the time.

Michaele Salahi in a relationship with Journey guitarist: This last straw just made me wish I had never heard the name "Salahi". But then her husband, Tareq, weighed in on the issue, calling her a "groupie slut", and revealing some new information on said guitarist Neal Schon: "This was the lewdist, most disgusting thing I had seen. And I didn't understand, why in the world would Neal Schon be sending a picture of his penis to us." TMI? Maybe, but it does remind me how entertaining this family has always been.

REM splits up: Can't say anything snarky about this. It just sucks.

Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes are romantically entangled: He's too good for her.

Jane Lynch says she might not want to host Emmys again: Has anyone offered it to her?

Song I'm Into Today:
I recently read Jonathan Safan Foer's Everything Is Illuminated (huge recommend), and it made me realize how bad the movie was (I had already seen it before reading the book). Even when I first saw the movie I was unimpressed with the performance of Eugene Hutz. But I think's it's clear that he's a much better musician than an actor, and I'm really into his band Gogol Bordello lately. This song is cool.

What should my daily rundown be called?

I want to do some kind of daily post where I go through some news stories of the day and then do a quick review (often rant) of something, anything, in pop culture. I need a name for it. If there's someone reading this, send me suggestions! Meanwhile, I guess I'll just try things out, one every day. And I guess this will be my first one. Chill.

Why Not Zoidberg relaunches! Obviously huge news in the obscure pop culture blog world.

Julianna Margulies is trending on Google News: Oh, were the Emmys last night? Whoops.

The Emmys were last night: Yup, I didn't watch. To me, the point of awards shows is nothing more than validate one's own opinion about what is being awarded. Sure, that can be fun sometimes (why do you think I read all those glowing articles about The Big Lebowski?), but I don't need to give up 3 hours of my life while I could be watching my Eagles implode just for that. That kind of validation is why I have you readers!

Patrick Swayze Dies: I think it's finally not "too soon" anymore to talk about it.
Pancreas.
Lolz.

Netflix Breakup: I was thinking about starting to get the DVD service again, but no way am I paying for something called "Qwikster". I would just be embarrassed to have those envelopes in my mailbox. Especially with how classy the Netflix logo is (beautiful). In case you haven't heard about the breakup, because the story does seem to be pretty under-covered, you can read all up here.)

New TV Shows are Premiering: Haven't watched anything yet. May do some new show for my daily review sometime.

Daily Review of the Day - The Lion King (3D re-release)
If you looked at this week's box office charts, you would see a familiar name at the top of the list - from 17 years ago. The Lion King was recently re-released, this time to be better, bolder and 3Der. I am so anti-this. Look, it's a great movie, don't think that that's my complaint. But it's been a great movie for 17 years, and it shouldn't take a money-grubbing 3Difying retrofitting to put it back into the public focus. Didn't everybody get upset when it was announced that they would be doing this for Star Wars? The Lion King is a great movie. But it already was 17 years ago, in good old 2D.

Relaunch, Sweet, Relaunch

Guess who's back! No, you probably can't because of my radically improved writing skills. So I still have the mindset that when there's a platform to write shit, it's ungrateful to not do that. Yeah, I've been pretty self-loathing the last few months. But you have no idea how invigorating it is to finally be writing underneath a banner that has a non-terrible blog title and on a design that doesn't look like it was made by a sixth grade girl on Myspace in 2003. Okay, well I guess it still looks a little bit like a Myspace page. But totally in a good way... right???
Anyhoo, I do hope to start updating the blog more regularly, at least than I've been doing since I stopped updating the blog at all. Hopefully I'll be snarkier now. Who knows...

But, if you're looking for a hip pop culture blog, then... WHY NOT ZOIDBERG???

(PS: That ending was awful and I apologize. Please stick with me.)