Mass media sellouts

So yeah, now that we were on TV we are all too busy taking lunch meetings at Spago to update the site. All in all, our Attack of the Show profile went off about the best we could have expected, considering the show’s target audience. I’d say it was a fairly benign appearance and it didn’t make us look stupid. This has nothing to do with the fact that we did garner the top spot, after all. There were a few factual misrepresentations – I’m completely unaware of our supposed nationwide skatepark rating system. Maybe they were thinking of different site. Commentary, video clips of the entire segment, and the Skate and Annoy proflie with a special outtakes segement exclusive to SnA after the jump.

Skate and Annoy featured on Attack of the Show

Even though it makes us feel cheap and used afterwards, we enjoyed our first TV appearance if only because it gives a chance to recursively analyze ourselves analyzing others representing ourself in the mainstream media. Wha…? It’s the old pointing the video camera at an external monitor phenomena.

Sleestak featured on Skate and Annoy being featured on Attack of the Show

Sleestsk.net got a little sideways promotion as well when the producers of Attack of the Show chose to highlight a Sleestock 07 post. That was a nice surprise. I’d say it was too bad Sleestak’s web address wasn’t visible, but it would have gone against Bobcat’s policy of double secret probation anyway.

Attack of the Show: Skateboarding blogs

Even if we weren’t featured on this program we would have captured and commented about it provided we caught it. It’s clear that the hosts don’t skate, so you’ll have to take their claims to have “favorite skate blogs” with a grain of salt. Also featured were Strange Notes and Caught in the Crossfire. I wonder if the producers know that Strange Notes is less a skate zine and more NHS’s company newsletter. No matter, there is still a lot of skateboarding content there. TV personality and internet tart Olivia Munn heckles host Kevin-something (there’s a guy on the show too?) for over pronouncing Steve Caballero’s name, and then goofs on him for being a rollerblader. He may be an ex-rollerblading, but at least he pronounced our name right. It was painful listening to Olivia mangle “Skate AND annoy.” Or at least it was painful until I was distracted by her cleavage. Pretty. Olivia proves (sorta) her cred by claiming to be in the know as far as “thrashing” and zines, mostly without embarrassing herself. Caught in The Crossfire looks like a slick commercial sight now. I remember when it was more of an arty (and slow loading) experiment in flash programming. Looks like they’ve really changed gears and picked up the pace over there.

Here’s the entire segment, including the teaser before the commercial that also features Skate and Annoy. If you just want to see the Skate and Annoy specific parts or our exclusive outtakes, scroll down. Of course there are the official Attack of the Show videos as well. You can even download and save them at a higher quality than YouTube displays. (Actually, according to the RSS feed, the skateboarding segment doesn’t appear to downloadable yet. Viewable? Yes. Downloadable? No.)

UPDATE: Got pulled from Yotube, now its on RuTube. Slower, and buggy, but still there!

Skate and Annoy featured on Attack of the Show

With out takes on the end.

Skate and Annoy exclusive outtakes from Attack of the Show

Err.. Just the outttakes, in case you don’t want to sit through the show again.

Olivia Munn

What’s the deal with Olivia Munn? I mean, besides my admitted (and temporary) infatuation with her in the out takes. But how can you blame me when her own web site has a masthead that draws a circle around something that I’m assuming she wants us to look at.