Beware! Time Home Entertainment Inc. and MAD Magazine Announce:

VIEW TO A SHILL (AGAIN!)

Inside MAD, An Ill-Conceived Collection of the Magazine’s 

High-Quality Stupidity from the “Usual Gang of Idiots” and Their Celebrity Fans. (Yep, I'm in the book too.) 

Features Special Introduction by Judd Apatow and 17 Celebrity Guest Essays

 On Sale October 29 Nationwide, But Tough To Find In Hoboken

For more than six decades, MAD Magazine's irreverent humor has warped the minds of countless readers. Now MAD's legendary writers, artists, and celebrity fans pull back the curtain, or lift up the venetian blinds, or some window treatment analogy like that, to share and comment on their favorite MAD spoofs of all time in Inside MAD (Time Home Entertainment Inc.; $29.95 Cheap!), on sale October 29, 2013 at retailers nationwide and under $22 (Cheaper!) at Amazon: www.insidemad.com.

Contrary to popular belief, not everyone who wasted their formative years reading MAD wound up as a complete failure. Despite having their minds irreversibly rotted by the magazine, some readers actually went on to be, well, successful! And now, for the first time ever, these successful readers share what reading and appearing in MAD meant to them! 

Roseanne Barr, Ken Burns, Dane Cook, Paul Feig, Whoopi Goldberg, Harry Hamlin, Tony Hawk, Ice-T, Penn Jillette, George Lopez, David Lynch, Todd McFarlane, Jeff Probst, John Slattery, John Stamos, Pendleton Ward and Matthew Weiner all ignored their management’s advice and contributed essays to Inside MAD.  

But wait—there’s more! (Regrettably.) To get the perspective of highly unsuccessful people too, MAD – an imprint of the much more successful DC Entertainment – invited its own editors, writers and artists to share their all-time favorite MAD articles.  Contributors include: Sergio Aragonés, Tom Bunk, Tim Carvell, Paul Coker, Jack Davis, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Mort Drucker, Mark Fredrickson, Drew Friedman, Frank Jacobs, Al Jaffee, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond and many more. (Not to be confused with noted writer Manny Moor.)

As a bonus, Inside MAD also features an all-new, specially-commissioned gatefold poster by Sergio Aragonés illustrating the mayhem of the legendary MAD offices and a never-before-reprinted Alfred E. Neuman pop art poster! 

Speaking from MAD’s international headquarters in midtown Manhattan, MAD Editor John Ficarra said, “Dammit, I told you not to call me here! I’m NOT paying you! Oh…er…excuse me. I thought you were someone else.”  

Inside MAD offers a rare look into the twisted minds of the writers and artists who have produced the magazine for the past 61 years.  The editors would like to say it’s illuminating and insightful, but unfortunately they can’t – they’ve read it.

Now you can add water to your music!

These fun Dancing Water Speakers dance to the beat of whatever music you play. There come with two cables. The USB cable supplies the power to the speakers from your computer or your own AC to USB adapter plug. The supplied audio cable plugs into one of the speakers and into the headphone jack of your iPhone, iPad, iPod, MP3 MP4 player, home computer, etc. Play any of your favorite tunes and let the party begin. Or just sit there and enjoy the fun yourself. The Dancing Water Speakers shoot water into the enclosed clear plastic mini-tower while dancing to the rhythm of your music. Multi-colored LED lights, reflect off the water as it pulsates creating many great visual effects. If you darken the room you’ll get neat reflections off a white or light colored ceiling. The Dancing Water Speakers are lightweight and portable. They were an instant hit to everyone I showed them too. In the Giz Wiz video I said they were about $40, but I just checked my receipt and they were under $36 at the Amazon link below. You get the two speakers, a USB cable for powering them, and an audio cable to hook them to your music source. For their size and price the sound is very decent, but I doubt if you would want them to be your everyday hardcore listening speakers.

Giz Wiz Video: http://youtu.be/jlwOZ6B1rk4

This is the link to the speakers I bought on Amazon and they were only $36 with free shipping for Amazon Prime Members:  http://amazon.com/dp/B00BUIVVH2/?tag=twnene-20  

(This is a TWiT link. If you decide to buy one, you pay the normal price and TWiT gets a pittance.)

See or hear this show: www.twit.tv/giz1419

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Can't Wait Until October! (But I'll have to.)

Had a dream come true recently. I got to co-host an evening of movie satires on Turner Classic Movies, sitting in one those famous red leather chairs, opposite the wonderful, knowledgeable Robert Osborne. (We're seen here with producer Sean Cameron.) We had a real fun time! It will air on Turner Classic Movies in October, 2013. When I have a firm air date, I'll post it. I brought an ages-old Alfred E. Neuman pin for Robert, and he was kind enough to wear it throughout the show. What us worry? It's a block of four movies, each with a different satirical take. Several of them may be on your list of favorite movie satires, but for sure I bet one of them is: This is Spinal Tap!

Hurricane Tape - lots of uses, hopefully a hurricane is not one of them!

I saw this tape at the 2013 National Hardware Show. They were showing a video of how a window protected by Hurricane Tape could break, but not send flying glass everywhere. The demo reminded me of a car windshield where a film holds on to the broken pieces of glass. Here's more info on this unique product from the company: Hurricane Tape's unique bi-directional weave pattern provides an extremely strong tear threshold. in fact it's 100 times stronger than a premium duct tape. Available in 1", 2" and 3" thicknesses. Hurricane tape is reinforced with a plastic substrate laminate to ensure the longevity of the product. The water-based, acrylic adhesive is ideal for application in cold and wet conditions. Features a clean release property for up to 7 days after application. Leaves no adhesion residue. Additional features include: - water and mold resistant - Adheres below water line with proper application - UV and Decay resistant - Color: white. It's widely available on places like Amazon, selling for $6 to $16 depending on width and size of the roll. It's from Bunker Industries.

http://www.bunkerinc.com/hurricane.htm