Weeds Season 5 Premieres Tonight

The Blot’s never talked about Showtime’s Weeds before here on The Blot Says..., but it’s not because I don’t love the half hour comedy. In fact, it’s one of Aly’s and my favorite shows. The problem is we still don’t have Showtime even though it has definitely surpassed HBO with the quality of its original programming. You can’t talk about great television nowadays without discussing Showtime’s Dexter, Weeds, Californication, The Tudors, United States of Tara and even its newest show, Nurse Jackie.


Since we don’t have Showtime, we’re forced to watch Weeds on DVD and end up always being a season behind. So while everyone else will starting Season 5 tonight, Aly and I will be starting Season 4 (or we will be once we rent/purchase the Weeds Season 4 DVD box set). If you do have Showtime make sure you tune in tonight for the season premiere of Weeds, and if you don’t then check out Season 1 on DVD. You definitely won’t be sorry you did.

Weeds Season 5 premieres Monday, June 8, 2009 on Showtime at 10/9c.

F.Y.I - The Blot is actually going to be out of town the rest of this week but don’t worry, I've set up some automated posts for the rest of this week. A little travel can’t keep me from commenting on the latest and greatest in pop culture!

Threadless - “Heartless” Wizard of Oz T-Shirt

The Blot can remember a time in elementary school when all I read was Wizard of Oz books. I just devoured them. At the time, I even found myself liking that horrible Wizard of Oz sequel Disney produced, Return to Oz. I’ve seen it more recently, and unfortunately the sequel does not stand the test of time like the original The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. Because of that childhood love for all things Oz, I was excited to see Threadless produce this Oz themed t-shirt last week.

Heartless by Juan Carlos Bueno

How funny and creative is this shirt!?! I love how it re-imagines Dorothy’s motley crew as an armed gang cruising the streets in a ruby red sports car. The details on the car are great, including the Oz emblem on the car’s grill and the Wicked Witch of the West decal on the side. I guess the Tin Man has finally decided if he can’t get a heart, steal one.

Heartless retails for $18 and can be purchased directly from Threadless here.

The 2009 NBA Finals - Lakers vs. Magic

The Blot’s been waiting for the start of the 2009 NBA Finals for what feels like forever now. While I’ve hated the long hiatus, it’s probably been a really good thing for my beloved Lakers since they were looking extremely worn out after playing every other day for two weeks. I am happy that the Finals are not the Kobe v. Lebron dream match-up that the NBA, Nike and Vitamin Water were all hoping it would be.


While I loved Nike’s Kobe and Lebron puppet commercials, let’s be honest, for all of Lebron James’ accolades he is no Kobe Bryant. I hate how everyone and their mother compares Lebron to Michael. If anything he should be compared to A.I. Like Iverson, Lebron scores a ton, won an MVP award and got his team to the finals...once. But in the end he just can’t win the big one. But enough about Prince James…


With Cleveland’s loss to Orlando, the Lakers now have home court advantage. While that is a huge advantage for LAL, I’d almost rather be playing the Cavs because the Lakers match-up so much better against them than the Magic. That isn’t to say I’m worried about Dwight Howard and co., but they are harder to defend with their two highly talented swingmen, Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu. Plus, Orlando swept the Lakers in the only two games they played against each other this year.

But I’m not worried because the Lakers have the greatest coach in NBA history, the zen-master Phil Jackson. I could go on and on making arguments for why Los Angeles should dominate this series, but if it were that easy to predict they wouldn’t need to play the games. So I'll just leave it at that and we’ll see what happens in just a few short hours.

The 2009 NBA Finals start tonight, Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 9/8c on ABC.

Burn Notice Season 3 Premieres Tonight - Official Trailer & Poster

Burn Notice, one of The Blot’s favorite television shows, returns tonight (June 4th) on USA with all new episodes! It should be an interesting season now that Michael Westen has finally freed himself from the clutches of the nefarious black-ops organization that had him burned. But, what sort of trouble lies ahead for Michael, Fi and Sam now that they are no longer under the protection of Carla and her goons?!? Only time will tell!


Since we still have a few hours to kill before the show's season premiere, check out this awesome trailer for Burn Notice Season 3 set to ZZ Tops' "Sharp Dressed Man":



Burn Notice Season 3 will air Thursdays on the USA Network at 9/8c.

Custom Skullhead 10 Inch Mad'l Set by Huck Gee

Before anyone gets too excited from seeing the title of this post, these amazing hand painted custom 10” Mad’ls by Huck Gee are long gone. Sadly they were released for sale on Huck’s eBay store as soon as they were announced through Huck's e-mail newsletter and sold out instantly. But aren’t they awesome!?! If only I had a sick amount of money to blow on designer vinyl toys, because if I did I would have an amazing Huck Gee Skullhead collection. I just love this character.


Evidently, Huck Gee has had a couple cases of 10” Mad’ls sitting around for a while now and finally decided to do something simple and clean with them. The Surprise 10” Skullhead Mad’l set has a limited edition run size of 10 figures and each figure was sold for $400! Oh yeah, the original Save Huck 5" Mad’l shown in the picture above was only included in the picture for size comparison.

Hi-Def OG Colorway by kaNO

ToyQube is preparing to release kaNO’s 2nd Hi-Def vinyl figure. The Hi-Def OG colorway is the follow up to NYCC's very popular Black Edition Hi-Def and it will soon be available for pre-order at ToyQube.com.


The OG Hi-Def is 10 inches of fully articulated vinyl and comes equipped with records and a gray M-65 jacket. kaNO’s Hi-Def OG colorway is limited to just 200 pieces and will sell for $75 each. The Blot actually likes this colorway much better than the Black on Black New York Comic Con exclusive figure because it’s easier to see all the amazing detail work on Hi-Def’s body. This is definitely another great figure by kaNO!

Johnny Cupcakes x The Wizard Power Mitt T-Shirt

Johnny Cupcakes rocked the 80’s nostalgia once against last Saturday night by hosting a screening of The Wizard at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Boston. (link) When The Blot was younger I was absolutely mesmerized by the Nintendo/video game inspired 1989 movie The Wizard starring Fred Savage. I am pretty sure every kid I knew back then wanted, no needed a Nintendo Power Glove controller after seeing the movie. To be honest, I even still have mine, although it doesnt quite fit right anymore.


To coincide with the screening of The Wizard, JC created some limited edition, numbered posters and debuted his upcoming Johnny Cupcakes Power Mitt t-shirts (see below). I’ve gotta get my hands one of these awesome Nintendo inspired shirts!


The Johnny Cupcakes x The Wizard Power Mitt t-shirts and posters are now on sale! The guys style Power Mitt shirts come in sizes S-XXL and can be purchased here for $35.99, while the girls style Power Mitt shirtrs come in sizes S-XL and can be purchased here also for $35.99. The Johnny Cupcakes x The Wizard posters have an edition size of 100, retail for $19.99 and can be purchased here.

Heidi Klum Screen Print by David Flores

The Blot is super busy and sick, what a horrible combination! Plus I have to make a return trip to the dentist this morning, which I absolutely abhor, but enough about me. Yesterday was German supermodel Heidi Klum’s birthday and in honor of such a monumental event I thought I’d highlight David Flores’ newly released screen print of Mrs. Seal (it went on sale yesterday, Monday June 1st). It’s a little risqué, but I think even Aly would like it since she’s obsessed with the Klum hosted Project Runway.


“Klum” is available now at the Something Ill online store in two different colorways. The Green Klum print sells for $40, is 18”x24”, features two colors and has an Edition Size of 18 (with 12 still remaining). The much cooler 18”x24” Pink Klum print (which you can see above) is a 7 color screen print and also has an Edition Size of 18. But, the Pink Klum print retails for $70 and there are only 7 prints remaining, so if you want one hop to it! While it doesn’t say it, I assume both prints come signed and numbered by David Flores.

Threadless - “Magic Mushrooms” Super Mario Bros. T­-Shirt

Magic Mushrooms has officially become The Blot’s all time favorite Threadless shirt. It has now ripped the title away from Dark Side of the Garden. Seriously though, how cool is this Super Mario Bros. spoof? Any Nintendo or Super Mario Bros. fan will absolutely love this tee! What a creative idea depicting the “dark side” of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Magic Mushrooms by Ian Summers

As you can tell from the photo above, Magic Mushrooms depicts Mario purchasing a bag of powerful ‘shrooms from Toad with a gold coin. Pure evil genius! What I want to know is are the mushrooms “1 Up” green mushrooms or “Power Up” orange/brown mushrooms?

Magic Mushrooms retails for $18 and can be purchased directly from Threadless here.

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien Premieres Tonight

Tonight Conan O’Brien takes over the hosting duties of NBC’s The Tonight Show, the third longest running television program now in its 54th season. Conan is only the show’s fifth host ever, and he has some pretty big shoes to fill considering The Tonight Show has been hosted by four true legends in the television industry: Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.

I had a buddy ask me why I didn’t mention that last Friday was Jay Leno’s final show, and I think part of the reason was because Leno’s not going anywhere. It’s not like when Carson retired and he was never heard from again. With Leno just basically moving time slots (he’ll be hosting an all new show airing five days a week at 10/9c on NBC in the fall), his leaving of The Tonight Show has lost much of its luster. It’s really too bad his departure from The Tonight Show hasn't gotten more publicity, because as host for the past 17 years he has dominated the ratings and the competition. Oh well…Leno’s out and Conan’s in.

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien debuts tonight, Monday, June 1st, on NBC at 11:35/10:35c. Conan’s first guest will be Land of the Lost’s Will Ferrell and first musical guest will be Pearl Jam.