Seth Madej : Writer | Producer | Comedian - Latest Comments

Re: World, I Wrote a New Girl

Slappy White — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:51:44 -0000

Can we read it somewhere?

Re: Long Live NotFoolingAnybody.com

Seth Madej — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:06:15 -0000

Thanks for the research and the tip, DoW. I'm going to investigate.

Re: Long Live NotFoolingAnybody.com

DogsOfWar — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:16:46 -0000

According to the Internet Archive's Way Back Machine this guy should have some answers. http://www.tesg.org/

You can see the site as it was here:
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

Then go to the "Field Guide" for where the names are.

Re: Thanks for Giving Those Monkeys All That Money

almondemy — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:56:07 -0000

Thanks for sharing this, Seth. This looks like a fantastic site! I want to be a patron of the sciences!!

Re: Camp De-Cap-A-Lot Has Reopened

geneva — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:34:04 -0000

i bet u could get slasher trending on twitter

Re: Camp De-Cap-A-Lot Has Reopened

Larkinge08 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:31:32 -0000

but really need to find a way to bring it back

Re: Migrant Workers, Never Leaving Their Chairs

tonyrobots — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:46:49 -0000

Hey, thanks for the shout out, and the great post. One thing -- "Mechanical Turk" is actually a wonderfully apt name. It refers to the phony automaton created by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770. (Yes, I had to check wikipedia for those particular facts --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... ). It pretended to be a chess-playing robot, essentially, and wowed spectators until it was revealed to be hiding a person inside who was actually choosing the moves and operating the machine.

This Amazon service is similar, in that it presents a facade of automation (and the ease of integration with truly systematic processes that goes along with it) over actual human intelligence. In essence, it too is hiding a person in a machine.

Re: Better Off Seth

Monaleigh — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:54:23 -0000

At first, I wanted to thank you for letting us know that there were unaired episodes of Better Off Ted on Netflix. Now that I watched them, I'm pissed at you for making me remember what an awesome show this was and that there aren't any more of them. Thanks, Seth.

Re: The Lost Art of My Storage Locker

kathleen peterson — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:23:37 -0000

I knew George Peck back in the late '70s--one amazing abstract painter. The surface and color fields he created --always made me think more of Rothko than Kelly. You are very lucky to have those fine fine paintings --hope you get to hang them again -- they should be out and on view!

Re: Camp De-Cap-A-Lot Has Reopened

Javier — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:25:31 -0000

Bring it back!!!!!!!!

Re: World, I Wrote a New Girl

almondemy — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:36:24 -0000

Cool! I am not a watcher of this show, but I would watch an episode you had written!

Re: “We Make Home Possible”

Seth Madej — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:06:06 -0000

Thanks for your comment.

1) Since 2008 Freddie Mac has been under federal government conservatorship in the purview of Federal Housing Finance Agency, making it, for all intents and purposes, a government agency.

2) Thanks for catching that mistake, which was sloppiness on my part. I copied the wrong name from my source. Freddie Mac's CEO is Charles Halderman, but both he and Michael Williams had a 2011 target salary of $6 million.

Re: “We Make Home Possible”

Someone — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:43:49 -0000

1. Freddie Mac is not a government agency. Freddie Mac is a private corporation.
2. Mike Williams is the CEO of Fannie Mae, not Freddie Mac.

Re: All We Have Left

Lisa Beebe — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:39:33 -0000

I read that book a million years ago, and I still think about it sometimes.

Re: Are You a Man? Are You a Bag of Sand?

Tom Chao — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:37:06 -0000

I can't say I love this song, but to show solidarity with you, I'll admit it's catchy (whenever I hear it on KCRW).

Re: What We Don’t Know About Food is Killing Our Kids

Seth Madej — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:34:18 -0000

Theoretically a good point, except that most anything that's added to a dish that's not the main ingredient is a "flavor enhancer." Sodium chloride is the quintessential flavor enhancer. Bacon is a flavor enhancer. So are cumin, sugar, vegetable stock, and lemon juice.

Those types of flavor enhancers aren't used because cooking has removed the flavor. They're used because cooking is a process of adding flavor. And disodium inosinate isn't a lab-created chemical, but a fruit or animal extract (depending on how it's made) that's been used for centuries to boost umami. Is it somehow better or worse than any other flavor enhancer?I actually don't know the answer to that or whether or not disodium inosinate should go into food. I'm just pointing out the complexities to these things.

Re: What We Don’t Know About Food is Killing Our Kids

Paul B. — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:12:25 -0000

I'm going to go with the crazies on, "disodium inosinate" even though there reasoning was lame. Flavor enhancers are there because flavor is not. Remove the process that eliminated the flavor and you will remove the need for them. It's a bad sign that disodium inosinate is in the food.

Re: Camp De-Cap-A-Lot Has Reopened

maddie — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:35:21 -0000

miss this so much

Re: The Greatest Thing to Ever Come Out of the Vatican

Fred Kahl — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:04:58 -0000

Woah! Thanks, this is awesome!

Re: Camp De-Cap-A-Lot Has Reopened

mhardley — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:42:20 -0000

i think someone YOU should turn this into a app for iPhone and Android.

Re: Prehistoric Favstar: Thank-You Notes of the Rich and Famous

Emily M. — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:28:00 -0000

Thank you, Seth. Okay, it totally comes off as disengenuous to say thank you in the comments of your post about people not saying thank you. And I'm not saying thank you because you want to hear it. Thank you because this is true, and while we don't do things for gratitude, it is about being thoughtful and aware of people around you, and it connnects us to each other. I connected with this post a lot. So, thank you. :)

Re: Camp De-Cap-A-Lot Has Reopened

Melody Lynn47 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:46:20 -0000

BRING THE GAME BACK PLEASE

Re: A Literary Kidney Stone, Passed

Rob Sheridan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:58:01 -0000

This is AWESOME.

Re: #SethBuyMeLunch Lunch No. 14

Seth Madej — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:13:37 -0000

I don't do interviews. Just these recaps of the lunches.

Re: #SethBuyMeLunch Lunch No. 14

Questioner — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:38:31 -0000

Where is the interview?