things blieden said

I live in a house with blieden. sometimes blieden says things that make me laugh. these are those things.

Apr 3
“I asked Aimee Mann today if anyone had ever told her that she has Mann boobs.” Blieden

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to the fans of things blieden said:

blieden has moved to new york city to work as a writer/director on late night with jimmy fallon.  though we are no longer roommates, we still keep in touch and we will continue to update the blog coast to coast.  

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Jan 25

I’ve been writing smut fiction on my cell phone only using predictive text. Here’s my first story.

This chick shows up at my door one day. I’d never net her before, but I could tell in an instant she was a dirty whose that wanted my massive coal. She was carrying a bag of groceries. “Are you hungry,” she asked. “Yes,” I said. “Hungry for puppy.” She grabbed my dial and thought I would bum. She wanted it in the app though, and I was more than happy to oblige. At some point her conscience kicked in and she said screamed out “Wait, you don’t have ages do you? Or herpes? Or arabs?” I actually did have arabs a week earler, but I took a bath in some oatmeal and they seemed to go away. But I distracted her by stroking her aliv till she began to moan like a whose.

A text message from Blieden

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Jan 15
“INT. MORGUE THEMED HOTEL - AFTERNOON
INT. TRIATHALON - NIGHT
EXT. PICNIC AREA/OPERATING ROOM - EVENING
INT. BAR-B-QUE SAUCE FACTORY - DAY
INT. HIGH FIVING CONTEST - NIGHT
INT. OLD DIRTY BASTARD’S DENTIST’S OFFICE - DAY
EXT. EMPTY BLACK VOID - MID AFTERNOON”
First Lines of Screenplays by Blieden

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I was just getting a coffee and I overheard some business people talking and I as I walked by this woman said “…their tax forms..” and for a second I thought she said “Bear Attacks forms.”  And my brain instantly accepted that there probably was such a form, and when someone is attacked by a bear at a state park, one of the rangers or park employees has to fill it out.  It would have the date of the attack, a map of the park where the ranger would make an X or something, and maybe an outline of a bald human form where you would place more X marks to indicate what areas were injured.  This in turn lead me to think it would be funny if instead of a bald human outline they had a black and white photo of Matt Lauer, and you had to X off on Matt Lauer where the hiker got attacked.  I also flirted with the idea of calling up a National Park to ask them if there are Bear Attack forms, but I was worried that they would know I was making fun of the idea of a Bear Attack and be offended.  Because really it’s nothing to laugh at.  So instead I just started googling for Bear Attack and found, of course, that someone posted something somewhere with the following headline: POLAR BEAR ATTACK! (warning, graphic pics!).

Now normally I do not click on links like this.  But for some reason I did, and I’m so happy, because it proves that there is good in this world.

Palin enthusiasts should note the actual reason for the post in the first place.


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Jan 14

I just set a google alert for the phrase “Michael Blieden’s face is so fucked up.”

I really hope I don’t get any of those alerts.

an E-mail from Blieden

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Jan 10

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Jan 9
“Erin and I were eating at the French place on Hillhurst and they really say bon appetit when they put the plate down on the table. It’s really french. Somehow I got this vision in my head that what if the custom were for the waiters to dump a bag of microwave popcorn all over your food as they say “Bon Appetit.” And they would do it with a real flair, you know, cuz it’s customary, and everyone loves that moment when the French watiers very elegantly dump the microwave popcorn on your meal. I was thinking they would do it with everything, no matter what you ordered. This occured to me while Erin and I were at the French place, right when she put the food down. And I might or might not have been stoned, but I will say that I literally could not speak for 15 minutes because I was laughing so hard. It got to the point where Erin was just sipping her wine quietly and trying not to be to embarrassed while I keeled over in my chair. And every 5 minutes or so I would compose myself just enough to say “Bon Appetit” and I would do a flourish with my right hand as if I was dumping popcorn, and doing the physical act would just shatter me with laughing spasms.

Here’s another comedy scenario. There’s a reporter and his editor and they’re running into a presidential news conference, and the editor gets an important call on the capitol steps so he can’t go inside. But he shouts out one important thing for his star reporter to ask President Obama, he needs to ask Obama for specifics on his plan to turn the economy around. Okay, here’s where it starts to get hilarious. There’s a construction crew working with a jackhammer on the sidewalk just outside the capitol building, so the reporter can’t hear that well, and he thinks that his editor said “Ask Obama for fishsticks.” Now, let me explain why something instantly ridiculous is about to happen. This reporter is a really good reporter. He has an expansive grasp of many subjects, and he has a mind like a steel trap. He’s also very earnest and tough with the politicians. His downfall is that he really needs direction, and looks to his editor a little to much to give him that initial nudge regarding how to frame a story. But once he gets that little push, once he accepts the premise of a question, he really knows how to deliver. So it’s a half hour later and Obama calls on him and he says, “Mr. President the American people want fishsticks.” There is an awkward silence and he continues even more determined. “I am talking about fishsticks Mr. President, and you have not been forthcoming as you promised. Now I am going to stand here and ask you to show us all the fishsticks that were the cornerstone of your campaign.” It flashes through Obama’s mind that maybe this is a joke, but he just can’t risk laughing at this reporter JUST IN CASE there is an actual fishsticks story that he doesn’t know about. He doesn’t even look over at his chief of staff Rahm Emmanual, but he can see Rahm whispering furiously into someone’s ear “find out what this fucking fishsticks thing is.” So Obama calls on someone else and they talk about Pakistan for about five minutes. Things get back to normal. But the reporter feels like he was ignored, so he raises his hand again. Obama knows what the guy wants to ask about, so he doesn’t call on him. And that’s how the scene ends. Obama is talking to every other reporter, ignoring our guy, and even though the conversation turns to single payer health care, and creating 3 million jobs, and Russian’s control of the gas pipeline to Eastern Europe, the elephant in the room is still the fishtsticks thing.

an email from Blieden

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Jan 5
“First movie that is actually a palindrome.” Blieden, on “The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button”

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Nov 25
“Have you put ‘dry t-shirt contest’ in the blog yet?” Blieden

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