In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

If you’ve turned on the radio in the past couple years, you’ve probably heard of Kanye West. You probably know he’s a rapper and a producer. If you’ve opened a People magazine or scoped out any one of a bajillion celebrity blogs, you probably also know that he’s quite the flashy dresser, one with with a penchant for animal skins. You probably don’t know, however, that he’s also a genius robot of Biblical proportions. It’s true, and lucky for us, we have the foremost Kanye expert, Kanye, to elucidate in this excerpt from his interview with Tim Westwood:

“I’m doing pretty good as far as geniuses go…I’m a robot… I’m going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain…They feel like, yo, you know ‘he’s got a God complex, because he said if they wrote the Bible again that he would be in it’. Duh, yeah, I would be in it.”

Whadda guy, right? Since the technology does not yet exist for us to gift Kanye with another Kanye to kiss and caress under the twinkling splendor of thousands of LED fireflies hovering majestically over an arena of similarly Kanye-besotted, hair-stroking, eye-gazing Kanyes, let us instead present the following ostentatious suggestions, suitable for use by only the finest of fartknockers:

Creator and producer of Old People News, Kevin Maher, passed along this account of a recent night out on the town with Lynne Rogers (Dolly) at NYC’s Iron Mule Film Festival:

Last week the cast and crew of Old People News were invited to New York City’s Iron Mule Film Festival to screen some episodes of “The Tech Report.” The videos were a hit, playing on a screen nearly 20,000 times the size of a computer monitor. The audience favorites were “Text Message Glossary” and the “Kickstarter” episode (even though some filmmakers admitted it hit pretty close to home.)

After the episode screening, the festival’s co-hosts interviewed actress Lynne Rogers (OPN’s co-anchor Dolly) and director Kevin Maher. When asked about her expertise with computer technology, Lynne admitted, “This is all new to me,” adding, “I can’t get the printer to work.” Kevin kept the evening rolling with a reading of some of the charmingly out-of-touch in-character tweets from the official Old People News twitter feed.

During the after-party, Lynne sipped some white wine and mingled with fans, many of whom recognized her from her 7 years on TV’s Guiding Light (soap fans will remember Lynne as Marie Grant, her husband played by James Lipton.) Co-anchor Arthur Anderson was not able to attend due to a gig in North Carolina. He was appearing in a staged reading of A Christmas Carol, in which he reprised the role of “The Ghost of Christmas Past.” Arthur first played the specter at age 16, in Orson Welles’ radio production of the holiday classic.

At the end of the night, Lynne remarked that the film festival was great fun, noting that the animated documentary The Guarantee was “marvelous.” But, she added, “Old People News was the best.” OPN’s curmudgeon field reporter Robert Ankers remarked that the evening’s line-up was “okay.”

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For the next twelve days we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

Daniel Radcliffe was 12 when he became inexorably identified as Harry Potter. Sure, there are some real benefits to being the star of one of the most profitable, omnipresent entertainment properties of all time. His great-great-grandchildren are going to be set for life. I wondered, what would you get the boy who lived (with everything he ever wanted)? With a little insight, some gutsy guessing, and a little old-fashioned google stalking, here are the 5 presents we know, deep down, Daniel wants more than anything else this Holiday season.

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For the next twelve days we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

Happy Holidays, everyone. For our first gift guide of 2010, we’re going to help you pick up an item for man of the moment, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. It’s been a huge year for our buddy Julian, what with blowing up the spot on basically All The Secrets, dodging international police, and still maintaining a bomb-ass luxurious head of silky white hair.

So, what to get for the man who’s willing to give away everything? Here are a couple humble suggestions, for all you Wikileaks fans out there, though if anyone from Interpol wants to set up a Wile E. Coyote style trap, these would also look perfect sitting on a silver platter next to an anvil balanced on a stick.

Congratulations to Owen Benjamin, Pete Holmes, Kyle Kinane, Natasha Leggero, Kurt Metzger, Chelsea Peretti and Reggie Watts for making it to Comedy Central’s Hot List, their yearly list of break-out comedians. And we’d like to give particular shouts out to Pete Holmes, Natasha Leggero, and Owen Benjamin, who are all part of, or will soon join the Atom family.

First off, Pete Holmes has starred in absurdist Atom hits Hotel and Doctor with Matt McCarthy. For all you true fans, we’ll be rolling brand 8 new episodes of Doctor starting December 20th. Here he is giving the patient some bad news.

TV’s Natasha Leggero (and the hilarious Duncan Trussell) created Patriot Dog and hosted an episode of Atom TV. They’ll be back with more in 2011, and we’re definitely looking forward to it.

Finally the new kid on the Atom block is Owen Benjamin. We can’t reveal exactly what we’re doing with Owen quite yet, but check back soon for more details as soon as we can tell you.

Not too shabby, friends. This top 10 is full of life and hilarity. One might even call it robust, in it’s comedic clout. Our number one slot goes to the thenetwerk.com, but they’re in good company. Hit the jump to see the rest of their fine competitors.

And check out our facebook page to join the discussion and promote your video. Last week I asked for shout-out suggestions, and we liked Buffalo Bill’s Famous Chicken so much, we gave it an atom pick! You too can earn fame, fortune, and atom.com T-shirts, all in the Atom Tournament.

Sometimes, Voldemort just needs a break from keeping track of Horcruxes and forced smalltalk with those gabby Deatheaters. What place could offer more of a change of pace from castle-heavy and mist-addled Britain than the neon-saturated, hyper-speed, taxi blare of Times Square? It’s a great place to stock up on foam Statue of Liberty crowns, taxi-print novelty socks and Broadway shot glasses, and, just for a second, to escape the mundanities of trying to destroy all that is good in the world.

We comb the site looking for the funniest, oddest, most outstanding videos in the Tournament and honor them with our highest award: The Atom Pick. Winners get a cool $500 in addition to any other top plays awards they may earn.

Tensions may be high around your dinner table, but I doubt your Father wants to make anyone into a skin-dress.  Cue Buffalo Bill’s Famous Chicken, our newest Atom Pick…

Thanks to a recent episode of Old People News you know that if there’s one thing the elderly require, it’s that their Kindle orgies have a bit of pizazz. And if there’s two things the elderly require, it’s Kindle orgies and “Murder, She Wrote.” Seriously, they can’t get enough of either.

After some careful research, allow me to present our newest game: “Murder, She Wrote” or Kindle Erotica.

Take a look at the following list. Some are titles from “Murder, She Wrote” episodes, some are erotica available for the Kindle, and some are both. For full marks, figure out which is which and show your work.

1. A Little Night Work

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): A: Murder, She Wrote. Bet you thought this was about a prostitute, huh? Sadly, no. It’s about a jewel thief or something. Yawn. Although, according to IMDB, Angela Lansbury gets “wooed,” so there is the potential for some steamy geriatric action, if that’s your bag.

2. Double Exposure

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): C: Both. In “Murder” land, “Double Exposure” is about mistaken identity and death and old people and Boston. In erotica land, “Double Exposure” is about mistaken identity and airplanes and sexy twins and sexy sex.

3. The Dark Garden

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): B: Erotica. A classic BSDM fairy tale about the loves and lives of a star-crossed dominant and submissive.

4. Playing With Fire

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): B: Erotica. There are approximately a bajillion erotic books with this title. Take your pick.

5. The Sins Of Castle Cove

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): A: Murder, She Wrote. In this episode, a book gets released that foreshadows a murder. Someone gets murdered–can you believe it?

6. Tainted Lady

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): A: Murder, She Wrote. Yet another prostitute tease! This one is about poison, though. Get it? Tainted? Yeah. Poisoned diner food, or something. Old people love diners.

7. A Body To Die For

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): C: Both. This title combines two American pastimes, and the crux of our list: murder and sex. Everybody wins!

8. Spirit’s Release

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): B: Erotica. The basis of this book is that you can evoke ghosts by having sex. I’m going to let Amazon’s description speak for itself: “she wants to use his body for paranormal research…and use it hard.”

9. Bloodlines

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): C: Both. The “Murder” plot line is super hoity-toity with racehorses and lavish weddings and people named Noble. The erotica title refers to gay wolf shape-shifters. I’m not making this stuff up.

10. Nailed

a. Murder, She Wrote

b. Erotica

c. Both

Answer (highlight to reveal): C: Both. This one seems obvious for erotica, but that wiley ole Jessica takes a stab at it, too. “Murder’s” description is so long and so confusing and so poorly punctuated, that all I gleaned was that it involves bloody knives and hairdressers, oh my. The erotica, on the other hand, is much more straightforward: the cover art usually says it all.

The newest member of the Comedy Central Records family, MC Mr. Napkins, makes his debut today with his new album MC Mr. Napkins: The Album (get it on iTunes or on Amazon). Share his jams on your blog (or your facebook profile, or, you know, anywhere), with the widget below:

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