How shocked they’d be to find that on so many issues we’re on the same page. The difference between us is that I plan on using something more, ummm… authoritative than an iPod to keep from being shoved into the cattle car.
Indeed. I’m sure the aging yuppies who are trying to sell hip to the teen masses had some sort of conservative Chimpy McHitlerburton disregarding the constitution blood for oil spiel burning a hole in the back of their little noggins when they produced that ad. And thought this was some sort of War On Terror shtick. But when I saw it, I wondered if the folks on the cattle car had carbon footprints that were too big, someone was home-schooling, or if one of them didn’t sign up for Free Federal Health Caretm.
Update: The Dorito’s commercial was funny. And so were Carville and Frist in the Coke ad.
And the Giant’s offense woke up. Note to Eli Manning: you’re on TeeVee and all so let me help you out, don’t sit there with your mouth open. You look like you’re catching flies.
I normally like NCIS on CBS, but this week was extremely disappointing. This week’s show entitled “Tribes” starts off with the absurd claim that “Nearly 30 percent of all gun related deaths are the result of the owners’ own weapon.”
I seem to recall reading that a fairly high number of police officers are killed with their own weapon.
I’ve addressed misinformation in cop dramas before, including that they get you acclimated to the notion that you don’t have certain rights and that cops are better than regular citizens.
Yes, you’re reading it right. On CNN this morning more people were interested in who got custody of Britney’s kids than in who got custody of “The Button”.
And, isn’t sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you’re good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.
Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even yesterday. But once. Babies, chum: tiny, dimpled, fleshy mirrors of our us-ness, that we parents hurl into the future, like leathery footballs of hope. And you’ve got to get a good spiral on that baby, or evil will make an interception.
Good stuff. And the comic rocked too:
And then he threw a chimney at us.
Update: And how could I leave off:
Tick: It’s your turn now, Thorace-bog.
Thrakkorzog: It’s Thrakkorzog. Thrakkorzog. With a K.
Tick: We’re only serving humble pie, Whatchamazog.
Thrakkorzog: For the last time, it’s…
Tick: Thorax-and-a-bog. Four-yacks-and-a-dog.
Thrakkorzog: No.
Tick: Ah, laxative-log.
Thrakkorzog: No, no, no.
Tick: Sapsucker-frog.
Thrakkorzog: Thrakkorzog.
Tick: Susan?
Thrakkorzog: Now you’re doing it on purpose. How juvenile.
1 We Built This City – Starship. Awful on every level. Dumb lyrics and the music sucks. Seriously, a group of musicians got together and this was the result?
2 Hero - Some whiny bitch err Enrique Iglesias. Seriously, I’ve heard this song twice. Once at the bank. It’s awful. It’s a whine fest and makes me want to choke random people or gouge out my own ears. Make it stop.
3 Warrior - Patty Smyth: lyrics:
Shooting at the walls of heartache
Bang, bang!
I am the warrior
’nuff said.
4 – I wanna sex you up – some more whiny bitches err Color Me Badd. Not only is it awful but the title makes no sense.
5 – Anything by Rob Zombie. Oh, look. Two chords over and over again. Just like the last song.
Seems an Aerosmith fan board linked to where I met Steven Tyler. It was odd at Reno to see Tyler. First, the TSA guy asks me if I’m a fan of Steven Tyler. I said From Aerosmith? He said Yeah, he’s standing right there. And he was. He was standing their putting his clothes on after the TSA searched him. And, in hindsight, I really take issue with the TSA guy pointing that out. I mean, seems Tyler is entitled to some sort of privacy. And at least the privacy involved in TSA folks not pointing him out to random people going through security. People were asking him for pics and stuff while he was still trying to get his stuff together. Kinda lame.
And, hats off to Tyler. He smiled and took photos with anyone who’d ask. And was a nice guy. I didn’t ask for a photo because I figured he was tired of it.
And, by the way, Tyler is about five feet tall and weighs about 90 pounds soaking wet with his pockets full of quarters.
I just thought this was a neat idea from Aunt B. So here are ten random songs in order (with youtube links) from my MP3 player (I have an LG not an iPod because I don’t buy Apple anything).
Sylvester Stallone circa 1998: Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you’re gonna have. It’s pathetic. It really is pathetic. It’s sad. We’re living in the Dark Ages over there.
Has anybody seen the latest instalment of The Power Of 10?
The week of August 20th, 2007, Host Drew Carey posed a question about gun control to the contestant: what percentage of Americans believe that Americans should be allowed to own automatic weapons?
The answer was 41%. I watched the show and the audience applauded. If, as Drew notes from time to time, that the Poll was conducted of New Yorkers, man, am I impressed! The significance is that on the question of ‘automatic weapons’, the finding is not 1 or 2 percent or even 10 or 20 percent, but a thriving 41%.
And Drew, thank you for your service. I didn’t know you are a Marine.
A couple of recent DVD releases you might be interested in. For fans of the 1980 Sci-Fi cult classic with the glorious Queen soundtrack, be sure to check out Flash Gordon: Saviour of the Universe Edition. It’s especially relevant, given the recent launch of the not-very-good SciFi Channel series.
Also, The Tick vs. Season Two is now available, albeit with one episode missing (as was also the case with the Season One DVD). Sadly, the missing episode this time is “Alone Together,” the Omnipotus episode, one of my favorites from that season.
American politics and civil life may be in the toilet but by golly at least dogs are evolving. Go to youtube and do a search for “Skateboarding Bulldogs” and have your conciousness expanded without using the clutch.
And while you are there you might as well catch: OK GO on treadmills.
So, I finally spent Sunday catching up on TeeVee. Four months after it aired, I finally caught the season finale of Battlestar Galactica. That is one seriously good show.
Stickwick writes a Dear John letter to the movie theater. I concur. The last movie I saw at the theater was Bad Santa in December of 2003. Lately, it has been tempting. I did not go see 300 because, as with most movies, I thought I’d be disappointed. I am tempted to see both Transformers and Live Free or Die Hard.
I hop on YouTube on occasion to watch old music videos and the like. And I search for songs for which I have never seen the video.
One of my favorite bands is Machine Head. I never knew that they had videos for their first album. But they did. However, the reason that I did not know that was because in the mid-90s, MTV wouldn’t play their video because the song was called Davidian and contained the lyrics Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast. So says Wikipedia. The singer, though, says the song is not about Waco.
Well, that could explain it. I await verification but I thought the truck driver looked familiar. Kinda doubtful that all those folks would be in it together.
First Deadwood, now The Sopranos. Seriously, did you see that shit? So, Meadow walks in, Tony looks up, screen black? I thought my TeeVee went out. Feh. I am totally not watching another HBO series.
Update: In other news, I decided to check the news to be sure. Nothing there. But there are already hundreds of angry bloggers noting the same thing. Blogs: like news but faster. But they’re right, that sucked and just served to leave the door open for other crap.
Update 2: hbo.com is down. I’m guessing everyone is pissed. My prediction: a movie.
I saw this Diet Mountain Dew commercial (didn’t get to the remote fast enough) where some dude in NYC is giving a puppet show from his window. A message stating that puppet shows from windows were illegal in NYC (turns out, it really is illegal) flashes on screen. Then, some police guy ordered the SWAT team to take him down. So, they swarm his house. I should note that, in PC fashion, the SWAT team members did not have guns. It’s obviously a bit of funny at the expense of stupid laws. But is it really funny? I mean, stuff like that really happens and I don’t find it amusing at all.
The downside of the tubes: Building landing strips for gay Martians.
Co-blogger #9 has written extensively about YouTube and its potential effects on politics and society. Well, there’s one thing on there that I can’t stand and Brittney reminded me about it. See, I hop on YouTube on occasion to watch old music videos and the like. And I search for songs for which I have never seen the video. And I was shocked and happy to learn that one of my favorite songs of all time had a video. Cool! Then I realized that it did not. Seems people like to just film themselves lip-synching to someone else’s tune. No, I’m not upset about copyrights and whatnot. I just don’t care to watch some guy lip-synching and doing it poorly. As to one of my favorite songs of all time, here’s the video of some guy no one knows mouthing the words:
The best movie so far of 2007 is one in which Rose McGowan, best known to TV audiences as a kind witch on “Charmed,” has her leg chopped off and replaced by a snap-on semi-automatic machine gun.
In MA, if one does not receive a sentence of 24 months or more, in a prison not a jail; no matter the crime, one is not necessarily counted as a felon.
I recently was educated about all of this a bit back. See, there are many factors and they all boil down to pissing matches between the feds and the state. The fact is, it’s at the discretion of each level. In MA, it seems, he’s in the clear. But the feds can still press charges. However, as a general rule, the feds will often look the other way unless said felon is charged with something else. That is to say, if he gets arrested again, the charge could come back. And there’s also the issue of traveling state lines. A felon in one state could have his firearm rights restored in that state. However, if said felon crosses state lines (i.e., moves), it’s completely at the discretion of the federales.
Speaking of the Funky Bunch, me and the Mrs. caught The Departed this weekend on pay per view. Excellent movie, I thought. If there’s one thing more annoying than a Boston accent, it’s a bunch of actors faking Boston accents. But once you get passed that, it’s quite good. Did not end at all how I thought it would.
In this film, the Funky Bunch is in possession of a Beretta 92 and a sound suppressor. That would be two crimes.
San Francisco has banned plastic grocery bags. This is to save the planet. You may remember it wasn’t that long ago that only eco-terrorists asked for paper bags. People would turn in horror and explain how a living tree had to be sacrificed to make that paper bag.
Today we are much wiser. Paper bags are back. We understand that trees are a renewable resource and actually using plastic grocery bags is eco-terrorism. We just didn’t know. Of course really eco-conscious people bring there own burlap bags.
Let me tell you the next eco-scare that will take about five years to come to fruition. Compact fluorescent bulbs will be banned. California is currently considering banning incandescent lights bulbs because the planet has a fever. Even though most people know compact fluorescent bulbs contain mercury they will buy them because sheeple are followers. Better to do what you are told than to think for yourself.
Do you think the people in California will start recycling programs for Compact fluorescent bulbs before they ban the incandescent bulbs? Probably not. Sheeple have to be led.
The city’s SWAT team, along with celebrity cops and camera crews from Armed & Famous, broke into the wrong home during a search for two fugitives and kept an innocent woman handcuffed for 30 minutes, according to legal documents.
That I watched. I caught the Superbowl last night. I noticed what I thought was booing too for a player named Muhammed. Glad to hear they were yelling his nickname Moose.
Also, the commercials sucked just like last year. Well, except that one Bud-light commercial where the couple driving pick up the hitchhiker. That was funny.
The announcers made it a point to note that special legal action or some such was needed to let Tank Johnson play. See, Tank has a habit of getting arrested. He’s been arrested twice: once for assaulting a police officer and once for illegal possession of guns. The announcer pointed out that Tank had 6 unlicensed firearms and 500 rounds of ammo. That’s not a crime in most places but he lives in the city of Chicago. The announcer pointed out the gun crime but not the fact that Tank tried to assault some police officers. Since he’s an important football star, they make special arrangements for him so he can go play football. Isn’t that nice. I wonder if your average Chicagoan could do that? Like you and me, only better.
Anyway, glad the Colts won. Actually, that’s not true. I’m glad Chicago lost. No Superbowl Shuffle this year, eh?
It’s back. I always watch the first few episodes because I like the tryouts. Guilty pleasure. But to would-be contestants, here’s a tip:
I know matter-of-factly that I don’t have a very good singing voice. I have a deep voice and a limited range. Most songs are out of my range and if I try to extend my vocal capabilities beyond my range, I sound like Homer Simpson. The reason I know this is because I’ve actually heard myself sing. It’s true. I have recorded myself singing and listened to it (from my band days) and I know I’m not good. So, before strolling in front of Simon and all, listen to yourself or you may well be a laughingstock.
I can’t take law enforcement seriously if they don’t
So, with great joy, I report the death of the TeeVee show Armed and Famous. Ok, Tam reported it and I linked. But still, it’s a good thing. For those not in the know, they give washed-up famous people a gun and some police training and make them cops. They then film it. It really rather minimizes the importance of the police function. And, of course, creates a potentially dangerous situation where someone who is likely unqualified to enforce the law now does so. Let’s all be thankful it ended before someone got killed.
In other news, I caught on The Daily Show that another show in the vein of To Catch A Predator was on. Only this show could have been called To Catch The Apathetic. Seems they’d get a couple of actors to go out and engage in some abuse, such as a conflict between two lovers. Said conflict would get physical while the cameras rolled. Then, the host would confront the people who just stood by and watched it happen. That’s fucking retarded. And whoever the brainchild of this show was should get a swift kick in the nads.
Sure, most people didn’t respond at all. It’s what people do sometimes (remember Kitty Genovese?). But, let’s say said smacking around and roughing up occurred around some group of guys who had a little too much to drink while leaving the local bar and have something to prove. And then those guys proceeded to beat the shit out of the actor. I, for one, would applaud that group of guys.
Or, worse, someone goes to confront the actor, who is told to be belligerent to any who intervene, and that someone draws down on the guy?
It’s a recipe for disaster. I guess there’s a reason they don’t film this crap in red states.
Everyone knows that this past election was different but so far no one has put their finger on what it was that made it different. It was the Internet. Actually an Internet site, it was YouTube. The Internet has been around for a long time but until this election the Internet was not a player.
Many people felt the 2000 Presidential Election would be when the Internet would be seen as a vehicle of change. But it wasn’t time yet. Something was missing.
So it was a slam dunk that the 2004 Presidential Election would be the Internet Election. But it wasn’t to be.
The reason? People don’t like to read. They would rather watch. The solution was YouTube. In the advertising world they measure impressions. In Television news Karl Rove and James Carville types worry about the news cycle. So what happens when impressions multiply beyond comprehension and news cycles are extended indefinitely?
Mistakes are amplified and exaggerated.
That is what happened in this election. For George Allen it was macaca. For John F. Kerry it was a bungled joke about education and Iraq. For Harold Ford it was the “Memphis Meltdown” and the “bimbo ad”.
In the days before YouTube these “impressions” and “news cycles” where very brief. After all, do people make a video tape of these moments and exchange them with their friends? Of course not, too much trouble. But YouTube changed everything. Hook your TV up to your computer and pesto chango you have a file you can upload to YouTube for FREE. Then you can link it to any number of Blogs for FREE.
The politicians were caught flat-footed. Most mistakes can survive a limited number of impressions and a short news cycle. But what do you do when you say macaca and it never ends? You lose. That is what happens.
But the YouTube phenomena is not just for elections. All across this country every City Council meeting, every County Commission meeting, every State Assembly meeting, and every meeting of the United States Congress is now a potential YouTube adventure.
YouTube is the inverse of Big Brother. The citizens now control the picture. We the people control the image, we control the horizontal, we control the vertical.
A new revolution has begun and politicians should be warned. We are listening to and watching every word you say.
I present to you the greatest metal band to come out in the last 5 years: All That Remains. I have both their albums. First one was great and I figured the second wouldn’t be (most bands suck on their second album). But their second is as good. See:
Judging by all the commercials I’m seeing, Dateline’s To Catch a Predator series was popular enough to warrant it’s own TeeVee show. The premise of this show is that:
1) Some reporter type hops online and poses as an underaged girl in chat room;
2) Said reporter convinces some sick pervert to have a meetup;
3) When sick pervert shows up, the cameras are rolling.
Now, these perverts get no sympathy from me but shame on Dateline for really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. I suppose Americans really are obsessed with sexual perversion, even the most disgusting kind that victimized children. It’s like the fall of the Roman Empire or something. I mean, I’m all for people tracking down sexual predators but making it entertainment gives me the willies.
Of course, one day, the reporter is going to confront the wrong pervert, who also happens to be a psychopath and some bad ju-ju will go down. It’s bound to happen.
I think I’ll start me own show called To Catch To Catch A Predator. I’ll pose as a pervert and wait until someone agrees to meet me. Then, when they show up, I’ll have my cameras rolling on their cameras and say Haha, gotcha performing a valuable service. I’m just disappointed that you air this as entertainment.
So, there I am watching Cold Case, which is one of those shows that one watches only so that one can properly enjoy the MadTV send-up of it, when all of a sudden it dawns on me that this particular episode is strangely biased against guns and violent video games.
You know how it came out a couple of years ago that the government had some kind of arrangement with Television that, if shows had a sufficient anti-drug message, they’d reap some governmental benefit? I don’t remember the particulars, just that the government was encouraging shows to subtly preach that drugs are bad.
Watching this show last night?
I’ve begun to suspect that there may be a similar program against guns, if not also violent video games.
Well, TeeVee teaches us all kinds of stuff for our own good that is total bullshit, such as telling us that the police can search/detain you no matter what. I’ve covered that stuff here, here and here.
Saw the best “Law and Order” episode last night, with about every liberal antigun cliche you could hope to see. White Male college student, upset over his medical school rejection(due to affirmative action quotas), goes postal on a group of female pre-med students in central park with a converted full auto pistol(supposed to be a Mac, but they used some other name in the show)The cops can’t use his confession so they go after both the FFL dealer(a kitchen dealer in PA naturally) and the guy who sold the “conversion kit”. Assistant DA sighs that anyone with “20 seconds and a screwdriver” could do the job. There was also some mumbo jumbo about how the shooter used a file on the barrell rifling immediately after the shooting so that ballistics wouldn’t be able to make a match. For some reason, the DA decides to go after the manufacturer of the pistol, located in Connecticut, and gets humiliated in court when the Judge tells him he has no standing to bring such a case. What a load of crap.
A Jewish guy goes into a confession box. “Father O’Malley,” he says, “my name is Emil Cohen. I’m seventy eight years old. Believe it or not, I’m currently involved with a 28 year old girl, and also, on the side, her 19 year old sister. We engage in all manner of pleasure, and in my entire life I’ve never felt better.” “My good man,” says the priest, “I think you’ve come to the wrong place. Why are you telling me?” And the guy goes: “I’m telling everybody!”
None of the jokes deals with firearms, which made me wonder. What are the 100 gunniest jokes of all time?
Though perhaps slightly off-topic completely on-topic for this blog, I can’t resist mentioning the Observer’s list of 50 great albums. What sets this list apart from all the other Top 50s out there is that it ranges widely through many styles and also lists the acts that descended from these ground breakers.
I’m missing a bunch of these albums. Maybe I’ll work my way through them. The list covers musical styles I normally avoid, but the seminal work of a genre is usually pretty good, no matter what your normal tastes are.
There are three books in all and each is worth the effort: Point of Impact, Black Light, and Time to Hunt. I’m reading additional novels he has penned. If you get a chance, I would read them before Hollywood ass-fucks them.
I’ve covered the plight of Sunshyne Video (link is not work safe) before. Sunshyne is a local adults only store and, according to local politicos, a den of debauchery and iniquity. They’ve had a heckuva time battling the local Adult Entertainment Board, which is a sham of a political body (see my posts here, here and here). I even interviewed the owner, David Anderson, here. Heck, I even link to their blog (link is not work safe) some times.
Well, yesterday I happened to be in that direction (I never knew where the place was) and decided to stop in. I went in and expected to see naked, dancing women and live sex shows because that’s what the local press and politicos keep telling me was there. They had none of that and I was disappointed. All I saw were three-dimensional devices designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs, dirty movies, and a variety of novelty items. Oh, and a sign that said No Public Restroom, which is a good thing to have if you sell porn.
I introduced myself to David and told him who I was. We had a good laugh and he told me they’re still fighting in court due to not having a license to be an adult business because the sham adult business board won’t give them one. He also told me that each employee has to be approved by the local adult business board, which obviously is intended to make it hard on (heh) such businesses to get help. He was trying to get someone approved now.
By the time we got done talking, I had no time for browsing.
Good luck in the fight, Dave, and tell us how it goes.
The fifth panel of the first chapter of Shooting War has a good condemnation of Kelo v. New London. Good to see the issue raised, even if they cast it as a battle in the war against corporatism, rather than a fight over property rights.
The comic itself is a serialized graphic novel about a lefty video blogger covering the Iraq war in 2011 during the McCain administration. It’s well-drawn, cynical, and deft with the politics and culture. Worth a look.
Oh, and Uncle told me the way to keep you folks entertained is with explodey pictures, so don’t miss panel 7.
Sorry, Chris, but you’re wrong. It will be between Taylor and Chris. Elliot’s a goner because he’s kinda nerdy and tried to do a song about being a badass. Katharine is good but she’s good like Whitney Houston is good and no one really listens to that much these days. Taylor’s in because hes’ talented and he’s likable. Chris is in because he’s talented and sings what the kids want to hear. I’ll bet a beer on that.
South Park Executive Producer Reveals That Comedy Central Censored the Showing of Mohammed out of Fear, not “Religious Tolerance.”
Xrlq says the terrorists won. Actually, the terrorists won the first time some grandma hopping a flight to Cleveland had her toenail clippers taken.
CounterTop says: if recreation of Muhammad’s image isn’t allowed then how the hell would the islamists even know what images to be offended by, since presumably they have no idea what he looks like?
I caught tonight’s South Park episode. A note in the show said Comedy Central refused to air the image of Muhammad. However, they (Comedy Central) had no problem showing Jesus taking a dump on people and wallowing in feces, which I’m sure South Park’s creators knew they would. Now, we’ll see if CC caves to Christian groups who are certain to complain. And, for reference, in the episode Super Best Friends, an image of Muhammad was shown. See:
Now, it could have been a joke and Comedy Central didn’t actually refuse but I doubt it. Barring that, they’re pussies.
Update: And I like how they made fun about the lack of jokes and being all preachy.
I never really cared for the show in prior seasons other than to watch the initial try-outs to see the people who suck and the inevitable shot of a 300+ pound black woman going ballistic on national TeeVee. It was all sterile and overly formulaic. But this year that changed. I actually like Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry (sp?). Those dudes can sing. More importantly, they’re different for American Idol. I think it may have to do with the fact they upped the age ceiling.
So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!
-Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu.
With the TeeVee season in its second run series (evidenced by the fact Joey is on), me and the Mrs. have been TiVoing some game shows since there’s not much else to watch. A few random observations:
With TiVo’s fast forward, we can watch Wheel of Fortune in about 12 minutes. When you get rid of learning about the contestants (who cares about some office manager from San Bernardino?), commercials and the product pimping, there’s only about 12 minutes of actual puzzle solving. Also, I realized that with TiVo, you get the same view of the board as the contestants because you can pause the screen. I hate when a contestant calls a letter and they don’t show the board.
We also TiVoed some older shows, like Card Sharks. These shows were obviously filmed in the 70s/80s. We often ponder which of the contestants on that show are still alive and which ones are probably dead. Same with The Newlywed Game, only we add likelihood of being divorced/murdered by spouse into the guessing process.
And quite odd is Family Feud. The reason is that so many of the answers that would have been given in the 70s/80s aren’t valid anymore. For example, a question was:
100 people surveyed, top 7 answers on the board, here’s the question: Name something you do before taking a trip.
The Mrs. said Get cash, which wasn’t there. I’d say back then, more folks carried cash than do today. When we take a trip (being the non-cash carrying folks we are), we always get cash. Not an issue then, I’m guessing. Also, one of the top answers was get film, which never occurred to us because we have a fancy digital camera that holds like 500 pics. Of course, some answers were still the same, such as getting tickets and making reservations.
And, one more odd thing, a new episode of The Price Is Right actually gave away a set of encyclopedias. Me and the Mrs. wondered why since a computer was cheaper and had access to all kinds of info on Al Gore’s Internets.
Law and Order SVU tonight is a farce. Schoolyard shootup leads to a gun store, “Gun Ho” (stupid gun owners) run by racists (stupid racist gun owners) in New York friggin’ City. It continues with this gem: “The long gun loophole, no background check!” Apparently NICS doesn’t apply in New York City. This is the first 30 minutes.
And the guys at arfcom note that it portrays gun owners as irresponsible, mention of sniper rifles, an incorrectly filled out Form 4473, a 16 year old works at a gun shop, and assault weapons with regular capacity magazines line the walls.
I need to get another TiVo box. First time it happened was last night, when we realized three shows we TiVo came on at once. I TiVo The Family Guy and The Sopranos and the Mrs. gets Desperate Housewives. One of us had to watch (gasp!) live TeeVee last night.
Next, The Sopranos premiered yesterday. I love that show. This is supposedly the last season. I figure it can end one of three ways: Tony dies, Tony goes to jail, or Tony goes into witness protection. I hear talk of a movie too, which would kill my three options, so make that four ways. If you’ve read spoilers, don’t tell me.
And the season finale of Battlestar Galactica absolutely rocked. And I didn’t expect any of that. Now, my BSG fix can’t be satisfied until October.
Update: OK, one more TeeVee note. Colbert has lost his mojo. His show isn’t so funny anymore. It’s probably easier to stay in character when you do it twice a week for five minutes on The Daily Show vs. four times a week for thirty minutes on your own show.
Who cares? I don’t go to movies much and don’t care. There was a poll I saw over at one of the gun boards on how many nominated movies had the readers there seen. Most common answer was 0-1. I saw Crash and didn’t care for it. Didn’t see the others and probably won’t.
“I’m sick of answering this [expletive] question,” he says. “I’m a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop [expletive] on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of… every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these [expletive] lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I’ll say I’m a Republican… I hate the government, OK? I’m a-political. Write that down. I’m not a Republican.”
Strong opinions indicate he may not know what apolitical means but still.
A while back, discussing how movies these days basically suck, I wrote:
Find the most complex, attention getting conspiracy theory and make a movie out of it. Seriously, New World Order, black helicopters, John Titor, Scientology, pick one. Sure, they’re so far-fetched but, dammit, they’re entertaining. Is it sad that I’d rather read the ramblings of crazy people and scam artists than go to a damn movie.
Well, guess what. Looks like there will be one (link on left side). Not sure if it’s going to be a big Hollywood production (looks independent – meaning low budget – to me). Still, good idea.
It continues to be one of the best shows on TeeVee. And is definitely one of the more thought provoking. Friday’s abortion episode was a good bit of television, addressing rights and complex social issues. Good stuff.
Update: Yeah, this post is intentionally spoiler free. But I was rather shocked at the non-PC theme.
