Category: Media

I'm really glad they're OK. It's very miracley and feel-goody. It's a lot better than hearing about serial killers and embezzlers. But must we rehash and commercialize their stories with these hyped up interviews and made-for-TV movies? Not to mention that it takes away from perfectly good stuff they could be airing instead. How about we keep it to a tasteful book deal? That sounds like fun to me.

Here's the exact quote from The Simpsons that we were talking about. It's from an episode called Burns, Baby Burns.

Burns: Well, did you meet Larry?
Man: Oh, yes. He made light of my weight problem, then suggested my motto be “semper fudge.” At that point, he told me to relax.
Burns: How were his test scores?
Woman: Let's just say this: he spelled “Yale” with a six.
Burns: I see. Well, I — ooh, you know, I just remembered, it's time for my annual donation. I wonder how much I should give.
Man: Well, frankly, test scores like Larry's would call for a very generous contribution. For example, a score of 400 would require a donation of new football uniforms, 300, a new dormitory, and in Larry's case, we would need an international airport.
Woman: Yale could use an international airport, Mr. Burns.

He he … I tell ya, there's a Simpsons quote for every situation. Really. It's true.

I don’t know how many of you out there have seen SlamBall yet, but should really watch it some time. It’s shown on Spike TV and is cross between basketball and Hokey with a few trampolines thrown in for good measure. The goal is of the game of the game is to get the ball in the basket. A slam is worth 3 points, shooting it in is worth 2. It appears that checking is allowed at all times and its just about impossible to foul.


It kinda reminds me of the full contact basketball games we used to play in middle school except we didn’t have the trampolines.

After it got pretty cold pretty fast, we're getting our indian summer. It's been beautiful the past couple of days!

Tomorrow, they're opening a Michaels within walking distance of our apartment. That's awesome because there aren't really any good craft stores in Madison that I've found … mostly hit and miss or sewing stuff. So now I've got a place to get supplies.

GG was good last night. They've already had some really good one-liners this season. I'm looking for some interesting plot stuff to start happening soon. Rory's cut her hair, so there's the start of it.

Can someone tell me who watches baseball on TV anymore? I know plenty of people who enjoy taking in a game on a nice summer afternoon, but watching it on TV? Is there anything more boring? Well, probably yes, but who can really count grass growing or paint drying?

Having said that, the powers that be are usually considerate enough to hold baseball games during non-prime-time TV hours. So while they may pre-empt Judge Judy or As the World Turns, nothing of any real viewing importance is lost.

But for some reason which remains a mystery to me, right when some of the best fall TV is coming on, baseball suddenly gets moved to prime time. Now I understand that these are “playoffs” and the “world series” and therefore theoretically 100 times more important than regular baseball, but 100×0 still = 0.

So I've Got A Few Suggestions for Baseball:
1. Limit the World Series to ONE game. We don't need a series. One game is painful enough. And maybe sudden death would be good. First team to score a point wins. That would take a few hours anyhow.
2. Let them play in the rain. If they melt, so be it, but I'll tell you a bitta slippin and sliding and butter-fingering balls, would surely liven up the game.
3. Next time those wussy career-whiners go on strike, disband the league and let 'em work go work at McDonald's.

I don't do much in the ways of boozing and smoking. But I do have my guilty little pleasures. Most of them relate to the “boob tube.”

I don't really watch TV very often, but I like having the noise on and I listen to it fairly frequently. It helps to keep my mind flowing while I work. I actually work faster while I listen to TV. Especially if I'm programming.

So all this TV-listening is where my guilty pleasures arise from. Murder, She Wrote is undeniably more suited to the 60+ set, but I love watching it. In fact, it's what I watch while I work out. I remember watching it with my family on Sundays many years ago. Perhaps that's why I like it still.

Another guilty show that I might explain away as merely channel surfing, should someone walk in is 7th Heaven. It's sappy. It irritates me and I watch it anyhow. A little insult/poke fun track runs in my mind while I watch it. That goes double when I watch another guilty pleasure, the tween TV on The-N. Degrassi, the next generation and other tween junk. The acting is attrocious, but it amuses me.

My last guilty pleasure would be any made-for-TV movie about European royals. They're so fascinating and scandalous. I might even consider myself a minor Royal Watcher. This, of course, started with His Royal Hotness, Prince William. But really, I find all the royals fascinating.

Well, now my secrets are out. I guess I'll survive.

I can't believe it. I missed the season premiere of Gilmore Girls! As it's one of the only shows I watch regularly, I've been looking forward to it. But I forgot to tape it when we left to go have drinks with friends, and we didn't get home 'til late. Boo! Hiss!

Oh well. It's not that bad. I'll nab it of Kazaa in a week. Speaking of which, I noticed they're putting Smallville on DVD. What's up with that??? Gilmore Girls has been on longer! I want it on DVD. I don't know how the industry can bitch about people downloading TV shows when they won't even put them on DVD for us to buy like good little consumers. Seriously. You can't have it both ways!!

Wow. I'm so tired. Good night.

So Matt and I were just watching Real Genius (see link below). And so you come to the end scene where all the popcorn fills that guys house and we start pointing out all of the unrealistic aspects of the scene and the movie.

Being as we are both nerdy engineer types, it led to the question above. I think we finally agreed that no, it would probably just spill out your windows, because they're probably the weakest points. We'd like to do some experiments though.

Thoughts? Comments?