November 21, 2008
Dorkgasm
Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson AND Dave Foley all in a single show?
Really? Really?
Oh, yeah, I guess Jewel Staite may have been in it too.
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March 4, 2007
Battlestar Galactica - Whaaaa?
Okay, since I don't want to spoil anything for people that have not yet watched it, the following post is very, very circumspect.
It took me a moment to realize that after the episode was over the thing that they showed that had a critical character in it was a cut scene from tonight's episode, and not a scene from next week. Given that, does that mean that I saw what I think I saw on tonight's episode and that what I think happened has actually happened?
Please. comfort me and tell me I am wrong. But do it in such a way that anyone watching the show will have no idea what we are talking about.
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February 6, 2007
Missed It Again!
Every year I forget Superbowl Sunday, and every year I smack myself on the forehead the following Monday.
Is this because I am an extremely incompetent football fan? No, of course not, I hate football.
Is this because I am a tool who has been brainwashed to think that short films persuading me to purchase products and services that I don't need are a form of vital creative endevor? No, though I am a total tool.
Is it because every Superbowl Sunday Animal Planet hosts the Puppy Bowl; three hours of puppies running around and playing in a 10' by 10' pretend football field? With a halftime show of kittens playing in the same circumstances?
Well, go here, watch the last two videos on the list and you tell me. Assuming that you are still capable of speech, that is. Assuming that your head has not a-sploded from the huge cute overload that you have been exposed to. Who needs to have artifical sunlight when you can have THREE-FREAKING-HOURS of puppies playing on your TV?
And I missed it, again. And they only replay it on Superbowl Sunday. And while there is a free, two-minute on-demand clip available on Comcast, it's not enough. Pumpkin just gets interested in looking at the puppies before it ends, then he looks sad because the puppies are gone.
I probably need to buy the DVD, though I am pretty sure that if I do I will never leave the house again.
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August 30, 2006
Ah Television...
"Teacher, mother, secret lover."
Given that it's been some time since I last proclaimed this, I have a new favorite TV show ever. Sad to say, it's..."Entourage" on HBO. It has all the things I loved about "The Player", but no one has to die. (Oh, yeah...um..spoiler warning).
I think that everyone can cling to one or another of the characters, and who you identify with says a lot about you. I, for example, always thought that I was "E" (Eric)- the guy that can handle the business end of things, and is there because he's smart. After watching a couple of seasons I have realized that, alas, I'm not. I am, much to my chagrin, Johnny Drama...The guy that used to be somebody, but lost it. Really, that sucks.
Whooo! Viking Quest!
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June 11, 2006
Every Day...
...takes figuring out all over again how to fucking live.
Deadwood Season 3 (and final) has started. Thank fucking god.
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May 25, 2006
Sexy, Sexy Sociopaths
Why is it that the worst people are always the most attractive?
The first season of "Boston Legal" is out on DVD now, and I have, of course, Netflixed it. The first season is very different than the second, which I have been watching since my therapist recommended it. In the second season the characters all have some hidden level of depth, and frankly, nobility that is completely missing in the first season so far. There are no likable characters - no one that you can identify with, however briefly. They are all completely self-serving monsters, who will do whatever is required to win their case, even when they know the client is guilty.
I think that the show has lost something in the last year. Something that I didn't even know it had till now. Watching the early episodes I find that the characters were far more interesting when they lacked a moral compass. I assume this says something terrible about me; that and the fact that I want to grow up to be Alan Shore.
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April 12, 2006
I Hope It Doesn't Show...It'll Go Away
Reason #4845 that I love "Gilmore Girls" - I am pretty sure that no television show has ever had a pivotal moment sound tracked with Sparks. Pretty certain.
I promise that Dresden Dolls stuff is coming - they were awesome and all - I have a few seconds of video that features Amanda playing synth while her far larger and more interesting shadow moves wildly in the background.
Honestly, she the the most attractive woman ever - present company excluded, of course.
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December 11, 2005
Chris Eigeman!
So...Gilmore Girls just keeps delivering. Not only is Adam Brody (see my obession with "The O.C.") in the third season (the season before his breakout first season of "The O.C.".). but, while watching the fourth season I find out that Chis Eigeman (you know, from Meteropolitan and Barcelona) is a major character...I LOVE HIM. He's like my fourth favorite person in the world. There was even a hologram reference (he was in the pilot for the American version of Red Dwarf). And Sebastian Bach is on the the show - how wierd is that?
Best...Show...Ever.
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November 25, 2005
Best Show Ever!
So, family relationships, romance, everything a man (sensitive, yet manly) could want. I love The Gilmore Girls now. I am near the end of the first season, and have to say; "Gold, freaking gold".
Lord, I need ovary implants, Maybe even a uturus implant. A nice boob job, and a little work below my eyes would not be out of the question either.
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November 24, 2005
The Biggest Girl in All of Girlsylvania
So, I am now completely caught up on The O.C., have also watched every episode that was ever actuallly released of Wonderfalls (aye...they cancelled ye too soon).
My latest obession, I am sorry to say, is Gilmore Girls. A friend of mine mentioned back in 2000 that she was watching this instead of Buffy, which, of course, caused me to scorn her. I regret this now. I downloaded the first season, and I am now about 7 episodes through it, and it is, like most things that I assume I won't like and eventually end up watching, absolutely amazing.
I love shows that focus on family dynamics, and things that have really cute single moms in them are even better. Not sure exactly what it is about that (must talk to therapist about it), but lord I love this show now. To top it all off, the grandfather is played by the head vampire from Lost Boys!
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November 11, 2005
She's No Lady, She's My Wife
So...my favorite episode (well, duh, of "The O.C.") so far is the 20th anniversary episode. I loved Sandy's performance, and I was totally surprised.
Oh...My...God.
I am definately a 14 year old girl trapped in the body of a 42 year old man (which, if you think about it, is better than the opposite).
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Still...watching...The O.C.
I don't know if it's sublimation, transferance, or something else, but all emotions that I have previously felt have been replaced by love.
Love for The O.C.
This show has everything...soap opera drama, comics, a true admiration for the awesomeness of Jews.
There is no finer show on televison in my opinion...I'm well into the second season now, and have decided that my next wife (3rd? 4th? 9th?) will have to be jewish, so that together we can celebrate Chrismukkah.
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October 6, 2005
Superman!
Welcome back the old Edwin Gore's Dopey Homepage, currently content-free once again!
Just a little note to mention that when I was in WalMart the other day I noticed that they have 3 DVDs of the old 30s/40s Max Fleischer Superman animated shorts. I have no idea what the quality is like, but they are only a buck, so really, they would have to be terrible for you not to get your money's worth. I'm guessing that the total amount of content on each dic comes out to around 35 minutes, but at 3 bucks for an hour and a half of entertainment, you are not allowed to complain.
For those who don't know about the Max Fleischer Superman animated shorts, the art direction and design greatly influences Bruce Timm's Batman and Superman cartoons in the 1990s. If you liked either, these are worth looking at as art history if nothing else.
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June 16, 2005
You Want to Live Like Common People?
Last night was the first episode of Morgon Spurlock's new show "30 Days". The premise is pretty simple, and obviously lifted directly from his film "Supersize Me". In each episode someone tries to do something for thirty days and the experience is documented ad presented to us, the viewing audience.
In the first episode Morgan and his fiance Alex move to Columbus, Ohio and try to live off minimum wage jobs for a month. They get a terrible apartment in a bad area of town, get jobs doing yardwork and washing dishes and go to it. For the next hour we watch as they struggle to pay the bills, have to go to the hospital because of injured wrists and urinary track infections, walk rather than ride buses to save $2.70 a day and so on.
Of course by the end of the show they have expenses equal to more than twice what they made during the month. Mostly because of the medical bills. Things like having too pay over $800 between the two of them just for the emergency room fees (not the actual medical services or the $40 ace bandage fees - $800 just because they had to use the emergency room).
The show did a pretty good job of highlighting the idea that there are people out there (a LOT of people) who are struggling to get by and are not getting any breaks in this land of opportunity. They worked hard, they tried to save as much money as they could (they spent about $70 dollars to have Morgan's niece and nephew visit one weekend; $50 on supplies for the kids and $20 to go to the dollar movies) and ended up spending $45 dollars going out to dinner for Alex's birthday. The budget for the birthday got blown when, after dinner ($23) they discovered that the buses didn't run after 6:00 so they had to take a cab to get home. Otherwise they ate beans and rice every night, worked multiple jobs to try to make ends meet, found a charity that give them free furniture, and still ended up at the end of the month in debt.
I hope that at least some people will see this episode and realize that maybe poor people aren't lazy people who deserve what they get. Our society and or government are really stacked against our poorest, who we under pay (because paying them a living wage is bad for business), and provide almost no support services for. At the same time our government (and religions) advocate abstinance and tries to suppress information about birth control resulting in the these people having to support children on the pittence they can get paid for their work.
Overall a pretty interesting show. I was aware of the issues already, but it was a good illustration of the plight of the working poor.
Of course, throughout the whole thing you know that in the end Morgan and Alex re only going to have to do this for a month, and then they will be able to go back to a comfortable life. The people that they meet during the experiment aren't going to have that option.
Me, I'm in favor of nation health coverage for all. That would have almost made their situation doable. Of course, we can't do that becasue it would be "bad for business".
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