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Friday, September 28, 2007 - 10:16:18
Another Arkansan on Broadway....
Arkansas native Ashlie Atkinson (Fat Pig, Rescue Me, Inside Man, Sex in the City (movie)) has made her Broadway Debut in The Ritz, presented by the Roundabout Theater Co. at Studio 54, October 11 - December 2, 2007 (previews started September 15, 2007)!
More on The Ritz from Broadway.com, When Gaetano Proclo needs to hide from mobster Carmine Vespucci, he escapes to the Ritz. When Gaetano realizes the Ritz is a gay bathhouse and not a Turkish bath, he pretends to be a big-time Broadway producer to keep suspicions low. When Carmine locates Gaetano, wild, manic mayhem ensues.
The Ritz premiered on Broadway in January 1975 at the Longacre Theatre. After closing, it was made into a feature film starring Broadway leading players Jack Weston (Gaetano), Rita Moreno (Googie) and Jerry Stiller (Carmine).
The revival includes Rosie Perez (Do the Right Thing, White Men Can't Jump, etc.) as well as other notable Broadway stars.
Break-a-leg Ashlie!
Random Thoughts While I Was Stuck In Traffic...
So, thinking in my car, while I watch some idiot in front of me on the interstate put mascara on while talking on her cellphone and driving past the wreck that is holding us up....
I've decided I'm going to have to "get" my dog. And by that I mean "get" her cute little face and her cute little feets and her tail, I'm gonna keep that tail, yes I am, getchagetchagetchagetcha! I'm so getting that dog when I go home, it's not even funny, tummies will be rubbed, ears scratched, toys thrown, treats dolled out, possibly a peanut M&M. That's right, I give my dog the peanut out of the peanut M&M, which has some residule chocolate on it, what of it? She doesn't want to live forever! Don't judge me!
She is so got when I get home, so got...
I've started to call my computer the "slave-machine" because it is increasingly taking over my life. When my work one was down a few weeks ago, it was like I couldn't do anything at work, like nothing, all my info was on there, all the things I use to do my job and I was like, what the f? This is ridiculous, shouldn't we have contingencies incase there's somekind of computer meltdown or the machines turn against us? I have no suggestions, I just think that would be a good idea...
Heard all these people ranting and raving about drunk driving and how we should lock anyone who drives drunk up for twenty years, first offense... do you know how many more prisions we would have to build? The reason there are things like community service, probation, etc. is because we are already way over the capacity of the correctional system to handle everyone we throw in jail. Plus, those deterrents have been working so well already.
I think a better solution to drunk driving is being proactive. We need to build safe, reliable public transportation, that actually takes you places you want to go and then encourage people to use it. Have you been to a big city with public transportation? No it's not glamourous, you can't cover it in hog stickers, or fully mossy oak camo (which is right up there with lights under you car for lamest thing to do to a truck) and you can't throw some spinners on it, but you don't have to drive and you can be plastered and still get where you're going. England, though ridiculously smaller than the states, is the best example of mass public transit. You can take trains from one end to the other and get dropped off, within two miles of anywhere pretty much. I'm just saying, let's build some light rail to Conway, Benton/Bryant, heck, even Cabot and West Little Rock instead of more prisons....
I'm worried one of my friends may be a douche-bag and I'm just now seeing that... I know, scary. Pray for me.
Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 09:32:06
More TV and I'm so behind...
Well, my every day posting didn't happen, a friend had an emergency, I helped out, and this fell by the way side, my bad.... but press on we must, so here's everything, BAM!
We left off last time with Mondays, and all the goodness that is NBC and CBS on those nights. Now we move on to everything else, starting, curiously, with Tuesdays...
TUESDAY Quite possibly the most boring night of television. If I were an exec. somewhere trying to get a new show up and running, I would put it up on Tuesdays. Okay, I think Dancing with the Stars is on Tuesdays [FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, PLEASE STOP SUPPORTING THIS RIDICULOUS SHOW! MEDIOCRE CELEBRITIES ATTEMPTING HIGH LEVEL BALL ROOM DANCE IS REDUNCTCULOUS.] I move something I was a little concerned about making it, some new show that might be in over its head...I don't know...maybe....LIFE on NBC? Anyway, there are a few interesting things on that night, but you have to look for them...
CANE (CBS) - starring Jimmy Smits as the new head of a sugar plantation. Latin underworld, I'm down with it.
DAMAGES (FX) - The season is sort of winding up for this show, but FX always has reruns of series so you'll be able to catch it later in the year. Still, this is a great show and I'm totally hooked on Glenn Close as the hard-ass female power lawyer suing Ted Danson's character, billionaire sleaze ball, for bilking his employees out of their pensions. I mean the cast includes Glenn Close, Ted Danson, Tate Donovan and Emily Rose, it's pretty freaking great. (Speaking of Rose, she will be featured on Brothers and Sisters (ABC, Sundays) and Jericho (CBS, Fridays) as well as her leading role on DAMAGES this fall. She's a busy, busy bee).
And that concludes all the goodness on Tuesdays, well, in October DAMAGES will be replaced by NIP/TUCK, the on-going drama about two plastic surgeons and their increasingly screwed up private lives. The practice has moved to L.A. from Miami and we have yet to see which characters are making the move. Now, I'm speculating here, but it seems to me the writers may have made the move to start anew with the storylines. They were getting very bogged down in Miami and this will allow them to introduce new characters quickly, get rid of old ones they didn't want and pump some new blood into the show. Another show you don't have to watch in its time slot because it's re-run so much, so just pick it up when you can.
WEDNESDAY An interesting night because I'm going to give two things a chance I rarely do: A FOX live action sitcom and a CBS reality show, we'll see how it goes...
Back To You (FOX) - Kelsey Grammer returns to television (because he needs the money...) in a show based around him being a news anchor...which is really close to radio announcer...I think this will have more in the station and less at his apartment. Anyway, if you are going to do a sitcom, you might as well get the man who was on Cheers and Frazier, he's doing something right. I'm going to watch just because of him, hopefully it won't join a long list of forgetable and gruesome FOX sitcoms that should never have seen the light of day.
Bionic Woman (NBC) - yes please. Re-make of a 70's sci-fi "drama", yep, I'm there, I hope 6 Million Dollar Man is in the pipeline too and while you're at it Knight Rider is ripe for a re-make too...just saying, if we're going there, let's go big. The previews looked really good, I wish it luck.
LIFE (NBC) - first, what is the deal with ALL CAPS titles this season? Whatever, ummm, I like the actor in this, I like the previews, I think it's doomed. The competition in this time slot is going to be t-o-u-g-h.
Private Practice (ABC) - [sigh] Okay, Kate Walsh, that's her name right? She plays Addison on Grey's Anatomy (ABC, Thursdays) and suddenly has a spin off taking her to, shocker, LA, where she joins, shocker, an independent practice where, whammie, drama ensues. The cast is pretty good with Kate Walsh being the least bankable star on the show, good thing you built the thing around her, but maybe she's a bright shining star about to go supernova, a female Clooney, we'll see. Taye Diggs is on the show, which doesn't bode well for it's kharma, lest we forget Daybreak....
DIRTY SEXY MONEY (ABC) - First off, the title, though in all caps again, is great. It's like they were sitting around, trying to think up a cool title and were all like,"We've got this great cast including Donald Sutherland, we're set in New York City, they're all rich and irresponsible...it's dirty, and sexy, and there's money...EUREKA! This one is pretty high on my TIVO list, I think it could be a "break-out hit" or get cancelled in two months, hopefully hit.
THURSDAY Oh, it is so on Thursday nights, y'all, so on! ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE? In this corner we have NBC with another stellar line-up of comedic genius and in this corner we have ABC with Drama-edy heavy night of entertainment. Who will win this battle of titans?
NBC - Okay, so they have some of the best comedies of the new millenium on, My Name Is Earl, which I thought lost some of it's steam last year, but is coming back firing on all cyllinders. Following Earl, best comedy Emmy winner, 30 Rock, executive producer/ star Tina Fey along with Alec Baldwin and a collection of SNL alumni make a hysterical show about making a show just like SNL at Rockefeller plaza. Deeply based on Fey's work on SNL where she was the first femal head writer, this show is a dream. Alec Baldwin is reason enough to watch, but it is hysterical. Back in October while we get a month of hour long Earls, 30 Rock is the second best comedy on tv in my opinion. And the best comedy on television is: THE OFFICE, which is the perfect storm of sitcoms. Steve Carrell, with a well-deserved Emmy, is back with a truly stellar cast of soon to be big stars and I have to say, I don't see how it could get any better... oh wait, Jim and Pam are going on their first date finally, there, it just got better. BAM! Following the Office, will be Scrubs, which is back for another year, I don't know what they're going to do, but it seems to me like they are going to "jump the shark" any minute now. It won't be back till October after the Office runs a month of hour long episodes. Apparently NBC listened to fans and critics that were panning it for re-running and short ordering these shows (probably because of the casts' increasing movie schedules) and have bumped up the number of new episodes this year to entrench the Office's popularity. I for one say, thank you! This is two hours of the funniest stuff on tube. Following all this mayhem is the long running ER. It's not where it was in it's heyday, as far as ratings, but ER sets the standard for medical dramas. How will it hold up against yet another new contender in the 9PM spot, I don't know, this one is not slouch...
ABC - So, ABC, with two, out of the blue, hit shows, has decided they want Thursday nights, all night, for themselves. First, Ugly Betty, the show that all my friends were all like, whatever, this is some stupid Univision rip-off crap, but I was all like, it's gonna be funny, trust me, have you seen this America Ferrera girl? And who won a golden globe and Emmy's and whatever else you want? Mmmmhmmmm, that's what I thought. Face! Ugly Betty, cracks me up. I love it, I love that's its basically a really, really funny soap opera most of the time. It's definitely going to be around for at least four more seasons.
Following Betty is Grey's Anatomy, which was a mid-season replacement that I was like, wait, what? Medical drama, hmmmm, I don't know, we've got ER, what else do we need. Well the first season was great, poor Kyle Chandler, blowing up in the last episode. Then we get the second season, which was okay, and then the third, where it got a little bumpy, and now their back and I feel good about season 4, I do, I think we're going to go somewher this season and I'm excited about that. Mostly, I just love Sandra Oh, T.R. Knight, Katherine Heigl and Chandra Wilson. With the spin off of Addison's character, we may finally back off the love triangle thing and get on with the other characters. The interesting part, after the actor who played Burke got "let go" for using derogatory language toward another cast member, we don't know what is going to happen with Sandra Oh's storyline, ah, drama, I love it. We shall find out tonight I suppose.
And now, ABC, has put together and all-star cast for something called Big Shots, which looks like a Sex in the City concept, but with guys. And those guys are tv heavy weights Dylan McDermot, Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus (he had that comedy show Titus on FOX) and Joshua Malina (The West Wing). So ABC is banking on these guys sex appeal and television chemistry, not to mention built-in fan bases to crush ER once and for all. I think there's a good chance they will eat into ER's demo and viewers, we'll see how it shakes out, should be an interesting race to sweeps.
So whatever else is going on Thursday nights, I got nothing for ya, nada. Thanks for playing.
FRIDAY The night that should be the big night of television. I know poepl go out and stuff, but still, whic is Friday likd Sunday's red-headed step-sister? There are peopl who don't go out and don't go to high school football games... and those people should be watching the following:
Friday Night Lights (NBC) - hello, why do I have to keep telling people to watch this show? Finally they put it on Friday nights where it should have started, sure would i like for it to have a better lead in? Yes, but I think it can survive on it's own. This show is so goog, Kyle Chandler is phenomenal, where are the Emmy's people? I just can't say enough about it, it's one of the best things on television in the last five years. And while the show is about high school football in a small town, it's really not about football at all. If you've never seen the show, go get the first season on DVD and catch up.
Moonlight (CBS) - Look at CBS, coming at ya with not only Ghost Whisperer, but now Moonlight which is a show about a vampire/private eye - drama ensues. I'm watching it because I love a vampire trying to be good storyline, you know he'll slip up sometime and you know there's always someone trying to kill them no matter what. There's another show coming on later in the fall on FOX call New Amsterdam, about an "immortal" who can't leave New York City and is a police detective....hmmmm...similiar....a little, is this the year of the immortal television show, just like 2005 was the year of the alien invasion show? If you can only choose one, choos FNL, boy, I love that show, clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!
SATURDAY The night television forgot. Well, let's just say Saturday Night Live is the only thign you have to watch on Saturdays. However, several channels use Saturday to re-run shows they are really pushing. This year's Saturday double takes include Heroes, Bionic Woman, Moonlight and Cane. This is great because you can pick up shows you might have missed or couldn't record. Bionic Woman will also be re-played on Fridays at 6PM on SciFi, just like Heroes last year.
Mid-Season Replacements, Late Comers, Misc:
Madmen (AMC) - Currently widing up ti's season, this show is addictive, no pun intended, Fist of all each episode is like a mini-movie, with a beginning, climax and end. It's set in the fifties, the costumes and sets are the best, so cool. All they do is smoek, drink, womanize while trying to be good people... if this is what it was really like in the 50's I don't know how any work ever got done. It's great, very sharp writing, and I love the cast. And that's I [heart sign] the cast of this show. They're all too perfect for their roles, sometimes it's like you're watching someone's real life instead of a show. They did something very smart, they put little blurbs about the ads you are seeing and advertising history in the commercial breaks, sorta like those things before movies, and they make you watch the commercials because you want to read them. Smart kids behind this one, AMC will re-run it a lot, I recommend seeing it.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX) - I love this show, it's a slap stick, hipster sitcom written, produced and acted in by the three creators who shot the pilot for $350 and are now starting their 3rd season. Lot's of people don't like this show, they don't get it, they don't understand that it's just funny, it's not suppose to be hightened reality, it's hightened hi-larity. Danny Devito joined the show last year, for some reason, and it sorta lost it's edge, though they are trying to bring that back this year. Now you can catch this show just about anytime thanks to FX's policy of re-runing shows all the time, which, I love.
Pushing Daisies (ABC) - Starts the first week of October, which I guess is next week, time flies, huh? This show looks hysterical from the previews and follows a guy who found out as a kid he could bring things back to life with a touch, but if he touches them again, they are dead forever. So what does he do now, he brings people back to life to find out how they died and then collects the reward money. Hilarity ensues. I'm looking forward to it, the show looks different and quirky and should be a good intro for Private Practice, which will need all the help it can get. This show only has a 13 show order right now, but will probably be picked up for a full run if it's half as good as it looks, unless of course the conservative right comes out against resurrection or something...
Wooo, running out of steam, almost there, almost there, must not get premium channels....
New Amsterdam (FOX) - okay, here's the scoop, looks like we're dealing with a dude who is immortal, not a vampire, and cona only grow old and die if he finds his one true love. He's a homicide detective and a recovering alcoholic. It's set in NYC and it is being saved as a mid-season replacement or a possible 2008 start. I'm sure Fox can find something to replace in their lineup, Prison Break, maybe? I just think it's so stupid to that now they've escaped only to end up in a Mexican prision that has no guards and is basically Thunderdome.
HEROES - Origins (NBC) - I won't pretend to fully understand the premise of this spin-off or even spinning off a show that has been around one year. What I gather, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that the show will have a large fan-fed component where the fans will vote on which characters make it on to HEROES. I don't know when it begins airing or what the hell they are going to do with it, but the more superheroes the better I suppose. I just hope it doesn't become an albatross for the big show. I mean why do we have to squeeze every bit of goodness out of a show now in the first two seasons and then try to drag it out for five more (Hello, LOST, what the f? was season two about?) Look ar ER, Cheers, Hill Street Blues, let the freaking show grow people, hellow FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS!
Monday Night Comedies (CBS) - Let me just say, I like these shows, I do, Neil Patrick Harris, Charlie Sheen, John Cryer, Julia Louise Dreyfus, David Spade (I think I spelled the last one right), I mena what's not to like? But I'm already reaching the ends of my TIVO memory, decisions had to be made, sacrifices taken. Plus, these shows will be on all summer and in syndication until my kids are in college...
Shooo, done, barely, and to think I'm going to do a three week follow up... yeah right, that's gonna happen. Happy viewing people, Mr. R.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 14:21:39
Little Rock 9 Celebration
My office, well most of my office (I'll get to that in a minute) watched the 50th Anniversarry ceremony today in the meeting room. A pretty good cross section of the ages, but unfortunately, not races, the feeling was the ceremony went pretty well. Comments and impressions made and now summarized included:
*(from our Central High Grad) - she never felt, in the 70's, that they were still segragated, the kids mixed pretty well and she has friends of both races to this day.
*(from our Central High Parent) - apparently today the black kids eat in the cafeteria and the white kids eat in the courtyard. No word on what the Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, etc. kids do. Also, there was not much of an ovation for the re-presentation on the State Championship trophy to the all white 1957(?) Central High Football team....
*We were all in agreement that the Mayor took way too much time. My question, how much of that speech is he going to back up during his time in office? I hope the Times and Little Rock citizens will remind him of this speech in the future should he fail to remember his own words.
*Everyone thought the Central High Student Body President, who was neither black or white, had one of the best speeches of the day and gave even President Clinton a run for his money.
*Everyone also wondered why, oh why, Deborah Mathis was emceeing and what was she trying to convey during her many, minature stump turns? Anyone have a rough count on her total speech time? If anyone spoke longer than Clinton and was not actually a part of the Little Rock Nine, they should be embarassed.
*We also wondered why Jesse Jackson was not speaking, hello, Jackson, Clinton, that's a seminar in public speaking people.
*Everyone, as usual, was impressed with Bill. It truly is seeing a genius at work, political science majors should have to study his public persona, no one does it better. We also cringed when Mathis followed Bill's speech with something to the affect of:"We grow 'em smart down here!" Not for the use of southern drawl or naughtin, just that, after the former President of the United States speaks at a ceremony commemorating 50yrs of integration in Little Rock, one would hope, the emcee would have something either wittier or wiser to quip to the world..
*All in all, a good day for Little Rock, Arkansas and the United States. Thank you to the Little Rock 9 for helping to change the world I live in.
*On a sadder note: One person in our office "is sick of all this Little Rock Nine stuff, it's been 50 years, that's enough, get over it." Biting my tongue, because, among other things, getting into a philosophical debate with this individual is on my "5 things that will tell me I'm in Hell" list, she continued that she was also sick of 9/11 and "they" should get over it and move on, for heaven's sake. Thankfully, that person did not watch with us, or I would probably not have a job this afternoon. So, while we've made progress, there's still a long way to go here in the Natural State....
Confidentially looking toward a brighter tomorrow, MR.
Monday, September 24, 2007 - 14:05:49
More proof civilization is breaking down...
Well, this is a little bit of a vent, and a little bit of what I was actually going to post about, but whatever, here it is:
So I'm at work today and a dude comes in the office to inquire why there are no payphones in the buildings anymore. I tell him what I tell everyone who comes in these days, the phone company, which owned the payphones, removed them because they weren't making any profit. Well, he said the was bullshit and wanted to use my phone. I told him what I tell everyone else (except for kids or the elderly), that it's our office policy not to allow the public to use our office phones, but there are public phones across the street at the gas station and the restaurant (a two-three minute walk, tops, and this is 10:30, so it's not even super hot yet). Well he launches into a wall-eyed fit of rage. Screaming...yes, screaming ladies and gentlemen, at me for not letting him use the business phone. Mind you, this is not some elderly gentlemen with a little dimentia who needs to call his daughter to pick him up, nor is it a lost kid who needs to call their parents, this a grown man screaming at me for following a policy I have no control over.
Then he wants to know if I'll lose my job if he uses the phone (I wanted to say, "I wish, but they'llprobably just make me work more." But the new woman was up front and I just wanted this dude to leave before they got into it and I had to save her) I told him that wasn't the issue, the issue was the policy is not to allow the public to use the office phones and if I let him use it, then I would naturally have to let anyone use it and then my phone becomes a public phone and that isn't good for the office. Well, he liked that answer about as much as having bamboo shoots shoved under his fingernails. He proceeded to tell me, in not so many words, I wasn't a good person and that there should be phones for public use in the building, blah blah blah blah. Then he left, slamming the door and starting my week off with a wonderously negative experience.
So now I'm here, not really pissed off, but like, what the hell? Why do I put up with this? Do people think this is what I love to do, sit here and get yelled at because they are inconvenienced by a corporate policy I had nothing to do with writing? Screw these people who think just because you are the first person they see in an office, you need to get yelled at, demeaned, blamed and begged for everything going wrong in the world. Guess what, when you walk into any office, anywhere, the odds are the first person you meet has no authority over anything, thus why they're the first to feel the brunt of your anger. The decision makers are in the back pretending to be busy so they won't have to deal with a situation until it refuses to go away or picks up a chair and tosses it across the room (true story). I'm like a public filter to the office and this morning I got clogged. I want a big sign on the door that says, "If you want anything not directly related to the business of this office, turn around and go ask someone else, we are not buying anything, donating anything, allowing you to use anything, borrow anything or leave anything with us "for just a minute", sorry, but that's the sort of world we live in, have a super day."
And yelling? Don' t yell at the person in reception if you want results or even to be able to speak with someone who might be able to affect some sort of change, you'd better be civil and patient while they try to find someone. This fool just laid into me like I had just revoked his powerball winnings because he let his kid buy the ticket.
I mean, when you go in somewhere to ask for help, like real help, like something that their business is not in the business of, i.e. free phone calls to your friends or whatever, you shouldn't come in with the attitude of "You don't have payphones and you have to because this is a public place so let me use your phone!" That's not what we do here, we are not SBC. And once someone has declined to help, don't get all up in theire gravy just because they said no. I mean I could have let him use my cellphone, I could have told him he could go to the Sprint store and use a demo phone to make a call, or that there were courtesy phones in the hotel, but no, he wanted to "show me" how wrong I was so he didn't get that information and is now probably hoofing it to wherever he was suppose to be. If you are refused, and people can refuse to help you, this is America, one should say thank you and formulate where they might be able to find assistance next. Being a jerk never pays.
*UPDATE*
I totally erased the rant about this friend of mine that climbed over me to get to some of my other friends after reportedly telling people we were best friends, though, I try not to use my best friends to get to their friends and then treat them poorly after I get where I want. Now, I erased the tirade because it was bad vibage, if that's how someone needs to be, that's how they need to be. I'm over it, I'd rather know who my friends really are than believe they are true blue until I need them and the flake. Also, a lot of people are starting to see this is exactly what happened and the plan is backfiring on said friend. Don't forget the people that helped you up along the way, burning bridges and climbing on backs leads nowhere.
Also, just for future reference, I stand by the part of the rant directed to some other former friends who got mad because they're girlfriends or girls they thought were their girlfriends hit on me, out of the wild blue yonder, and then after I told them so they would know the deal about "the one", they got mad at me and sided with the lady. Whatever, I was trying to put boro's before ho's and look what it got me. Thus, I am in the acquaintance biz from now on.
Whatever, that's it, I'm done, I really think I'm meant to be a hermit, I have no luck with people. So I'm have a pretty shitty Monday, the week should be fantastic, confidentially, and I needed to get some of that out of the system.
Thanks, treat each other right ya'll, Mr. R.
Please Stand By: The New Season Is Upon Us....
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated....
Yeah, I've been out for a couple of weeks, busy, busy, busy, went on a trip and all, saw some friends, etc. It was fun, and then both my work and home computers were messed up so I was without access for about a week...and I totally lost the link to login to the blog so there, I'm an idiot, that's why I've been gone, the four of you can stop worrying...
But now I'm back, by unpopular demand, and raring to go, and what's going on!
NEW FALL TELEVISION SEASON!
Here are my picks, by day of the week (I'll post these daily hopefully so as not to have one, huge dissertation of a post):
Sundays (not including Football that I'll be flipping to or watching while the shows record)
FOX
Simpson, Family Guy - Come on, staples, these two shows are the best.
ABC
Brothers and Sisters - Sally Fields didn't win an Emmy for nothing, as I predicted
she was the best thing on tv last year. Watch out for Glenn Close
in Damages (FX) at the next Emmy's.
Mondays
KVille - I've watched the pilot, I'm willing to give it a chance. And it's set
in New Orleans, and we all know I love me some NOLA.
NBC
CHUCK - Looks hysterical
HEROES - Need I say more?
Journeyman - it's on right after HEROES, I might as well, it's not blowing my skirt up yet.
CBS
Big Bang Theory - I saw the pilot on a preview thing and while I was orginially skeptical about the concept, I think it will be pretty funny, and the actors are great.
CBS Monday Comedy (as a whole)
Let me just say, I like these shows, I do, Neil Patrick Harris, Charlie Sheen, John Cryer, Julia Louis Dreyfus, David Spade, come on, what's not to like, I think I at least spelled Spade's name right. Anyway, I don't record them (well I do Big Bang Theory) because 1) they'll be re-run in the summer and 2) they'll be in syndication until my kids hit high school.
Check your local listings for times, usually I went 7 - 9pm in order....
I watched part of the Family Guy one-hour Star Wars episode, and it was hysterical. If you missed it, be prepared to purchase the DVD when it comes out. Old Dirty Man was Obi Wan, it was hysterical. Lucas must be a fan because there is no way they could have cleared rights for all of that without getting his approval. That's all I caught Sunday, except for my Fantasy Football team crashing and burning. Peyton, why has thou forsaken me?
Stay tuned for Tuesday's TV picks and watch as I amaze you with the retarded amount of television I watch.
PS: I watched Survivor: China on a whim. First of all, they totally give them their clothes after the "surprise" them and say you only get the clothes on your back. They gave them their running shoes and other stuff. Screw that, if you don' t know by now that you need to be wearing what you want to wear in the jungle for 39 days when you step onto the first plane to go to wherever you're going for Survivor, you are an idiot and deserve to be without a bra or in high heels or wearing 20lb biker boots or a $1,300 Armani suit. Who wears a frickin suit to Survivor? Tards.
I say whatever you have on is what you have on, we ain't bringing you none of your stuff fools. And we're not giving you fire until you go get your torches. You should be able to start a fire. And don't vote off the old chicken farmer from Virginia who knows how to do stuff in the wild the first day when the crappy waitress from NYC is throwing up and complaing the whole time. And then one of them wouldn't participate in a welcome ritual at a Buddist temple because she wanted to be Christ-like and not worship false idols. This is after they were all assurred, by the show, it was not a religious ceremony. And after she had already begun participating. This is the sort of crap that gives Americans a bad name. Now when I go to Catholic mass, I don't do communion and junk, I just sit there respectfully and enjoy seeing how other denominations do things. I did sing at the predominantly African American baptist church I went to, and it was off-key, but they let me. And if someone as a welcome ceremony, I'll do that. If you don't have enough faith in your religion to believe "God" or whatever is going to send you to hell for lighting some incense, bow a few times and ringing some bells, then you don't need to be on a reality show, you need to be talking to your pastor about your issues with faith. Uhhhh, please don't leave the United States if you are just going to force your culture on the place you are VISITING.... hello, George W., that means you too.
Freaking idiots, I swear, making it hard for the rest of us to get directions in Italy...... Mr. Ricky, I'm back, beware!
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