Friday, November 23, 2007

lunch time

“Weeds” - No, no, no, the season needs to be longer!

I thought the winning “Little Boxes” video was kind of average, although the little girl was adorable.  I think the following video should’ve won.  That said, I can’t believe that these season is already over.  All in all, a very enjoyable season.  The kids are finally starting to be a part of the show that I don’t despise.  However, Celia is getting on my nerves.  I loved her in the first season, but I’m tired of her always screwing up Nancy’s life.

 

I’m sorry it plays every time my blog opens.  It’s just like MySpace, ick.  I need to figure out a way to stop that, without deleting the video.  I got this directly from the “Weeds” site, but maybe I can find a YouTube version.

A terrific Claymation version.  I love Claymation!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

lunch time

David Letterman - What a great employer

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Strike or not, employees of the “Late Show With David Letterman” and the “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” will be paid through year’s end.  Both are produced by Letterman’s Worldwide Pants banner, which notified employees in New York and Los Angeles that they will be paid regardless of whether the shows return. It would make Worldwide Pants the first known company to guarantee its staff a paycheck during the writers strike.

What a classy move by David Letterman.  He stood by the writers and refused to cross the picket line (as did Jay Leno), and now he’s paying them out of his own pocket for at least six weeks.  On the other side of the coin - Ellen DeGeneres.  Ellen took one day off to supposedly stand by her writers, but she came back the next day.  She took more time off when she was upset about breaking the contract for her adopted dog.  I’ve read quite a bit of interesting talk about how poorly Ellen treats her staff, so I’m not surprised at her behavior.  In fact, the more that I see the real Ellen, the more that I have no desire to watch public funny & nice Ellen.  The contrast is just too great.  The more I read about her, the more I believe that her tears for the dog were just a tantrum of spoiled rich person not getting their way.  The dog was just the object that she wasn’t allowed to control.

A weird thing - I click on a “justify” button for each paragraph I type in my blog.  When I started to write the first paragraph of this entry, I clicked on the “strike” button, which is next to it.  I’ve never clicked on that button before.  My fingers knew that they were going to be talking about the writers’ strike, I guess.

Friday, October 26, 2007

lunch time

Are You Watching “Samantha Who?”?

Are you watching it?  Huh, huh, huh?  It’s sooo good.  Easily becoming one of my favorite shows, and there have only been two episodes.  It even has a Wikipedia entry now.  Please try to find the episodes to watch.  If you have TiVo, you can watch them for $1.99 through Amazon UnBox, you can also rent or buy movies, but I loves mah tv.  I love UnBox, it’s saved our butt when our horribly unreliable Cox Cable dvr screwed up recording AGAIN.  We were able to download “Reaper”, “How I Met Your Mother”, and “Chuck” to our TiVo.  Figures that the dvr would screw up on some of our favorite shows versus, say, “Bionic Woman”, which just isn’t impressing us.  We’ve seen two episodes, and maybe we’ll give it a third, but then we’re done.  Oh, and since Unbox is focusing on “Heroes”, let’s talk about how the show got off to a pretty lousy start in its second season, but Veronica Mars, er, Kristen Bell, saves the day again.  This last episode was SO much better than the previous ones this season.  I wish Sylar would kill Molly, Maya & Alejandro - ugh, how many times can I hear, “Maaaatttt, I’m scared” and “Alejandro, help me, my eyeballs are flooding black gunk again and I’m killing people…again”?  Okay, I’ll tell you how many more times…none.  I am, however, enjoying Micah’s trip to New Orleans and his cousin, Monica’s, new cool powers.  The actor who plays Micah has grown up so much since last season.  He’s really adorable.  And, I’ll bet he could make our damned TiFaux dvr work all the time, so we don’t have to buy tv show backups from Amazon.

Oh, poopy.  I just discovered that Unbox doesn’t have “Samantha Who?”; however, all is not lost.  ABC is showing the premiere episode on their website, and the third episode will be on Monday, so you can catch up.  I promise that you’ll laugh.  My favorite tv critic, Doug Elfman, isn’t in love with the show yet, but he likes it.  Since he writes better than I do, here’s his description of the show.

 

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

the wee hours

Because They Wrote & Asked Me To Put This Up - I’m Impressionable

Friday, May 18, 2007

the wee hours

R.I.P. Veronica Mars

To everyone saying, “Who?”, I blame you for this great show’s demise.  Because I’m sick, I’m also cranky, so I’m not holding back that I’m mad at you….and you…and you over there, and you who just said, “Me?”, yes, you!...you’re all responsible for the end of a great show.  I’m not sure that I can ever forgive you.  Hey, HBO or Showtime, would you please buy the show from the crappy CW?