olde tymey blogging since twenty aught six
The good news:Old Navy commercials no longer make me feel homicidal. It’s the new and subdued ad campaign, I guess. I’m not sure if Old Navy dressing rooms will continue to make me want to commit violent crimes, and I’m not planning on finding out. The bad news:Commercials about buying cars for your loved ones [...]
Tue, November 27 2007 » arrgh!, television » 3 Comments
We ate breakfast at Fido this morning and had trouble finding a table — a whole big section was blocked off for a Food Network taping. Signs around the coffee shop indicated that they were doing a story about Las Paletas, not Fido, and I immediately came up with a crazy theory / educated guess [...]
Tue, November 20 2007 » local color, television, yum! » 2 Comments
Fox 17 here in Nashville employs two weather guys named Arch Kennedy and Flint Adam. The only possible way to make those names sound more fabricated would be changing the last names to Thundercloud and Warmfront. If reporter Sky Arnold was in a newscopter the whole situation would be perfect. Somewhat related, I decided a [...]
Sun, November 18 2007 » just me, local color, television » No Comments
Tomorrow night is the season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm. That means Monday is the big day where I call Comcast and downgrade our cable service to sub-basic. (Assuming that I can be patient enough to wait on hold for an hour or three.) I’d like to say that this isn’t a big deal, but [...]
Sat, November 10 2007 » television » 2 Comments
Last night at the end of the news I was surprised to be presented with a “news story” about this Maxim article. (I’m unsure whether this list appeared in the print magazine or only online. It’s irrelevant to this story, though.) It’s a lovely little list of “The Five Unsexiest Women Alive.” When my anger [...]
Tue, October 30 2007 » arrgh!, television » 11 Comments
Today, in the middle of the very week we’ve been discussing canceling cable television altogether, the DVR stopped functioning. Not a minute (and there are about eighteen thousand of them) of Pea entertainment stored on that thing is playable. I’m pretty sure that if I call Comcast it won’t be to ask them to come [...]
Wed, September 26 2007 » arrgh!, consume!, television » 6 Comments
I can’t decide if it is a wonderful or horrible thing to live in an time where both The Two Coreys and Scott Baio Is 45…And Single are actual basic cable television programs. It’s almost like TV producers have realized that they can skip the whole "quality programming" thing and amuse and entertain us with [...]
Mon, July 30 2007 » television » 2 Comments
I have a fantastic idea for a new television show, and I’m thinking of submitting it to ESPN. It could be the sports network’s first reality dating show. A little bit like The Bachelor, a little bit like Flavor of Love, and a whole lot of fun. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a little something I [...]
Fri, February 23 2007 » local color, television » 1 Comment
Katherine’s post today about a sanitized-for-basic-cable version of HBO’s drama The Wire made me laugh. It sounds like the fucks were just bleeped out of this one, but I’ve always enjoyed seeing movies where words like that are dubbed over. I dug up a list I made in October of 2004 of actual edits made [...]
Thu, January 11 2007 » at the movies, other bloggers, television » 2 Comments
Once upon a time, way back in April, we couldn’t keep Pea out of the entertainment center. We finally tied the doors together with some cables, and it stayed that way for months on end. When we untied the cables, it started right back again. She had hit her head on our coffee table a [...]
Wed, January 10 2007 » arrgh!, television » 4 Comments
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