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Noted

Oct

10

2007

It is a hell of a lot harder to drag yourself out of bed to go to the gym at 5:45 AM when it’s pitch black outside than when it’s at least a little bit light out. At least if it’s a little light out, you get the sense that maybe, somewhere, other people are ...

This Can’t Be Good

Oct

9

2007

Ah, fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck. As the potential armageddon draws closer and on a day when I’m not as tired, I’ll go into more detail about exactly what a strike would mean, both to the industry in general and to me in particular. Suffice to say for now, I’m becoming very, very glad that ...

Shameless Pluggery (For Charity!)

Oct

8

2007

Do you have money lying around that you think might be better served by being given to charity? Well, I encourage you to give some of it to the people I just spent a good chunk of the evening assisting with a fundraiser, Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy. You can find out a lot more ...

Not Dead 2

Oct

4

2007

Just damn busy. Work’s been a bit nuts, and working out 5 days a week is just about killing me. On the upside, I did get a free ticket to the Dave Matthews Band concert on Tuesday at the Hollywood Bowl through work. The show was awesome (guest apperances by some spectacular banjo player whose ...

Pilot Roundup, Part 2

Sep

29

2007

Here’s another quick set of impressions of the stuff I watched this week. I’ll post scattered quickies of some of the late-premiering stuff, but this is the last big roundup. This week’s bias alerts come from the fact that I work for these folks, so reviews for anything in our timeslot (9/8 central, Tuesdays) or ...

A Sense of Accomplishment 1

Sep

26

2007

I’ve lost 27 pounds since mid-February, despite a three-month break from the gym for two casts and a surgery. That’s good, but it’s not what I’m proud of. What I’m proud of is that finally, nine months into 2007, I’ve finally finished reading 2006 issues of Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Entertainment Weekly. If I keep ...

Let This Be A Lesson To You

Sep

25

2007

Do not neglect your Netflix queue. I’d done so after going through three seasons of The Wire and nothing but for the last couple months. The last two discs were checked in today, and then I got the following: I forgot I’d even put this in my queue. I so do not have enough pot ...

Pilot Roundup, Part 1

Sep

23

2007

So before I start, I want to make crystal clear for anyone stumbling across this that all opinions here are my own as a TV viewer and should not reflect at all on the people who choose to employ me so I can continue to afford 8,000 cable channels. Also, I have two levels of ...

Tell You I Hate You

Sep

23

2007

Here’s the long review I promised earlier this week. Bunch of mini-reviews for the pilots I’ve already seen will be up later today. Many people have been asking me, “What the fuck has happened to HBO lately?” I call it Albrecht’s revenge. Chris Albrecht, the former head of HBO who was unceremoniously booted after getting ...

A Call For Koreans

Sep

18

2007

Because I would love a translation and/or explanation for the following video of Korean baseball teams fighting: glumbert – Hold your feet! Korean baseball gets strange Although I have to admit, I think I would enjoy it very much if the next time Barry Bonds gets hit by a pitch, he just started hopping out ...