tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-218339062024-03-13T09:22:59.949-07:00Danny's DiatribesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger564125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-58691973466785414082013-01-30T12:56:00.000-08:002013-01-30T12:56:10.502-08:00And we're puttin' it on wax. It's the new style.<b>Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</b> <br />
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--I thought watching the premiere of <i>Spartacus </i>I’d come up with some dog name ideas. Little did I know it wouldn’t be Spartacus or Gannicus, but Crassus as the favorite. Spartacus has a worthy foe indeed.<br />
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Gladiator – “You command me to kill you?”<br />
Crassus – “I command you to try.”<br />
Bloody damn fine start with the obligatory beheading in the first five minutes signaling the beginning of the season. I really liked the direction of this episode and transitions as we essentially got the Spartacus and Crassus tale of the tape. It is going to be f’n on! Like double-beheading type of on!<br />
There just isn’t a more fun watch on television than <i>Spartacus</i>.<br />
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--<i>Justified</i> had to take a breath at some point and this week was it. Raylan’s girl and MMA boyfriend was a yawner to me, but it did provide some quality Rachel/Raylan time which was nice. I’m liking Ray-chel.<br />
I’m going with Ellie May/Ellen May/Ella May being kidnapped by preacher’s sister.<br />
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--Chris Brown and Frank Ocean were involved in a fight? According to sources connected with Chris Brown it was Frank Ocean’s fault? Welp, guess there’s nothing to do here. Chris Brown is a victim again. Poor guy.</div>
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--I knew ever since I sat next to Ashley Judd at a Grand Prix of Houston press conference back in 2005 that she’d leave Dario Franchitti. You just don’t exchange pleasantries like we did without a sense of a real future being involved. I do find it odd she hasn’t contacted me yet though. Must be waiting for the press to calm down. <br />
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--I always get Jason and Jeremy London confused. Not anymore though. Jeremy was the one in <i>Mallrats</i> and <i>7th Heaven</i>. Jason is the one who crapped in the back of a police cruiser after getting his ass kicked.</div>
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--Yeah, maybe you’re just inviting trouble if you’re going to wear a shirt that has the words “prepare to die” on an airplane. But if those words are preceded by, “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father.” Well that should take care of that. <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/princess-bride-t-shirt-alarms-australian-airline" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">So yeah the Australian flight this guy got on</span></a> with that shirt made him take it off which begs the question. How did we not export <i>The Princess Bride</i> to Australia? Were we mad at them for the whole Yahoo Serious thing?<br />
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--Archer as Bob was great, but holy hell Gene as Bob was fantastic. <br />
“At least you know your shoulders will never go bald.”<br />
Lynn’s reactions to her “Muppet Baby Bob” were the best.<br />
Grandpa Muenster Burger (10% senior discount).<br />
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--Well damn <i>Downton</i>. What’d Sybil ever do to you?<br />
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--<i>Girls</i> needed to change coke to ecstasy and then, well do something other than that with Marnie. Not the bad friend stuff, but the Booth Jonathan crap.<br />
Why in the hell couldn’t the ex-junkie Laird kiss Hannah and then tell her she was going to get Jamm’d? Interesting character for that show. Hope we see him again.<br />
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--Christoph Waltz on <i>SNL</i> in February? Interesting. <br />
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I don't know what's what in his weight class. All I know is Anthony Pettis needs a title shot.<br />
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--Yeah, I love eating in Vegas and all, but maybe not so much <a href="http://vegas.eater.com/archives/2013/01/24/dinner-in-the-sky-features-180foothigh-dinners-in-the-sky.php" target="_blank">eating while dangling by a crane</a> 180 feet up in the air.<br />
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--Under the headline “January Jones on Mad Men’s Sixth Season.”<br />
“I’m in it more.”<br />
Uh oh.<br />
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--There is crap for television on Mondays right now so I gave <i>The Following </i>a look. It was eh. Terrible dialogue. There is Natalie Zea, but really just terrible dialogue and a lot of suspension of belief.<br />
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I don't know whether to laugh or be scared of those Poe masks.<br />
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--<i>Real Husbands of Hollywood </i>made me like Robin Thicke. Not that I disliked him. I just had no opinion of him. But damn, he and Kevin Hart are gold. Mix in JB Smoove and what looks like a cast of thousands and I’m watching BET for the first time since Video Soul. I can’t remember if it was Hart or Duane Martin when they were all hating each other, but someone told JB, “You’re the unintimidating black friend that the white lead’s girlfriends don’t wanna f***.” Show is stupid funny.<br />
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--Oh so now you don’t want flame retardants in your Gatorade?! Well excuse me your majesty. <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ha2AGm4YgB8P30IzPdFMrJm_FWmA?docId=d5f6581219d541e6b663eaa9b02f5678" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">PepsiCo is taking the brominated vegetable oil out of your Gatorade</span></a> </span>because we're a bunch of wittle babies.<br />
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--Iran shot a monkey into space. Whoop-de-doo. Iran unveils a <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9831727/Iran-unveils-finger-amputating-machine-for-use-on-thieves.html" target="_blank">finger amputating machine</a> </span>for use on thieves. Okay, now you have my attention.<br />
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--The next batch of 30 for 30’s comes in March. Do we really need one on the ’82-’83 North Carolina State title team? What that one does have going for it is the same director as the Chris Herren and Marcus Dupree ones. No coincidence it’s airing the night the brackets are released. No coincidence two nights before the NFL draft a 30 for 30 on the ’83 draft class. Like the sound of that one.<br />
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--Remember the days of fire drills/free time in schools? So nice to stretch your legs and catch up with friends. Ah, the good ol’ days. Now schools are running shooting drills in case of gunmen attacks and <a href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/29/cary-grove-drill-to-include-shooting-blanks-in-hallways/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">at least one school is going the extra mile</span></a> by having someone fire blanks in the hallways during the drills. That, my friends, is where we are.<br />
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--Showtime renewed its trio of current Sunday night shows. Don’t the people in <i>Californication</i> want <i>Californication</i> to end?<br />
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--I love you Killers, but $70 a ticket is asking a lot. A LOT. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll fork it over, but I won’t be happy…well until Eric Roberts jumps on the stage for Miss Atomic Bomb.<br />
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--<i>The Office </i>hasn’t been bad this year as I’ve somewhat paid attention, but I have zero interest in watching Roseanne Barr on it. <br />
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--Spartacus!!!!<br />
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--About damn time <i>Top Chef.</i> You’ve been so dumb I actually thought Brooke might go home over Josie. <br />
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--Yeah, if I’ve got a snake stuck in my cheek the next bullet I fire is into the back of my throat. Snake attacks before opening title sequences should be mandatory for all television shows once per season. Of course I’d also demand all television shows work in Wynn Duffy once per season as well. Yeah, this isn’t going to turn out good for you Johnny.<br />
Not sure about Raylan’s girl and her MMA ex. She knew where the money was so why was the place turned upside down?<br />
Art – “If my stiffy lasts much longer, I’m gonna have to consult my physician.”<br />
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--Timothy Olyphant on <i>Archer</i>. Swoon. “I snuck into your room with a big bottle of suntan oil, put on some Al Green and…”<br />
Line of the night to Pam – “Maybe you can shut your dick holster.”<br />
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--I haven’t watched any <i>Californications</i> in a couple seasons, but thankfully the Diatribes Oversight Committee helmed by <a href="http://twitter.com/fidoz" target="_blank">@fidoz</a> has alerted me to Maggie Grace being on the show.<br />
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--Ron’s “I love nothing!” was great. Jerry giggling as Ron ran by him was greater.<br />
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--Julius Pepperwood – Zombie Detective. Seriously, Hollywood, every week Nick Miller is trying to make you money on <i>New Girl</i>.<br />
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--I like how those annoying CSN commercials on 790 have started threatening that we’re going to miss Astros games. Cute. <br />
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--Not sure whether I more enjoyed watching Hannah workout or learn how to cut her bangs via YouTube. Really strong <i>Girls </i>this week after last week’s okay premiere. Hilariously meta to hear Sandy rattle off criticisms of Hannah/the show and get her Missy Elliott quoting reaction. <br />
I hope that’s not the end of Sandy on the show, but wouldn’t mind if Jessa and her husband take a vacation. They could take a vacation and we could get more Ray and Shoshanna.<br />
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--The Postal Service reunion?! Yes. Although I wouldn’t mind if they prohibited UPS from running any of their songs into the f’n ground again.<br />
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--Tiffani Amber Thiessen turns 39 this week. She did an Esquire “<a href="http://meinmyplace.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Me in My Place</span></a>.” She’s still got it and I’m pretty certain she always will.<br />
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--Maybe I’m just on an <i>Archer </i>high when watching, but I’m liking<i> Legit</i>.</div>
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--Until Thursday I seriously thought “She’s got Bette Davis eyes” was “She’s got better days to decide.” My version is way better. </div>
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--<a href="http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/01/band-of-brothers-sequel/" target="_blank">Uproxx with a look at 13 actors</a> who came out of the <i>Band of Brothers</i>/<i>Pacific </i>miniseries. Totally forgot Shane from <i>Walking Dead</i> was in <i>Pacific</i> and Tom Hardy was in <i>Band of Brothers</i>. Probably due for a revisit on<i> BoB</i>. I never want to revisit <i>The Pacific</i> and obviously that’s not because it wasn’t good, but damn…</div>
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--‘Tis close to the season o’ the brackets. There shan’t be a more entertaining bracket than <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8847357/a-battle-best-chappelle-show-sketch-ever" target="_blank">The Best Chappelle’s Show Sketch bracket</a> </span>on Grantland. Great stuff. His Final Four is:</div>
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--Grantland.com also with a nice set of <a href="http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/66357/why-its-time-to-binge-watch-parenthood" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Braverman power rankings</span></a> from<i> Parenthood</i>. My top five - Amber, Crosby, Max, Joel, Jabbar. (which is odd because I hated both in the first season or so), </div>
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--Today’s dumb: <a href="http://eater.com/archives/2013/01/22/reviewercard-takes-extorting-restaurants-to-a-new-level.php" target="_blank">ReviewerCards</a>.<br />
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--<a href="http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/watch-a-few-promos-for-community-season-four.html" target="_blank"><i>Community</i> promos</a>? Don’t mind if I do.</div>
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--I thought I might like <i>Downton Abbey</i> after its season three premiere. Two episodes later and it’s putting me to sleep. <br />
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--If you blinked you missed <i>Wedding Band</i>’s run on TBS. If you blinked and rubbed your eyes you missed <i>Don’t Trust the B</i> on ABC. <br />
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--It looks like a movie version of <i>Bored to Death</i> is picking up steam. This is damn good news. In a perfect world upon its release it would be accompanied by a <i>Life and Times of Tim</i> short.<br />
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--<i>Mad Men </i>returns Sunday April 7th with a two-hour extravaganza. Hopefully Breaking Bad will be right on its heels.<br />
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--Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn?! Tiger is a former golfer I’m pretty sure while Vonn is an Olympic skier…or swimmer.<br />
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--Love the idea of these <a href="http://www.psfk.com/2013/01/social-networking-lamps.html" target="_blank">Good Night Lamps</a>.<br />
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--Pretty please with a cherry on top.<br />
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--<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267071/Rachael-Rays-husband-repeatedly-visited-Manhattan-swing-club---marriage-celebrity-chef.html?i=e&ito=feeds-newsxml" target="_blank">If you’re not going to believe the Daily Mail’s story</a> about Rachael Ray’s husband visiting a swingers club multiple times with different females not named Rachael Ray then I don’t know what you’ll believe.<br />
Oh and yes dad, I’m sure Rachael has seen the article. Make your move after the divorce.<br />
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--A Giada and Bobby talk show? Oh my.<br />
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--A Valentine’s Doomsday Preppers, “Bachelor Prepper”? Oh hell yeah. Finally legitimate Valentine’s Day programming. <br />
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--The Lingerie Football League is now the Legends Football League. Carry on.<br />
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--Papa John’s is good for one thing. Robbing. A guy in Montana started off the right way with a bandana covering his face, a big knife and handing the clerk a note demanding money. But then the would-be robber started crying which is usually indicative of a poor attempt at a robbery. The guy cried that he was just trying to feed his family and the Papa John’s clerk complied with a pizza and some wings. Poor guy had to go home and explain to his family how Papa John’s pizza was somehow better than cash.<br />
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--Very impressive Brazilian inmates. Over 26,000 were given good behavior furloughs over the holidays. All but 2,400 returned. I can only assume those 2,400 were killed by The Runts. Also where the f is my <i>City of God</i> DVD?!<br />
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Questions, comments or if you borrowed my <i>City of God</i> DVD…Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-70804002680748109692013-01-18T10:57:00.002-08:002013-01-18T10:57:55.650-08:00Play or fold, love is bold. What is the future that will unfold? <b>Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</b> <br />
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</b> --Why would anything change as long as Gary Kubiak and Matt Schaub have the reigns? It’s very hard to be optimistic that next season won’t have a similar conclusion. There’s certainly zero reason to expect this team will ever be able to go through the Patriots to win the AFC.<br />
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--Astros blocked a Comcast on DirecTV deal just before the Rockets season started? Bravo Jim Crane, what will you do for your next trick to annoy an increasingly apathetic fan base?<br />
I finally went to a Rockets game to watch the new scoreboard and also the Rockets. The Rockets were blown out, but my oh my, that scoreboard. <br />
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--<a href="http://www.blogger.com/Quick%20Hitters%20and%20Random%20Thoughts%20%20%20--Why%20would%20anything%20change%20as%20long%20as%20Gary%20Kubiak%20and%20Matt%20Schaub%20have%20the%20reigns?%20%20It%E2%80%99s%20very%20hard%20to%20be%20optimistic%20that%20next%20season%20won%E2%80%99t%20have%20a%20similar%20conclusion.%20%20There%E2%80%99s%20certainly%20zero%20reason%20to%20expect%20this%20team%20will%20ever%20be%20able%20to%20go%20through%20the%20Patriots%20to%20win%20the%20AFC.%20%20%20--Astros%20blocked%20a%20Comcast%20on%20DirecTV%20deal%20just%20before%20the%20Rockets%20season%20started?%20%20Bravo%20Jim%20Crane,%20what%20will%20you%20do%20for%20your%20next%20trick%20to%20annoy%20an%20increasingly%20apathetic%20fan%20base?%20I%20finally%20went%20to%20a%20Rockets%20game%20to%20watch%20the%20new%20scoreboard%20and%20also%20the%20Rockets.%20%20The%20Rockets%20were%20blown%20out,%20but%20my%20oh%20my,%20that%20scoreboard.%20%20%20%20--Dave%20Zirin%20nails%20it%20with%20his%20last%20lines%20on%20Notre%20Dame%20and%20Teo%20and%20the%20alleged%20sexual%20assaults:%20%20%E2%80%9C(Athletic%20Director)%20Swarbrick%E2%80%99s%20press%20conference%20displayed%20that%20the%20problem%20at%20Notre%20Dame%20is%20not%20just%20football%20players%20without%20a%20compass;%20it%E2%80%99s%20the%20adults%20without%20a%20conscience.%20%20Their%20credo%20isn%E2%80%99t%20any%20kind%20of%20desire%20for%20truth%20or%20justice.%20%20Instead%20it%20seems%20to%20be%20little%20more%20than%20a%20constant%20effort%20to%20protect%20the%20Fighting%20Irish%20brand,%20no%20matter%20who%20gets%20hurt.%E2%80%9D%20Swarbrick%20using%20the%20word%20%E2%80%9Ctragedy%E2%80%9D%20to%20describe%20this%20is%20a%20joke,%20right?%20%20Some%20f%E2%80%99n%20nerve.%20%20Jezebel%20and%20The%20Washington%20Post%20with%20the%20recent%20real%20tragic%20events%20at%20Notre%20Dame.%20%20%20--Baseball%20may%20be%20months%20away%20still,%20but%20that%20didn%E2%80%99t%20stop%20an%20Independent%20League%20team%20from%20getting%20ready%20for%20%E2%80%9CManti%20Te%E2%80%99o%20Girlfriend%20Bobblehead%20Day.%E2%80%9D%20%20Yep,%20fans%20will%20get%20an%20empty%20bobblehead%20box.%20%20Also%20a%20pretend%20Kiss%20Cam.%20%20%20%20--From%20the%20moment%20we%20see%20Ken%20(Like%20Firewater?%20%20That%E2%80%99s%20racist)%20from%20the%20Wamapokes%20we%20know%20it%E2%80%99s%20going%20to%20be%20a%20great%20Parks%20and%20Rec.%20%20And%20then%20we%20get%20the%20first%20televised%20game%20of%20Settlers%20of%20Catan?!%20%20Are%20you%20kidding%20me?!%20%20Molecular%20mixology.%20%20Roy%20Hibbert.%20%20Reggie%20Wayne%20and%20Andrew%20Luck.%20%20Jamm.%20%20St.%20Elmo.%20%20All%20that%20AND%20Andy%20with%20his%20outstanding%20story%20of%20love,%20death,%20betrayal,%20and%20revenge?%20regarding%20Chris%20and%20April.%20%20Leslie%20%E2%80%93%20%E2%80%9CI%E2%80%99m%20not%20in%20the%20mood%20for%20historical%20nudity.%E2%80%9D%20%20%20--I%20probably%20would%20go%20to%20church%20a%20lot%20more,%20or%20ever,%20if%20Boyd%20Crowder%20was%20delivering%20bible%20verses%20like%20he%20did%20against%20Preacher%20Billy%20in%20their%20bible-off.%20%20%3Cs%3EHelluva%3C/s%3EHeckuva%20%20Wynn%20Duffy,%20as%20I%20live%20and%20breathe,%20how%20the%20hell%20are%20you%20son?%20%20Glad%20you%20survived%20your%20legitimately%20crazy%20friend%20and%20Raylan%20last%20season%20to%20put%20some%20odd%20creep%20into%20this%20season.%20%20Just%20in%20time%20for%20the%20new%20season,%20Eating%20Our%20Words%20with%20a%20post%20on%20how%20to%20make%20apple%20pie%20whiskey.%20%20____________%20http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2013/01/liquor_infusion_for_dummies_pl.php#more --Our prayers worked America. Kriss Kross is reuniting. Remember when you were forced to choose between Team Daddy Mac and Team Mac Daddy? Tough times. --There%E2%80%99s goodness and then there%E2%80%99s 17 Most Memorable One-Liners from Heathers. Perfect list. Oh how I wish Oprah had started her interview with Lance with a snotty %E2%80%9CWhat is your damage, Lance?%E2%80%9D BUZZFEED --I don%E2%80%99t even know what to say about Archer%E2%80%99s season premiere. I completely forgot about the Bob%E2%80%99s Burgers crossover that was going to happen so it was a nice surprise to see Archer Bob and the family. Apparently only the voice actress who does the wife was available which was a shame. Either way an incredible start to the season with that opening scene. Archer/Bob %E2%80%93 %E2%80%9CFor the%E2%80%A6(spits out) sour mix in a margarita?! What is this Auschwitz?%E2%80%9D Bucket list %E2%80%93 eat a bag of LSD gummy bears with Cheryl. --I stopped watching Shameless about 3/4s of the way through last season. I just wasn%E2%80%99t interested in spending any more time with those characters. I did watch this season%E2%80%99s premiere and liked what I saw which was Fiona, lasers, robots, and some body hacking. I just fast-forwarded through any scene that didn%E2%80%99t involve those things. --%E2%80%9CWe enlist in the Navy, quickly rise through the ranks, and then we can take her to the Naval Officers Ball.%E2%80%9D Best line Robby will ever have on New Girl. I%E2%80%99m glad I got to see Dennis Farina and horses together again. --Florida. Middle school teacher. Jug of Carlos Rossi wine. This can%E2%80%99t be good. It wasn%E2%80%99t for Mary Maloney who was on a jug o%E2%80%99 wine bender when she crashed into a car. She decided it would be best if she fled the scene so she did except witnesses followed her van until police caught up. Maloney offered the cops money to let her go. When that didn%E2%80%99t work she had no choice but to offer up oral pleasure and doobiedssdsdddddddddddddddddd fondling. If you can believe it (and you can judging by the mugshot) that didn%E2%80%99t work either. LINKWPBF --Ugh, dating is hard when The Man won%E2%80%99t let you handcuff yourself to a girl who isn%E2%80%99t interested. Am I right Jason Earl Dean? They were co-workers at a Taco Bell in Georgia and one day Jason was cool enough to wait until after she got off work before applying the handcuffs of love. For some reason she screamed and he was arrested. This happened a while back and he was finally sentenced this week. If you%E2%80%99re interested in this Lothario%E2%80%99s techniques get ready for four years in jail and six years on probation. Or try flowers. --I watched in about five 20-minute segments, but Final Destination 5%E2%80%99s ending was a nice touch. --Josie has done nothing to warrant her stay on Top Chef, but of course she stays and the uber-talented Kristen goes. There seems to be 12 ways to still win it even if you%E2%80%99re kicked off so I don%E2%80%99t think that%E2%80%99s the last of Kristen, but if it is that%E2%80%99s a shame. She%E2%80%99s probably one of the two most talented people who remained this week. If not her, then go Brooke! --Paste with a list of its 25 most anticipated albums of 2013. Number 1 is Arcade Fire which I%E2%80%99ve never really listened to after being bludgeoned with %E2%80%9CWake Up.%E2%80%9D However, LCD Soundsystem%E2%80%99s James Murphy as a contributor on the new one? I%E2%80%99m in. PASTE --Good: John Harris returning to daytime radio. Bad: 1560 letting go of Del and the Taskmaster. Also bad: Dynamo games that I liked being able to listen to at night while driving around now on the blowtorch</s> matchstick. --Of course Katherine Webb is going to be in the SI Swimsuit Issue. Have you seen her in a bikini? --I have no idea what happens on Pinterest. All I know is I%E2%80%99m a fan of Sammy Sosa%E2%80%99s page. LINK --Richard Marx is probably at the head of the class when it comes to 80%E2%80%99s stars on the Twitter. But this is all kinds of awesome. %E2%80%9CI%E2%80%99ve been getting emails from some guy who says he%E2%80%99s Richard Marx. I think it%E2%80%99s an impostor. The only thing that makes me think it might really be Richard Marx is that it%E2%80%99s from an AOL account.%E2%80%9D link --I watched the first couple of episodes of Girls last season as the show was winding down. I assumed I wouldn%E2%80%99t like it and it didn%E2%80%99t do anything to dissuade my initial hesitation, but it had enough funnies to keep me interested. Also Allison Williams. Then it really started clicking halfway through and Adam made one of the more complete in-season turnarounds for a character in a comedy I%E2%80%99ve ever seen. What I%E2%80%99m saying is I like Girls. I had no idea NBC%E2%80%99s Brian Williams was Allison Williams%E2%80%99 father. pic --%E2%80%9CHi. I%E2%80%99m Andre Royo. I played Bubbles on the critically acclaimed TV series The Wire. But today I%E2%80%99m talking about a different kind of bubbles. Soap bubbles.%E2%80%9D Best part of just an okay Bob%E2%80%99s Burgers last Sunday. Okay, relative to the rest of its great season. --Of all the states Florida should be the last to ban drones from spying on its citizens. http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2013/01/15/fla-senate-panel-votes-to-ban-spying-with-drones/ --The Killing has been renewed. Cue tumbleweed. --Don%E2%80%99t you hate it when you take the time to go to a car dealership, bust out the windows of 20 cars and then leave your wallet behind at the dealership? Forrest Randall doesn%E2%80%99t. At least he must not because that%E2%80%99s what genius did. http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2013/01/forrest_kenneth_randall_smashe.php --Way to go Marie from Breaking Bad! Purple Rain landed the female lead opposite Michael J. Fox in his new sitcom. What are we looking at, six months until the beginning of the Breaking end? --Might be time to check if you have Fox Soccer because FXX is going to be taking it over apparently as FX%E2%80%99s comedy arm. Apparently the next seasons of The League and Sunny will be on it and I guess eventually FX%E2%80%99s other comedies like Archer and Sons of Anarchy. Questions, comments or if you don%E2%80%99t really know what the hell you%E2%80%99re doing%E2%80%A6" target="_blank">Dave Zirin nails it</a> with his last lines on Notre Dame and Teo and the alleged sexual assaults: “(Athletic Director) Swarbrick’s press conference displayed that the problem at Notre Dame is not just football players without a compass; it’s the adults without a conscience. Their credo isn’t any kind of desire for truth or justice. Instead it seems to be little more than a constant effort to protect the Fighting Irish brand, no matter who gets hurt.”<br />
Swarbrick using the word “tragedy” to describe this is a joke, right? Some f’n nerve. <a href="http://jezebel.com/5976718/notre-dame-says-manti-teo-is-a-victim-thats-rich-considering-their-history-of-ignoring-actual-victims" target="_blank">Jezebel</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/01/17/a-fake-tragedy-gets-more-tears-than-a-real-one/" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> with the recent real tragic events at Notre Dame.<br />
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--Baseball may be months away still, but that didn’t stop an Independent League team from getting ready for “Manti Te’o Girlfriend Bobblehead Day.” Yep, fans will get an empty bobblehead box. Also a pretend Kiss Cam. <br />
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--From the moment we see Ken (Like Firewater? That’s racist) from the Wamapokes we know it’s going to be a great <i>Parks and Rec</i>. And then we get the first televised game of Settlers of Catan?! Are you kidding me?! Molecular mixology. Roy Hibbert. Reggie Wayne and Andrew Luck. Jamm. St. Elmo. All that AND Andy with his outstanding story of love, death, betrayal, and revenge? regarding Chris and April.<br />
Leslie – “I’m not in the mood for historical nudity.”<br />
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--I probably would go to church a lot more, or ever, if Boyd Crowder was delivering bible verses like he did against Preacher Billy in their bible-off. Helluva scene.<br />
Wynn Duffy, as I live and breathe, how the hell are you son? Glad you survived your legitimately crazy friend and Raylan last season to put some odd creep into this season.<br />
Just in time for the new season, <a href="http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2013/01/liquor_infusion_for_dummies_pl.php#more" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Eating Our Words with a post on how to make apple pie whiskey</span></a>.<br />
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--Our prayers worked America. Kriss Kross is reuniting. Remember when you were forced to choose between Team Daddy Mac and Team Mac Daddy? Lotta families never reconciled. Heated times. Seems silly now. Hell, I can't even remember which one was born to "Warm It Up."<br />
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--I stopped watching <i>Shameless</i> about 3/4s of the way through last season. I just wasn’t interested in spending any more time with those characters. I did watch this season’s premiere and liked what I saw which was Fiona, lasers, robots, and some body hacking. I just fast-forwarded through any scene that didn’t involve those things.<br />
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--There’s goodness and then there’s <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/angelameiquan/17-most-memorable-one-liners-from-heathers-70fn" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">17 Most Memorable One-Liners from Heathers</span></a>. Perfect list. Oh how I wish Oprah had started her interview with Lance with a snotty “What's your damage, Lance?”<br />
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--“We enlist in the Navy, quickly rise through the ranks, and then we can take her to the Naval Officers Ball.” Best line Robby will ever have on <i>New Girl</i>. I’m glad I got to see Dennis Farina and horses together again. <br />
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--Florida. Middle school teacher. Jug of Carlos Rossi wine. <a href="http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-florida/Palm-Beach-County-News/Mary-Maloney-teacher-accused-of-bribery-served-jail-time-during-2010-school-year/-/8815578/18142740/-/y2r1hz/-/index.html" target="_blank">This can’t be good</a>. It wasn’t for Mary Maloney who was on a jug o’ wine bender when she crashed into a car. She decided it would be best if she fled the scene so she did. Unfortunately for her some witnesses followed her van until police caught up. Maloney offered the cops money to let her go. When that didn’t work she had no choice but to offer up the goods. If you can believe it (and you can judging by the mugshot) the cops turned her down.<br />
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--Ugh, dating is hard when The Man won’t let you handcuff yourself to a girl who isn’t interested. Am I right Jason Earl Dean? They were co-workers at a Taco Bell in Georgia and one day Jason was cool enough to wait until after she got off work before applying the handcuffs of love. For some reason she screamed and he was arrested. This happened a while back and he was finally sentenced this week. If you’re interested in this Lothario’s techniques get ready for four years in jail and six years on probation. Or try flowers.<br />
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--I watched in about five 20-minute segments, but <i>Final Destination 5</i>’s ending was a nice touch.<br />
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--Josie has done nothing to warrant her stay on <i>Top Chef</i>, but of course she stays and the uber-talented Kristen goes. There seems to be 12 ways to still win it even if you’re kicked off so I don’t think that’s the last of Kristen, but if it is that’s a shame. She’s probably one of the two most talented people who remained this week. If not her, then go Brooke!<br />
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--Paste with a list of its <a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2013/01/25-albums-were-looking-forward-to-in-2013.html?p=3" target="_blank">25 albums of 2013 it's most looking forward to</a>. Number 1 is Arcade Fire which I’ve never really listened to after being bludgeoned with “Wake Up.” However, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy as a contributor on the new one? I’m in.<br />
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--Good: John Harris returning to daytime radio. Bad: 1560 letting go of Del and the Taskmaster. Also bad: Dynamo games that I liked being able to listen to at night while driving around are now on the <s>blowtorch</s> matchstick.<br />
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--Richard Marx is probably at the head of the class when it comes to 80’s stars on the Twitter. <a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/article/right-here-waiting" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">But this is all kinds of awesome</span></a>. “I’ve been getting emails from some guy who says he’s Richard Marx. I think it’s an impostor. The only thing that makes me think it might really be Richard Marx is that it’s from an AOL account.”<br />
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--I watched the first couple of episodes of <i>Girls</i> last season as the show was winding down. I assumed I wouldn’t like it and it didn’t do anything to dissuade my initial hesitation, but it had enough funnies to keep me interested. Also Allison Williams. Then it really started clicking halfway through and Adam made one of the more complete in-season turnarounds for a character in a comedy I’ve ever seen. What I’m saying is I like <i>Girls</i>.<br />
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--“Hi. I’m Andre Royo. I played Bubbles on the critically acclaimed TV series <i>The Wire</i>. But today I’m talking about a different kind of bubbles. Soap bubbles.” Best part of just an okay Bob’s Burgers last Sunday. Okay, relative to the rest of its great season.<br />
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--Of all the states I'm thinking <a href="http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2013/01/15/fla-senate-panel-votes-to-ban-spying-with-drones/" target="_blank">Florida should be the last</a> to ban drones from spying on its citizens.<br />
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--<i>The Killing</i> has been renewed. Cue tumbleweed.<br />
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--Don’t you hate it when you take the time to go to a car dealership, bust out the windows of 20 cars and then leave your wallet behind at the dealership? Forrest Randall doesn’t. At least he must not because <a href="http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2013/01/forrest_kenneth_randall_smashe.php" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">that’s what genius did</span>.</a><br />
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--Might be time to check if you have Fox Soccer because FXX is going to be taking it over apparently as FX’s comedy arm. Apparently the next seasons of <i>The League </i>and <i>Sunny</i> will be on it and I guess eventually FX’s other comedies like <i>Archer </i>and <i>Sons of Anarchy</i>. <br />
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Questions, comments or if you don’t really know what the hell you’re doing…Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-47674735151484186292013-01-09T11:26:00.000-08:002013-01-09T11:26:00.064-08:00Armed insurrection, popular election. Get paid every year like tax collection. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</b> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--It's baseball. Not sure what you expected from a complete joke of a voting process? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've watched and enjoyed more classic games in the past two years than I've watched current games. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Raylan – “You ever hear the saying: You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole; you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole?”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Missed you <i>Justified</i> and my what a rare and gratuitous flashback to reintroduce yourself. Solid premiere with Raylan taking up a bounty that, of course, has complications. And we get our angles all set up with Raylan vs. Arlo and Boyd vs. Snake Dude from The Pacific. And damn Arlo! Here I thought you’d made a friend and then you go and slice him. It should be fun to see Raylan play more detective this season. I have a feeling it’s always going to be fun to see Patton Oswalt as Constable Bob. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good debut for the newbies as Boyd’s MP friend gives him some much needed muscle who takes care of people when asked though Boyd may need to be a little more specific with him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I never got around to watching the first two seasons of <i>Downton Abbey</i>, but I’ve been to Heathrow before and once ordered fries as “chips” so I figured I could just jump right in this season. Not bad, but I have a feeling that may be because Shirley Maclaine so ably represented the US and A.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--When I couldn’t sleep last night I just thought of Oprah interviewing Lance Armstrong. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Right now I think Royce White has a better chance of being in the Rockets rotation this season than I do of seeing the Rockets on my TV.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The Soup introduced me to <i>Killer Karaoke</i> and now I must watch. Watching does require fast-forwarding through every non-Karaoke part. This ended ups #12 on The Soup's Clips of the Year show. This is one of the more tame stunts on the show.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--What? You never saw <i>Goodwill Hunting</i>? No. If you have <a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2013/01/good-will-hunting-oral-history/3/" target="_blank">here’s your oral history</a>. Although why you’d read anything from Boston this week is beyond me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/jacob-cox-brown-facebook-post-drunk-driving_n_2410163.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">best part about Facebook</span></a> has to be the arrests that come from postings like:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Drivin drunk…classic ;) but to whoever’s vehicle I hit I am sorry :P.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dumbass. Fortunately a couple of Jacob Fox-Brown’s friends or whatever sent his message to the cops who arrested him; just not for DWI which is a shame.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--A gym that requires its members to be at least 50 pounds overweight? <a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20519057/overweight-only-gym-fosters-supportive-atmosphere" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Great idea</span>.</a> No, seriously. Did that come out sarcastic? I can't help it, but no, great idea.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Carmelo vs. KG? C’moooooon double KO.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Breast? Leg? Brain? Kidney? <a href="http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/kfc-apologizes-serving-chicken-brain-andor-kidney-uk-student-146362" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">What’s the difference, right KFC</span></a>?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Nothing compares to the panic of a lost iPhone. I left mine at a Rockets game once, but it had no dating profile app <a href="http://observer.com/2013/01/heres-how-you-get-your-iphone-returned-video/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">like Nadal Nirenberg’s did</span></a>. Nadal left his in a cab in Brooklyn. Then he noticed that someone was using his dating profile so Nadal set up a fake female profile and the trap was set. Nadal set up a date at his apartment building and the Lothario showed up with a bottle of wine and the iPhone, which he did not leave with. Awesome.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--If you have the time and you’ll need some time there’s a fascinating and disgusting <a href="http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2012/12/19/bgs-the-strange-and-mysterious-death-of-mrs-jerry-lee-lewis/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">1984 Rolling Stone piece by Richard Ben Cramer on Jerry Lee Lewis</span></a> and the death of his fifth wife. I’d seen Richard Ben Cramer’s name on Twitter a lot after his death and after reading this I’ve got to go look at more of his work. Terrific writing. Tragic story.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I was so-so about checking out <i>The Following</i> later this month until I found Natalie Zea was in it. Now it’s on my Top 10 List of Favorite Shows.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The Mavericks signed Mike James?! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--If there’s ever cross promotion I don’t need to maintain my health it’s TV shows and alcohol. It’s bad enough I drink whiskey every time someone on<i> Justified </i>or <i>Mad Men</i> does, but now there’s going to be <i>Game of Thrones </i>beers and a <i>Sunny</i> beer called Dayman Coffee IPA. There isn’t one part of Dayman Coffee IPA I don’t absolutely love.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Just when I think I’m not going to watch the next season of <i>Awkward</i> they bring in Anthony Michael Hall. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://eater.com/archives/2013/01/08/yes-dominos-japan-has-a-66-kobe-beef-steak-pizza.php" target="_blank">Of course a Domino's in Japan</a> has a U.S. equivalent $66 Kobe beef, potato, onion and deluxe steak sauce pizza.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Linda on <i>Bob’s Burgers</i> - "Just shave up to the knee. Only strippers shave above the knee...the good ones anyway."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I haven’t been enamored with <i>Happy Endings</i> this season, but liked this line from Max, “I guess no one will ever love me. Now I know how webisodes feel.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I caught a little of<i> 24</i> on a marathon of AUD whatever that is. It’s amazing how much smarter Elisha Cuthbert’s airhead character is on <i>Happy Endings</i> than on the show where she eventually worked at CTU.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--From Colbert’s open the other night - "My guest, Chris Kluwe, is an NFL punter and gay-rights advocate. Wow, that's pretty brave for an NFL player to admit he's a punter."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Megan Ganz was a writer for <i>Community</i>. Keyword “was.” She was damn good and is worth a follow <a href="https://twitter.com/meganganz" target="_blank">@MeganGanz</a>. It’s not like anyone expected <i>Community</i> to run more than its 13 episodes starting next month and she did write a couple of them, but still. On the plus side she’s going to<i> Modern Family</i> which could use her or anyone who doesn’t want the same episode over and over.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /> --As someone who has rolled through Carthage a few times in the last few months it took me way too long to get around to seeing <i>Bernie</i>. Jack Black was damn good as the title character. Shirley MacLaine was as "unfriendly" as she was supposed to be. A small town Texas district attorney is a layup for Matthew McConaughey. The real stars were the real townspeople the movie used. So many good quotes including this one on the jury assembled in San Augustine:<br />“They had more tattoos than teeth and not a brain between them all. And they’re supposed to decide a thing like this? I wouldn’t let them work on my car.”<br />There was also a nice explanation of the five states of Texas from West Texas to San Antonio to Dallas to Houston to Carthage. “Course I left out the panhandle…and a lot of people do.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I'm a sucker for time travel so of course I was down with <i>Looper</i>. Solid flick with bonus, Garrett Dillahunt. I like the Rainmaker. My new puppy (thanks mom) can also be called a Rainmaker. Actually, I'm still in tryouts for names...Omar, Bodie, Gus, Nucky, Buscape (City of God), Django, Riggins, Ghost, Shaggydog, Tyrion, Chalupa Batman, Archer. And that's after I narrowed it down.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Drudge Report Headline of the Week - "<a href="http://fox8.com/2013/01/02/woman-falls-15-feet-at-cleveland-strip-club/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Stripper tries tricky move during lap dance, falls off two-story balcony</span></a>."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />--Risotto. #TopChefFamousLastWords<br />Hate to see John Tesar go out like that. He’s infinitely more talented than maybe 2 or 3 of the 8 chefs left. And screw that dude with the handlebar mustache for offering his unsolicited opinion about John’s pots. Was John whining and making excuses? Yeah, but there’s no need to kick him while he’s down. Especially when this is like the first week you haven’t been on the bottom yourself. How that dude and Josie are still alive speaks to the yawn of a season this has been. Just give Kristen the title already.<br /><br />--<a href="http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2012/12/tracy-browning-jailed-after-repeatedly.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Wait, food stamps can't be used to buy iPads</span></a>? What the hell Obama?! Tracy Browning tried to reset what exactly food stamps can be used for and in the process managed to get herself banned from all Wal-Mart stores.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Ryan Hansen on <i>Parenthood </i>being all Ryan Hansen was a nice surprise. The former Party Down'er has guested on <i>Parenthood</i>, <i>League</i>, <i>Happy Endings</i>, and <i>Childrens Hospital </i>lately. Also <i>2 Broke Girls, </i>but nobody's perfect.<br /> <br />--Am I supposed to be surprised Rex Ryan has a tattoo of his wife wearing nothing but a Mark Sanchez jersey?<br /><br /> --Step one: <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Police-Seattle-robber-caught-with-cash-in-shoes-4164747.php" target="_blank">Successfully rob bank</a>. Step two: Pleasure yourself in public until the police are called. I checked twice and this happened to a guy in Seattle and not Florida. I’m gonna check one more time to be sure though.<br /><br /> --<a href="http://www.wpbf.com/Deputies-Would-be-robber-had-to-call-mom-for-ride-home/-/8789538/18002240/-/13xweub/-/index.html" target="_blank">Zachariah Howard decided he was going to rob a convenience store in Niceville</a>. Niceville is in Florida so finally order has been restored. Anyway, Zachariah told the clerk he had a gun which still didn’t magically put any cash in the empty drawer. So Zachariah left, walked over to the Winn-Dixie and called his mom to pick him up. Somehow this criminal mastermind was caught.<br /> <br />--My favorite part of tmblr is that you don’t have to guess what the site content is. Like<a href="http://WhoIsThatHotAdGirl.tumblr.com/">WhoIsThatHotAdGirl.tumblr.com</a>. Brilliant idea by the way.<br /> <br />Questions, comments or if the best part about having shingles is absolutely nothing because, fuck you shingles…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Well, that’s one way to answer some of the more lingering questions of the last few weeks of <i>Homeland</i>. Abu Nazir’s plan makes more sense now that he got this public act of terror. Now Brody is off to find the one-armed valet who set him up by moving and putting explosives in his car? It was weird to me that happy Brody and happy Carrie had zero chemistry. Or maybe I’m basing my zero chemistry analysis on my zero interest in them in a relationship that isn’t full of lies and misdirection. Either way I hope we get a break from seeing Brody on the screen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quinn was a total bad ass. Curious if he leads the hunt or Carrie convinces him it wasn’t Brody responsible for the bomb. But IT WAS Brody who killed the Vice President. I still don’t understand why the CIA who knew Brody had terrorist leanings didn’t think it odd that the only person who was with Walden during the heart attack was Brody. That and the whole “explanation” of Carrie about getting away from the world’s most dangerous terrorist remain my two biggest questions. Also a little odd that before the blast Carrie was offered a station chief job because she’s kind of, you know, crazy. And how exactly did a bomb get through security and are there are not cameras everywhere to see who moved Brody’s car?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saul was terrific and I assume we’ll get a lot more of the bearded one next season. I found it strange though that when told Carrie and Brody weren’t accounted for that he didn’t automatically jump to a conclusion beyond they’re dead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we’re done with the Brody family, right? I mean of course I’m invested in Chris’s rise in karate, but I’m trying to move on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harrison misses Hannah. You’re f’n joking, right Harrison?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The Texans are 7-1 at home despite that terrible scoreboard and the worst graphic in the league. It’s for JJ Watt and the only explanation is that it came from a C student in a 1985 7th grade computer lit class. Embarrassing. And let’s not forget that the referee’s microphones don’t work more often than they do. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Adrian Peterson became the 5th player to have a pair 200-yard rushing games in the same month. 80% of Houston thinks he’ll probably make it three on Sunday. Anyway, the other players to have done it twice in the same month? OJ, Earl, Ricky Williams and I would’ve been here guessing a while, but ‘twas none other than Tiki Barber.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I’m not sure what took so long to get a <i>Game of Thrones </i>beer, but it’s not much longer now. <a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/12/hbo-teams-up-with-brewery-to-craft-game-of-thrones.html" target="_blank">Ommegang is teaming up with HBO for Iron Throne Blonde Ale</a> to be released upon the next season’s premiere date, March 31st. A few others are in the works.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently the show will be somewhat extended with a few minutes tacked on to each episode more so than in the past and it adds up to almost an hour longer season. And this third book is going to need every additional minute. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The best two minutes of comedy for me all week was when mannequin turned human Chet told his love story to the tune of Love Story, “The new summer sports wear had just come in and so had Nadine. She didn’t have nipples and brother, she didn’t need them.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>The League </i>has come and gone and will come again next season as it’s just been renewed. Really strong closing kick with an hour of goodness from the likes of Jeff Goldblum, Bob Odenkirk, Brooklyn Decker, Mr. McGibblets and of course, Rafi.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PYS and PYH – Indeed. The best was Taco instituting a suicide scrot.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wonder who is going to play Ted.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The most unrealistic thing the show has ever done, and for this show that’s saying something, is Pete sitting Adrian Peterson in the title game. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope they do fewer cameos next season although one has to be Arian.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>The Walking Dead</i> was also renewed not that it’s any surprise. But Glen Mazzara stepping down as showrunner is. That might be a problem. Or it might not. Tough to predict the future, right Mayans?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Jean-Ralphio is getting a twin sister on Parks? Sweet. Jenny Slate does look Jean-Ralphioish.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Penny to Dave the gift whisperer on <i>Happy Endings</i>, “Like when you said you were the Horse Whisperer whisperer and you couldn’t get the DVD to work?”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elisha Cuthbert vs. Hip Hop Santa</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Craigers has been M.I.A. for a while after his last talk show failed to produce anything in the few cities it was shown. However, Kilborn is swinging again with a news satire pilot for CNN. I’m thinking no, but I do miss Five Questions.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hated the Galvez scene and Carrie’s, “Well, he is a Muslim.” Such a weak scene and for that to be the apparent pay off scene for his inexplicable early return from his death bed. Um, no. And Galvez simply couldn’t get re-stitched there by someone from the medical team?! He had to leave without telling anyone?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did like the overdue Brody and Jessica talk. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Does the CIA not think it a little odd that Brody was with the VP all alone when the heart attack happened?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How weak did Carrie think Roya was? And how did she just waltz in to interrogate her? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carrie doesn’t have to really explain how she got away or get any kind of debriefing? This was Abu f’n Nazir, right? Maybe that will come next week. I think next week Estes goes down for the drone attack, but other than that I can’t even venture a guess. Well I can guess Dana will do something annoying. And Brody. Well, he’s got to die, right?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grand prize of $1,500 for whoever kills the most pythons and $1,000 to whoever kills the biggest. Apparently pythons are wrecking the ecosystem of the Everglades. </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Why would you order or want to make a drink with <a href="http://eater.com/archives/2012/12/10/london-bar-raided-over-illegal-whaleinfused-cocktail.php" target="_blank">whale skin infused whiskey</a> in it anyway?!</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Why wasn’t I informed there was a 3-disc nWo set out? Good times...</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Overkill thy name is <a href="http://www.parents.com/blogs/parents-news-now/2012/12/11/safety/parents-hire-drug-sniffing-dogs-for-teens-rooms/" target="_blank">parents who hire drug sniffing dogs </a>to search their kids’ rooms. </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-music-of-2012,89711/2/" target="_blank">AV Club lists its best albums of 2012</a>. I see names like Leonard Cohen, Divine Fits, Jack White, and Frank Ocean at the top so obviously I like this list.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Deb – “I don’t want Harrison to grow up without a father.” Umm, Deb when you’re telling Dexter that as you’re both off to the side while Harrison is with his nanny about to take a picture with Santa? What exactly do you consider growing up without a father?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So glad we finally got a scene with just Batista and LaGuerta. </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Why do local sports talk shows take calls? Seriously. </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I love it when my fast money ideas get tested out so I can get a feel if they’d work or not. Like Jennifer Herring of Myrtle Beach. Police tried to pull her over so the light bulb went on over her head and she called 911 with the <a href="http://www.wcti12.com/news/Deputies-Woman-said-she-d-stop-for-300K/-/13530444/17736638/-/d5wh5sz/-/index.html" target="_blank">Quote of the Wee</a>k.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Are you ready to pay me $300,000? If you want to pay the 300 grand, I'll pull over for you. That is my offer and I'm asking you to accept it."</span><br />
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The police are firm negotiators though when all they want to do is arrest you without paying you. And that’s what happened to Jennifer. Back to the drawing board. </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Which is it? “The Mayan A-cock-aclypse” or “The Mayan A-cock-and-lips”?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Highlight of the entire week is Deion Sanders rolling up to the set and Rafi delivering the way only Rafi can, “I don’t know who you are, but you’re about to get chlamydia.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope that’s not the last we see of Brooklyn Decker. Good stuff all around. Unlike<i> Sunny</i> because that was one of the worst <i>Sunnys </i>I can remember.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Finally did some catching up on <i>Parenthood</i> and there is no show that pulls the heartstrings like it does so when it airs a Christmas episode, well damn. </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The Golden Globes like most awards are jokes. This is not new. But when <i>Mad Men</i> isn’t considered one of the five best dramas and <i>The Newsroom</i> is, well, c’mon. And maybe someday I’ll actually find someone who watches <i>Episodes</i>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the plus side Schmidt (Max Greenfield) got a nod.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Mental Floss with a look at <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/154921" target="_blank">12 Toys From The 80’s That Didn’t Take Off.</a> I don’t remember any of these though I’m quite sure I need the <i>Police Academy</i> toys. Speaking of The Gutt, I saw someone tweet last week that Steve Guttenberg is now older than Wilford Brimley was when <i>Cocoon</i> was filmed. Ho-ly…</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Love that the Eatsie Boys finally have their café up and running at 4100 Montrose. They did a great job with the space although I’d probably say that about any place that has Beastie Boys albums on the walls. I can’t wait until it warms up enough to get some of that Shipley’s Glazed and Confused Ice Cream. </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Guy Fieri in <i>Rock of Ages</i>. <a href="http://eater.com/archives/2012/12/13/watch-guy-fieris-rocking-broadway-debut-in-rock-of-ages.php" target="_blank">Of course, Guy Fieri in <i>Rock of Ages</i></a>.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--How do you know when you should bacdafuckup? When you say something and Stephen A. Smith follows it with, “First of all, let me say this: I’m uncomfortable with where we just went.” Why people watch <i>First Take i</i>s beyond me, but people do.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The Big Ten is expanding and you just yawned, right?! Me too. I’m not even tired, but I typed Big Ten and THERE IT IS AGAIN?! Cool trick. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, they’re going over some really cool division name options to replace the already awesome Leaders and Legends. Cool options like Inner and Outer. No, really.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I’m gonna miss you Larry Merchant. Going out on a solid card Saturday night though. </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bal-donnie-andrews-inspiration-for-omar-character-on-the-wire-dies-20121214,0,3207915.story?track=rss" target="_blank">The inspiration for Omar</a> from a little show called <i>The Wire</i> passed away.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/12/14/police-man-tries-to-drown-wife-in-dog-bowl-after-fight-over-frozen-pizza/" target="_blank">Our Florida Story of the Week</a> comes to us from, well, uh, Florida. Richard Watson settled in next to his wife to watch the 12/12/12 Sandy concert. Wifey made a pizza. Richard or Dick for short (ha, has anyone ever thought of that?) thought the crust was raw and hoped it would cook by flinging it and the plate it was on to the floor. His wife did the same. That’s when Dick decided to end the marriage. Not through a divorce like most people. He had not time for that bullsh**. He had to drown his wife, but filling up the tub would take forever so opted for the dog’s water bowl. Fortunately police arrived soon thereafter and she suffered no major injuries, but unfortunately she lives in Florida so major injuries will eventually happen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</b><br /> <br />--Ron Swanson, you ol’ softie. Bringing out Duke Silver like that was syrupy sweet awesome sauce. I would’ve cried if I didn’t already cry myself out watching the In Memoriam segment at the woodworking awards.<br />April – “It’s because of your man strength! Man Perkins!” April and Ann with the hottest fight scene on NBC that didn’t involve Gillian Jacobs and Alison Brie. <br />Andy – “I’m allergic to sushi. Every time I eat more than 80 sushis I throw up.”<br /><br />--Same ol’, same ol’ from <i>Sons of Anarchy</i>. Couple of montages, someone lies, Gemma is a biyatch, Jax’s master plan works, someone else lies, Gemma is a biyatch, Jax wins, Otto bites off his tongue. Well I guess that last one can only happen once. I was with Tig whenever Jax “saved” him and Tig pointed out that Pope could’ve killed him on the spot and Jax smugly responded, “But he didn’t.” Just like the other hospital could’ve sent a welcome basket to its incoming doctor once she actually moved, but they didn’t because Gemma had to see it in order to put her next plan into motion. I guess it was her who turned Tara in at the end though maybe something else could happened. Don’t know and my care is waning. <br />It’s just not that compelling to me anymore.<br /><br />--Arian has the same average number of yards, 1.8, after contact as Chris Johnson? Uh, that’s not good.<br /> <br />--<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/12/frankie-muniz-recovering-after-mini-stroke/" target="_blank">Frankie Muniz is old enough for a stroke</a>?!<br /> <br />--I don’t understand the logic of framing a news story and asking the question should a newspaper run this photo and then show said photo on the television. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/new-york-post-photo-subway_n_2237300.html" target="_blank">On the off chance you haven’t seen said photo... </a><br /> <br />--<i>Walking Dead</i> is fine and all and we doomsday preppers know it’s not a matter of if, but when the zombie apocalypse will occur, but there are non-believers. A non-believer might even be your girlfriend <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/a-chunky-history-of-peanut-butter.html" target="_blank">who thinks the premise for <i>The Walking Dead</i> is ridiculous</a>. Obviously she’s wrong, but that doesn’t mean you should shoot her. Do you hear me Jared Gurman?! This girl might be the nicest girl in the world what with coming to pick him up so he wouldn’t drink and drive, going back to her house, then going back to his place because his texts worried her and for what? So she could get shot in the back with a rifle while walking up the stairs to go to sleep. She’s in serious, but stable condition and her idiot boyfriend was charged with attempted second degree murder. Over the likelihood of a zombie apocalypse. <br /> <br />--The<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/a-chunky-history-of-peanut-butter.html" target="_blank"> New Yorker with a look at a book from Jon Krampner</a> on the history of peanut butter, even the crappy smooth kind that only the weirdos eat. We have Joseph Rosefield to thank for crunchy after he founded Skippy because Peter Pan tried to sell him short. <br />The best-selling peanut butter for the last three decades? Jif. <br /> <br />--<a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/12/best-oral-histories-2012/59675/" target="_blank">The 10 Best Oral Histories of 2012</a> as compiled by Atlantic Wire. <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/freaks-and-geeks-oral-history" target="_blank">Vanity Fair ran an oral history of <i>Freaks and Geeks</i></a> in its Judd Apatow-helmed issue. Good stuff on the great cast. <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjheZ2BDfurwqXjGa1FS4Ll_vWw8R1igU9NWZpxigvmQqUPQouYQT9KAWeIR5fc8FM5C_2iW60X7X59SIeyqFBm9iEJb3tMVRWzRcXsA_mWt9ksz0vFrj81RKzFbdcOlBbg1DpP/s1600/freaks-and-geeks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjheZ2BDfurwqXjGa1FS4Ll_vWw8R1igU9NWZpxigvmQqUPQouYQT9KAWeIR5fc8FM5C_2iW60X7X59SIeyqFBm9iEJb3tMVRWzRcXsA_mWt9ksz0vFrj81RKzFbdcOlBbg1DpP/s400/freaks-and-geeks.jpg" width="400" /></a></span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />--Not surprisingly, and deservedly so, MTV’s <i>The Inbetweeners</i> was cancelled.<br /> <br />--Wait, Bilbo is Tim from <i>The Office</i>? I don't have high hopes for the movie, but it was cool watching Colbert geek out over his <i>Hobbit</i> guests all week.<br /><br />--Because Anthony Bourdain must be on television as much as Gordon Ramsay we’re getting<i> The Taste</i> from ABC in January. It’s a, yawn, culinary competition show with Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey. You may have seen one or two or all of them on Top Chef at some point. I mean who can forget Padma and Nigella getting breakfast in bed? As for The Taste. Yeah, it’ll be forgotten by March.<br /><br />--You’re supposed to do something with dill pickles and you think to fry them and put them on a burger?! You want to be <i>Top Chef </i>with that, CJ? I seem to recall him being pretty good his first time around, but he was pretty bad this time around. I’m glad they sent two people home the last two weeks. They just start out with so many nowadays it’s impossible to get a read on anyone until more than half the season is over. Having the winner of the still stupid Last Chance Kitchen get to rejoin the show in the finals is not right.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the way, Archer Farms dill pickle cashews - yes.<br /> <br />--Step 1: Rob Bank. <br />Step 2: Brag About Robbery on YouTube.<br />Step 3: Act Surprised When the Cops Knock on the Door.<br /><a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/12/florida_man_arrested_for_drivi.php" target="_blank">19-year-old Hannah Sabata is our criminal mastermind</a> out of Nebraska. I’m not sure how a 19-year-old divorcee who lives with her parents, smoked pot on the video and titled said video “Chick Bank Robber” could actually rob a bank unless bank robbing must be way easier than I thought. <br /><br />--Walgreens. <a href="http://eater.com/archives/2012/12/06/walgreens-is-unleashing-food-truck-tour-on-america.php" target="_blank">Food truck tour</a>. Well, duh.<br /> <br />--Seriously the wreath game is where it’s at. <br /> <br />--Tell me <a href="http://mobile.avclub.com/articles/a-mostly-comprehensive-timeline-of-all-the-crazy-t,89530/" target="_blank">Katt Williams</a> and Lindsay Lohan don’t belong together.<br /> <br />--I love this picture. Apparently New Zealand is trying to enhance the chances of rescue dogs being adopted so <a href="http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/20270364/2012/12/05/trainers-teach-dogs-to-drive-cars" target="_blank">they’re teaching them how to drive</a>. Designated driver dogs, win-win for New Zealand.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-3514098690717426862012-12-04T19:46:00.003-08:002012-12-04T19:46:38.915-08:00She knows what she's talking about. And for a moment I know. What it was all about. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</b><br /><br />--Richard Harrow’s wallet is the one with BMF on it. That’s how you go on a shooting rampage. Also how you “surrender” your gun. So sad to see him walk away from his girl, but we know he’ll be back because somebody has to protect Tommy from his grandmother. And damn you Gillian for recounting the events that likely sent you off into your twisted world. I’m trying to hate you here. Crazy hot Gillian. <br />Plain crazy Gyp. I think you could have got Tonino at +500 to be the one to put an end to Gyp and his murder/comedy stylings. It was a little bit of anti-climactic death for such a character though it was directed beautifully. Of course it was Nucky that set that whole thing into motion with his wheeling and dealings. AR, so cocky so self-assure, so gonna be in trouble next season with the Overholt distillery. Nice move Enoch. Also looking forward to next season when Lucky Luciano starts becoming Lucky Luciano. <br />Al Capone is certainly becoming Al Capone. I like the bonding time he had with Chalky. It’s always nice to bond over an ambush of a common enemy. <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-Fu0HAhXj3iRXThC5vr-kMIYVDetn26tBjiAK6hbV5noOIaGzPL3UNbx76lR4v41PCrSdalbfVoW56BzuYCKeYkMyQQNFl4rMCEcUZ3mW4dJDd4J4NtIGMy7ZbvSYe9AOTLX/s1600/r-BOARDWALK-EMPIRE-FINALE-600x275.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-Fu0HAhXj3iRXThC5vr-kMIYVDetn26tBjiAK6hbV5noOIaGzPL3UNbx76lR4v41PCrSdalbfVoW56BzuYCKeYkMyQQNFl4rMCEcUZ3mW4dJDd4J4NtIGMy7ZbvSYe9AOTLX/s320/r-BOARDWALK-EMPIRE-FINALE-600x275.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />Nucky was dealing out lessons left and right. The only play that didn’t work out for him was with Margaret. I should say it didn’t work out, yet. Who knows what next season will bring? We have a soon to be pissed off Rothstein, a pissed off Lucky and Meyer, Masseria, Van Alden, Capone, Chalky with a place on the Boardwalk, a carnation-less Nucky, Richard, a heroin-addicted Gillian? and who knows what else?<i> Boardwalk Empire</i> is a slow burn drama and it can feel like it’s dragging its feet at times, but when you know you’re going to get major payoff it works. The last three episodes this season were a fantastic conclusion to a really, really strong season. Steve Buscemi deserves his Emmy.<br /> <br />--The midseason finale of <i>The Walking Dead </i>brought us Cutty!!! Cutty as Tyrese is just awesome. Hopefully the show does a better job with Tyrese as a newbie than it has done with Michonne. They really have no idea what they’re doing with her do they? Why does she want the Governor dead so badly? Yeah, he’s a bad guy, but to go back to Woodbury just to put a sword in him didn’t make much sense. And she couldn’t tell Andrea that the Governor had imprisoned her friends because...? All that was unsatisfying as was not seeing Daryl get captured. I would have liked to have seen how the most bad ass person in the show was caught by Woodbury’s keystone cops. Couldn’t he have just used some more magic smoke to escape? That was kind of sloppy even though Merle and Daryl’s fight for your lives reunion looks promising.<br />Best use of Shane ever. <br />Worst explanation of why I have fish tanks full of zombie heads ever.<br />Midseason MVP: F’n Carl. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He’s like Adrian Peterson or Peyton Manning because Carl is MVP and Comeback Player of the Year. Blasting his mom. His perfectly delivery of “I did” after being asked if they should help Tyrese. Great job with Carl.<br />LVP – Michonne and Andrea.<br /><br />--Ouch Lions. Just ouch. Three straight home losses in which you led in the 4th quarter in all three. Ouch.<br /> <br />--How do you let Jim Deshaies get away?! Seriously, I can’t even use the Astros game as a background channel now. Of course that’d be assuming I’d be receiving CSN Houston. I'm so sick of this bullshit between the Astros, Rockets, CSN, Uverse, Directv, Dish, whatever. I don't care who's to blame. It's just wrong though. Flat out f'n wrong.<br /> <br />--What is this feeling I have after watching <i>Homeland</i>. Disap. Disappointment? It was a very <i>24</i>-like episode and it didn’t really work for me. I thought Abu Nazir wanted to cause mass casualties on American soil and have the world know who it was who was responsible. Hacking into the VP’s pacemaker doesn’t fit with what we knew about Abu Nazir. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “NAZIR!!!!” Seriously Brody, what the hell? You go to the trouble of finding a quiet spot since Abu Nazir facetimed you with CIA agents everywhere and you start screaming Nazir’s name?! The only thing that was louder than you was Carrie banging around the warehouse.<br />Hopefully we get a little something on why Carrie didn’t warn the CIA about Nazir’s pacemaker plan. <br />Saul and F. Murray Abraham was fun until it made Saul dumb enough to keep poking the Estes bear.<br />That was really weird for Galvez to just pop up like that after being near death. And how exactly did he “hear” about Carrie? Just weird.<br />Dana and Finn. Sigh.<br />NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY HEARTS WITH YOU CHRIS! GO KARATE SOMETHING!<br />Just some atypical misfires to me this week, but nothing that makes me anticipate these final two episodes of one big bang after another season. <br /> <br />--<a href="http://houston.eater.com/archives/2012/12/04/pi-pizza-found-18-fans-who-wanted-tattoos-pondering-brick-and-mortar-space.php" target="_blank">Pi Pizza Truck thinking about a brick and mortar</a>? Do not play with me!<br /> <br />--While we’re on the subject of pizza or “pizza”, <a href="http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/pizza-hut-gives-back-with-pizza-scented-perfume-67197" target="_blank">Pizza Hut has a pizza perfume</a> coming out. That's only the second dumbest thing I've ever heard of. First of course being the New Orleans Pelicans.<br /><br /> Questions, comments or if your new friend calls itself Scrimshaw Pilsner…</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-51844625130938115562012-12-02T11:16:00.000-08:002012-12-02T11:16:04.509-08:00And it seems like it's been so long since he shined. Namaste. But I'm sure it was only yesterday. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Why don’t Charlie and Lance ever discuss dolphin lactation on the radio like they do on Pawnee stations? There will never be a better explanation of the Batsignal than:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--“Did I just do your job for you?” Oh, I liked Founder Frank. Not as much as I liked the video for Fight Milk or the fact that Philadelphia has had an abundance of crow eggs lately. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dennis getting off = awesomely kreepy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Maybe Clay and Jax can just shoot each other? Please? I think I’m rooting for Donal Logue and Wendy. Jax is just tiring at this point. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What the hell more evidence does Bobby think the club needs against Clay? Regardless, very strong episode for Ron Perlman.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Oh yeah like I’m not going to post the greatest exhibition of the Charleston ever. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--JB Smoove was fine. Seth Rogen and Jeff Goldblum are coming back, but I can’t imagine I’m going to enjoy any <i>League </i>guest star more than when Bob Odenkirk makes his appearance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Word search in a zombie novel = Vegenius.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ll never be able to eat a churro again without thinking of Schmidt.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--You know how for years we’ve been saying we need Barbra Streisand to play Seth Rogen’s mom in a road trip type of movie? Thankfully <i>Guilt Trip</i> has come along. Oh man, I can’t wait for the hijinks. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/arteesha-donaldson-south-carolina-assault-sex-toy-detachable-penis_n_2200389.html" target="_blank">Thanksgiving. Arteesha. Latoya.</a> Detachable latex pen**. Ironing Board. Awesome. Apparently Arteesha got mad at Latoya because she couldn’t find her latex friend. Arteesha did what anyone would do and threw an ironing board at Latoya to jog Latoya’s memory. It didn’t work, but it did get the police to come out and arrest Arteesha who oddly enough had warrants out for her.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--There are all sorts of ways to start rap groups. Like for me it came out of my street life slinging dope and hustling fools on the hard streets of Sagemont. <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121128/METRO/211280359" target="_blank">Josiah Daniel Curtis</a>, whose mugshots are simply the best, had his own way of starting out. He stole a school bus on Thanksgiving in Wyoming. Josiah attempted to steal not one, not two, but six buses before finally finding one he could go 20 feet without hitting something. Josiah had no choice though because he had a recording session lined up and had to make it to Detroit. He made it to Ann Arbor before The Man ended his recording session prematurely. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/television/16496695-421/dreary-daughters-are-dragging-down-some-of-tvs-best-shows.html" target="_blank">Chicago Sun-Times with a look at six television daughters</a> who are dragging their respective shows down. The impetus for this article? Yep, Dana Brody. I don’t watch the other shows except, of course, <i>Game of Thrones</i>, but Sansa is all right in my book.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I like Batman. I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I do not like Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Batman.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Start clearing up some nights in January. <i>Justified </i>on Tuesday, January 8th. Archer on Thursday, January 17th.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Seriously though, the Phillies having last won a game since the Eagles last won a game is a sick, sick stat.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I’m surprised it took this long for <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/deadliest_catch_crab_cakes_to_appear_DAREH7Yp02boivdXM8jktI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20TV" target="_blank"><i>Deadliest Catch</i> crab cakes</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/starz-spartacus-spinoff-julius-caesar-talks/" target="_blank">A <i>Caesar</i> spin-off from <i>Spartacus</i></a>. Interesting, if not surprising. I don’t think it could be better than <i>Rome</i> was. It’d be hard to out-nude Rome too, even for Spartacus.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Nosh Bistro made me a beet believer. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I think we all had North Korea as being the country that would find <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/north-korea-finds-secret-unicorn-lair_n_2219289.html" target="_blank">the secret unicorn lair</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Questions, comments or if you picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue AND start Matt Ryan/Julio Jones…</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-81673331018354832682012-11-27T16:05:00.000-08:002012-11-27T16:06:02.697-08:00Riding on a thought to see where it's from. Gliding through a memory of a time yet to come.<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chalky – “You’re doing it.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard Harrow has kind of just been there this season. Great actor with a nice enough romance lately, but now everyone better watch the hell out because he is a bad, bad man with a weapon in his hand. I wouldn’t cry if Gyp AND Gillian were on the business end of his sniper rifle. Pretty sure that’s Richard in those new Guinness commercials though it’s hard to tell since he doesn’t have a mask on and uses what he might term his normal voice.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--This <a href="http://rockinhouston.com/">rockinhouston.com</a> site that <a href="https://twitter.com/fbullington" target="_blank">@fbullington</a> brought to my attention is awesome. I always wondered if The Doors ever played Houston and yep.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I guess we’re going down <i>Homeland </i>conspiracy road with Estes and Quinn and the Vice-President? Were both Brody and the VP playing dumb when Estes informed them of the terrorist plot and Abu Nazir being stateside? Were the camera battery bombs not actually bombs? Will Dana ever stop complaining? Is there something I missed when Jessica took her shirt off? Do I need to go back and rewind that scene repeatedly to look for what I missed? Wouldn’t hurt. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ought to be an interesting final three episodes. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Wait, wait, wait, we’re going to off Pullo/Isaak/Ray Stevenson AND not at the hands of Dexter?! What. The. Hell. That was seriously disappointing and to have a bum like George do it. Not to mention (but I guess I will) how silly it was that George would gut shot him and not finish him off. Isaak is a damn near super human killing machine, but I think that one shot to the stomach will kill him so I’ll save this other bullet. And why didn’t Dexter help Isaak when he first asked? He would get to kill <i>and</i> protect him and his family and he says no?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If the freakin’ arson investigator is the serial fire bomber guy, well geez, even Dexter wouldn’t be that predictable, right? Right? Hello?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three more episodes left this season and I’m not really looking forward to them at all without Pullo.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Wait how does Jake the Snake move in with Diamond Dallas Page and there’s not a television show involved?! There is a documentary involved though called “The Resurrection of Jake the Snake.” Good luck Jake. Now let’s see about moving Scott Hall in there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also what’s up with Kimberly Page these days?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I caught some of <i>Doomsday Preppers</i> the other day. First line I heard was an old guy saying about his hoarding, “I’m not gonna drink my own urine.” Obviously I was in for a few more minutes after that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I don’t think I’m paranoid. Just open-minded.” – says the 15-year-old who has a collection of gas masks and Chinese throwing stars behind him. All that and much, much more garners this from his mom, “Jason almost takes it to an extreme.” Yeah, almost.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Rome on Showtime. Oh man if it's half as awesome as this poster this ought to last a good two to three weeks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Robert Guerrero and Andre Berto put on a helluva show last Saturday night. I think Max Kellerman put it best, “It ain’t always pretty, but it’s beautiful.” A beautiful, brawling slugfest that left no eye open. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Bob’s Burgers</i> is rolling this season. This one had me at mechanical shark.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina – “Listen to me. I know how the shark thinks. It’s confused. It doesn’t know why you want to kill it. It just wants to go home.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bob – “Tina, it’s a machine. It’s dumber than our toaster.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina – “Our toaster is also confused. It doesn’t know why we put bagels in it.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://entertainment.time.com/2012/11/06/casablanca-sequel-producer-fights-for-follow-up-film/" target="_blank">A sequel to <i>Casablanca</i>?</a> That can’t end well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--No more Wyatt Cenac on<i> The Daily Show</i>. He had/has his moments. Now he'll have them, but we're likely not to hear about them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Oh Florida, <a href="http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/11/26/fla-man-choked-to-death-in-roach-eating-contest/" target="_blank">only a state like you</a> can host a roach eating contest where the winner gets a python. And only a state like you can have the “winner” die right after the contest due to asphyxiation from the roach body parts that didn’t quite make it down the pipe.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--For the two of you out there, FX has renewed Russell Brand and W. Kamau Bell’s shows.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Gotta get Alan Sepinwall’s book, The Revolution Was Televised. <a href="http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8670609/alan-sepinwall-origins-lost" target="_blank">A terrific excerpt on<i> Lost</i> from Grantland.com</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I don’t know if it was ESPN’s bottom line or NFL Network’s, but the name “Fireman Ed” should have never appeared on it. Who gives a f***?! Apparently Pro Football Talk since it ran a blub about Dolphins “super fan” Big Papa Pump calling Fireman Ed a disgrace. Sigh and I hate typing sigh.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/when-fantasy-football-becomes-an-addiction/" target="_blank">Quality article from C.D. Carter of The New York Times</a> on <i>your</i> fantasy football addiction. I’m not addicted. I can quit anytime. Just like half of my team quit on me. Seriously WTF guys?! I invested heavily in you Aaron Hernandez and Darren McFadden and Pierre Garcon and WTF AARON!!! you’ve got two f’n ankles!!! Now where’s that number to my fantasy football psychologist?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now it’s Abu Nazir and Brody with true facetime. Should be interesting. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey Roya, what's up girl? I liked you on <i>Lost</i> when you were less about terrorizing America and more about terrorizing The Man in Black.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dude, you have to expect a shovel upside the head if you attempt to explain to Gyp what a rogue wave is. Gotta love Gyp shovel smashing a guy’s relative and then telling that guy afterwards, “You owe me.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always love when Rothstein educates pool(table)side.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If that Governor hurts one hair on Maggie’s cute head. POS Merle.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally we get Michonne and Rick in the same room. The inevitable meet and greet with Woodbury gets closer and closer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the comics the phone comes into play a little later, but I think the show handled it well and Andrew Lincoln certainly played the part of crazy Rick just right.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carol’s alive. Yay.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Dr. Jinx is the name of a monkey, not a man.”<br />I’d have to think (and no one wants to think), but this would rank pretty high for me in terms of<i> Sunny </i>seasons. <br />And I’m all for the Hurricane Sandy relief spots, but just not using the same actors from the show that’s currently airing. Put<i> League</i> actor Sandy spots while <i>Sunny</i> was running and vice versa. <br /> <br />--Who gets married on a Tuesday night after your betrothed gets out of jail for domestic violence charges? Hope Solo and Jerramy Stevens. That’s who. They have been dating for two months so it’s legit. <br /> <br />--Interesting Jamaal Charles stat from PFF Focus. On 38 plays he’s been contacted behind the line of scrimmage. On plays he is contacted at or beyond the line of scrimmage he’s averaging 6.7 yards a carry. By the way, on those 38 plays he’s been contacted behind the line of scrimmage he’s at -44 total yards. 39 plays Adrian Peterson has been contacted behind the line of scrimmage and he <i>still</i> has rushed for 57 yards on those plays. Amazing. <br /> <br />--Boyz II Menorah. Awesome. Good stuff from <i>Happy Endings</i>.<br />Max – “All right you sons of Abraham. Get your hands up!!!”<br /><br />--Consistency is huge. That’s why I think the Steelers will be fine with Byron Leftwich starting. Byron has been with three different teams over his last six starts and each time that start ended in a loss. That’s consistency. Wait, I meant the Steelers <i>won’t</i> be fine. <br /> <br />--I would’ve lost a lot of money if I was asked to bet on <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/13/2481006/opossum-drop-halted-in-brasstown.html" target="_blank">which state had a town that hosted a Possum Drop</a> on New Year’s Eve. No offense Kentucky, Tennessee, and Florida, but you were easy guesses. ‘Tis Brasstown, North Carolina. No drop of a possum this year because PETA and the courts have put a stop to the 20-year tradition of a possum being caged and lowered down. There goes Brasstown’s tourism.<br /><br />--Now I may disagree with PETA on a lot of things and its name isn’t mentioned in this article, but <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/11/13/owners-devocalizing-dogs-to-curtail-pets-from-barking/" target="_blank">surgically removing the vocal chords out of dogs</a> because they bark is just f’n wrong.<br /> <br />--March 31, 2013 – <i>Game of Thrones</i> returns. Adjust your lives accordingly.<br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvGNNEGy-TFy_uIZr1EmhjjuCD5bf6UNNTZ6wK3_sNoe-ZbtJ2lpWNYSccwwZ8Pwqjg4UebZdj8zfrdcyrEvoxDa90k-YLWEzzAwMxllAgPFr0DJ7aLa7Qt2IEmmHpP8Z0kYG3/s1600/original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvGNNEGy-TFy_uIZr1EmhjjuCD5bf6UNNTZ6wK3_sNoe-ZbtJ2lpWNYSccwwZ8Pwqjg4UebZdj8zfrdcyrEvoxDa90k-YLWEzzAwMxllAgPFr0DJ7aLa7Qt2IEmmHpP8Z0kYG3/s320/original.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />--Senior citizen. Tanning salon owner. Intentional drug overdose. Suicide note that read, “Do not revive. F*** Obama.” <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/13/3095844/man-apparently-kills-himself-over.html" target="_blank">Oh Florida.</a><br /><br />--Damaine (no idea how to pronounce that) Mitchell is my <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/15/man-asks-judge-for-marijuana/1707413/" target="_blank">Hero of the Week for his Quote of the Week</a>. It seems the 19-year-old he was in some trouble for selling pot. The judge was going to be cool and let him go with some probation and making himself available for drug tests for several months. Damaine said that was going to be hard because frankly he likes smoking marijuana. That led to Damiaine saying, “I know this is probably not the right question to ask, but can I get a little time, at least get one more joint in?” For some reason the judge said no. <br /> <br />--Every time I’ve ever seen the <i>Jersey Shore</i> crew I’ve always been bothered by the fact that Vinnie didn’t have his own talk show. Thankfully MTV felt the same way.<br /> <br />--<i>Parenthood </i>is on a roll like <i>Homeland</i> is on a roll. <i>Parenthood</i> is so good that it’s amazing to me that NBC has given it this many seasons.<br /> <br />--<a href="http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/11/mad_at_your_boyfriends_eighth.php" target="_blank"><i>I’m</i> in trouble</a>?! All I did was plant a gun in the backpack of my boyfriend’s teenage son because he doesn’t like me, and <i>I’m </i>the one who’s in trouble? Oh well, yeah, I guess that does sound like it might be against the law or something. I have no idea what you’re talking about though with that phone call to the school tipping it off that the son was walking around with a gun in his backpack. You have me on video from the convenience store I made the call, huh? Okay, might, MIGHT, have been me. Can I go now?<br /> <br />--This whole <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/twins-sequel-schwarzenegger-devito-murphy-390692" target="_blank">Eddie Murphy in the <i>Twins</i> sequel</a> <i>Triplets</i> isn’t a joke?!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Terrific <i>Boardwalk Empire</i> this week highlighted by maybe Steve Buscemi’s best episode in the series. Great work. Great direction. Great use of a general’s hat. Great kiss scene. Well earned moment for Richard on the dance floor. Of course he had to go back and get admonished by crazy Gillian who is remarkable for how she continues to be more and more hateable. Though I will say that I’m pretty sure warm milk and rum is in all of today’s mommy books.<br />Good stuff with Margaret as well and a solid Adrian to Rocky-esque speech to Nucky before his meeting. I’m actually interested in Margaret for the first time in a while.<br />Chalky? Chalky White? Is that you? Hopefully he gets Babette’s space and returns to the show next season.<br />I know what happens to Joe Masseria, but I can’t wait to see how we get there and how Nucky can survive another close encounter of the death kind. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Oh Dana. You naïve, naïve little child. I think the hit and run “ended” about as well as possible considering the possibilities. <br />Great callback to Aileen from last season and solid scenes with Saul who did totally get played. <br />Toss in a Carrie/Brody alone scene and you got yourself a typical strong<i> Homeland.</i><br /> <br />--A great weekend was only marred for me by foolishly not over-recording for <i>Bob’s Burgers</i> on Sunday. I’ve neglected this season until the last couple of weeks because I kept forgetting about it and was never home. But I missed my burger names like “We’re Here! We’re Gruyere! Get Used To It! Burger. And the wisdom of Gene, “Ugh, summer is awful. There’s too much pressure to enjoy yourself. It’s like New Year’s Eve for kids.”<br /> <br />--<i>Top Chef </i>is back. Hopefully John Tesar stays on for a bit and provides a little crazy old man drama. Can’t wait for the Anna Farris/Chris Pratt episode. <br /><br />--Life is so full of tough decisions. I mean like what if you have a really good pastor, but he’s also a registered sex offender and on sex offender probation? Harumph. I guess you could just ban kids from attending church in that same building. Nothing weird about that I guess. <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/02/21/florida-church-bans-children-to-protect-pastor-registered-as-child-sex-offender" target="_blank">Nope nothing weird about that at all in Florida.</a><br /> <br />--Finally a little movement on psycho Governor. I think the actor is what is bothering me most about this version of the Governor.<br /> <br />--Congratulations to the Bills who may have lost to the Patriots, but can take much pride in stopping New England from scoring on its 12th consecutive possession against them. Sure they scored 11 straight possessions against them, but when it came time for a 12th straight that Buffalo D held strong.<br /> <br />--Fifteen years ago a little ol’ thing known as “The Montreal Screwjob” happened. If you want to read way more about its genesis and aftermath than the normal person needs to know then <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060406153712/http://www.brethart.com/facts.asp" target="_blank">I highly recommend you settle in for this oldie but goodie</a>. Man, WCW had no, NO, idea what to do with Bret once he came over. That was a disaster. What an era though. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />--St. Arnold’s Bishop’s Barrel don’t play. I'm no beer hunter, but you tell me St. Arnold's aged in Woodford barrels and I hunt.<br /> <br />--Peyton Manning is a pretty good quarterback. I mean a record six straight games with at least a 70% completion percentage (minimum 20 completions) is okay.<br /> <br />--Wait, so <a href="http://ny.eater.com/archives/2012/11/three_injured_in_gasoline_accident_at_midtown_sushi_parlor.php" target="_blank">storing gasoline in containers labeled soy sauce</a> at a sushi restaurant is frowned upon?<br /><br />--We haven’t had a <a href="http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/11/pasadena_walmart_employees_swi.php" target="_blank">Dumbass of the Week</a> for a while because either there is a lack of dumbasses lately or I just forgot. One of those. Buddy Olvera, you the man though for reminding me. Ol’ Buddy worked at a Pasadena Walmart. It seems a shopper left their wallet in a cart in the parking lot so ol’ Buddy rifled through it and found himself a debit card. Not sure if Buddy smiled, but he was on the parking lot cameras. He then went back inside the store he works and decided he needed some shoes and a laptop to celebrate his find. Somehow this criminal mastermind was caught. <br /> <br />--Not sure how <i>Catfish </i>works on MTV as a television series I just know I don’t care to find out.<br /> <br />--Line of the Week goes to Christian Ponder after the Vikings won despite his dating the lovely Samantha Steele - "I want to thank my girlfriend. Because she obviously has such a big impact on how I play. Which allowed me to win. So thank you." Hilarious. <br /> <br />--It’s one thing to steal a man’s car. I mean that’s low, but if that man happens to be a Chinese food delivery driver then you got to do the right thing. <a href="http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2012/11/12/police-suspect-stole-delivery-vehicle-then-dropped-off-orders-kept-cash/" target="_blank">Yeah, you totally gotta deliver his orders</a>. It’s the only right thing to do. Keith Hinds knows car theft etiquette. He just probably forgot about the part about larceny being against the law. <br /><br />--If you haven’t seen the Rockets Christmas Day uniforms yet, you’re lucky. <br /> <br />--<a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2004147460_rbstevens270.html" target="_blank">Jerramy Stevens is an irredeemable piece of sh**</a> as far as I’m concerned. Why Hope Solo would want to hang around him is beyond me. <br />I wrote the above Tuesday morning. By Tuesday afternoon of course Jerramy Stevens was in court on domestic abuse charges with Hope Solo being involved. Apparently Jerramy wasn’t found guilty so yeah, stand up citizen that guy. I seriously don’t really hate people, but I hate that sonuvabitch.<br /> <br />--Alan Sepinwall tweeted this awesome pic of Carla Gugino in honor of her <i>New Girl </i>appearance. Had no idea that the first time I saw her was on Falcon Crest.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSFf46MbuxpEADBRzILQHbOF69W6uJNk9e898_ksHO-3Fp4pGPFLP9TaZc7da_VAo4czdE3UU8DlOf2MsMmvIWz2hZexg_OinNaZ_HTF9NkWxXWieVUSpv4iVt4SvO0aLGFNeB/s1600/686857571.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSFf46MbuxpEADBRzILQHbOF69W6uJNk9e898_ksHO-3Fp4pGPFLP9TaZc7da_VAo4czdE3UU8DlOf2MsMmvIWz2hZexg_OinNaZ_HTF9NkWxXWieVUSpv4iVt4SvO0aLGFNeB/s1600/686857571.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></a><br /><br />Questions, comments or if you’re not sure why anyone was surprised at the awful announcing by Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I know it’s all about television, but seriously MLS playing on NFL Sundays is just f’n idiotic.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8600657/view/full/an-oral-history-hakeem-olajuwon-ralph-sampson-1980s-houston-rockets" target="_blank">Loved this Grantland oral history of the 80’s Rockets</a>. Good times. Good times that should have been better. So crazy to think about a first time drug violation resulting in a two-year ban. I should have known it was an NBA conspiracy like Robert Reid lays out. It makes perfect sense. Think about it. David Stern is a dick. See? Makes perfect sense.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As <a href="https://twitter.com/TyMo214" target="_blank">@Tymo214</a> pointed out on Twitter, there was zero need to qualify the Rockets two championships as coming during the Jordan baseball sabbatical. Weaksauce. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Never has there been a scarier use of the word “Twizzlers” than when Jonathan Banks stated, “We’re a Twizzlers family” to Leslie Knope. Times like those I’m glad to have no licorice allegiance. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andy – “Dave Mathews Band.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April – “Dave Mathews Band.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mix in a unity quilt with a <i>Game of Thrones</i> patch and you got yourself a solid, solid <i>Parks and Rec</i>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Didn’t really care for the <i>League </i>this week. Maybe the thin, clear hair hit a little too close to home or something. However, <i>Sunny</i> is on a nice little roll.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Dexter </i>isn’t exactly a realistic show on any level, but still it bugged the hell out of me that on the dry erase board where the cops have their Colombian murder investigation laid out that Colombians is spelled “Columbians.” </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Probably the weakest episode of the new season for me what with the inevitable love angle and dumbass Quinn.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/double-daylight-saving-drunk-driving-467982" target="_blank">Niles Gammon – Hero</a>. I mean there’s probably another term for a drunk who gets arrested twice for DWI with each arrest occurring at the same time, but I don’t know what that term is so I just went with hero. First time in Urbana, Illinois the 22-year-old was pulled over and the cop took two seconds to determine he was drunk. In two more seconds Niles revealed a mouthful of pennies because he’s a dumbass who believed the myth that pennies would help pass a breathalyzer. Yeah, he was arrested at 1:08 AM. He was released to an adult and wouldn’t you know that adult didn’t want to drive Niles home so he dropped him off back at his car. And Niles being smart didn’t want to risk getting cited for public intoxication so he just had to make it home. Only way to do that? Yep, drive. He didn’t even make it out of the parking lot before the same cop saw him and busted him again at 2:08 AM, whoops, time change, make that 1:08 AM. Again. Well played Niles.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Love that a lot of the Texans defense hit up Killen’s this week. If you’ve never been you need to make it your next special occasion place. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--They had me at Z.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/jermaine-jackson-would-now-like-to-be-known-as-jer,88515/" target="_blank">Jermaine Jacksun</a>. Uh, okay.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Why does any discussion around marijuana make a network news anchor act like a child?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The title of this week’s <i>Sons of Anarchy</i> is “Andare Pescare” which as we all know translates to “I touch myself.” No? It means “to go fishing”? I’ve never heard it called “to go fishing” before, but whatever. Otto and Tara’s scenes have been pretty good. Not that I have any idea what Tara was doing while she “was going fishing” on herself.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like that Jax quickly put it together who the rat was. In a club with too many secrets Juice has way more than his fair share. He needs to come clean to Jax then spy on Clay. Quality episode.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-66565210267174083682012-11-06T17:23:00.002-08:002012-11-06T17:56:12.300-08:00We got a party on the left, a party on the right. We gonna party for the motherf'ing right to fight. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</b><br /> <br />--Nothing is as cool at Reliant as when a bald eagle does his little fly by during the National Anthem. The best. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The worst? The close-up on the big scoreboard when the eagle’s handler put the blinders over him. Yeah, we didn’t need to see that. <br /> <br />--Finish ‘em off Dynamo. And please let one of these years MLS be smart enough to not schedule playoff games on NFL Sundays.<br /> <br />--Ronnie Killen. Ricky Craig. <a href="http://www.29-95.com/restaurants/story/killen-craig-will-open-cks-steakhouse-w-19th" target="_blank">CK Steakhouse</a>? Team America. Fu** Yeah!!<br /> <br />--Two shows I usually don’t put off are <i>Homeland </i>and <i>Walking Dead</i>. Two shows I feel dramatically different about being spoiled for me. If <i>Homeland </i>was spoiled I’d be pissed. <i>Walking Dead</i>? Eh. Yeah, I’ve read the comics, but still spoilers for that don’t bother me unlike <i>Game of Thrones</i> which I’ve read the books. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Either way, RIP T-Do…no, not Lori too!!! Actually it was quite nice to see Lori not speak for five seconds. I think Carl has solidified himself as this season’s MVP. Probably not easy to have to put a bullet in your mom after she just gave birth to your sibling. Not to mention said sibling might hold it against you. It had to be done and Carl did it. I like this straying from Laurie’s demise in the comics, at least so far. T-Dog, well it’s not like we ever got anything from T-Dog. It seemed like course correcting a character they felt they needed early on for a token and then they found another black guy and zombie shows can’t have two black guys. I think it’s in the rules. Prison stuff was great. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything was great. Johnny Torrio letting Al take over for the most part. Margaret and diaphragms, sure why not? And of course Van Alden/George Mueller the original crazy of the show. Damn that was fun. It’s like Michael Shannon had been in a strait jacket this entire season and now Shannon smash! I liked seeing his little crazy smile after he ironed out his differences with his co-workers. Get it? Ironed out. Because he ironed the guy’s face. Yeah, that was great because he had the worst co-workers in the world and I think we all wanted them to have iron scars. Now he has quality co-workers in O’Bannion’s crew where he also serves as the gang’s historian. <br /><br />--What I say next may shock you so I hope you’re sitting down because <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/05/us-eating-in-restaurants-idUSBRE8A41EY20121105" target="_blank">Reuters Health is going to change your world forever</a>. And I quote, “Eating in restaurants tied to higher calorie intake.” Let me repeat that because you need it to sink in, “Eating. In. Restaurants. Tied. To. Higher. Calorie. Intake.” And this “study” even included fast food places. Fast food places equal higher calorie intake? WTF?!<br /><br />--Damn good <i>League</i> last week and it’s no coincidence there was a good dose of Rafi and even a Nadine Velasquez sighting. Breastalyzer is a thing? But seriously what fantasy football owner or football fan would think Jay Cutler’s milk would help their child? Elie, Elizabeth, who are Kevin and Jenny to question the wisdom of Julia Duffy?!<br />Rafi is a sick, twisted individual, but I felt bad for him that he had to say goodbye to his soulmate. I mean she would have let him put her in a cage AND he has a cage! <br />Taco in an adult relationship with a chicken tartare making George was fun. “We couldn’t get a sitter.” LMAO.<br /> <br />--I wasn’t sure what to expect from Louis CK on <i>SNL</i>, but a little stand-up at the beginning and a Lincoln as Louie skit were awesome. I didn’t make it past Weekend Update, but then I can’t remember the last SNL I’ve made it to Weekend Update. <br />“Los blancos amor <i>Homeland</i>.” <br /> <br />--It seems improbable that not one letter in the word “CHIEFS” is in the acronym “LOL.”<br /> <br />--<i>Pregnant for 46 Years</i> sounds like the type of show that doesn’t find its way onto many DVRs. <br /> <br />--The last rookie to rush for over 100 yards against the Ravens before Trent Richardson did it on Sunday? Fred Taylor. <br /> <br />--I love it when judges get creative with their sentencing. I mean how do you punish someone who is <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-drove-past-school-bus-must-wear-idiot-173523817.html" target="_blank">stupid enough to drive on a sidewalk</a> to avoid a school bus that’s unloading children? A judge in Ohio is punishing this moron by making the woman wear a sign at an intersection for two days that says, “Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus.” Well played judge. Well played.<br /> <br />--I like this La Times preview of this week’s <i>Sons </i>because it could be used for every episode of every season:<br />“<i>Sons of Anarchy</i>: Jax gets closer to the truth but still faces obstacles in this new episode.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Man I hope that Ted Danson is right about this <i>Bored to Death </i>movie for HBO. We need that.<br /><br /> --Walmart is a multi-kajillion dollar operation. It knows what it’s doing. <a href="http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/11/things_wal-mart_frowns_on_tryi.php" target="_blank">Don’t think you’re smarter than Walmart</a>. Like don’t think that you’re going to replace a $228 TV barcode with one that’s $1.17 and you’re just going to walk through the self-checkout line like la di da.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-20295816635641286482012-11-01T19:49:00.001-07:002012-11-01T19:58:37.640-07:00Sipping coffee, playing Keno in the casino. Want a lucky number, ask Mike Dino.<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Can't f'n wait for a Texans/playoff Dynamo Sunday.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--So uhhh, yeah, that show <i>Homeland</i>. It’s pretty good, huh? I think we can go ahead and Fed Ex the Emmys to Damian Lewis and Claire Danes. A terrific emotionally charged interrogation where you didn’t know what would be said next. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--In retrospect eating a top off a Snickers fun size for every point James Harden scored on Halloween was not a good idea. But at the time it seemed perfectly normal. This Comcast provider bullish** is breaking me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I liked seeing Merle back on <i>Walking Dead </i>and glad he didn’t go all season one Merle at the sight of a non-white person. Nice little wrinkle from the books that we knew was coming eventually. And if you didn’t know they made sure to jam that season one scene in the “Previously” part which sort of ruins any possible surprise. Hate that stuff.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for the new Governor. I don’t know. I do know I got tired of Andrea making fu** me eyes at him the whole time. This is a Governor that is definitely more television-friendly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Absolutely love Dallas Roberts from <i>Rubicon</i> as the Governor’s right hand nerd. Stupid no more <i>Rubicon</i>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Very early on in what is a loooooong book, but totally into 11/22/63. Best (and only) Stephen King book I’ve read since The Shining. Then again it involves time travel and JFK so it was going to have be pretty terrible for me not to love it..</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--What the hell NBC?! <i>Community </i>won’t premiere until after the Texans win the Super Bowl?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The Brothers Thompson appear to be back in arms. Eli has been really strong this season. I’m going to assume Steve Buscemi already knew how to juggle, but either way that was one impressive act. I wonder how many takes and how many kids he hit with eggs?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Momma Darmody is a special kind of crazy. Can you imagine the hell spawn her and Gyp could have had together?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Television character most easy to root for continues to be Richard Harrow. Terrific picture.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Ray Stevenson v. Dexter Morgan is gonna be fun. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Aw man Astros, WTH?! How ya gonna fire the man, the myth, the Stretch Suba?! I remember being a kid with my sweet free giveaway Astros visor hanging out by the bullpen railing and getting my first big league autograph. It was awesome and then my grandparents had to buy me a program so I could see what position “Stretch Suba” played. Still my favorite autograph, well after Diamond Dallas Page of course.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Those Lakers are scary, huh? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Seventy Chicago public schools are going to give out $25 Walgreen’s gift cards to parents who pick up their kids report cards and attend parent-teacher conferences. <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-31/news/ct-met-emanuel-walgreens-public-schools-20121031_1_world-business-chicago-vice-chairman-michael-sacks-grosvenor-capital-management" target="_blank">Incentivized parenting</a>. I guess it’s good that it probably will make a difference, but the fact that it will make a difference, SMH. No, wait, yes. SMDH. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Youth football betting is just practice for professional football betting and the more practice you get the better I’ve always heard. But nooooo, <a href="http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/8568724/nine-south-florida-youth-football-coaches-face-gambling-charges" target="_blank">the man has to come in and say youth football betting is wrong or against some law or such and such</a>. In Florida, I’ll pause to let the shock wear off, nine coaches or associates were arrested as part of an 18-month! investigation. It’s not there were $100,000 bets on youth football championship games. “And up to $100,000 would be bet on the youth leagues’ championship games of the season.” Oh. Gotta love coaches making bets on the sidelines then telling their players how much they put on them. Seriously though how do you get $20,000 to bet on youth football? Crazy. Lines two-dozen deep to get into the barbershop/gambling parlor? Crazy. Separate betting windows for betting denominations complete with printed betting tickets? Crazy. Betting against the Fort Lauderdale Hurricanes? Crazy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--C’mon <i>Happy Endings</i> you’re better than this. Although like Alex I’m still not sure “hesitant” is actually a word.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Anyone NOT in favor of replacing T-Dog on <i>Walking Dead</i> with Ron Artest?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Or maybe we can get Artest as part of Pope’s crew. They really are going with over the top warpath Jax aren’t they? I’m glad they didn’t stretch out the Clay cover-up for Gemma angle. I’m not so happy that we’re going to get a long con with Gemma over Clay. Yeah, it’ll be satisfying, but someone needs to tell me again why Jax – The President – can’t just take out Clay or let Roosevelt do it? I mean the entire club knows that Clay was behind the break-ins and is just a straight up liar. They’re going to have a problem with killing Clay at this point?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nero, you’re speaking logically to SAMCRO. You better cut that out. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hated to see Opie’s old woman get shot. She’s a keeper, except for that whole porn thing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--A third season of lovable, huggable <i>Wilfred </i>is officially on the way. Cannot wait to see where we go on a plane with no pilot. Loved seeing Wilfred out for Halloween at Cottonwood.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--"<a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-meth-couple-arrested-cook-drugs-20121030,0,778186.story" target="_blank">Atwood told officers</a> that he and Crisp manufacture the drug [meth] in the room and were going to produce another batch later today after Crisp's court appearance for a previous charge related to manufacturing meth." I assume he then paused and added, “Is that wrong?”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I’m sure I learned something useful in junior high. I just can’t think of it right now. I guarantee you I would have answered immediately <a href="http://wqad.com/2012/10/30/qc-kids-learn-to-survive-a-zombie-attack/" target="_blank">if I had a class on zombie survival</a> like these lucky little junior high bastards at John Deere Middle School in Minnesota.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-22908226022810069412012-10-29T17:21:00.002-07:002012-10-29T17:22:42.197-07:00Leggo my Eggo while I flex my ego. Step off my Seco, dressed up tuxedo.<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Love, love, love the James Harden trade.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Now that’s what I’m talking about <i>30 for 30</i>. Compelling subject that shed light on a subject I knew nothing about. Albeit a subject that kicked up a little dust in the room. Whatever happened that fateful afternoon of November 20, 1984 the only thing we know for </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Incredible job by the directors to get the shooter for an interview. Billy Moore sure looks like he turned his life around and is trying to help others do the same. At the same time he did take a life. Yeah, he was young, but he took a life. And his friend’s life was never the same and all he was doing was standing there. Fantastic doc that I don’t think will be topped in this run of <i>30 for 30</i>s.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could have done without every single R. Kelly scene. R. Kelly was only interested in R. Kelly. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I apologize for every Nick the Brick joke I made at Nick Anderson’s expense. Nick and others including Derrick Rose wearing Benji’s #25 was/is very cool.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Benji’s mother had some amazing strength.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The Chiefs haven’t held a lead in regulation once all season. LOL. I doubt you’ll see a funnier quote this week than Romeo Crennel’s answer to why Jamaal Charles only got five carries, “I’m not exactly sure.” The worst part? Kansas City is on national television for its next two games.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I think I awwww’d for the entire episode of <i>Parks and Recreation</i>. Sweetest Halloween episode of anything ever. We didn’t hear Ben turn down Florida so I’m not sure how that gets in the way if at all, but man that was a sweet proposal that came out of the blue. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only thing sweeter would’ve been Ron teaching Diane’s princess daughters how to properly use a saw.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rent-A-Swag.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope they make The Thing About Me Is, I’m Perd Hapley available in time for Christmas.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I knew Timothy Olyphant was going to be on <i>The League</i>, but had no idea about Ryan Hansen. Awesome. Pony-tailed sushi chef Raylan was fun and now I’ll always pronounce it o-Ma-ha. Oh yeah and RAFI!!!! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who isn’t packing a paint knife in paintball from now on?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--So Gemma gets another chance with the grandkids and family she supposedly loves so much and she falls asleep at the wheel driving those grandkids? And where was she driving? Just how far from the clubhouse does she live? Are we blaming pot? Hated all that. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--“Monkey. Monkey. Where you keep the crackers?” Never change Nadia. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cece is the hottest hungover girl I’ve ever seen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nick – “You gave me cookie. Got you cookie.” Not a home run episode overall, but that was gold.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ll never get tired of fat Schmidt and mustachioed Nick.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--A somewhat disappointment premiere for <i>Happy Endings</i>. I’m not sure how the Dave/Alex dynamic is going to play out, but I think I speak for everyone when I say don’t go anywhere Sinbrad. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Line of the night to Jane: “Well I’m out. You have fun talking like two of Scott Caan’s groomsmen.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Runner-up to Max: “Ken, Doc says you're going to have to start showing up in biker shorts and a Jim McMahon jersey.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--“<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/get-up-get-out-dont-sit/" target="_blank">And the findings were sobering</a>: Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes.” According to these calculations I should have died right before the Lost finale. I would say not bad timing, but then I would’ve missed out on Homeland so I’d like to thank my unbreakable body. #What’sMr.GlassUpToTheseDays #whynosequel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh and if you smoke a cigarette while watching television you’re practically pulling the plug on your life.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I was just trying to get over Eva Longoria and Mark Sanchez breaking up and now Taylor Swift and that Kennedy kid?! WTF Love?! Why you trippin’?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Charlie’s speech from<i> Jaws</i> was fantastic.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I know <a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/10/24/sf-massage-parlor-to-offer-350-face-slaps/" target="_blank">things are more expensive in California</a>, but $350 to get slapped in the face at a “massage parlor” seems excessive even by California standards.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I’d play golf a lot more if I knew at some point a<a href="http://deadspin.com/5954873/live-shark-falls-out-of-sky-onto-golf-course" target="_blank"> shark was going to fall from the sky</a> onto the course. Some golfer picked up the shark and soon thereafter was placed back in the nearby Pacific Ocean with the golfer, I assume, yelling at the shark to do it again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.fathomevents.com/classics/series/tarantinoxx.aspx" target="_blank">One night showings of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction</a> in advance of Django Unchained’s release? Out-standing. Gonna be weird seeing Nucky as Mr. Pink again. 20 year anniversary doesn’t exactly make me feel young. I think I’ve probably watched Reservoir Dogs more than any other movie in my life since, by law, I had to show it to everyone who hadn’t seen it. Now where is that VHS…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The Chargers went the entire month of October without scoring a point in the 4th quarter. How ya gonna lose to Cleveland 7-6? Was it really only two weeks ago that San Diego had a 24-0 lead on Denver?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Firefly</i>: <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Firefly-Browncoats-Unite-10th-Anniversary-Special-Set-Air-Science-Next-Month-48575.html" target="_blank">Browncoats Unite – November 11th</a>. Sweet. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Ron Artest in a movie written by Nancy Grace. Yeah, that’s about right.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--If you have the chance to see Louie live then you go and see Louie live. He put on a helluva show on Friday and I can’t wait until that material comes out on a television special or online. Louis CK hosting <i>SNL</i> November 3rd should be interesting. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Todd Barry from <i>Louie</i> was a strong opening act. You might remember him from such music video classics as...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I don’t even know what to say about <i>Homeland </i>except wow. Breakneck speed doesn’t begin to describe <i>Homeland</i>’s plot developments this season. Insane. I fully expected Estes to be a monkey wrench in the takedown of Brody, but nope. At least not yet. Terrific stuff. Yeah I could give two sh*** about Brody’s daughter and her little love triangle, but sometimes you need to catch your breath during that show anyway. I don’t really care for Michael and his Scooby Doo detective gang. I do like the new guy that was in charge of Brody’s surveillance which lasted all of about two days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Man those last 15 minutes with Carrie and Brody was just pure awesomeness. Excuse me I gotta go watch it again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--This is just an awesome sentence: “<a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/76-Year-Old-Goes-After-Roomie-With-Chainsaw-Cops-175213861.html" target="_blank">Investigators say the saw got stuck on Tanner's shirt and jammed, allowing Tanner to pin Black down with an umbrella</a>.” Tanner was (I assume he’s moving out) a roommate of Black who is a 76-year-old man who likes using chainsaws to make points. Chainsaws are usually quite effective so that must’ve been one magical shirt that jammed it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Now see <i>Walking Dead</i> it wasn’t so hard to make Carl into comic book Carl, right? Loving that boy’s new attitude and really liked this episode and its changes from the books. Rick is not to be f’d with and taking a swing and throwing a walker on him is definitely f’ing with him. All that gets you is a machete to the head.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyone reading this who I love…should you be bitten, have to have your leg cut off and you stop breathing do not, I repeat, DO NOT expect that I will give you mouth to mouth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--There’s felony neglect of a child and then there’s felony neglect of a child - Florida-style. The lead on <a href="http://www.gainesville.com/article/20121019/articles/121019452" target="_blank">Gainesville.com sums it up</a>: “A woman was arrested Thursday on felony neglect of a child after deputies say they found her holding her 6-month-old infant in her lap while riding with a drunken driver and her intoxicated mother in a stolen car filled with whiskey bottles and beer.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--That’s what I’m talking about League. This was much better than the premiere and got back to what makes the show funny. Guys bs’ing at a bar, being di***s to one another and showing us all how to properly utilize the waiver wire.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kevin: “The Stephen Tobolowsky of penises.” – Holy crap that’s an all-time favorite line.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taco: “Girls are like kickers you can never have enough.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GTFO with someone in an 8-team league starting Kevin Ogletree in week one. By the way, anyone else pick up and start Justin Blackmon last week? No? Just me? Cool. Carry on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I think only five deaths related to Monster Energy drinks is pretty good considering.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Random old man in Pawnee: “Well that's all fine and good but what if the banana is soft and mushy and doglegs sharply to the left?”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#Unbreakable #WhatsMrGlassuptothesedays #Whynosequel</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--If you’re an NFL quarterback what’s the best way to elevate a good season to a great season? Date Samantha Steele. Nicely done Christian Ponder. Still having trouble fathoming that he was the last starting quarterback to throw an INT this season. By the way, Texans only team not to have allowed a rushing TD. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--For a character I used to enjoy Gemma sure has become grating this season. At least that other chick got Louis’d this week. Like Louis it seems as if the show’s writers started out with something then realized their error and just decided to make it a quick and painless exit death. At least I hope that’s the end of her angle.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please eventually let Jax serve Clay up to the sheriff to handle in whatever way he pleases and please let that way be death. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Congratulations to Spring for landing in the <a href="http://www.chron.com/life/article/Spring-ranked-a-top-spot-for-plus-sized-singles-3957430.php" target="_blank">top 10 for plus-sized dating</a>. Carrolton and Metairie are the other locales around here if you're so persuaded. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Wait so if someone tells you that the best way to treat cancer is through having lots and lots of sex with them <a href="http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/10/pose_gyno_bucnanan_sex.php" target="_blank">they might be lying</a>?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Rest easy America, Evander Holyfield has changed his mind and is NOT going to retire. Whew. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Animal Practice</i> I hardly knew ye.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>New Girl</i>’s Jake Johnson a writing deal with Fox? Promising.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Cher has a new single out!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Questions, comments or if you're craving El Gran Malo shrimp tacos…</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-58814243027688966712012-10-17T18:30:00.000-07:002012-10-17T18:30:08.039-07:00I'm Mike D. - I got the deuces wild. A list of girlies numbers that I've dialed<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Finally some zombies back in my life. Strong premiere for <i>Walking Dead</i> as we finally found a new home with nice fences, gates, walls and what are those things, humans?! And perhaps more miraculously than that is that I didn’t roll my eyes at Carl once! I guess that’s what Lori, Carol and campfire songs are for. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rick has crafted himself one nice undead killing unit. Although I don’t understand why Hershel became part of it seeing as he’s all old, they were in the dark, he’s the doctor and Lori is about to give birth to something. But hey it gave us the best Achilles bite since Gage got him some Fred Gwynne Achilles in <i>Pet Cemetery</i>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Lauren Cohen was perfect for Maggie. Never has a person looked sexier killing a body-armored zombie. Also she can actually act which I don’t think was a consideration when they originally casted.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All that goodness and we still haven’t gotten to the Governor. VERY curious to see what they do with him. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--“I was right.” I think we can go ahead and give Claire Danes next year’s Emmy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Damn good stuff with her all episode, but her moment of triumph at the end with Saul lived up to expectations. Sure Abu Nazir is still on the loose and they have to figure out how to take down Brody while dealing with what I’m guessing is going to be an uncooperative Estes, but hey, she’s not <i>that </i>crazy after all! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So every week Brody is going to have a side spy mission from Abu Nazir? This one made little sense to me because it seems like giving a ride to a safe house is more of a terrorist lackey chore than a traitorous U.S. Congressman chore. But that’s just me. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Drudge Report Headline of the Week: “<a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/kevinglass/2012/10/16/moroccan_pottery_obamaphones_and_gaydar_how_the_government_wasted_your_money_this_year/page/full/" target="_blank">Gov’t Study Confirms “Gaydar” Exists; 60% Accurate.</a>”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--LOLouis. “It’s not cheating if you pay for it.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An okay <i>Dexter</i> this week with Pullo earning MVP honors for taking care of the above business. Yvonne Strahovski a close runner-up for MVP simply for being Yvonne Strahovski. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Missed you Agent Walker. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watching Quinn and the stripper’s scenes were PAINFUL. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WTH Dex and Deb all you did was smack the bull or minotaur or whatever, you didn’t shoot him/it so maybe we apprehend the baddie next time?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Of course for a franchise that had Montana and Young it is Alex Smith who holds the Niners record for most consecutive starts without throwing multiple picks in a game. Streak went to 26 before Sunday’s implosion. Seahawks and Niners is going to be fun on Thursday.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Say it ain’t so Val? <i>Wyatt Earp’s Revenge</i>?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I think I could’ve watched a full hour of <i>Boardwalk</i> this week that consisted entirely of Eddie Cantor trying to entertain <s>Milky</s> Chalky and Purnsley.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And shame on Nucky, Rothstein and Benny trying to murder a guy while he’s in the middle of pleasuring himself while his girl chokes him with a belt. I don’t think Gyp can surprise us in any way at this point. Van Alden thinks Gyp is a nut job.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Really liking the Van Alden stuff. Really checking twitter during the Margaret/hospital stuff.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Some people have way too much money. Like <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/sold-jug-mcjordan-bbq-sauce-bought-9-995-article-1.1184547?localLinksEnabled=false" target="_blank">who(m)ever bid $9,995</a> on a jug of McJordan BBQ Sauce that McDonald’s used in limited areas 20 years ago.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--The guys from Epic Meal Time with a You Tube <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/coming-soon-epic-chef-144436" target="_blank">show coming out called <i>Epic Chef</i></a>? Sounds like <i>Chopped</i> except more, you know, epic.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Michael Bolton’s Daughter is Destroying My Life</i>. <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/michael-bolton-to-star-in-abc-sitcom-as-himself-wh,86638/" target="_blank">Uh, yeah I think I’ll pass. </a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--If I told you to guess which state…wait, you didn’t even let me finish, <a href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-10-11/news/fl-minority-standards-20121010_1_white-students-black-students-asian-students" target="_blank">but yeah, Florida</a>. The rest of it was which state’s board of education passed a plan that sets education goals based on race. It reads like an Onion story, but it’s just Florida being Florida. By 2018 the plan has goals of 90% of Asians, 88% white, 81% Hispanic and 74% black to be reading at or above grade level. Those goals are slightly less for math except for Asian students because they’re Asian I guess. Looking good Florida.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--You mean taking an offensive line coach and installing him as a defensive coordinator at the NFL level didn’t work? Wow, nobody saw that coming Eagles.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Iron Chef</i> is being rebooted in Japan and, of course, there is zero chance it will be as good. Especially <a href="http://eater.com/archives/2012/10/15/heres-iron-chef-japans-new-chairman-hiroshi-tamaki.php" target="_blank">when you replace the chairman</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Because you asked for it America (why did you ask for it America?) you’re getting another season of the <i>Guy/Rachael Celebrity Cookoff Thingy</i>. That might not be the official name of the show. The “celebrities” include Johnny Weir, Hines Ward, Gilbert Gottfried, Carnie Wilson and I think that’s about enough of that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--C’mon kids, you can do better than assaulting each other using “<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/12/nypd-teen-attacks-another-teen-with-homemade-jalapeno-pepper-spray/" target="_blank">homemade pepper spray</a>” made with jalapenos.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--If you didn’t catch Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado last Saturday night on HBO I hope you have at least one more time to watch those two throw down. You know it’s good when the talk is trilogy before <i>and </i>after the first fight. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I’ve barely watched <i>Modern Family </i>this season, but you tell me Rafi from <i>The League</i> is coming on and of course I’m down.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Why would anyone let Khloe Kardashian host anything?! Seriously <i>X-Factor </i>is this just to make Mario Lopez look better by comparison?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I liked <i>9.79</i>, but I never even recorded the other two new 30 for 30’s that have aired. And it sounds like I haven’t missed anything.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Questions, comments or if you dreamed your dog turned into a cat and multiplied and while you were in the dorm at New York Giants training camp one of the cats crapped all over the stairs and it was your job to determine which cat it was…</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-24274367840332016652012-10-13T07:45:00.002-07:002012-10-13T07:50:28.357-07:00Well I'm M.C.A. - I got nothing to prove. Pay attention - my intention is to bust a move.<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I’m slow so someone needs to explain to me how in Week 6 JJ Watt can lose a sack from Week 1.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--For season premieres I thought <i>Sunny</i> and <i>The League </i>were really disappointing. Maybe it’s because I was comparing them to the entertainment the VP debate provided, but there really wasn’t all that much to them. I thought <i>Sunny </i>had a bounce back season last year and The League was The League, but the premieres didn't bode well for their respective seasons. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Damn <i>Homeland</i> it’s just episode two and holy crap! Terrific from beginning to end what with assassination attempts in Beirut thwarted by a certain congressman taking it all in in Washington. Carrie with another chase scene. Saul grimacing. Mike and that one angry guy who hates Brody. Well it can’t all work I guess. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because I was jet lagged (yeah, that’s it jet lagged) I didn’t put it together that Brody’s “May 1” text to Abu Nazir was in reference to Osama Bin Laden’s death date.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Deb – “I’m the worst f’n detective in the world.” Amen. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Titus Pullo from <i>Rome</i>, yes. Dexter’s talk with serial killer guy, no. Louis, hell no. Deb’s “spaghetti,” never.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can forgive a lot from television shows especially when it comes to kids, but does the babysitter even go to school because she’s apparently a full-time mother to Harrison. Harrison or Louis has to go and if Louis threatens Harrison and that’s when Deb gives Dexter permission to kill then all the better. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Community</i> gets delayed and <i>Louie</i> isn’t coming back until 2014 when we’ll all be using flying cars. Sigh. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--There is no more annoying commercial on television than Joe and his boring ass Citicard. Although Lorena Garcia and Taco Bell is making a strong push. And anytime I see Ice Cube shilling Coors Light I die a little inside so you may not be THE worst Joe, but you’re very close and yes very boring. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I love this footage from a 1979 movie screening of <i>Halloween</i>. THE best scary movie.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Anthony Bourdain was roasted this week. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/anthony-bourdain-roast-_n_1960092.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post has some select quotes</a> from the likes of Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri, Eric Ripert and some actual funny people. Although Eric Ripert is apparently a funny guy with this about Rachael Ray, “I haven’t seen a rack like that since the one Batali ate on the way to the stage.” See it’s funny because Rachael, wait, Rachael doesn’t have a rack? Try again Frenchy, “You don’t fuck with Martha Stewart. As we say in French, she’ll ‘cut a bitch’.’”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Willie Geist on Guy Fieri – “What can you say about Guy’s cooking that hasn’t been printed on a packet of cigarettes?”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or maybe you prefer Mario on Guy, “In case you’re wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ted Allen on Mario – “Now that you can find your penis on your own, what do you need Joe Bastianich for?”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Parents who want to eat their children’s teachers faces…I don’t know how many times I need to tell you this, but whenever you threaten the teacher with a good ol’ fashioned face eating you should not, NOT, do it in writing. Apparently a Rock Hill High student wasn’t being allowed to go to the bathroom so mommy wrote teacher a note: “When she needs to go to the bathroom – YOU WILL LET HER GO! If she is not allowed to go, I will come to RHHS and eat your face off.” Some people are a little too excited about <i>Walking Dead</i> coming back this weekend.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Well that’s one way to guest star, Walton Goggins. Wow. Let me edit that, WOW! Venus Van Damme indeed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m not sure where this home invasion thing is going, but you knew things weren’t going to go well for the sheriff’s family as soon as they showed them. They didn’t have to make it so obvious.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nero and Gemma = my time to check twitter.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Seems like serving roadkill would close your restaurant forever. But in Kentucky it’s probably more likely to get you a Kentucky Michelin star. Apparently a Chinese restaurant there was trying to sneak a dead deer in a garbage can through the backdoor. But no worries Kentucky. The place can reopen as long as they pass a secondary health inspection. Yet food trucks in Houston can’t be parked around tables and chairs or within 60 feet of another truck.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Sesame Street</i> and <i>Boardwalk.</i> No Billie Kent, but still cute. And probably more happened on the Birdwalk than Boardwalk this week. Thankfully Eli is back in Nucky’s good graces, but then that kid probably thought he was in Nucky’s good graces too and where did that get him? Benny is Bugsy Siegel, right?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Getting kicked out of a bar <a href="http://eater.com/archives/2012/10/11/aussie-man-kicked-out-of-a-bar-because-of-his-mullet.php" target="_blank">because you have a mullet</a>? Seems reasonable.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/asian-seafood-raised-on-pig-feces-approved-for-u-s-consumers.html" target="_blank">If you buy cheap Asian seafood</a> well you may not after reading this. Unless you like tilapia that feed on pig feces cause if so you’re in luck!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Christie Brinkley as Jerry’s wife on<i> Parks and Rec</i>? Awesome sauce.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Parenthood </i>with a little <i>Friday Night Lights</i> miraculous sports action this week. Forgiven because I barely remembered it after crying through the ending. NBC may have not done right by FNL, but I’m glad it gave <i>Parenthood </i>a few seasons. I think it’s about to take over my 9pm live slot from Sons.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Oh so now we don’t believe Lance Armstrong? Everyone knows it takes a minimum of 30 people to testify you’re a liar before it’s actually fact. 26?! Pssh, get back to me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Mila Kunis as Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Schmidt: “That’s how she casseroles.” Not a great <i>New Girl</i> this week, but I wasn’t going to like it after seeing the kid from <i>Hung</i> in it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Finally a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-abc-buys-celebrity-splash-20121009,0,6505000.story" target="_blank">celebrity diving reality competition</a> show. Thanks ABC!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Padma could only pull a <a href="http://eater.com/archives/2012/10/09/padma-meat.php" target="_blank">$1,000 for charity</a> for allowing someone to eat a slice of Iberico ham off her collarbone?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I’ll give you one guess as to which state’s governor gave out a phone number for a sex chat hotline instead of a meningitis hotline. Yep, never change Florida.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--“I chewed the face off an antique stuffed panda bear.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I mostly stick to NFL Network as background noise on pregame Sundays. ESPN’s pregame has been dead to me for a couple of years. Frank Caliendo joining it? Yeah, that’s about right.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Oh I’m <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/10/11/dove-dinner-lands-texas-man-in-hot-water-with-law/" target="_blank"><i>not </i>allowed to roast a white winged dove that died by flying into my house</a>? Listen buddy, this is Pflugerville. If you ain’t eating housekill and posting step-by-step pictures and a recipe online of your dove roast then you’re in the wrong neck of the woods.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because he didn’t “legally” obtain it by hunting license and so on and so forth the Texas Parks & Wildlife thought about charging him with something. No charges ended up being filed and now you know what to do next time a bird flies into your window.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Questions, comments or if you got your ass handed to you in Vegas and your only revenge came from trying to eat as much as you lost at Caesar's new Bacchanal Buffet (excellent buffet btw)…</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-33411051293498421582012-10-01T20:02:00.000-07:002012-10-02T16:33:07.860-07:00But yo I'm out and I'm gone. I'll tell you now I keep it on and on.<b>Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</b><br />
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--I missed me some <i>Homeland</i> and some more specifically some Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, and Mandy Patinkin. Two scenes absolutely made this premiere for me. First when Brody calmly loses it (if that’s possible) when Jessica throws the Koran to the ground. Really great stuff from Jessica as she realizes where she stands in Brody’s life as compared to his new old religion. Even the scenes with Brody’s daughter were solid and Dana wasn’t an insufferable teenager. Of course we haven’t yet been subjected to the inevitable boyfriend angle with the cool kid that deflected some of the crazy off her with his joke.<br />
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The other standout scene was, of course, “the smile” the episode was named after. Claire Danes was terrific running through the gamut of emotions as she gets the high of the chase and the job and that smile with hints of craziness shows itself. It was great to see even if we know she’s not going to be making a lot of vegetable lasagnas anytime soon. <br />
My only quibble is with the very <i>24</i>-like scene of Brody breaking into Estes’ safe for the information Abu Nazir wanted. All in all though I can't wait to see where we go this season.<br />
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--For the first time in a long time I was excited about watching an episode of<i> Dexter</i>. The preview trailer was intriguing and didn’t include Colin Hanks. Win. I thought the talk and cover-up by Dexter and Debra was really strong with Dex manipulating and lying his way through it all which is as normal as breathing to him. Debra is wired differently, like normal, and I thought she did a nice job putting the pieces together and then what a shot at the end with Dexter’s knives and slides laid out in front of him. The game has changed, finally. Well mostly. We still had a Dexter kill of the week that seemed odd because it was so haphazard, but whatever.<br />
I cringe every time I see LaGuerta, but Doakes 2.0 (or 3.0 if we count Quinn) might be interesting. Quinn, Batista will not be interesting. The freaky lab guy who somehow is still dating Batista’s uber hot just gets on my nerves. I’m just not a fan of the actor or the character. Nevertheless promising start and we haven’t even gotten to Ray Stevenson and Yvonne Strahovski yet. <br />
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--I know I can’t be the only one who could go for a Water Zero about now. Although 300 calories is a little much so I’d probably go with the 60 calorie option, Diet Water Zero Light. Loved the soda tax part of <i>Parks & Recreation</i>. The other stuff didn’t do much for me except Chris being worried about, “Nothing – the silent killer.” <br />
Ann – “We’re not taxing anyone’s genitals.”<br />
Pawnee guy – “Then what the hell are we doing here?”<br />
Never change Pawnee. <br />
How hot was it when April verbally dressed down Ellis?<br />
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--Best first few minutes of <i>Louie </i>ever with him trying to fix the doll only to create another problem he’ll also have to fix. Good stuff.<br />
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“Why didn’t he try harder to be less alone?” Nightmare and then good for Louie as he sets out to go to Mexico for New Year’s. Hooray for Louie as he sees Liz on the bus! And then good God. What the hell? I thought my New Year’s Eves sucked. <br />
Louie then goes to China because of course Louie goes to China.<br />
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--You had me at Andre Braugher, <i>Last Resort</i>. You’ll keep me because that was one damn good premiere. It was jam packed and I kind of wish it was two hours so we had a chance to breathe. Still you mix a bowl of Braugher, Shawn Ryan, Robert Patrick, Autumn Reeser, a submarine, nuclear warheads, cloak and dagger, Pakistan and I’m going to stick around to see what comes out of the oven at the end. It seems like it could be a helluva one season show, but I don’t know how they get more than that out of it. Still it’s the first drama that I’ve watched on ABC since a little show that also had an island setting.<br />
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--Seth McFarlane to host the Oscars?!<br />
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--Candace Cameron is one hot Charlie. <br />
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--I finally caught some <i>Key & Peele</i> and I’m pretty sure that’s now a Wednesday staple for me.<br />
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--<a href="http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201210/cheers-oral-history-extended" target="_blank">Oral History of Cheers</a>? Don’t mind if I do.<br />
Good stuff on how Cliff Clavin became Cliff Clavin. And of course…mushrooms.<br />
Danson: I'll tell you about the worst day of my life. Shelley and Rhea were carrying that week's episode, and the guys were just, "Let's play hooky." We'd never done anything wrong before. John had a boat, so we met at Marina del Rey at 8 a.m. We all called in sick, and Jimmy caught on and was so pissed. Woody and I were already stoned, and Woody said, "You want to try some mushrooms?" I'd never had them, so I'm handed this bag and I took a fistful. On our way to Catalina, we hit the tail end of a hurricane, and even people who were sober were getting sick. Woody and I thought we were going to die for three hours. I sat next to George, and every sixty seconds or so he'd poke me and go, "Breathe." [gasp] And I'd come back to life.<br />
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Alley: It was a boys' club, and I do well in boys' clubs. Woody and I instantly hit it off. I was married, but he would show up at my house sometimes and stay over. One night he brought this girl to bang, and then in the middle of the night he decided he didn't want to, so he was knocking on my bedroom door: "Kirs? Kirs? Can you talk to me a minute? I'm just not into this chick." I said, "Woody, you have to take responsibility. I can't coach you into sleeping with her, but you need to go back there, dude." I think she was in the bedroom crying while we were chatting about this.<br />
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Sam: I still keep thinking, though. I want some kind of change in my life.<br />
Woody: You know something? I hate change. I mean, you know-every day, you wake up, and something's changed. Everything's just changing so fast. I like things to stay the way there are, you know? I like things you can count on.<br />
Sam: You know, you just gave me something to think about, Woody.<br />
Woody: Oh, I'm sorry, Sam. I hate when it someone does that to me.<br />
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--When you read the word “Florida” followed by the word “teacher” you expect the words “arrested” and “sex” to follow in some order. But that’s what’s so great about Florida, you think you know them and then boom you get a unique teacher story. Social studies teacher James Pepe thought another teacher was badmouthing so he did what any of us would do. Yep, he tried to hire a hitman to eliminate the gossiper who most likely wasn’t doing any gossiping. Pepe was charged with solicitation of first-degree murder and there should be an additional charge for only offering $2,000. I mean, c’mon, you’re insulting the undercover officer at that point.<br />
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Questions, comments or if you sat Jamaal Charles and his 91-yd TD run two weeks ago and Brian Hartline and his near 300 yards receiving last week…</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-39967320081308802282012-09-26T19:13:00.001-07:002012-09-26T19:13:02.716-07:00I had to get a beeper 'cause my phone is tapped. You better keep your mouth shut 'cause I'm fully strapped. <div>
<b>Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</b><br />
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--Loved the look Matt Schaub had on his face on the sidelines after the cracks from Von Miller and Joe Mays. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that look on his face. Damn that was awesome.<br />
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--Well damn <i>Sons of Anarchy</i>. I wanted some consequences, but crap you didn’t have to go off and do Opie like that. Or maybe you did because I can’t wait to see the fallout and war between Jax and Pope. Jax is finally going to stop tiptoeing around all the chaos surrounding him Hell no he’s about to go on that scorched earth path. But damn I hate to see Opie leave. Ryan Hurst was outstanding in that role and I hope that’s not the last good role I see him in. Business is picking up and I’m intrigued by <i>Sons </i>for the first time in a while. What doesn’t intrigue me is anytime Gemma is on the screen this season. I have a hard time believing her flip out at Clay sleeping with a prostitute and a harder time understanding why Jimmy Smits likes her so much especially after beating up a good earner.<br />
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<br />--“Am I interesting now?” Missed you along the <i>Boardwalk</i> last week Chalky. Good stuff with Chalky and Eli. The Margaret/hospital thing is going to be when I scroll through Twitter only glancing up to make sure I’m not missing Billie Kent. Meg Steedle is kicking the sh** out of that role beyond her lack of clothes. I appreciate Bobby Cannavale’s Gyp Rosetti as well. I just want him to die a slow, torturous death. Thought for sure that gas station kid was gonna regret the whole scale-inch talk.<br />
<br />--Damn I missed me some <i>New Girl</i>. Good stuff out of the gate. The premiere was solid and had Schmidt juggling fire sticks so yeah. The Katie episode was fantastic, but predictably so after we get a line from Schmidt like, “Are you making a frittata in a sauce pan? What is this, prison?” That was probably Schmidt’s highlight that episode as he and Winston got pushed aside (always like when Winston gets pushed aside) for Katie/Jess and Nick/Old Nick. Oh, and Bear Claw. The best part of the short-lived <i>Perfect Couples</i> was that tall drink of water David Walton who is on his way to being a top-notch sitcom pinch-hitter. Good stuff with Jess even if they’re doomed because of their opposing Creed views. Having Arlo Givens from <i>Justified</i> as old Nick was great.<br />Almost forgot the lovely Parker Posey as a broken shot girl.<br />
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"There's got to be an explanation like he's the Lord of Winterfell."<br />"We all know you can't handle door knobs."</div>
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"That's not a suit, that's what Morgan Freeman was given at the end of <i>Shawshank</i>. Did a magician die in that?"</div>
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<br />--I thought <i>The Mindy Project </i>showed some promise.</div>
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--The Saints are 0-3 and the teams that have beaten them have beaten ONLY them. The last time a team started 0-3 in that type of scenario was 1989. A little ol' team called the Cowboys.<br />
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--Rest easy America Sandra Lee is getting her own self-titled magazine on the shelves later this year. Whew.<br /><br />--Love Fruit Loops. Vodka, eh I can take it or leave it. Loopy vodka made to taste like the leftover milk from Fruit Loops. Disgusting. No thanks Three Olives.<br /><br />--Yeah, <i>Awkward</i> should have just left well enough alone after a very solid first season.<br /><br />--<i>Inbetweeners</i> has its occasional moments like this conversation between class clown hopeful Jay and his dad.<br />Dad – “You can’t be confident about anything. Insecurity drives a class clown. You gotta remember that.”<br />Jay – “I know Dad, I’m very insecure.”<br />Dad – “Good.”<br />
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--I caught a little bit of Fox’s halftime show and wow Erin Andrews is even more of a train wreck than I imagined she’d be. <br />
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--I’ve never dined and dashed because I have this thing where I feel it necessary to pay for goods and services. Weird huh? Justin Simon was with a few friends at a Waffle House in the Atlanta area the other day and were doing the staggered dine and dash. The 21-year-old was the last to run out. Unfortunately his dash part of the plan led him straight into the path of a pickup truck. So yeah, because dude didn’t want to pay for his scattered, smothered and covered he lost his life. <br />
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--Essential reading for dog owners. <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">“My dog: the paradox.”</span></a><br />
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--The biggest o-fer of the weekend came from the Emmy world, not the baseball world. Mad Men 0-17. <i>Homeland</i> put the nail in the stylish <i>Mad Men</i> coffin by winning Best Drama. Excellent choice. Claire Danes and Damian Lewis winning were also excellent choices. <br />
<i>Modern Family</i> won Best Comedy which is a f’n joke, but<i> Louie </i>and <i>Parks & Rec </i>can’t even get nominated for that award so whatever. <br />
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Morena Baccarin. Always a big winner.</div>
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--“It is my desire to have everyone reserve judgment until all the facts and evidence in this investigation have been gathered.”<br />
Yes because it’s not important to not immediately judge anyone who shoots a double amputee who was armed with a ballpoint pen. <a href="http://www.click2houston.com/news/HPD-Officer-shoots-kills-double-amputee/-/1735978/16702414/-/2iqlufz/-/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Nah...</span></a><br />
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--Oh you said “flea bath” not “euthanize” oh man, well, uh, funny story…<br />
Don’t be so sad people, <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CAT_MISTAKENLY_EUTHANIZED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-23-07-34-17" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">the story is about a cat not a dog</span></a>.<br />
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--Oh man hopefully this comes out in time for Christmas - <a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2012/09/smash_mouth_and_guy_fieri_pen_1.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Smash Mouth: Recipes From The Road: A Rock n’ Roll Cookbook</span></a>. Smash Mouth AND Guy Fieri recipes?! I’m pretty sure this is why God invented ZOMG! Sammy Hagar will also provide some recipes because, well because.<br />
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--Olivia Wilde. <a href="http://imgur.com/a/EYZD0" target="_blank">Stripper. Sold.</a><br /><br />--Why wouldn’t you want <a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/09/floridians_now_renting_alligat.php" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">gators swimming with your children</span></a> at a pool party?! I mean the gator’s mouth is taped shut so no big deal. Yeah, this is a thing that a guy from Alligator Attractions started offering. Now the Florida Wildlife Commission is looking into it. No word yet on the very much needed Florida Common Sense Commission.<br />
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--<a href="http://eater.com/archives/2012/09/24/kfc-japan-adds-insane-deep-fried-bacon-mashed-potatoes.php" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Colonel’s Bacon Potato Fritters</span></a> do sound like something you’d find at the State Fair of Texas rather than at KFC Japan.<br />
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--It’s hard to find a good Samaritan these days. So <a href="http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/09/adrian_castro-villasenor_corps.php" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Omar Ibrahim had his work cut out for him</span></a> when he knocked on doors at his apartment complex looking for someone to help him carry this heavy rug. I mean sure the rug was heavy because there was a dead body in it, but nevertheless no one steps up to assist?!<br />
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--Sad to hear that former Heavyweight Champion Corrie Sanders was shot and killed by robbers in South Africa over the weekend.<br />
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Questions, comments or if you're on the verge of San Francisco/Vegas week!!!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833906.post-35957469156673314052012-09-22T09:56:00.001-07:002012-09-22T09:59:46.736-07:00B-E-A-S-T-I-E, what up Mike D. Ah yeah, that's me.<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">--Why doesn’t my job ever throw a Leslie Knope Employment Enjoyment Summer Slam Grill Jam Fun-Splosion? Much less a gazpach-off?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yay no more Tom and Ann!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andy – “That’s what makes you…</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Leslie – “No.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andy – “…an amalgam.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oval Reddenbacher. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pig Tom.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Damn I missed this show.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">--Terrific episode of <i>Louie</i> Balboa. Rarely do we see Louie win and this wasn’t a flawless victory, but it was definitely a win for him and it felt like a win the audience could feel a part of. The strongest episode of the three because it really did have everything from his little girls pulling for him, to Seinfeld lying, to <i>Rocky </i>moments, to Louie telling Susan Sarandon he jerked it to her for the first time, a crying cleaning lady show and more of the awesomeness of David Lynch (Emmy worthy) as Jack Dahl. 3-2-1-funny.</span><br />
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--<i>Wilfred </i>got into some dark, crazy sh** this week as we watched Ryan mindf*** himself. Wilfred too for that matter. It was weird seeing Wilfred not working any angle, trying to put the pieces together himself and actually showing compassion for Ryan by lying that he drew the picture to screw with him. Now it looks like they’re on a plane with no pilot. <br />
Hated to see Amanda go. The scene where she “heard” Wilfred was so well-played and sad.<br />
There wasn’t a lot of laughs in this one, but I sad-laughed my ass off when Ryan kept putting his hand on top of Wilfred’s at the end and watching how much that frustrated Wilfred.<br />
It’s supposed to be in the works, but this show had better get renewed if for nothing else than the fact it seamlessly worked in an awesome <i>Battlestar Galactica</i> reference.<br />
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--I almost forgot just how sprawling the <i>Boardwalk Empire</i> universe is as we started season three. I also forgot just how much happened last season. I did not forget how much I expected to miss Michael Pitt as Jimmy. Nevertheless we push on to 1923. A world in which Nucky is a full gangster. Margaret is, well she’s Margaret. I’m glad at the end we finally got to see their public façade drop and Nucky tell her off about the money/hospital. I also liked his new girl Billie Kent but she had me at walk like an Egyptian. Always enjoy Eddie, but yeah Billie Kent. A <a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/11/dayintech_1126" target="_blank">brief bit on the November 1922 discovery</a> of King Tut’s tomb that intrigued our fair partygoers.<br />
I was curious about what was going to happen to Richard. Once they showed Manny on his New Year’s Eve celebration you knew it wasn’t going to turn out good for him. I’ve always liked William Forsythe, but good for Richard because that was jacked up what Manny did to Angela. Now if Richard can somehow keep Jimmy’s son away from his creepy, but hot, but creepy grandmother. I guess we’re still headed down that path to an Owen vs. Richard showdown a la Brother Mouzone vs. Omar. <br />
So the new Italian guy beats a good Samaritan to death, insults Rothstein, insults Nucky, insults Lucky and lives past the first hour?! Can’t wait to see him choke on his own blood. <br />
Iron agent Van Alden now has two babies?! I guess we’ll have to deal with iron agent a little bit longer until he turns O’Banion henchman after their most serendipitous meeting.</div>
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--Like any normal person watching the beginning of <i>Boardwalk </i>I was terrified that gangster was going to do something to the dog. Thankfully he didn’t. <a href="http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Police-Man-used-dog-to-beat-girlfriend/-/1637132/16643580/-/12tibgn/-/index.html" target="_blank">Not like this a-hole named Michael Wayne Jones</a>. The piece of crap got into a fight with his girl and as she attempted to drive away he picked up her dog and started swinging him in the air and then proceeded to beat her with the dog. Thankfully the dog and woman ended up okay. I forgot to mention, (not that I had to) but - Florida.<br />
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--The best part of <i>Sons</i> is that maybe we’re done with mopey Opie. That’s how you get thrown in jail!<br />
I don’t like the way Danny Trejo and Aceveda (what I’m supposed to remember their character names?) are used to get the Sons out of backs to the wall situations time and time again.<br />
They sure are giving us the hard sell on Nero two episodes in so I’m curious what kind of sonuvabitch he’s going to turn out to be.<br />
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--Hard to believe that this is the first time since 2004 the Eagles have started 2-0. Of course the Texans have done it three years in a row because we’re all awesome and stuff.<br />
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--I’ve been hate-watching <i>Weeds</i> for a while now so it’s not like I was expecting to be blown away by the penultimate and series finale episodes. I was expecting to make it past the 17-minute mark of the hour-long series finale, but then Shane had a mustache and I just had to stop. What a crappy ending to what was once a fantastic series then a decent series then a series where at least Mary-Louise Parker would get nekkid then a series where Andy was worth watching then a series where every episode you questioned while you still watch then a series that FINALLY put a bullet in itself.<br />
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--Nice job by Sergio Martinez temporarily shushing Julio Cesar “got a joint?” Chavez Jr. last Saturday. Sergio simply outboxed his bigger opponent, but credit to Julio for hanging in there until he found success in the 12th. Great round. Really good night for boxing with Alvarez/Lopez on Showtime. No need to get into the stupidity of having quality main events competing against each other.<br />
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--Boxing was good on Saturday but performance of the night was, of course, Frank Ocean on SNL.<br />
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--I watched <i>The Office</i> and I guess I’ll watch it when Colbert is on and the series finale. I don’t think I’ll miss much by watching only those episodes.<br />
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--I still need to dig in on Stephen King’s 11/22/63 which I’ve heard nothing but good things about. I don’t know if I’m intrigued or just plain wary of The Shining sequel he’s doing that’ll be out next year.<br />
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--Take every drug possible and <a href="http://bryanlewissaunders.org/drugs/" target="_blank">draw a self-portrait after each use</a> is an intriguing idea. Yeah, I don’t know what DMT is and I want to stay that way. Huffing lighter fluid is a thing? G13 marijuana looks interesting.<br />
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--It’s pretty much impossible for me to like Matt Saracen/Zach Gilford more than I do. What’s that? He turned down throwing a first pitch at Wrigley because he’s a White Sox fan? Oh man, Saracen 4evs. Although he’s not enough to get me to tune into <i>Mob Doctor</i>. <br />
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--Chris Johnson is averaging 1.1 yards a carry. I know, right? I would have sworn it was under a yard per.<br />
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--Shazam has added TV show identifiability? Nice.<br />
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--I’m a Killers mark so this will not be shocking – The new Killers album is really good. It's like an amalgam (crap, I think I might have accidentally used it right) of their previous stuff. Seems like Runaways has been out forever and I still play the hell out of it. Love the remix of Flesh and Bone. Heart of a Girl is very U2-ish. Miss Atomic Bomb. Be Still. A little country twang with From Here on Out. Just good stuff all around.<br />
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--I haven’t watched, but somebody must be since W. Kamau Bell’s show on FX has been renewed. His has, <i>Wilfred</i> hasn’t.<br />
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--<i>Cabin in the Woods </i>out this week. Gotta put that on my to-do list before my DVR starts getting filled up.<br />
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--Top Chef is going “back to the basics” when it comes back in November. I won’t hold my breath. A couple of chefs from Dallas in the mix including John Tesar who should be very interesting to see in this format. Oh yeah, it’s in Seattle if you didn’t know.<br />
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--A remix of “Angels” from the xx? Thank you much.<br />
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--I’m not sure what the hell is wrong with you if you haven’t <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/houston-city-council-support-the-proposed-mobile-food-unit-ordinance-changes" target="_blank">at the very least signed this petition</a> for changes in the food truck regulations. They’re not asking for anything that isn’t logical, which is probably why the city council is having a tough time getting behind it. That and the Greater Houston Restaurant Association pays well, I assume. But seriously councilman “terrorist threat”?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Sons of Anarchy</i>’s premiere was great as an action-packed, pulpy joyride, but I was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hoping it would improve on the last couple of seasons to get back to where it was when it </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was an effective drama. I don’t think that’s going to happen. There just seems to be a lot </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of repetition and never any consequences.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I did like: Pope’s henchman from <i>Lights Out</i>, Jimmy Smits, Clay telling the club half- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">truths.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I didn’t like: Pope or maybe just Harold Perrineau (WALT!) or maybe just because we had a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">villain like this in season two, the whole reason Pope wants revenge in the first place, Tig, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Opie and Jax’s pointless conversation same as Roosevelt reminding Juice about last season </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">aka two weeks ago?, Opie, Tig getting out of his jam like the Sons always get out of jams, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jax’s diary, Gemma taking her son to the pimp she just met, the montage.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sons used to do great montages, but this one seemed like a Sons paint-by-numbers. Lots </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of brooding, lots of head shaking and head tilts, blades of hope sprouting between cracks in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the concrete, been there done that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The burning daughter scene was sadistic sure, but was I supposed to feel bad for Tig? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cause you know he killed Pope’s daughter for zero reason not to mention Opie’s wife back </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in season one so if they were trying to drum up sympathy it’s not happening from me </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">especially when Tig couldn’t act that scene for shit.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best line? Tara – “Oh God, now what?” Amen Tara. But my guess is that the Sons are</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">backed into a corner with seemingly no escape until an unforeseen escape hatch opens up</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and nobody gets hurt. I’ve hated Tara. I’ve liked Tara. I hate this Tara. They’ve yo-yoed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">her around way too much and her role as the new Gemma is not gonna be </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">something I like. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also why does Tara even love Jax? Because they were sweethearts a long, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? Her life has turned into eternal misery as soon as they rekindled whatever they once had.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that I re-read it sounds like I hated the premiere. That’s not the case. I was just </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">disappointed that a show that used to have depth and quality writing isn’t going to get back</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to the level it once was. It happens. See <i>Dexter</i>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Candy corn Oreos? Uhhh, I’ll pass.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Damn I missed the Bravermans. I think about five of us watch it, but <i>Parenthood </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">continues to be one quality show. Amber used to work my nerves, but her little “I’m an </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">adult” now and can deal with getting screwed over by a musician was great. I like <i>Men of a </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Certain Age </i>Ray Romano on this show. But I just like show no matter what it does. They’re </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">small stories, but written richly and realistically at least as realistically as you’re going to get </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on television. Solid, solid stuff. And damn I miss<i> Men of a Certain Age</i>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I guess there are worse things in the world than a television series of version of<i> Heathers</i> on Bravo, but you're going to have to give me a second, minute, until tomorrow, I'll get back to you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Why would I want to watch and tease myself with the first 20 minutes of <i>Homeland</i>? It’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there on Showtime’s website if for some reason you can’t resist the temptation. It returns </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in all its glory on September 30th.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Jonathan Banks (Mike from <i>Breaking Bad)</i> as Adam Scott’s dad in <i>Parks and Rec </i>is awesome sauce.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I mean first that news and then the news that Jim Crane is putting a bullet in Junction </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jack?! What a week!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Can’t wait until we get our Thursday night shows back. The only thing that might cushion </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the blow if this is <i>Community</i>’s last season is word that Donald Glover is developing a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sitcom starring Donald Glover for NBC.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Writing of <i>Community</i> whoever sent this to Alison Brie deserves a pop culture medal.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Who could this sentence possibly be describing?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“She makes the astonishing attainable, the exotic easy, and the remarkable, relatable”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was your first thought Sandra Lee too?! Of course it was. Silly question. Sandra Lee </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was given another show on Food Network because, well it’s better if you don't think about it, but <i>Sandra’s </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Restaurant Remakes</i> is coming at ya in October anyway.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--A <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/the-sandlot-where-are-they-now" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Where Are They Now?</span></a> </span>for the cast of <i>Sandlot</i>. Spoiler Alert: They’re not really </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">anywhere.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Oh you said “don’t amputate your penis” ha ha. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/phillip-seatons-penis-amputation-appeal_n_1875011.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">My bad</span></a>. Apparently a guy in Kentucky </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">went in for a circumcision when cancer was discovered in his Kentucky privates. So with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the power of the broad language in the medical waiver the doctor decided for amputation </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because what if he had to wait to tell the guy about the cancer and options and then the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">guy had to make a whole other appointment and ugh so much red tape. So yeah this is in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">court because of the medical waiver and the fact the guy is basically illiterate and there’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that whole penis amputation thing going on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Of course there’s a Fuddrucker’s/Luby’s combination opening in Pearland. Major fail if </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they don’t have a Fuddrucker’s burger topped with Luby’s mac and cheese.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Beatles Stories</i> sounds good to me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--See now Argentina’s congress has just two weeks remaining in its session so they’re doing </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">real work like declaring its 19th national holiday. That’s what I’m talking about. Eat it </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Colombia with your paltry 18! By the way, this 19th holiday is in remembrance of the Battle </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of Tucuman which I’m sure you already know about so no need for me to elaborate. C’mon </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Argentina one more and you can double the U.S.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Chrissy Teigen. Vegas. Models. I’m in. <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/vh1-greenlights-model-employee-reality-competition-series-set-at-mandalay-bay/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Reality show</span></a>. Eh, still in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--If I had one wish for Saturday Night Live this week it’d be Frank Ocean and his bro John </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mayer to do “Pyramids.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I can’t remember the last year I enjoyed the men’s tennis slams as much as I did this </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">year. Fantastic stuff. I didn't even turn the dial when Charlie Palillo talked about tennis. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Tom? Tom Colicchio? Is that you? Eater and those eyes say, "Oh yes, It's me Tom Tom."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Lattimer from <i>The Program</i> was arrested for, for hoarding dogs? Yeah, that’s about right. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">25 dogs were in his mobile home. A mobile home that apparently reeked of urine and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">doubled as his own little pet adoption center or some such. If Lattimer didn't run out and lay in the middle of the road before he was arrested then he has disappointed me more than child of mine possibly could.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Facebook may spawn a lot of sexual offenders, <a href="http://www2.wjhl.com/news/2012/sep/11/9/tazewell-deputies-searching-maryland-sex-%20offender-ar-2197374/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">but in Virginia it captured one</span></a>. Dyllan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(two L’s?) Naecher is the sex offender who was wanted in Maryland, but was believed to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">be somewhere in Tazewell county in Virginia. Samantha Dillow is the girlfriend who was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bright enough to “like” the local Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office. Yeah, if only capturing sex </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">offenders was this easy all the time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--New The xx? Si por favor. @airelav2 has a playlist dubbed “audible ambien” which I love </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and The xx in general is certainly audible ambien, but this album is a double shot of ambient. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m not complaining.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<i>Lincoln </i>trailer looks about what you'd expect a Lincoln trailer involving Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis to look like.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Honestly what took so long for Feast to come up with an intestinal pretzel?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I haven’t seen a Piccadilly in years so I’m a little surprised it’s just now filing for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bankruptcy. My grandparents used to take me to the one at Gulfgate Mall when you could </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">safely(ish) go to Gulfgate Mall and well before its current revival.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--I don’t know much about Kansas, but it seems like the type of state that has zero </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">problems and can instead <a href="http://cjonline.com/news/2012-09-13/kansas-panel-delays-ballot-decision-obama" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">focus on the important issues</span></a> like debating whether Obama </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">should be listed on the November ballot.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Questions, comments or if you bought a MacBook Air and now expect to be Apple-napped</span><br />
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