Just when I thought this show couldn’t get any better, they give us a great ending that ties up all the loose ends yet still leaves us right back where we started
Spoilers from here on, mostly just my comments on this episode.
Time For SNL To Get Beat Down By the Hansons
A couple of weeks ago I watched Saturday Night Live for the first time in a long time. It was the first show after the writers’ strike ended, and Tina Fey was hosting. It was one of the best episodes I’ve ever seen. I didn’t get to see last week’s episode, but I started watching tonight thinking they’d gotten back on track.
Nope. Honestly, I think it may be time to end this show. Just a few reasons why…
Weekend Update
Weekend Update, when it was good, worked because of the snarky commentary on current events. But it doesn’t work anymore. Why? Because by the time I watch the Weekend Update snarky commentary on Tuesday’s primaries, I’ve already been reading snarky commentary on blogs for five days.
The Intro Skit
This skit is almost always political in nature, and because of that it is much like Weekend Update…played out by the time Saturday rolls around. This week they did a spoof of Hillary’s “3 am phone call” commercial. That’s great. It was even better on YouTube this week when everybody else did it.
Musical Guests
I know I’m old, but geez. Does anyone care about these musical guests anymore? They had Tom Petty in his prime, The Cars in their prime, and next week’s musical guest is…Janet Jackson? She was on Tyra Banks this week…’nuff said.
Anyway, I turned SNL off and am watching Slapshot for the upteenth time instead. It’s still funny. Besides the digital shorts there’s nothing left worth watching on SNL.
Time to put on the foil coach.
LOSTer’n’a Easter Egg
Last week’s episode of LOST (“The Constant”) answered a lot of questions for me–I thought.  My idea was that the island is the nexus for all possible universes.  This would explain why Jack’s father is alive in the future and Kate is so protective of Aaron.  I think that in the universe they return to Jack’s dad never went to Australia, so Claire was never born, therefore Aaron couldn’t exist.  But Claire came to the island from a universe where she does exist, and Aaron was born there.  Via the island he was able to move from a universe where he does exist to one where he doesn’t, or at least isn’t supposed to.
I was really looking forward to getting more answers this week.
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The Wire Rules The World
Hat tip to Reason for this one, very funny.
It seems like David Simon’s former boss is now taking his cues from the show.
I’m sad this show is ending, but I’m glad we can finally cancel HBO after the series finale.
Miami Drivers Unite!
Quick! Take the opportunity this power outage has provided you to prove to the world once and for all that you are the biggest collection of jackasses alive.
We were just watching Fox News here at work and they’re showing a busy intersection (79th and 10th I think) where the stoplights are out. People are just cruising right through at high speeds like total morons.
And what the hell is the police department doing? They showed a couple of motorcycle cops cruise through exactly like the rest of the drivers. It doesn’t take a PR genius to realize that this exact intersection is on worldwide TV and that you need to get this one taken care of–force the, ahem, “news” people to find another intersection to film idiot drivers. Then again, I guess they’d only have to go a block or so to get the exact same footage.
More LOST Than I’ve Ever Been
I’ve been thinking a lot today about last night’s episoe of Lost. Why am I thinking about that? Why not? What would you have me think about?
Anyway, there are some spoilers here, so if you haven’t seen it yet stop reading. Feed readers sometimes don’t pick up on the –more– from WordPress (that ruined this week’s episode of The Wire for me), so be extra careful.
The Wire and The Press
Last night we watched the first episode of season 5 of The Wire, and it is already shaping up to be very interesting. This season is focusing heavily on the newsroom of The Baltimore Sun and how news is sorted and reported. The best quote so far is, “I wonder what it’s like to work for a real newspaper,” which is ironically the same thing said about the Baltimore Police Department in season 3.
All we know of the newsroom so far is that staff has been cut by the parent corporation in Chicago, and the older guys who can actually write (“you don’t want to say that people were evacuated”) are being pushed out in favor of young kids who see the Sun only as a stopping point on their way to The Times or The Post.
One thing I’ve noticed about The Wire is that it exposes the fact that every profession they’ve examined is made up of people that basically fit into the same categories. There are always people who only care about their stats, the people that are there to do the minimum to get the paycheck, the ones who are only interested in furthering their careers, and the ones who do the job because it is a part of who they are and only want to do their best work. So far this has held true for police, politicians, teachers, drug dealers, thieves, and sometimes drug addicts.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the newsroom.
I’m Glad I Didn’t Win
In my most recent poll, I asked readers to choose the most annoying guy on the radio. Fortunately for me, I have a face made for TV and am not on the radio, so I wasn’t eligible.
But I don’t think I could have competed with Sean Hannity. He completely ran away with the poll, although I’m sure he’d say that was only because a handful of Ron Paul supporters found a way to hack my site and vote several times.
Hannity received a whopping 60% of the vote. Maybe not all that impressive, but you have to consider than his buddy Rush was also one of the choices. At least Rush is funny.
I even tried to make it a little more fair by including Jim Rome as a choice, but to no avail. Sean Hannity is definitely the most annoying guy on the radio, and you heard ItFrom.Us!
The Poll is Off — Evel Knievel Dead
My latest poll allowed readers to choose Evel Knievel as the biggest jerk, and now I feel really bad about it. Evel Knievel died today at the age of 69. A sad day.
Over his career, Knievel was said to have broken practically every bone in his body — some multiple times. With his red-white-and-blue jumpsuits, shock of hair and stone-faced mein, he was a fixture on ABC’s program “Wide World of Sports” in the 1970s, his stunts perennial ratings-grabbers.
Needless to say, I’m removing him as one of the choices from the poll, and I have to hand it to the my readers on their foresight–not one person had chosen him and I’m currently tied for the lead. How fitting.
My absolute favorite toy as a little kid was the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle. I’d wind it up as fast as it would go and send Evel flying up a ramp made out of an album cover and the phone book.
Thanks for entertaining us for all those years!
Offending Every Garden Tool
 Australian Santas can’t say “ho ho ho” anymore.
Sydney’s Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say “ha ha ha” instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.
This is more than a free speech issue. It’s borderline thought police. It someone may think that the word “ho” means “whore”, it can’t be said. It reminds me of a few years ago when David Howard used the word “niggardly” and subsequently caused an uproar because some fool(s) didn’t know what it actually meant.
Luckily, we’re safe here in the USA. Christmas may only come once a year, but we celebrate ho’s year-round.
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Via Michael Silence
