Re: Great News!
 

He is singlehandly responsible for the fact that I haven't watched NBA games since the late 90s.

Next Iron Chef
 

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Appleman proved his arrogance, and I am predicting that anyone except Mullen wins. The show does not need more white male chefs, and this is about ratings, not cooking

Re: Great News!
 

No shit. If there are two people more in need of a serious goddamn baking than Hannity and Olbermann, I've yet to see them.

And take Maddow, as well. She was amusing at first, but hanging around Olbermann, she's degraded into a boring blowhard.

Re: Great News!
 

Agreed. Its too bad, she's smart and could be provocative in an intellectual manner, but she, like Olbermann, chooses to be smugly didactic and frontloads her show with one side of every argument. I know its entertainment, but its boring. Like Hannity. And Rush. What's wrong with the CNN model?

Re: Great News!
 

Panels of talking heads and spinning irrelevant statistics? Stewart skewered it well last night.

Re: Great News!
 

Rachel still has some pretty good stuff, though she also has the phone-it-in filler (especially post election). But my kids love her.

Irish Wristwatch
 

For fun times this afternoon, try to say "Irish Wristwatch" three times.

Re: Irish Wristwatch
 

If I want to sound like Ironweed, I'll just drink and skip the tongue twisters.

Re: Next Iron Chef
 

I sort of cheered a little when he realized he was out of there. I have no real sense of who the winner is going to be.

ETA: There's a NYT article today about the first episode of next season's Iron Chef.

Also, local Houston celebrity chef Monica Pope is off filming Top Chef Masters right now.

Re: Irish Wristwatch
 

It sounds like a sexual act.

"After she blew me, I gave her an Irish Wristwatch. Boy was she surprised!"

Re: Great News!
 

Unless the viewing was contingent upon discussions about balance and the possibility of other view points having merit, given the level of bias in her show I would be concerned to let children watch her. I would have the same concern about anything Fox or most of the rest of MSNBC (although, without having watched it much, I get the sense that Scarborough is sort of moderate, relatively). I would not have the same concerns about CNN.

Canada's cultural decline.
 

Oh, Gwinky. Say it ain't so.

Paging the SF geeks re V
 

I only got home in time to catch the last 15 minutes of this. I've got it on tape -- is it worth watching the rest of it?

I love the Firefly chick as the visitor spokesperson. She gives off a lizard alien vibe. I hope she eats rodents like Diana in the original.

Re: Paging the SF geeks re V
 

I thought the effects were amazing, and the plot was pretty good. Looks like they're staying pretty close to the original. None of the characters particularly resonated with me, though. Could take some time to build them up.

Re: Paging the SF geeks re V
 

I don't know. It is mostly introducing characters and the premise, but you already know the premise. There's some special effects, I suppose.

But I just have such a problem with the premise, that the show is almost unwatchable. Aliens can travel intergalactic space, control gravity, but then use quasi-swords in comba, and can have their ass kicked by the chick from Lost and the nekkid lesbian scene with Angelina Jolie. Spare me.