Category Archives: TV

Odds and Ends

Just a few links I’ve come across lately that I meant to post and haven’t.

Best Owl Ever! Seriously, I think this owl just beat out Hedwig as my favorite owl.

Yes, I have such things as a favorite owl.

When even someone in Wall Street is saying “the system is ‘fuck the poor’”, it might be time to take a look at how we are managing our finances as a country.

I’ve been spending a lot of time cracking out on Tumblr lately, and one of the things I’ve come across is the We Are the 99 Percent blog. Some of the pictures make me want to roll my eyes and some make me sad to realize what so many people in our country are coming up against and the realization that I’m perhaps a bad day or two away from joining them.

I’m including this link about spiders for my mom.

I went to go visit her tonight and she just had to point out the spider that was dangling from my car. Rude. Better than my most memorable spider experience at her home, which resulted in my jumping out of the shower with shampoo in my hair because I realized that the dark spot on the shower floor was a spider and not my washrag.

What? I’m blind.

I have learned my lesson and Never! Ever! get into the shower without checking it for spiders anymore. 15 years later and I STILL make a shower spider check before hopping in.

To reward you for making it this far, I give you Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles at Torontocon. I want to pet Jared’s hair, for it is glorious in the pictures I’ve seen from this con. I have other plans for what I’d like to do to Jensen…

SYTYCD – The Door

I didn’t watch SYTYCD tonight because I had friends over to watch Clerks and Mallrats.

 

To console myself, I decided to watch Katee and Twitch dance “The Door” routine  to Duffy’s “Mercy”.

 

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Dear NBC:

You may not remember me, but I am a viewer aged between 25-49. I’m told that advertisers like to have me watching television shows. I like to tell other people about TV shows I watch and convince them to watch with me. I am a fan of television.

I am no longer a fan of you.

I remember that I used to watch all NBC, all the time. If I liked a show, there was a 90% chance it was on NBC. You were my favorite network. I made fun of people who watched shows on other networks.

We’ve been drifting apart. I’m not sure what caused the split, but I suspect reality TV had a hand in it. I remember when all the networks were going nuts on the idea that they could make highly rated shows for so danged cheap. I sympathize–I too enjoy getting the most bang for my buck. But the other networks picked concepts that did not completely suck and they kept up or improved the quality of their scripted shows.

You, NBC, picked shitty reality TV concepts and continue to pick shitty reality TV concepts. The Sing Off? Seriously?

I’ve gone from centering my TV schedule around looking for the peacock in the corner of my screen to only watching one show on your network.

One.

And you almost cancelled it.

I’m talking about Chuck. Now that it’s in the third season and doing well, I feel good talking about it, but it was touch and go for a while there.

Now, I am not a huge fan of late night television. If I happen to be channel surfing at the right time, I’ll stop on a show. If I know that an individual I like (actor, author, whatever) will be on a show, I’ll watch/record it.

I’m not going to deconstruct the handling of the transition from Leno back to Conan. That’s been done to death. I’m not even going to keep my rant going because frankly, you are no longer worth it.

I’m breaking up with you, NBC. Now, I’ve made friends with Chuck and I plan to keep him, but the rest of it? Eh. You’ve shown in your programming choices that you don’t care about me or my generation.

Fuck you, NBC.

With all due apathy and dislike,

Christy

So You Think You Can Dance

This topic is mostly for Linda, since we won’t get to discuss it in person for a few weeks! I’m not even gonna bother talking about the solos because I know you fast-forward. ;-)

1. The boys all dancing together – awesome! Costumes were…odd, but whatever.

2. Janine and Ade’s samba – apparently I was the only person watching who enjoyed it, considering how the judges dumped all over it.

3. Melissa and Evan’s Broadway – He is just so CUTE. Loved that routine. It was fun, they were obviously having fun and yay! I hate that version of the song–I think I’ve seen so My Fair Lady so many times that I apparently need to hear that song be slurred. Also? Bite me, Lil’ C. That was an A+!

4. Kayla and Brandon’s contemporary – Nice, but didn’t get me all excited. There were no off moments, there were some cool bits, but it didn’t jump out at me. Maybe because it was contemporary?

5. Janine and Ade’s hip hop – Oh JEEZ. Not more Tabitha and Napolean! *sigh* At least it’s not a couple having problems. That was a lot more fun than I expected. I think she’s officially my favorite girl dancer.

(I know I said I wasn’t going to mention solos, but HOLY CRAP, BRANDON! That was awesome and a half!)

6. Melissa and Evan’s (dreaded) quick step – WTF? When will they give up on this damned dance that KILLS dancers? *sigh* But hey! I thought they did pretty well–I never wanted to look away. Cool lift at the end. And yay! Brian Setzer Orchestra song! Why is Mary complaining about the lift? They didn’t put that in there, the choreographer did! Enough with the whining.

7. Kayla and Brandon’s disco – Eh. Felt like they took a moment to pause and think about it whenever moving into or out of a lift. It always seems that when I don’t care about a disco, the judges love it and when I like a disco, they don’t. Also? Nigel? Look into some ritalin.

8. Girls all dancing together – Good, but not as entertaining as the guys. Uh…Lil’ C? That was a weird-ass commentary. Bowl? Really? Loved the makeup on the girls…I want to be able to do stuff like that.

Who do I want to go on to the top 4? Melissa, Janine, Brandon and Evan. We’ll see…tomorrow!