Sarah Silverman
Is it me or is she not only not funny, but when I watch her act or show and she speaks, I always think it's like something a short bus kid would say.
"I'm going on an adventure!"
And then she throws a scat joke at you. Really? Shock value comedy? That's not dated or anything.. or.. lacking wit.
She's mildly cute and all but in that way that you just know she would get on your nerves having to be around her for more than fifteen minutes.
Turkey Drop
Hope everyone is having a great turkey day! As another useless link in a series, some of you may remember a show in the early 80's called WKRP in Cincinnati. This show was groundbreaking humor for it's day and the Turkey drop episode is considered one of the funniest moments in television history.
It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
CBS is going to re-release the Original Star Trek series out of order but with remastered CGI effects on September 16th. Featuring re-mastered audio as well, Trek fans are split on if this is a good thing or not but most agree that Michael Okuda, veteran Star Trek effects for the movies and spin-offs, is the best guy in charge of doing so.
The Game Killers
Love the Game Killer adverts from Axe Dry. Great stuff. One of less than fifteen rare occurrences of well used flash.
St. Patty's Day Blue
I was writing a story this morning about how Tom Cruise is an ass for using his power to get South Park's re-airing of "Trapped in the Closet" that makes fun of Scientology and Tom and several other followers, yanked from being shown last night. Isaac Hays has also left the show as the charachter "Chef" due to his connections to Scientology.
Before I could post this however, my laptop locked up and died. The hard Drive is dead and will not boot back up. I will attempt to go to the SoHo Apple store tomorrow but I expect a long wait to be told nothing can be done short of paying as much for a new laptop.
Also, my sister just bought a new Nikon D50 SLR and she is back on my list of people to make pay and suffer. She is an enemy of the state of absolutwade and must pay.
Anyway, go watch the episode of South Park "Trapped in the Closet" over here. If you don't, then Tom Cruise wins.
The Oscars
I missed my [adult swim] line up for this? I don't even like Joaquin Phoenix nor did I see the movie Walk the Line but he clearly should have won over Philip Seymour Hoffman. And so help me if they vote for Broke Back Mountain over Crash for best picture, I may throw a shoe at the television.
Superbowl XL Halftime Review
Dancing rubber chicken, Mick Jagger, was heard singing such lyrics as;
".. you made an old man cry.." and
" I'm .. so .. damn .. old, I .. have.. an.. infection.., and I cry.. always cry.."
Meanwhile all the daughters and wives of ABC tv executives got to wear all the colors of the rainbow and crowd around the stage like they did in the pre-game show for Stevie Wonder and some kind of tribute to music that most people in the audience have never heard of.
Steelers: 7 - Seahawks: 3 - Coach Accuracy: -2
For the record, AbsolutWade Studio's is officially backing the Seahawks in Superbowl XL. Why? Because even though we were steeler's fans in their greatest years, we love to root for the underdog or at least the guy everyone around us isn't rooting for. Go 'Hawks.
update: final: Steelers: 21 - Seahawks: 10.
Boston Legal
Boston Legal is a really good show, for the first time in years I can laugh *with* ABC and not just at them. The writing is well done and I am a big fan of the puffy versions of James Spader and William Shatner. Plus it's a great repository for all the old has been actors (Candice Bergen) who still have something to offer to comedy.
Watching the show tonight "The Cancer Man Can" with guest has-been star Michael J Fox, William Shatner's character Danny Crane was given a mobile phone by the woman he schtoop'd in the coat closet at at an award banquet. When he opened the flip phone up it made the same noise as the original communicator devices on the original Star Trek series. Hi-Larious.
Rollergirls
When strippers learn to ride skates. You have to love how A&E is going less arts and more entertainment.
Six Feet Under
It took a few days to digest this final episode. I have to say it was done well and in the great style that lived up to the show's reputation. When the family was sitting around the table at the end, drinking wine and talking about Nate, you felt like the characters grew up and moved on even though it was mostly in the last 24 hours from a five-year running series.
When Clair drove off, it felt hard to see it end. If you have ever taken a long journey to nowhere with no idea of what the future will bring and saying goodbye to the people you love, you know that feeling and how tough it is. Still, something compels us to go. The foreshadowing of everyone's death was different in that we usually end a fictional story leaving us with hope for the characters we leave behind. This showed us finality to these characters and it was painfully beautiful.
As stupid as it sounds, I have been dealing with death, family, mortality, and loads of other issues since my father died last month. It was uncomfortably comforting to watch this show wrap up over the past several weeks and go into these same issues with it's own perspective.
