06.21.07
From the Weird Signs Department
As seen at the bus station:
06.17.07
What Happened to Blood Ties?
Lifetime just sort of stopped playing "Blood Ties" and replaced it with "Army Wives". Which is silly, since they had plenty of timeslots to put them back-to-back if they wanted to. I think they aired 12 episodes. There's 13 episodes online, though I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. When I have a better connection, I will. IMDB lists 22 episodes.
So if Lifetime sitting on the other 10 episodes, waiting to bring them out later? What? How about actually telling us? Why should I have to go looking for this information?
They turned Henry Fitzroy (vampiiiiire) from a romance novelist to a graphic novelist. Which, okay, fine. You tried to make him more cool and made him slightly less cool because you tried too hard. And then you seem to have made him STRAIGHT. Waaaaay less cool, dude.
But at least you could keep showing the episodes.
06.16.07
Umm..
So I'm sitting here watching Team America: World Police. Well, sort of watching. And a commercial comes on.
It's for this lovely hair removal cream. Because everyone watching Comedy Central at 2:30 in the morning is worried about hair removal.
The name of the cream? Nads.
Seriously. Nads.
Suddenly the fact that it's on Comedy Central makes sense.
Message to me: Someone should've looked at dictionary.com before naming their product.
06.13.07
Where's the Beef?
Here's another commercial for you.
Trainee guy at Wendy's is told to go get some more burgers. He heads for the freezer to get them. Inside, he finds three people performing Hamlet. At least, I think that's what they're doing. They tell him that the burgers aren't in the freezer, dummy, because Wendy's doesn't freeze its burgers.
Um... what?
Message to me: Walk-in freezers are perfect locations for out of work actors?
06.10.07
Introducing a New Category
I'm creating a new category. 'Stupid Commercials'. I've seen too many lately.
We'll start with a Burger King commercial, because they're the King of teh Stupid.
People eat this new Western Whopper and sprout facial hair. Chicks, guys, old ladies, dogs, doesn't matter.
The commercial's message to me: Our burgers are not only full of bovine growth hormone, but obscene levels of testosterone too.
06.07.07
Books, Books, Books
I've been reading way too many library books. Can you imagine? A place full of books and you can read any of them you want? For free?!
The problem is I keep returning books and leaving with more than I returned. I think my current number is around 14. No more books from the library for me though. I need to finish what I have and that will be hard enough. I need to finish by Saturday the 16th so I have time to return them before I leave. That's something like one book a day of the ones I have left to read. When will I have time to clean and pack?
Anyway, this post was also to point out that I've updated my James Tiptree Jr. Award list. It has the new winners. I noticed this year the Short List turned into the Honor List, which I think is a nice change. I've also updated it for the stories I've recently read.
I intend to put the Carl Brandon Awards lists up at some point. They'll be short lists, as they're new awards. I haven't actually read any of them either, not even the Octavia Butler or Neil Gaiman.