Year: 2008

Housekeeping

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

I have taken the liberty of shutting down comments on the “Had a feeling” thread, not because anyone was saying anything unacceptable–indeed, Marv’s comments were particularly welcome–but, Marv’s posting notwithstanding, it appeared to have run its course and instead was serving as a magnet for a particularly virulent spambot. So I’ve turned off comments on that thread in hopes that it will dispatch the spambot to whatever cyberhell spat it out.

Second, just as a general reminder, this board will not tolerate people endeavoring to pose as, or post as, other people…particularly well-known people. Bad enough that it takes a certain degree of cowardice to snipe from hiding; endeavoring to impersonate others, no matter how hamhandedly and obvious such attempts are, is beyond the courtesy I wish to extend to posters. Indeed, such rude behavior deserves no courtesy whatsoever. So any counterfeit idiots will have their comments deleted. In the future I would appreciate more sensible board denizens refraining from responding to such yahoos because you’ll just be perpetuating comments that I will have deleted and I’ll probably have to wind up deleting your comments too, in order to avoid confusion.

Thank you.

UPDATE: And just so you know, if you’re an idiot/one of the idiots who thinks that it’s clever to post slams under fake names. Those comments aren’t merely being deleted. They’re being junked. What that means is that they’re being kicked into a special folder which takes note of them. And if there are enough junked e-mails from one source, the program translate it as spam and blocks the origin point. Which means that such individuals will wind up effectively banning themselves.

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The West Wing Scenario

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

Edwards is reportedly dropping out of the race. That leaves me wondering who the hëll I’m going to vote for in the Democratic primary. I feel as if Clinton has too much baggage and Obama is too inexperienced, particularly if it means going up against an old hand like McCain.

Actually, a McCain/Obama race would be eerily similar to the final season of “West Wing,” which depicted a seasoned Republican with some centrist and even liberal views (Alan Alda’s Arnie Vinnick) going up against a younger, less experienced but naively idealistic Congressman who was distinctly a non-WASP (Jimmy Smits’ Matt Santos). In that showdown, Santos won…except that wasn’t the original scenario. Originally, and more realistically, Vinnick was going to win. But the death of Leo McGarry (paralleling the real life passing of actor John Spencer) prompted the producers to change the intended outcome because the felt it would be just too much tragedy and loss to dump on both Santos and his campaign manager, Josh (Bradley Whitford).

Obama, of course, won’t have that scenario available to him. Which means that if is Obama/McCain, and all things remain equal, the West Wing scenario dictates that McCain will win.

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The Last Laugh

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

And so “The Dark Knight” will join “The Crow” as a comic book oriented film that’s going to have a seriously tragic and creepy aspect added to it: Watching a promising young actor performing his last role as a death obsessed comic book character.

It will be a while (if ever) before we find out exactly what happened to Heath Ledger (whom I’ve liked in every film I ever saw him in.) I sure hope they don’t rule it suicide: Losing a loved one at such a young age is tragic enough for the family; but suicide is a whole new level of trauma.

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