Here we go. And feel free, for those of you who are interested, to post what you think the final score will be. The closest person gets absolutely nothing.
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Keeping With Our Annual Tradition
As always, I don’t give a crap about the Superbowl. If the Jets had gotten in, there might have been an uptick in my interest. As it is…no.
But I will be live blogging the commercials. So feel free to heat up the nachos tomorrow and hang out.
PAD
A Cowboy Pete Tip of the Stetson to Some Inspired Programming
The geniuses who program Encore are running Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray comedy in which a guy finds himself endlessly repeating the titular day until he learns to be a better person.
And they’re running it the whole day. Up until midnight. Apparently it’s an annual event.
And what’s the first film after that? Strange Days. The title alone makes it a brilliant fit.
Me, I think if the little vermin predicts six more weeks of this crap, we should beat him to death.
PAD
Curse Those Activist Judges!
A federal judge in Florida has agreed with a federal judge in Virginia that Obamacare, passed into law by Congress, is unconstitutional.
Well, we all know just how angry the right wing talking heads get when it comes to activist judges endeavoring to countermand laws approved by the representatives of the people!
Go get ’em, Fox News!
PAD
A Cowboy Pete WTF Moment
For the past month, the CW has been advertising that we’d have new episodes of “Smallville” and “Supernatural” on the 28th of January.
So imagine my surprise to discover that they’re airing “Vampire Diaries” and “Nikita,” even though my DVR is still under the impression that it’s recording the originally intended programs.
Anyone else got this on their local stations? Anyone know what the hëll is going on?
PAD
If you happen to be at home right now, or can set your DVR from work
The SyFy channel is doing another “Green Hornet” marathon from now through to 6 PM.
UPDATE:Apparently they will be doing another marathon on Wednesday, February 9th. So nobody gets to say I didn’t give them enough warning this time.
2ND UPDATE: As I’ve been watching the marathon today, they keep advertising a made for Syfy film called “Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.” And every time I look at the logo, it reads to me as “Monty Python vs. Gatorade.” I swear, if that’s what it was actually called, I’d watch.
PAD
Where were you when you heard?
Me, I was walking into the office of my boss in the Marvel direct sales office, moving with the speed and grace of a zombie. Carol looked up at me and saw that I was ashen. “What’s wrong?” she said.
“The Challenger blew up,” I said. My then-wife had been watching the launch on television and had called me, sobbing, telling me the news. We didn’t know at the time that it hadn’t actually blown up so much as it had been shaken apart.
Word sped quickly through the Marvel offices and I had plenty of zombie friends for the rest of that day. The shuttle had been very much in the news, mostly because of the presence of teacher Christa McAuliffe. Years later, Bill Mumy (who had at least some experience with space travel, albeit fictional) and I would memorialize her in our small way by naming the good ship Christa after her in the TV series Space Cases.
To anyone old enough to remember it, it’s just one of those snapshot moments in your head, where you recall exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard.
PAD
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