Long story short–I thought it was great.
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CAPTAIN IRONY and the Irony Watch
Captain Irony has decided to spread his purview to matters outside of his own creation. This just in:
In Washington State, one of the departments at the University of Washington–in order to save money–has had all its phones removed. You can now only reach the professors through e-mail (or by stopping by.) You can no longer call them.
Which department? Glad you asked.
The communications department.
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BELATED STASH WEDNESDAY – MAY 6
We were having some networking problems last night. Anyway, here it is.
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DAMMIT!
“Chuck” is not on NBC’s roster for next season.
I knew it. I freaking knew it.
I figure the CW will dump “Reaper” next and ABC will probably scrap “Better Off Ted.”
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Can We Get a Grip Please? (Just not La Grippe)
According to the CDC, 36,000 people die annually from the flu. This obviously is not a good thing, and we should take precautions against it, but that’s pretty much it. We don’t act every year as if the approach of flu season is going to wipe out half of humanity. We don’t have the VP advising people not to go on airplanes (the travel industry must have LOVED that) and we don’t have news networks throwing up terrifying graphics describing impending disaster because of AHANA (that’s what I call Swine Flu, using a simple substitution code to replace 1 with the letter A because you can’t pronounce A(H1N1).
If we’re going to panic, then we should panic about something important, like that the Mets are looking a lot like a last place team. Priorities, people!
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The Best There Is At What He Does…and What He Does is Set Up Other Movies
Ariel and I went to the Marvel screening for “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” last night. As always, I’m most interested in the reactions of someone who doesn’t read X-Men comics, because let’s face it–the vast majority of the movie-going public doesn’t read X-Men comics. So what they think is more important than what the fans think, because if only the fans go to see a movie, it tanks. (Not really a ton of spoilers below, so read with no concerns.
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A “Sometimes I’m embarrassed to be a Jew” moment
As the swine flu outbreak continues spreading, an Israeli health official is making waves by saying the name should be changed to “Mexican” flu, because the reference to pigs is offensive to Jews and Muslims, who consider pigs unclean and forbid the eating of pork products.
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