You thought I was not serious?
I’m dead serious. The only way to effect change is through sacrifice (changing your habits) and protest (telling people what you think, publicly).
Plenty of other stuff out on the Hypnotoad. Just look-
The Hypnotoad.
| "Television is a vast wasteland" |
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Primetime Update.
Late Night Update.
Why are you Update.
Busy Afternoon, tonight not so much.
Here’s a list of things (not comprehensive) I think more worthy of your eyeballs.
Instead of Women’s Curling Semi Final Canada (8 – 1) v. Switzerland (6 – 2) on USA
| 7:00 | Oxygen | Roseanne | 3:00 |
| 8:00 | SciFi | Outer Limits | 4:00 |
| 9:00 | Spike | CSI | 7:00 |
| 10:00 | Bravo | Real Housewives | 2:30 |
| 10:30 | TV Land | Hogan’s Heros | 1:00 |
| 11:00 | A&E | First 48 | 2:00 |
| 11:00 | TCM | There Goes My Heart | 12:30 |
| 12:00 | AMC | October Sky | 2:30 |
| 12:00 | Lifetime | Wife Swap | 3:00 |
| 12:00 | ABC Family | Full House | 1:00 |
| 12:00 | TNT | Las Vegas | 2:00 |
| 12:30 | TCM | General Spanky | 2:00 |
| 1:00 | Comedy | Daily Show, Colbert Report | 2:00 |
| 1:00 | TV Land | Gunsmoke | 2:00 |
| 1:00 | VH-1 | Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp | 2:00 |
| 1:30 | Disney | Phineas and Ferb | 4:00 |
| 1:30 | E! | True Hollywood Story | 5:00 |
Today’s marathon champ is Real Housewives at 14 Hours with a half hour break at midnight for Watch What Happens: Live. Only 10 Hours of CSI.
Hal Roach time on TCM. General Spanky is an Our Gang comedy (if you can call them that, I never got into them). You should read the wiki because the backstory on the production is interesting (of course nobody clicks links ever). October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys.
Resident Expert John Hodgman “fixes” the “bad” Olympics by throwing people off mountains instead of “elaborate sliding contests”. “These are not sports, these are drunken dares.” Also Figure Skating needs more glitz.
Last night’s Vancouverage 2010 is brought to you in Wild Strawberry from the Colbert Sports Zepplin. He has a Cold War Update- Mike Eruzione guest with Scott Hamilton who admits there needs to be more “fabulous” in Skating, just as Hodgeman suggests.
Stephen also displays his skills as Assistant Team Sports Psychologist in Freud Rage: The Ice Man Counseleth. Tonight at 11:00 his game changing inspirational speech.
Instead of Women’s Hockey (Bronze) Finland v. Sweden on MSNBC
| 2:00 | ABC Family | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | 3:00 |
| 2:00 | History | The Lost Pyramid | 4:00 |
| 2:00 | Nick | Spongebob Squarepants | 3:00 |
| 2:00 | TCM | A Day at the Races | 4:00 |
| 2:00 | TNT | Cold Case | 4:00 |
| 2:00 | TV Land | Bonanza | 5:00 |
| 2:30 | AMC | Dave | 5:00 |
The Lost Pyramid is actually a pretty interesting documentary about a pyramid at Abu Ruwash that disappeared (spoiler alert- it was mined for pre-cut stone to it’s foundations).
Ice Cream! Get your Tutsi Fruitsy Ice Cream!
Instead of Women’s Free Skate Preview and Women’s Cross country (4 x 5k) on NBC
| 3:00 | Lifetime | Desperate Housewives | 6:00 |
| 3:00 | Oxygen | Snapped | 6:00 |
| 3:00 | TLC | Police Women of Broward (and Maricopa) County | 10:00 |
| 3:00 | ABC Family | Full House | 4:00 |
| 4:00 | USA | Burn Notice | 6:00 |
| 4:00 | TNT | Law & Order | 7:00 |
| 4:00 | History | Egypt: Engineering an Empire | 6:00 |
| 4:00 | TCM | Mr. Deeds Goes To Town | 6:00 |
Another interesting History Channel Documentary. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was supposed to be a sequel to Mr. Deeds, but Gary Cooper was unavailable for the role. Both are Columbia Pictures Capra Depression Era classics.
Instead of Men’s Curling (Semi Finals) on CNBC
| 5:00 | A&E | First 48 | 10:00 |
| 5:00 | AMC | The Bodyguard | 8:00 |
| 5:00 | E! | Keeping Up With the Kardashians | 7:00 |
| 5:00 | ABC Family | Gilmore Girls | 6:00 |
| 5:00 | Nick | Spongebob Squarepants | 6:00 |
| 5:00 | SciFi | Stargate | 7:00 |
| 5:00 | Discovery | Cash Cab | 7:00 |
Fortunately we get Olympics Update on MSNBC today instead of Tweety. Gilmore Girls is the second episode where we first meet Paris Gellar.
Whitney Huston has never been one of my favorites, but I have a very funny Bobby Brown story to tell you some day.
Instead of Women’s Hockey (Gold) US v. Canada on MSNBC
| 6:00 | USA | NCIS | 8:00 |
| 6:00 | Lifetime | Grey’s Anatomy | 9:00 |
| 6:00 | Oxygen | Law & Order | 2:00 |
| 6:00 | FX | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 8:00 |
| 6:00 | TCM | Hail the Conquering Hero | 8:00 |
| 7:00 | Toon | Johnny Test | 8:30 |
| 7:00 | Comedy | Daily Show, Colbert Report | 8:00 |
| 7:00 | SciFi | ST Next Generation | 11:00 |
| 7:00 | ESPN | Iowa @ Northwestern | 9:00 |
| 7:00 | Animal Planet | Planet Earth | 6:00 |
8 Hours of Law & Order! 11 Hours of Planet Earth!
Last chance to see Wednesday’s editions. Johnny Test at 8:00 is a new episode. Hail is Preston Sturges’ last script for Paramount.
Instead of Women’s Figure Skating, Freestyle Skiing, Nordic Combined on NBC
| 8:00 | AMC | Forrest Gump (x2) | 2:30 |
| 8:00 | ABC Family | Nancy Drew | 10:00 |
| 8:00 | Food | Iron Chef America | 10:00 |
| 8:00 | FX | The Simpsons Movie | 10:00 |
| 8:00 | TBS | The Whole Ten Yards | 10:00 |
| 8:00 | TCM | The Killers | 10:00 |
| 8:00 | USA | House | 10:00 |
| 8:00 | TV Land | Andy Griffith Show | 10:00 |
| 8:00 | TNT | Cleveland at Boston | 10:30 |
| 8:00 | Travel | David Blaine | 10:00 |
| 9:00 | Lifetime | Project Runway | 11:00 |
| 9:00 | MSNBC | Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow | 12:00 |
| 9:00 | Toon | Johnny Test | 9:30 |
| 9:00 | VH-1 | Celebrity Rehab w/ Dr. Drew | 12:00 |
| 9:00 | ESPN | Arizona @ California | 11:00 |
| 9:00 | History | WW II in HD | 11:00 |
| 9:30 | Disney | Phineas and Ferb | 10:30 |
| 10:00 | A&E | Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force | 12:00 |
| 10:00 | Comedy | Dimitri Martin, Sarah Silverman | 11:00 |
| 10:00 | Toon | King of the Hill | 11:00 |
| 10:00 | Food | Ace of Cakes | 11:00 |
| 10:00 | FX | Archer | 12:00 |
| 10:00 | TCM | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 12:00 |
| 10:00 | TBS | Family Guy | 11:00 |
| 10:00 | USA | Burn Notice | 11:00 |
| 10:30 | TNT | Denver at Golden State | 1:00 |
| 11:00 | Comedy | Daily Show, Colbert Report | 12:00 |
| 11:00 | Toon | Family Guy | 12:00 |
| 11:00 | Food | Good Eats | 11:30 |
| 11:00 | SciFi | Caprica | 12:00 |
Is anyone else as tired of Forrest Gump as I am at this point? The Simpsons is not so bad, though some parts are better than others.
The Killers is the good 1946 version starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner, not the bad 1964 version starring Ronald Reagan, Angie Dickinson, and Lee Marvin.
Nancy Drew is the premier episode of a brand new series I’m kind of excited about actually because when I was younger I was quite a fan (as well as Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and a half dozen other series that were shorter lived and more obscure).
Archer as I’ve mentioned is by the same team as Frisky Dingo. Caprica is last week’s episode. It is technically possible to not watch anything except Family Guy from 10:00 to midnight.
Instead of Figure Skating Recap and Repeat on NBC
| 12:00 | A&E | First 48 | 2:00 |
| 12:00 | Food | Iron Chef America | 1:00 |
| 12:00 | Oxygen | Law & Order | 2:00 |
| 12:00 | TCM | The Dirty Dozen | 3:00 |
| 12:00 | VH-1 | Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp | 1:00 |
| 12:00 | FX | Wild Things | 2:00 |
| 12:00 | Travel | Dave Blaine | 2:00 |
| 12:00 | TV Land | Roseanne | 2:00 |
| 12:30 | Lifetime | Medium | 2:30 |
| 12:30 | E! | True Hollywood Story | 2:30 |
| 1:00 | Comedy | Futurama | 1:30 |
| 1:00 | Food | Ace of Cakes | 2:00 |
| 1:00 | History | WW II in HD | 3:00 |
| 1:00 | Toon | Moral Orel, Oblongs | 2:00 |
| 1:00 | USA | Burn Notice | 2:00 |
| 1:00 | VH-1 | Good Morning Vietnam | 4:00 |
| 1:30 | Comedy | Daily Show, Colbert Report | 2:30 |
| 2:00 | Food | Good Eats | 1:30 |
| 2:00 | Toon | King of the Hill | 3:00 |
| 2:00 | A&E | Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force | 4:00 |
| 2:00 | Spike | Unsolved Mysteries | 4:00 |
| 2:00 | USA | Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet | 4:00 |
| 2:30 | AMC | The Bodyguard | 5:30 |
Even if you are planning on watching ‘Curling After Dark’ you need this update.
Instead of Women’s Curling Semi Final Sweden (7 – 2) v. China (6 – 3) on MSNBC
| 3:00 | Food | Iron Chef America | 4:00 |
| 3:00 | SciFi | Haunted Prison | 5:00 |
| 3:00 | TBS | The Ice Harvest | 5:00 |
| 3:00 | TCM | Ice Station Zebra | 6:00 |
| 4:00 | TNT | Numb3rs | 6:00 |
| 4:00 | TV Land | Three’s Company | 5:00 |
| 5:00 | Toon | Moral Orel, Home Movies | 6:00 |
This part still under construction, expect updates.
All of them far more worth your eyeballs than NBC and its horrible coverage.
This isn’t even political, except for the lesson in activism.
Am I serious?
Dead serious.
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Oh Rose, have something to eat.
Two hundred thousand years in the future he’s dying, and there’s nothing I can do.
Well, like you said, two hundred thousand years, it’s way off!
But it’s not! It’s now. That fight is happening right now! And he’s fighting for us, for the whole planet, and I’m just sitting here eating chips!
Listen to me! God knows I have hated that man, but right now I love him, and do you know why? Cause he did the right thing, he sent you back to me!
But what do I do every day, Mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to work, come back home, eat chips and go to bed, is that it?!
It’s what the rest of us do.
But I can’t!
Why, cause you’re better than us??
NO, I didn’t mean that! I just… But it was. It was a better life!
And I don’t mean all the travelling, and seeing aliens and spaceships and things, that don’t matter.
The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know, he showed you too!
That you don’t just give up! You don’t just let things happen!
You make a stand, you say no, you have the guts to do what’s right when everyone else just runs away.
I want to make it very clear that you can use this thread to talk about the Olympics all you like.
I will be watching something else.
And you’re perfectly free to post your own essay, I might even promote it.
But to those who say that it doesn’t matter, that now that NBC has its advertisers ratings mean nothing, you couldn’t be more wrong. They have guaranteed those advertisers a certain number of eyeballs and if NBC doesn’t make their numbers they have to give their sponsors free advertising until they do.
You have power. You just have to have the willpower to use it.
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Winding down, just as I’m getting really efficient.
This will take you through 8.
I was just reading some of the Tweets from blogosphere pundits about this health care conference
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Canada advances, Finland leading by one at the third period.
Heavy wet slushy snow and more to come. It was mostly quiet night in the ER by the Sea but started to liven up around dawn and was reaching crescendo when I left around noon when we had run out of monitored beds. The last bed went to a 95 year old with the greatest sense of humor, laughing and joking even wit a heart rate of 38 (yes, that needs a pacemaker). She had everyone cracking up when she asked the one Paramedic, who is rather nice looking guy, if he had a husband becasue he was very pretty.
I’m going to watch TDS/TCR and catch up with the outside world. I did catch some of the health care stand off. What a waste of 7 and a half hours. Obama took the public option out of his proposal because he’s afraid of Republican talking points. So much for spine.
On to some Olympic news from the NYT
On Wall Street, a Romance With the Curling Stone
A Grieving Mancuso Falls Short in the Giant Slalom
ESPN Sets Sights on Different Way to Show Olympics
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triumphs over youth and energy.
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Yahoo TV Listings lets me down again!
What the Fuck is Tweety doing on?
This is listed as Rachel!
Back to The Simpsons for me.
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