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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Mid-Afternoon Update.
Prime Time Update.
FINAL Update.
Here’s a list of things (not comprehensive) I think more worthy of your eyeballs.
Instead of Men’s Curling on USA
| 9:00 | Spike | CSI | 9:00 |
| 9:00 | TV Land | Leave It To Beaver | 1:00 |
| 10:00 | AMC | The Devil’s Brigade | 1:00 |
| 10:00 | Bravo | The Negotiator | 1:00 |
| 11:00 | Oxygen | America’s Next Top Model | 11:00 |
| 11:00 | SciFi | Caprica | 4:00 |
| 11:00 | Discovery | Overhaulin | 5:00 |
| 12:00 | TNT | Las Vegas | 2:00 |
| 12:00 | ABC Family | Full House | 1:00 |
| 12:00 | History | Modern Marvels | 2:00 |
| 12:00 | Lifetime | Wife Swap | 3:00 |
| 12:00 | MTV | True Life | 2:00 |
| 12:30 | TCM | The Divorcee | 1:30 |
| 1:00 | AMC | Dances With Wolves | 5:00 |
| 1:00 | Bravo | The Matrix Reloaded | 4:00 |
| 1:00 | Comedy | Daily Show, Colbert Report | 2:00 |
| 1:00 | E! | True Hollywood Story | 4:00 |
| 1:00 | TV Land | Gunsmoke | 2:00 |
| 2:00 | TCM | Broadway Melody | 3:30 |
| 2:00 | History | True Caribbean Pirates | 4:00 |
| 2:00 | TNT | Cold Case | 4:00 |
| 2:00 | TV Land | Bonanza | 5:00 |
| 2:00 | ABC Family | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | 3:00 |
My goodness, our two marathons, CSI and America’s Next Top Model, are so short, only 12 Hours, that they’re hardly even worthy of the name.
Not many movies compared to yesterday. Broadway Melody from 1929 is the first sound film ever to win an Oscar for Best Picture.
Looks like a good day to catch up on Caprica as they’re repeating practically the whole series so far. As I’ve said I don’t quite know what I think about it yet.
Instead of Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Team Sprints on NBC or Women’s Hockey semi-Finals on USA
| 3:00 | Comedy | How High | 5:00 |
| 3:00 | ABC Family | Full House | 4:00 |
| 3:00 | Lifetime | Desperate Housewives | 6:00 |
| 4:00 | Bravo | Millionaire Matchmaker | 6:00 |
| 4:00 | History | Return of the Pirates | 6:00 |
| 4:00 | TMC | The Hollywood Revue | 6:00 |
| 4:00 | VH-1 | Celebrity Rehab w/ Dr. Drew | 6:00 |
| 4:00 | TNT | Law & Order | 7:00 |
Instead of Women’s Curling on CNBC
| 5:00 | AMC | Philadelphia | 8:00 |
| 5:00 | Comedy | Scary Movie | 7:00 |
| 5:00 | ABC Family | Gilmore Girls | 6:00 |
| 5:00 | SciFi | Stargate | 7:00 |
| 5:00 | Discovery | Cash Cab | 6:00 |
| 5:00 | A&E | First 48 | 7:00 |
| 6:00 | History | Modern Marvels | 8:00 |
| 6:00 | Lifetime | Grey’s Anatomy | 9:00 |
| 6:00 | TCM | Sunset Boulevard | 8:00 |
| 6:00 | Discovery | King Tut Unwrapped: Royal Blood | 8:00 |
| 6:00 | USA | NCIS | 9:00 |
| 7:00 | Bravo | Groundhog Day | 9:00 |
| 7:00 | ESPN | West Viginia @ Connecticut | 9:00 |
| 7:00 | ABC Family | Secret Life of the American Teenager | 9:00 |
| 7:00 | Toon | Johnny Test | 8:00 |
| 7:30 | FX | The Devil Wears Prada | 10:00 |
Philadelphia and Forrest Gump (x 2) is the exact same triple feature we saw yesterday. How imaginative. Aren’t there any other Tom Hanks movies? Bueller?
Groundhog Day is one of my favorites. I don’t know anything at all about doing things over and over and over and over and over and over and over again until you get them right. Best movie about Buddhism ever!
Cash Cab, just saying.
Connecticut is going to thump West Virginia. Stargate? Can’t get me enough Amanda Tapping, some people say I’m like Rodney that way. King Tut has a sequel at 8 pm. Gilmore Girls is winding down, Logan asked Lorelai for Rory’s hand this morning.
Mr. DeMille? I’m ready for my close up.
Instead of another Women’s Hockey semi-Final on CNBC or Ice Dancing, Freestyle Skiing, and Ski Jumping on NBC
| 8:00 | A&E | Intervention | 10:00 |
| 8:00 | AMC | Forrest Gump (x 2) | 2:00 |
| 8:00 | MSNBC | Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow | 12:00 |
| 8:00 | TBS | Family Guy | 11:00 |
| 8:00 | Discovery | King Tut Unwrapped: Life and Death (x 3) | 2:00 |
| 8:00 | TLC | Cake Boss | 10:00 |
| 8:00 | TNT | Men of a Certain Age | 11:00 |
| 8:00 | TCM | Five Graves to Cairo | 9:30 |
| 8:00 | VH-1 | Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp | 10:00 |
| 8:30 | E! | Keeping Up With the Kardashians | 11:00 |
| 9:00 | ESPN | Oklahoma @ Kansas | 11:00 |
| 9:00 | Food | Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives | 11:00 |
| 9:00 | Lifetime | The Messengers | 11:00 |
| 9:00 | Toon | Teen Titans | 10:00 |
| 9:00 | TV Land | Home Improvement | 11:00 |
| 9:00 | Animal Planet | Pit Boss | 1:00 |
| 9:30 | Comedy | Futurama | 10:30 |
| 9:30 | TCM | The Fighting Sullivans | 11:30 |
It is technically possible to watch nothing else except Family Guy from now until midnight.
Instead of Men’s Curling on CNBC (10:30)
| 10:00 | TV Guide | My Fair Brady | 2:00 |
| 10:00 | Bravo | Kell on Earth | 12:00 |
| 10:00 | Toon | King of the Hill | 11:00 |
| 11:00 | Comedy | Daily Show, Colbert Report | 12:00 |
| 11:00 | Food | Good Eats | 11:30 |
| 11:00 | Toon | Family Guy | 12:00 |
| 11:00 | TLC | Cake Boss | 1:00 |
| 11:30 | Spike | Blue Mountain State | 1:00 |
| 11:30 | TCM | It Happened One Night | 1:30 |
Final Update for today
Well here’s something pretty amazing. In looking at the schedule for late night there is absolutely NO original programming except for Women’s Curling, Britain v. Denmark, on MSNBC @ 3 am.
Zip. Zilch. Nothing. Nada.
Just another example of the COMPLETE FAILURE OF NBC SPORTS AT THIS OLYMPIC GAMES!
Incompetent morons, they’re worse than US Curling.
Each update takes about as much research (2 hours or so) as a normal essay and tonight I just don’t see the point of it.
Find your own amusement. I suppose I shall wash my socks and nap.
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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Thought for the day-
The Olympics is not just about rooting for the home town team.
… am trying to set up new computer. Sh*t.
What effing timing.
ek, I’m not ignoring the site.
Men’s curling USA vs Canada (oh, gawd…) and other sports this am
Ski jumping
Cross country ski , ladies & mens
Ski jumping
Ice hockey women’s USA semifinals
http://www.vancouver2010.com/o…
list of medal winners USA
http://www.vancouver2010.com/o…
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http://www.whistlerblackcomb.c…
In Canuckian, I added American translations
Here’s your Whistler Webcam of the Morning
http://www.whistlerblackcomb.c…
TeamUSA Hockey Win Prompts Fear of Retaliation
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They’re shaking hands.
Canada 8 – 0
USA 2 – 6
They had me hooked when I watched the pilot on pay per view last year. Not sure how much I like it yet either but I’ll watch it anyway just like Babylon 5 and BSG.
Canada 6/Sweden 2. Still in progress Suisse 8/Japan 4 at 8th round
USA in gold medal match Thursday against the winner of tonight’s game Canada v Finland. My daughter is rooting for Canada tonight. I suppose she is for escalating the “hostilities” 😉
… for example, at Crunchyroll are anime series like Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, with free ad-supported streams a week after Japanese air time (an hour after Japanese air time for anime subscribers) and in the back catalog anime like Climate Catastrophe dystopian Shangri-La.
Olympics? My brother gives me a 3 minute update in the morning.