| how the hell does someone like this get taken seriously? |
[08 Jul 2009|07:25pm] |
i don't know if you've read the text of sarah palin's resignation as governor of alaska but here's a link to the text if you've got the time.
http://gov.state.ak.us/
i don't agree with her politics, at all. but that isn't what bugs me about this statement - what bugs me [and that's putting it mildly] is how badly written it is.
it's practically unreadable and it's certainly something any adult with a high school education should be ashamed to put their name on, let alone someone who aspires to be president of the united states of america. i mean, seriously: if i was a teacher and someone handed in a paper like this, they would fail.
it'd be quite funny, if only this wasn't someone people take seriously as a candidate for elected office. how she ever got elected mayor, let alone governor, with such an obvious lack of brains... it's just beyond me.
this bitch is stupid.
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| this bugged the hell out of me |
[18 Jun 2009|06:54pm] |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090617/pl_politico/23828;_ylt=AkLbdwxX7yfGWkloYQWYEJWWwvIE;_ylu=X3oDMTE1MGYzb2U4BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl9mZWF0dXJlZARzbGsDcnVyYWxydW1ibGU-
mainly because it just seems like a complete validation of every cynical bastard who grunted that "nothin's gonna change" during all the optimistic joy that surrounded obama's election. [the people who weren't thrilled, i've got no patience for them anyway.]
i mean, i'm sorry but why should obama be focusing on a bunch of car dealerships being closed down - doesn't he have some slightly more important things on his agenda? especially because it seems, to me, like a bunch of car dealers who were used to being big-shots got pissed off and made a bunch of angry calls to some politicians they've donated money to, demanding to be given special treatment.
do i have problems with the way detroit has run the domestic auto industry into the ground? you bet i do. but if the car companies want to close down non-productive branches [because, honestly, would they be stupid enough to close down the productive ones?] then my biggest question is why didn't they bother sooner?
but this was the part that really pissed me off: "The first sign of a disconnect between the White House and rural voters came in the administration’s budget, which included a plan to slash direct payments to farms with annual gross receipts of more than $500,000. After an outcry from farm-state lawmakers, Congress dropped the cuts from the budget. "
i grew up in a farm state, i've known farmers all my life and i've got all the sympathy in the world for the things farmers have to deal with - it's a hard-assed job and it's generally pretty thankless.
but you know what? i don't know any farmers who routinely made a profit of more than half a million fucking dollars every year. so, again, it seems to me like a bunch of rich assholes who like to write checks to politicians in order to get special treatment are behind this - they got upset, did some crying and congress just bent right over and did what they told them.
which sucks. partly because i get pissed off about how easily most people are suckered into believing that things that only affect rich people actually matter to them, too ["Oh, the estate tax must be bad, because Fox News told me so!"]
but mostly because of how it's just an illustration of how, no matter who is in charge, it really does seem like it's just business as usual.
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| whattaya know - the Pulitzer Committee agrees with me |
[12 Jun 2009|01:42pm] |
i just learned that an article i reccommended everyone read back in november [http://udjibbom.livejournal.com/67712.html] was awarded the Pulitzer Prize earlier this year.
i don't have much else to add, except that it's nice to learn that at least some of the things i think are good are thought to be good by other people, as well. i don't mean that to sound probably as self-hating as it sounds but it's just a reflection of the fact that a lot of people, it seems, believe i have "weird politics" or goofy opinions or whatever.
i'm not explaining myself very well, i don't think... anyhow: if you didn't read it back then, try to find time now. The Pulitzer Committee thinks you should, too.
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| is this idea dumb or not? |
[01 May 2009|11:29am] |
so, i think i've talked before about Bookcrossing.com, right? it's this site where you register a book and then just drop it off in some random place where, hopefully, someone else will find it, read it and then log on to say "Hey, thanks for the book - here's what I thought about it..." before they then drop the book off for someone else to find.
it's a neat idea because, hell, i would like to find a book somewhere that someone left for me to find. that said, the experience does't turn out to be all that successful in practice - i don't know if a lot of books just get thrown away or if people really don't like going on the internet or what, but getting one reply for every twenty or so books you release is about par for the course.
but, much like buying a lottery ticket, i keep doing it mainly because it's fun to think about the idea and not out of any real expectation for a return on my investment. and, granted, i haven't released a lot of books lately anyhow - good intentions and all but i just rarely find time to do it, although i keep thinking i'll get around to it again at some point.
and, along those same lines, i've been thinking that i'd like to stick a mix CD or two in books large enough to cover them, as a little value-added incentive. because, as much as i'd love to just find a good book laying around somewhere, how much cooler would it be if the book had a nice CD of new music inside? answer: WAY COOLER, of course!
so, on my way to the computer lab today, it occured to me that it might be interesting if there was a way to share just the musical CDs without the books - would people be more or less likely to just pick up a lone mix CD than they would a book? i don't know, but a blank CD is, what, a nickel? and it's just as or even easier to burn a dozen CDs and drop them in a paper sleeve and lay around in random places than to carry around a bunch of books you plan to lay around.
hence, my questions: anyone know if there's a website like this out there already? [i haven't actually checked myself yet, i wanted to get this idea down before i forgot about it...] would YOU take part in something like this? is this idea stupid?
assuming that there isn't already a website set up to do this and that the idea is NOT completely stupid... anyone have any advice on how to set up a website to do this - register and track music CDs, maybe with a way to post the track list [because i'm thinking if you leave the tracklist online, it gives people an incentive to actually visit the site, which i'm not sure a lot of people who pick up bookcrossed books actually ever do.] i don't know anything about designing a website, but i also didn't know anything about flickr until you guys told me about that, and it worked out pretty well as a solution to the problem i had.
so... any advice? if you think the idea sucks, just say so - i'm sure i'll get over the crushing disappointment eventually.
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| okay, flickr it is |
[27 Apr 2009|04:14pm] |
even though something about the cutesy, dotcom name bugs me...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9617101@N08/
let me know if you can't access the photo, obviously.
and let me know if you can't figure out what it is you're looking at.
and, also, let me know if you have any suggestions for a good title. right now, i'm leaning toward "Cue the Wilhelm Scream!" but i'm not completely sold on that one yet.
other potential choices include:
"I Suppose It Beats Being Cut In Half" "When Is Someone Gonna Tell George To Stop Giving Us Such Sucky Deaths?" "A New Definition Of Pain And Suffering? Well, This Sounds Fun." "I Never Should Have Traded The Missle Launcher For This Stupid Jetpack"
and, to be complete, here are some suggestions i've gotten from friends [i think i'm now batting even between people who've had no clue and those who got it]: 'dropping in for dinner', 'eat me. slowly, with your big sexy mouth, you big sexy sarlaac', 'bob feta cheese is nice to eat on salad. boba fett will give you explosive indigestion', 'im flying! im flying! Oh, shit! im falling! im falling!', 'i wish i was holding onto one end of a big piece of dental floss', wait! that's not a saarlac! that's a stained glass window!', 'ohfuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit'. 'i hope there's some partially digested corn in there somewhere', 'no light at the end of the tunnel (or: the only light at the end of the tunnel is behind you)', 'Stupid Jetpack', 'Thanks, George', 'The agony of existence compared to the pain of non-being' or 'gregg louganis leaps before he looks.'
[i don't really get that last one, myself.]
don't be afraid to be honest and, thanks, for whatever help you can gimme,
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| i need help |
[26 Apr 2009|02:25pm] |
in a lot of ways but, no, specifically i was wondering if anyone could tell me how to post a photograph here without upgrading my account to gain access to the Inser/Edit Image icon in the rich text menu - surely, there must be some way to do that, right?
'cause, see, i finished a stained glass piece a couple days ago that i'd like some feedback on. mainly, i'm curious to know whether people can look at the panel and understand what it is they're seeing. i wouldn't say it's an abstract image or anything but it does have a sort of specific context that it might be difficult to parse without understanding.
of the three people who've commented on it so far, two didn't know what they were looking at and one thought it was pretty cool - he was the only nerd of the three, though, so i'm wondering how easy it is for non-geeks to figure this out.
of course, i should note that i don't really mind the confusion - it's a nerdy subject matter and i knew it was when i came up with the design. if only one in ten people understand what it is they're looking at, i'm fine with that percentage - as long as i can be assured that people who fall into that category will understand it and not be just as confused as everyone else. who, i should point out, i basically figured from the start would be confused and would need an explanation.
but i also don't know how to show you a copy of the picture in the first place, hence my request.
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| i don't really understand the reasoning behind this |
[07 Apr 2009|12:35pm] |
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/fox-news-columnist-out-after-wolverine-review-ap
i don't know anything more about the issue than what i read in that story but, from what i can understand, the guy basically got fired because he reviewed something that was pirated. maybe i'm wrong, and he got fired for reviewing something that wasn't supposed to be reviewed yet [the movie isn't supposed to come out for about another month] or because he was lazy [since he apparently wrote something along the lines of how downloading the film was "so much easier than going out in the rain" ] or what - but even if those are the case, i still really don't understand.
and, y'know, it's not like 20th Century Fox really cares if i understand their reasoning or not - i mean, i certainly don't understand their editorial policies w/r/t their news division and i certainly don't understand the way they've yanked around people like joss whedon.
but this is really mystifying to me, like a lot of the copyright issues related to the internet have been. i mean, the stuff is out there - like it or not, piracy and other copyright infringements are pretty much out of the bag at this point. and all the draconian crackdowns out there - up to and including the idea of firing this guy from his job - aren't really going to do anything to stop it.
or to keep people from watching free stuff on the internet.
so, again, i just don't get it. if anyone wants to explain it to me, i'm all ears.
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| i thought this was well done |
[19 Feb 2009|07:11pm] |
http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=914609
the story speaks for itself, really.
all i'd add is that it's stuff like this that makes me not regret spending five years in what was essentially a dead-end job; i'm not saying i ever reported on a story this good or even told a story this well but it's this kind of work that made me proud of journalism as a craft, despite the frequently crappy reputation it has earned.
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| i never wanted to be a number, either |
[15 Jan 2009|02:49pm] |
Patrick McGoohan, the star and creator behind The Prisoner, died yesterday. i read about it here: http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-patrick-mcgoohan,22384/
i'm not really sure how to express how important a fairly obscure 17-episode television series that originally ran years before i was born is to me, so i'll just stream-of-consciousness it and let things go at that.
- i read about, and was fascinated by, the program long before i ever saw an actual episode; similar to the way i enjoyed reading paperback novelizations of films i'd seen, i also enjoyed reading books that offered episode by episode summaries of television programs, some of which i'd seen but mostly things that i only rarely got a chance to catch. [to this day, there are episodes of classic Star Trek that i've never seen but know what happened in, all thanks to those episode guides.]
The Prisoner was one of those, although i have a vague, fragmented memory of my mom watching at least one episode on PBS when i was a kid, because i remembered the people moving about the giant chessboard and thinking it was both really cool and kind of scary, especially when they hauled some poor bastard away by force. aside from that, i never got a chance to watch the show until my sophmore year of college, when AMC began showing it. and, even then, i didn't get to watch all the episodes - that wouldn't happen until a decade later, when my wife gave me the entire series on DVD.
- it turns out AMC is putting together a new miniseries inspired by the show, which is intriguing - i don't always find modern remakes to be all that well-done, but i'd be surprised if this network was going to all this effort to just sort of half-ass it; if nothing else, they've been "branding" the show pretty reliably now for the last two decades or so, which means i'd hope they'd take some effort to protect their investment. plus, the casting is interesting, so i'm optimistically hopeful.
also, whether it's all part of their dastardly promotional push or not, they're also offering the series for free on the web at the moment, at http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner-1960s-series/ - if you've never seen it, here's your chance.
i have my personal favorites but, really, you can't go wrong by just picking an episode and diving in - the finale, a two-parter, might not make a lot of sense if you go into it cold [and there are plenty of people who find it incomprehensible in any event] and the dream-like western episode, "Living in Harmony" might lack a little resonance if viewed on it's own without the backstory but, honestly, it's all pretty much wonderful. there are some episodes i don't like as much as others but it isn't really like most other television shows, certainly not compared to others of it's era.
- there was a comic book "sequel" by Dean Motter in the late 80's that either came out right after i'd discovered the program or, probably more likely, prompted me to learn more about it in the first place. the artwork was a little rough toward the end and it has it's detractors but i really enjoyed it. and the image from the promotional flyers, of a broken plaster bust concealing a hidden camera - man, i must have sketched that thing all over my notebooks for a couple of months toward the end of my senior year.
- lastly, The Prisoner was one of the fundamental reasons for my interest in heavy metal music. that's because Iron Maiden wrote not one but two songs about The Prisoner, even going so far as to include dialouge from the show in one song. the lyrics are kind of goofy and incomprehensible ["I'm on the run, I kill to eat" - whuh?] but they were important because it made me realize that metal didn't have to be all about demons and horror and whatnot, that it could reference and have fun with the kind of things that i actually cared about.
there's no way i'd be the same person i've turned out to be without The Prisoner and there's no way we'd have The Prisoner without McGoohan, so - R.I.P., man.
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| dumb gub'r-mint |
[09 Jan 2009|12:11pm] |
how is it possible that the US postal system manages to lose almost three BILLION dollars a year and still, still has the gall to raise postage rates every year? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090108/ap_on_re_us/postal_routes
why not just reorganize the entire outfit as a non-profit and do away with the pretense that they're ever actually going to make money doing this - while they're at it, they might as well encourage more people to use the service by just capping the rates at the present levels or, hell, even go back to 25 cents a letter or something? and why can't they just round the figures off to nickels, too? i don't need the extra three pennies, man - that isn't why i'm mailing less stuff. you coulda just raised the price to 45 cents back whenever you switched it to 42 and not bother us with a lot of useless stamps and those damn penny add-ons.
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[08 Jan 2009|08:24pm] |
what's with everyone hinting that LJ is gonna shut down?
if there was a memo, i missed it. or, maybe more likely, deleted it without reading it...
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| i don't get it |
[08 Jan 2009|08:19pm] |
why is rick astley everywhere, lately?
i know wikipedia says something about this "rickrolling" that them kids on the internets are getting up to these days but i have to confess that i still don't really understand it.
how do we go from never hearing this song for more than 20 years to, suddenly, encountering it all over the place? i mean, yeah: radio stations in my hometown playing it, still, today? i expect that kind of stuff.
but during the macy's day parade? no way, man.
does he just have a really, really hard-working agent or something?
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| amusing; disappointing, but amusing |
[06 Jan 2009|06:54pm] |
http://www.wisdc.org/blog/2009/01/gallows-humor.html
i didn't like the advertising staffers when i worked for the newspaper: mainly because they got commissions on their work and more money than us but also because most of them were lame knobs who did the least amount of work possible - i kept hearing about how advertising was supposed to be so creative a line of work to get into but i never saw any evidence of it at our paper. [except for the grandfather cocks misprint, which wasn't on purpose but almost too brilliant to not give credit for - it was an ad for grandfather cLocks, that carried the notorious blurb about how they were slashing prices to the bone... oh, i wish i'd saved a copy of that page.]
but this - this was pretty clever. hats off to you, anonymous advertising zombie.
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| another instance of hearing the name "sheboygan" and involuntarily shouting "Boo-yah!" |
[20 Dec 2008|02:00pm] |
i guess i just can't help myself.
the local classic rock station they play on the radio in our shop has a daily afternoon "weird news" roundup - to give you some idea of what the guys who do this segment are like, they recently played sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" and, after i got done bopping my head and rocking out, i happened to check my watch - yep, the song had begun at precisely 4:20 p.m.; i thought that was pretty appropriate but, once i thought about it, realized it probably happens every day of the year on about a dozen different radio stations - probably more, once you factor in college stations.
anyhow, they start talking about random stupid crap and end with the immortal words "...and, from Sheboygan, Wisconsin" at which point i, y'know, act like pavlov's dog.
turns out that two brothers, i don't know if they were twins, in the same bowling league, on the same team, in the same game, ON THE SAME NIGHT, each rolled a perfect game of 300. now, in the words of The Dude, i'm not a golfer. but i know enough about the lanes to know that's a pretty crazy feat and i can't even begin to imagine what that joint was like on the night in question.
it made me wish, for a couple moments, that i was a reporter again and that i'd been the guy to pick up the phone when word of that story came in. ignoring completely that i hated the slave wages, crap hours, total lack of respect, sword of damocles-like deadline pressure and the fact i've never worked in sheboygan so i never would have been contacted about it in the first place... still, it was a nice little day-dream.
and, this is actually the second time this year [at least, i don't listen to the station every day - i actually listen to an MP3 player at work to avoid it most of the time] this program has mentioned Sheboygan - the last time was a story about how some guy got busted on the fourth of july for being caught in someone else's basement, in the middle of the night, drunk as a skunk, NAKED... and covered in barbecue sauce.
as i told my co-workers, people in wisconsin really like to drink beer. "yeah, yeah, so do we," they scoffed. and i just pointed at the radio and told them that when they have so much to drink that getting naked and going on a little B&E -after rolling around in BBQ sauce- starts to sound like a good idea, then i'll know they like to drink as much as the people in wisconsin.
to which they had no reply.
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| i thought this was really fascinating |
[17 Dec 2008|06:15pm] |
this was e-mailed to me by the brother of a friend of mine; i haven't fact checked it yet, so i can't swear it's true but both are sciencey type guys so i'm willing to trust it. and, it worked for me* - see what you think.
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Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?
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* for me, it was difficult at first until i just sort of started... i dunno, "speed-reading" isn't right but just kind of glancing at the words as if i was reading at a normal pace - when i first opened the e-mail, i was utterly confused and thought it was gibberish. then, i started sort of de-coding words and, slowly, figured out what was going on - but it was slow and kinda goofy, until about the third line, when i just sorta started glancing at the words, trusting context or something to help me figure out what i was reading.
in any case, i thought this was pretty amazing.
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| i have laughed, out loud, in the public library twice in the last ten minutes |
[05 Nov 2008|06:47pm] |
while reading assorted comments on The AVClub website.
the first was in a comment thread about some stupid election coverage holograms [?!] on some news channel or another [i was too nervous to watch state-by-state results trickle in so i just watched a movie until i checked at 11 p.m. - just as mccain was getting ready to give his concession speech; so my timing was great.] that got pretty nerdified with StarWars references for a while, which lead directly into this fake rap:
Jorge Von Salsa - How about the Will.i.am holly-gram interview?
"Many Bothans died to deliver these beats."
2:49 PM Wed November 5, 2008
Will.i.am - Wait a second...beats... beaties? Aw yeah, new jam, ya'll:
many Bothans died to deliver these beaties,
If you aren't careful you'll wind up with diabetes,
I wake up in the morning and eat a lot of wheaties,
Let's all watch some movies with Ned Beattys,
The salami is the most erotic of the salted and cured meaties,
meaties, meaty, beaty sweeties
3:18 PM Wed November 5, 2008
i don't know why, but i just found that really, really funny.
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then, during a thread about the obama victory celebration in chicago, someone wrote this:
Just Askin'
by Moe Pressman
There were Liberals who said they were going to move to Canada when Bush was re-elected. Where will the Neo-Cons claim to be moving to now? North Korea? Myanmar? Apokolips?
1:14 PM Wed November 5, 2008
the whole idea was funny on it's own but it was the reference to Apokolips [for those who don't know: a comic- book planet created by Jack Kirby and ruled by Darkseid, who is, essentially, the personification of all the evil - it's a little more sci-fi than just a strict devil metaphor] that turned me into the annoying jerk laughing at stuff on his computer.
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| what a wonderful day |
[05 Nov 2008|05:56pm] |
technically speaking, my life isn't any different today than it was yesterday... but that isn't the way i felt today. yeah, i still woke up hating the fact i have to go to work at a job i don't like and yeah, my aging body is still slow and creaky and yeah, the packers still aren't having a very good season this year, etcetera, etc.
but, man, how nice was it to wake up in a world where obama won the election?
it's surprisingly difficult for me to actually express how much this means to me, how pleased and relieved and proud it makes me.
i don't know how things are going to turn out - there are a lot of very serious problems facing this country and as someone who has generally been disappointed by every politician in my lifetime [with perhaps the sole exception being russ feingold and it's kind of difficult to really follow the day-to-day career of a senator from your former home-state], i'm willing to accept that all my hopes and dreams for the future, for this country... well, they might not come true.
crazy, goofy ambitions like reasonable healthcare or fiscal policies that try to help everyone live a little better instead of just rewarding a tiny handful for mean-spirited greed and malfeasance or even the idea we might someday rejoin the world stage as something other than a pariah or bully - there's no guarantee any of that will actually take place.
but, then again, they might.
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i'm also making an effort [and it IS an effort and i make no promises, only that i'll see how it goes] to follow the example our new president set on the campaign trail, to try and be a more decent, more civilized citizen of our country and refrain from the sort of half-cocked gut reactions that are my natural proclivity.
it isn't easy to choke back the anger and outrage i felt when i heard people actually booing obama during mccain's concession speech, for example. or the bile that rose when i read a USAToday article that featured stuff like this: "In four years, you're not going to recognize this country," said John Torgan, 63, a retired military bombmaker. "I've spent half my life in the military. This is not good. (Obama) comes from the cesspool we call Chicago."
or even just hold my tongue when a co-worker saw me reading the paper and muttered something about how the results were "worse than I thought" when he woke up that morning. i mean, i'm not even sure how to respond to that in the first place, let alone in a reasonable manner - so it's probably better if i just don't say anything... right?
yeah, of course it is. i think i need to learn to hold my tongue when confronted with these kinds of opinions because the alternative probably means looking forward to a lot of arguments.
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| everyone should read this |
[01 Nov 2008|03:06pm] |
although the subject matter is horrible and probably one of the saddest things i've come across in a long time, the storytelling itself is simply brilliant.
http://tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece
i attended one of this reporter's [lane degregory] workshops at a journalism conference a few years ago and i try to look up some of her work every couple months - it rarely disappoints me and, frequently, leaves me sort of astonished and humbled by just how incredibly good and life-affecting journalism can be.
and, yeah, i'll admit it: i had tears in my eyes before i was half-way finished with this story - it's probably the only reasonable reaction to something like this.
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| my masters at The AVClub have spoken |
[28 Oct 2008|07:40pm] |
specifically, the one who has asked for us to get the word out to people about "Chuck." http://www.avclub.com/content/tvclub/chuck/chuck_vs_tom_sawyer
last night was actually the first time i watched an entire episode and i have to say, i really, really enjoyed the hell out of it. why, you might ask?
people like the wife certainly will, i imagine, as she's loathed the show since it's premeire simply because of it's name - which, i'll grant you, is a little precious. and since i didn't have any reason to expect the show would be any good, i was willing to leave things at that.
but now, having watched an episode, i think i might really like this show. again, why?
because this is a show that loves nerds.
i'd read online something about how characters on the show had not only dressed in costume as sandworms from Dune but actually used the technical term for them [shai'hulud] and used it -correctly-.
that's the kind of deeply nerd-centric knowledge that impresses the hell out of me, which was the main reason i tuned in last night and i must say, i'm glad i did.
[i'd also note at this point that i give points to Chuck for using a term like "shai'hulud" while not giving any credit to a show like The Big Bang Theory for, say, showing a character in a t-shirt with the Flash's symbol on it or characters playing a game of 3D chess from Star Trek, since the handful of episodes of TBBT i've watched seem to treat nerd-stuff as either punchlines to a joke or mere window-dressing, like a show about jocks having a bunch of NFL logos on the walls. it's a subjective distinction, i know, and it may even be unfair but it's the one i've decided on.]
so, why? not simply because the ep centered around mastery of an old arcade game... or because it featured RUSH as both a prominent plot function -and- portion of the soundtrack... or because it's a fun, clever riff on the whole invincible spy genre... or because it has a likeable cast [including the baldwin from Serenity and Buster Bluthe from Arrested Development, to not use their real names or anything]... or because it also featured the song "[You Got the] Touch" from The Transformers [animated] Movie - and also from the closing credits of Boogy Nights, as covered by marky mark... or even because there was an off-hand reference to a Zune, delivered in a manner that could have been either slight jealousy or mild derision, which [as an owner of one] are both feelings w/r/t the Zune i'm well versed in.
no, i enjoyed it because it was a show in which it's clearly okay to be a nerd, where a nerd can not only save the world but do so in a way in which a room full of other nerds can cheer his name [although not because they're aware he just saved the world; they simply think he won a video game.]
now, it's entirely possible that last night's show was a fluke and that i won't wind up liking the show as a whole. based on how much i enjoyed this episode, and the bit about the Dune worms that got me to check it out in the first place, i'm inclined to doubt that. but it's possible.
and i wish i'd managed to be more elloquent about this. but i'm hungry and about to go home for a late supper - my apologies.
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