I realized that every so often there are things that I want to rant about that are just too inconsequential for a whole blog post but I also have too much to say to just tweet something and get it out of my system, so I figured I’d just put a couple in one post and have my peace. That was the whole point of the blog in the first place — to make sure some things I wanted said were said and on record — so here we go:
* Early Marvel comics from the sixties really didn’t get the show-don’t-tell-concept, which you think would be obvious when you have a book filled with pictures. For instance, if a guy is being tripped in one panel, there will inevitably be someone in the same panel saying, “That guy is being tripped!” Who is this aimed at? People who are unable to interprets basic images but are able to read? So infants who are literate.
* We have a satellite radio in one of our cars, and it’s pretty neat except for one thing. Whenever I’m listening to music on it, I will inevitably wonder who is singing the song I’m listen to. So I hit the “Info” button twice. Why twice? Because hitting it once just gives me the genre of the song. When in the history of music has anyone ever said, “I wonder what genre this song is?” But whoever made the radio apparently thought that was more important info than the artist. Do people even test these things out before they ship them? Why do people waste my time?
* I like Big Bang Theory (despite the four camera, laugh track set up which I thought we were about done with as a society), but you have to be extra careful to make sure it doesn’t fall off your DVR because they don’t make it available online at all. The show about geeks is apparently too scared of this new fangled internet to have online distribution. Can’t watch it with ads on Hulu; can’t buy an episode through iTunes. The only option to get a missed episode (if you don’t want to wait months for the DVD release) is to go to some skeevy site filled with intrusive ads and download some non-legal copy. I’m too old to be pirating things. Look: I have money right here in my hand. Just give me some way to give it to you in exchange for your show. Is that so hard?
* I was a DC guy during my comics days in the 60s. Superman, The Flash, Legion of Superheros. Never cared for X-Men or The Hulk and the lot. I did kinda, sorta, sometimes like Spiderman, but man, he could be such a wimp sometimes. The only Marvel comics I bought all the time were Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. Real badasses shooting down Nazi planes with Tommy Guns and M1 Garrand rifles! I seem to recall they even shot down a few Bf-109s with hand grenades. The idea of commandos howling as they shot Nazis was very appealing to me. Yeah baby!
* I cancelled my satellite radio thing when I got the I-Pod Touch for Father’s day. The only radio I listen to these days is talk radio and sports talk. Satelitte radio played different songs than the FM stations did, but it was just about as boring, and I had to pay them for it. If I have to pay for radio they better know what I like and play it or else.
* I’m allergic to network shows so I’ve never watched Big Bang Theory. The trailers for it I’ve seen suggest yet another unwatchable piece of network dreck.
* I don’t read comics.
* I only need AM radio occasionally for Rush.
* The last good network television show was the original Five-o with the original McGarrett and his awesome hair.
LImbaugh to the non ditto heads.
So, if Twitter allowed 1400 characters, you’d be over there with these? Thank God for the number 140.
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I don’t have one of those new-fangled satellite radios – my car has an original equipment cassette player.
That said, the whole music genre classification thing is one of my pet peeves.
First: who the heck is the moron who sits around trying to put music into little checkboxes?
Second: not only is the whole endevour stupid the result is often laughable. Taking a quick browse though my Zune…
So since everybody has those new fangled satellite radios, can have your 8 tracks. My Head East is about worn out.
I think big bang is the last show I watch with a laugh track which I think of as female periods, they are in the way of what you want and nothing you can be doing bout them besides cringe until they are over.
Been re-watching season 2 his vanity cards at the end of each episode are at this point are accidentally hilarious since they are now fully exposed as naive baseless woodies for Obama.
I give you for your comedy pleasure
http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php?p=239
Say what you will about piracy but at least they are funding these douchebags.
Sorry, plentyof bailouts, but I sold/gave away my 8-tracks back in the late 70s. God what a garbage format that was! There used to be a website called 8-track Heaven for devotes of that most horrible format of all time, I don’t know if they’re still around.
Use to listen to Don McClean’s American Pie on an 8 track that my buddy had in his Pontiac! We drove around in the country drinking beer and listening to it over and over… The good ole’ days…
I have a two Satelite radios in two different cars. I upped on one for a lifetime subscription and they promptly shut off my service. I haven’t called back yet because I’m going to get “Peggy” from that one ad on TV!
http://8trackheaven.com/
Yep, 8-track Heaven is still around. Doesn’t look like it’s been updated in 2 or 3 years but it’s still there. I can’t believe people would miss that self destructing format.
Sometimes I like to come up with a crazy title and then make something fit it.
What I like about Alan Grayson:
*at least he is honest about what he thinks
*he recognizes that left and right wing policies are so incompatible they can not inhabit the same governing body.
*he wants to drive us into the Ocean as much as we want to drive him
I do wish his side would give another look at federalism. California could have the healthcare it wants without compromising with Nebraska and vice versa. But then they would have to settle for control of state governments instead of federal power and they have spent a 100 years building that machine, they sure arent going to toss it overboard.
DADT the showers conundrum
-have the gay guys shower at the same time as the straight guys… Most gays would not like this neither would most straight men
-have gays shower with the females… lot of soldiers would suddenly come out of the closet!
-have gays have their own time and shower all together… cant imagine how that would go wrong.
When exactly do they do the whole fighting a war thing?
I dont think gays should be excluded from the military, but I can respect that the logistics are burdensome on people with other priorities to say the least.
If I had a time machine and could travel back to pick up only one item, it would be the early classic comics of the silver age or the golden age. To think that I bought an early Fantastic Four for 12 cents and then put it out in my Mom’s grocery store to sell for 10 cents (where it was probably stolen anyways) makes me want to hurl now.
you lost me at “tweet” (dramatic pause)…you lost me at “tweet”.
@Marko: Of course, I’m not gonna watch the new Hawaii 5-0, and here’s one of 1,267,591 reasons why. I can assure you that the new McGarret is too much of a wimp to take on Chicom spies.
CBS is ran by idiots. They have a show targeted to the nerd audience, and they really think not putting it on Hulu will keep nerds from watching it on the internet?