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Once again I am jumping on the television bandwagon several seasons late. This time it is with Heroes, to which I must shamefacedly confess watching the twenty-three episodes of season one over the course of a week.
It made me think: what power would I want? Andrew was quite enthralled by Matt Parkman’s ability to read people’s thoughts and I was in awe of Charlie’s power to remember everything she read. But it would probably be more helpful if I had the ability to finish home improvement projects or blog daily or even just operate my sewing machine.
Is this the face of a heroine? Only time will tell.
Another gem from 30 Rock.
Dennis: Dennis Duffy, Beeper King.
Jack: That’s a sharp tie you’ve got there Dennis.
Dennis: That douchebag up front made me wear it.
Jack: Does he know you’re the Beeper King?
Dennis: I don’t think so.
Liz: This is clearly the nicest restaurant we’ve ever been to.
Dennis: Hold on a second, this place ain’t that nice, alright. It’s got rats and roaches like every other restaurant.
Liz: No rat talk tonight, okay.
Dennis: (to Jack) You know there are 17 million rats per person in Manhattan? You eat a pound of rat crap every year without even knowing it.
Jack: I think I read about that in The New Yorker. (pause) Um, anyway, we’ll leave you two to your meal. I hope you enjoy the choices that you’ve made.
Andrew got me a year-long subscription to the New Yorker magazine for Christmas so you can expect more interesting tidbits in the year ahead.
I’m not a huge Halloween fan but here is a trick I can get behind.
A group of New Yorkers is planning to recreate the fabulous parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where Ferris jumps on a float and leads the crowd in the singing of Twist and Shout. Pure giddy fun.
While their plan has been foiled before, I’ve got a good feeling that it’s going to happen this time. Can’t wait to see if they pull it off.
I didn’t hear last week’s Wiretap on which, apparently, Jonathan Goldstein gave beekeeping a modicum of street cred. How could I miss that? Let me tell you how – 4:00 pm air time on Sunday. Very inconvenient. I won’t go into my full rant here, but CBC really needs to offer complete Wiretap episodes as podcasts.
A couple of days ago Matthew alerted to me to Wiretap videos, and it was fun to watch them and put faces to voices. Usually when I see a photo of a radio personality I am caught off-guard as I have imagined the individual to look completely different than they do in reality. However, this time I was bang on with my mental pictures of Howard and Gregor.
It has been a long-time pet peeve of mine that CBC Radio One is only available on the AM dial in Vancouver. My primary complaint is that the reception is spotty followed by the fact that it is almost impossible to find an MP3 player that also has AM radio.
It looks like my aggravation might come to an end with CBC’s application to move Radio One to the FM dial. If you also want your Radio One fix via FM let the CRTC know before January 23.
The CBC and CRTC in a single post: guess that Communications degree paid off.
I wish I had been in this meeting where two young guns pitched their boss to turn a Wordsworth poem into a rap on YouTube to promote tourism to England’s Lake District. As much as I love rapping squirrels I think I prefer the original.
Bill Buchanan, according to Brainfall.com.
You are Bill Buchanan. You are a law abiding citizen and in your world, rules are the driving force behind anything and everything. Your leadership charisma is something talked about by others, and instead of doing things differently you do different things. You have an uncanny knack of staying calm in tense situations and your tone is testimony to that. Keep the cool attitude and you will surely overcome the most perilous situations.
On Sunday evening Andrew and I found ourselves watching CBC’s Test the Nation. It wasn’t riveting television viewing by any means, but, quite frankly, I’ll watch anything with Shaun Majumder.
Andrew finished four points ahead of me and the way ranges were structured he landed in the above average IQ category and I fell in the average IQ category. He was insufferable for a while but seems to have forgotten about it. Guess IQ scores don’t take concentration into account
Curious as to what your score is? Take the test here.
Does anyone else find the idea of Disney’s heroine-inspired wedding dresses disturbing? Or what about this Hello Kitty wedding dress?
We just got back from Sharon and Craig’s Oscar Party. To keep things interesting through the visual effects and sound editing categories they put together a ballot with all the night’s awards. There were 24 awards in total and the person with the most correct answers left with a bottle of red wine.
I knew it was going to be a long night when I realized I had only seen one of the films nominated in the big categories – Little Miss Sunshine. The Departed, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Queen, Babel and the rest of the Oscar-worthy movies somehow managed to pass me by this year. As a result, I ended up with 9 correct answers out of 24. Terrible. Luckily for me, the bottle of wine still managed to make its way to my place with Alyssa taking top spot with 11 out of 24.
I’d say we need to hit the video store.
