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New Movie

Like Star Trek? Like Babylon 5?

Get over here and check out StarWreck. The trailer is a couple of minutes long. It is subtitled in English (but turn on your speakers anyway) so you may want to watch it a couple of times to see everything.

I may just have to download the whole thing - it is free and the trailer is intriguing.

Thanks to AMCGLTD for steering me to the website!

Bye, Bye G'Kar

So long to actor Andreas Katsulas, otherwise known as G'Kar on Babylon 5 (and the bad guy in several films).

Just showing what a geek I am.

Superbowl Commercials

Did you miss any of the Superbowl commercials? If so, you are in luck, AOL has put up a site with the best commercials. They were even nice and broke it down by quarters.

I personally liked the Budweiser Barn commercial in the 3rd quarter and the Budweiser Streaker in the first quarter (the top commercial according to the site). Bud Lite also did some good ones, but there are the ones I will never understand the appeal (GoDaddy and any Burger King commercial).

Cancelled

On Wednesday, I cncelled our TV Guide subscription via the internet. They knew exactly why I was cancelling as when I clicked on the "Cancell" button, a message popped up that they were "sure if you give the new format some time, you will grow to love it." Oh, and by the way, they would gove us an extra 8 issues for free.

No thanks, it's useless the way it has been made over.

Thanks for Nothing

I would like to take this opportunity to thank ABC and ESPN for royally screwing up my football watching last night.

There were two Monday night games on last night; the regularly scheduled 9 PM game between Dallas and the Redskins; and a special "home" game opener for the New Orleans Saints against the Giants - starting at 7:30.

The way it was supposed to work: Show the 7:30 game on ABC until 9, then switch that game over to ESPN.

The way it worked: Show the 7:30 game on ABC until 8:55. At which time, Chris Berman told everyone to "switch over to ESPN now, the game is on over there.". At which point we switched to ESPN and saw the last 5 minutes of golf.

Let me mention that the Saints appeared to have stopped a drive by the Giants, just before half-time, with enough time to perhaps tie the score - but there was a penalty on that play and we were breathlessly waiting for the call.

Then - they switched out of that game to a bunch of commercials in preparation for the 9 PM game - and no game on ESPN. Then, at 9 PM, ESPN got their stuff together (not really) and started showing football - THE FREAKIN DALLAS GAME THAT WAS ON ABC! AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!

Granted, I wasn't going to watch much longer, just until half-time, but I still wanted to know what the hell happened!

Oh, and did I mention that the Saints' game was a driving force of fund raising efforts for the victims of Katrina? After ESPN didn't show their portion of the game, I'll bet donations went down drastically!

UPDATE:

WS tells me that ESPN finally changed over to the Saints game.

TV and Me

Last week, I participated in a Scarborough survey. Correction, two weeks ago I participated in the survey by phone, then they sent me a questionaire to fill out last week. This was a 2-part questionaire, but the only part that is of any interest (in a blogging sense) is the part where I kept track of what television I watched during a 7 day period.

The week started on Saturday, 7/30 in which I watched 1 hour of television - a CSI rerun on the Man Channel (Spike).

Sunday was the big day of watching TV as I watched the weather, local news, nightly news, AFV, CSI and PBR. That covered from 5:30 until 10:00. Actually, a lot of that I watched while I was reading and making dinner, but I actually did pay half-assed attention to the TV, so I put them down.

Monday I watched the local news and the nightly news (while doing other stuff), took 1/2 an hour off then watched Modern Marvels (which was cool) and All Star BBQ (don't ask me why!).

Tuesday, I watched the local news.

Wednesday and Thursday I watched absolutely no TV (WS did - but I did not).

Friday I watched and hour of CSI (man channel again) and Sanford and Son on TV Land.

Advertising May Backfire

Saw an ad on TV the other night for C*caC*la Zero. I was trying to figure out what it was (besides, ya know, the real thing). At the end of the commercial, their tag line showed on the screen and I saw

"Taste NOTHING"

I started thinking to myself that I wasn't sure why people would buy a drink item that they couldn't taste.

Predictable

We finally got around to watching The Bourne Identity over the weekend. That's the first movie we have watched since Garfield last winter. WS thought it was really good and I thought that it was something to while away some time (I would have rather finished the book I was reading at the time). The movie wasn't bad, it just wasn't good. It was so predictable I couldn't believe it - I knew everything that was going to happen before it happened. At least it wasn't like some movies - both bad and predictable (Titanic was so bad and predictable that neither of us could finish watching it - i know it got Oscars and critics loved it - but we certainly didn't).

Someone said that the 2nd movie is better. I hope so because that is probably the next movie that WS will insist we watch (albeit, probably in another 6 months or so).

Iditarod Watching

We have been watching Cabella's documentary of the 2005 Iditarod on OLN (Outdoor Life Network). We have been watching it since Saturday (we did miss Sunday's episode since we were out to dinner), and are sorry that tonight will be the last night. We will still have to watch Sunday's (which we taped), as that is the night that we find out how their helicopter crashed.

There is great scenery, some really good humor (especially the first night where they cover the ceremonial start), and plenty of dogs in action to watch. It is truly amazing watching a dog team come into a checkpoint, after a 50 mile or so run, to see how eager they are to keep going.

If you have missed this show, but want to see it, don't worry as they are re-running it later this month. Just check Cabela's website for the dates/times.

Watching the Boob Tube

Sunday we watched the movie Shark Tale.  It was pretty funny (which was a good thing because we weren't expecting anything else). I can tell it will be one of those movies that will get funnier with each viewing; there is so much going on that I'm sure I missed a bunch of sight jokes.

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Last Wednesday, we watched the last episode of NYPD Blue. The only good thing about this show going off the air is that now we are down to 3 shows to try to watch thru the week instead of 4.

One of the shows we have been watching is Battlestar Galactica. So far we have stayed involved with the plot and characters, and like the show. There are some glaring mistakes in the show though, which have WS and I just looking at each other. Two episodes ago they tested the Cylon detector on a crew member. She sat there and waited for the results. It didn't seem that it took the 11 hours that was touted as the time for each test on the latest episode.

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About a month ago, we watched Garfield the Movie. Although it had its bright moments of comedy, for the most part we were disappointed. It was as if the writers got bored with a comedy in the middle of the film, and decided to make it a drama. When that didn't work, they went to romantic mode for the end. I don't know, it wasn't horrible, just not as good as we expected.