*** The 100th Blog Post ***
What does one discuss on the landmark occasion of their 100th post? Television? Books? Music? Cool Websites? Internet Browser choices? Funny YouTube videos? I suppose they discuss all of those topics. Here we go!
[A picture from our seats of the Counting Crows on stage.]
- I feel very fortunate to live in a society where we can all share in the blunders of news reporters. The network: CNN. The reporter: Kyra Phillips. The blunder: leaving her mic on during President Bush's Hurricane Katrina anniversary speech. Take a look. How irate are you if you're Phillips's sister-in-law?
- On tonight's edition of 'I Can't Get Enough of Keith Olbermann', I present you with an exciting new book The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders, coming out next Tuesday. Currently ranked #7 in book sales on Amazon.com, this reminds me of how much I enjoyed reading the collection of New Rules from Bill Maher's show Real Time with Bill Maher. Buy this!
- What do you get when you mix eBay with the bartering system of trade? Why, you get Zunafish.com, of course! Basically, the site is designed to allow people to swap like items with one another (i.e. a book for a book, a DVD for a DVD, a CD for a CD, etc.); the only money involved is a $1.00 transaction fee per exchange, which presumably goes to running the site. I have yet to actually register to the site, but I feel like it's only a matter of time.
- This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly is the heavily anticipated 'Fall Television Preview'. I plan on doing an extremely long-winded post on the new and returning shows that I plan on watching (and not watching, of course). To hold you over until then, here are some quick impressions of three new Fall shows that I've already began watching: Justice (FOX) is basically CSI in the court room, which is actually a good thing; Victor Garber (Alias) is great as a high-profile case lawyer, and even though the drama is clearly overblown, sometimes it's more fun to pretend law can be that exciting...Vanished (FOX) is what you get when The Fox Network wants to stretch the success of 24 as far as possible; unfortunately, the acting is so poor it makes the actress playing Chloe O'Brien on 24 look like Meryl Streep; plus the plot is better described as "24, but
with much less excitment"...Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip (NBC) is by far the most exciting show I've seen so far; with creator Aaron Sorkin and a cast including Bradley Whitford, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, etc. I knew this would be good, but it's actually even better; Studio 60 is what you get when the essence of The West Wing and Entourage have a beautiful love child.
- I just want to make sure that everyone reading this blog knows of the wonderful existence of the Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser. For the computer illiterate, it would replace Internet Explorer as your internet browser, and let me be the first to say that since I switched programs over a year ago I have been extremely pleased. You really don't know just how much better surfing the web can be until you have a program that actually helps, not hinders, opening multiple sites at once, keeping your favorites organized, and other nice features. If only I were employed by Mozilla, I could get a nice commission for this post.
- Last Friday, my fiance and I went to a Counting Crows/Goo Goo Dolls concert on the Camden Waterfront and it was really amazing. The Goo Goo Dolls were so much better than we expected, mainly because we didn't realize just how many songs of theirs we actually knew but never thought were sung by their group; even more strange is the fact that the Goo Goo Dolls have been a band since 1986. The Counting Crows were expectedly awesome and, considering these tickets were free from a radio contest Andrea won, we both bought Counting Crows T-shirts (a first for my concert history). And, of course, no concert night is complete without a barely conscious, extremely drunk girl being escorted swiftly passed us...good times.
[A picture from our seats of the Counting Crows on stage.]
3 comments:
I'll look forward to that new TV shows post, but I imagine it might take a while since you first have to go through the issue in painstaking detail, create flow charts and graphs about which shows you will watch when, and then publish it in a leatherbound volume before programming your VCR to record 8 shows a night.
Oh, and don't forget to call Regis!
You have never been so wrong!!! First of all, there is nothing "painstaking" about the glory that is reading through the EW Television Preview issue, sir...secondly, the "flow charts and graphs" that you so mockingly pointed out serve to help the decision making process, rather than hinder it; therefore, these "Excel Masterpieces", as I like to refer to them, will make the process that much more efficient...next, I have not ever, nor do I plan on, publishing my television preferences in a "leatherbound volume", so this is just a malicious lie...additionally, my DVR service is more than capable of handling my recorders, so you can just keep on talking about this phantom "VCR"...and finally, I average anywhere between 1-2 shows per evening, thus rendering your "8 shows a night" claim false and slanderous......I think it's pretty clear who looks stupid now.
OUCH!
(Adam - you know him too well!)
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