Jennifer Anniston's GQ cover.
Umm … wow.
I just had to post this. I mean, I wasn’t a huge “Friends” fan, but I might be reconsidering.
Nothing else, … that’s all I have to say, … really.
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Congrats, Amy Poehler
Posted in TV with tags Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live on October 27, 2008 by macmystery
Her hotness, Amy Poehler
Saturday Night Live star and Weekend Update anchor Amy Poehler gave birth to 8 pound, 1 ounce Archie Arnett early Saturday evening. (Read here)
As anyone who has watched SNL in recent weeks would have to know, there was a growing concern that Poehler would either explode, or literally drop her kid out on live TV any day.
In fact, I had begun to theorize that here pregnancy was nothing more than a running SNL skit, with the conclusion yet to be determined.
Racism alive and well in S.C.
Posted in TV with tags racism, S.C. on October 7, 2008 by macmysteryMy friend Tyrone Walker once told me, as part of a much larger discussion, “Mike, you have no idea what it’s like to be a black man in S.C. and look up and see blue lights in your rear-view mirror.”
Tyrone is a journalist, a photographer for a major daily newspaper. He’s also a sergeant in the S.C. National Guard and has done a tour of duty each in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in the late 1990s, he was still AFRAID of the police.
Initially, I dismissed his comment as exaggeration. Eventually, I came to understand better where he was coming from.
But now, there’s not a doubt in my mind he’s right. What happened Friday proved it.
A S.C. State Trooper who chased a “suspect” and purposely hit him with his car was acquitted of civil rights violations unanimously by a jury Friday and will soon be reinstated. Here’s the State newspaper’s story on the acquittal. It includes links to earlier coverage of the story, as well as the trooper’s dash-cam video.
In reality, the suspect’s race shouldn’t be an issue. The fact that he struck him on purpose should be all that matters. And he did hit him on purpose. He admitted it in his own words. Here’s a quote from his dash-cam recording:
Garren: “Hey, I nailed the —- out of him. I nailed the —- out of him when he hit that —- field. He went flying up in the air.”
Deputy: “You hit him?”
Garren: “Yeah, I hit him. I was trying to hit him.”
The trooper hitting the suspect doesn’t prove he’s racist. Just that he’s too lazy to do his job correctly and dumb enough to hit the suspect on purpose and admit it.
But what should scare the hell out of people is that 12 honest citizens sat in a room, looked at the tape and concluded he didn’t mean to hit anyone.
You take a look and let me know if he was guilty ..
Ode to Paul Newman … or a coincidence?
Posted in Movies, TV with tags "Chuck", Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman on September 30, 2008 by macmysteryWorking at night, I rarely become attached to anything on primetime TV because I simply would never see it. We don’t have Tivo and I refuse to tape stuff nonstop and try to squeeze in a time during the day with my little girl to try and watch it.
But since my off days are Sunday-Monday, one of the new shows I started watching last year was “Chuck” (Official site, unofficial site). It’s goofy, but I like it. And it has a ton of really cool, obscure pop culture references that almost no one picks up on.
So anyway, Monday night’s episode was the premiere for this season. It rocked as usual. But at the end, there was a strange coincidence, or at least I think it was.
After the plot resolution, in that brief segment just before the episode ends (I’m sure this has a name … on the Andy Griffith Show, there used to always be some sort of joke told by Andy in this spot), Chuck and his co-worker are discussing a bet that another co-worker couldn’t scarf down 90 twinkies in some brief time period.
In response, Chuck Bartowski responds, “Nobody can eat 90 Twinkies.”
It may not seem like much, but this is an obvious reference to the scene in “Cool Hand Luke” where Luke (Paul Newman) promises to eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in an hour, and George Kennedy’s character reponds, “Nobody can eat 50 eggs.”
I’ve been seeing previews of this episode for months, literally, so they obviously didn’t work this in as a response to Newman’s death on Saturday. But if it wasn’t on purpose, that makes it one hell of a coincidence, doesn’t it?
What the frak!
Posted in TV with tags Battlestar Galactica, Frak, George Carlin on September 3, 2008 by macmysteryFrak you!
No big deal, huh?
Apparently, the word frak was “invented” by famous TV producer Glen Larson for the original “Battlestar Galactica” TV series. It was used in the scripts as a curse word … without really being one. Therefore, they could get away with saying it on TV. Kind of an inside joke.
It seems, with the SciFi channel’s new version of “Battlestar Galactica,” the word has regained some popularity and is spreading.
The TV shows aside, I find the whole thing kind of interesting because it says a lot about language and how we use it, and that’s something I deal with on a serious level basically every day.
Frak is basically f*&k, in meaning and utility. And the actors and scriptwriters that use it understand this.
But now that the word is becoming popular, you’d think that its usage would be frowned upon by those who typically frown o. that type of language. Well, not so far. It’s still kind of a joke.
And that’s crazy. Because that implies that the issue those who want to control language (teachers, parents, pastors, etc.) take with the word f*&k isn’t the meaning — one of which is to have sexual intercourse with — but instead the word itself.
F*&k … it is a harsh sounding word, with the hard K sound and all. But is that what really makes it offensive to some? Isn’t what the word implies more important?
Are George Carlin’s seven words you can never say on television only “bad” words because of how they sound … and not what they mean? Cock-sucker is really just an unpleasant word because of how it sounds, and it’s not the action going on in the word itself that makes it a “bad” word?
I know what the answer “should be.” But I’m not sure that’s what the answer “is.”
Someone’s confused.
I just can’t tell if it’s me.
Raising Two Americans 