Saturday, September 29, 2007

Deja view

I know, I know. I haven't blessed my gentle readers with an update lately, but work has been sucking more than my Kirby. Gutters people, it's a vacuum.


Speaking of sucking, I caught a new show on CBS last night. It's called Moonlight and it's got a total hottie in the lead role as a Private Investigator in LA who happens to be a vampire with a set of "personal guidelines" regarding who he can and can't feed from. He's also got a beautiful blonde foil/love interest who, in her role as an investigative reporter, finds herself investigating the same cases he does.



Been here before, right?



Blonde not pictured (and it's not because she's a lesbian).

I'm not saying that they're the exact same show. I mean, Moonlight actually lets their vamps go outside (one even has a pool), and they have do have an easier transition from upstanding-member-of-society to scary-ass-vampire. Then again, since CBS' guys seem to have access to actual doctors during the day, I'm thinking it's a botox thing.

Let's see, what else is different? Admittedly not much....

They both have a serious problem getting their un-dead freak on...they're both Private Investigators who like to brood...They both have classic convertibles...They both have sidekicks with English accents...they both attract women who wear completely inappropriate outfits for their jobs...they both find themselves throwing all the good lines to the presumably-good-but-deliciously-evil-other-vampire-sidekick.

Wait, I've got it...Moonlight's missing the black guy with anger management issues and the green guy who runs the karaoke joint. Then again, the show's on CBS. If they're not being arrested on CSI (just pick one) or are Ed Bradley, faces of color are pretty hard to find on that particular network. That reminds me: where the hell was Warrick when the rest of the team was combing the desert on CSI? He went back to the lab about 20 minutes in, and we never saw him again. The "entire team" is banding together (plus extras), Greg's flying a huey, and Warrick isn't there? Yeah, something doesn't add up....

I'm not saying that you can't use the same settings or basic concept. If there was a rule like that, we'd never see ER or Grey's Anatomy, and our source of all medical drama would remain, forevermore, General Hospital. That would be a McDisaster...seriously. I'm just saying that if you're trying to court viewers in the all-important 18-49 viewing group, don't give us something we've already seen before, done much, MUCH better.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007


Congratulations, Cassie and Aaron!!

Friday, September 07, 2007

Um, Hands Down, I guess

Easily, the funniest thing I've read all week. Not the original article, the comments!


Wonkette

Saturday, September 01, 2007

It's back!!

Between VT/ECU and JMU/UNC-Chapel Hill, I am happier than a kitten in a milk jug. Seriously, not much is better than college football season, when entire communities come together for sunny Saturday afternoons, ESPN coverage, and of course, stupid pranks being played on each other.

The VT game is in the 4th, and JMU doesn't get started until 6, but I can already sense it's going to be an amazing season for both of my favorite teams. Tech, frankly, needs this. They had a nice ceremony this morning commemorating the 4/16 tragedy and the victims, and then they went straight to business. Though ECU hasn't rolled over and invited them to take the game as well as its money (a $100,000 donation from ECU to Hokie Spirit resulted in both teams entering Lane at the same time to discourage booing), they've given me a great game to watch while I've been working my ass off. It was clear that the emotions were with the guys during the first half, but things have improved considerably. If Tech can hold it together for the next 9 minutes, Lane Stadium is going to be shaking to its foundation.

I'm not sensing great things out of Chapel Hill tonight. I love my Dukes, but the UNC program is solid, strong, and playing at home. Not too promising, but I hope I'm wrong!!

Only one more week until the VT-LSU game, and three weeks until I'm at Lane Stadium to scream 81 North/64 EAST!!!!


BTW, is anyone else laughing their heads off about the Michigan/App State game? Michigan has no idea what they're looking at!