New Year, Same League, Different Logo
Watching Week 1 of the NFL on Sunday was indeed awesome. Except for the fact that just about every team I saw (aside from the Rams) made me realize more fully how much my Redskins are going to probably suck this year under Zorn. Philly got spectacular plays from their wideouts in beating the Rams. This, despite missing their supposedly "top 2" guys. Meanwhile, the Redskins continue to get mediocrity from Moss, Randle El, and Thrash. As a co-worked so accurately put it: "Our #1 is really a #2. O read
Look, it’s HBO Sunday! Well not quite, Fox is also previewing their remake of the Japanese gameshow Hole in the Wall tonight at 8PM. I’m just not so sure I can get into a show about, well, people trying to fit through a hole in the wall for money. It does look amusing but it’s just not my cup o’ tea. Still, if you’ve been waiting for it, your wait is over. And here are the other shows premiering tonight… True Blood @ 9PM (HBO) The new HBO series based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels read
I saw this list elsewhere and thought I’d give it a whirl. I’m going to put it in its own post because it’s looooong. The ones in bold are the ones I’ve seen. Some of the others I’ve only seen partially, so they have an asterisk beside them. A Trip to the Moon (1902) The Great Train Robbery (1903) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Les Vampires (1915) Intolerance (1916) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) Broken Blossoms (1919) Way Down East (1920) Within Our Gates (1920) The Phantom Car read
News & Notes Tonight, ABC has a two-hour America United: In Support of Our Troops, FOX has a preview of Hole in the Wall, and NBC has the third season premiere of Football Night in America. Over on cable, ABC Family has the miniseries finale of the Samurai Girl, Discovery Channel has a 9/11: The Towers and the Pentagon special, Food Network has the series premiere of Feasting on Waves, HBO has the series premiere of True Blood and the fifth season premiere of Entourage, History Channel has the read
Friday, September 5, thing were supposed to settle down. The political conventions were finally over, capped by John McCain’s workmanlike speech – long on character (he has it, he says), and short on the issues. In fact the issues didn’t come up much at all – McCain politely nodded to them as they passed by. His audience didn’t care, and those not at the convention, watching on television, were not impressed. Here, from Steve Benen, is a roundup: Jeffrey Toobin on CNN: “I thought it was the read
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