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Holy cow, check out that kid's hair! He must've been thrown in the dryer too! "Dada...next time, use a dryer sheet." Finally, nothing makes a TV reporter's job easier when telling a story..than having it happen right behind him... So which is more appalling to you...a mother whose love for plastic surgery is out of control...a child being put into a washing machine...or the fact that there's a news segment out there called "The Car Czar"??? -B-Sunday, May 27, 2012
And now...three clips that have nothing to do with Memorial Day
Just a little sumthin'-sumthin' for you dear readers to keep you entertained for a couple of weeks...as I'll be out of town next week for a family member's graduation.
First up, Anderson Cooper invited a woman on his show to talk about the $500k in plastic surgery she's had to try to look like a human Barbie doll. She wants her daughters to have plastic surgery too. Want to know what makes Anderson Cooper angry? People who are prettier than him...
(Only kidding, AC. I'd produce your show in a heartbeat. I'd fill that lost interview time with dancing monkeys or something.)
Hey, did you see the viral video this week of a toddler being put into a laundromat washing machine for a joke...and then the adults can't get the kid out and the machine starts filling with water?? Hahaha...oh, what a humorous joke...idiots. Anyway, here's what the boy's mama had to say on the Today show...
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Whaddya MEAN I'm Cancelled???
First, no, Thinking Hard is NOT being cancelled. It's just a clever title. You may now resume breathing normally.
Now, to the gritty that is nitty...it's spring, and that means it's time for TV networks to start swingin' the ol' axe (cutting letters off the ends of words, apparently) and changing schedules for the fall. That means picking up new shows that may or may not be completely terrible. That also means cutting current shows. So I took a moment to check out ign.com to see which of my favorite shows got cut...and which totally obnoxious shows will continue to haunt my television for yet ANOTHER season.
CBS cut a few dramas and a "comedy" from its line-up. The *ahem* "comedy" in question is Rob, that half-hour thing with Rob Schneider. Is he still a thing? (this is my new thing...calling things out that aren't still things) Seriously, what did that show do...3 episodes? I'm convinced Rob and co-star Cheech Marin CAN be funny...just probably not together. CBS also cut Unforgettable (which WAS a pretty good crime drama), A Gifted Man and something called NYC 22. Um, oh yeah, and CSI: MIAMI!!!! David Caruso=GONE! And now, a moment of the exact opposite of silence for the show...
CW dropped Sarah Michelle Gellar's comeback, Ringer. Seriously, the creators of the show made our dreams come true by doing a show with TWO Sarah Michelle Gellars...but NOT A SINGLE VAMPIRE?? C'mon, CW! Also, the network cut The Secret Circle, a drama about witches (I think). Now THAT would've been a great show for TWO SARAH MICHELLE GELLARS!
ABC dropped four dramas: The River (which didn't really seem like it would come back anyway...it really had a miniseries feel to it), Pan Am (Dear ABC, you can NOT pull off a Mad Men-like show on the same night as Mad Men. Not gonna happen), Missing (Ashley Judd will soon reprise her role as "cheering trophy wife" in the it's-only-in-her-mind series My Husband Is A Big-Time Race Car Driver Yee-Haw) and GCB, which ABC had planned to be hot and saucy enough to cover for the departure of Desperate Housewives. Apparently it's easier to believe there are murders and affairs in suburbia than a bunch of hot hick women in the south. "Damn! If I sawr a laydee here'n in the south that looks like these laydees on the TEEvee, I'd cut back on the meth!" Speaking of, it looks like TBS will pick up the Courteney Cox sitcom Cougar Town from ABC. They can air it between reruns of Tyler Perry's Seriously, I'll Do Anything To Make You People Laugh, I Have No Shame.
NBC dropped a few "meh" comedies to make way for what I'm sure are MORE "meh" comedies. The network cut randomly-named and sporadically-advertised shows Best Friends Forever and Bent. Also getting cut: Are You There, Chelsea? Seriously, when that show was renamed to be better for the censors from the original title (of her book as well) Are You There, Vodka? It's Me Chelsea, that was all she wrote. Also, it was really only niche-funny. And NBC cancelled the unusual crime drama Awake, in which a producer on the show also starred as a cop who found himself flipping between two different realities and finding things that help him solve crimes in the other reality. Y'know, kind of like when I dream of ways to kill my boss.
Finally, Fox. (pleasecancelIdolpleasecancelIdolpleasecancelIdol) ....Aaaaaand Idol is STILL on the schedule. Fuckers. Even worse, the network killed The Finder and Alcatraz. Finder was quirky and enjoyable, but given a crap-tacular slot on Friday nights (whaddya mean it couldn't compete with SHARK TANK??). Alcatraz was well-written (by the guy who wrote Lost...so I'm sure seasons 3, 4 and 5 of the show would have been a ridiculously mish-mash of confusing ideas and too-open-ended finales) and I'm sorry to see it go as well.
Well, that's it. Now we can look forward to the new shows and bet on which one of them gets canceled first. The CIRRRRRCCCLLLLLLLEEE, The Circle Of LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE!
-B-
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Keep It Classy, North Carolina
What's up, readers? Welcome back to the blog. And now, a moment with Mitt Romney...
"Mr. Romney, Mr. Romney, a follow-up from Facebook fan 'IThinkHard'...what makes you the right candidate for president and how do you plan to address the current economic problems?"
"Oh, come on! This is supposed to be a low-ball question! Aren't there other issues people are concerned about, like whether I wear boxers or briefs???"
It's good the Romney "addressed" same-sex marriage, because that leads me into this week's vote in North Carolina. 1.3 million people across the state voted to approve a change to the state constitution that will define marriage as "one man, one woman." 800,000 voted against. While I have minimal issue with voters speaking their minds, I do have a couple of problems with the passage of this vote. First, the state already bans gay marriage. This just ties judges' hands if they ever want to okay same-sex marriage. So it's basically North Carolina's equivalent of crashing a NASCAR into a homosexual person...having it accidentally set that person on fire...then pulling that bottle of Jack Daniels out of the passenger seat and pouring it all over the person, just to make SURE they know not to get out in front of your car. It's adding insult to insult. Second, the law means Mormons will not be legally recognized as "married" in the state...because, you know, the law says "one man, one woman," not "one man, twenty women." Finally, I have an issue with the interviews I heard before the vote with the people who supported making the law say "one man, one woman." I heard a lot of "No, no, don't get us wrong...we LOVE the gays. We just think we should do what the Bible says." Really? That's like going to your ancestors 150 years ago and hearing them say "No, no, don't get us wrong...we LOVE the black people. We just want to chain them up so they don't run away." It's still discrimination based on personal beliefs, not the Bible. Actually, I think I was most surprised that BLACKS seemed to oppose gay marriage more than whites. You'd think THEY'D know better than to discriminate against their common man. Love thy neighbor. Quite frankly, everything else in the book is probably a little archaic by now. I mean, come on...the book's 2,000 years old without evolving. Heck, even the DICTIONARY compensates for current reading! And if you're going to live life by the Bible, go by the whole thing, not just the parts that allow you to look down your noses at people who are different. Here's Jon Stewart's take:
Finally, a meteorologist made a cardinal mistake... and her co-anchor really didn't understand she wasn't ACTUALLY invisible:
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Why Meteorologists Avoid Wearing Green on TV: MyFoxDETROIT.com
Idiots. Well, that's all for me. I'm going to go fuck a turtle and a pint of Ben & Jerry's in an epic three-way. -B-Sunday, May 6, 2012
The Avengers...See It. Now.
Hard Thinkers, if you're looking for an action movie that men will enjoy and women will kind of enjoy, go see The Avengers. In 3D. Twice. It's a fun movie and has a little something for the comic book geeks in the credits.
What? I have to write MORE??? But I want to go see The Avengers AGAIN! Fine...
Hey, presidential campaign season is in full force. And I DO hope that The Daily Show runs a DAILY version of this segment...
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