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10-27-2007
If it's the closest weekend to Halloween then it must been time for a Finley Halloween Party! I'll be rolling out later this afternoon for a long night of drunken debauchery. Hopefully I'll have some interesting pictures to post when I get back.
Till then, have fun bitches!
10-25-2007
Followup
Tuesday I commented about Sarah Wayne Callies not being on "Prison Break" this season and it now appears that I missed the lowdown on this situation. Evidently Callies was knocked up and living somewhere up in Canada in the off season. When it came time for contract negotiations for season three, Callies and FOX didn't come to terms that were acceptable on both sides.
Money may not have actually been the issue, however. That led to there being no contract and thus, no Sara Wayne Callies in season 3. Instead, it seems we'll have to suffer through more episodes with Jodi Lyn O'Keefe.
2007 Season Rolls On
Tuesday
Taking a step back on the 2007 TV Season coverage, let's talk about the the Tuesday night lineup of shows. First of all, I'm not watching anything new. Second, there's only about three new shows on that night anyway.
What I'm watching all carries over from previous years such as "NCIS," "The
Unit," "Bones"
(on a new night, again), and "House." I'm also now catching the odd
episode of "Law & Order: SVU" on a first run basis instead of waiting for a
re-broadcast on USA.
So far all five of those shows are holding up to their previous standards if not getting better which, IMO, "House" and "NCIS" both are. "The Unit" has been hit or miss and last week was a huge miss, they spent almost the entire hour in a mine field. Terrible.
"House" has really been interesting as we watch the crippled Doc search for a new team. I thought I'd miss the Jennifer Morrison hottness but was really happy to see some Olivia Wilde hottness instead. Sometimes trade-offs are welcome.
Oh, about those new shows on Tuesday. ABC has two sitcoms, "Cavemen" and "Carpoolers" while CBS adds a nighttime soap in "Cane."
"Cavemen" is the spin-off from the GEICO commercials which I never had a desire to watch in larger installments than 30 seconds. "Carpoolers," while it has Jerry O'Connell in it, doesn't hold much spark for me either. A show based around 4 guys in a car? Please. I also didn't watch "Cane." I don't need that much new drama in my life. Besides, I've seen "Dallas."
Wednesday
Ah, Wednesday. This weekday lineup has produced my second favorite new show of the season, "Life." I think it has also produced the most new shows of any night of the week with seven.
These other new shows include "Bionic Woman," "Pushing Daisies," "Private Practice," Dirty Sexy Money," "Back to You," and CBS reality show "Kid Nation."
First up, "Life." It's about Charlie Crews who was put in jail for killing a family. He didn't do it and after spending 12 years in prison he finally gets out. With an undisclosed monetary settlement and a job back on the police force, Crews is not only solving current crimes but he's working on solving the crime that put him in prison. He's partnered up with certified hottie Sarah Shahi as Detective Dani Reese but still spends time with another hottie, Brooke Langton as Constance Griffith, the lawyer that got him out. The show is quirky, fun and the mystery of the murder that put Crews in prison is interesting as an ongoing thread. I'm really psyched to see where this goes.
Of the other new shows the only one I've watched from the beginning is "Bionic Woman" starring Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers. It's really not that good. I want to like it, and it has its moments, but is so completely unbelievable it's almost laughable. I'm not even talking about the bionics because, ironically, I buy that without question in a sci-fi TV show. It's the fact that I'm supposed to believe that a college dropout who is tending bar one night is, about a week later, a $50 million dollar bionic super spy going on field missions with nothing more than 3 cut scenes of martial arts training. The supporting cast includes Molly Price, Will Yun Lee and Katee Sackhoff, all of whom I really like. But then they have Miguel Ferrer as the boss and Isaiah Washington (yes, that Isaiah Washington) as a field agent, both taking their rolls entirely too seriously. The one bright spot is Lucy Hale as Becca Sommers, Jaime's younger sister. That girl is 18 years of all kinds of beautiful.
This week, after hearing good things from my boy Todd, I watched my first episode of "Pushing Daisies." That is the most unique and odd show I think I've ever seen. I think the basics is that Ned can touch dead people (and animals, apparently) and bring them back to life but if he doesn't touch them again within 60 seconds, returning them to dead, then something else has to die. He's using that power to help him and his buddy Emerson (played by Chi McBride!!) solve crimes and collect reward money. The show has an odd narrator talking through most of it, the woman Ned loves (Anna Friel as Chuck) he brought back from the dead so he now can't touch her and Kristin Chenoweth is hot. Errr, she plays hottie Olive who has a crush on Ned that I don't think he knows about yet. Did I mention this show is odd? I'm still not sure what's going on but I'll give it this; it's good enough that I'm going to start watching it and that's saying something. And if Kristin wears some more sun dresses, well, boo-yah!
The rest of the Wednesday shows? Crap. Or close enough.
10-23-2007
2007 TV Season
We're a couple weeks into the new TV season so I thought I'd take a minute and talk about a couple of the new shows that I've actually checked out, and give an update on a couple old favorites.
Might as well start with last night's shows, "Chuck," "Heroes," "Prison Break," and "Journeyman."
Prison Break
I'll start with this as it's the longest running (season 3) of the shows I'm going to talk about. First, I was a little hesitant when they stuck Michael back in a prison for this season but overall it's been just as good as the previous two seasons. I do have a couple bones to pick though.
What's up with them ditching Sarah Wayne Callies in favor of Jodi Lyn O'Keefe? Cause I gotta tell you, that O'Keefe broad is about on my last nerve. Except for "Nash Bridges," I haven't liked a single thing she's been in since whether it's TV or movies. And honestly, have you ever seen a hot broad go down hill as fast as this chick?
The new addition Danay Garcia is fine, however, as that is a certified POA.
I'm still expecting good things from the season. As long as, at some point, someone shanks T-Bag.
Heroes
As I mentioned yesterday, "Heroes" now has Kristen Bell for a least a handful of episodes. Unfortunately we didn't see nearly enough of her last night but we did find out her power, electricity, at least. I certainly get a shock every time I see her so, yeah, I'm good with that.
The rest of the episode, however, wasn't as electric. There were too many threads being followed and I think it was because the first few episodes have dedicated a little too much time to new characters and they felt the need to get some screen time for established characters. Stop. New characters are good but let's not get crazy.
Tighten up Claire's storyline, pick a few good threads and follow them for an episode and stop skipping around so much. On the good side, the season is as good as last year, just a few minor nits.
Chuck
This show was my biggest surprise of the season and one of the two new shows that I really love. If you get tired of watching that brutal looking O'Keefe broad on FOX you can now switch channels and watch "Chuck" for Yvonne Strahovski and a good round of laughter.
Although I accused this show of being a rip-off of "Jake 2.0," it has its own vibe and cast of whacky characters that takes it in a different direction. Rather than in "Jake," Chuck only got a super brain full of fun facts about governments and espionage, he didn't get any super powers.
The show riffs on Best Buy's Geek Squad (Chuck's on the Nerd Herd at Buy More), picks fun indirectly at other spy shows and even has Adam Baldwin playing a caricature of tough guys he's portrayed before. It's an all-around funny show which never takes itself seriously and is usually fun for the full hour.
If you only pick up one new show this year, "Chuck" should be it.
Journeyman
"Journeyman" is also a good show about a time travelling newspaper reporter who seems to be tasked with righting wrongs. Unfortunately, once we find out the secret behind why he travels through time this show could easily become just another ho-hum show. It will, however, probably always be better than the current incarnation of "CSI: Miami" which it airs opposite of (YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!).
But, I digress. The show is not unlike a "Quantum Leap" or "Early Edition," two shows I mentioned before when I first heard about it. It does have it's own coolness factor and the few minutes of Moon Bloodgood each week is just enough to keep me watching, for now.
The Also-Rans
There are, I think, only two other new shows on Monday night (not counting The CW network); "K-Ville" on FOX and "The Big Bang Theory" on the CBS comedy block. I watched the first episode of "K-Ville" and it wasn't bad but it also wasn't good enough for a second viewing.
An interesting tidbit, though. The guy that owns my apartment complex owns property in New Orleans and keeps an apartment down there. "K-Ville" is shot in NO and, apparently, they used this guy's apartment as a crime scene. Body dump for a dead hooker as I understand it.
I'll cover some of the other new shows over the rest of the week, see what's good, bad, ugly and Tara-Reid-boob-job-hideous.
10-22-2007
More Updates
It took a few days but it seems as if our host provider may have corrected the issue I was having for the last couple of days. No good explanation of what went wrong but they apparently had to adjust a .htaccess file for something.
Anyway, I've been busting my ass uploading updated pages and I think the site is starting to shape up well. I'll keep hammering away at pages to get them all in shape soon, though.
Kristen Bell
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She's hot. You all love her and starting this week you can get all of the Kristen Bell you can handle! Not only does she make her debut on "Heroes" tonight but season 3 (the final season...bastards!) of "Veronica Mars" drops onto DVD shelves everywhere Tuesday!
I'm feeling a three season marathon of "Veronica Mars" coming on in the near future.
Oh, and word on the street is Kristen is single again. Call me!
How 'Bout Them Cowboys
They got run over last weekend by the Patriots (but who hasn't this season?) but that didn't seem to faze them this week as they put 24 on the board against the Vikings to go 6 - 1 on the season. Last time they were off to this good of a start they won the Super Bowl!
10-19-2007
Updates
One of the reasons I hadn't done any updates for a while was because I was looking for a new design and layout for the site after my host crashed the site back in July. Plus there were some things that weren't working quite right anyway and getting them straightened out just seemed like a waste of time if I was going to update.
Fast forward to this week. I finally had some things worked out and was putting the finishing touches on the updates and guess what happened? Server crash. Or, to be more specific, software glitch. Suddenly, last night, I wasn't able to log in and publish the site in the normal way with FrontPage.
I was able to get FTP to work, sort of, thus this update. So, some of the site works, some doesn't, some has been updated but even more hasn't. Hopefully the chuckleheads in LA will get this straightened out and we'll get things working.
Till then, we'll see what happens.
10-16-2007
"I want to leave a mark on the world"
Paris Hilton said in an interview that she wants to "leave a mark on the world." Unfortunately, "wet spot" doesn't count.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Meet Paris Hilton, grown-up.
The 26-year-old socialite has vowed to change her party-girl image after serving a 23-day jail sentence in June for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
"There are a lot of bad people in L.A. Before, my life was about having fun, going to parties -- it was a fantasy," she tells Newsweek magazine in its October 22 issue, now on newsstands. "But when I had time to reflect, I felt empty inside. I want to leave a mark on the world."
Hilton says she is now committed to using her celebrity status for the greater good. Next month, she plans to pack her bags for Rwanda to bring attention to the African country.
"I'm scared, yeah. I've heard it's really dangerous," she says. "I've never been on a trip like this before."
Hilton, accompanied by a children's charity called Playing for Good, will visit schools and health-care clinics as part of a five-day charity mission. The trip will be filmed -- not surprising, given Hilton's love of the camera.
"I love having everything documented," says Hilton, who hopes to turn the footage into a film. "It shows people what everyday life is like for me, how hard I work. There are a lot of misconceptions about me."
Hilton says her dating life isn't as wild as the tabloids make it out to be.
"I've been linked to so many guys, but there's nothing romantic going on at all," she says. "I get along better with guys than girls. I trust them more. They don't get all girly and mean. Girls have drama."
I'm all for her turning her life into something more interesting than an up-skirt photo, but is one trip to Africa going to change that?
10-15-2007
Updates?
Yep, an update. A quick one anyway. One of the reasons I haven't done any updates recently is because I've been working on a new design for the site. I've got most of it locked down right now with the only major decision left being whether to switch to a content management system or not.
I've installed WordPress and it works well enough but I'm not sure if I'll switch over to it yet or not. I may make that decision later on. But, if you want a sneak peek at what's to come, click on the link below:
I'm hoping to have the new design up and mostly working by the end of the week. We'll see how it goes.