Last week on Justified’s season four premier there is a small scene in the first few minutes that is there to set up the plot line our intrepid hero will travel. And in it, because its on cable, they tossed in a bit of nudity. The woman is totally starkers, but Timothy Olyphant is wrapped in a towel. Kind of a double standard, huh? I’m betting more than one viewer might have enjoyed the sight of Timmy’s hiney.
Yesterday I called Atlantic Broadband and had them stop our cable TV subscription. They hated to see us go, they offered $20 off a month and they offered a bundled deal. No thanks.
We’re still keeping the cable internet. The CSR asked if we want to upgrade to the faster internet service? It’s only $5 more a month, but you need one of our modems that you can rent for $6 a month or buy for $90. No thanks.
Right now with a cheap set of rabbit ears we get the big 4 commercial networks, three of them have sub-channels and one has two. So that’s ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW (minor league network), My12 (old TV shows), MeTV (really old TV shows), Bounce (geared towards African-American viewers), and The Country Network (music videos.) All of them come in excellent, except for FOX & Bounce which gets pretty pixelated sometimes. There is absolutely no PBS/ETV. In an effort to overcome those shortcomings I ordered a Leaf, should be here next week.
My new favorite Olympic spectating sport is Women’s Water Polo. Not only do you have to tread water or swim while controlling the ball, but there is some serious pushing, shoving, dunking and grabbing going on. It is not so evident in the usual overhead camera angles, but when they show the action using an underwater camera you really get a great feel of what is really going on.
I was watching a match yesterday between Spain and Great Britain and during one of those underwater views, when there was a bit of grabbing going on, I almost got a view one of the player’s naked boobies. Forget the bikinis of the women’s beach volleyball, they leave too much to the imagination.
It seems like this is not so rare an occurrence as wardrobe malfunctions have been captured at least two other times in the course of these games, on 8/1 during a US vs Spain match & yesterday during Australia vs China.
When I discussed this suit grabbing thing with my wife she felt that it was cheating and had the perfect way to prevent it, make ’em compete in the nude. Sound like an awesome idea to me.
Finished watching the last episode of TBBT tonight. Kind of schmaltzy. We had stopped watching the show after Season 3 because of the direction it was taking. We then restarted after catching a couple of Season 4 re-runs because we caught ourselves laughing at it anyway. But now I sense another break in watching coming up for Season #6.
I have one brickbat for Dunkin Donuts. They have (re)started a Coffee Club Punch Card, you know, buy 8 cups and get number nine free. The trouble with the card is it is about a 1/16 of an inch to long to fit in my wallet’s credit card slot. Took a couple missed punch opportunities before I took some scissors and trimmed its length enough that it fit right in front of my DD gift card.
To balance things out I have a bouquet for them as well. Donna and my favorite spot for dining at DD is on the bar-like tables with tall chairs that face out towards the parking lot. Breakfast goes so much better with some people watching thrown in. Trouble is, our view is frequently blocked by those opaque giant cups of coffee and breakfast sandwich static clings. Much to our pleasure, last week we sat down, we could see right through them. They finally adopted the kind that are full of holes making them appear solid on the outside and slightly darkly tinted on the inside.
Since we last spoke a week ago*:
The Miata has gotten a bath to wash last Saturday’s bugs off only to put some more back on yesterday when we took the MMC to Sardis.
I’ve got the new shocks for the Emperor in the garage which will probably get installed this week some time. Went with the non-adjustable Koni SRTs this time, because why spent twice as much for the adjustable Sport models.
The FRS have won 3 games and lost 4 which is pretty much on par for the way this season is going. Unfortunately the MFY won all seven (now nine in a row for them) putting the Red Sox (who are still in last in their division) 8 games out.
Mad Men is over for another year and we now have absolutely nothing to watch on TV except for The Big Bang Theory and we only have 4 episodes of that to watch before we are all caught up with all the Season 5 shows.
*Where the heck did it go? Seems like yesterday…
We have a guideline here Casa de Bogardus that if control of the remote is in possession of one individual and that individual leaves the room, after a period of time the person not in actual custody of the remote may take temporary possession of the device until the original possessor returns. Such temporary possession becomes permanent after a slightly longer undetermined period of time.
Donna was watching House Hunters Getaways* when she left the room for a few minutes. I was listening to the FRS getting their butts kicked by Tampa Bay on the laptop and after a few more pitches leaned over and grabbed the remote to do a little surfing for background imagery. About 10 channels later I found two droids (not phones) walking across a desert.
*Is it just me or does this show now have more permutations than CSI or Kardashian sisters?
The PCP told me this morning that my blood work was peachy keen and the hospital hasn’t called to tell me one of my blood cultures turned into a pulsing, glowing broccoli shaped thing, so I must be fine. I’m going to blame my slight puckishness on the two antibiotics I’m taking, because I know for sure that they are responsible for making my mouth taste like I’m sucking on nickels.
Is it possible to have a pleasant flashback to an acid trip that was never taken?
We watched Sunday’s episode of Mad Men last night, and in it, Roger Sterling and his young, former secretary of a wife Jane, take LSD with some other Manhattanites under the “supervision” of her psychiatrist. We get to watch Roger’s slightly humorous and hallucinogenic evening that ends with he and Jane lying on the floor of their apartment discussing their mutual feelings that their short marriage is over.
Whether it is was the idea of this upcoming smooth and amicable separation or a residual acid high that causes Roger to proclaim brightly to Don at the office the next morning, “I have an announcement to make: It’s going to be a beautiful day!“, I’m not sure, but it had a strange effect on my day.
For no apparent reason, everything seemed brighter and shiner today. All things went smoother and easier too. On the way to work I either made it through all the traffic signals with only brief slowdowns or passed through unhindered. And even though this week I’m working 9-hour days for that free Friday afternoon off, today at the Valve Store(R) just flew right by.
So, is it possible for me to have a happy flashback to an acid trip that I never took or was it just the high dose of sugar from the DD Coffee Cake Muffin I had for breakfast?
