I Got Nothin'
Irradiated by LabRat
So instead, the following loose basket of random.
- Burn Notice and Breaking Bad are currently competing in my head for best thing on TV. Burn Notice is a lot more fun, and Breaking Bad much darker, but they’re both far better written and acted than they have any right to be, given their respective premises. I don’t think anyone had ever really asked Bruce Campbell to really act before, but Matt Nix has pulled it off.
- Superdickery is a deliberately out of context archive, but it still does a pretty good job of offering a window into just how seriously screwed up comics can get. Plus it has amazing real super powers of time-wasting.
- Apparently if you want a comfortable stick when having blood drawn, it’s worth politely pointing it out to the phlebotomist when she’s hammering away on your median nerve while trying to raise a vein. I blame my current devastating lack of inspiration on being a quart low, but at least it was nearly painless.
- I want to start some kind of a charity fund or organization to take screenwriters to the range and run them through a basic three-gun course. It really sucks for your suspension of disbelief, even with a cheesy crime drama show, when a character who declares himself to be “not a gun guy” busts two clays from directly behind a trap machine throwing high, slow targets and this is received as an impressive feat of shooting by the rest of the crowd. I did that the first day I held a damn shotgun. It’s NOT THAT HARD.
January 26th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I’d like for the writers of the CSI type shows to stop having an investigator say things like “This expended slug looks like a .38 from a Smith and Wesson” or referring to a firearm being registered in a state that doesn’t do firearm registration. Down here in FL it’s illegal for the government to create a registry, but you still hear “Well, this firearm is registered to Mr. X” on shows set in FL, and it rings just as bad when they’re talking about other states that don’t have registration.
January 27th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Anyone who has ever stood in front of a classroom ought to be a mad fan of Breaking Bad.
Eagerly awaiting Season 2 on DVD, since there is no cable TV in these yerrr parts.
January 27th, 2010 at 11:53 am
I just started watching Torchwood, and the female PC (cop) who gets pulled into the secret organization has never fired a gun before. So the top guy gives her “firearms instruction”. It was painful to watch, but what can you expect for something that came out of (formerly) Great Britain?
January 27th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Sigh… I don’t watch TV, so I’m clueless on the TV shows, but I agree on the writers to the range!!!
January 28th, 2010 at 12:13 am
Breaking Bad runs on iTunes just after the new episode airs; assuming you don’t have a reason to hate iTunes.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:11 am
The wife and I have been big fans of Burn Notice since the beginning. Now we find ourselves using the “When you’re a spy…” narration in regular life:
“When you’re a spy, you’re often required to run to the store for a quart of milk.”
“When you’re a spy, it’s important to know when to mop the kitchen floor.”
January 28th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
“It’s NOT THAT HARD.”
Yes, it IS.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Breda: what you were doing was much more difficult than what was portrayed.
January 31st, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Phineas and Ferb is the best thing on television.