The schools here closed before noon today, because of (get this)… a steady rain. Our boys came in, immediately started calling their friends, and are now off celebrating their unexpected good fortune. They can’t believe it, and neither can I. It’s rain! WTF? Is this place turning in to California?
I’m fully expecting the school district to provide precipitation counselors tomorrow, to help students cope. I mean, it can be a traumatic thing to watch pavement darken with moisture, and the woosh woosh woosh of windshield wipers is a terrifying sound that sometimes haunts youngsters well into adulthood.
Yeah, and that’s probably what some smartass in Johnstown blogged in May of 1889… They had blogs back then, didn’t they? Of course they did.
Since LOST is no more, we have no weekly TV shows to follow. Friday Night Lights is the only other hour-long program we watch, and it’s on during bizarre months, so who the hell knows when it’ll show up again?
Therefore, we instructed the DVR to start recording a few semi-promising new shows, with the hope that one or two might click. And it’s not starting out too well…
We watched the full lineup of our chosen shows last week, and none of them blew me away. We’re prepared to give them one or two more weeks each, but I can already feel myself developing a bad attitude. If something doesn’t start clicking soon, I’m going back to Buffy the Vampire Slayer through Netflix streaming. Fukkit.
The best, by far, was Boardwalk Empire, on HBO. But it was fairly slow-moving, and not exactly crackling with electricity. I’ve heard that it improves, though. And the first episode itself was far from bad, just not as good as I’d hoped.
I’ll probably be sticking with it for the season, because of all the talent involved. I’m prepared to give them a little more leeway, because of their pedigree.
I’ve read lots of praise for the remake of Hawaii Five-O, but I didn’t like it much. I might be jumping-ship on that turd after Week Two. We’ll see how it goes. The first episode was full of predictable action, but I didn’t care about any of the characters. Maybe it’ll improve? They have one more week to show me something. I’m a very busy man.
Detroit 1-8-7 is a cop show featuring “Christopher” from the Sopranos. The first one wasn’t bad, but also not very good. I think they’re trying hard to be Homicide, but they still have a long way to go. I might give it three weeks, instead of two, because the main character is kinda interesting.
We also watched some bizarre-ass sitcom, called Outsourced. There were a few clever lines, but not nearly enough of ’em. The setting is a call center in India, being run by an American, and it’s very strange. I like strange, so I’m willing to offer this one a two or three week probation. But comedies should also be funny, right? I have a bad feeling.
I kinda wish we’d started watching The Event, but didn’t. Is it any good? There’s some hype surrounding it, at least. Maybe I’ll get caught-up online, and jump in? Is it worth the effort?
What new shows have you started watching this fall? Are any of them worth a damn? Tell us about it in the comments, won’t you?
In fact, what returning shows do you watch? I’m not talking about reruns or DVDs, but weekly shows in current production. We don’t have anything… nothing. And dammit, we need a couple shows.
I’ll be back on Sunday, or Monday, or Saturday… Who knows? Everything feels slightly askew around here.
Have a great day, my friends.
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Oh, you would say that
Now with this reply feature you can gloat and gloat about being first – don’t yah think?
anyone watching “Mad Men” or “Bored to Death?”
I absolutely love “Boardwalk Empire.” Very artistic. Interesting learning about the real Jersey shore.
I’m gloating alright. As a matter of fact, I am thinking of growing a ‘gloatee’.
Bored To Death is one of my few must watches.
Good Afternoon Surf Reporters………
Give ‘The Event’ a try. I dig it. It has that sci-fi feel that ‘Lost’ had. I think you’ll like it.
Terriers on FX. Its probably the funniest show I have seen in a while.
Oh and Top 5 Woohoo!
I am sticking with NCIS, Criminal Minds, The Office, Community, and Parks and Recreation (on hiatus). I may watch Blue Bloods.
And American Pickers.
“Outsourced” is a piss poor remake of a half-assed Indie. I will not be watching again.
“Running Wilde,” however, shows promise. It’s got a lot of “Arrested Development” in it and that’s a good thing.
The “Outsourced” movie was good for a FEW laughs. They didn’t take it far enough – You could almost visualize the writers off-set trying not to piss off any Indians or hemp-wearing US and Canadian Americans. What a shame, it could have been SOOOO rudely entertaining…..
Oh, Jeff, the movie is available to stream off Netflix, in case you want to the where the premise came from.
can I remind the readers that the whole early dismissal thing is even more ridiculous since you live near the top of the mountains, not in the valley below…
As for new shows, try Community, lots of snark, the guy who used to do talk soup on E and Chevy Chase.
Joel McHale still does “The Soup”.
House and Caprica and that’s about it.
Outside of sports and sports related shows, I regularly watch Community, Big Bang Theory (moved right across from Community, gawddamit!), Fringe, and Mad Men.
Regarding the further evidence link, thus far is my favorite line, taken from “Troubleshooting”:
“The device flew out of my ass while I was taking a dump. What’s wrong?”
I forgot to add “Clone Wars” to that list. Yeah, I’m a geek, what of it?
I don’t watch ANY shows on the Big Four. Am I a freak?
I’ve watched both episodes of “The Event”, and found it okay. The constant jumping-around-in-time aspect of it is very annoying though (“3 months earlier”, “yesterday”, “three years ago”, etc.). I’ll give it another coupla episodes or so before I give up.
Shows we TiVO and watch every week:
Big Bang Theory
30 Rock
The Office
Community
Mad Men
Bored to Death
Boardwalk Empire
I’ve seen the first episodes of “Running Wilde”, “Raising Hope” and “Outsourced.” I’ll probably not watch “Outsourced” again, since I’m still not happy about “Parks and Recreation” being on hiatus because of it.
I missed Boardwalk Empire but would like to check it out. I saw a few “Hot in Clevelands” but it kinda blew. Then I saw the last episode of the season and laughed like a slow witted soul at the gummy bear factory.
Other than that, I really don’t watch any other shows. I’ll have to give Detroit 1-8-7 a shot since I used to work with Michael Imperioli’s aunt and I may run into her at the supermarket.
We started watching Boardwalk Empire too. It’s OK..good enough to stick around to see if it gets better. I think it will. I love that era too.
No other new shows here. I wanted to watch the comedy sitcom Mike and Molly (?) …I think thats the name. It follows Two and a Half Men. The guy’s from Pittsburgh. Anyone see it yet?
I can’t bring myself to watch the “new and improved” Hawaii 5-0. I watched the original growing up. Ok…I’m showing my old ass age.
I watched the first episode of Mike and Molly. I thought it was awful. Just lame fat jokes. I mean I get it , that they are FAT but the whole thing was just about being fat. And it was just not THAT funny. I expected more of the Rosanne humor , her and Dan were fat and it came up , but it was not the WHOLE show. Maybe I didn’t give it enough time. But just couldn’t waste my DVR space.
Could you imagine the damage that could be done to your children’s fragile psyche if they had to endure moisture falling from the sky?!?! They probably already go into a full body clench when the humidity gets above 80%!
Sons of Anarchy (if you dig serial television) and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, both on FX. American Pickers is pretty decent, too.
SeeKar: We love Sons of Anarchy. I’d screw Jax on the court house steps in front of my mother….just sayin’. American Pickers is a goody too. Since my side biz is antiques, it’s right up my alley.
I Love Sons. I’d take sloppy seconds off Jax while you rest. He’s fine. Mmmm
I really like Breaking Bad but I have no idea when it will be starting the new season.
The Event looks promising. Aliens I’m thinking. Probably wrong.
I enjoy watching Norm build stuff on PBS but alas the show is no more. 🙁
And of course as I’ve said before I really enjoy watching Giada de Laurentiis’ cleavage cook. Mesmerizing.
I’d do Giada on the courthouse steps and have my wife put it in for me.
Told ya.
Oh, yeah, I took a call for my boss only to be subjected to a recording of “All school activities have been canceled”. I have to say, though, the wind is roaring out there. My drive home is under a canopy of trees for a 10 mile stretch. Please don’t have a branch come craeening off my roof.
I think Modern Family is as funny a sitcom to come down the pike since Sports Night. It was effing hilarious last night. I laughed at whatever big tits name is until I was in pain.
I’m not enjoying much of the hour long “drama” crap. Law & Order LA was just sad. The CSI family is so hokey I get the urge to stand up and turn myself around.
Sometimes we’ll flip over to How It’s Made or one of those mechanical type shows and forget to go back to regular TV.
I used to love watching Law & Order (just Law & Order, not the SUV, or Criminal Ideas or whatever) on TNT but when I heard Jerry Orbach died it was just never the same. He made that show! Every spinoff was just missing something before I realized it was him. They never had many scenes together, but Jerry Orbach & Sam Waterston in one show made for some great, great memories.
Ok, I give; what the hell is that green thing on my avatar?
I miss Jerry Orbach’s role. He played a semi-drunken detective well because he kinda looked like one. Except for the $20k in dental work. Law and Order is kinda old and busted now I think.
Modern Family is damned funny.
Damnit…I can’t do a report right now. It looks like it might rain. Fukit.
And speaking of rain, we’ve totaled nearly 6 inches in the old gauge this week. Schools never blinked.
School called because of rain? Did you get some serious flooding? I don’t remember having all that many snow days in Parkersburg during my school years. The weather had to be truly life threatening for a cancellation. Even if it was so cold you had to bring the monkey in off the porch we had to go.
I spent roughly $700 on a Sony Bravia 40″ HDTV & then decided I didn’t want to get cable or dish set up. We decided we just don’t watch enough TV to warrant that extra bill, so we haven’t done it. And surprisingly, we are absolutely fine.
We have an HDMI cable linked from computer to the TV so we watch Hulu all the time (catching up on Anime shows lately, like the entire series of Full Metal Alchemist, GREAT SHOW!).
As for a current TV show that we watch, but just a little behind everyone (Hulu also airs new episodes for about a week after it airs) is Glee. We LOVE that show. My boyfriend isn’t into the pop music (at all) or the way they butcher classics like Queen, but he enjoys the story lines. I love it all. It’s a great show.
Other than that, I watch a lot of Intervention, Hoarders & The First 48 through Netflix. I like those shows.
It is overcast (and hot) today in So. Cal. Some places have thunderstorms! Do you think I could go home early from work because of it? So if I can’t leave work early because of rain, how come kids are released from school for it? Dammit, one more reason I should’ve become a teacher!
The only new show I have watched so far was No Ordinary Family. It was okay. I kept thinking of the movie The Incredibles though. I’m willing to watch it again.
I wish I could get outta work on the count of rain. Our driveway literally a slope. Last winter, the crazy lady slid down it and got stuck in the bushes in front of the office, and my boss still wanted us to come in! I had to argue with him for 5 minutes that if we try to come down that slope, we are going to run right into her. He finally gave in.
Supernatural is my main show to follow…but I like Pawn Stars and House too. Which I missed both premieres of.
Jeopardy and Pawn Stars is about it. Everything else may or may not get watched. We have a 15 hour backlog of House to catch up with and now it’s started up again 🙁 Jeeves!
Buffy was awesome. Stick with it. A couple of episodes are some of the best television I’ve ever seen.
The Event had a fairly intriguing opening episode, and made me want to watch the next one to see what happens next, but Lost had the greatest opening episode Of All Time! OF ALL TIME!!
It’s not a new show, but the office is still a show that I could watch back to back for eight hours straight. The season premier did not disappoint. Dwight gets extra time on this one. I beat him to the ‘pee corner’ though. I’ve had one in my house (and office) for years.
Someone recommended “Ma’s Roadhouse” to me. It’s on TRU-TV (not reality – actuality!) It’s not to be believed.
Also heard that Raising Hope was good. It’s sort of kooky, but I liked it.
been watching boardwalk empire too it reminds me a lot of deadwood. its always sunny in philadelphia is always good for alot of laughs. watched the new episode of eastbound and down and was pretty disappointed i waited 2 years for that to come on and it blew.
I hate to say it, but I like the show Vampire Diaries. I told myself I would never jump on the stupid vampire bangwagon phenomenon…but I did. I’m happy to say I’ve never watched Twilight.
Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in 1897. Can we move on? Please?
Lord help me but I put Twilight in my Netflix queue. Both of my girls are obsessed so I figured I would check it out. I got sucked into watching it while we were waiting in line to get an autograph from one of the actors that was in it. Now its been bugging me how the damn thing ends.
Big bang theory, community, bones, how I met your mother, pawn stars and American pickers. That’s my list and I love them all..but especially the big bang theory…nerd humor at its finest!
We don’t have cable but try to keep up on shows that look interesting through Hulu.
Sons of Anarchy
In the Middle
Cougar Town
Modern Family
Pawn Stars
Fringe
House
30 Rock
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Lie to Me
Plus a bunch more. I usually sit down at my computer at night and relax by watching a few shows a night. But my queue gets backed up from time to time and I’ll spend a good part of a weekend getting caught back up again.
I don’t know what I would do without Hulu. Its one of the best ideas someone has ever had.
Top Gear, but only when there’s a new (even if only to me) episode, which is not all that often.
Rain. I spit on that rain. Feh.
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did i post? hell, i swear i posted, I meant to say
“How strangely I adapt. After only 60 minutes of working on my 6-string treble guitar, the 5-string bass I have been playing for 10 years seems so large and unwieldy. Then only 20 minutes of playing on my 6-string bass makes my treble guitar seem fragile and my 5-string bass seem minute”
HOwever, i maybe ididn’t.
Jeez us krist.
I have this dumb ass training at work today and tomarrow, tommorow, to marrow?.
So I got off an hour earlier than usal and the wife is working late to PTO meeting or some such bullshit, so I i cooked of some sloppy joe and have been pounding MGD for about 4 hors. I am a little tipped.
where am i going with this.
oh yeah. there are about 20 people from an organization of about 800 attending this training and it is supposed to couase some great paradigm shift in how we function.
bullshit
For example the question is posed
“why is it importnat to recognize differences in generational charachteristics during training events?”
THere are answers like, “cause people learn different” or “different generations think different” or “different ages have different perspectives.” and everybody cheers these crap answers.
I say ” different backgrounds influence different methods of individual learning. To recognize these differences will allow the learner to dictate how they best learn rather than the instructor dictating how the learner will learn. This will allow for more applicable training to accomodate each individual instead of a a one tyupe application for every person.”
then everybody looks at me like i am crazy and don’t know what i am talking about.
idiots.
I’m going to eat some cereal now. I’ll see you guys tomaarow. too morrow? tommarroww?
Common sense has no place in the office, no wonder you’re drunk.
oh, uhhh…
The big bang theory
the middle
bones
fringe (but fringe is losing me fast, with thier lack of fringe science exploration)
How DARE they try to remake 5-0?!!! What in the hell were they thinking?
No one will ever come close to Jack Lord, James Macarthur, and Kam Fong!
I will NEVER watch this “remake”!
ASSBAGS!
“Book ’em Danno”
As long as they never fuck with the incredible McLean Stevenson series “Hello Larry”, I’m cool.
Fuck yeah Sidney…the next thing you know..they’ll try a remake of “My Mother the Car”…or “Car 54 Where You?”. And they sure as hell better not fuck with “Sea Hunt”.
The BIg Bang Theory gets my vote too.
Does anyone remeber the courtroom drama from the 90’s with Stanley Tucci. It was called ‘Murder One’. I think it only had 4 parts, but it was still great.
Rain is my natural element. Its getting to that time of year when my gills start to open up again!
I have no idea what was on the television tonight, or what will be on tomorrow. Were I you, I would just buy (not rent, buy) Slings & Arrows, the best series ever. 18 episodes of laughter and other emotions that are harder to say in one word.
Or, if you prefer free and you happen to be a Leonard Cohen fan, try this 42 minute CBC interview recorded in 2009. I find it a little staggering in its eloquence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugh8Xe6hX7U
jtb
Man, I was blissfully unaware of the rampant crime taking place under water until Mike Nelson came along in ’58.
This is sad, but I still know all the words to the theme song of Car 54 Where Are You? It’s actually kind of a catchy tune.
jtb
One of the Sea Hunt episodes was called “cougar”; in this episode, Mike dives after several “older” women. In so many ways, this show was ahead of its time.
jtb
For the most part, i gave up on tv. I flick it on when I get home for some noise. Since ‘america’s got talent’ ended. It’s either discovery channel (which is even getting old for me) – For F sake’s they are trying to add drama into the lumber industry, or Sponge Bob – can’t say I sit down and watch it but its makes me chuckle when I catch his antics now and again.
I don’t watch TV. Period. We haven’t ever had cable or satellite in the 11 years we’ve been married.
Jeff, remember the flood of ’85? We got sent home from school early because of heavy rain, but then 6 feet of water filled downtown. Only time I ever remember getting out of school for rain.
http://www.wvculture.org/history/disasters/flood198502.html
Yo, check me, kickin’ with the reply action!
Finally found the famous cow picture. The water was pretty damn deep!
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wvculture.org/goldenseal/fall05/cheatedcow.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wvculture.org/goldenseal/fall05/parsons.html&usg=__NdaJtmCBcrUjGrEJd0FrNxPUBIM=&h=325&w=200&sz=42&hl=en&start=4&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=4rQxPFByvqc8XM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=73&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwest%2Bvirginia%2Bflood%2Bof%2B%252785%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26tbs%3Disch:1
I watch The Office, Mad Men, and a few cooking shows. I also like watching Pawn Stars and the hoarding shows.
I can’t stand Dog the Bounty Hunter or that other motherfucker who goes around exterminating pest. What’s with their weird ass hair and the way they dress? Freaks!
Jason, couldn’t agree more – weird ass hair…well not weird hair on their ass ….what I meant was ….ah fukit…. but check out this dude for “different”
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/7812/daddysgirlhs8.jpg
hot fuzz,
that guy looks like a fag.
What parent would let that guy hold such a beautiful baby? Some parents are just so careless and negligent. So sad.
Poor cow.
I watched the first episode of Terriers (at the neighbors) and it looked like a show I would like. It wasn’t however, good enough to get me to hook the cable back up. When I’m home and their isn’t a baseball game on the radio I’ll watch just about anything that doesn’t involve celebrities dancing or showing off sagging old man moobs.
I miss Spongebob!
My weekend in case you care.
http://www.minsteroktoberfest.com/
I’ll be in the Spas Platz, join me.
DEXTER! All my friends told me to watch it and i just tilted my chin at them. One day my sausage finger selected it on netflix streaming when i had intended to watch Debbie Gibson videos and i am now hooked like a retarded carp.