where was this a decade ago?

Erica just opened my eyes to Mail Goggles.

erin sent me the following email

from Erin xxxx
to xxxxxxxx
date Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM
subject The woes of the Republic

I always love Gail Collins' op-eds in the NYTimes. Her point of view below really puts our desperation in perspective....

"Let's be realistic. There are lots of calls for reform, but we have a country in economic meltdown. The globe is warming, the Middle East is in chaos and "Mad Men" keeps teetering on the brink of cancellation. We're not going to get around to repairing the Electoral College any time in the near future. "

The Dow may be in peril, but that's nothing compared to the low viewership of our favorite show. Gasp!

remember the "wazzup" commercials?

fucking joe

FINALLY.

yeah my bike has that same sticker

How the hell did I ever forget about Mitch Clem? I used to adore "Nothing Nice to Say." Adore it to the point that my punk rock little brother even got tired of my quoting all that awesome punk rock banter. Ah, memories...

head:desk

Oy. There's just no catching a break with FOX.

colin powell for obama

lunch and retreat

Pete's film debut (at The Engine Theater) is happening! And soon! Here's the trailer:

rachel getting married

Apparently, movie critics are racist.

jukebox hero

Jukebox Hero @ Yahoo! Video

"machiavellian... in the very best sense"

Saw "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story" at the Sunset 5. I recommend it.

television update

True Blood is... meh. It continues to be faithful to the books (so I'm told by my mother) and has got enough sex and violence to keep it on my dvr for the time being. Sadly, the title sequence (above) is just so much damn better than the show that every time I watch it I wish I were watching the very different show that it should belong to.

Heroes has come a long way since its mediocre second season. Pairing up Noah and Sylar was about the best move the writers could have possibly made, and giving Future Sylar a kid this past episode was priceless. Even more priceless? Bringing Adam back!

How I Met Your Mother is still one of the better shows no one is watching. Giving Barney an unrequited love interest in Robin has done wonders for both characters (gives him depth, gives her something more interesting to do).

But the best show no one's (apparently) watching? PUSHING DAISIES. It's GOOD. Better than good. WATCH IT. It's like some one took all of my favorite things (namely pie and Lee Pace) and combined them into one amazing little hour that feels more like a bedtime story fairytale than a television show.

Mad Men is just as good as every one keeps telling you it is. Let's hope critical acclaim keeps the network from paying attention to it's lack of ratings.

Supernatural (there are valid reasons to watch this show, not least of which is that it can often scare the hell out of me if I turn the lights out, but I won't go into them all here) may have just launched its best season so far. It's Jensen Ackles centric (and good, because the actor should honestly have his own show at this point) and has managed to have not one, but two recurring characters other than our central heroes show up in every episode so far (Bobby and much welcomed newcomer Castiell). No small feat when considering this show's track record with guest stars.

oh those celebs

come on! really?

Looks like FOX will more than likely cancel Terminator.

Perhaps you scoff that this would matter to me, or that I would even watch (and love) this monumentally silly show. But it's good silly (unlike Ugly Betty or Private Practice or Grey's Anatomy or Smallville or every reality show in the history of creation save for the first season of Real World).

AND IT'S FUN. Car chases! Explosions! Evil robots disguised as Shirley Manson! Hot teenage girl robots that the main character may or may not be in love with despite said robot's penchant for killing him! Brian Austin Green! "Flashbacks" to an apocalyptic future! Drug smugglers and bank robbers and rogue FBI agents and overly excessive gunplay and a very pregnant Busy Philips and evil mad scientists and and and... Brian Austin Green! It's a solid, over the top action movie in the tradition of every action movie of the late 90's condensed into an hour every week, and no other show is really doing that right now (Prison Break did it in it's first season, but no longer)

I miss this show already. FOX cancels everything I love. (Undeclared, Wonderfalls, Dark Angel, The Tick, Titus, Firefly, Futurama, Arrested Development, Brimstone... other's I'm probably forgetting right now)