"`It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!` You stupid monkey!"
The running game I have going is for you to try and guess the obscure pop-culture reference of the above title, which I will reveal in the next entry. The title of the last entry ("The Cat!") was once again from Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Actually the last entry I couldn't think of a good title but I know I liked that one skit...involving the cat. There was this one particular episode with "the tall guy" and "the bald guy" in which they were doing a parody of Mission Impossible entitled Mission Improbably. This time it was "the laundry". It all started when the guy in charge of coming up with the voice-over the tape describing the mission ("that one guy with glasses") said the mission was to clean a "new burnoose" for the something-something of "gruefunkuhstan". Neither bald guy nor tall guy knew what a burnoose was exactly which was obvious from the start. These two have the best comic timing and chemistry you could ask for in a comic duo and proceeded to try and make the other laugh while not losing it completely and laughing themselves. Oh and "bald guy" is Colin Mochrie, "tall guy" is Ryan Stiles and "that one guy with glasses" is Greg Proops.
First of all I'd like to mention another "milk dud" from a couple entries ago. The premium cable channel Showtime had/has this show entitled Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. Only 13 episodes have been made thus far and there are no indicators on whether more will be made. I was very, very impressed with the guts of this show. Although pointing out Feng Shui (that's "fung shway") is total and complete bullshit seems rather obvious. As does the self-improvement stuff, the pet psychics and a lot of the other stuff they covered. But they also covered the bullshit of "organic" vegetables, which is basically a bunch of hippies finding a way to be greedy and scam people out of money while still maintaining the high-and-mighty attitude over everyone else beside them who are automatically greedy by definition.
Ok I think I have only one more Milk Dud. This one I'm a bit humiliated to even admit to. Why, oh why would I ever want to admit to seeing an episode to anyone never mind posting it on a blog that may or may not ever have any readers? I can think of no good reason myself but here goes anyway. Ok if we flash back to the old, simpler days of...the mid 1990s we have a show called Beavis and Butthead. But wait that's not the show I'm talking about. I am, for some odd reason, going to mention the little-known spin off of Beavis and Butthead called Daria. This show is about as far opposite from that Beavis show as you could ask for. For the record I never went out my way not to miss it nor have I tried to find and record particular episodes. I'm just impressed by the incredible amount of consistent quality to the episodes and the quality of the writing. It lasted 4 or 5 seasons on MTV and is now in re-run on one or another nameless cable channel (I think it's called "noggn" or something like that). It has a lot of sarcasm, a lot of irony, a lot of a social outcast trying to deal with the world around her. Maybe that's part of what spoke to me about it. Some how I find it ironic that as a teenager when Beavis and Butthead was targeted directly at me my sister (two years younger) would watch all the time while it never held my interest and yet Daria which I would think would be aimed more at her spoke to me and she never watched. Anybody else find that weird?
Today I was just thinking about why I started a blog and why I keep adding to it. I mean don't I have anything better to do? I guess I still make entries (and I realize this is a relatively young blog) because I more-or-less like writing and I'm more-or-less good at it. Obviously I'm not into it nearly as much as other veteran bloggers. I visited blogger.com today to try and browse some of the more popular blogs to see how I look in comparison. And I have to say this really is like some kind of "cottage industry" on the Internet.
There's this site called blog shares (sorry you'll have to google it I don't feel like typing URLs at this point) which is some sort of simu-stock market thing in which you anticipate how many incoming links any particular blog will have and earn virtual dollars accordingly. I don't actually read any blogs and it seems a bit much to me. It might be a way to attract traffic to my blog if I did it right. Another one is blog roller, which seems to be some sort of elaborate link lister scheme or system. So as I say, some are really, really into this blog thing.
I remember when I first started to notice I might be good at writing. There was this assignment in my 9th grade English class to come up with this mock-newspaper article revolving around ancient Greece or something like that. Almost without much noticing it I wrote this perfect little headline in that infamous pigeonholed headline speak and proceeded to write an article that sounded right anyway. That's what I seem to be good at. Making something look and sound right even if it may not be right. A weird thing to try to describe. Or maybe this is a description of doing an adequate job. That's one way to think about it! I think I'd better stop this entry before this paragraph starts to make sense.
