Every once in awhile when I'm watching a television show, and my mind thinks ahead and figures out how it's going to end, it makes me remember my dad. My memories of him have pride attached. Like a good son, I looked up to him, and respected how smart he was, and how he could solve any problem with a home made solution. In retrospect, neither of...
Month: September 2014
Who Done Whodunnit?
I found myself watching another episode of an old show I'm not proud to admit to; Whodunnit. As is often the case, I find myself thinking about TV on two or more different levels. I can enjoy a show for it's plot, or acting, or other ideas. I often explain my multi-level thinking to others, as if I am my own DVD commentary. I think about the...
Even Bad Magic is Magical
For the first time ever, a magician won America's big summer talent show; America's Got Talent. Judge Howard Stern has been campaigning for more than three years on his morning Sirius Satellite radio show for America to vote more for variety acts than singers. Like me, he is disturbed that a gigantic talent show featuring lots of acts in a wide...
The Highlander – 2014 Doctor Edition
A few summers ago, during the slow summer season when hardly anything new is on TV, I started binge watching The Highlander series every day on one of those obscure higher package cable channels. I have always been a fan of time travel stories, and although immortals are not technically the same as time travellers, the similarity in story was...
Pauseandblog: Scorpion
I'm watching the premier episode of Scorpion as I write this. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2419510784/tt3514324?ref_=tt_ov_I It's a federal agent crime drama where the lead characters are a group of super smart, uniquely talented under 30 year old nerds, recruited by an old, wrinkle face, loud fed. I've just hit pause part way though, so I don't...
Madam Secretary of Quahog
It's new TV week. I sat down this evening to watch and review the new network TV show about Mrs. Clinton called Madam Secretary. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501074/ It's probably not really about Hilary although the main star looks a lot like a younger version of Mrs. Clinton, complete with a similar, but not identical hair style. I think we...
Robot Chicken Social School
Sometimes, educational TV takes a different approach. It teaches us important life lessons, and helps us socialize. There is a TV show on every night that I strongly recommend everyone watches. Each episode is only 15 minutes, but the lessons it delivers is essential to a person's pop culture education. Robot Chicken is an amazing tool. It is a...
Blogging
I've always liked my writing style. It's sort of like the way I talk. It is something I do that I'm proud of, and there are not so many things in my life like that. However, I also don't seem to be able to do anything serious with it. I made a pledge to write a blog post every day, and failed. I missed multiple days, and even skipped a few of my...
Friends I haven’t met yet.
In general, strangers don't talk to each other. Few ever strike up a random conversation with me. It almost never happens, so I am never sure how they react when I start one with them. It's funny, because in my life, I have trouble starting conversations with people. I am seldom the ice breaker at a party. I'm much happier when you start the...
Post-A-Day
When I first started my Giveit100.com project in January of 2014, it was a great motivator of creativity and energy at a time in my life when I needed it. Through the process of making 100 consecutive 10 second videis everyday, with follow up YouTube videos, I found a purpose, and a new community if fruends/fans. SShortly after that, I created a...