Pauseandblog is a German word I just made up for the blogs I post about TV
America's Got Talent I was watching Nick Cannon on AGT, when he admitted a comment, and instantly realized, or else a producer did and yelled at in his earpiece. I think Nick Cannon just said; if you want to go to heaven, vote for these guys. I watched the facial expressions he made, with my imagination filling in the voice in his earpiece. I...
By now, we’ve all seen the tiny fine print on media advertising that warns us all that the images we are seeing were performed by professionals and we should not attempt. The wording is different, but the meaning is always the same; please don’t bother trying to sue if you are stupid enough to try this on your own. Some lawsuit somewhere in the...
Sometimes I think about my stories, and how I'll be remembered in the future. Life is long, but other people's lives are infinite. As my friends grow older and have kids, it makes me wonder what their life will be like. Their future. I remember back to my childhood, and I do my best to remember the friends of my parents. I remember quite a few...
While checking out some older BLOG entries today I found a list of the shows I watch from 2011, and decide to do a new one. Person of Interest Rules of engagement Big Bang Theory How I Met your mother The Soup Jimmy Kimmel Live (Opening only, usually) Daily Show (seldom the full interview) Tosh.0 After Lately Saturday Night Live Once Upon A Time...
A good example of how my brain works. I was watching Tosh.O just now and hit PAUSE to write this. TOSH.O is a TV show on Comedy Central (The Comedy Network in Canada) staring comedian Daniel Tosh, who watches Videos from YouTube and makes fun of them. In this moment, I watched a video of a young girl snow sledding down a hill, going father than...
By now, we’ve all seen the tiny fine print on media advertising that warns us all that the images we are seeing were performed by professionals and we should not attempt. The wording is different, but the meaning is always the same; please don’t bother trying to sue if you are stupid enough to try this on your own. Some lawsuit somewhere in the...
A lot of people say they watch too much TV. I won’t say I watch too much, but some people certainly would. This list is what I set my PVR to record all new episodes of, for the upcoming season… so far. With very few exceptions, I will watch it all as new episodes fill up. I’m so glad I got the new PVR with bigger hard drive last month. Pan Am...
During a commercial break, I pause the playback and return to the keyboard. I started rethinking about something I mentioned in passing in a previous blog entry. I used an old saying fragment; "I read somewhere" before stating some supportive fact. It's an innocent enough thing to say. We all have memories from things we've read or seen or...
"Ask yourself whether this is the right moment for humor." The Mentalist: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196946/ That line made me pause, literally. While watching Kendall Cho, a character on TV's "The Mentalist" interrogate a witness. The witness makes a joke, and that is his reply. You have to imagine the speedy flat monotone delivery Cho uses...
I pause the PVR and blog because I live alone, and don't have any TV watching partners. I watch TV on multiple levels. I think about how what I am watching relates to the real world, and what I can learn from shows. While I watch shows alone these days, I try my best to let myself "think" at least half as much as I would if I was watching it with...