- During the summer, I became a devoted follower of the ABC drams Traveler, which was unfortunately and wrongly canceled after its short summer run. Since then, the show’s fans have waged a campaign to get it back on the air and one of the show’s creators, David DiGilio, has maintained a blog about the show on TVGuide.com. Unfortunately, despite ABC putting mind-bogglingly bad shows like Cavemen and Big Shots on this fall, the network refused to bring Traveler back and so things are now over for Will, Jay and Tyler. However, before the show goes away for good, DiGilio used his space on TVGuide.com to answer the many questions fans had about things left unresolved due to the series’ early cancellation, things like what would have happened with current storylines as well as in future seasons. Here is the link to that blog so you can check it out yourself and see all of the great action we’re missing out on so that we can instead see a show about a group of cavemen from a series of lame auto insurance commercials in the most moronic comedy ever to come to the small screen and other brainless shows like it. Thanks again, ABC, for showing why I won't even bother acknowledging that your network even exists until Lost premieres in January.
- The New York Mets’ collapse is complete, but I have to admit that it still seems surreal and hasn’t entirely sunk in. I watched the MLB standings the past few weeks and it always seemed like the Mets were able to fend off the Phillies and Braves, but over the past two weeks, the Metropolitans have choked away all of a seven-game lead and today, on the season’s final day, they lost the NL East when they were hammered 8-1 by the Florida Marlins and the Phillies beat the lowly Washington Nationals. Mets manager Willie Randolph was a Seinfeld-esque low talker as he mumbled about his team’s September swoon, while Mets players exited the dugout after the game like they were headed for the gas chamber. If you’re a part of an epic collapse like this, then New York is the worst possible place to be, because obviously New York as a whole is harder on and more scrutinizing of its sports teams. The Mets are going to be mercilessly ripped in the Apple for a long, long time because of this, and with good reason. That being said, if you’re not a Met, a Mets fan or a New Yorker, this could not have happened in a better place because now the rest of us get to look on with a sick pleasure from the outside as NYC devours one of its own for their massive meltdown. I would have much rather seen it happen to New York’s other MLB team, the Yankees, but I’ll take what I can get. See you on the golf course starting this week, Mets players……
- I love it when someone tries to do something genuinely benevolent and beneficial to others…..and no one cares. I don’t have hard numbers to back me up on this, but something tells me that when Nickelodeon went off the air for three hours yesterday at noon to promote its fourth-annual worldwide day of play, which encourages children to get off their obese behinds, go outside and be active, very few kids paid attention. When they saw the dead air on Nickelodeon, they inevitably switched over to one of the other hundreds of channels offered by their cable or satellite provider, hopped online to post and blog on their MySpace page or turned on their Nintendo Wii for an afternoon of video games instead. It’s a nice concept for Nickelodeon and it gives them a chance to claim that they’re actively promoting healthy lifestyles for kids, but I hope behind closed doors the suits at the network know that it’s nothing more than a shallow, irrelevant gesture that isn't going to make much of a difference to anyone.
- I’d be remiss if I didn’t take some shots at one of the most asinine, idiotic groups of complete and total tools I’ve seen on the political scene in a long time: Freedom’s Watch. I could sum the whole thing up neatly and convince you what a bunch of ass hats these people are simply by telling you that they have close ties with the W. administration, but where’s the fun in that? No, more needs to be said about a group of wealthy, white a-holes who are so far out of touch that they make Zubaz pants look current by comparison. The group is fronted by two former W. administration officials and was founded this summer by 12 über-wealthy individuals. Its most visible campaign thus far is as clear an indication as you can get as to the absolute cluelessness and lack of mental acuity these people possess: trying to convince the American public to support the floundering debacle of a war in Iraq and W.’s indefensible, inexcusable troop surge plan. Bradley Blakeman, a former deputy to W. and president of Freedom’s Watch, is now leading the group’s charge against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Let me stop for a moment and point out that Bradley Blakeman is perhaps the whitest-sounding name in the history of whiteness. Can’t you just picture Bradley Blakeman sitting in his study, sipping hundred-year-old Scotch, smoking Corona cigars and talking about the travails of being in the country’s highest tax bracket while his wife Muffy puts on her tennis outfit and prepares to head to the country club in the Bentley? Something tells me that Freedom’s Watch isn't going to be including Sal, the deli owner from the Bronx whole drives a 1984 Chevy Caprice and lives in a two-bedroom apartment with his wife and three kids any time soon. Freedom’s Watch also has its overpriced tighty-whities from Sacks Fifth Avenue in a bunch because of the good folks over at MoveOn.org who have smartly been advocating, well, moving on from the war in Iraq. The word used by Freedom’s Watch for the MoveOn.org folks is obnoxious, which is only one of the many derogatory adjectives I could think of for the Freedom’s Watchers. Besides, if you all are so smart, shouldn’t you know how much average Americans who don’t have two or three homes, several luxury cars and their own private jet feel about having arrogant, self-righteous, out-of-touch ass clowns tell us how we ought to think? How’s about you watch me giving you a double-middle-finger salute, Freedom’s Watch, then I’ll take your pompous, Cristal-sipping a**es and put my size 12’s up them…..
- In what may be the first case ever of a male model and fake-butter pitchman being mistaken for an airplane, an AirTran flight taking off from Philadelphia and heading for Atlanta had to return to Philadelphia Friday after a bird flew right into the craft’s windshield, cracking it and slightly injuring the co-pilot as well. My only thought is that this bird is a distant cousin of the one that flew into the face of Fabio at an amusement park several years ago when he was riding a roller coaster. I mean, you can see how a bird might confuse those two things, what with Fabio’s ginormous beak so clearly resembling the large, pointy nose of an aircraft in both size and shape. The plane was able to land without further trouble, although I’m sure there was a plane full of angry travelers who weren’t amused when they found out why their flight had been waylaid. Actually, having been on many flights with many impatient travelers, I’m guessing many passengers on the flight were actually pissed at the pilot and co-pilot for being such wusses and not continuing the flight in spite of the cracked windshield and minor injuries. But add this to the ever-growing list of weird, annoying and always irritating reasons for flight delay and cancellation: bird damage to the windshield. And why do I get the feeling the PETA is somehow going to get snippy about this and try to attack AirTran for the death of this bird? Ah, the friendly skies…..
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