Hello!
I was going to post this as a comment, but considering that the last thread is nearing 1000 comments (all positive) and takes about seventeen minutes to load, we may as well start anew.
I'm alive and unchanged. Seriously, I've just been working. A lot. It's been a less-than-ideal grind and I very much look forward to the current wave passing so I can get back to doing what I love to do best: Nothing, with a side of you.
Some of you have expressed interest in an early return for the Halloween Juke. I couldn't agree more and will try to include this soon as a partial mea culpa. I've been listening to that shit constantly, though I don't know if it has as much to do with me wanting Halloween as it does the fact that Geico's "Somebody's Watching Me" commercial airs 772 times each hour.
Also, there was an a site in circulation that evidently attempted to redirect users to a bad place. I cannot lie: I thought you guys were mistaken, but you were right, and the ad guys at UGO (and me) really, sincerely apologize for any trouble it caused. It's been eradicated and you should have no further trouble.
I finally watched that Clone Wars movie. Now, I was as hard on the prequels as anyone, but despite what seemed to be common opinion, I really didn't think it was bad at all. Granted, I fell asleep halfway through, but I'm assuming it grew no more offensive from there. Plus, the first reveal of Jabba's son, suddenly crawling out and goo-goo gah-ing with absolutely no build or fanfare, cracked me up so much that I had to rewind the scene seven times before watching the rest of (or the rest of the first half of) the movie.
Very odd to hear an ice cream truck's jingle playing during a thunderstorm in early April, but I swear, I just did.
Posted by Matt on 04/06/2009. E-mail me!
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As the discussion leans towards sitcoms and the writing thereof, I have a couple of sites to recommend for your rading enjoyment.
http://www.tvparty.com is really informative about old shows, with good attention even to locally-produced fare. Lots of behind-the-scenes on shows like Good Times. Even old toy commercials!
http://www.tvtropes.org explains that the name comes from it’s origins as a database about commonalities in Television writing, it expanded to cover Video Games, Comic Books, Anime, Manga, Movies, Books, and even Commercials. And has a section on breakout characters like Urkel, Barbarino, and Fonzie. Curiously addicting, it is.
Give the DSi some time. It uses SD cards, so hacks are bound to arrive shortly. I plan to buy one later this year, but I might wait for DSi:Miami or DSi:New York.