Just Us Nerds

It was another wild wacky week in medialand and I for one am exhausted. The culture popped like a drunken clown’s balloon sculture, but I stayed on top of it for everybody. you don’t have to thank me, just send money.

• I just finished listening to an old Rusty Warren comedy routine on Yahoo. Wow. It is so amazing how little it took to shock people back in the sixties. More importantly, she was (still is) a damned funny broad.
• That 70’s Show ended this week and the episode was far more sentimental that it needed to be, but Eric came back!!! Now all is well and life in Point Place can go on without us.
• As I suspected, 7th Heaven is directly responsible for the cancellation of Everwood. You know what that means, God Hates Well Written Shows! By way of retaiation retaliation (Against the CW, not God), I plan to boycott the CW. It isn’t a hard sacrifice to make. Smallville was the only other show on the network that I had cared about.
• Am I to actually believe that Mark Harmon is leaving NCIS? I just don’t think NCIS can sustain a loss of that magnitude. I like Michael Weatherly but give me a break! As Madge would say, TV Ratings Stunt? You’re soaking in it.
• So the new MacBook is out. After twenty years of resistance, Apple has now become fully integrated into the Intel collective. Resistance is futile, 7 of Jobs. Even with a 24-hour Apple Store.
• The big Eurovision finals are coming up. Eurovision is like the World Cup of Soccer, except for singing. By that I mean that the people in Europe care a lot about the results and we don’t. Still, if you ever wanted to know why we’ve been stuck with ABBA on our soft rock stations all these years, look no further than Eurovision. Me, I’m rooting for Lordi, the hard-rocking Finnish band with a fetish for horror movie makeup. I hope they “Finnish” in first place.
• So I checked the blogosphere to see what was cool and exciting today, and I ran into a tag called Outsourcing, Schmoutsourcing! With a tag like that, I had to take a look. I was hoping to read about how the trend toward outsourcing workers was ending, but I was disappointed. The article, by Thomas L. Friedman, is more about the fact that the worldwide economy is so pervasive that there really is no “out” anymore. Thanks Tom, now tell me when we get our jobs back because I can’t see them from here.
• So hey, how about that stock market? For some reason our economy is starting to grind to a halt. Could it be the excessive gas prices? Could it be the excessive federal debt? Could it be the excessive personal debt? Could it be the crippling outsourcing? Could it be that we have an uncontrollable problem with illegal immigration that could soon turn into rioting? Could it be our complete lack of faith in our fake republican President? (A real republican would never have let spending get this far out of hand.) Whatever the case, when a “true blue” liberal like Paul Krugman starts to make (some) sense, things are getting pretty ugly out there. I don’t know about you, but the sooner we start Coming Down to Earth the sooner we can start getting ourselves out of this mess. Oh well, at least we know our President wouldn’t purposefully start a war with Iran just to distract us, would he? Here’s hoping the next republican who runs for president is a real republican. Lower taxes and increase spending? Great plan moron.
• The Da Vinci Code comes out this week, but I think I still prefer Da Colbert Code. Let’s not forget that Stephen Colbert successfully predicted The Academy Awards using Da Colbert Code. Let’s see Dan Brown do that!