Grid Effect

What a dull fucking week this has been for this website. It’s actually kind of starting to annoy me. Again, all we watched was Daily Show last night, if you can recommend something that isn’t a rerun or a new episode of a gut-wrenchingly terrible reality series, I’m all ears. As of last night, the best thing on in prime time has been reruns of 30 Rock and The Office. You know, it is fucking summer, when is actual summer television going to start? July? Does June not qualify anymore?

Anyhow, if you couldn’t figure it out we’re falling back on links again. Don’t blame me, blame the unholy overlords that run the television industry. I will not resort to being another person who watches god damn reality shows to laugh at the people participating in them.

Looks like someone is backing my play about Artie Lange’s appearance on Joe Buck’s show. Or he’s just inadvertently agreeing with me shortly after I posted on Tuesday. It’s pretty much the same thing. Really, it’s the only logical conclusion one can reach from HBO’s handling of this: When taken into consideration the rest of their programming, how can HBO take the moral high ground? I know this is geared more towards family programming, but it was on at 9PM, so it kind of nullifies that argument.

Here’s a link to someone’s twitter page informing us that Triumph The Insult Comic Dog will be making his debut on tonight on Conan with a segment at Bonaroo, which is a concert of some sort. The wannabe hippy contingent will be as easy to crack jokes on as the Star Wars movie line, if not more so. Whether or not there is any validity to this claim, I couldn’t tell you. But I’m trying to drive up viewership, so just tune in tonight if you have nothing better to do.

Rolling Stone did a long interview with Matt Weiner about Mad Men past and future. In it he says he wanted to capture the rise of LA with the “decline” of New York. I didn’t realize NYC was struggling so much, or ever did. As far as I could tell it is and was always considered one of the more thriving markets in the history of the world. For as great as Mad Men is, it’s basically the anti-Wire. As rough as certain aspects of Betty Draper’s and Joan Holloway’s lives can be, I’m pretty certain Dukie, Wallace and Randy would do everything short of kill to have it as good as they do. Not to disparage the plight of character’s like Betty and Joan, but when you hear the show-runner talk about the “decline of  New York”, it’s kind of hard to take seriously.

Whoever it was that played the first Aunt Vivyan on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, will be writing a memoir about her experience on the show, in which she disparages the bankable movie star she used to share a set with. Guess who I’m referring too. No, go on, guess. I’ll give you a hint, it isn’t Alfonso Ribiero…

Alright, it’s Will Smith. By my count, this will be the first negative press he’ll be forced to endure since…I don’t even know when. I’m sure someone called him a thug in then 80’s when he was primarily a rap artist. Probably since then. And unless she says something like he was constantly sexually harassing the rest of the cast, I doubt anyone will really give a shit.

That’s all we have for right now, we’ll post at least once more today. Promise.