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TV Overload

by StateSchoolElitist

I am a little back loaded with television right now. Last night we were privy to three hours of Survivor (the finale and reunion show), a Sopranos hour chock full of subtext and symbolism; and a new Entourage episode, which was decent but relative to what it was airing next to, the best classification for it would be yawn inducing. And this didn’t even account for the Warriors-Jazz game that put all of these shows on the backburner.

So yes, I was up until about 4am watching television. I am suffering the consequences right now. Between the tiredness, the distorted vision and the famine; I am going to need a couple hours and a Mountain Dew (Fuck Coffee) before I can write a coherent or clever synopsis of anything. If I’m not face down on my keyboard in the next twenty minutes I would consider it a minor miracle.

So I’ll gather my thoughts and my second wind, if you’re looking for reading material on any of last nights riveting television, Entertainment Weekly always has follow up pieces, and slate.com does a Sopranos email exchange between two people that have had brief run ins and accidental dalliances with La Cosa Nostra. Oh, and Brian Williams pitched in last week (it was difficult to read his emails without them echoing like news headlines in my head) for an unabashed “celebrity” cameo.

Anyways, I am getting entirely off track here. Sometime in the next three to four hours I should have an Entourage recap posted, check back around then.

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