Wednesday Links
Our apologies for the late post, we’re a little under the weather and haven’t yet gotten out of bed. Here’s a few quick links to occupy a portion of your day.
Here’s a random list of the top fifty television icons of all time. Needless to say we adamantly disagree with it, it has George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston in front of James Gandolfini and Jon Stewart. Number one was appropriate though in Johnny Carson. We’re not really sure what the criteria is here, they explain it, but its all kind of vague. It seems that someone like Jennifer Aniston improves her rank by virtue of her off camera issues. Whatever. We’ve already spent entirely too much time thinking about this.
Portia De Rossi claims she is not playing herself on Nip Tuck, which I suppose people might assume because not only is she a lesbian in real life, she’s playing one on TV! And really, I hope she isn’t playing herself, after her role on Arrested Development, there’s no way she is that stupid.
The Wire is releasing a soundtrack that we’re sure at least a hundred people will buy. Will we be one of them? Not sure. We have a habit of buying everything related to the series, but we already have The Pogues greatest hits, and we’re not certain we need five different versions of the series’ opening theme…who are we kidding? Of course we’re going to purchase it, regardless of how needless it is.
Is Survivor: China’s Courtney anorexic? In short: if she isn’t then she is the skinniest girl we’ve ever seen without an eating disorder. Either way, it’s curious that she would even volunteer to be on the show, or that the producers would invite her.
And finally, this actually aired last night, but as HBO is prone to do, it will be replayed a couple thousand times over the course of the next month: their documentary on the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is absolutely fantastic. It revolves around the ten year Woody Hayes-Bo Schembechler war. Essentially, if you are unfamiliar with it or have never been to one of the games, this is as close as it gets to evoking that atmosphere. Despite how unpopular it is, we’re avid Ohio State supporters around here, and really we’re hard-pressed to admit that nothing has encompassed the pageantry, tradition and insanity of this rivalry quite like that documentary did last night.
That’s it for today, back tomorrow with Survivor and South Park recaps.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
[...] -At the Immunity Challenge, it’s one of those tailor made for the diminutive participants to try and compensate for all the challenges that will naturally favor larger participants. In other words, it’s a balancing challenge, where they straddle these barrels and water leaks out of them, and as the barrel gets lighter and lighter, the barrel is more and more likely to tilt off it’s axis. Long story short: Todd, Frosti and Courtney are the final three, and Courtney wins without even a semblance of a chance that she might fall, because she’s probably anorexic. [...]