funniest line
"Can I have a bite of your wand?" Or something to that effect. Ah, tossed off homoeroticism in the 7 o'clock hour. Or 8 o'clock if you live on the east or west coast.

possibly unfair comparison alert
So has Sheldon turned into The Big Bang Theory's version of Urkel? I know the comparison isn't quite fair—not least in that TBBT can be funny where Family Matters . . . couldn't—but still. Sheldon's warped the show so much around himself by now that it's difficult for me to enjoy it…

sigh
I continue to be underwhelmed.

Sting: One Sumner's Tale

sting
When is Jude Law going to play Sting in a Gordon Sumner biopic? And can we stop a film about Sting from being shot if (when?) it ever happens?

I watched it b/c I figured, with Gervais and David being on, that was giving a show which sounds awful its best chance. It failed.

I think the host just goes to prove how difficult it really is to host a tv show. B/c he didn't strike me as awful so much as just average and uninspired, not to mention having to overcome a lame concept, which only made him look even worse.

I didn't watch The Marriage Ref last week, so tonight was my first and only time. Oof. If Larry David and Ricky Gervais can't rescue it, then it can't be rescued. As for any of the guest celebrities, there's no way they're being themselves. They're just putting on their public faces and playing characters.

donkey syndrome
Kenneth's donkey syndrome or whatever he called it was worth a full grade demerit alone. That was an awful bit. Just awful.

Yes, let's not forget Vlad, a proper first name for a proper bat.

vaguely remember this movie coming out . . .
. . . but I never saw it. If they had made it a musical, it sounds like it could be a dark version of Grease 2.

Why, yes. Yes, you do.

eh
I haven't been able to watch the show much this season and this is the first one I've seen in a while. Maybe I'm the one who's out of sync with the Big Bang fan community, since this one didn't do much for me. As soon as the ring was pulled out, all the jokes involving it were too obvious and kept pulling me out of…

paper lion
Well, hell, this isn't even on dvd. What am I supposed to do now? Read the book or something?

If she's not, she's definitely in the top five.

Though now that I think about it, Robert Silverberg used the same sort of idea in Hawksbill Station, and he did it before Star Trek. First as a short story a couple years earlier than All Our Yesterdays, then turning it into a novel the next year.

pliocene exile
The punishment of Mariette Hartley's character in All Our Yesterdays reminds me of Julian May's Pliocene Exile books. I haven't read those since the 80s but thoroughly loved them as a teen. Anyone read them recently? Do they hold up?

Ghost Town definitely has its flaws, but it's thoroughly charming.

Ahem, Escape from New York. Though not, repeat NOT, Escape from LA.

been a long time . . .
. . . but I remember loving this film.