RANDOM THOUGHTS:
Before I continue any further, I would just like to make it clear that this will be my final regularly scheduled installment of the Thursday "Random Thoughts" for another few months in favor of a once a week column every Monday evening. If you've been reading this blog for the last few years, then you know that such a thing is routine. The only thing between this year and the previous years is that I'm starting this Thursday break about a month and a half later than usual.
Anyways, the following were on my mind between Monday, March 26th and Thursday, March 29th:
- When the NFL season begins, the league decides to air it in primetime on national television. When the NBA and NHL season begins, the league decides to play them in primetime with some of the league's best team. When the MLB season began this week, it's with two dull teams like the Mariners and Athletics playing in Japan three days before anyone else on tape delay. Bud Selig and the schedule makers are geniuses.
- God Damn you, David Milch, Michael Mann, and the makers of "Luck"! I mean, did your untimely final episode last Sunday have to be so great? Did the writing and directing have to be so flawless? Did the horse racing sequences have to be so damn beautiful and some of the finest that I've ever seen brought to film? Did you really have to give signs of the program beginning to hit its stride? Couldn't you have ended everything in a whimper, similar to, say, the "Rubicon" finale? Now I'm instantly saddened about the loss of the show even more than I already was! (sigh)
- I hate the promos that AMC is constantly using for the return of "The Killing." They just essentially reveal everything that a new viewer has to know in thirty seconds. As someone who spent a full season dragging myself to watch it, that angered me.
- You know what I'm not going to miss about the past? Having to skim through the TV Guide channel to find out what shows are on.
"Gee, I wonder what's on channel 55. (goes on TV Guide Channel). Crap! They're on channel 58! (waits impatiently for 4 minutes)"
-If "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Men" continue to be awesome this season, with both even having their best seasons yet, then I will consider this upcoming ten week stretches to be one of the best Sunday nights in TV history.
- I find it interesting how almost every "If Kentucky wins the NCAA tournament" article that I've read this week is basically calling it an apocalyptic end to college basketball as we know it because it would be the first time ever that Calipari's strategy for building players wins a championship. As if the 1 year rule and his 2008 title appearance in Memphis hasn't already done that already in the past few years.
- Isn't it impossible to try to make all Americans part of the 1%? Won't there just be richer people to create a newer 1%? Just sayin'
More to come on Monday. Enjoy the start of your weekend!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
If you have any opinions on today's post, or if you just have any suggestions or tips for my next blog entry, e-mail me at: mj1599@aol.com. Your e-mails are greatly appreciated.
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