I bet there's a drowsy copy editor at the AP

[sigma7]

Favorite headline du jour: Kids Doing Poorly in School May Be Sleep.

And the Arrested Development season has been trimmed to 13 episodes (God, I hate reading Variety), after finishing fifth this week. I think we can see where this is going. Dammit, why aren't you people watching it? And how in the name of all that's holy does Freddie get picked up for a full season? Dark-sided! Gargoyles! AAAUGH!

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[rewil.livejournal.com]

I just don't understand how the viewing public cannot be interested in, for example, watching a guy in a jetpack battling a giant mole to protect an innocent city.

C'mon, people! This is highbrow stuff!

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

That sucks. Oh well, at least we'll have gotten two and a half seasons, and maybe HBO or someone will pick it up.

That said, I have to admit I find Freddie funny. I'm certainly not saying it's *good* but it does make me chuckle. I think it's Brian Austin Green, which is the worst part of it. His character's nothing original, but he does it well. (Oh, and there is a lot of eye candy on it.)

[rainfletcher.livejournal.com]

So there I am, cruising Metaquotes, and I see the name Sigma7.

A spit-take later, I decide to post a tentative hello, but then it occurs that you may not be the Sigma7 I know, and even if you are, you will have no idea who I am with this username.

So I just have to ask - does "ITTF" mean anything to you? (Or indeed the phrase "guest appearance in LS8?")

Curiously yours,

A renamed dead linguist potentially from your past

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

*spittake redux*

Oh hooooly cow, my good man. It has been forever, hasn't it?

I've run into Dwight Williams a few times on Usenet, stumbled across Mike Norton's blog, bumped into COMALite J on the Fark.com forum...but yeah, I'd been wondering where you'd gotten off to (UCSB being your last known haunt). Good to see you're still out there and...still writing, I hope....

I keep trying to relate to others the sheer transcendental awesomeness that was the Late Show, but I can never do it justice. Nor can I find my old floppies (or, for that matter a 1541) to attempt to reprint it for them (and I doubt even Q-Link Reloaded would have it, though I imagine QLR as sort of the Matrix Beta v0.01)....

Great to see you, old friend. Here's hoping time's been as kind to you as it has to me....

[aardy.livejournal.com]

How about: Newspaper Editors Creating Poor Headlines May Be Sleep.

As for me, I've pretty much stopped watching Arrested Development, because for me, it has jumped the shark (starting towards the end of last season; the start of this season just put the final nail in the coffin) and just isn't funny at all. Oh sure, the occasional joke or situation here or there makes me laugh, but not like it used to.

[kateshort.livejournal.com]

I've got to agree. The whole "spy chick" plot seems dumber than rocks. Last season was pretty funny, but the other day I watched about five minutes and Just Didn't Care. I found most of the humor to be from the character interactions within the family. When they move away from that to Bob Loblow and the covert operations plot, I start snoring.

OTOH, I am *quite* happy to see Kitchen Confidential back on next week. Woot!

[kateshort.livejournal.com]

... and apparently they pulled Kitchen Confidential and it *won't* air next week. GRR.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Brilliant, brilliant icon, by the way.

[kateshort.livejournal.com]

danke! :)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Oh, you would agree with him. :P

No, seriously, I agree in that it's gone a bit downhill since the first two seasons, but I don't think it's done the series-destruct like, say, The Simpsons has -- I honestly can't even watch the new episodes, and even the Halloween special was barely tolerable. It could be that I'm more forgiving of Charlize Theron (...muh...), but I've actually grown kinda fond of a few of the new points of S3 (the surrogate, Steve Holt!).

That said, a lot of the characters are becoming one-note (Tobias especially), and I wish they were as interesting and engaging -- especially with each other -- as they were.

Still, I'd have to be severely cerebrally injured to be able to watch anything else on in its timeslot.

[kateshort.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah-- we only watched the ToH this year, and aren't watching *anything* on Sundays anymore. Though I did cave to watch the anti-FCC ep of Family Guy.

As far as AD goes, I just don't watch anything in that timeslot. I cook. Or watch Cops. Or read LJ.

That said, I still have to yell "STEVE HOLT!" every time the local newsradio station runs a segment from CBS News Correspondant Steve Holt. Heh.

Don't blame me.

[jkgriffin.livejournal.com]

I was the one going around FORCING people to watch early episodes.

AD isn't as good as earlier seasons, but it has its moments. As it is, AD is one of my two remaining network shows (with the Office, why aren't you watching that?).

Law school is evil.

Re: Don't blame me.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Sadly, The Office seems to be pitted against my spiritual hero and apparent quasi-lookalike on Fox (the only reason I have not declared jihad on the network), and worse, now that Commander in Chief is positioned opposite both, I don't see anything good coming of that.

Though I actually have gotten to see the last few episodes, with me taping House, and it's deeply amusing, though my familiarity with the British version is occasionally a strength (there's a strong spiritual tie with their antecedents and no guarantee of a similar ending) and a hindrance (the names still stump me, and aside from the first episode, I don't know as much specific history about the characters)....