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Radio Radio on SNL

DoorFrame — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:07:12 +0000

In 1977 Elvis Costello busted into his own Saturday Night Live performance to play Radio Radio:

In 1999 he busted into a Beastie Boys Saturday Night Live performance to play Radio Radio:

Beware performers, your Saturday Night Live performance could be next.

Thoughts on Encounter at Far Point Station

DoorFrame — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:56:05 +0000

How is it that I’ve never seen this before?
Why is that when Q puts humanity on trial, three out of the four people present aren’t human? (And one’s an android.) (Retraction, though Tasha Yar is from another planet, she is in fact human… I mis-remembered that.)
Nobody’s in their proper character.
None of the actions Picard takes when they meet Q make sense… none. Why does he run? Why does he shoot torpedos? Why do they separate the saucer section? Why do the torpedos take like five minutes to explode? Q didn’t do anything that threatening initially, they reaction was wildly out of proportion to the his actions.
Riker looks goofy without a beard.
That trial in the 2070s has a confusing mix of races and philosophies. I don’t get it.
Warf’s head is too big.
Why do they called Q “the hostile” when he’s already identified himself?
Tasha Yar is a crazy person. She just kicks and punches everyone for no reason. She’d be an awful security chief.
O’Brien seems to have the wrong job and the wrong name.
Riker is sort of a jerk to LaForge for no reason.
Picard is sort of a jerk to Riker for no reason.
Battle bridge? What the? Why would they design the ship so that the entire bridge crew is required to sprint across the ship to a DIFFERENT bridge when trouble errupts? How does that make any sense?
Who’s writing this thing?

And that was only the first half…

Fox News Isn’t Entirely Clear on Ohio

DoorFrame — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:29:11 +0000

On my TV today:

Math on Japanese TV

DoorFrame — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:22:23 +0000

There was one channel on TV in Japan that showed complicated math (and physics?) problems for at least two hours one morning. I request that someone who knows math kindly solve all of the equations:

The Brady Effect

DoorFrame — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:18:01 +0000

Forget about the Bradley effect, I’m now concerned about the Brady effect.

House Democrats

DoorFrame — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:30:45 +0000

Apparently I never bothered to link to this story from last year about four congressional Democrats who live together in DC to see what happens when elected officials stop being polite, and start being real:

“I once had to pick up a mouse by the tail that Durbin refused to pick up,” complained Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, referring to his roommate Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois.

This characterization is not fair to Mr. Durbin, interjected another tenant in the Capitol Hill row house, Representative Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts. For starters, it overlooks Mr. Durbin’s gift for killing rats. “He will kill them with his bare hands,” Mr. Delahunt marveled.

“Oh, will you stop with the rats,” said the annoyed fourth roommate, Representative George Miller of California. He owns the house and is sensitive to any suggestion that he harbors pestilence. It’s dicey enough that he harbors politicians.

So, is there any hope that this will be turned into a real TV show? Probably not:

“Everybody in the world says they’re going to do a television series based on us,” said Mr. Durbin, who was collapsed on the couch on a recent Monday night. Still in a tie, he sipped ice water from a massive Chicago Cubs cup while waiting for the Chinese food to arrive.

“But then they realize that the story of four middle-aged men, with no sex and violence, is not going to last two weeks,” he said. The prevailing topics of their discussions are grandchildren and Metamucil, he added.

“Hey, speak for yourself, Durbin,” Mr. Delahunt said, protesting the claim of no sex and violence.

“There is a lot of violence in here,” Mr. Schumer said.

In fact, the roommates have never resorted to violence, at least with one another. (Crickets are another story.) Their weapons are verbal, and often aimed at Mr. Schumer, who admits to a serious dereliction of roommate duties, like grocery shopping. He is also prone to a blatant disregard for conserving a most precious household resource, cereal.

This is one of my favorite newspaper stories of all time.

Inappropriate

DoorFrame — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:32:51 +0000

Conan O’Brien’s Inappropriate Response Channel:

My Inner Torment

DoorFrame — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:16:49 +0000

MTV’s Daria’s Jane Lane manages to sum up my feelings towards education at the moment.

The Other Me

DoorFrame — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:07:49 +0000

Tonight I met someone who knows the most famous person who shares my name. Now I’m one step closer to meeting him at a barbecue; it’s going to be great! I figure we can do a Patty Duke Show routine together. And, while he’s the most famous person with my name, he’ll have to somehow come to terms with the fact that I’m the (I) on IMDB while he’s the (II). Take that!

Put Down the Ducky

DoorFrame — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:28:46 +0000

For my mother:

I’m only able to recognize about one in ten late-80’s celebrities, but Pee-Wee Herman’s kind of hard to miss.