I am not much of a blogger, but here I comment on sports, write bad reviews of TV shows, and talk about my boring life.

• 21Nov 08

  RIP Pushing Daisies

  I can't believe the news today... ABC cancels Pushing Daisies

  Well, my day is just ruined! Might as well crawl back in the bed! Okay, maybe not. The cancellation of Pushing Daisies doesn't comes as a HUGE shock, considering all of the reports here and on other websites about how bad the ratings where. This was my main concern with the show last year. Pushing Daisies is a complete 180 from what is on TV these days. And while we Americans might vote for a canidate who seems to love the word change, we don't like change when it comes to our entertainment. I guess in the end the change that Pushing Daisies offered wasn't what people were looking for or liked.

  According to the article Bryan Fuller is trying to negotiate with DC to print comics that would tie up the storylines, becuase apperantely the season ends on a cliffhanger. I don't read comics and it might be leaping into a whole new sphere of geekdom, I would buy those just to see how the Piemaker and Chuck end up.

  The article also mentions that ABC has cancelled Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money. I was never a fan of Eli Stone. I did watch the pilot, however that was becuase I like George Micaheal's song, "Faith". Dirty Sexy Money was a show I tried to get into last year and this year, but with its huge cast and coming in late, it was hard to understand everyone's history and what they currently where doing.

  • Posted Nov 21, 2008 9:40 am PT
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• 4Nov 08

  Election Day

  Today was suppose to be a good day for me. Today should've been the day that I voted in my first presidential election. But instead, due to a collosal jackass telling me (and repeatedly insuring me) that the deadline to register in the state of Tennessee was October 14th(it was actually October 5th), I missed out on the joy of casting my ballot for the highest office in the land. Words can't describe how angry I am. In the end my vote wouldn't have mattered(I know techinacally every vote matters, but I would have voted for McCain and he carried Tennessee anyway), but I have wanted to vote since I turned 18. I am one of those "you should vote becuase people died to give you that right" and "do your civic duty" guys. And the fact that I didn't do mine, just pisses me off. And leaves me feeling like I missed out on something big.

  No surprise here, Obama won. I think after the last eight years, the Democrats could've run out a chicken as their nominee with a turtle as his running mate and they would've beaten the Republicans. That said I wasn't very impressed with any of the Republican canidates back during the primaries. I sort of liked Mike Huckabee, becuase he was/is very confident when he speaks. He doesn't stutter and throw in alot of "ummms" and "uhhhs". When McCain won the nomination I knew he was doomed. He is not a very popular guy with the base of the party, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were alot of people who just didn't vote becuase they liked neither.

  But, none of the matters now as Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America, when he is sworn into office in January. I don't agree with alot of his policies, but I hope he proves me wrong. I hope he fixes the economy, and restores our standing in the world. I hope he can be tough on foreign policy and get our country on a path towards energy independence. And I hope he can keep Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in check.

  On a minor note, and I know this is asking for way too much, I hope TV shows will finally start to scale back on all of the political stuff. Being a semi-conservative Republican I know I am going to be made fun and my beliefs are going to be made fun of. And that is fine. I can laugh at myself and my political beliefs, but after 5+ years of it I am tired. I am tired of shows spending two minutes on political "jokes" that don't have a damn thing to do with what is going on in the episode. and, yes, I am talking about you, Family Guy.

  • Posted Nov 4, 2008 8:58 pm PT
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• 1Oct 08

  Top 5 Changes

  below are my top 5 changes I would like to see here at TV.com

  1. This annoying white background. It appears That it has been softened some what but it is still real bright. I still get a headache if I am on the site for longer than 20 minutes.

  2. Cut down on the clutter. The front page of TV.com is extremely cluttered. You have the 5 rotating new stories or show previews, then you have TV on Tonight, What's New, New Videos, News, New Photos, Community Spotlight, TV.com poll, New DVD Releases, Top 10 shows, Video Preview, as well as 2 ads. Isn't that a bit much? Everytime you visit a forum or open up a thread, you have the Fresh Forums and Top Forums on the side. Why? If i didn't click on them on the Community page i am not going to click on them while reading through a thread.

  3. Bring back the Favorite boards. It was so easy to be able to click on one of my favorite boards on the Community page. Now I have to click on a topic and access my favorite boards from a drop down menu. Couldn't you replace either Fresh Forums or Top Forums with our Favorite boards?

  4.Allow us to track more than 4 blogs. It is hard to keep up with everyone with only 4 blogs.

  5. I am not sure how much can be done about this but, TV.com runs extremely slow for me. I have DSL and the fastest connection speed my ISP offers, yet TV.com lags and takes forever to load. Sometime up to 20 seconds for certain pages. I have no problem with any other site that I visit regualrly or semi regularly.

  • Posted Oct 1, 2008 12:08 pm PT
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