Cleaning out the cupboard, May edition
Slate has a terrific article today about our friend, Mitch Hedberg. If you've been missing Mitch on stage, or wondering what the fuss was all about, take a minute.---
HBO has officially scrapped "Carnivale." The writing was on the wall when creator Daniel Knauf signed a development deal with Showtime. The writers also gave the network an easy out by wrapping up the second season in a tidy package. Frankly, that was enough for me. Two seasons were intriguing, but calling it quits now feels about right.
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Our greatest broadcaster, sports or otherwise-- Mr. Bob Costas-- returns to HBO on Friday with the debut of "Costas Now." It airs at 8 o'clock central.
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Years ago, the family traveled to New England and took in the sites of the great Northeast. All agreed that the Salem Witch Museum was a preposterous, tasteless attraction. Now comes word that TV Land has been cleared to erect a statue of Samantha of "Bewitched" in Salem, Mass. TV Land has previously built landmarks to "The Bob Newhart Show" in Chicago, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in Minneapolis, "The Honeymooners" at the New York City Port Authority, and "The Andy Griffith Show" in Raleigh, NC. This new statue and its location will not be worthy of the others. I ask, shouldn't they continue honoring shows that were actually good? "Bewitched" ages about as well as "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie." Next, they'll dangle a "Full House" monument off the Golden Gate Bridge.
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A Democratic Socialist and independent in the U.S. Senate? It might become more than just the fevered dream of a tired, thirtysomething blogger. Vermont's eight-term Representative Bernie Sanders is running for the Senate, and polling at double any of his possible challengers. Bernie is a strong advocate for workers' rights and a proponent of universal health care. If you saw him on Bill Maher's HBO show last weekend, you also know he's one of the few lawmakers willing to protect Tony Soprano and Al Swearengen from the National Nannies in Washington. Read the congressman's thoughts on government media regulation here, and show him the love at bernie.org.
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Is Sammy Sosa really injured? Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times suspects Sosa's abscess and staph infection, which coincides with Baltimore's only trip to Chicago this season, may be the slugger's "best acting job since downing too-hot Mexican food with a cold Pepsi."
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The NBA's LeBron James has fired his agents and replaced them with a high school teammate. Yeah, that's a good move.
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I told you so!-- I knew Britney and Kevin were pregnant. They were trying for a while, and Britney was glowing when I saw her on "Access Hollywood." I'm just kidding. I don't give a shit.
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Aaah, spring. My thoughts return to that wonderful night of yesteryear, Senior Prom. My date, Suzy Statutory. She was a real beauty. She had just been crowned "Miss Lincoln." It wasn't a royalty court. It was because every guy in the balcony took a shot at her.
I'll never forget her words to me that night, "Will that be cash or credit?"
Good times.
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A mother is bathing her three-year-old son who is examining his testicles. "Mommy, are these my brains?" he asks. She replies, "Not yet."
Time to fire my agent and nurse that infection. Moeller, out.
posted by CM @ 9:22 PM
2 Comments:
Why doesn't it surprise me that you know so much about Full House?
Where do the Golden Girls live again?
RS
Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, Sophia, Stanley, and Stanley's hairpiece live in Miami, and that's a great idea. It's a brilliant show. However, due to it's immense popularity, the Golden Girls still has a syndication life outside of Nick at Nite and TV Land, so it will have to be a Lifetime Network tribute.
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