Catching Ducks

Linda Holmes has thoughtfully provided a translator for American Idol:


Here's one of my favorites:

You look beautiful tonight: This is a Paula Abdul expression meaning “You can’t sing.” It is slightly different from “You’re a beautiful girl,” which means “You can’t sing, and you’re probably going to be eliminated this week.”

Labels: Linda Holmes, TV

I'm still doing my Buffy rewatch. I've made it to season 4, otherwise known as the season of Riley and the Initiative. A lot of people didn't really like Riley, but I've always been fond of him. Plus, on occasion, he had some great lines:



[Buffy has been recounting her Slayer exploits; Riley is impressed and intimidated.]

Riley: Wow.

Buffy: Those were my best stories. I didn't tell you the "Buffy breaks her butt" stories.

Riley: But you killed the... You did the thing with the... And you drowned. And the snake? Not to mention: Daily slayage of [vampires]. Wow.

Buffy: It's no big, really. Hey, who wants ice cream?

Riley: Buffy... When I saw you stop the world from ending, I just assumed that was a big week for you. It turns out I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of "apocalypse".

Labels: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Usually I'm pretty good about staying away from certain websites until after an episode of Lost, Heroes, Supernatural, etc. have aired, so I can avoid spoilers.

But tonight, for some stupid, unexplainable, I'm-such-an-idiot reason, I popped into one of my favorite forums.....

And found out that [name deleted] dies in tonight's episode of Lost.

Grrr.....

The worst part is, of course, that I have no one to blame but myself.

Labels: Lost, TV

I'm watching Dancing with the Stars this season, but on fast-forward. That way, I can skip the boring/awful/unwatchable parts.

Tonight was the second elimination and it was awesome. The completely loathesome Denise Richards and the annoying Holly Madison ended up in the bottom two, despite the fact that their scores put them at 3rd and 4th from the bottom, respectively. When they did their "dance off", Denise Richards got a better score than Holly. But when the new scores were combined with the votes, Denise got voted off! That means that the cable TV reality-show chick got more votes than the movie "star". Hee!

I'm no fan of Holly's, but she has a much better attitude than Denise, and therefore is mildly watchable.

Labels: Dancing with the Stars

On Top Gear, Jeremy and James were reviewing communist-made cars. They were driving a Land Rover-type vehicle...


[voice over]: It had coil springs, not the RSJ's you got in Land Rovers of the time, so it was surprisingly comfortable.

Jeremy [to James]: You know, I once drove one of these down a very heavily rutted track at 50 miles an hour, and I was able to use the cigarette lighter because [the car] was so smooth, to light a cigarette. It was that smooth. I'd actually quite like to demonstrate that for you now, but unfortunately, we don't live in a free country

Labels: Top Gear

Huh?

I....That....Just...Ummm.....Well....


I think this sums it up quite well.

Labels: Linda Holmes, TV

Burn Notice finished its second season last week (third season starts in June -- yay!)

The finale ended with quite a bang, as described here by TWoP's M.Giant:

"With all of that over, Michael finally meets 'Management,' a man in black played by John Mahoney. During a helicopter ride, Michael turns over Victor's file on Carla and, instead of accepting the implied offer for Carla's old job, demands to be left alone. Management asks if Michael's sure that's what he wants, and if he's ever wondered what happened to all his spy enemies, and what'll happen to Michael if Management quits looking out for him. For added effect, he opens the chopper door a hundred feet over the Caribbean and invites Michael to use it. For even greater effect, Michael does. And there's your finale, and your setup for Season Three. See you in June."

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I love xkcd. Usually I get the joke right away. Sometimes I don't get it at all.

Every once in a while I get it, but it takes me a second or two. Today's is one of those:

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I've been going through old keepsakes today, and I found a postcard Soto sent me. All he wrote on it (aside from my name and address, of course), was this poem:


Five thousand lightyears from Earth
We will go a-sailing
Never mind the galactic struggle --
Just keep a-bailing

Floating on the salty lagoon
The stars twinkle like fish
The solar winds are picking up
Raise the sail and make a wish

Labels: family, poetry

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