The Olympics are over. All in all, I'd say - good job China. I actually had a good reason to sit down in my favorite chair with an O'Doul's and turn the teevee on the past week or so. Mrs. Grumpy and I went to bed with it and turned it on (again) when we had our morning coffee. You know my favorite was the women's beach volleyball. I liked the track and field, women's diving and of course the swimming, both men's and women's. I watched other events like BMX, boxing and rowing, but only while working on my laptop on, well, my lap. I thought NBC did a good job covering the whole affair. We never did find out what was going on with Bob Costas' hair. I especially liked Mary Carillo's reports and Bella Karolyi's honesty. The Olympics will now move on to merry 'ole London for the 2012 games. Oh by the way, the USA did win the most medals overall, our Chinese "friends" the most golds with the Russians, the Brits with the Aussies bringing up the rear. But, with the Olympics over, it's unfortunately back to really crappy television. There are a few "shows" I like. But the rest of it, huh? I don't like what I see, I can't follow the constant schedule changes, the story lines are stupid and childish, there is too much violence and the actors don't look or act like "real" people. I'm tired of cops shows, besides, I don't really like cops. Enough with those CSI type shows (Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Bahrain - just kidding about Bahrain) and God help us, I wish every reality show would just die quickly and go away forever. I don't care about prisons, sex in prison, prison gangs and guards or criminals problems. I don't want to see weirdos tattooed. I don't want to watch (over the top) gay fashion designers under stress because they have to create a shirt from a Happy Meal box or anorexic wanna-be dysfunctional models without any confidence or looks. I don't care for American Idol, Millionaire or best of this and that type shows. I'm tired of Brits with attitudes. Ice trackers or truckers is completely moronic. I'm bored of seeing overworked unsafe fisherman fish. I've always known the construction industry is (very) dull so why show me hour after hour of it and Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe hit the wall episodes ago. There is too much bad news - not the news itself, but the people who "deliver" and "read" the news are just plain amateurish. I can't stand baseball. Nascar - I'm not going to capitalize all the letters anymore - should be seen live and in person. The football season is not long enough. Golf shouldn't been allowed on television. HBO and all the imitators don't offer enough good movies. The quality of "on demand" is sorely lacking. We paid $3.95 last night to see "Bucket List" and could hardly hear the damn thing. There are by the way - way too many bad commercials. Some of these "commercials" - when they're over - Mrs. Grumpy and I just look at each other with puzzled looks on our faces. And there are way, way too many channels that we don't need, most of them are for, guess what, yes, commercials! And I know you've heard this before but I (perhaps you too?) enjoyed teevee a lot more when there were just 5 channels. When cable teevee and HBO just came on the market with only 25 or channels, it was awesome. It's been downhill ever since and now has hit rock bottom. Too bad. So instead of thinking about Bob Costas's hair, I now can wonder what the hell is going on with Mary McCormick's upper lip - she plays US Marshall Mary Shannon in "In Plain Sight." on USA. The credit for the photo is http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Back to crappy television, again...
The Olympics are over. All in all, I'd say - good job China. I actually had a good reason to sit down in my favorite chair with an O'Doul's and turn the teevee on the past week or so. Mrs. Grumpy and I went to bed with it and turned it on (again) when we had our morning coffee. You know my favorite was the women's beach volleyball. I liked the track and field, women's diving and of course the swimming, both men's and women's. I watched other events like BMX, boxing and rowing, but only while working on my laptop on, well, my lap. I thought NBC did a good job covering the whole affair. We never did find out what was going on with Bob Costas' hair. I especially liked Mary Carillo's reports and Bella Karolyi's honesty. The Olympics will now move on to merry 'ole London for the 2012 games. Oh by the way, the USA did win the most medals overall, our Chinese "friends" the most golds with the Russians, the Brits with the Aussies bringing up the rear. But, with the Olympics over, it's unfortunately back to really crappy television. There are a few "shows" I like. But the rest of it, huh? I don't like what I see, I can't follow the constant schedule changes, the story lines are stupid and childish, there is too much violence and the actors don't look or act like "real" people. I'm tired of cops shows, besides, I don't really like cops. Enough with those CSI type shows (Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Bahrain - just kidding about Bahrain) and God help us, I wish every reality show would just die quickly and go away forever. I don't care about prisons, sex in prison, prison gangs and guards or criminals problems. I don't want to see weirdos tattooed. I don't want to watch (over the top) gay fashion designers under stress because they have to create a shirt from a Happy Meal box or anorexic wanna-be dysfunctional models without any confidence or looks. I don't care for American Idol, Millionaire or best of this and that type shows. I'm tired of Brits with attitudes. Ice trackers or truckers is completely moronic. I'm bored of seeing overworked unsafe fisherman fish. I've always known the construction industry is (very) dull so why show me hour after hour of it and Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe hit the wall episodes ago. There is too much bad news - not the news itself, but the people who "deliver" and "read" the news are just plain amateurish. I can't stand baseball. Nascar - I'm not going to capitalize all the letters anymore - should be seen live and in person. The football season is not long enough. Golf shouldn't been allowed on television. HBO and all the imitators don't offer enough good movies. The quality of "on demand" is sorely lacking. We paid $3.95 last night to see "Bucket List" and could hardly hear the damn thing. There are by the way - way too many bad commercials. Some of these "commercials" - when they're over - Mrs. Grumpy and I just look at each other with puzzled looks on our faces. And there are way, way too many channels that we don't need, most of them are for, guess what, yes, commercials! And I know you've heard this before but I (perhaps you too?) enjoyed teevee a lot more when there were just 5 channels. When cable teevee and HBO just came on the market with only 25 or channels, it was awesome. It's been downhill ever since and now has hit rock bottom. Too bad. So instead of thinking about Bob Costas's hair, I now can wonder what the hell is going on with Mary McCormick's upper lip - she plays US Marshall Mary Shannon in "In Plain Sight." on USA. The credit for the photo is http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/
