Archive for October, 2006
Tasteless
Y’know what’s tasteless? When people force Michael J Fox to sing karaoke versions of The Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations. I wish they’d stop doing that (if they are). Also, tofu.
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Posted: October 31st, 2006 under thoughts.
Tags: beach boys, karaoke, michael j fox, tofu
Comments: none
6.05 They Saved Duncan’s Brain!!

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information on [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2006 under smallville.
Tags: degrassi high, exposition, high school reunions, jla, points of view, pro bono work, puppeteers, smallville season six
Comments: none
The Biggest Loser

Of all the reality TV shows for the morbidly obese, surely the one most deserving of further strategic analysis is The Biggest Loser. After all, Survivor: Coronary Bypass and The Amazing Waist both seem to be played out, from a pure game theoretical perspective. But The Biggest Loser? Much more room for scheming innovation.
Here, for [...]
Posted: October 24th, 2006 under television.
Tags: contact lenses, gravitational pull, helium balloons, reality tv, strategic analyses, theoretical perspectives
Comments: none
6.04 Porthos Takes It Easy

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information on [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2006 under smallville.
Tags: aphorisms, banter, bleeding hearts, hapless security guards, masculinity, nazgul, pet rocks, scoundrels, serving trays, smallville season six, teleprompters
Comments: 1
Urban’s Alcoholism No Myth

Keith Urban’s battle with the bottle has been an open secret in certain circles for some time now. Ever since he attempted to exchange wedding vows with one of the specially commissioned garden ice sculptures back in June, rumours have spread about his unfortunate alcohol problems.
Most guests were originally prepared to explain away the gaff [...]
Posted: October 22nd, 2006 under news.
Tags: addiction, brides, chips, human tongues, human warmth, ice sculptures, keith urban, scotch on the rocks, wedding day jitters
Comments: none
The Lost Analysis: Season Three

A Tale Of Two Cities
The Glass Ballerina
Further Instructions
Every Man For Himself
The Cost Of Living
I Do
Not In Portland
Flashes Before Your Eyes
Stranger In A Strange Land
Tricia Tanaka Is Dead
Enter 77
Par Avion
The Man From Tallahassee
Expose
Left Behind
One Of Us
Catch 22
D.O.C.
The Brig
The Man Behind The Curtain
Greatest Hits
Through The Looking Glass (1)
Through The Looking Glass (2)
Next: After that season finale, who [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2006 under lost.
Tags: confusion, fools, marital bliss, men with plans
Comments: 8
6.03 Vine! Be Like That.

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information on [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2006 under smallville.
Tags: acronyms, bees, caterwauling, forest monsters, homoerotic tension, joanie and chachi, nutrogena, ralph malph, smallville season six, snits, villainy
Comments: none
Lost Cast: Ben

AKA
Henry Gale
Michael Emerson
Featured Episodes
3.20 The Man Behind The Curtain
4.09 The Shape Of Things To Come
5.12 Dead Is Dead
6.07 Dr Linus
Strengths
Leader of the Others
Fashion-savvy
Can turn a donkey-wheel like nobody’s business
Weaknesses
Tends to get captured while flying balloons
Tends to use aliases from The Wizard of Oz
Tends to be tortured by Sayid
Tends to be beaten to a blood pulp [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2006 under lost.
Tags: balloons, donkey wheels, mercenaries, torture, wizard of oz
Comments: 4
New X-Men Book 3: New Worlds

Table of Contents
#127 – Of Living And Dying
#128 – New Worlds
#129 – Fantomex
#130 – Weapon Twelve
#131 – Some Angels Falling
#132 – Ambient Magnetic Fields
#133 – Dust
Issue One Hundred And Twenty-Seven – Of Living And Dying
Okay. So the Professor’s back in town. Which can only mean one thing. Endless pontificating. Today’s unlucky recipient: Xorn. There are [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2006 under x-men.
Tags: career paths, gibberish, kudos, lindsay lohan, magnetic fields, paris hilton sex tapes, protractors, strutting, zero tolerance policies
Comments: none
It’s Me Or The Dog

I like dogs. I like cheaply made reality television. I like women named ‘Victoria Stilwell’. None of these facts are in dispute. But the thing I like most about smash hit UK television show It’s Me Or The Dog?
It has finally given me good reason to use the phrase ‘doginatrix’. At last! Thanks Madame Victoria. I’d felt such [...]
Posted: October 12th, 2006 under television.
Tags: doginatrix, reality television, victoria stilwell
Comments: 3