To The Metal

Hey all, I need to be out of my current apartment by the 20th of this month.  If you know of any good, LEGAL apartments in the Warwick/Pine Island/Goshen area, please let me know.

Thanks.

I’m really hoping this story isn’t true…

Official is offended by Swine flu name, wants it changed.

All I can say is, if you don’t like the name of this virus… BLAME THE CREATOR.

D-Bag.

Got my first tick bite today, I didn’t realize it at the time when I ripped the little bastard off my side. I figured it was a scab or something, then saw a little !@#$ing tick crawling around. I think I got all of it out, and it was a deer tick, but it freaked me the F out.

I had previously outlined some German Ricewurst in my company parking lot, well my friends – the badge-charging has gotten worse.

As you can see here, the car now dons a “bumper bully”… Otherwise known as a huge rubber mat with reflectors meant to protect your precious vehicle from being damaged by a bump. In this case, I’d say it is likely there to protect the 2 inches of extra exhaust tip hanging out the ass off this once great road warrior.

Lastly we have a shot of the latest badge chargers. First, the “Limited Edition” badging with what looks like almost… Easter themed colors. It IS April after all… Last but not least, the false louvers on the fenders now have ALPINA badges on them. Now when you’ve decided to not find a way to pump more cool, sweet air into your brakes, motor, or some other component of your finely tuned, German engineered uber auto… Why not throw another badge on it to make sure people KNOW that your fake louver was NOT made by Alpina.

Seriously. Whoever drives this car should sell it and buy a Civic… Maybe they sold their Civic to buy it. Who knows?

Upgrade your Warner Brother’s HD-DVD discs to Blu-Ray for $5 per disc.

Not sure if this is legit yet, as I haven’t tried it – but if it is for real, it is a brilliant idea. I picked a side early in the format wars, the losing side as history would have Sony finally win an electronics argument for the first time since Betamax.

I’ve got a decent collection of HD-DVD’s, a fair number are Warner Brother’s disks, and if $5 will get me the Blu-Ray equivalent? I’m in.

Course, that means I’d have to buy a Blu-Ray player finally… Smart, very smart.

So Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been cancelled. Apparently the last few episodes only garnered around 3.5 million viewers, which as we all know – is not enough for a network to justify anything other than even more reality television.  Screw the networks.  IMHO, the networks rarely if EVER put on a single show worth watching that isn’t some reality garbage or a simple situational comedy.  Time and again these people will take a chance, produce something dynamic and entertaining, and when it doesn’t blow away some show that 10 million bored housewives are watching – they toss it.

Anyone who caught the series finale the other night, imho, should be pissed.  This was the equivalent of having a case of PE when Carmen Electra is waiting in your bed.  The throw together an omage to the original Terminator film, sending Cameron through a prison, shooting everything up but people, and making it to the Sarah Connor to free her while missing half her face.

It’s also revealed, that the T1000 played by Shirley Manson was actually a GOOD guy all along.  No, she wasn’t working to train the AI that would become Skynet – nor was she helping to pool resources to build arial HK’s and other Skynet weaponry, no she was a good guy all along!  So was John Henry!  They were building the anti-skynet!  Now this COULD have worked, but they rushed the ending – they were forced to – by the morons in charge at Fox.

The show wraps up with an arial HK pulling a 9/11 into Manson’s office as she spreads out like a shield to protect everyone.  After which, Sarah promises to stop Skynet as John and Manson zip ahead in time, to the middle of the war.  John runs into Derek and Kyle Reese, as well as Cameron’s human counterpart, and that’s it, the series is over, leaving us all to believe that John didn’t grow up through the war – he just got zapped ahead into it with the knowledge he’s learned thus far, and is expected to lead the resistance to victory.  T3 had a better ending.

I’ll give them this, the effects were top notch, but this show was killed off way too early, and yet again is another example of why Fox should simply stop trying to compete with the CBSNBCABC as well as the cable networks.  They simply do not have the balls to persevere and carry on a show with 3.5 million viewers.  They first hand us a short 10 episode season, then cut the second season in half before restarting it in a new block next to Dollhouse.

My opinion?  Stop giving those damned ratings boxes to idiots who watch the Ghost Whisperer, or simply stop using them.  Instead of getting at least another season or two out of this story, they rush it into a wall and blow a hot sticky load of bullshit onto 3.5 million people who have faithfully followed that show in every timeslot Fox stuffed it in.  Despite all this, I’m sure Southland will make it a full season.  Why? It’s horribly predictable, just like the morons who run Fox.

If Dollhouse eats it next, I’m going to put a parental block on channel 5 and just forget the f’n password.