More underwhelmingness

So, we use our penultimate free rental coupon on Team America: World Police, which was ok, but not much more. The best part, by far, was the songs -- Parker and Stone are at their best there, and some of the songs (like "Montage") will take forever to get out of my head. The novelty of seeing the same old stuff done with marionettes got old quickly, and although the satire was evenhanded and usually on the mark, the movie only had about a half hour's worth of good material in it, and probably would have worked better as a SP episode. And Stone and Parker need to accept the fact that they are sucktastic voice actors. They need to be willing to hire someone else to voice characters, so we don't get caught up thinking, "hey, that guy sounds like Constable Barbrady." Still, great songs.

Irony

So, I'd have loved to watch my Tivod copy of yesterday's Jeopardy, but ten minutes in, our NBC affiliate ("WXIA: Now staffed entirely by inbred baboons") decided to pre-empt it with coverage of the Jackson trial. So, in lieu of one of the few things on broadcast TV that actually stimulates the brain, they attempted to pawn off on me something aimed squarely at the lowest common denominator. Pigfuckers.

Fortunately, http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showthread.php?s=ec9aec1c0a129278e10fbadd22a8bffa&threadid=86778 will have the summary of the show (it already spoils who won, but I'd like more info).

But our NBC affiliate, like most of them, it seems, is still staffed by bottom-feeding pigfuckers.

Dude!

$.15 a CD!. And we're out of blanks anyway. Um, time to stock up.

(No, not brand loyal about CD-R, especially since I tend to use them like I used to use floppys, just as convenient ways to get items from computer A to computer B without worrying about the network).