To my lovely, well-meaning friends who keep insisting that I must check out THE WIRE, and/ or BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA…
You have excellent taste, every man jack of you, so I have no doubt they’re fantastic shows. But since I already spend too much time every day sitting on my heinie in front of a screen, watching any TV — even top-shelf dramatic product — feels like being punished.
Besides, when a I supposed to find the time to train for the Ironman, find a cure for Lyme Disease, and create my famous hand-loomed rugs?
And when am I — in my other identity as Gladys — supposed to run my famous rug-looming school?
When? When, I ask?
20 responses so far ↓
1 seanf on Aug 11, 2008 at 11:59 am
Um, next Tuesday?
2 Smuttynose on Aug 11, 2008 at 12:11 pm
So, is the cure for Lyme disease looming?
Ha!
Ha, ha.
um…
(grabs own head, awaits inevitable thrashing)
3 Kyle on Aug 11, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Your priorities should be in this order:
1. Watch TV.
2. Run your rug making school.
3. Make rugs.
4. Train for the Ironman.
5. Cure Lyme Disease.
4 suzanne on Aug 11, 2008 at 12:39 pm
When I saw the headline for this blog post on Twitter, my heart skipped a beat.
Alas, it’s just Bill.
Whom I love to death, but I was… you know… hoping.
5 Tim on Aug 11, 2008 at 12:40 pm
You mean you aren’t able to do all of those things at once, Bill?
Sheesh. At this moment, I’m calming a particularly combustible hostage situation in the Middle East via cellphone, browning a chuck roast, ordering a Hannah Montana backpack online, and practicing my Vaudevillian-era plate-spinning…and typing this with my other hand.
It’s called “multi-tasking”, Bill. Look into it. Some of us have evolved. Geez.
6 Ben on Aug 11, 2008 at 1:14 pm
“train for the Ironman”?
You mean, you are really Tony Stark?
7 chrismartindeed on Aug 11, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Did you say… When?
Oh, goody! Is this another essay test?
What’s the word limit this time?
8 Courtney on Aug 11, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Yeah yeah yeah, The Wire and Battlestar. Check those out when you have time I guess. But priorities are priorities, sir. And I’m pretty sure you have yet to work your way through the entire series of The OC. So, like I said, priorities.
9 Casey on Aug 11, 2008 at 1:54 pm
When?
Later.
10 Bill Corbett on Aug 11, 2008 at 2:08 pm
“It’s called “multi-tasking”, Bill. Look into it. Some of us have evolved. Geez.”
Yes, I’ve been falling way behind the rest of humanity. THIS was mostly for my own benefit:
http://blog.rifftrax.com/2008/08/07/motivating-motivation/
11 JT on Aug 11, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I just started watching the Wire. This is not a show you can just watch. You have to take notes and run algorithms to keep up.
But it’s dang good. Dang good.
12 Mr. Slick on Aug 11, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Why ask when?
13 To_Servo_Man on Aug 11, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Frankly, whenever anyone tells me that I *MUST* read/see/eat something, I immediately resolve not do read/see/eat it. Maybe I’m just stubborn, but it’s a strategy I’m ok with.
And I still haven’t seen TITANIC. Really. (I presume they get together and live happy, full lives.)
14 Ian on Aug 11, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Tim its called priorities http://blog.rifftrax.com/2008/08/07/motivating-motivation/ <<this man could be a great rolemodel for you, first being in that he doesn’t own a Hannah Montana backpack.
15 Mystok on Aug 12, 2008 at 7:14 am
When? In between conquering the world and putting on your “300″ fake chest.
16 Marty (Gromit) on Aug 12, 2008 at 11:40 am
Ironman or not Ironman, there is no train…
So, there, that should free up a large block of time for BSG.
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17 Marty (Gromit) on Aug 12, 2008 at 11:42 am
Dang it, my ascii train got all messed up…
18 Wes on Aug 12, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Bill, no rush on the Battlestar thing. I know every other geek/nerd/dork loves it, but it has all the production value of Red Dwarf with constant vomitous shaky-cam(tm). I swear, whoever convinced Hollywood that a drunken chimp with a camcorder made better product than a good cameraman with a steadycam needs to be shot…publicly…in front of his/her parents. The only reason I’d wish that series upon you is so that there may be a Rifftrax to make it semi-bearable.
19 Marty (Gromit) on Aug 13, 2008 at 7:24 am
I’ll agree that the idiots that think shakycam is great should be shot, most camcorders have anti shake built in to avoid that very thing in home videos.
But, I can only think of a few episodes of BSG that have used it more than once, and even then it was appropriate, in battle (Galactica gets hit by a nuke it’s going to shake a bit…). I’m fairly critical of bad cinematography and have seen very few problems with BSG in that area.
Not going to bite on the production value bait. Oops, I guess I just nibbled a little didn’t I…
20 Gamera on Aug 13, 2008 at 11:18 am
Is that a Banksy stencil/graffiti?
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