Archive for March, 2005

Hobgoblin

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Is a hobgoblin the same as a goblin? Is hob a good suffix or bad. If you’re the hobgoblin, do you get promoted to goblin in case the goblin is unable to fulfill their duties as goblin? Or is hobgoblin a superior term, like Chief or Executive? I would like to know.

NCAA March Madness – Men’s Final Four

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Just for the record my four are OK State and Louisville, UNC and Duke with Carolina over the Cardinals for the title.

NCAA March Madness

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

The best part of March Madness?

The bad teams.
The bad teams who aren’t even in the top 40 but know they have a shot to win one game and pull off a big upset. it’s teams you know nothing about. Like SWS or Kent State. Kent State? I think my sister dated a guy named Kent State. That’s the best part. You -know- there’s a 12 or 13 or 14 seed that’s gonna ruin the season for one of these big-conference-.500-record pretenders. That’s the part I love – the mediocre big-conference teams getting bounced by hard-working, non-chest-thumping scholar-athletes. More power to them.

I’m rooting for Nevada and Penn and Creighton and Ohio and UAB. I want the big boys brought down!

What’s why the women’s tournament is so lame compared to the men – nothing happens other than chalk. Who wants to watch that? Just move all the #1 and 2 seeds to the final 8 and start from there. Quit wasting my time with a 64-team field when we all know only 8 teams have a shot.

LAOtv

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Why isn’t there a Law and Order tv network? I mean, other than TNT or USA.

I don’t think it’s just because the networks want to sell DVDs of the various seasons. I think there’s a real opportunity here. The original series has been on TV since 1990. At 25 episodes, give or take, per season, that’s almost 400 episodes of the original. Special Victims Unit has been on since ’99. That’s 150 episodes there as well. Criminal Intent started in 2001. They must be near 100 episodes so far. And the new series Trial By Jury can go straight from NBC to LAOtv as soon as the celluloid dries.

That’s a total of nearly 700 hours of TV in the can by the end of this year. If you run infomercials from midnight to 8 AM you require 16 hours of programming per day. LAOtv could run episodes of all four series for 40 straight days before repeating a single episode. And if you rotate the schedule so that the second run of an episode occurs 5 or 6 hours in the day later than the first airing, you can run for nearly 120 days before the same episode was viewed at the same time of day as the initial viewing. That’s four months. With new episodes emerging every week, behind the scenes specials, interviews with cast and crew and the eventual further spinoffs Law & Order: Mall Cops and Law & Order: 21 Jump Street… there is more than enough fuel to keep this thing going for months and years.

That would be cool.