Crappy New Year, ABC
It is sad that my first blog post of the new year must be a rant, but I feel ABC's coverage of Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve with Ryan Seacrest needs some comeupance.
First, at about 11:53, there's this look back at Miley Cyrus's 16th birthday party at Disney World and how wonderful it was. And you too may spend your birthday at one of the parks of the Disney. No one will televise it, thank god. Nothing says corporate synergy like New Year's Eve.
Second, there was absolutely no mention of my favorite part of this New Year's--that extra second added at the end of 2008. The ABC clock went straight from 11:59:58 to 11:59:59 to 12:00:00. Where was 11:59:60? I remember the one in 2005 being acknowledged.
And then ESPN celebrates the New Year with a guy jumping a motorcycle onto the top of the Arc de Triomphe replica at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas, and then he jumped off. Oh, he's overcome Tourette's syndrome to do this, too. He gave the post-jump interview as the medical crew bandages his hand which was almost certainly broken and cut to the bone. I think missed the guy who wants to be the first to do a backflip in a pickup truck.
First, at about 11:53, there's this look back at Miley Cyrus's 16th birthday party at Disney World and how wonderful it was. And you too may spend your birthday at one of the parks of the Disney. No one will televise it, thank god. Nothing says corporate synergy like New Year's Eve.
Second, there was absolutely no mention of my favorite part of this New Year's--that extra second added at the end of 2008. The ABC clock went straight from 11:59:58 to 11:59:59 to 12:00:00. Where was 11:59:60? I remember the one in 2005 being acknowledged.
And then ESPN celebrates the New Year with a guy jumping a motorcycle onto the top of the Arc de Triomphe replica at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas, and then he jumped off. Oh, he's overcome Tourette's syndrome to do this, too. He gave the post-jump interview as the medical crew bandages his hand which was almost certainly broken and cut to the bone. I think missed the guy who wants to be the first to do a backflip in a pickup truck.
10 Comments:
It took nearly 4 years but I finally found you. That closing line has "pick up truck" in it. I was looking at Lady GaGa or someone similar on TV. She said the reason she didn't like the south was because of all the churches, guns and pick up trucks. I would wish her a happy new year just for being able to see the bull we have to be surrounded by. Have a good 2013.
She was right- like her, I've been living in a cave for the last four years so when it comes to toting up the number of people shot dead by guns I'd say the usual 666 per Annum. Pickup trucks, guns and churches-that makes sense.
Well said bro. Pickup trucks, guns and churches should be a theme song for the Republican Party. Mad magazine would publish the lyrics and George W Bush (Junior & Senior) could sing a duet "Read My Lips".
Ryan Seacrest and ABC; it shows how low some will stoop. Ryan should try what my neighbor does- on a Harley at midnight with a bottle of Jim Beam up his ass and girlfriend riding on the side in her birthday suit.
Eric: x(a,b) could denote Him(alcohol limit, neighborhood fright factor)
Have a good day. Trev.
Hey sexy-what you doin' 2nite. I read your blog and it made me feel like a woman again. After being marred and married may me muster much magnificence my muscular man. Mary Mae.
G'day Eric from Melbourne Australia. After reading the last comment I feel like a bit of a Gatecrasher but my mate said you might like algebra. Remember the Commodore 64/128 computers? Here's a short program:
10 dim x(11,11)
15 for a = 1 to 11
20 n = int(rnd(0)*11)+1
25 x =(a,n) : print x
30 next n: next a
Those were the days...everything in arrays. Cheers.
Ekka
The previous program had a syntax error in line 25. Here's a program that generates 20 random numbers then sorts them lowest to highest:
10 dim z(20)
12 for a= 1 to 20
14 z(a)=int(rnd(0)*100)+1
16 next a
18 for a=1 to 19 : for b = 1+a to 20
20 if z(a)<z(b) then goto 24
22 z(0)=z(a) : z(a)=z(b) : z(b)=z(0)
24 next b : next a
26 for a=1 to 20
28 print z(a)
30 next a
I typed that program in and it works well. With a few modifications I can use it for picking my racing selections.
I can just imagine Lady GA GA sitting down at her C128D and furiously typing it in. When she types RUN the computer will head for the door.
Eric typed it in and his system re-booted. It said unto him: "For ye shall typest in the trueth and you shall get a Eric style hair cut- free. All you have to do is get Eric to talk. Second prize: A picture of Uncle Eric on a fishing trip putting a dead fish on your hook while not lookin'. But Ek ain't answering no more.
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