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September 22, 2005
required reading, fall TV geek review
I'm glad Colin Ferrel is my study partner this semester, because I'm gonna need lots of study breaks. I got accepted into the adult education segment of the UM system, but on a less theoretical, more management track for a public affairs Master's degree. I know management classes won't hurt me, and the coursework is basically free due to work benefits, but it seems the other classes I took previously like Persuasion and The Rhetoric of Social Movements were definitely more my speed. It looks like this semester is gonna be a snoozer:
- Weber, Max. (1946). Essays in Sociology. A Horridly Long Treatise on Bureaucracy.
Anyone having trouble sleeping? This stuff is like 6 Xanax + several hits of Ketamine downed with some GHB. Without the siezures.
- Fisher, Alex. (2001). Critical Thinking: an Introduction.
Now I can be an educated comment troll and make annoying corrections to other people's blog entries.
- Mann, Clarence. (2005). The Development of Management Theory & Practice in the United States.
Now I can learn exactly why that manager was a total asshole.
I suppose I should be reading assigned chapters from the above citations, but I'm afraid reading them will make me fall asleep again, and I already did 12 hours last night. I got a bug of some sort, or seasonal allergies - everyone at work is sick too. I got some good couch lizard time last night and watched new and old shows last night with Gurl:
- Supernatural: 2 cute guys...imagine Scully and Mulder's love child marries Buffy and has two ghost hunter boys who know what they were fighting. Dungeons & Dragons geeks will love all the obscure monster references. Smells of The Night Stalker, which will also premiere this fall on ABC. Don't know if they can beat the charm of Kolchak and low-tech costumes of the originial.
- Invasion: cute scruffy park ranger with perfect hair who just happens to have a completely stocked laboratory which is probably set up to diagnose alien parasites and infections. Umm, yeah, I always had a completely stocked lab when I was a park ranger too. More questions, no answers, I'm over that. Created by Shaun Cassidy, interestingly enough.
- Charmed: is still on the air!!! I may have to watch it simply due to its longevity, bitchy cast members and hottie cameos.
- Smallville: I haven't been a dutiful geek and watched it as much as I should. It's always good when I stop in to watch. This season Clark finally gets his Fortress of Solitude, and Lex Luthor finally becomes a nemesis. Daddy Kent is still hot, sporting scruff in nearly every episode.
- Lost premiere: yeah, you bitches better cough up some answers this season, or it's over between us. At least we know what's in the hatch: Jack's 'roided out rugby playing ex-boyfriend Duncan! Hurley still has the best lines. HURLEY RULES!!!
Posted by jimbo at September 22, 2005 3:01 PM
Comments
OK, seriously, where is that animation of Colin from?
Posted by: Scott at September 22, 2005 4:58 PM
Don't forget Threshold! Uber-geeky, very spooky. Any show with suspense *and* big words gets an A+.
Posted by: Clever Monkey at September 22, 2005 5:46 PM
I was thinking o f you when I saw this, as I knew you would be critical of the park ranger.
Posted by: Glenn at September 22, 2005 10:01 PM
Is Farrell gesturing what he'd do to others or himself? ;-)
Posted by: Joel A at September 23, 2005 10:04 AM
Animation of Colin Farrell is from a press junket from the movie Hart's War. I think he was making fun of Bruce Willis or something during the interview.
Posted by: stebbins at September 23, 2005 10:16 AM
I am desperately trying to get through the first season of Lost so I can catch the second season. Anyone downloaded the season premier and burned it to DVD? I'm not sure I really care about any of the characters (not really into the whole character-development-through-flash-back school of television), but I just want answers dammit. Just like Harry Potter. My interest has waned during the years between books, but I want to see how it ends. Don't care how, just tell me.
Posted by: Boo Augustus at September 24, 2005 1:15 PM
colin has impressive technique. no teeth on that bj. this definitely beats that horrible mel gibson interview where he stood up, pointed at his ass and said exit only.
Posted by: avi at September 26, 2005 1:33 AM