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Although I eventually did find a spot nearby on Friday after about what, 25 minutes of circling around?
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Will "Fag" Rogers (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Really? I wrote it off but that makes me want to see it. Maybe.
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
New Year's - Robbie Fulks was pretty great. It was incredible, those guys basically wrote a whole musical just for the NYE show. Comedy, satire, top 10 pop songs revue, props (!), etc. Then welsh rarebit at 3van's house, drunken acoustic jam session (pennywhistle/guitar/hand drums), bed at 6 am. I had big plans to have everyone over for brunch but I had a pretty epic hangover. The works.
Drinks: beer, homemade cherrywine, beer, beer, beer, beer, champagne, gin & tonic, beer, beer
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Same here.
Feels really weird, though. Half the office is still out, and I have nothing to do. I was amped for work this morning, then... blah.
― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Exactly
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
But really, we get around, so it could have been anything. That and people seem to like to go up there to vacation a lot. Silly tourista fudgies!
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
What I meant to start out with was... HELLO! HAPPY NEW YEAR! WOO HOO! * streamers *
― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I like bad TV, too, but Sports Night is not it.
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I would guess that people could defend SN by saying it was "intelligent" etc, so I would think it doesn't fit into the generally-accepted canon of Bad TV. But it defines bad entertainment for me.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
it did a really good job of drawing out complex and indidvidual relationships between each of its characters and everybody else. it drew a social picture really well and remained more or less faithful to it. I admit, though, that I dig super-mannered dialogue and I get why many people don't.
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost: west wing did that too, at least at first
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost--I haven't seen SN since '01 so my critique (beyond "hated it") will be pretty flimsy, but I suppose I didn't like the way it dealt with relationships because it used really broad strokes and the writers cared more about hearing their own voices than giving the characters' their own. Yeh, I think that covers it-- Goodbye Girl and SN are like watching a puppet show.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
agree to disagree.
the writers cared more about hearing their own voices than giving the characters' their own
anyone on a Sorkin show speaks Sorkin, so that's fair. I do think there were character-appropriate variations in Sports Night, but, like I said, I do get why people dislike his stuff. I get it a lot better after latter-day West Wing and fucking Studio 60.
xpost: omg, Jordan, you and I are totally alone on this SN superiority!
I love My Dinner with Andre.
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I should watch the WW, this might work better in drama.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link