The Onion’s A.V. Blog reports that two of the TIFF films that I’m most anticipating might have trouble getting on screens south of the border. I suspect no such issues here in Canada, but it’s a sad state of affairs. As the article states,
“In both cases, films are being shut out of theaters for their ideas, not for any explicit or offensive content on the surface. These gatekeepers have basically decided that adults need to be shielded from ideas that they deem inappropriate. They’ve creating a special rating and it’s called GFY (Go Fuck Yourself).”
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I might be in the minority, but I’m all for Hockey Night In Canada moving from CBC to TSN/CTV. Why? Because I, like most of the rest of the country, can’t stand watching the prime time game being called by a pair of Leafs homers who’re on the down slope of their careers. Bob Cole and Harry Neale may be nice guys, but you may as well go watch the game in your Toronto-fan grandpa’s rec room. Gord Miller’s a better play-by-play man, Pierre Maguire’s better at colour (and actually knows the names of some non-Leaf NHLers), and they have guys like Bob McKenzie, Glenn Healy, James Duthie and Chris Cuthbert to boot.
The best part: no more Don Cherry. I’d like it if they could salvage MacLean somehow, but if he has to be sacrificed in order to distract Cherry while they pack up the HNIC set, then so be it.
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Because all my music is encoded at 128kbps (it’s the only way it’ll all fit on my Nomad) I’m thinking this would be a good investment.
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Hey, WOXY’s back.
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Slides in a museum; bitchin’. My brother’s already mentioned it, but this exhibit at London’s Tate Modern looks very cool. When I was there that hall was filled with a giant (and I do mean giant; it was about a hundred feet tall) double-ended red horn.
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If I have time tonight I’ll try to post more pictures from our trip. Day 3 was the motherload (400+ pics) so it could take me a while to slog through them.
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I’ve finally had to pick up my next textbook. However, it’s a statistics course, and I find stats kind of interesting. Sick puppy, I know.
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New TV: Heroes has me hooked. Studio 60 is, apparently, in trouble, proving once again that Aaron Sorkin is too smart to write for television. I haven’t watched Friday Night Lights yet, but if it’s as good as the movie I’ll stick around for the ride.
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Skirl | Dan Dickinson 
The first episode of Friday Night Lights had me — I was totally into it. Right up until the last sequence of plays at the end of the game, after which I walked out of the room without watching the end of the episode.
Yeah, I know what you mean. The end of the first game in the movie was much more compelling.
OK, now that I know you’ve watched it, I can rant.
1) Second to last play–a running play for 20ish yards after a successful onside kick. The runner makes it out of bounds, and the announcers make a point of the fact that the clock would restart again after the ball was placed. What kind of bizarro-world football rule is that? Stopping the clock was the entire point in getting out of bounds.
2) Final play, which after the onside kick, and the running play mentioned above, should have put them approximately on the opposing 30 yard line. QB gets the snap, falls back, gets swarmed by what appears to be the entire defensive secondary which chase him all over the backfield. Successfully evading them, he lofts a 50ish-yard pass to a WR who catches the ball on the opposing 30 yard line. How long is this effing field? Did he scramble all the way back to his own 30? What are all the defenders doing chasing him anyway? Did the defensive coordinator miss the day they taught the prevent defense in football school?
GAAAAH!!! I’m getting angry just writing this. Isn’t there anybody on their staff who has at the very least played a few games of Madden. I’m through with this retarded show.
I am hooked on Heroes as well as Studio 60. Didn’t know/hear it was struggling though. If it is Dan I think you are exactly right. Too smart a show for the masses….the quick banter means someone needs to pay attention to keep up.