Category: media
Mother Goose and Grimm
Seeing Eye dog jokes?. Unimaginative, and not funny.
Roger Ebert tells it like it is
Via The 19th Floor, movie critic Roger Ebert:
I have received a lot of advice that I should not attend the festival. I’m told that paparazzi will take unflattering pictures, people will be unkind, etc.
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I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what?
I have been very sick, am [...]
Coverage
Our little home town newspaper had a nice article about Deep Impact, locally slanted. I must get a very early edition of the Denver Post, because its article, below the fold, was headlined “NASA waits for word on comet impact”, which means it must have been filed before midnight. By now, they’ve noticed that [...]
Deconstruction of the News
Here are two goofy news items that caught my attention:
SUV driver knocks down woman in wheelchair in a parking lot
Wheelchair-Bound Man Suspected Of Shooting Wife As She Drove
Let’s look at these in a little more detail:
CLEARFIELD — Clearfield police don’t know why a 64-year-old woman in a wheelchair was in a parking lot Monday [...]
Bummer
Anti-disability poster boy Clint Eastwood got four Oscars.
Just as I was getting sucked in, distribution of Tysabri was suspended (how many different emotions can a person have in 30 seconds?).
We’ll have to see what other fun stuff is in store for today.
Watching the Oscars
Is Dustin Hoffman totally stoned? Will Beyonce be able to peel that stuff off her eyelids? Will I ever get the lost hours of my life back?
Splort!
From a thread on Television Without Pity’s West Wing forums:
Regarding Jed’s health, it seemed that stories used to have a definite beginning and a definite end. This one had a beginning, but it seems they’re dragging it on just…because.
Yeah, chronic illnesses are a bitch that way.
West Wing, II
I’ve now seen “In the Room” (getting ready for China trip) and “Impact Winter” (China trip). Yes, there were some stupid things. Having the Surgeon General say that losing the use of your hands is like having a headache — deeply stupid. But the essense of the statement — you’ve lost functionality, what are you [...]
West Wing
I haven’t watched West Wing for several years. Now I belatedly realise that I probably should have watched the last three episodes (the president’s MS kicks in with a vengeance). Anybody know when it goes into re-runs? I don’t have cable.
That confused me, too
Jill has pointed out the essential weirdness of the Republicans being red and the Democrats being blue. Now I understand why I can never remenber which is which.
This weekend was a sewing weekend, which means I listened to Deutschlandfunk for hours (thank you, streaming internet radio). The coverage of the PDS-Parteitag was quite a change [...]
Freedom Machines
Via Scott Rains, a reminder that the POV film Freedom Machines is scheduled to be broadcast in the US on PBS stations on September 14th.
Original Trek on DVD!
‘Trek’ on DVD: A logical choice.
Looks like a must have.
Or, Not
NBC doesn’t seem to have broadcast the wheelchair exhibition events. I don’t have cable or TiVo or anything clever; I taped or watched NBC Olympic coverage from 9:00 am MDT until 5:00 pm, then again from 6:00 pm until 11:00 pm. Aside from the somewhat interesting hour leading up to the women’s marathon, it seemed [...]
Paralympics on TV!
Just kidding.
NBC will broadcast the Olympic Exhibition Wheelchair Races tomorrow, at 10:00 am Eastern Time, but that’s all the US will see of the Paralympics or the Paralympians.
The Paralympics take place September 17th through 28th. Check out the BBC’s Disability Sport coverage, since you won’t see it in the US media.
Women’s Stuff
Just take me now, God: Epson Printer For Women.
This is right up there with the woman phone.
Cellphones, Captioning
From the New York Times, A New Cellphone Nods to the Needs of the Disabled.
From Mark Siegel, Arbitrary & Capricious : bad closed captioning decisions.
Interesting side note to the cellphone story: in the Denver Post version of the article, the complainant is initially referred to as “Bonnie O’Day”, and subsequently as “O’Day”. In the New [...]
Underworld
Took the under-17s to see Underworld today. I’m getting old and crotchety - it seems like every movie I’ve seen in the last year has the SOUND TURNED UP SO LOUD THAT WE’RE ALL GONNA GO DEAF!
And when it was quiet, the movie experience was not improved by the loud, inappropriate giggling of two juveniles [...]
Billy Jack
They’re going to do a remake of Billy Jack, with Keanu Reeves. Couldn’t happen to a more wooden actor. What was it with that movie? I remember it being a big cult thing but 30 years has definitely dimmed my memory of why.
How many is one?
Article in the local paper this morning about the increase in non-English speaking population of our town. The police chief was quoted as saying “We don’t need the census to tell us that the monolingual population is increasing.” Well, honey, while you are undoubtedly right, I don’t think that’s what you meant. Any population increase [...]
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