38 posts tagged “tv”

Amazon.com: My So-Called Life - The Complete Series (w/ Book): DVD: Scott Winant

MSCL DVD box set with compelling bonus features.

Been meaning to post this since I watched it last week--Sir Ian McKellan's hilarious appearance on Ricky Gervais's "Extras' as he explains his theory of acting.

Lots of cool tidbits and behind the scenes info, including learning what made Jenna Fischer cry, and Steven Carrell's joke erection, and mention of a future episode that involves Wikipedia:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31758

What's the best thing since sliced bread?

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I finally get to watch the feel-good hit of the summer.

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What are your plans for the holiday weekend?

So far

Friday night: pizza and beer with my half-brother Jonathan and his friend Kyle while listening to the As game and talking about the Simpsons... then watching the Simpsons season 8 box set.

Saturday afternoon: driving to Menlo Park, stopping at In 'n' Out Burger on the way.

Saturday night: Dinner at my dad and Susan's house featuring my step-sister Sonja, her two kids Zane and Rachel, Jonathan and another friend of his, Chris (both econ students at Harvard) and economist Hal Varian and his wife. Hal is best known for his book Information Rules and being found dean of the UC Berkeley SIMS. He started consulting for Google in 2002 and now does research and statistical analysis for them.

Hal had a lot of interesting things to relate about working at Google, which I'm actually not going to blog here because I don't know if he necessarily said them expecting them to be blogged. I asked him why he didn't have a blog, and he said he didn't really have a good reason, but he did have a NY Times column, which was sort of like his blog. I was like "yeah, NY Times, that's cool, but it's old media." (Maybe I should give him a Vox invitation.)  He was interested to hear about Six Apart and seemed surprised that people (a lot of people) actually pay for Typepad. I think I gave him a good explanation of why people would be wlling to pay for Typepad (ability to customize template, scalability, reliability) when there are so many free solutions out there, like Google's Blogger. Following that he asked an interesting question, which was whether Typepad owners were able to use AdSense on their blogs-I told him I didn't know about Typepad, but that Movable Type bloggers definitely did.

Later at dinner we had a conversation about company and culture.

Sunday afternoon: shopping at Borders, followed by more work on Celebrated Summer, and catching up on Vox (which is why you're reading this.)

More to come

Tonight: watching more Rome on DVD and finishing the Jawa Sandcrawler I purchased some weeks ago.

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Tomorrow: picking my other half-brother Andy at SFO, then taking him to Stanford, where he has to check-in for some kind of special class dealie, he's doing, after which we're planning on seeing Little Miss Sunshine.

Lots of interesting news and tidbits about season 3 in this IGN interview.

I think the two TV shows in my life I was most bummed out about being canceled were Police Squad and My So-Called Life.

Classic Angela Chase pose

It's official... Veronica Mars season 3 is ON! Rob Thomas emailed TV Guide to confirm. The renewal calls for 22 episodes, but it could be cut to 13 if ratings don't ramp up.

It will be really interesting to see how the show evolves in its third season. Aaron Echols, Woody Guffman and the Beav are no more. Duncan is in Australia. Logan and Veronica are back together, seemingly.

Who's going to be back

• Veronica (the show works better wither her on it)
• Keith (Head of Security at Hearst College?)
  
• Wallace (balling at Hearst College and by that I mean playing basketball witih a high degree of proficiency)
• Mac (apparently going to be signed as a regular)
• Logan (is he going to college?)
  
• Kendell Casablancas (seems like one of  the third year mysteries wil involve her)
• Sheriff Lamb (is Hearst College in his jurisdiction?)

Who's Not Coming Back

• Cassidy "The Beav" Casablancas (dead by his own hand)
• Haaron Echols (executed Sopranos-style)
• Woody Guffman (should have driven with Keith)
• Terrence Cook (seems like they exhausted the possibilities with that character, but who knows)
• Paris Hilton (God she sucks... double entendre intended)
• Lily Kane (I'm guessing the flashback in "Not Pictured" was our farewell to Neptune's Laura Palmer)
  

Fate is Unknown

• Gia (now one of many Neptune kids who's lost a parent-in fact, is there any kid in Neptune who has two parents who are still married?)
• Weevil (may end up in prison)
  
• Duncan (chillin' on the beach, but I bet he comes back in some context)
• Dick Casablancas (I (Heart) Dick)
  
• Deputy, er, Security Guard Leo
• Butters (still a student at Neptune High, but I'm sure Veronica will return there in some context)
• Wallace's mom
• Jackie (bet we'll see her at some point, with baby in tow)
• Hannah (can never have too many hot blondes)
• That Blonde Girl Wallace Dated For a While (see above)
• Meg's parents (what do you want to bet Veronica works it so they drop the kidnap charges)
• Troy Vandergraff (I actually don't mind him that much)
• Trina Echolls (more scenes with her and Kendell)
• Veronica's mom (quite absent during season 2... but I'll bet Rob Thomas can think of a good non-melodramatic pllotline involving her)
  

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