Sci & Tech 1 - Emergency Vehicles

Anyone who walked by Science and Technology Building 1 will have noticed the police presence, emergency vehicles, caution tape, and, until recently, the helicopter. For those interested, there has apparently been some sort of chemical spill on the forth floor of the building. The helicopter was there to evacuate people. It is believed that a significant amount of sulfuric acid was spilled in the building.

Election Results Come In

First:

Live election results at Broadsideonline.com:

State Senate
House of Delegates

As expected, it appears as if the Democrats are winning at the moment [10:43PM].

The following districts seem to be experiencing some sort of difficulty involving the posting of their votes, the counts seem to be distinctly... odd:

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Springfield District

According to the state board of election site, Mike McClanahan has a 99.84% majority while the Fairfax County site has McClanahan with 9,303 and Herrity has 13,015.

[11:28PM] Broadside has an UPDATE.

Providence District

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Also Loudoun County appears to be experiencing delays in the posting of its numbers.

Halloween Costumes

In a sort of follow up on the recent editorial in Broadside entitled "Or Are They Spooks?"

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/06/chertoff-myers/

A sample:

Chertoff Claims ‘Zero Tolerance’ For Discriminatory Halloween Costume, Excuses Julie Myers’ Role
Julie Myers, head of Homeland Security’s immigration division, has come under intense criticism for awarding “Most Original Costume” to an employee “who dressed in prison stripes, dreadlocks and dark makeup for a Halloween gathering at the agency.” Myers was part of a three-judge panel that awarded the prize.

Today, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff appeared on MSNBC and said that he had put the employee who wore the costume on “administrative leave.” He added that he has “zero tolerance” for discriminatory acts. But when it came to Myers, Chertoff refused to condemn her and indicated that she would face no punitive action:

Vote!

Hello fair readers, I am writing to you early this morning as I gather together all my methods of identification and prepare to vote.

If you have not picked up a Broadside election guide, listing all the local candidates, now is the time. If you want another list of candidates and their websites, you can find it here.

If you are registered to vote in VA then you must bring a form of identification to the polls. This includes a Passport, a VA-issued drivers license or DMV special ID Card, an employer-issued ID, or your social security card.

If you are not sure where to vote, you can look up your polling place at the Virginia State Board of Elections site.

If you are, like me, registered to vote under your on-campus address, then your voting place is:

WOODSON HIGH SCHOOL
9525 Main St
Fairfax VA 22031-4006
(FAIRFAX COUNTY)

and here is how to get there from on-campus:

1. 1 Depart Rivanna River Way
2. 2 Turn left onto Patriot Circle 0.1 mi
3. 3 Turn left onto Shenandoah River Ln 0.2 mi
4. 4 Turn left onto Roberts Rd 1.0 mi
5. 5 Turn right onto SR-236 East / Main St 1.3 mi
6. 6 Arrive at 9525 Main St, Fairfax, VA 22031-4006 The last intersection is Whitacre Rd If you reach SR-237 / Pickett Rd, you've gone too far

Now, don't be foolish. Change does not come from sitting on your arse. It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican or an Independent; liberal, conservative or libertarian; now is the time to do your civic duty, one of the things this country requires of you that you can be proud of no matter what else you disagree with. Get out there (before 7 p.m.) and vote.

Democrats Rally at George Mason University

Today, the Democratic candidates for Virginia's local elections gathered with other local luminaries, supporters, and students. Broadside was on the scene and other people will have a more detailed report. However, for your amusement, I've simply dropped my entire un-edited set of photos on to google. Perhaps 90% of them are crap, and I'll sort it out later, but a few interesting ones should be in there.

You can find the amateur-hour album entire here:

Dems Rally

That guy thinks they were ok. :P

More highlights:

Thumbs Up: David E. Bernstein, Professor at the George Mason University School of Law

One big thumbs up to Professor David E. Bernstein, for his recent article in the LA Times on the continuing issues with Free Speech on College Campuses around the nation. Though I can't agree with his analysis of Larry Summers (the former president of Harvard University fired for sexist remarks), nor do I believe the fault lies entirely with the far left, the constitution should protect people's right to speak, even asshole university presidents.

From the article:

The Chemerinsky episode, disturbing though it was, should not distract us from the primary challenge facing academic freedom in American universities: the rise of an academic far-left establishment that seeks to use universities as a base for political activism, and is perfectly willing to violate accepted standards of academic freedom to achieve that goal. Anyone concerned with the future of American higher education has the duty to defend the values of scholarship and open debate against authoritarian political correctness. Unfortunately, by disinviting Summers, the UC regents failed miserably.

One wonders what Professor Bernstein might say about his own (and our) university's serious free speech problems.

Full Article

Giuliani, now Two Times Worse Than Bush

Sorry to follow up one Giuliani article with another, but this was so striking that I had to post it.

For the second time in a single month (The first being the August edition of Harper's cover article "A Fate Worse Than Bush") Rudy Giuliani has been declared by a media source as not only bad but in fact (almost unbelievably so) worse than our current President.

The well known Huffington Post (via Yahoo, via Google) posted an article titled "Giuliani: Worse Than Bush" detailing the past NYC Mayor's frightening idea of a foreign policy.

Starting off by speaking about how the US should never have left Vietnam, Giuliani continues to go off on a policy so violent that it makes Apocalypse Now look like a walk in the park.

HuffPost continues to say:

He does not conceive of, admit to, or even mention the possibility of a region-wide political settlement which even now the Bush Administration is apparently contemplating. In addition, he would "press ahead" with an anti-ballistic missile system -- regardless of its outsized costs or ineffectiveness. And he would, as he says, "pursue the gains made by the USA Patriot Act and not unrealistically limit electronic surveillance or legal interrogation." Sounds a lot like an embrace of unrestricted presidential power and possibly torture.

On the UN, HuffPost notes Rudy's divorce from reality on the issue of the UN:

he goes further and argues that the UN has "proved irrelevant to the resolution of almost every major dispute of the last fifty years." This is a breathtaking display of incomprehension. Just a reminder: the UN stopped the invasion of South Korea; settled the Suez crisis of 1956; assisted in the ending of the Cuban missile crisis of 1963; ousted Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991. It brought peace to conflicts in Guatemala, Angola, Mozambique, El Salvador, Cambodia and helps keep the peace in Cyprus. More recently, it aided Haiti in holding an election and ending violence, pushed the Syrians out of Lebanon, enforced a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and presently supports a dozen or so other peacekeeping missions.

Even odder, his ideas on NATO:

Now we come to the ex-mayor's most bizarre suggestion -- that NATO be encouraged to act "globally," be reconfigured to confront "significant threats to the international system," and "we should open the organization's membership to any state" -- though it is a European-based body. Is Mr. Giuliani thus proposing that NATO replace the UN as the world's arbiter? And why not? Since the US dominates NATO, this would give Washington a direct means to extend its security purvey over the entire planet. This is a vision consistent with the authoritarian instincts with which Mr. Giuliani governed NYC.

I'm pretty sure that this should be universally disturbing. Even the most die-hard rightest should recognize the enormous negative economic impact that making the US arbiter of an ad-hoc nuUN would bring. As for those, like myself, on the left the entire thing should scare the shit out of you.

Giuliani Makes First Right Move in Over 20 Years.

Ok, that title was just a joke. Someone in his campaign actually did make an amusing response to 'I-may-be-a-candidate-if-you-don't-watch-Law-and-Order' Thompson.

Thompson, who has garnered a great deal of attention by not declaring his epic TV candidacy which may or may not be a ploy to turn Law and Order into The West Wing, spoke out against the gun reforms that took place under Giuliani's administration (not that Rudy had much to do with it).

"“When I was working in television, I spent quite a bit of time in New York City,” Thompson blogged. “There are lots of things about the place I like, but New York gun laws don’t fall in that category.”

To which some clever wag on Rudy's team responded that perhaps judgments on NYC laws might best be made by "those who live in New York in the real world."

7th Time is the charm

Hello Everyone!
I hope everyone's summer is going well. Now, that July is almost over and the "Harry Potter July" as some of my friends called it is settled down.
I am going to start off with the movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Year 5) was an interesting perspective to the longest book in the series. To the dismay of some fans, such as myself, they left out unique parts to the story like flashbacks in the Pensive. The directors made the shortest Potter film but yet it was the longest book. Entertaining for the summer, not an Oscar competitive film. The standout performances from the film were from characters that I did not like in the book- Luna Lovegood, Umbridge, and Bellatrix Lestrange.

Now, lets zoom to the last book in the series that has made its author, J.K. Rowling, richer than the Queen of England. I apologize in advance for the spoilers. I will preface the comments of the spoilers with SPOILER ALERT, so you know not to look at what I wrote. After finishing the final epic, my first thought: What was with all those deaths? I am sure I am not the only one who did not expect most of them. There were some where I was like "Oh my!" and others where I was like, " What was the point?"

SPOILER ALERT! The deaths that I were sort of upsetting were Dobby, Fred, Tonks, and Lupin. Some of the other deaths were shocking but these four were each catered to their personality. From Fred's smile as he went to the other side to Dobby dying while serving Harry. Rowling wrote these four deaths well.

This book's main disappointment was that it was too choppy.

SPOILER ALERT!! For example, Rowling did write a lot about the relationships of wands between the owner and wand, wand and wand, and most interesting is dealing with the rules of the wand during a duel. She gave us bits here and there, nothing all in one shot which led to some confusion.
One of the final battles, was fantastic! It drew the lines with good and evil.

SPOILER ALERT! The Houses (minus one house: can you guess which one?), teachers, creatures, and the Order gear up to fight the lone House, Death Eaters, and the other Dark creatures at an epic battle that takes place at Hogwarts which leads to several deaths.

Overall, the story was good, bit choppy but not one of the best like I liked 5 and 6 the best. Seven gave us the answers to lingering questions, which was nice. But everyone is reading, for the final showdown between Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter. The best thing to take from 7: Is that no one seems to be who they truly are until the very end. This can be applied to the final outcome of Potter because the ending is open ended and the ones who survive you don't know where they really stand.
Signing off,
Sam

Moving Operations!

Hullo all!

For the next month+ you'll be able to find me at my UK blog:

Mostly Harmless

-Aram

Happy 4th of July!

Have a happy and fun Independence day folks! Remember to hold the fireworks away from your face.

Virus Alert: GTA Mod

A new piece of malware has been making some serious rounds through the internet. There is a video on YouTube, supposedly of a new mod for the game Grand Theft Auto. At the end of the video it links you to the site where you can supposedly download the mod. Don't, it's a serious piece of bad software.

Full article

You know you want it.

Hey everyone!
Okay, so the fateful day is upon us. June 29, a day that will go down in pop-culture record books. I-Phone day!! So, this godsend of a gadget has been selling for approx. 3 1/2 hrs. Lines for the phone have been starting since Monday even though it will take a chunk of change out of the buyers' wallets selling from $500 for the lower gigabyte phone and approx. $600 for the higher gb phone.
News reporters have been reporting about of course, the disadvantages of the phone including the slow internet and the difficult keypad as well as other numerous "kinks." For $500, its so worth it! I rather wait though until Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple and the Apple Engineers come out with more stuff for the I-Phone. If you don't know what I am talking about see the I-Pod as an example. I will be the first person in line for a hot pink I-Phone.
But honestly, the question I raise with the phone. Is why do you need all the stuff? Granted its easy access to the internet, pictures, music, and a phone which can fit in your purse or pocket. But if you have an i-pod or a phone that as the internet, why do you need the I-Phone? The answer for me is simple: Its just so cool!!! I am a gadget person and I love that kinda stuff. I guess as we get older, we still have some kid left in all of us... Except toys become gadgets like the I-Phone.. I still can't believe all this fuss is for a phone!?
Signing off,
sam.

What an anti-Giuliani ad should say.

Considering Rudy Giuliani's image as the hero of Sept. 11, 2001, and the nation's ultimate first responder, burnished yet again by the warm reception he received at a firehouse during a recent campaign swing through South Carolina, it might surprise many of his supporters to learn that the country's largest union of firefighters hates "America's mayor" with a passion.

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"Our disdain for him," said the letter, "is not about issues or a disputed contract. It is about a visceral, personal affront to the fallen, to our union and indeed, to every one of us who has ever risked our lives by going into a burning building to save lives and property."

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The public may also be unaware that Giuliani's preparation for and management of the crisis that has come to define his career, and on which his presidential ambitions rest, has actually become a case study for emergency management experts of what not to do.

Full Article Here.

There is always room for Paris

Hey guys!
So now we are about a month into summer and of course, we have news about the latest adventures of hotel heiress, Paris Hilton. Much to the dismay of her fans, she has been sent off to jail twice. But not for two separate issues, it was the same crime that she had to serve time for. The reason why she went to jail again for the second time is still unsure. It is rumored on the news channels, that she was not eating and suffering from a nervous disorder. The judge called her back into his court when he found out she was released with only serving about three days into jail sentence. She was put back into the jail after serving a few days in house arrest which was another possibility to serve her time. If she was allowed to continue with house arrest, she would be serving it in her mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Not bad, for someone serving time, sign me up for that vacation!
Paris Hilton when she was forced back into jail, was under examination at the treatment center for her "undisclosed medical issue." She is now currently serving the rest of her 45-day sentence in the women's jail. Just days before she started to serve her sentence, she discussed to the press how she was going to serve as a role model to kids and serve her sentence completely without any problems. Odd or does she have a different way of defining that? Recently, she talked to the Hilton's family friend, Barbara Walters, stating that, "I used to act dumb, that act is no longer cute. Now, I would like to make a difference, God has given me this new chance." Some people like The View co-host, Joy Behr, bring up the point when people go to jail why do they always find God?
Was the Simple Life's characterization of Hilton really her just acting? Possibly. The jail time has given her even more press time. Details come out daily. Some journalists like Gia Cortina from the Post Chronicle suggest that she is going to come out even more famous. Oh just great, we need another rich ,spoiled, famous for all the wrong reasons woman in Hollywood? But I really just don't care, and I know many people don't care. Lots of people are happy that she is in jail. Just check out the MTV Movie Awards where Sarah Silverman made a couple jokes about her situation and the crowd erupted into applause. Hopefully, she learned her lesson but we can never be too sure? I don't really want to judge her because I don't know her but her situation is tough and its a good learning experience, even if your a 26 year old heiress.
Well that's all for now!
Signing off,
Sam

QOD: Future Crisis

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864, letter to Col. William F. Elkins, in The Lincoln Encyclopedia, by Archer H. Shaw.

EDIT: Apparently there is a serious question as to weather this quote is correctly attributed (see the comment made on this post). Though I found it attributed to Lincoln in more then one place, the Internet is never the most trustworthy source, so I am striking the attribution.

Blog Log - Mason Students Blog!

[MasonTechBeat] - Mason student Jimmy Rogers provides succinct and interesting posts on the latest in technology. Check it out, his writing is clear enough that even the less tech savvy can come out on top.

[ChinaFox] - Kate Fox has only just begun a blog on her CGE trip to China. Anyone interested in China, or just traveling abroad through Mason, should keep an eye on this gem of a blog.

And of course, don't forget to keep a ready eye for my own new blog, documenting my upcoming month in the UK. I still need a name, so feel free to throw out ideas.

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"If Bush and Cheney Can Curse…" - An interesting article about the recent court decision to strike down "the government policy of fining stations and networks that broadcast shows containing profanities." Dear reader, I encourage celebrating by cursing as loudly as you can for as long as you can, preferably in a public place. [The Caucus]
--Further Reading:
○ Business Section Article
○ FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin's Press Statement
○ Full Appellate Court Decision
○ Summery (with links to full copy) of "Big Chill: How the FCC's Indecency Decisions Stifle Free Expression, Threaten Quality Television, and Harm America's Children" by Center For Creative Voices in Media

"Frank Rich: Failed Presidents Ain't What They Used to Be" is an article which takes a look at why there has been no real call for Bush's impeachment and what is going on to cause the recent party infighting. [Free Democracy]

A summery of some of the more amusing parts of RollingStone's article on Giuliani. I recommend you click through for the full, and therefore far more depressing, article. [Wonkette]

In "How Not To Get Elected President" Freakonomics links to data on what presidential characteristics (Black, Female, Etc…) are most likely to be voted for. An interesting topic as Dems consider just how much the obvious differences of their candidates' genetics will matter in the Presidential race. It's good news, if the percentages continue to increase at this rate, 100% of the electorate will be willing to vote for a Jew by the time I'm ready to run! [Freakonomics]

Justice Ginsburg speaks out against the recent Abortion ruling. Calls the majority "parsimonious." Commentators say that Ginsburg is saying "the Court is moving backwards." Essentially, she looked at the timing and composition of the Court and called the recent case a political move, one which has no place in the Supreme Court. [AMERICAblog]

Captain's Quarters takes a look at Nationalized Health Care, and it's Panopticon-like implications. Will government control of our health care mean a loss of our privacy? [CQ]

The manipulation of language in politics, especially the tags of Liberal and Conservative, is one that should be of great interest to all. When a party, media outlet, or individual, succeeds in changing the definition of one of the mainstays of political language all bets are off. [Kos Diary]

Guest Workers and the reasons behind immigration laws applying to them is the topic of discussion. Will they harm Americans? Do we need them? [Ezra Klein]

Looking for a quick look at the recent Dem debate? On Call has it, but check the reader Comments for some interesting further reactions. [Hotline]

Spencer Ackerman writes, on the dusk of the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, that Arab and Jewish Americans are not so divided on the subject of Mideast Peace. [TPMmuckraker]

Does Freedom Endure?

|-‘Why is showing the injured or dead of the war important? Why has the media become the enemy?’-|

“Maybe I know what I’m doing here! These people are risking their lives for us. I want to see what they’re going through even if they don’t want us to, and I want other people to see it! What do you think they’re doing out there, protecting and defending secrecy? That’s the world of Mao… The world of Stalin, the world of secret police, secret trials, secret… secret deaths. […] You force the Press into the cold, and all you will get is lies and innuendo, and nothing, nothing is worse for a free society than a press that is in service to the military and the politicians. Nothing!”

There was a recent article in the New York Times - “Not To See The Fallen Is No Favor,” by David Carr – which was interesting, as was the backlash against it; notably the WSJ’s Opinion Journal, which asked the question “Why is it so important to show images of hurt and dead Americans?” The WSJ goes off into a conservative la-la land; however, the question is an important one. Why do we even bother with Journalists in the field? What exactly have 143 media workers lost their lives for? Why is the media defined for military supervisors as a “nontraditional” threat, on the same level as drug cartels? Why do soldiers with blogs face the very real possibility of being tried for acts of espionage?

Why is it that the media has to fight for its ability to fulfill its basic function? Why are reporters dying for information and images that are not allowed on TV? Why do our soldiers die without us seeing how or seeing the war they fight?

I can tell you why: 3756 Coalition Fatalities. Three Thousand, Seven Hundred, and Fifty Six men and women who have died in a war we started for reasons that have turned out to not even be the truth. Take a moment. Read that again. 3756 deaths. I don’t know about you, but I can feel that number, right down in my chest, and at the bottom of my stomach where it makes me feel a little sick. It makes me think about all those people with Support our Troops stickers and it makes me realize that they have no idea what’s going on with the troops they supposedly support, otherwise our soldiers would have come back a long time ago.

Why shouldn’t they have? Why do none of us have a good idea of the real situation in Iraq? Because nothing is worse for a war than to have the citizenry see it uncensored. Let us face the truth; the strongest element that worked against the Vietnam war was the television. Back then, when televised media was new, and raw, they broadcasted images of the war - deaths, lives, victories, and defeats - into America’s living rooms. The people saw something in their televisions, something horrible. They stood up and they said, as strong as they could, NO! When that many people spoke, the government had no choice to listen. We left Vietnam.

Today we have something different. Our generation has grown up with the television. For me and my peers we are too used to seeing what is broadcast as a work of fiction. When we see images of the war, they are separated from us, the pane of glass onto which they are projected works as a method of division as well. The impact is lessened. Then that impact is lessened even more because the images that show the war are censored, cut out, in the name of “privacy” and “operational security.”

You know it is a funny thing, but I can think of a few other leaders who censored the presses coverage of wars in order to prevent their full impact from reaching their nation’s citizens. They were all fascists.

Face Facts! These people fight and die for us. It is unjust that we cannot see who they are, or how they died. This war has taken a lot, and I do mean a lot, of lives. This sort of policy, this sort of secrecy, robs us of the impact that our decision as a nation has made on the families and friends of those dying for freedom. Part of that freedom that we value so dearly as to have spent 3756 lives on (thus far) is the freedom of speech, the freedom of expression, the freedom of the press. Yet, instead, they die, and their deaths are used, disgustingly, as an excuse for secrecy. By disrespecting what they died for, we are destroying the very purpose of the fight.

Ashley Gilbertson, a freelance photographer who has been in Iraq seven times to pursue his work, said “They are not letting us cover the reality of war … I think this has got little to do with the families or the soldiers and everything to do with politics.”

Don’t roll over it with bullshit about the “liberal media.” ANY media outlet that is not trying to bring these images to the forefront of the public’s attention is FAILING in its responsibility to the people. As far as I can see, the WSJ’s opinion article, and those who align themselves with its ideas, are outright supporting the abridgement of our basic human rights, of the soldiers’ basic human rights, and of our nation’s most important freedoms.

As our government tries to manage the press’s coverage of the war, it becomes harder to bring the truth, the hard, bloody truth, of the war to us. A difficulty only compacted by the rising danger to journalists, the cost of the war to the media, its journalists, and their resources, and the simple fact that as the number of resources dwindles the price becomes higher and higher for a result that lessens with each governmental censure.

“As the number of reporters there [Iraq] dwindles further and further because of the difficult conditions we work under, the kind of work they are able to publish becomes very important,” said James Glanz, a Baghdad correspondent for the New York Times. “This tiny remaining corps of reporters becomes a greater and greater problem for the military brass because we [the Press] are the only people preventing them from telling the story the way they [the Military] want it told.”

To bring the brutal truth of the war back to the home front is a responsibility of the press that dates far back. It is the reason we know what people sacrificed in the wars previous. It is the reason we know and feel the horrors and atrocities that have been committed around the world, throughout the past. Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. With the government keeping our very recent history from us, is it any surprise that they are making noises about seeking to repeat it? Is it any surprise that it continues, without any real end in sight?

To quote David Carr, “If the government chooses to overmanage the wages of war in Iraq, there is a real danger that when this new generation of veterans, whose ranks grow every day, could come home to a place where their fellow Americans have little idea what they have gone through.”

New York Times – “Not to See the Fallen Is No Favor”
WSJ OpinionJournal – "We Are The Only People Preventing Them From Telling the Story”
Iraq Coalition Casualties
Operation Enduring Freedom Casualties (Afghanistan)

Nobel Prize Laureate Cancels U.K. Trip Due To Anti-Israel Sentiment

American Professor Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas has canceled his speaking engagement at a London's Imperial College. He noted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment in the U.K. as prime motivations for his withdrawal.

Weinberg won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1979 and had been invited to speak at the university this July. He said that his decision was motivated by Britain's National Union of Journalists decision to boycott Israeli products.

"I see in the British press and the BBC signs of a very strong anti-Israel bias - a kind of blind hostility that whatever Israel does, it is always in the wrong." Weinberg said. "This represents a widespread feeling among British journalists." However, he stated that he was not calling for a British boycott.


Read the full story here.

I am bored.

Hey guys!
So the summer is here, finally for Mason students. And while some of us may have fun and exciting adventures overseas to places that will be the envy of all your friends come August, others such as myself might lead semi-exciting breaks but have more boring moments that hitch-hiking my way across the Netherlands.
As much as I hate to admit this, I hate to be bored. So now, that all my television shows are over for the summer and there is no reading to keep me busy all I have is my jobs and a family vacation to look forward to this summer, which is nice don't get me wrong. Right now, I am locked up in my home in New York on crutches and slowly needing to get out of the house because there is only so much HBO movies and television shows on dvd box sets that I can watch.
I wanted to talk about all my favorite shows ending. Why am I not surprised? I am going to start off with Grey's. Like, I mean no matter how hard you were rooting for Burke and Christina, you knew it wasn't going to happen. Sure, they threw a curve ball here or there like Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepard, not taking the Chief of Surgery position and Meredith's long-lost step sister or whatever you want to call her entering the Intern Program at Seattle. Is it that shocking that they leave you for the summer with all these problems? No. They want you to come back.
Ugly Betty had the biggest shockers. Betty professed her "undying love" to her geeky accountant friend, while she found out her boy was jetting off to Arizona with his girlfriend who may or may not have his baby. Amanda, receptionist extrodinare, just also discovered her mother is the legendary Faye Summers. And Betty's sister does not get the happy ending she wanted. Her finace and her kid's dad was shot in a robbery, going to their son's play. Tear, Tear. (That whole problem was getting to dry). Great eppie, but I had one major problem. More Kristin Chenoweth who made a guest spot, as a dental tech who got too wrapped up in Betty's life. She stole so many of the scenes.
Gilmore Girls ended its seven year run, with its great lines and quick pace. End result: Rory, set out to conquer the world with Barack Obama's campaign in tow and Lorelai, of course, ended up with Luke and the show closed with the happy music and everybody hugging. Can we say Oprah moment?
Lost, oooo the suspense is killing me. It sorta is, actually in some way. I mean they are putting out huge clues every week about what is the island and all those questions fans want to know? I guess they have to because I mean the clock is ticking, ABC has given them 3 more seasons before they give them the ax. Surprise, surprise. We want to know stuff and ABC knows that. It can't be stretched out.
So while we all wait in anticipation for our favorite television shows in the fall to start again. ABC and the other networks have already been starting to advertise for their new "hopeful" big hits like Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice, about Addison jetting off to Cali to gain some perspective. And another show about some guy that talks, no wait, brings dead people back to life to help them find their killers and what-not called Pushing Daisies with Jim Dale, as the narrator, Chi McBride, and (in my opinion, the fantastic)Kristin Chenoweth. Been there, done that. But we shall see. We shall see also, if viewers get entertained by new shows for the summer like Traveler and National Bingo Night (yeah, I am messing with you for the last one, I am not a game show fan). Hey, if you got a boring summer planned, just turn on the television and hope that you get entertained by Paris Hilton's latest fiasco of possible jail time. Well, I guess that is all for now.
Signing off,
Sam