The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
Apr. 13th, 2009 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
michaeldthomasIt’s a dreary day. The sky weeps frigid rain. Blah!
1- I was working on a post about #amazonfail, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pnh said everything I was thinking over at Making Light this morning. Don’t get me wrong; I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person. The problem is that 999 times out of a 1000, conspiracy theories are proved to be utter nonsense. Amazon is a very big corporation. Somebody screwed up. I doubt it’s more complex than that.
2- In theory, today is the Cubs’ home opener. The rain might prevent this. After a week of baseball, we haven’t learned much. The team still looks good, Kevin Gregg still sucks, and Milton Bradley is still fragile. The one thing we really learned from ESPN last night was that you don’t make an awful broadcaster like Joe Morgan seem more intelligent by adding a bigger doofus like Steve Philips to the booth. I expect Jon Miller to lose it and jump out the broadcast booth's window by mid-July.
3- We watched the new Doctor Who special.
It was exactly what I expected. It romped, I suppose. We learned that Michelle Ryan isn’t a better actress without the bad American accent, David Tennant can still elevate an average script, and that RTD and Gareth Roberts watched The Horns of Nimon a lot in their formative years. Also, I kept expecting the psychic woman to announce that her name was Miss Cleo and you should really call her psychic hotline. Planet of the Dead was enjoyable, but a bit tired.
1- I was working on a post about #amazonfail, but
pnh said everything I was thinking over at Making Light this morning. Don’t get me wrong; I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person. The problem is that 999 times out of a 1000, conspiracy theories are proved to be utter nonsense. Amazon is a very big corporation. Somebody screwed up. I doubt it’s more complex than that. 2- In theory, today is the Cubs’ home opener. The rain might prevent this. After a week of baseball, we haven’t learned much. The team still looks good, Kevin Gregg still sucks, and Milton Bradley is still fragile. The one thing we really learned from ESPN last night was that you don’t make an awful broadcaster like Joe Morgan seem more intelligent by adding a bigger doofus like Steve Philips to the booth. I expect Jon Miller to lose it and jump out the broadcast booth's window by mid-July.
3- We watched the new Doctor Who special.
It was exactly what I expected. It romped, I suppose. We learned that Michelle Ryan isn’t a better actress without the bad American accent, David Tennant can still elevate an average script, and that RTD and Gareth Roberts watched The Horns of Nimon a lot in their formative years. Also, I kept expecting the psychic woman to announce that her name was Miss Cleo and you should really call her psychic hotline. Planet of the Dead was enjoyable, but a bit tired.
