Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Today show and Jeopardy are more important than weather information.

I'll admit, when the show"Community" was pre-empted by KSDK for some stupid Cardinals Nation half hour circle jerk, I posted angry drunk comments to the website. It was really all I could do since the episode was being bumped to play at one in the morning on a Monday.

Of course, I then waited a half hour and just downloaded the episode from the internet, but the point stands that I like Community and occasionally have the time to watch it when it airs. It's one of the few half hours a week I get for some programming that interests me.

KSDK is home to some very popular NBC shows such as Days of our Lives, Jeopardy and The Today Show. Days is a soap opera, the Today Show is a bloated, daily four hour ride into sparkling white-toothed madness imagined only in the minds of the criminally insane and alcoholic Victorian-age writers. Jeopardy is a quiz show.

Gods help you if you preempt any of these.


I don't know why, but this comment being at the top of a post about Jeopardy being moved makes me laugh every time I see it. I just imagine Dave staring dumbfounded at his screen, annoyed he won't be getting his Trebek fix.


I wonder if Russell Hutchings is aware of this wild thing we have now called the Internet. It has all kinds of information about local and world events if you sift through the pornography and My Little Pony forums. In fact, if you looked real hard, you'd see there are all kinds of things happening internationally you didn't know about!

What is this guy afraid he's missing out on? A coup in Thailand? Ukrainian protests? Pakistani bus bombings? Because I found all of that in about a minute on the internet. Multiple sources too. 

And yes, if you're going to use terrible grammar, I'm going to think you stupid to.


Again, just look shit up on the internet. If you want to sit down and have a heart to heart with your young adult children (Also, way to use all kinds of confusing adjectives to show you'll be having empty nest syndrome but deny it every day) just do it. Pull up BBC or CNN international. Talk about how shitty it is to be a child soldier in Chad, or maybe remember there is a still a war in Afghanistan without the help of a Superbowl commercial.

The international news portion of a half hour local news broadcast should not be where you go for information around the world. They give you a shitty little blurb and loop a video of tanks somewhere or a protester somewhere else for twenty seconds. It's not helpful at all.

It's a huge place out there, and it doesn't necessarily revolve around you.


How I imagine Laurie Frazier Nelson feels when typing on KSDK's facebook wall.



I'm confused, did the installation of U-Verse mean your digital tuner burst into flames?

I mean, I probably shouldn't make too much fun of the people who can't figure out how to use their TVs properly, or how to watch their stories on nbc.com, but come on. If it's important, you'll find a way. Or at least contact the stoner nephew of yours (bless his heart) and see if he can download it for you (Not that you would ever condone stealing, but for Dr. Daniel Jones...)


That truck fire shut down I-64 until about 11 am, and one of the vehicles involved had a hazardous waste sign on it. I can't believe how up their own ass some people can be about their TV programming. There is nothing of value on during the day, something I rediscover every time I'm sick and spend the day on the couch. I even have an extensive cable package and I still refer to my media drives, Netflix or HBO Go for entertainment. 

Maybe I'm just like Joseph Hettel since don't give a damn about his four hour television abomination, and would rather know if highway 40 is melting or opening a Hellmouth or whatever is being transported in a semi these days.


Someone please go check on Edna. I think she stroked out.

Angela Smith has her heart in the right place, but I can't imagine a worse way to leave this earth. Unless it was my final penance before getting into heaven. It's been a while since I've read the Purgatorio by Dante, but I think there was more rocks being pushed up mountains and less being forced to watch Mike Busch in startling high definition. 

I only pick on you because you're the most handsome, Mike.


Happy Olympics everybody!



3 comments:

  1. This shit happened in ST. LOUIS on social media again....this is why we can't have nice things.

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  2. This is the best blog ever :-)

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  3. You may want to check your sarcasm meter, or maybe posters want to recalibrate their own. I know for a fact that poster #1 was kidding :)

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