So I drove by a church with a very Simpsons-esque sign, "When God calls on your iPhone." What does this mean? Is this a sly reference to the iPhone as the Jesus Phone? Is it a commentary on consumerism? Are they giving free iPhones to new recruits? Where do I sign up?
Also, I was listening to 99x and one of the hosts was on a preachy rant about how disgusting eating competitions are when 1/3rd of the world is malnurished. How much energy do you think it takes to cool a honkey rink? Or how many millions are poured into guys who tackle the guy directly in front of them, again and again and again and again. In conclusion, all sports are a waste when we should be thinking about the less fortunate...
Yes, I watched it.
15 years ago
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Entertainment is a waste of resources too. $175 million on Evan Almighty!
Well, at least .1% of entertainment will be remember 100 years from now by scholars and people interested in art. No one in the future is going to be watching tonight's Braves game or remember it. (is there a game tonight?)
Yeah, but there are definitely important athletic moments that have gone down in history books, like the whole "giants win the pennant" thing in the 1950s. I mean, it was called the "shot heard round the world," and if a sporting event merits a comparison to the opening shots of the revolutionary war, it must have been a damn big deal.
On the other hand, the only reason I know about that moment in grand athletic history is from repeated viewings of Sorkin's under-appreciated "Sports Night," so I suppose I'm sort of proving both your points.
I have heard of the Giants winning the pennant but do not know where the Giants play or what a pennant is. I thought "the shot heard round the world" was the assasination of Franz Ferdinand?
Let's just say there are no "Sports Studies" departments at universities for good reason.
... And if anyone is going to make me intersted in sports it would be Aaron Sorkin. Or Oliver Stone, I did enjoy Any Given Sunday...
Have you ever watched Sports Night, then? Its quite good. its less polished than Studio Sixty but its also less forced - you get the impression that with Sports Night Sorkin really believed all the lovely egalitarian liberalism he was pushing but by the time Studio Sixty rolled around he just had an axe to grind.
Does that distinction make any sense? Also, another point for Sports Night: the tagline on the advertisements ABC put out for it went something like this: "a tv show about sports, the same way Charlie's Angels was about law enforcement."
Studio 60 was definitely waaaaaay forced. Come on, they hire a band from New Orleans after Katrina?
Anyway, I watched a few episodes of Sports Night. I liked the more casual dialogue versus West Wing's/Studio 60's fast walking and talking everywhere. I plan on renting the first season of the West Wing (since Studio 60 is no more).
sports night is really good. and there's very little actual sports. josh malina is soooooooo *~cute and dreamy*~
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