Before, During, After

Before people barely talked about the twin towers, unofficially they were an eyesore. No talked about a field in Pennsylvania. A few people talked about the Pentagon but with little sadness.

Before

During that day 19 Muslim extremists with hate in their hearts decide to kill and hurt and tried to forever change the American way of life.

During

After the people, mostly non-New Yorkers or non-Pentagon employees, decided that anger was good but being petty was better. First you had the greedy wives, then the deniers who swarmed the internet with foolish conspiracies. After a while you got the phony sick who spent 30 years smoking and then spent 2 weeks many blocks away from the site and whined their way to millions. Now you have the exploiters who seek to use the day to win elections or plug their church/mosque.

After

Still they tested the tribute in lights on Sept 10 while having no building to walk into on the 11th.

Rebuild and never forget.

Update for Update's Sake

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It's not that I'm overwhelmingly busy at work more like TV has not been inspiring.


Emmys
Lots of great winners especially Modern Family for best comedy.
Shame that Mad Men won again seeing how I can't seem to get into the show.


Futurama
They should have kept it canceled. They have lost that edge.





Royal Pains, Rescue Me
Both shows have been stretching out their season beyond reason and with weak storylines this is not good.


As The World Turns
Well in a few weeks this longest running soap/TV serial/radio drama will end and they have been wrapping up storylines left and right.
Special guest, memorials for those who have passed, and lots of clips from over 50 years have been sprinkled throughout the final episodes.
I can only hope they end with dignity.

Reviews: Summer so far

Cover of The Colorado Kid (Hard Case Crime)

Summer has been better than normal.
TV on the other hand has never been worse.

Royal Pains, Eureka, Psych, Warehouse 13, Wipeout have all returned without a bang. I mention only the shows I watch.
Sci-Fi as been particularly weak this season.

Haven a new Sci-Fi channel show based on the Stephen King novel The Colorado Kid is not good at all.

True Blood has been the only bright spot. That and repeats of ABC comedies I didn't see last year.

All the "premium" movies that made hundreds of millions in the box office are awful. Honestly I haven't seen a great movie in years.

I'm having more fun taking pictures of stuff being filmed around NYC than actually watching the shows.

I don't care that it's 103 degrees

If you remember the original you're as old as me.

More Curb Your Enthusiasm sports edition.

On the Set: Curbed

Not a fan, at all, of Curb Your Enthusiam but still managed to find them filming.

 Larry David, Cheyenne Jackson filming a scene at Washington Square Park.


I must say this camera is great.

Still seeing these...

but none of "my shows" have been close enough to see.

11th Ave between 27th & 28th in NYC

Tomorrow is a great day to visit any set.

Fall is Nigh

Ok this is just ridiculous.

CBS has already started to promote the Fall schedule and Summer is still days away.

Awaiting

The season premiere of True Blood although I will be out of town. Dang.

Lost: Finale

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2 hours and 15 minutes of greatness and then 15 minutes of ghost nonsense.

The theory most people had about being in purgatory was partially correct.

The only clue given that the past 6 years on the island wasn't a dream was that Hurley mentioned to Ben that working together as the islands No. 1 and No. 2 were good years.

So the Island was real.
The flashbacks were real.
The flash-forwards were real.

The flash-sideways was fake.

I just wanted to write it down before I forget the show entirely.

One thing I did predict was that Hurley would ultimately be in charge.

Final Theory:
The light was a natural phenomenon  that people over the years have accidentally discovered all over the world, Eloise Hawking said as much.
On this Island the light allows people to make rules.

2,000 years ago a woman made a rule to keep the brothers on the island and not kill each other.
Once she died the Jacob made more rules about finding candidates, creating a lighthouse, rules about these candidates and rules for himself.
Now that Hurley is in charge he can make any rules he wants.

Reference this....
South Park: Dead Celebrities 

TV is abandoning me

CBS is axing five other shows, the majority of which, like "Whisperer," have female leads. Julia-Louis Dreyfus' "New Adventures of Old Christine," "Cold Case," starring Kathryn Morris, and the freshman Jenna Elfman sitcom "Accidentally On Purpose" 

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They should cancel more

Heroes was just canceled yet Smallville keeps going.
Not that I want either to fail but when they just stretching episodes just for ratings sake then might as well cancel them.


Lost is getting better every episode.