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Two hour lost repeat – Scrolling commentary???

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Ok I’m happy that the powers that be decide to help us remember what happened on Lost at the end of the season last year with tonights two hour episode, but WTF is with the scrolling commentary at the bottom of the screen?

Does ABC think we’re children that can’t remember unless we read the really cheesy lines that are supposedly telling us what’s going on on screen?

It’s really distracting! I hate it!

Come on ABC … if we really couldn’t remember everything that happened in those last two episodes most of us could read recaps or even watch the complete shows online.

Did/does anyone else find the scrolling commentary terribly distracting? and cheesy?





Just a nice lazy day

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Chris and I are just having a very lazy Saturday.

Actually this is the first weekend in a while that we’re both home. The last two weekends Chris went to Brantford to help out with things at his parents and to visit with his brother that was up from Chicago (last weekend).

We both slept in, much to our puppies disappointment. However we both needed it. She’s totally changed both our schedules since we got her and this was the first time we’ve both slept in since she’s been with us. So she ate her breakfast a little late this morning. That’s ok.

Since the weather was fairly nice and there’s no snow on the ground Chris went out and raked the leaves that had blown onto the lawn. So now our garden beds have a little extra winter protection and the yard looks so much nicer. The dishes and laundry also got done.

Wait … didn’t I say it was a lazy Saturday … hmmm seems we got a bit more accomplished than I thought. Still it’s felt kind of lazy as we’ve just been sitting back for the last few hours watching shows that we taped on the PVR.

Even our puppy’s been having a lazy day. She was in her crate a bit longer than normal today since we both slept in and she was in her crate when some of the yard and house work were done as well. After that we had a good play session … A play session with the puppy usually consists of playing ball with her for oh maybe two or three hours!

I guess we tired her out or she’s picking up on our “just relax” mood because she fell asleep on the couch at 9 pm which is much earlier than normal. She just woke up a few minutes ago and wanted to go outside to do her business and now she’s on the lazyboy chair looking like she’s about to fall asleep again. Maybe last nights puppy training class wore her out.

How was your Saturday?

One of the movies I was in is on TV tonight

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Long time readers of this blog might remember that way back when I had my own jewelry business (I would diamond cut designs on rings, bracelets, pendants and so on, gold plate jewelry and create jewelry molds – my business was called “Gold Cuts”) I also did some extra work in the movies and commercials.

Well … I did that for about two years when I was first starting my business, as well as working part time at jewelery store outside the city, working for another jeweler in the building I was in and at the Toronto Convention Center as a security guard. Yes, I held down a lot of part time jobs in order to pay the bills as my business got on it’s feet.

Of all the jobs that I did during that first year or two as I got my business going the extra work was by far the most fun. It didn’t pay all that well, but it was certainly an interesting experience. Plus it was fun to spot myself in some of the commercials and movies as they came out.

One of the movies that I was an extra in was called The Brain. It was supposed to be a horror movie, but I doubt anyone watching it was all that scared. It was a very bad movie!

I never did buy a copy of the movie when it came out and I think went straight to video, but Chris and I did rent it one night just for laughs. I think I can be seen in the movie five times. The best scene is one where I’m in the audience and I’m screaming in horror.

Last night I was going through the channels setting up shows I wanted to tape on our PVR (that’s like a TIVO) and I discovered that The Brain is being shown on DRIVIN tonight at 7:15 pm and again at 7 am on Sunday morning.

In the Toronto area DRIVIN is channel 327 on Rogers. I think you have to have the movie channel package to get that channel.

Just to show you how cheesy the movie is the TV description says: “Viewers of a talk show kill themselves after the host becomes allied with an alien brain.”

Uh huh … bad movie. LOL I think most of the movie takes place in the TV Studio so there’s no sexy scene or sexy corsets or anything remotely enticing! Believe me it would have helped the movie if there were some scenes like that.

If you are the least bit interested in seeing this movie be warned that it’s not a very good movie at all. If you just want to see me in it I suggest that you tape the movie and then fast forward until you get to the studio audience scenes and then watch for a girl in a blue dress. As I said there’s one scene where I’m doing a great fake horror scream and you can see my quite well in that shot.

This is the first time I’ve actually had a chance to make a copy of the movie. If I can I’ll try to get some screen shots of my “scenes“.

Let me know if you get a chance to see the movie.

Man that guy can talk!

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The other night Chris was on the phone for well over an hour. No it wasn’t one phone call, I think it was about three phone conversations. Our phone just kept ringing all night.

He talks so loud when he’s on the phone it’s hard to concentrate on anything and forget watching TV … unless you turn it up quite loud you can’t hear it as he talks louder to compensate. Sometimes I wonder if he’s got a hearing problem.

Before we had a DLP TV we used to have a Sony Trinitron and when Chris would get on the phone and start talking loud while I was trying to watch a tv program (remember this was long before we had a PVR that would let us pause or record a show) I’d sometimes just switch the TV to the captioning service and read the close captions if the station or channel provide them for that program. At least I could still follow the program!

Do any of you have that problem? Someone at home that talks so loud you can barely do anything in the same room if they are on the phone or talking to someone in person?

Infomercials – Do you buy the products you see advertised?

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As usual I’m up late watching TV and trying to dodge the infomercials.

Do you watch infomercials late at night?

I remember telling my niece that the one time I watched a whole infomercial I ended up buying the product! Not that I normally would do that, but it was the Magic Bullet blender and obviously it was a good infomercial – it got me to buy the blender didn’t it?

I do love my Magic Bullet. I use it mainly to make fantastic fruit smoothies. I don’t make them often but when I do they are fantastic … especially with a little rum or vodka in them.

I often wonder about the ginsu knives that I see advertised. Are they really as sharp and as good as advertised? I think those commercials have been on TV my whole life! Why don’t I already have some Ginsu knives?

I really enjoy cooking and baking and yes, I do have a nice set of knives, but when you do a lot of work in the kitchen you often realize that you could use a special knife or another item to help you get things done faster or better.

Do you ever buy products that you see advertised in infomercials or perhaps on the shopping channels? Have you been happy with your purchases?

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