On Spoiler Alerts And Episodic Backlogs

[Joe Hass]

http://www.avclub.com/articles/what-really-constitutes-a-spoiler,44508/

Two things I take from this:

1. Why do I have the feeling that Alessandra Stanley and Maureen Dowd
are double-handedly setting back the very concept of female newspaper
columnists* 25 years every time they write something? Is it something
in the water there?

(* I put the word columnists in there deliberately, because for every
two-bit piece of drivel those two come up with, Jackie Calmes writes
something smart and intelligent on the news side and I wonder why
*she* doesn't get those column inches?)

2. Due to life and various other things, the only TV show I am
actually up-to-date on is The Big Bang Theory. I am on episode six of
last season of 30 Rock (thanks to a 90-minute commuter bus ride each
way to the office), so I hope to be completely caught up on that in
the next couple of weeks.

Here's what's sitting on my hard drive waiting to be watched (all from
original broadcasts, mind you; it's not like I rented a bunch of DVDs
and uploaded them):

Mad Men: most of season 2, all of season 3 and 4
Modern Family: season 1
Being Erica: seasons 1 & 2
Parenthood: season 1
Simpsons: seasons 20 & 21
Family Guy: last half of season 8
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: seasons 3 through 6

The thing that frustrates me on my side is that it's simply a lack of
time on my part to be able to focus on these programs. I have a TiVo
and DVD players galore for background noise programs (SpongeBob,
Simpsons, M*A*S*H*), but rarely do I have the time to just mentally
focus on a show (until this new commute came along).

I have no idea if anyone has this problem, but I just thought I'd
share. Since it took me nearly two weeks to get this link out to the
board, you probably get the picture.

Joe Hass

[Jason Carpio]

I actually put rules in place regarding backlog..

if a show lingers on my DVR or HDD for a month.. i delete and wait for the DVD. 

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[Jon Delfin]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Joe Hass <hassg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.avclub.com/articles/what-really-constitutes-a-spoiler,44508/
>

> 1. Why do I have the feeling that Alessandra Stanley and Maureen Dowd

> are double-handedly setting back the very concept of female newspaper
> columnists* 25 years every time they write something? Is it something
> in the water there?

Idiocy knows no gender.

[Joe Hass]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jon Delfin <jond...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Idiocy knows no gender.
>

I know this to be true, Jon. I hesitated before clicking the "Send
Now" button on Gmail. I know that there's plenty more gallons of the
stupid festering around all over the Internet, and not just at
199.239.136.200. I don't know why I have a different reaction to a
stupid Staley or Dowd column versus, say a stupid Brooks or Friedman
column. I have a theory, but I'll hold it until needed.

[Jon Delfin]

Dowd does have that Pulitzer. I wonder if the awarding committee is
capable of shame.

[David Risner]

My rules is I delete if it's the end of summer and I haven't watched it (except for summer shows which get until Christmas time).

For some unknown reason, I've been catching up with the last half of CSI from last season (unknown being I don't know why I've been watching them; that show has gotten so awful); I didn't finish The Good Wife until 3 weeks ago.

It seems like every season I end up letting one or two shows pileup and watch them in the summer when there are less shows to watch.

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Software Engineer
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[Mark J.]

On Sep 7, 3:39 pm, Jon Delfin <jondel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dowd does have that Pulitzer. I wonder if the awarding committee is
> capable of shame.

I wonder if she's the Bob Greene of New York--a once prodigiously
talented writer who has become a caricature of herself.

[Joe Hass]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mark J. <mjef...@marcrealty.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder if she's the Bob Greene of New York--a once prodigiously
> talented writer who has become a caricature of herself.
>

The better analogy for my money is Rick Reilly, who wrote one of the
greatest pieces of journalism with his Marge Schott profile in SI in
1996 (I remember reading it over and over again when I got that issue,
just because it flowed so incredibly well). He's a parody of himself
now, a columnist at ESPN.com that steals material from himself and
repeats it.

Sports Illustrated: http://sn.im/11u9pw
Deadspin: http://deadspin.com/5616000

[televisiongirl]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Joe Hass <hassg...@gmail.com> wrote:

The better analogy for my money is Rick Reilly, who wrote one of the
greatest pieces of journalism with his Marge Schott profile in SI in
1996 (I remember reading it over and over again when I got that issue,
just because it flowed so incredibly well). He's a parody of himself
now, a columnist at ESPN.com that steals material from himself and
repeats it.

I think Reilly is mostly dreadful but last week's ESPN column was surprisingly entertaining:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5519248

As for Alessandra Stanley, how she is working for any paper - let alone the "paper of record" - after that Walter Cronkite obituary is beyond me. Though it did lead to the best Public Editor column the Times ever had:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02pubed.html

TVG

[Jon Delfin]

And a most misleading URL as well.