Television : Supernatural and Vonnegut
So in this weird increasing trend of me actually watching this big blocky television I have and actually using my cable for something other then weather reports and cartoon network, I spent a little bit of time in front of it tonight.
Supernatural was weird. At least the end of it was. Only say the last maybe fifteen or twenty minutes of it. Anyone see the entire thing and have an impression of it?
The premise, from what I could tell, was two brothers whose father has been hunting down supernatural killers but has disappeared and they are trying to find him now. One of them saw their mother get killed by something supernatural as a child.
Law & Order : SVU was decent. Story was the military using an anti-malarial drug with known side effects that was causing soldiers to murder and rape. Basically the sort of story where I spent most of the time thinking "Is this really supposed to surprise or shock me in some manner?" as I was watching it. Yes, I really am that cynical.
Daily Show with Jon Stewart though was the highlight of the night. At the end of the broadcast they had Kurt Vonnegut ( as in "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Breakfast of Champions" ) as a guest.
Vonnegut was hilarious. Despite looking ancient, he still had a sharp tongue in his mouth and a funny bit of wit to him. At the end he pulled out a list of 'shit I am tired of listening to' and the one he had a chance to read was "forgive us our tresspasses, as we forgive those that tresspass against us" and his comment was something along the lines of 'someone tresspass against me and I am going to cut them'. Jon Stewart said he'd have the list posted up on the Daily Show website, but I am not seeing it at the moment.
Edit: ktbuffy let me know that the list has been posted up. It can be found here.
5 Comments:
My friend Ali, whose blog is linked to mine, was on that episode of Law & Order! She was the general's secretary, I think.
And I missed the Daily Show to play CoH (just WHERE are my priorities!?!?) but I'll catch it today on reruns.
Wed Sept 14, 07:15:00 am GMT-7
That is soo cool!
The only show I've ever been on was Ramblin' Rod which was a kids cartoon show they used to have in Portland.
It was a bleacher full of kids, some fake tug boat thing, and Rod who was this funny guy who had a vest covered in buttons people would bring him as gifts. And you got prizes for making a funny face on camera.
Wed Sept 14, 09:28:00 am GMT-7
Vonnigut is on a book tour promoting his new book. He was NPR yester day and he let loose with some of the "shit he is tired of" and it was reall quite a good and funny bunch of things.
Wed Sept 14, 11:44:00 am GMT-7
Kurt's list is up!!
Wed Sept 14, 08:40:00 pm GMT-7
Cool. Going to edit the post then with a link to it. Thanks for letting me know! Had forgotten to go and look for that again.
Wed Sept 14, 11:25:00 pm GMT-7
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