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Summer, 2008
Want Something
Praised or, well..."slashed"...? Send a note, and
we'll add it to the list!
 Slash : To
all the TV dramas which seem to have the
needle stuck in the groove...specifically, at the local radio station.
Sure, the lead character of Men in Trees was already a radio DJ
last season, though her radio diatribes this season seemed to take up
more than a third of each episode...or at least that's how these boring
moments seemed; one of many reasons, frankly, that the series was
unsurprisingly cancelled. Likewise for Army Wives, where every other
scene of the season two premiere had Pamela on the radio, narrating what
had happened with the most boring metaphors this side of a 30 cent
greeting card. If we wanted narratives this droll, we'd be listening to
the actual radio. Enough with the radio DJ story arcs, kids, and get
back to good storytelling.
Slash : To
Greatest American Dog deteriorating into "Greatest Reasons to Eliminate
Cute Dogs Because of their Jackass Owners." There's nothing else to say
about this one, really. A show that was supposed to be about cute dogs
has deteriorated into a show where the owners do something stupid and
the judges eliminate the dog for the trainer's stupidity. Whatever.
 DOT
: To an ingenious way
to add a "Marvel crossover" to two recently released superhero movies.
It's rare for a "crossover" appearance in the marvel comics to not be a
popular issue. It makes the whole Marvel "universe" seem much more
alive; photographer Peter Parker (Spider Man) is the journalist on hand
for every news story, while Reed Richards (The Fantastic Four) is
on hand for every high tech science experiment. So along comes the
new Incredible Hulk movie, and the military needs a weapons expert to
give his advice on how to defend against the Hulk. Which company do they
get their weapons from? Why not; Stark Industries, the same company from
Iron Man. Robert Downey Junior even reprises his role
as Tony Stark. It's a little moment, yet its these attentions to detail
that make the whole movie more Marvel-friendly. So what's next...? Will
Jessica Alba's Invisible Woman offer her invisible shield in the next
Iron Man? Will Peter Parker make a cameo? The ideas are endless...and
enjoyably so.
DOT
: To an "E for
everyone" game company
showing some stones. While few game companies dared release anything the same week as
Grand Theft Auto IV...Nintendo sure did, when they decided to release
the highly anticipated
Mario Kart on the Wii, just two days before GTA4's launch date. If you ask me; this
was brilliant. For one thing Mario Kart is a totally cool game.
For another it is coincidentally a G-rated car game, so Rockstar tackles
the mature age groups while Nintendo rakes in the younger game crowd the
same week.The good news for Nintendo is that most of these gamers will
most likely go to the store for GTA 4, see Mario Kart, and buy that too.
The good news for gamers is not feeling "corralled" into buying any one
game. Sure; most of them will buy both games, though how boring is it to
be "forced" to play one new game for weeks on end? Now we don't have to.
Thanks for that, Nintendo!
Slash : To
the Check Mii Out Channel, and it's oddball "initials" for every
character's name. Sure; the best Miis are so
dead-on-perfect, you need no description to know that someone's Mii is
meant to be, for example, Super Mario. Yet many Miis are of people that
look familiar though...what's their name again? Don't bother looking at
the name of the character: the Check Mii Out channel abbreviates all
names to mere initials. There doesn't seem to be any coherent reason for
this "initial" nonsense, so can someone please end this, with a patch?
Make it so.
DOT
: To someone finally
winning Big Brother in a manner that didn't want us to kick in the
screens of our TV sets! Adam won Big Brother: 'Till Death Do Us Part,
and for the most part fans are happy. Sure they would've preferred
someone from the James/Sharon/Joshua alliance to win, though compared to
the abysmal season that ended with sardonic father/daughter duo Dick and
Danielle, this season was pretty good. See
the full review ---and
Techtite's rating of each contestant--- on the TV review page. Enjoy.
Slash : To
all those seedy gossip photo sites that "watermark" their photos. Look; nobody is expecting the works of Picasso or Da
Vinci when perusing online gossip rags, though yes; they should try to
protect copyrighted material that is theirs. And yet; the majority of these
sites have already stolen the photos from other sites...Then they watermark the photos! I'm not saying that a
gossip site shouldn't protect itself, IF it's the originator of the
photos. Yet googling the same photos shows the truth; these guys stole
the photos from any of a dozen similar sites, then watermarked them.
Dare one ask why? Perhaps it's best not to ask. All I know is:
watermarking photos is the surest sign of making the photo (and the
site) worthless. Something to think about before watermarking photos
that were stolen to begin with.
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