Saturday, February 09, 2008

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Using my internet time travel machine, you can go to the past and see the comment written by Anonymous which includes a handy, non-html (and thus not actually handy) link to the Escape to Chimp Eden preview.

I was at my mom's house this weekend and my mom has satellite tv service, so you can imagine my disappoinment when I had to return to NJ four hours before Escape to Chimp Eden started because of an incoming storm. That's ok; re-watching the preview I can't help but think, "Well, that's the show right there." How much more can there be to it?

It's not like The Wire.

Ah, The Wire. Mondays at work are very slow, so I download and watch the previous evening's episode of The Wire when no one is looking/caring. It's fun to work at a newspaper and watch a tv show about a newspaper and think "If I worked at that newspaper, they would fire me for downloading and watching a tv show about my other job." But if the next season of The Wire included a running subplot about the Baltimore drug trade's effect on a chimpanzee rehabilition preserve in South Africa, then they'd ... probably still fire me. But it'd be so worth it!

And speaking of the Baltimore drug trade: Does anybody else watch The Wire and think "There is no way in hell I'm ever visiting Baltimore"? Because wow does the city not come off well in that show. It's like the city has only two different demographics: drug dealers and non-drug dealers, the latter of whom miraculuously resist the urge to commit suicide every morning they wake up and realize they're sharing Baltimore with the former. If there's any justice, the series finale of The Wire will be an hour-long infomercial showing happy, ambitious, successful people living, loving, and working in Baltimore (said infomercial sponsored by the Baltimore Chamber of Non-Drug Commerce).

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