Ramblings of a Desiccated Mind

Welp, spit and polished, it's in the mail, on the way to FL.

Man, do I want this.

Yes, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win.

But I'll get over it.

My dear friend asks: "why would America be headed for deep shit if PI got canceled?"

For almost ten years, Bill Maher has been in the hot seat. He was far more viscious when he was on Comedy Central, but, within the length of his leash, he has been as extreme as he can be about what's going on in the news. He is the only one that takes this position. He doesn't do "funny," he does factual. He is the most honest personality on television, period.

His show took the Meet the Press model and infused a celebrity element, therefore making the average late night talk show junkies (who shall remain nameless =) more willing to sit through stuff that would be a mindless blurb on the news, therefore getting the viewer to think, "Well, that's interesting." Outside of TDC, I never use the phrase "that's interesting" when watching network television. His design was to always have a wild card, someone who would, without question, point the conversation at a weird angle. This was important to the nature of the show because it gave guests a really interesting perspective from which to argue. No one could hold directly to their party lines. And Bill takes no shit, either.

If Bill goes off the air then all we're left with is the idiocy that is the modern sitcom, reality shows where people eat bugs, the talk shows, the dating shows, the UPN shows that give "cooning" a bad rap, the infomercials, the afterschool specials, the kiddie shows that do nothing but pander to an LCD rather than try to spark the imagination, and a host of other vile, wretched things that are making me sad to even think about that will have to fill the void when he's gone . . . Jimmy Kimmel, sheesh. Bill was one of us, right here in the middle, who looks around and goes, "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON OUT THERE!?!?!? THIS SHIT IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!" And then he got the people who could speak to those points to try and answer his questions. I feel that the average nature of those discussions over the years have been interesting, challenging, and an important part of modern American discourse.

Bill Maher is a true patriot.

Politically Incorrect best personifies true American values.

Bill, I will miss you.

Please don't stay away for too long.

You should go to HBO.

They'll leave you the fuck alone, and you'll finally get to do what you really want . . . to tell that SALT bitch to get fucked.

Here's something I've been thinking about:

Why do bad CGI FX look worse than bad Stop-Motion effects? The Stop-Motion stuff mattes worse, has a lower frame rate, looks cheap . . . yet . . . somehow . . . it's acceptable. I got to thinking about this watching The Evil Dead the other night. That Claymation shit at the end is so weak, and, yet, so repulsive. It's just effective.

If that stunt had been done with CGI it just would have been ludicrous. Totally unconvincing. Why is that?

I think I know.

When you're dealing with Stop-Motion, you have a physical object. You have an actual thing that has to be dealt into the composition. With CGI, it's all grids and numbers. You have to go really far to get reality.

Well, that was worth the time.

says "nucular."