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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
12:37 PM      

Hmmm... guess you can only eggspect sew muck frm ‘The Most Trusted Name in News.’

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“I don't think the purpose of government is to control the people, it's to respond to their will.”
— White House Press Sec. Tony Snow

Oh, right! He was talking about Iraq, not the US government... Besides misleading and manipulation isn't quite the same thing as control.



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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
4:30 PM      

Floyd Odysseus Landis
Well, this year's Tour de France is over, and I doubt that many people who were hoping for an American podium placement were expecting the kind of plot twists this year's race provided.

At the prologue, I'm willing to bet that Hincapie and maybe even Julich were bigger favorites than Landis, and that's not saying much, because there was no resounding favorite. July 22 and 23, the broadcasters chirped poetically about ‘an American in Paris’ for the eighth straight year — something that was looking a bit unlikely even three stages before the grand finale. The twists and turns were more than enough to keep me watching.

Still, there was something soporific about the OLN coverage this year. Maybe they've all been working together too long, and sometimes the tone of Roll, and especially Trautwig was just too soothing. To make matters worse, Paul Sherwin and Phil Liggett were way too obvious in how they would pass their banter back and forth. Example: Phil would pose a question to Paul, who would answer; then Phil would come back and expound on the matter, sounding like a seasoned expert. I guess the idea is that Phil is just standing in for some random member of the audience, who wants to know. Too bad they don't read real viewer e-mail. That might be more interesting.

Phil is the color commentator who tries to call the final sprints like an excited football (soccer?) announcer, and Paul is Mr. arcane facts and big picture. The two of them utter some pretty funny (and recognizable) phrases from the announcer booth, and it turns out the cycling world has responded with the idea of PnP Bingo. It's a great idea — fill cards with a random selection of famous Phil and Paul phrases, and hand them out to the players. Each player crosses off a phrase whenever one of the announcers utter them, preferably while nursing a pint or sipping a fine French wine... Hey, it might just help ward off the nods.

Somewhere toward the middle of this year's coverage, it seemed that Al Trautwig stopped reading web addresses on-air. He had a nasty habit of referring to the slash (/) character as backslash (\) — a common, and fairly annoying malapropism. Maybe Al has been straightened out by now... Either way, thankfully, I won't have to hear Bob Roll say ‘toordayFrance’ again for another year — it makes me cringe every time.

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Warren played at a little club called Society last night. They cooked.

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Diplomacy... whatever.
I don't have a lot to say about the ugly situation in Lebanon right now. I was thoroughly disgusted to read on Sunday that the US was rushing deliveries of ‘precision guided bombs’ to Israel, even as they made noises about a diplomatic mission for Rice. My bet is that the bombardment and combat continue for another two to four weeks, at least.

It's also repulsive that Bush talks about ‘protecting human life’ in the form of embryos, while blithely writing off hundreds thousands of civilian casualties.

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Well, at least it's a paycheck, I guess.

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HeadOn: Apply directly to the forehead (repeat 3x)...
Looks like the same company also markets ActivOn and FreedHem hemorrhoid cream. All of them are applied directly to where the pain is, and their favorite announcer trick is repeating their annoying catchphrase three times in rapid succession. I'm not sure if I actually saw an Enzyte commercial right after a HeadOn commercial, but I suddenly imagined what the commercial would sound like if those guys came out with a ‘male enhancement’ [wink-wink] product — HardOn: apply directly to the penis (repeat 3x)...



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