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Smash Your TV

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Submitted by roland on Thu 2011-01-06 20:36 #

hulk-tv-smash-good :-)

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Submitted by roland on Thu 2011-01-06 20:37 #

TV Techno detritus - 01062011756
:-)

Submitted by deleted on Tue 2011-01-18 22:42 #

I smashed mine back in 1999 and haven't gotten another one since.

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Previously owned by a lazy moron?

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Submitted by highplains on Fri 2009-07-31 12:45 #

lol

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In Soviet Russia, TV watches you!

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Submitted by rocketcandy on Tue 2008-11-04 12:43 #

haha. saw these at a skytrain station yesterday too! maybe they can play candid camera reruns for us :P

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Wed 2008-11-05 12:30 #

Candid camera footage *from* the securtity cameras? Maybe they could broadcast footage from one station into another station? Then we could play inter-station games.

(And spy on people.)

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Vancouver Canucks Beeramid

Clearly both the people involved in creating it and the CBC were clearly looking for something to do in the 4 overtimes that it took the Canucks to win it.

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Help Stewart watch the BBC (BBC1 and BBC2) in Canada
"Sadly TV in North America seriously sucks."

Morally Superior

Sarah: “as anyone else observed the phenomenon of non-TV watchers who will spend hours watching shows on DVD and think that it's somehow morally superior, since you avoid the commercials?”

Setting Aside: The Wire

After searching through Jason Kottke's site for links about The Wire, and remembering his strong recommendation of season 3, it feels a little strange to say that after watching both the first and second seasons, it's time for a break. Season 4 is currently in progress, so I don't feel like there's too much left to get caught up, meaning I can wait until the holidays and use the hour or two gained from not watching Baltimore homicide and narcotics cops catch the bad guys to catch up on the first season of space pilots battling their robotic creations.

Thoughts so far on the first two seasons: lots of parallels between it and Homicide: Life on the Streets. Both are set in Baltimore, Maryland. Both have homicide detectives joining police raids while wearing bullet-proof vests. Both have black ink on the whiteboard for solved cases ("clearances" in The Wire, meaning they passed it on to the district attorneys), and red for unsolved cases, like the 14 Jane Does in Season 2. Both had the district attorney's office as a largely tangential player, but from what I remember, The Wire has more politics. (A running theme is that if you follow the drugs, all you find are drug users and drug dealers, but if you follow the money, you don't know what you'll find.) Homicide was a little edgier, especially with the editing, and dark, and maybe a little better. But then again, it didn't have Method Man acting as one of the gangsters.

Like Some Kind of Geographic Secret Handshake

Remember when I said I don't watch TV? Come on, you remember. Well, that's over now: BitTorrent and DVD rentals are my new TV. Here's what I'm watching (contains spoilers if you haven't yet seen them).

Prison Break: I initially downloaded episodes to catch up with the first season, but now I do it because they show it on Mondays at 8 o'clock, which is about the time my girlfriend and I are on the phone. (Aww.) The show is utterly preposterous: in one recent episode we see escaped convicts Michael Scofield and Fernando Sucré falling into a river only to see them in the next scene high and dry, the former wearing different clothes giving the latter a note from his pocket. That's on top of all everything else in the second season: now that they've escaped from prison, the FBI and "The Company" and the prisoners' former guards are on their tail, each prisoner with their own story line, involving revenge, marriage, clearing their name, and so on. At least they killed off the annoying characters (Veronica Donnavan, "Tweener") but shit's ridiculous. And yet I watch.

Battlestar Galactica: I finally watched the miniseries on DVD as well as a few episodes I had already seen and can see what people like about it. Almost everything about it—the story and the morals in the story, acting, soundtrack, the effects—are great. Almost? It tends to gloss over a few things, like how Boomer landed her ship after leaving Caprica. But something tells me they explain that later on.

The Wire: Jason Kottke wouldn't shut up about it, so I watched the entire first season over a span of a couple weeks. Set in Baltimore, the first season takes us inside the low-rises of the projects, with the police trying to break down a drug operation. The second season takes us to the docks and inside the dock workers' union. (The title refers to wiretaps placed on pay-phones and pagers in the drug dealer network.) Unlike Prison Break, The Wire seems intent on killing off the most interesting characters, like Wallace in the first season (unfairly, he just wanted out of the game) and almost Kima, the black lesbian. In season two, they kill of D'Angelo and make it look like a suicide, also for wanting out of the game (but also because they were afraid he'd snitch or already had). The series introduces me to slang like "mope", "the bug", and "suction". Also interesting is how they namedrop neighbourhoods, like some kind of geographic secret handshake. (I wonder if that's how Vancouverites felt about Da Vinci's Inquest.) Other things I learned about Baltimorians: they swear every third word and are all alcoholics, especially Baltimore cops. Oh, and don't fuck with Omar.

Buddy Rolling a Big-Screen TV Across Seymour

He was trying to sell it to passers-by.

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Behind the scenes of Tod Maffin's bit on CBC TV about Canadian politicians and blogging
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