The (I)CRVN Blog

Wow…  It’s been a while since I posted anything here…  Well, I’ve got a post that will be up in a couple of hours, but I wanted to post a couple of notes and observations on long gone stuff no one cares about anymore:

• Did anyone watch that two-day “special” on ABC recently called Thin Ice?  It was a screwy ice skating competition designed to take advantage of the recent Olympics, and copy once again the Dancing With the Stars success.  Well, at least ABC hoped it would share that DWTS success.  They even went so far as to copy the judging format: like DWTS, Thin Ice featured a hot Asian with plenty of knowledge of the activity in question (Kristi Yamaguchi), an aging poof no one really cares about (Dick Button), and the out-of-their-skull foreigner (Katarina Witt).  They even had the kinda-cute yet mostly annoying co-host (Elisabeth Hasselbeck) paired with the trying-too-hard host (Kurt Browning).  SOmehow, I doubt this show will be back.
• Formula One is back!  Woo!  This makes me almost as happy as the fact that Michael Schumacher has been out-raced by his younger team-mate both races so far.
• Re-listening to the old NPR radio drama performances of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, and as good an adaptation as it is, it does make me laugh that to fill “dead air” during purely visual scenes from the film, added dialogue makes Luke whinier!
• I don’t normally get into (poor choice of words) celebrity scandals or the like, but I have to say…  (A) His name is Jesse James.  That should be clue one that he’s not the most trustworthy.  (B) His second wife was a porn star.  Why are we surprised that he’s a bit freaky? (C) “Skittles Valentine?”  Please.

In the next couple of weeks (starting in a couple of hours), I will be posting entries on the gullibility of the average American, why Virginia’s governor needs some schoolin’, and what’s wrong with thie newest trend in food: Umami.  Thanks for coming back!