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#127 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 18, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, seafood, television, television reviews | 5 comments

That’s right. You guys couldn’t take the “creative” and “adventurous” stuff, so here we are. Back to Adam’s and my invigorating “real life”. Like watching a marathon of Discovery’s ‘Deadliest Catch’. Which makes a riveting comic to read, right?

Honestly though, the show, Deadliest Catch is kind of amazing and horrible. I mean, it is hands down the most intense reality show of all time, a guy actually died on one of the episodes I watched. Talk about raising the reality stakes. Forget houswives and their ridiculous rich woman woes, and the sluttiness of rock of love hos, and even my cherished chimpanzee bros…dudes DIE on this show. I did a little rhyming for you there…did you enjoy it? Good, because it will probably never happen again. Anyway, the show is pretty crazy. It is really fascinating to see how these men (and one whiny woman) live with these dangerous jobs and lives, although it suffers from the same problems of all reality shows, too much padding and recapping, too much repetitive stuff overall, but otherwise a pretty scary show…or maybe I’m just super afraid of the Bering Sea…which could totally be my own issue…

#119 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

April 8, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, television, television reviews | 4 comments

Sadly, even though it is BAD I’m still pretty interested in it. Despite the fact that they didn’t handle much well in the entire first season I keep finding myself wondering how they will handle the interesting things to come in the second season. As a matter of fact, I have so much to say about this show that I’m going to do another post today about it…I would do it now, but I don’t want to delay Rabid Lamb any more than I have already…

#96 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 6, 2008 in boyfriends, cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, relationships, technology, television | 6 comments

What are people thinking?! Crazy stuff.

Project Runway last night…I’m not surprised…were you?

I had this whole rant I wanted to do about The Millionaire Matchmaker (yes, I’ve seen enough episdoes that I have to admit I “watch” the show – but since I watch it largely for comedic value does that make it slightly less disturbing? I think so) anyway, on the finale of Matchmaker this past week, a millionaire (and a good catch of one too – attractive, 6’4, well spoken, educated, not creepy, and well…a MILLIONAIRE) proposed to his date on their first date. And crazier news, the bitch said yes! WHAT?!?!?!?! What world am I living in?

They had known each other for less than 24 hours and spent less than six hours together. INSANE. But it made me think a little bit about the rush that everyone seems to be in to get married, well okay, it didn’t make me want to think about it, it made me want to rant about it angrily on my blog. So here we are.

What is the freaking rush people? How can you possibly know someone can be a good partner for you in six months…even a year is pushing it if you ask me. Nine times out of ten I’d say proposing before you’ve known each other for a year is insane (there are exceptions – Jessica if you’re reading I probably mean you ;). know there is, especially on a woman’s side of things, a rush if you’re in your thirties and want to have children, but you know what – rushing into the wrong relationship, or even one that seems good but hasn’t had the chance to develop yet because you haven’t even been with that person for an entire year (!) is crazy…sure you might get your kid(s) by the time you’re 36 or 38 or 40 or whatever your magic number for that is, but maybe you’ll be in a crappy marriage too…or divorced…or I don’t know, what’s worse than a crappy marriage?

It’s just silly.

#90 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

February 27, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, escape to chimp eden, television, television reviews | 6 comments

This is a great little new show. You may have seen an ad for it in an actual theater – which is where Adam and I first heard about it, and marks maybe the first time ever that I wasn’t pissed to be watching an ad in a theater. It is a good show, but there are some problems, it can get a little repetitive and neither Adam or I like the opening.

Eugene Cussons, the “host” I guess is what you’d call him, is charming, without being overly nice and sweet and “perform-y” for the camera, and sometimes you can see that other than saving chimps for a living he might kind of be a dick…which oddly, makes me like him more, if only because he seems more real. He’s got a great foreign accent (South African? I’m not sure) but that also makes me like him more…I’m a sucker for a British-like accents. The real stars of course are the chimps which are insanely cute and human-like, especially the young ones, which tend to be less scarred and traumatized and more interested in just hanging out with Eugene and being adorable and climbing trees.

The show consists of three primary elements – Eugene finding and rescuing chimps that are being mistreated, or that have been stolen, or are scheduled for termination (etc.); dealing with the frustrating details of the respective governments and travel and the myriad of other obstacles that get put in his way; and Chimp Eden itself, which is primarily a beautiful fenced in reserve where he can rehabilitate the chimps. My favorite bits are of course at Chimp Eden, if only because it seems less sad and more sweet and optimistic than seeing how badly many of these animals are treated, however the show can turn on a dime. Last week as Jao, a big “grandfather chimp” in “The Kindergarden” (he’s in with the young chimps because he is too aggressive to be in with the adults) all of a sudden tried to yank off Eugene’s boot – pulling him out of a tree – and almost taking his foot off. They constantly remind you on the show that the chimps are ten times stronger than a human, but man is it easy to forget. Eugene kept his foot (and his boot) in the end, but it was really intense.

Escape To Chimp Eden is on Friday’s at 9pm on Animal Planet, although you can catch repeats all the time as well.

You can learn more about the show here and can also check out a clip on youtube here, it’s not the greatest clip, not the one I would choose, but the best one I could find today.

#88 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

February 25, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, television, writing | 6 comments

Does this happen to anyone else? This weekend was a perfect example. I had cleared a lot of time for writing (and drawing) but I wanted to focus mostly on writing and specifically on some short stories that are on the brink of being ready for submission, yet I really only managed to write for a couple hours on Sunday night. Why oh why does this happen? It is SO frustrating. I literally fantisize about how awesome it is going to be to be home and writing when I am at work or doing anything else, but when the time comes things always get in my way, and sometimes I even seem to put things there. Very frustrating.

Panel #4’s text is a shout out to Adam. I think we all hate it when cop shows have some crappy grainy footage which they are magically able to “enhance” to see someone’s face, or on this specific show I was watching, it was a cop’s badge number, but Adam hates it more than anyone. A show I was watching recently got a cop’s badge number off some grainy two seconds of footage. Literally the line as the actor left the “lab tech techy” was “Increase the resolution, do whatever you have to do, but get me that badge number!” Seriously? When will this stop? Are the writers the ones that are so stupid? Producers? How does this happen when most of the semi-tech savy world knows shit like this is impossible?

Anyone watch the Oscars? My man Jon Stewart was great as always, and some well deserved wins with some nice surprises mixed in there. Here’s a list of the nominees and winners in case you missed out and are curious.

Thank The Gods…

February 21, 2008 in awesomeness, entertainment, television | 4 comments

NBC has put a well deserved bullet in Bionic Woman…whoo-hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Ausiello-Scoop-Nbc/800033772

To answer the question at the end of this short article – “what felled Bionic Woman in the end?” It was absolutely without a doubt the horrible wooden performance of lead actress Michelle Ryan, unless it was her performance combined with the off the charts bad writing…

#80 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

February 13, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, technology, television | 4 comments

Okay, nobody panic, he’s not actually going to kill anyone, or anyone’s kids. He just really really hates these people. Adam kind of hates rich people period (which is too bad, because someday I hope to be one…y’know, a rich person) but he REALLY hates these “Housewives” of Orange County women and their children. He’s right. It is a terrible terrible show. Which I promise not to watch anymore, which is easy to say now, since the season is over.

As a hilarious sidenote, I randomly stumbled upon (ironically not through the stumble upon site) on this awesome website Pretty On The Outside. The writer/artist there has a great bit on this horrible show, complete with crazily accurate (and pretty awesome) drawings of the women on the show. If you’ve ever seen the show, and hate it like I do, but feel compelled to watch it when you see it on you should check out his summaries and drawings. Great stuff.

Updates: Computer. Who-Hoo! I’m up and running. Had to buy a new Mac Mini ($599) with the Extended Three Year Warranty ($149). It’s too bad, as who just has $800 bucks lying around, but there are few things more important to me these days than my computer, so there really wasn’t a choice. The positive side is that it is faster (yay intel!) and has double the hard drive space of my old machine and now I know I’m good for 3 years, AND most importantly of all – my external hard drive has proved to be fine and all my data is intact. First on the agenda this long weekend…burning back up CDs…!

Writer’s Strike. It’s over! Yay! Bring on the work…and if new TV shows come back that’s okay too.

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