I have never been as upset about television as I was yesterday afternoon. A news item blasted round the twitters and tumblrs notified me that my favorite show was going …
Stuff & Things
Nov
16
2011
16
2011
Please Save Us from the Darkest Timeline
I have never been as upset about television as I was yesterday afternoon.
A news item blasted round the twitters and tumblrs notified me that my favorite show was going to be off the mid-season schedule and while this didn’t mean cancellation it also didn’t mean anything good. Sure, I’ve had favorite shows get cancelled and subsequently had my heart harden, which made it harder to accept watching new shows everyone else loves until they’re a few years into their run or completely over just so I don’t risk getting really into something that’s just going to be callously ripped away from me and burned off at odd times in the middle of summer when nobody really watches tv anyway.
Despite all this, I fell head over heels for Community immediately.
Oct
12
2011
12
2011
On Eating a Sugar Cookie.
Before eating.
Sugar cookie you are so pretty and seasonal, what with your pumpkin shape, orange frosting and fall-colored sprinkles. I know I shouldn’t, but I am craving sweets. Plus, the thought of dunking cookies in coffee sounds spectacular.
Aug
24
2011
24
2011
Hollywood Barry Forever
Have you seen A&E’s Storage Wars yet? If you haven’t, quickly find a TV, turn it to A&E and and chances are you’ll find yourself in the third hour of a Storage Wars marathon. I am fairly positive A&E’s entire schedule is just alternating marathons of Storage Wars, Hoarders and Billy the Exterminator so if you see one of those other shows instead of Storage Wars just check back 2-6 hours later.
Storage Wars follows the story of auction bidders as they attempt to win the contents of unpaid storage units in hopes of turning the other people’s mysterious processions into cash. Sometimes they find rare and expensive antiques, sometimes they find some dude’s old, run-down bachelor furniture and sometimes they even find straight-up cash, which just brings up a whole lot of questions about the people who filled the units initially. This American Life chronicled the storage unit auction phenomenon in episode #399 Contents Unknown, if you want more background on the subject or simply can’t get enough Ira Glass.
Aug
11
2011
11
2011
Seeley Lake Mini-Folf
I go to Seeley Lake with my extended family to meet up with another extended family every summer. I’ve been going my whole life, they’ve been going for more than 40 years. That is dedication. I spend the week reading on the beach, sitting by a campfire, drinking a little whiskey and well that’s about it. Paradise!
Jul
1
2011
1
2011
A Little “Pop” for Glacier Country
I was tasked with adding a little “something extra” to the secondary pages of the relaunch and redesign of the Glacier Country website. The site is divided up into 5 sections and then into sub-sections. To set the sections and sub-sections apart I decided I needed content-related art on as many pages as possible. This would direct the eye to links for other pages that we believed the user would find helpful.
Jun
15
2011
15
2011
TAKE MY MONEY.
I’ve gotten to the point this month that I just think I should turn my wallet over to the internet. It is showing me things I would like to purchase but cannot really afford with alarming frequency. This time it is the Gallery 1988 exhibit of artwork inspired by one of my all time favorite movies, Wet Hot American Summer. Some of my favorites follow:
Jun
8
2011
8
2011
Race to the Bottom: Drive Angry
Turns out I love terrible movies. I don’t know what wires got crossed in my brain to cause what has essentially become race to the bottom of the Rotten Tomatoes rankings, but that’s my situation. I see terrible movies as a challenge and if you tell me something is ridiculous or nonsensical, the chance I will watch it skyrockets. I usually watch at least one a week, with friends, as part of an experiment we call Spooky Movie Tuesday.
SPOILER ALERT. I’ve seen the movie and if you haven’t and don’t want to be know a few spoilers, don’t read this.
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Jun
6
2011
6
2011
25 Years of Student Docs
This year the Student Documentary Unit at the University of Montana Radio-Television Department and School of Journalism turned 25. It is now at the point where it is older that many of the students actually taking the class! When I was in school, I saw the student doc unit as the prize for working really really hard on news packages for 3 years.
When it was our turn, my class made “Beyond the Myths: Growing up in Montana” (aka Monteentana). It was a tough semester and I pretty much lived in the edit bay where I worked on the opening and segment-introducing graphics for our film as well as two segments “Jessika” and “Hana”. Fun Fact: our program’s editing studio was in the basement of an 80-year-old house, 530 Eddy, that used to live on campus. I wouldn’t have traded it for anything though, some of my best memories from college happened in that basement.
May
28
2011
28
2011
Forgetful Dad Forgot
It had been too long, I wanted to get back into the After Effects game.
I needed to find a project I had to finish, Not, “I’ll finish eventually” or “I’ll get back to it later,” but something with a hard deadline. Also, it would help if I learned something new, so this wasn’t just a refresher exercise. Enter a two year anniversary of a weird story some friends and I share.
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