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Two Tivos To Paradise 07.27.12: The 300th Edition of Two Tivos To Paradise!
Posted by
Al Norton
on 07.27.2012
Mad Men
and more, Ben Affleck, Joel McHale, Katee Sackhoff, Alison Sweeney and others list their most underrated and overrated shows in the 300th column of Two Tivos to Paradise!
Hello friends. As I get older – I turn 41 this year – I realize that all the stories I have that I think take place 8 or 9 years ago are now actually 15 years old (at least), so it's not a shock that I find it hard to believe that it's been six years since I debuted Two Tivos To Paradise at 411mania.com. I got my start on the site sending questions in to Leonard Hayhurst's fantastic Ask 411 Movies column, got turned down to write a NBA column for the site's now-defunct Sports page, and then, after coming up with the name month's before hand, jumped at the chance to pitch the Powers That Be on TTTP when I saw a posting about needing new Movie/TV columnists.
If you've got a few minutes you should use the links below to pull up my first column. First off, it was pretty damn short, at least compared to the novel-like dispatches I provide weekly currently. Second, it was all over the place. IT took me a few weeks…ok, months…maybe a year or two...to find my voice, along the way accumulating a truckload of epic fails and losses of all credibility. Yet here we are, at the start of my THREE HUNDRETH column!!!!
The folks at 411mania have my eternal thanks for giving me a shot, with special shout outs to Ashish, Leonard, Larry, and Chad for helping me along the way. The roster of 411mania writers is really quite strong in their skill and diverse in their opinions, which makes being a part of the site such a joy. I have to give a special mention to Tony Farinella, a young man with a purity of heart and soul the likes of which I wasn't sure was still possible in this jaded, cynical world.
There's a group of talented individuals we like to call "Friends of TTTP", folks who have made 3 or more appearances on these pages. Aside from always offering up entertaining and insightful quotes, they also allow the column to reach a wider audience by their presence. The group includes Sally Pressman, Danielle Fishel, Katee Sackhoff, Mark Schwan, Neal Baer, Shawn Hatosy, Anne Dudek, Matt Iseman, Vik Sahay, James Marsters, Jenni Pulos, Chris Hardwick, Eddie McClintock, Keith Powell, Will Dailey, Adam Richman, Andrew Zimmern, and the King and Queen of TTTP, Joel McHale and Alison Sweeney.
I am fully aware that many of you wouldn't have become readers without the assistance of Bill Simmons, who continues to be an inspiration to me, proving that as long as the content is interesting, people will read long form pieces on the internet.
No list of thank you's from this address would be complete without mentioning the TTTP All-Stars, a group of incredibly talented men and women who work in the world of PR and without whom I would never have access to any of the wonderful television folks who have stopped by over the years. Some of them work for PR firms, others doing publicity for the networks, but they all make my job a LOT easier, and, to be honest, they all are quite lovely people. While I apologize in advance to anyone I have forgotten, we offer up thanks and praise to Carrie Simons, Amanda Ruisi, Lee Wallman, Mona Loring, Jordyn Borczon , Jenni Weinman, Page Bingham, Craig Schneider, Annie Chen, Nicole Walther, Mike Liotta, Nicole Chabot, Dominique Grignetti, Cynthia Arntzen, Lisa Goldberg, Morgan DiStefano, Megan Tantillo, Kannie Yu Lupack, Michelle Rosenblatt, Rebecca Feldbin, Michelle Rodriguez, Tanya Taylor, Lauren LaRocca, Maureen Grandos, Erica Gray, Lynn Weiss, Joy Phillips, Chad Collins, Ashley Barrett, and others.
THE TTTP Facebook community has become a HUGE part of who we are and what we do and I am thrilled so many of you have joined us there. It's not just about delivering the news as it happens; it's the way in which I get to interact with all of you and watch as you go back and forth with each other that provides me such great pleasure. It's difficult to find a place on the internet where passionate people can have healthy, civil discourse and I'm thrilled that the TTTP FB page has become just that.
I continue to be lucky to have my brother Walter in my life, for the way he challenges my opinions, laughs at my jokes, and offers his unconditional love.
Becoming a Dad has changed me in ways I never thought possible and it's also deepened my appreciation for the wonder of television as now I get to see certain shows through their eyes. The twins are an incredible inspiration to me each and every day.
Anything I have written or will write is done only because of the support and love I receive from Mrs. Tivo, who is as passionate and loyal a person as I have ever met, which makes me all the more lucky that she is also the love of my life. Thank you, Tina.
Well I have known all those things and the joy they can bring, and I'll share them with you for a cup of coffee and to wear your news.
So Bring Your Good Times And Your Laughter, Too, We're Gonna Celebrate Your Party With You
For this anniversary column we continued with our celebrity round up theme of previous years, asking folks to answer the following questions:
*What's a past-or-present show that others love but you've just never understood the appeal?
*What's a past-or-present show that you love where you're clearly in the minority?
*You can control the time-space continuum and give any show in TV history one more season; what show would it be and why?
Some gave us short answers, some went into more detail, and we thank each and every person who took part. As always, these answers were given exclusively to TTTP for use in this column.
Matt Iseman is the co-host of American Ninja Warrior on NBC as well as Style's Clean House. He was also the co-winner of the 2008 Two Tivos To Paradise TV Entertainer of the Year Award. He is such a loyal friend of TTTP that the leadoff spot in our anniversary columns is his as long as he wants it
*Hmmm… I'm torn between Mad Men & Lost. I gave both multiple tries and just couldn't buy in. Both shows had time travel, lots of smoke and some other stuff that I don't remember because I just found both so utterly boring. I salute any show that inspires the passion that both these shows have, but, sometimes I think their fans are just pretending to like the shows to be cool. But thinking that makes me feel like I'm just some pawn trapped in a parallel universe as part of an experiment. Or in the 60s.
*Well, my first thought is the show that I feel is the greatest show of all time, Friday Night Lights. As it ended up canceled, I'd say it never got the love it deserved, but, critically it was beloved.
So, I'll go with a show where I truly was in the minority in my love for it and that was Reaper, a show where parents sold their son's soul to the Devil. It was a comedy. I love Missy Peregrym and Ray Wise was awesome as Lucifer himself, but Tyler Labine created one of the funniest characters of all time with Sock.
*Well, after 300 columns, I do believe Two Tivos to Paradise has the power to alter the fabric of time. It is a great power that, based on my previous answer you'd think I would use to give me one more glimpse of Reaper or another season of Coach Taylor on Friday Night Lights or even to bring back Sports Soup (yes, selfishly, I would like another season of me). But I would request one more season of Party Down. It's a show I found on Netflix and watched 2 seasons in about 4 days… one of the funniest shows I've seen, but, it left me wondering, will Henry & Casey find true love? Gimme one more season to find out.
Alicia Logano stars as Selena on Lifetime's The Client List, which will return for its second season in 2013. She can be heard on the big screen in the animated film ParaNorman later this year.
*Smash. The chemistry seems off and I don't believe it lives up to its hype.
*Shameless. The writing is great and however outlandish it may seem, it's pulled off in a very realistic way.
*Freaks and Geeks. Great cast, great writing and was as different back then as it would be now if it was still on the air.
Jon Hein is the host of Destination America's Fast Food Mania as well as member of The Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio. He will also go down in history as the creator of the phrase, "jump the shark."
*Glee. I have kids who like it, and I love music, but I just don't get Glee. Never did, never will, just not for me.
*The easy answer is Arrested Development. I loved that show. I think it was one of the most brilliantly written shows, way ahead of its time. It was an Emmy winner and I was shocked it just couldn't find an audience. What a shame. It always baffled me that people didn't watch.
*Two answers. First is The Twilight Zone with Rod Serling. I'd love another season with Rod Serling at the helm because that to me is some of the greatest television ever created. A more contemporary answer is The Wire. I would love to get another season of The Wire.
Kelly Stables starred in ABC's Romantically Challenged, although it's her run as Alan's secretary on Two and a Half Men that she is best known for. She can be seen Wednesday nights at 10:30pm on TV Land as a regular on The Exes.
*Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Sorry. I know my sister in Kansas and half of America would disagree, but I just don't get it.
*Get ready for it... Toddlers & Tiaras! Can't get enough. When I was a toddler I wasn't allowed to be all frilly & fancy. My trunk of dress-up clothes consisted of my Dad's old shirt, a ragged tutu from a garage sale, and old Halloween costumes. I always wanted to dress up like a princess, but the closest I got was a homemade aluminum foil tiara. Looking back, I'm grateful b/c I think it encouraged creativity instead of vanity. Now, if I have a girl will I let her dress like the girls in T&T? Heck no! She's getting the same mismatched assortment of vaudeville-like attire I got. But until then, I'll keep watching T&T b/c after all, they look so cute!
* Uh... hello?? THE EXES on TV Land! Only I'd give it a good 10 more seasons. I absolutely love my job, and I get to play with some of the funniest actors in the Entertainment industry. The writing on our show makes me laugh out loud, and then "laugh more" if you will. And if there's one thing that can make ya feel good no matter what, it's a good laugh. Teehee.
Terence Bernie Hines has a lengthy TV resume, with guest spots on everything from Malcolm in the Middle and The Bernie Mac Show to ER to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to My Name is Earl and Raising Hope. He will be seen on the big screen with Ben Stiller and Kristin Wiig in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
*Jersey Shore. I mean, what else is there to say?"
*I loved Detroit 187! Two reasons: 1. Great acting and 2. great story lines – and producers who were not afraid to "go there" on any subject. Oh, and by the way, I'm from Detroit!
*That would be "The Sopranos." That damned ending. What a gip! I wanted to see Tony and his family either get away clean or get to sleep with the fishes. Does AJ grow up and get his own family or does he end up getting himself killed and bring Tony back into the game just as he was trying to pull away?! And what about Meadow? So many possibilities. They still could've gone out on top after even another season!
Elena Satine stars as Judy Silver on the Starz' original drama Magic City.
*I don't know if White Collar is cool or not...but I'm the only person I know who watches it.
*Reunion ...too many unanswered questions that still haunt me to this day.
Giles Matthey can be seen on the current season of HBO's True Blood as Claude, Sookie's fairy guide.
*Gossip Girl
*I'm Alan Partridge. To me this was the birth of the humor that is now everywhere and influenced comics like Ricky Gervais.
*The UK Office. It is just flawless. Rarely does anything hit the absolute core and epitomizes how a nation thinks, feels, and operates. Everyone has met all of the characters in their life which is why it is so brilliant!
Stacy A. Littlejohn is the creator, executive producer, & head writer of VH1's Single Ladies.
* Star Trek
*The Big Bang Theory
* I would give "Cheers" another season. I remember literally welling up on the last episode, because I felt like I was losing a good friend that I was used to hanging out with every Thursday night. I loved Sam, Diane and Rebecca. I loved each character. Norm, Carla, Cliff, Frasier, Woody, Coach... There are more to name, but they were all super funny and so distinct – and most importantly, well written.
Johnathan McClain was already a critically acclaimed stage performer when he booked the lead role on TV Land's Retired at 35, which can be seen Wednesdays at 11pm.
* I dunno, maybe it's just me, but doesn't anyone else find AMOS N' ANDY to be kinda, y'know, racist?
* My tastes are usually in line with majority opinion, but I guess I'd have to say...anything Johnathan McClain has been in thus far.
* Look, if I can control the time-space continuum, I've got a few other things I'm gonna do first. I'd stop Hitler, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin; then I'd prevent 9/11; and after that I'd make sure I got in on Apple stock early. Then, time allowing, I'd renew THE WIRE in perpetuity until the world ends - and give it its inexplicably overlooked Emmys.
Rebecca Da Costa will be seen starring opposite Robert De Niro and John Cusack on the big screen in Motel in 2013.
*Reality TV shows.
*Nero Wolfe.
*Desperate Housewives! I love those girls. They were hilarious and a delight to watch.
Will Dailey is the official singer/songwriter of TTTP, and his latest album, Will Dailey and the Rivals, is available everywhere music is sold. His songs have appeared on numerous TV series including NCIS, Gossip Girl, 90210, CSI: NY, and Army Wives, and he has performed on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as well as The CBS Morning Show.
*Where do I start? Friends? Housewives of anywhere? Anything with a Hospital in it.
*I think it is safe to say that people who love and appreciate Community are in the minority. I also felt in the minority within that community with my affection for the "Ken Burns Effect" episode. It married my love of the Burns Civil War Documentary with pillow fights. My Community friends could have cared less and maybe it insulted a few people who had great great great great great relatives in the civil war or those injured in pillow fights.
*I'll go into the future and save Community from cancelation next year and then go into the past and give Taxi one more year.
Alex Frnka is one of the stars of the new MTV comedy series The Inbetweeners, premiering August 20th.
*Samantha Who?
*Arrested Development. That show was absolutely hilarious and I miss the characters so much! It seems my wish is coming true, too ;)
Noel Fisher was one of the stars of History's record breaking mini-series Hatfields & McCoys and will be seen later this year in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part Two. He also appeared on the second season of Showtime's Shameless. We've loved him since he was Cael Malloy on The Riches.
*Anything that falls/fell into the reality realm. Not sure why but I just never got into that whole thing.
*Not sure if I'm in the minority but I really enjoyed Big Love. I think it went pretty under the radar but I thought it was really well done. Something to check out if you haven't heard of it.
*Up until a little while ago I would have said Arrested Development but apparently I DO control the time-space continuum because it's happening! The other show I REALLY wish I could get another season of would be HBO's short lived Carnivale. It was one of the most unique stories and worlds I've ever seen and had some AMAZING acting. It's really too bad the show only lasted two seasons.
Valerie Azlynn has a great TV and movie resume, including Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Cold Case, CSI: NY, Mr. Sunshine, Tropic Thunder, and Hancock. She currently stars in the new TBS comedy Sullivan & Son, which airs Thursdays nights.
*Personally I have no idea why people like The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. It is so false and manufactured. Of course people are falling in "love" with each other. There on a show there world becomes isolated with no responsibility other than win the game and make the person fall in love with you. Just so silly to me. I will never watch those shows.
*I love Maude. Starring Bea Aurthur. I am a massive fan of hers and I don't think I am in the minority it's just a lot of people my age and younger are not aware of the series. It was ground breaking in its day. Bea could turn a joke in a second and sometimes all she had to do was just look off a little bit and be deadpan.
*Golden Girls I cannot get enough of that show and I wish it had gone just a couple more seasons. Also Murder She Wrote, I think if it went another season we would find out that Angela Lansbury was really a serial killer, Come on how many more towns could she visit were someone around her dies every episode, If there was DNA testing back then I'm sure she would have been a prime suspect!
Drew Roy stars as Hal Mason on TNT's Falling Skies, just renewed for a third season.
*Dancing with the Stars.
*Across the country it does well, but among my friends, I'm a lone avid watcher of 60 Minutes.
*Friends. All ten seasons and I still haven't gotten enough.
Marissa Jarret Winokur is a Tony Award winning actress who co-starred with Pamela Anderson in the comedy Stacked and was co-host of CBS' The Talk during the show's first season. She can currently be seen in TV Land's Retired at 35. This appearance in our column is her third, giving her "Official Friend of TTTP" status.
*Wipe Out! Has anyone ever won!? It seems insane. It's my brother's favorite show and I don't get it. It's like a live video game that you will never win, I don't get watching people get hurt and falling into water!
*Angry Boys!!!! I read bad reviews for it and couldn't believe it! It was the best show so funny and full of heart. It lasted one season and HBO killed it off by doing two episodes a week! So obviously I was in the minority! Chris Lilley was / is a genius! I also love shark tank
* I would bring back "The Comeback" or "Arrested Development"! There is full campaign working to bring AD back so I will fight for "The Comeback". It was so painfully honest and real and by far the funniest show on TV. I am still obsessed with it! Lisa Kudrow was so amazing as aunt Sassy… "I don't need to see that!" Well, I DO!
You can see Ben Watson starring as Tariq Muhammad on The LA Complex every Tuesday on The CW.
*Knight Rider
*I would give 3rd Rock From The Sun another season because it was a clever and witty outlook on the human condition from an alien perspective.
Elaine Hendrix will probably always be best known for the remake of The Parent Trap but her resume includes great roles on The Middleman, Joan of Arcadia, CSI, Castle, Privileged, NCIS: LA, and 90210.
It's not so much that I didn't understand the appeal - it's just, holywow...if you didn't jump on the wagon early enough "Lost" left you feeling...lost. At least it did me. And maybe that was part the appeal in
and of itself? One of the execs is a friend of mine and he's genius. The show was genius. I just missed the window.
*One I loved that they pulled after one season - "Detroit 1-8-7." They didn't seem to be getting the viewership they wanted, but I thought it was fantastic. Particularly at the beginning of the season before they started
watering it down. It was so edgy and interesting. Michael Imperioli could read the phone book, though, and I'd probably watch.
*Well, of course, it would be FOX's remake of "Get Smart". Andy Dick and I had so much fun working together and it could have really been something if the show had been given a chance to find its voice. Plus, working with the legendary Don Adams was a dream - so many stories, so many lessons in
Nick Tarabay has The Sopranos and Crash on his resume but is best known for his role as Ashur on Starz' record breaking original drama Spartacus, appearing in Blood & Sand, Vengeance, and the prequel Gods of the Arena.
*Some of the last seasons of Lost because after couple of episodes I felt lost myself!
Mind you it could be very much my fault because I never saw it from the beginning, nor saw the first season but all I remember is EVERYONE saying "dude, you need to see Lost, it's pretty frecking amazing" and after seeing I thought hmmm... I don't get it!
*In Treatment I LOVED that show. It was simple yet very deep. The acting was superb & I'm a big fan of Gabriel Byrne. But every time I mention it to someone I get kinda the same reaction "ehhh ...it was ok" and I'm like "WHAT?! Are you kidding me! How can you not like it?" But to each his own, I guess.
*When I was a kid, one of my favorite TV shows was "The A Team" and I remember the last season that aired left us with a cliff hanger and I remember dying to know what happened next, but it just stopped. I would like to see it through. As a matter of fact, I'd be down to see that TV show now if they ever remake it. The film did well so would the TV show I think. So long as I have a part in it...... Haha, just kidding.
Tess Rafferty was a writer on The Soup for 7 and ½ years as well as frequent participant in their sketch pieces. She's also regularly seen as a pop culture talking head on VH-1 and The TV Guide Network. Her first book, Recipes for Disaster: A Memoir, comes out this October.
*Game of Thrones. With an asterisk. That asterisk being Peter Dinklage who is wonderful and funny. However, if you are over the age of 15, the appeal of tits and dragons should have worn off by now. Likewise, the only people who find a woman falling in love with her rapist (because he lets her have sex from the front!) compelling TV, should be 13 year old girls who read Fifty Shades of Grey under the covers at night. Yes, the Starke's are interesting characters, but nothing but bad shit happens to them every week and if I wanted to see bad shit happen to people I would turn on the news.
*I'd say Freaks & Geeks but that show was such a cult hit, it doesn't feel like a minority. However, I also have the unfortunate luck to love high concept dramas that never catch on because of their high concepts and then get cancelled before I can find out if Jason Isaacs is dead or in a coma, or which alumna killed their classmate at reunion or "Who is Will Traveler?" See? You get none of these references. That's because no one watched these shows. Shows like Awake, Reunion, Traveler, Daybreak, My Own Worst Enemy, Smith...I could go on but you're starting to lose respect for me. Also, I loved Swingtown. The world needs more Grant Show on TV.
*The Dick Van Dyke Show. I would love to see the writers of the Alan Brady show make jokes about reality TV and try to navigate contemporary network notes.
David Alan Basche is one of the stars of TV Land's The Exes, currently in its second season on Wednesday nights at 10:30pm
*The popularity of "Mad Men" baffles me. The performances are good, sure. Yes the suits are nice and it's fun to see everyone smoking in offices and I guess people like remembering that era. But honestly I've just never gotten into the show, tried several times, and finally gave up, knowing that either it's over my head or beneath my highly-set bar.
* Southland is the best cop show ever made, and that's not easy for me to say because I loved "Hill Street Blues" and "NYPD Blue" too. But it is. And yet they cancelled it! Now it's back on another network, but no one's watching it. I get the feeling there's a couple of execs over at TNT that feel the way I do, despite popular opinion. We should have lunch.
*Oh Grow Up, the one-season sitcom that Alan Ball wrote just before his film American Beauty won all the Oscars. It's what preceded Six Feet Under and now of course True Blood, and I think it had his wicked sense of humor in an even more brilliantly raw form. Full disclosure: I was a lead on that show! I would have loved to play with Alan more, along with Stephen Dunham, John Ducey, Rena Sofer, Freddy Rodriguez, Neisha Trout, and director Andy Cadiff. What a dream team. Oh, and there was a talking dog named "Mom."
In 2007 Anne Dudek had one of the best runs for a character actor in recent TV history, appearing in recurring roles on Mad Men, Big Love, and of course House where she created the memorable character known as "Cutthroat Bitch." She can be seen Tuesdays at 10pm on USA's Covert Affairs.
*The daytime soap Santa Barbara.
*The Wire. This was the first Netflix-a-thon worthy show I watched. I became obsessed. Each season is sort of like a new show, with a new angle on the drug problems in Baltimore, and there were some truly fascinating characters. A very smart show. I was sorry it was over.
Joe Bastianich is a restauranteur (including the owner of a James Beard award winning establishment) and winery owner who is in his third season as a judge on Fox's popular cooking competition show MasterChef. His memoir Restaurant Man was released this spring.
The Brady Bunch
*Glee- I am probably in the minority amongst my peers… they don't get it, but I love it. I watch it with my kids and we all sing along.
*Dallas… the old school version…Larry Hagman's JR Ewing was the ultimate devious character.
Montego Glover is a Tony Nominated and Drama Desk Award winning actress who was also seen in the season three finale of White Collar.
*I don't quite get the appeal of "True Blood". Here's the thing, I know it's brilliant, brilliant cast, writing, all the rage, but I just can't seem to get it!
*I'm clearly in the minority on "American Greed", which should be called the "American Trickery Show". It's the psychology behind thieves and stealing (all of which is so completely foreign to me) that I find interesting.
*I'd give one more season to the Cosby Show, but only if they used the Island Theme opener they had that one season. Bliss!
Danny Masterson is one of the stars of the TBS comedy Men At Work, his first return to series TV since his eight season run as Hyde on That 70's Show.
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I just never understood that show. It's probably one of those things you have to start at the beginning to get really into. The couple of episodes I saw I was thinking, "I don't get what everybody is talking about."
*The Sarah Silverman Program. It was my favorite show on TV and no one watched it and I couldn't figure out why.
*Action, with Jay Mohr and Illeana Douglas. I watched all 13 episodes and thought it was going to be the new Larry Sanders – something really ground breaking – but then they got cancelled.
Troy Johnson was the creator and host of Food Network's Crave, which TTTP named one of the top non-fiction shows of 2012. He was also included on our list of the 2012 TV Entertainers of the Year. He is currently the food critic at San Diego Magazine and has a new Food Network series in development
*Two and a Half Men. You know how all your artist friends like a band, so you try to like it but all it sounds like is a chainsaw making love to another chainsaw? My experience with Two and a Half Men is the exact opposite. All of America likes it, so I tried hard to like it, too. I failed. I love comedy that comes from nowhere and sticks you with a humor-shiv. For instance, I think Jennifer Lopez' movie The Wedding Planner was one of the funniest movies of all time. Especially the scenes where it's supposed to be dramatic, but it makes no sense (the entire movie). Unintentional or inappropriate/vaguely sociopathic humor is where it's at, in my opinion. With Two and a Half Men, I feel like some exec wrote a white paper called "The Algorithm of Comedy: Ride My Humor Spreadsheet Formula to Porsche-Land, Baby." And the creators of Two and a Half Men read that. And now they drive Porsches. I'm happy for them.
*ANSWER 1: Strangers With Candy. I'm not sure if my friends and I were the only sick ****s who loved Amy Sedaris in that series. Usually, overly dramatic characters give me the heebie jeebies. But there was something so purely pathetic about her character that I resonated with it (calling therapist now.)
ANSWER 2: I remember a talk show on MTV by a guy named Jon Stewart. I remember thinking it was funny and kinda intelligent and that guy should be a star. Then it got canceled, and I've doubted my outlook on intelligence ever since. I'm sure he's digging ditches somewhere in a very flat part of America now. But I want him to know that I thought he was talented.
*Arrested Development. I met David Cross in line to see Franz Ferdinand at South by Southwest Music Festival. Either he was very disinterested or I was very annoying for going up to him and telling him that he's David Cross.. Both are possible. Regardless, the combo of Jason Bateman and that kid from Juno was brilliant. Its cancellation ranks right up there in my Pantheon of Canceled TV Sadness with Aquaman, Quantum Leap and Inspector Gadget.
And congratulations on the 300th column, my man. Damn I know that ain't easy. Good work.
Mark Margolis has been working as a character actor on stage as well as the big and small screens for 30+ years, with noteworthy performances in films like Scarface, Pi, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream, and Black Swan and TV roles on Oz and Kings. Earlier this month he was nominated for an Emmy for his work as Hector "Tio" Salamanca on Breaking Bad.
* Big Love
*The Equalizer............It died before its time, still with a big following & for no apparent reason.
Lenor Velera can be seen as Marta Del Sol on TNT's Dallas, recently renewed for a second season because of stellar ratings and reviews.
*Dexter. Watch and root for a serial killer...really??
*I was addicted to first and second season of Flavor Flav's realty show "Flavor of Love". I know it was bad, but it was like watching a train wreck! Amazing and dirty as could be!!
*I just think that "Games of Thrones" should be on ALL THE TIME, year around. We should NEVER be deprived of another episode on a Sunday. Ever.
Chef Graham Elliot has won numerous awards and rave reviews for his cooking skill and has appeared as a contestant on Top Chef Masters and Iron Chef America. He is now in his third season as a judge on Fox's MasterChef.
*Twin Peaks
*Chappelle's Show – best show ever!
Greer Grammer can be seen Thursdays at 10:30pm starring on MTV's hit comedy Awkward, just renewed for a third season.
*Would have to be a lot of the reality shows. Specifically The Hills and Laguna Beach. I just never really hopped on that phenomenon.
*I don't know if I would necessarily be the minority but a lot of people used to make fun of me for it but my favorite show of all time would have to be The OC.
*I would have to have it be Friends. Even though Friends ended perfectly, I just don't think there would be one complaint about giving it another season. Because, well, it's Friends. And who wouldn't want to see more new episodes of Friends?!
Aldis Hodge has guested on Supernatural, ER, Private Practice, CSI, Friday Night Lights, Bones, and Castle, but he is undoubtedly most known for his starring role as Hardison on TNT's Leverage, currently in its 5th season (Sundays at 8pm).
*Dancing with the Stars.
*Across the country it does well, but among my friends, I'm a lone avid watcher of 60 Minutes.
*Friends. All ten seasons and I still haven't gotten enough.
Meghan Markle has an interesting IMDB page; she held case # 24 on Deal or No Deal for a year, did guest spots on CSI, The League, and 90210, and had a two episode stint on Fringe. Her current gig is starring as Rachel Zane on the TTTP fave series Suits.
*I actually feel horrible saying this, but the honest answer is GLEE. I know! It doesn't really make sense -- because I love musicals, I did musical theater growing up, and they are all supremely talented on that show. I just can't seem to get into it. I think I'll have to do a Glee marathon one weekend, and then I'll finally get it...and probably develop a girl crush on Lea Michelle.
*I don't know if I'm the minority, but JEOPARDY is still my favorite show. None of my peers talk about watching it, but it's been my favorite show for over a decade. I know...that makes me a nerd. I'm perfectly ok with that.
*This is possibly the most random answer ever, but the show I was left hanging on was Models Inc -- an Aaron Spelling show that was a spinoff of Melrose Place. It ended with a cliffhanger of a shooting at a wedding. I was in high school at the time, and loved that show, despite how glossy and soapy it was (or perhaps because of how glossy and soapy it was). I've always wanted to know what happened, so I would be very excited to see one more season of it.
Josh Gates is the host of Destination Truth, currently in its 5th season on Syfy.
*True Blood. Judging by the fact that this show is in its 5th hit season, I'm clearly in the minority, but is anybody else a little vampired out? From the Vampire Diaries to the seemingly endless installments of the Twilight Saga, the vampire is easily the most overexposed monster in pop culture (you're pulling a close second zombies, so cool it). True Blood has all the elements of a show that I should love, namely a ton of gratuitous nudity. But with all the contrived plotting, bad accents, and ever-expanding cast of pale-faced characters, True Blood has drained every last drop of interest out of me.
*Family Feud. Sure it's been on for 36 years, has had six hosts, feels perennially outdated, and has a seriously flawed set of rules (newsflash: you only need to win the last game to beat the other family), but man do I love this show. To begin with, Richard Dawson is the greatest game show host in history. Period. Moreover, The Feud is master class in what not to say under pressure and a seemingly bottomless well of America's least capable competitors. "Tell me a man's name that starts with K." Actual answer: "Kentucky Fried Chicken." You just can't write television like that.
*That's easy. Deadwood. One of the best acted period westerns ever made, Deadwood was a foul-mouthed yet finely scripted drama that gave us TV's most terrifying villain in Ian McShane's Al Swearengen. The series never resolved its tightly crafted story, and the follow up movies that HBO promised were up in them there hills…well, they turned out to be fool's gold.
Ken Baumann is now in his fifth season starring as Ben Boykewich on the huge ABC Family hit The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
*Two and a Half Men. I feel weird when the television laughs for me.
* I'd say Breaking Bad. That show deserves The X-Files numbers. The story and its episode to episode aesthetic and how it evolves... all so damn brilliant.
*Deadwood. There hasn't been another show on television with such philosophical and lyrical intensity. And the performances were incredible, especially under the production's circumstances––actors receiving huge scenes an hour before filming, receiving calls at 2am informing them they should show up to work three hours later, etc. Its death was untimely, awkward even. Bring Deadwood back!
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*True Blood. I can't stand the accents.
*Gary Unmarried. The ex-wife was hilarious.
*Cupid. ABC even tried to re do it but with a different cast. See actors are important! Yes I was in the last two shows I mentioned. But hey, I cannot tell a lie. ;-). Unless I'm being paid for it.
Eddie McClintock just began his fourth season starring as Pete Lattimer on Syfy's hit series Warehouse 13. He has previously been recognized as a TTTP TV Entertainer of the Year.
*The News
*There are four. The first one is called "Holding the Baby," on Fox the next one is called "Stark Raving Mad," on NBC followed by "AUSA" on NBC and of course "Crumbs" on ABC.
*Sigmund and the Sea Monsters because I like Sea Monsters. :)
Bill Lawrence is the creator of Scrubs and the co-creator of Spin City and Cougar Town
*Jeopardy! If you're not a smarty-pants it's the rare combination of humiliating and boring. I remember being in college, and I wasn't sure if I was an idiot (I was pretty sure); luckily the double major types in my dorm would put it on. Then I'd get to listen to them be smart for 30 minutes and silently hate them.
*Two answers. Pretentious answer #1. Most "smart" comedies (especially on network tv) are very low rated (Nielsen-wise) while many crass, dumb ones flourish, so I assume that I'm in the minority for loving 30 Rock, Archer, Flight of the Conchords, Larry Sanders, etc. Real answer #2: I remember liking Two Guys and a Girl (and at one point, a pizza place). Ryan Reynolds was a true TV star, and I'd love to see him be funny like that again. Also, no one talks about Newsradio much. They should.
*MASH. But I'd want it as a reboot, doing pathos/comedy/drama in a current war, to see if the geniuses behind that show (I truly loved it) could make us laugh at current day dark situations the same way. Larry Gelbart was my idol.
Katee Sackhoff will forever been associated with her fantastic work as Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica but she is hardly a one trick pony, as her role on A&E's record breaking new drama Longmire has shown.
*I am not a big fan of Mad Men at all. I don't know if it's that I haven't given it enough of a chance but I can't wrap my brain around it.
*Good Christian Bitches. It was probably the funniest show on TV last season and when it didn't get renewed I was blown away. Leslie Bibb – the entire cast – was spot on perfectly cast. I was truly, truly disappointed that it didn't last.
*The Golden Girls. It's my favorite show ever, of all time.
Sally Pressman is currently in her sixth season starring as Roxie on Lifetime's record breaking drama Army Wives. She is also on the VERY short list for the single nicest person I have has the pleasure of talking with over the course of our 300 columns.
*This is always a dangerous path to walk down...no one likes their TV faves to be critiqued or knocked down. But, I guess if I HAVE to, I have heard a lot of people speaking favorably about Matlock. Don't get it. Not at all. I watched a few when I was home sick from school and I always fell asleep within 10 minutes. He's so old, I didn't trust he would figure it all out before I could, but I don't know, cause I never stayed awake to watch. Sorry Matlock fans.
* THIS list could go on forever. FOREVER. I know I could embarrass myself in some crowds by saying Models Inc, which I watched EVERY episode of…every caddy, superficial moment. I also watched this show called Invasion years ago. It went off the air in less than a season without revealing the mystery. Since my mom and I MAY have been the only ones watching it, it might not matter to anyone else, but we're still curious and unsettled. Shawn Cassidy, could you enlighten us??
*Without a moment's hesitation: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. Best show ever. Travesty it did not have more viewer support. I know there's a movie in discussion, but the show every week would be a dream come true. Second behind that, Friday Night Lights. I mourn the loss of that show every day.
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*I can't say there are shows that I don't understand why others liked, mostly because I wouldn't want someone to say that about my show. There are a lot of popular shows I didn't watch. I guess I can say, generally, that I am not a great fan of the reality TV genre--which has swept the nation in the last decade. Although it would be fair to call me a hypocrite given that we produced Project Greenlight which was a kind of quasi-reality show.
*The shows I like now the most are Downton Abbey and game of Thrones. Clearly I am not in the minority with either. I have also gotten really into Breaking ad after working with Bryan Cranston. Also like Modern Family a lot--also definitely not in the minority there. I get the sense these days, and I didn't always feel this way, that there is a lot more good television on than I have time to watch--even with DVRs.
*I would say Alias, because I loved watching my wife on that show. But that would mean a-she would never be around and b-i would have to take on far more home management than I am capable of. So I guess my answer would be The Sopranos, which I feel was the best show in the history of television. I would like to know what happened to Tony after he looked up in the diner. But I guess that means the ending was perfect as is.
Lost is a close second but it more just because I loved the show than because I didn't like how it was resolved. I thought the ending of Lost was great. They were really good at flipping the show on its head periodically and surprising the audience--which is one of the hardest things to do in drama.
Alison Sweeney may very well be the hardest working women in TV; at one point this year she had three different shows on the air (Days of Our Lives, The Biggest Loser, and Hollywood Girls Night) plus she's written a book, is a tireless activist for multiple charities, and has a family. As importantly, she's the Queen of TTTP, with more appearances on these pages than anyone not named Joel McHale.
*American Idol. I only watched a few episodes, trying to get what everyone loves about it. I totally get why people love it, but it's just not my show.
*Dirty Jobs.
*LOST! I just can't get enough...
Joel McHale may have The Soup, Community, and the hit movie Ted on his resume as well as being an accomplished standup comedian but he is best known for his many appearances on these pages, where he reigns as the King of Two Tivos to Paradise.
*For fear of retribution I can't say but it rhymes with "Alf".
*Anything on Telemundo. I always feel like a minority when I watch that.
*Gunsmoke. Just some many unanswered questions.
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*I know everyone expects me to say The Big Bang Theory here but I've got to go with Big Brother. Or Jersey Shore. Or The Bachelor. Or The Real World. I've never understood the idea of deriving entertainment out of watching people on TV and thinking, "boy, look at those idiots behaving like idiots." Just does nothing for me. I see enough stupid people over the course of a day that I don't need to see them on my TV screen, too.
*The Class. What a warm and wonderful show that just didn't catch on. The level of success the cast has enjoyed since (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jon Bernthal, Jason Ritter, Andrea Anders, Lizzy Caplin) shows just how much potential The Class had if CBS had given it a second season.
*Terriers. One of the best shows of the last 10 years, Terriers was doomed to a one season run on FX by a terrible title and an even worse ad campaign. It was the best private eye show since The Rockford Files, with what should have been star making performances from Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James. It's one thing if a show gets a full season and simply doesn't generate an audience but when the network so righteously screws the pooch when it comes to letting the public know that it has a high quality show for them to sample as was the case here, it's a true shame.
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The Need for Brokenness
Ezra 10:1-15
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- How many of you have ever broken a bone? Has anyone ever had to do physical therapy to recover? These moments in our lives were usually not pleasant times. They usually aren't moments that we would want to relive. Why? Because they were painful! Has anyone ever had a broken heart? A time of emotional distress where you really hurt? Some people would say that the broken heart was more painful than the broken bone. Most people, people in their right state of mind don't like pain.
- Have you ever been spiritually broken? What I am referring to is when a person who is a born-again Christian (individuals who have received forgiveness of sins through putting their trust in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ), who has been strongly convicted of sin in his life and convicted of spiritual stagnancy. So convicted in fact that the person mourns his present spiritual condition, he is humbled, and knows he needs to make a change. This is brokenness. I am going to suggest to you this morning that every true believer, every true Christ-follower needs to be broken spiritually, and usually more than once, in fact repeatedly throughout his life. This describes for us, the need for brokenness.
- In the O.T. there is an incredible story of spiritual revival that took place. Just as a reminder as we begin, a short definition of what spiritual revival is, "Revival is what happens when God's people, whether individually or corporately, are restored to a right relationship with God."
(READ EZRA 9:1-7, 10-15) What we find in this real life account is that this spiritual revival began with spiritual brokenness. It was brokenness over sin in the lives of God's people. The brokenness over sin began with one man, Ezra (who was a priest – a servant of God).
(READ Ezra 10:1) Ezra began praying and confessing guilt, weeping before God. While he was doing this a monstrous amount of people showed up and the people were weeping!
- (READ Ezra 10:2-4) One of the men speaks up and says that the Jewish nation has been "unfaithful to God and married foreign women" (from the non-Israelites). But even though this wrong has been done, it appears that there is still hope for Israel. The man proposes that the nation of Israel make an agreement with God in which the men will divorce their foreign wives and children, according to what Ezra and the godly people have said. They now want to obey God's commands. The man tells Ezra, "be courageous and act."
* So the people know that they have really blown it spiritually. They are definitely repentant. The word repent means, "to feel or express sincere regret or remorse." They need to make things right, so they call upon Ezra to be their leader to guide them in the way that they should act. Whatever Ezra tells them to do, they will do it.
* This willingness to change, this willingness to be led is a demonstration of humility. True humility is the result of spiritual brokenness.
* John Wesley once said, "Give me 100 men who hate nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I will shake this world."
- (READ Ezra 10:5-6) Ezra gets up and makes the leading priests (religious leaders), the Levites (religious leaders) and all Israel (the people of God), make an agreement with God to divorce their wives and children, so this large group of people agrees. After this agreement Ezra went into a Temple chamber. He didn't eat or drink, because Ezra was mourning over the sin of people of God (the returnees from exile).
* This was brokenness over sin. The result was mourning over sin.
- (READ Ezra 10:7-8) There was an announcement made so that all Israelites would come to Jerusalem. Whoever wouldn't come within 3 days, all his things would no longer be his and he would be an outcast among the people of God (the returnees from exile).
* Brokenness began when one man Ezra became aware of sin in the lives of God's people. He was mourning over these wrong actions, this sin. This resulted in brokenness of a large group of God's people (men, women, and children). When these people were broken, they realized they needed to change, so they did. Not only that they called the rest of God's people to brokenness and change, but if they refused, then they would become outcasts among God's people. That is how serious this group of God's people were about brokenness and change.
- (READ Ezra 10:9) This call to brokenness and change got the attention of the men and they showed up at Jerusalem within 3 days. All the people sat in front of the Temple, and they were trembling because of the reason they were there, and because of the heavy rain.
- (READ Ezra 10:10-11) Ezra stood up and spoke to the people. He told them that they had been unfaithful to God and married foreign wives, which added more guilt to God's people. As a result, Ezra calls them to brokenness and change. "Confess your sin to God and do His will." Also, stop living like the non-believers (peoples of the land), and divorce your foreign wives and foreign children.
* Ezra who has already been broken over the sin of God's people, now calls God's people to brokenness over their sin and to change. Ezra says that it is not enough to just be broken or sorry, the people must choose to change.
* Evangelism, fine as it is, is not revival. After a very successful evangelistic gathering, Billy Graham was asked, "Is this revival?" Graham replied, "No. When revival comes, I expect to see 2 things which we have not seen yet. First, a new sense of the holiness of God on the part of Christians, and second, a new sense of the sinfulness of sin on the part of Christians."
- (READ Ezra 10:12-15) After Ezra calls for brokenness and change, this huge group of men says, "Ezra, you are right! We are wrong." All that Ezra said, it is the duty of all God's people to do. The people point out that for them to do what Ezra said can't be done immediately because there are so many people, and the weather is not conducive to do this immediately. The task also can't be completed in one or two days because God's people have transgressed so greatly in this matter (they have sinned so greatly, in severity and number). So they propose to make appointments with godly leaders to do as Ezra told them to do, until God's anger over their sin is turned away (because they were broken and changed, God would forgive). Four men said they would not do this, they would not be broken and change.
* The majority of people said they would change. The majority was convicted of their sin and were broken spiritually. They know they have sinned greatly. They will confess their sin to God and change.
* A couple of newspaper reporters went down from London to report firsthand the incredible events that were taking place during the great Welsh revival during at the beginning of the 1900's. Upon arriving in Wales one of the reporters asked a policeman where the Welsh revial was. The policeman stood up straight, laid his hand over his heart and declared, "Gentlemen, the Welsh revival is inside this uniform!"
* I do want you to notice something about this event as Ezra calls the people of God to spiritual brokenness and change. Not every person among God's people was broken spiritually and changed. Some refused.
- There are some things that we see in this passage that are of great importance for us to notice.
1) God's people were confronted with the truth
2) God's people became broken spiritually
3) God's people confessed their sin to God
4) God's people changed by making deliberate decisions to not continue in sin and to begin to obey God's commands
5) God forgave those who were broken and changed. He restored them to a close relationship with Himself.
- How are you living? Are you disobeying God's commands? Are you living in continual, unrepentant sin?
- If you are living in disobedience to God's commands and you feel convicted of that this morning, look to the process outlined above. Be broken, confess your sin to God, stop your sin, and obey God's commands.


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I originally mixed this for the Squaresound remix contest in early 2008, which essentially had people remixing any Uematsu tune for the shot at VIP tickets to a Distant Worlds concert in Chicago. I was honored to have actually won the contest! The show was great :)
Anyway, about the mix - I really used everything but the kitchen sink here. Guitars, hip hop drums, lots of synths, anvils, orchestral instruments, and everything in between. Besides the Devil's Lab theme, there's some Kefka and Umaro thrown in there too for good measure. I had an absolute blast making this, particularly the last 1/3 or so (almost all of which was done a few hours before the contest deadline.)
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Rated 5 / 5 stars January 14, 2009
Great, as expected
I wasn't aware you uploaded your stuff to newgrounds as well as OCR? Anyways, great song. Then again, all your stuff is good lol, probably why there's a metric buttload of it on my iPod.
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This is sweet. kinda sounds like umm, should i say... umm, Jazz aswell as VG? Hmm, anyway, the song is just great.
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Besides FFVI
This also reminds me of a few other games due to it's style, ones in the 16 and 32 bit eras such as Sonic and Knuckles, Megaman, Mario RPG, and a few others I forget... Oh yeah, Kirby, Tetris, Wario Land 3. I suppose it's just the song itself.
Rated 5 / 5 stars December 20, 2008
hmm interesting ..
I sitll like the industrialness of the original though hehe :P
reminds me of the black mages :P
beautifully mixed and mastered as well :)
nice use of anvil too :P
I so once redid umaro's theme, but then it crashed and I lost it.. must do.. again..
neways kewl stuff - dont forget to check me and realmguy's stuff out :)
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Professor Cuming, who is a native of Saskatchewan, holds a BA (1962) and an LLB (1963) from the University of Saskatchewan and an LLM (1966) from Columbia University in New York. He joined the College of Law in 1966. Professor Cuming was appointed Queen's Counsel for Saskatchewan in 1982. He served as Chairperson of the Saskatchewan law Reform Commission during the period 19780-81.
Professor Cuming is the leading architect of modern secured financing law in Canada. The legislation which he drafted has been adopted in all provinces except Ontario and Quebec. His writings frequently have been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada and lower courts.
He took a disparate mess of laws and registry systems that existed in Saskatchewan and created a single statute that was more efficient and provided better protection for borrowers. It was passed into law in 1981 as the Personal Property Security Act. This became the model that has since been adopted by all provinces except Ontario and Quebec.
An internationally acclaimed scholar in the area of personal property security law, he has published several books and numerous journal articles in national and international publications in the areas of secured financing law, leasing law and bankruptcy law. he has been advisor to the governments of several provinces and the Government of Canada. He has prepared several reports proposing changes to Canadian bankruptcy law.
Professor Cuming's research and reform activities have not been confined to Canada. he has worked extensively at the international level. He drafted secured financing law for the Jordanian Government and Palestine National Authority. He has also served as a technical advisor on World Bank projects in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Georgia, Armenia, and Ukraine, as well as secured financing projects for Bangladesh, Uruguay, Mexico, and Nicaragua. he is highly regarded for his skill and sensitivity in drafting laws that respect the legal traditions of various countries and different cultural concepts of property.
He has represented Canada in international organizations including the Hague Conference on Private International Law, The Hague, Netherlands and the International Institute for the Unification of Private law, Rome, Italy. He has acted as a technical advisor to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Vienna, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, U.K.
He identified the need for and helped draft what promises to be one of the most important trade conventions ever made in a new international convention on security interests involved in the financing of aircraft, satellite, oil drilling and other large equipment that is moved from one country to another. The new convention is likely to be approved by the year 2000. Professor Cuming served as a member of the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) Arbitration Panel established to consider the validity of Canada's marketing board system.
In 1992-93, Professor Cuming received a teaching excellence award from the University of Saskatchewan Students' Union. Through his research and law reform activities, Professor Cuming has broken new ground and has played an outstanding role in the development of commercial law in Canada and elsewhere. P>
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|Larry C. Fowke
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College of Arts and Science
Professor Fowke holds a Bachelor of Arts, Honors (1963) from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in biology from Carleton University in Ottawa. He joined the U of S faculty in 1970.
Professor Fowke is one of the world's most distinguished plant cell biologists. He is widely recognized for his major contributions to both cell biology and biotechnology. He has played a key role in the establishment and recognition of Saskatoon as an international centre for agricultural biotechnology.
His basic research has advanced the world's knowledge of how plant cells divide and how they take in materials. In 1982-83, his lab was the first in the world to isolate plant coated vesicles and show how they take material into plant cells. He has done ground-breaking work on the biology of plant protoplasts, cells rendered exceptionally fragile by enzyme digestion of their walls. He has contributed significantly to the study of tiny protein fibres call microtubules that pull chromosomes apart when cells divide.
In 1997, he co-authored an article in the prestigious journal Nature on the isolation and cloning of a gene that codes for an inhibitor of cell division in plant cells. This work could play a significant role in crop biotechnology.
His research in plant cell biology and plant tissue culture has led to a promising new tool for forest biotechnology. His lab has pioneered and patented new methods for propagating spruce and other coniferous trees. Using an embryo-cloning technique involving tissue culture known as somatic embryogenesis, one conifer seed can be used to produce thousands of identical offspring. These propagation methods are not only of great significance scientifically, but represent a major contribution toward developing a technology that could lead to genetic improvement of conifers and more efficient forest tree propagation.
University of Saskatchewan Technologies Inc. (UST), the University's technology transfer arm, has licensed the new conifer propagation methods to a Western Canadian tree nursery company.
Prof. Fowke has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals, co-edited a book and written numerous review articles and book chapters. He has been an invited speaker at dozens of international conferences.
Currently chair of the Department of Biology, Fowke has served on many scientific committees and journal editorial boards. From 1978 to 1982, he was the Canadian Correspondent for the International Association for Plant Tissue and Cell Culture.
Colleagues say his willingness to collaborate with other research agencies and with researchers internationally is a model for the science community. He displays enthusiasm and dedication in the training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Experts in his field say few researchers can match his career for sustained high quality, originality and impact.


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[Oneshot 58]Can't you see how false this lie is? Even as I begin to moan his name. Can't you see he's just using me?
The darkness comes again, the night I should really say. It always creeps so craftily up on me as I sit and stare listlessly out the window, watching the gloomy sky shed it tears again.
I see my reflection in the windowpane, haunting and ghastly.
The figure there is so unfamilar. I can't help but wonder, is that really me? I don't feel like that on the inside, the person looking back at me looks so uneffected. Those green eyes, still and silent, hold no emotion. Is that how I am on the inside? Could it really be that I am that empty?
The door clicks, once, then twice to close. I need not turn to look. I know who comes from that door every night, just from the scent of beer and cigarettes. It seems he's come home earlier than usual tonight. Must have not been able to find himself a woman.
Footsteps...approaching, closer and closer. A pause as they stop, a moment of hesitation, a buzzing in the air as everything waits. The sound of clothing shifting as arms find there way around me. Hot breath tickles my ear, reeking with an overwhelming stench of alcohol.
I feel myself being lifted, carried, the clunk of his boots, his uneven breaths. I close my eyes and remain limp, with no will to resist. Soon the clunking stops and I feel sheets beneath my back as he lies me down. It's amazing how gentle he is sometimes when he's really drunk, somehow it seems so unlike him.
Now I hear the sounds of his shirt dropping in one smooth motion to the floor, the sliding of cloth of which we've both become so accustomed to. And this is it.
I'll let him have his way with me, as he finishes removing his clothes and starts on my shirt, I'll let him have his way just like all the times before.
I feel him now, looming over me, his lips pressed to the skin of my neck. With each caress I know this is wrong, even as I moan and tilt my head back, I know it's all so empty.
Can't you see how false this lie is?
Even as I begin to moan his name.
Can't you see he's just using me?
Sweat trickles down his back, I can feel it beneath my fingers as I claw at him. Why does he insist on teasing me? Running his hands over my body, biting into my skin. Everything inside of me is burning up, and yet my heart's so entirely cold. With each stroke I come closer and closer to the end, till I'm wreathing and begging beneath him. That's when he turns me over and takes me....and all I can think of is him, inside if me, his heartbeat pounding so loudly, and our moans as we climax.
As he finishes and rolls over onto the bed, I know he's passed out. In the morning he won't remember the night we shared. It's just me left with this bittersweet memory.
I turn and stare at his slumbering face, placing my hand gently on his scars. I can feel the horrible raging emptiness inside me begin to devour me once again, and I lose another little bit of myself.
He will never know how much I secretly care for him. He won't ever care the same way back. The truth is, the reality of the situation, that he only fucks me when he's too drunk to tell who I am.
I stand up, my skin sweaty, my body and sheets covered in the evidence of this sin. Mechanically, I began to clean it all up. He must not know in the morning...I don't want him to know how weak I am against him.
And yet, I could have stopped him if I wanted to, I could have pushed him away, but I....I didn't. I was weak to his touch, even if it meant nothing at all. Even though each second dug a new scar inside of me, I never wanted it to stop.
I don't want him to see this horrible side of me. I take advantage of his drunkness, I allow this behavior to continue even though I'm completely capable of stopping it. I don't want him to know how disgusting I've become.
I guess I get my just reward as each day a bit more of me fades away, washed away by the rain I let pour inside of me as I hope desperately for this false dream to never end.


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The Lee County School District will distribute the donated supplies to classrooms in Lee County based on need. This helps out students who cannot afford supplies. It also helps teachers who often dig into their own pockets to stock their classroom supplies.
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Chris Adami
|Christoph Adami
|August 30, 1962
Brussels, Belgium
|United States
|Evolutionary Biology and Physics
Stony Brook University
Michigan State University
|Alma mater
|University of Bonn
Stony Brook University
|Academic advisors
|Gerald E. Brown
|Doctoral students
|Charles Ofria
|Known for
|Negative quantum entropy
Digital evolution
|Notable awards
Fairchild Prize Fellowship (1992)
NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (2002)
Fellow of the AAAS (2012)
Christoph Carl Herbert Adami is a professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, as well as professor of Physics and Astronomy, at Michigan State University. Adami was born August 30, 1962 in Brussels, Belgium, and graduated from the European School of Brussels I. He obtained a Diplom in Physics from the University of Bonn and an MA and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from Stony Brook University in 1991.[1] He is best known for his work on Avida, an artificial life simulator used to study evolutionary biology ,[2] and for applying the theory of information to physical and biological systems. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal while serving at JPL, and was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 2012.[3]
- Adami, C.; Belew, R.; Kitano, H.; Taylor, C. (1998). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press.
- Adami, C. (1998). Introduction to Artificial Life. Springer Verlag.
- Lenski, R. E.; Ofria, C.; Pennock, R. T.; Adami, C. (2003). "The evolutionary origin of complex features". Nature 423: 139–144. Bibcode:2003Natur.423..139L. doi:10.1038/nature01568. PMID 12736677.
External links[edit]
- Adami's website at Michigan State University
- List of publications at Google Scholar
- The Evolutionary Origin of Complex Adaptive Features 2003 Nature Paper
- TED Talk (2011)
- ^ "Chris Adami Bio". 2008.
- ^ Adami, C. (2006). "Digital Genetics: unravelling the genetic basis of evolution". Nature Reviews Genetics 7 (2): 109–118. doi:10.1038/nrg1771.
- ^ "MSU earns record number of AAAS Fellows". 2011.


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NBC declares Hillary the winner, barely, in Indiana. Hillary may get one delegate more than Obama in Indiana. Chuck Todd says Obama will get 13 more delegates than Hillary tonight, and that wipes out the 12 delegates more than him that she got in Pennsylvania. Obama now has a pledged delegate lead of over 160, he's got a popular vote lead of over 700,000, per Todd
There is simply no path to victory for Hillary. Now she's just screwing around and hurting the party. Look at what Chuck Todd just said, again – even with Michigan and Florida, she has lost:
"With leads like this now, if you throw in Michigan and Florida, as is, then Obama would still have about 150,000 votes and he would still have 100 delegates, pledged delegate, lead." – Chuck Todd, 1:13 AM
But knowing the Clintons, the fact that there's no way for them to win won't step them from sabotaging Obama's race against McCain. If Hillary can continue to damage Obama, maybe she can make Obama lose in the fall, and then she can run again in 2012. Don't think that this isn't what her senior advisers, including her husband, are thinking. These people aren't Democrats, they're Clintons. They aren't interested in the party, they're interested in themselves, as they've clearly proven repeatedly over the past three months. Please give to Obama's campaign using the box on the left – just click it and it will bring you to a page where you can donate. The only way to stop this woman is through a massive response, and that includes beefing up Obama's coffers.
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Hillary still ahead in Indiana by only 1.4%, she only has 50.7% of the vote to his 49.3%. But like every good horror movie, the bad guy keeps coming back. She isn't out until she's out. I mean, don't get me wrong, she lost, it's over, she's not going to be our nominee. But she can still mess things up by refusing to leave.
Video of Russert saying Hillary has lost the nomination:
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Russert's quote in response to the question "Did it just end tonight?" from Olbermann:
We now know who the democratic nominee is going to be and no one is going to dispute it.
This is it. The media finally turned on her. It's over. It's finally freaking over. I say this because the race was over 2 months ago. But the media kept it alive by pretending as though Hillary had a chance, when they knew she didn't. But, their pretending permitted her to keep going with a straight face. Now that the media is turning on her, she's going to have an impossible time continuing. If she continues to run the only question she will be asked from now on is "you've lost, why are you still in this race?" There is nothing she can do now. Yes, she can stay in the race, says she's not quitting until the convention in August. But now that the media has turned on her, good luck with that.


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A boogie boarder who died after being pulled from the ocean in Santa Cruz on Friday has been identified as James Zenk of Mountain View.
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Jay Scrivner was waiting for waves off the Northern California coast near his hometown of Eureka on Sunday morning after surfing for about two hours when a great white he estimated at about 8-to-9 feet long bit his thigh and board.
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A 25-year-old California surfer who survived a shark attack said he punched the shark in the head until it finally released him.
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A man who was bitten by a shark off of the Humboldt Coast Tuesday will likely survive the encounter despite foot-long gashes to his ribs and torso, according to the Eureka Times-Standard.
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June 25, 2012 1:12 PM
I like tomato soup and I like tomato paste. Which of course is because of the salt and extra ingredients that are added to it. However, I can't get a taste for a fresh tomato! I'm looking for a vegetable with similar nutritional value to eat as a substitute. I've read that squash (various kinds) and green peppers are often eaten in place of tomatoes. Any suggestions??
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June 25, 2012 1:45 PM
Eaten in the place of just slices of tomatoe or do you mean ON things?
I like half a roasted red pepper (roasted in my oven or on the stove, not the jarred kind) on my burger instead of a tomato. It's about the right consistancy (soft but not fall-apart-y).
Do you have specific things you want to switch for?
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June 25, 2012 4:26 PM
Why do you need tomato? I've never heard of trying to get all or certain fruits/veg in but I've heard of aiming for an array of colors daily. So I guess I'd pick a red bell pepper? Or tomato soup or tomato juice? Or salsa?
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June 25, 2012 4:29 PM
Why not try to make your own tomato soup at home? It would have less sodium and still be delicious. You could use onion and tomato and blend them into a soup..I knew a family who did that near my place and it was so delicious. I think they used a little garlic too.
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Thanks you guys! Tomatoes aren't necessary I guess, I've just read that they are really good for you and I'm trying to find a way to slowly incorporate them into my meals !
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Before & After: A Glamorous Gold Leaf Desk Makeover for $50
All that glitters is not gold, but this IKEA customization project is DIY treasure in my eyes for its affordably ingenious transformation of a Swedish modern piece customized into a glamorous Hollywood Regency inspired desk...
The surprisingly strong IKEA LERBERG table legs are rated to support over 110 lbs, sufficient to hold up a glass table top*, and are the foundation of Morgan McCollum's desk makeover:
I have been searching for a desk for my new studio in Lawrenceville for weeks. Everything was either overpriced crap or the same old, same old. My style is pretty Hollywood Regency and I have been gushing for gold lately...I grabbed a glass of wine, effortlessly assembled and spray painted them gold. For the top, I had a spare piece of glass sitting around, so I used that.
The pièce de résistance is the gold leaf glass top, each sheet carefully placed on the underside using Mona Lisa Gold Leafing and adhered with Mona Lisa Gold Leafing Glue. Here's a video showing a similar application of gold leaf to a glass vase for reference:
Additional photos, materials list, and instructions available at IKEAHackers - IKEA Desk Makover under $50.00.
*One additional recommendation is to use tempered glass as the desk top, a stronger and safer glass surface.
(Images: IKEA; Morgan McCollum)
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I like that she put the legs on the opposite way giving way more leg room. Looks more expensive.
Where did the ceramic bulldog come from?
Is there a support running from the legs through the middle? Perhaps it's just the photo, but the middle appears to be sagging a bit and I'd be worried that any weight applied to the middle of the table, such as resting one's elbows, would send the glass shattering to the floor.
No support. These table legs are the Ikea product and you can use any object as a table top. The only way it works is if the table top can support itself in deflection - which this one appears not to be able to handle.
But it's painted gold.
I think this looks amazing and is an awesome makeover, but the sag kind of scares me. Maybe it could be made sturdier with a couple of (gold painted) metal or wood supports run underneath the glass tabletop?
I would use 2 1x4 boards to add supports! This looks way too flimsy on its own. The sagging is not cute. Also, did anyone else read the full article (and comments) at the Ikea hackers link? I'm disappointed that AT would even feature this persons project.
I really like the finished 'look' - but I think you should slip a sturdier base underneath that sheet of glass. It looks to be a sheet of regular glass as it appears to be flexing in the middle-should it snap it would slice you in half! Tempered glass-although it would still require support of some sort, does not flex and if it breaks it falls into little kernels that won't cut you. Your gold will still show through. I increased the work surface of my desk with a sheet of old glass but I supported it underneath with a heavy (I mean Heavy) 3/4 inch thick MDF type board. Over that I laid a funky piece of wallpaper and over the wall paper I laid the glass! My desk is now 18" longer and has a beautiful,patterned, glossy top!
I read the original post and it turns out that the person who created this project was drinking at the time.
In the ikea hackers post, she snidely calls Ikea a maze of "made in China crap" (then why shop there if it's not up to your standards?) and then proudly ends the whole project was made for under 40 bucks. I guess it's unacceptable when other people are being thrifty, but when this lady is doing it cheap, it's a-ok. She needs to pull her head out of her butt.
What Vessels wrote wasn't warm and fuzzy but was certainly soundly based on fact.
I think the table legs are not meant to be reversible. They're designed to have the third leg pointed inward so that they give enough support to the table top. I would be very hesitant to lean my elbows on the middle of that glass top.
it's not the supports you need to worry about, it's the piece of glass. if tempered glass had been used you'd be fine. kinda like the glass table tops they sell at ikea to go along with the table supports. using plate glass is risky business. it's a work surface, not a picture frame. ...that being said, it's quite a transformation.
Thank you.
The idea is good, the execution, or rather the materials used not so much. The glass should be tempered to handle the stresses of spanning the supports. This could be rescued though by using the glass as a topper on another surface.
Tempered glass does not equal structural glass. I think the proper type of glass should laminated glass. Tempered only means that if the glass breaks, it breaks into a million little pieces - but it will still break.
I would have refinished the legs in shiny black.
Wow, tough room over at Ikea Hackers. You'd think she'd eaten the babies instead of making a crack about them being on leashes.
I like the glitziness of the finished product but it does look like about 150 stitches waiting to happen. It would be fine over a sound supporting table top. She could probably find one at Ikea. ;-)
This is a nice and easy DIY that says you don't have to leave it well enough alone. I do have a word of caution: the glass is too thin to support any accidental weight. The glass used is okay with the perimeter supported, as on a coffee table, but too thin by itself. For a desk, you'll want to have a thickness of at least 1/2" or better. Laminated glass would be ideal, but the expense of materials and cutting may be off-putting to some.
An alternative would be to have a solid base material under the float glass, gold leaf side down. It would give you the strength and still let the gold leaf shine. After you put on the finish on the base and glass, you'll want to let them sit by themselves for at least a week or more for the finishes totally vent their solvents and harden up. Then you can put them in place without fear of the two finishes chemically melting into each other.
"Gushing for gold?"
I suggest adding a piece of Masonite (at least 1/4 inch thick) maybe a half inch smaller all around under the glass, for the reasons already discussed. Since the gold leaf is under the glass, that would just give some almost invisible support and safety.
This is a horrible, possibly disfiguring accident waiting to happen. Witnessed someone leaning on a sliding glass door (apparently not up to code and not tempered), not doing anything but leaning, and suddenly the entire piece of glass shattered. There were huge shards everywhere. Fortunately, no one was hurt save for a few very minor cuts but it could have been much worse. No "Look" is worth it. No bargain is worth it.
Great table! Being the 'certain' age I am.....I've been through Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Wooden Beads, Pearls, Chunky Plastic, Silver and Silver...NO GOLD EVER--SILVER FOREVER. And now to the current !GOLD! is making its expected comeback. That's the reason I have so many boxes stuffed with that gold jewelry everyone nixes when that silver only trend comes around. Same for home design....it was stark and silver forever. I'd sneak bronze and copper in, but they had their "2 minutes" on stage and were gone from the trendiest of design elements. Now, here it is: Ta Da!! ~~~GOLDEN GOLD~~~
What the...? You can't just grab any old piece of glass and use it as a table top, lady.
Dangerous, and looks kind of tacky, IMHO.
This isn't glamourous, it'l little more than two Ikea sawhorses with a piece of glass painted gold. Cheesy is more like it. You can Ikea your way or thrift your way to something far better than this piece of hack.