I’ve been chuckling about these all day:
Good stuff.
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In an hour and 20 minutes, and we are all very excited about the GoT season opener. Two of the frat boys are coming down to watch with me and Shawn, and in honor of Theon Greyjoy, that despicable prick, we are having bratwurst and sauerkraut.
Also have a Pens game on at eight before the show, and then there looks to be a really amazing show on AMC called Turn, which is showing at nine and then again at ten thirty. I really think this has potential to be a good watch.
Now that spring is here (I have two daffodils blooming already!), Steve has been much more adventurous outdoors. He comes out on the porch and hangs out with me and Shawn when we sit there drinking coffee, and earlier today I found him lounging in the middle of the yard sunning himself in between Lily and Rosie.
Other than that, just sitting here feeling good again (queue the bipolar remarks). I’m German. I’m used to being miserable and having overwhelming guilt and flooding memories of regrets, all mixed in with a healthy dose of self-loathing and sheer contempt for others. This whole being in a good mood thing is weird.
Oh, I also realized that when I pick my car up tomorrow, it will be the first car I have owned that has a remote to unlock the car. That’s right folks, I’m stoked about 20 year old technology and think I have moved up to that deluxe apartment in the sky.
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(via Slate)
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Apart from gearing up for Season Four tomorrow, what’s on the agenda, television- or other-wise?
Saturday Night Open PopCult Thread: GoT Is Coming…Post + Comments (190)
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I’ve been putting this off because I didn’t want to deal with the finality of it all, but I am about to watch the Pysch series finale. Chuck and Psych have a special place in my heart.
There will be spoilers, so don’t comment if you have not seen it.
*** Update ***
I seriously hate all of you people. DO NOT READ THE FUCKING COMMENTS UNLESS YOU ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT SPOILERS.
Assholes.
More tussin.
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Via Slate, which also linked to George R.R. Martin’s latest teaser.
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Apart from popkulcha, what’s on the agenda for the start of the weekend?
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(Ted Rall’s blog)
Steve Coll, in the New York Review of Books, discussing the latest Roger Ailes bio:
… One of the most fascinating aspects of Fox News’s business model is how its audience’s passion shapes and lifts the network’s profits. Normally, when a media company has an audience as old as Fox’s—the network’s median audience age is more than sixty-five—the business struggles financially. That is because younger people buy the most consumer goods and so advertisers prefer them. But Fox News does not make most of its money from advertising. About 60 percent of its revenue—more than $1 billion annually, or about the entirety of its reported profit—comes from fees paid by cable companies for the right to carry Fox News programming, according to Pew. Cable operators who pay these fees don’t care so much about whether Fox’s viewers are young or old; they care more about having viewers who are addicted enough to what’s on cable TV to fork over monthly subscription fees.
The Fox News audience’s fervor also assures that if a cable company ever tried to throw the network off its system, or reduce programming fees, the operator could expect intense, politicized protests. Call this a kind of extortion, or call it leverage in a market economy, but as a result Fox News today receives from the fees paid to it about ninety-four cents per cable subscriber per month, one of the highest rates in the industry, a third greater than what CNN receives and more than double what MSNBC gets. Fox’s high fees are mainly attributable to its superior ratings, but as the industry analyst Craig Moffett told The New York Times last year, the “level of passion and engagement” within Fox’s following has also lifted its revenue because such intense devotion is not easy for cable operators to find…
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Apart from learning, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Numbers I Did Not KnowPost + Comments (47)
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From here on out, when you see a commercial with a doorbell or someone knocking on the door, please note the product in this thread. If I have one more peaceful moment in the recliner interrupted by a commercial with a doorbell, causing both dogs to jump off my lap and bag me in the process, I’m going to go all Mad Men on someone.
This insanity has got to stop.