25 Random Things…

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you (thanks s-rod). If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people [in the right-hand corner of the page], then click Publish.)

1. My favorite movie is currently Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
2. I have never in my life been to the armpit of the country, also known as New Jersey and I certainly wasn’t born there.
3. Despite what you may think, Windows ME is the greatest operating system ever released.
4. If I were into cosplay, I’d totally be Dr. Horrible — before he joined the Evil League of Evil though.
5. Kristin Wig is hi-freaking-larious.
6. I’m just not that into you.
7. I’ve read all of the Twilight series and New Moon was my favorite.
8. I can’t believe it’s not butter.
9. I once threw a standardized test because the teachers said it wouldn’t count for anything and that the results would be used to set FCAT standards.
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11. I think things are a lot funnier than the really are.
12. I used to read Dave Berry like it was crack cocaine.
13. There is no thirteenth story.
14. If a movie were to be made about my life, I’d want either Shia LaBeouf or Keanu Reeves to play me. Woah!
15. I’ve never seen a movie I truly hated.
16. I really don’t think Berry Bonds is all that bad of a guy and the fact that he used steroids shouldn’t keep him or his records out of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
17. I’m having a lot of fun writing this.
18. I cried at the end of Shawshank Redemption.
19. Fallout 3 is the greatest video game ever created followed closely by Grand Theft Auto 4.
20. [Insert witty quip here.]
21. I think the writing on SNL is way better than it was just 4 years ago.
22. Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray have a lot to do with my desire to travel to Japan.
23. If I could have anyone read this list, it’d be you.
24. If I won the lottery, the first thing I’d do would be to pay off my debt, then buy a MacBook Pro, and then have all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.
25. Everything you have read here is completely true.

That’s it. Hope you enjoyed my list of 25 random things that are completely mostly false. Oh yeah, I have to tag people. Well, tag, you’re it.

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The first show is Saturday Night Live. To say SNL has writing issues is an understatement. The show has downright problems. In the two episodes that have aired so far there has been one sketch that was actually funny: the Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton season opener.

After watching the rest of the episode, and a majority of the one aired this past Saturday, it seems as if Tina Fey herself might have written this one. The SNL writing has been in trouble for a very long time and this season it just seems worse. It begs the question, will NBC grow a pair and clean out the write staff or *gasp* cancel the show?

The next show that makes me wonder what the writing team is thinking is Fringe. I’ve talked about Fringe before, it’s a great show that is part LOST and part X-Files. One of the main characters is a former mad scientist who has been locked up in a mental institution for the past 17 years. While most of the writing revolving this character is done well, there seems to be one “out” the team is using.

In the first episode Bishop, the character in question, wanted to use his lab from 17 years ago. Good thing it still exists! Harvard just decided to use it as storage. And by storage they meant cover the equipment with a tarp and put a few boxes in there. Convenient. In the second episode Bishop needed a file he left in his car. Well guess what? His car is in the same pad-locked garage it was 17 years ago! Again, how convenient? Finally, last night, Bishop needed a piece of equipment he hid in the wall of his former home. Well guess what. It was still there. But it wasn’t in a wall, it was in a dumbwaiter merely covered by a bookshelf. Do the writers really expect us to believe that the key to all of Bishop’s experiments are littered all over Boston and somehow completely untouched and right where they were left 17 years ago? Come on?

The final show I’ve watched so far this season has been Heroes. Cut to only 11 episodes last year because of the strike, it’s been a long time since Heroes has been on the air. But watching the two hour premiere on Monday, a few things struck me about one of the main characters, Peter.

Peter can absorb every power that he comes in contact with making him pretty much the most powerful “hero” of them all. Yet, somehow, Peter manages to constantly make poor decisions and, as a result, the world ends four to five years later. This season, future “Dark Peter” has come back from the future to prevent bad things from happening. But here’s what I don’t get: Dark Peter has a giant scar across his face. Lest we forget Peter has the ability to heal himself. Curious? Even more curious is that two of the powers Peter has absorbed involve being able to see the future. Given this, you would think Peter would know that his horrible choices have an effect down the road. Either that or the writers just assume we don’t remember these things.

None of these writing slips will cause me to stop watching the shows, well except maybe for SNL. But after waiting so long for good TV to come back on, I’d like to think the writers would be willing to not treat the audience like children and actually write the show without the sloppy “outs” they have been given themselves. Maybe it’s just been so long that I forgot this is the small screen norm and am being overly critical. If Toby shows up on The Office on Thursday I’ll know sloppy writing abounds.

What do you think? Have you noticed other instances of sloppy writing on TV so far this year? Leave it in the comments.

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