The Medusa Fora

LeVar Burton is guest hosting Jeopardy the 26th - 30th.



All TV sets are surreal. But how do contestants not lose their shit? Some do, I suppose. Wolf Blitzer for sure and they tailor the celebrity questions to their strengths.

I hate that Ken Jennings so much, ugh.
Like the sports better from Vegas.
Jennings literally copied that guys quirks when they competed. Annoying.

Red Sox, Padres, Golden Knights.

Watched 'Time' the other day..Christ why is everything of quality that's made in this country so unrelentlessly fucking grim???

NBA on TNT = best show ever, except for Kenny.
Had the Charles Barkley sandwich from Shaq’s Big Chicken fast food restaurant the other day and it was good.


Hawks, Padres, A’s

old barney greyheron wrote:... why is everything of quality that's made in this country so unrelentlessly fucking grim???

Well this doomed country is unrelentingly fucking grim itself now, so...

Just watched the first three series of Unforgotten on Netflix. Series 4 doesn't seem to be available there (or anywhere else) for streaming yet. Excellent series.

Murderer Derek Chauvin’s tone deaf Mother making a statement on his behalf at his sentencing.
She believes a lengthy sentence will not serve him? She wants to give him a “special hug”?

Absolutely psychotic.

She did not mention George Floyd or his family.

Biography: I Want My MTV


David Bowie hanging VJ Mark Goodman out to dry around 2:00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGiVzIr8Qg

Frances wrote:Murderer Derek Chauvin’s tone deaf Mother making a statement on his behalf at his sentencing.
She believes a lengthy sentence will not serve him? She wants to give him a “special hug”?

Absolutely psychotic.

She did not mention George Floyd or his family.

She sounds as a big a c**t as her c**t son..

Uprising

Three-part documentary series by the brilliant Steve McQueen on the 1981 New Cross Fire, its aftermath and the response to it.

Devastating but excellent. And telling in the current political circumstances.

The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime. It's Top Gear but now on Prime. I don't care about cars, but I saw Top Gear once and laughed my ass off. Watched a couple episodes of this yesterday as they travel around the world and get laughed at.

Wait, the Olympics are over?

I’ve heard others watching it in other rooms and that’s good enough for me, but... Johnny Weir is doing commentary on the closing ceremony?

I love Johnny Weir and used to watch his terrible reality show, Be Good Johnny Weir, where they tried to create drama from an essentially boring life of practice in New Jersey while kinda glossing over the hate he got for his manner and style or... dare I say?, gayness.It’s an old show from a different time, obviously.

His life had real drama but not in the first season. Maybe there were two or three seasons?


Johnny Fucking Weir.




He’s definitely on my list of 5 celebrities you would actually ask for a picture with to impress your family.
#1 would be Grumpy Cat and that’s already been completed (years before her untimely death).

Leonard Nimoy would have been on the list for sure, just to impress a Trekkie in the family. I spent hours in line to get a Spock foam finger once, as even I knew there was no settling for a goddamn red one.










Also, apparently some cunt German coach punched a horse? In the leg. On livestream to all of Germany?
Get a fucking grip.

A little Malice in the Palace, as one does every few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyqIh4nJ3Y

We have been watching "Detectorists" (BBC 4, 2014-2017). "The series is set in the fictional small town of Danebury in northern Essex; the plot revolves around the lives, loves and metal detecting ambitions of Andy and Lance, members of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club."

It is funny and lightweight, which is what we need sometimes.

Money Heist. Like Inside Man but much longer and in red suits and Spanish