I love it when people e-mail me out of the blue and offer to pay me money to do something. That doesn’t happen nearly often enough, but it’s very nice when it does. More on this later, if it works out.
Didn’t get as much done on the new story over the weekend as I would have liked. I hope to get the first draft wrapped up by Thursday. Then I have a non-fiction piece to write that is probably going to take at least the rest of the week.
I found it amusing that Grey’s Anatomy decided to show one possible outcome of 21st century technology in hospitals. For the past few episodes, the new kids on the block have been driving everyone crazy with their constant texting during rounds. This week it was Bailey who adopted the new technology to tweet her complicated procedures while they were in progress. The chief wasn’t impressed by this, but he didn’t understand the technology. Frustrated, sitting in front of his computer, he declared, “I’m trying to find Bailey’s teats on the internet.” Understandably confused, Owen responded, “You mean, ‘tweets.'” The chief said, “Whatever,” to which Owen said, “No, trust me, this is one you want to get right.”
It’s pretty sad when most of the best ads during the Super Bowl are promos for Fox shows. Other than the Darth Vader Passat ad, the other commercials didn’t have a lot going for them. (By the way, the star of that ad is a 6-year-old boy who has had multiple heart surgeries.) My favorite of the night was the House promo that was a take-off of the legendary Mean Joe Green Coke ad from 1979. The other great one came right after the game ended, a promo for Justified (which starts up again on Wednesday night, by the way). This one was a riff on Dirty Harry.
The Ozzy Osbourne/Bieber spot was amusing, though when it was over I wasn’t entirely sure what the ad was for. Many of them I found to be mean-spirited, crude or simply in bad taste, such as the Groupon one with Timothy Hutton. The Doritos ad with the finger sucking was icky. I did chuckle at a few of the punch lines, and liked the Richard Lewis/Roseanne Barr Snicker ad. The only movie trailer that intrigued me was the one for Super 8. I’m not a big fan of superhero films, Iron Man being the exception. That one at least has a sense of humor about itself.
Oh yeah, the game? It started to look like a blowout, but it got interesting in the second half. I didn’t really care who won so long as it was reasonably close. And I never was a big fan of the Black-Eyed Peas, so their half-time show “debacle” didn’t mean much to me one way or the other. Did anyone like it?
