Sports Desk

Sport is good... sometimes it is great!

Just this weekend...

SuperBowl: ...longest touchdown play ...biggest comeback (almost) ... 27-23 winning TD with 35 seconds to play.

NZ v AUST 1 day cricket: ...NZ wins on last ball ...bad umpiring ...cheating allegations ...blind australians (the ball hit the bails... not) ... then Ricky gets 'rested'

Aus Open Tennis: Boring Blubbing Roger gets beaten in 5 by Rafa ...who had to play the longest game in Open history to win the semi

Goodbye George

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" - George Bush (The President)

"Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum (The Simpsons)

Ausralian TV

...Of course the free to air networks are required to show a minumum 55% local content, which doesn't excuse showing awful imported programs instead of great ones... how does Two and a Half Men get a prime time slot. To make matters worse NZ programs get included in Australian quota (Closer Economic Relations and all that) but again it is often the crap reality type (police, customs etc). Watching how the Auckland Police deal with a broken down Cortina on the Harbour Bridge is hardly rivetting... but then there is always bro'Town or Outrageous Fortune.

30 Rock rocks..

Speaking of 30 Rock…

 I think it is excellent television, and has won Emmys and Golden Globe awards for the show as  well as for Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin. Yet Australian TV continues to shun it, based in theory on the Australian public shunning it – which is easy to do if it is shown at 11pm … luckily the Interweb allows me to watch the shows soon after they screen in the US (S3 has great guest stars including Steve Martin, Oprah, Jennifer Aniston, Salma Hayek…). Mad Men, which won Best Drama series (Emmys and GGs) only made it to Movie Extra, Nine choosing to only offer it online at ninemsn for a fee…

…the media also say that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Oscars shun Nicole Kidman – which is easy to do cos she is crap…

[Yes, yes… I also download and watch 90210 since it was axed by Channel 10 :)]

Arnold for Energy Secretary

For comedians that were hoping for plenty of material should the McCain/Palin ticket have got up (including 4 years of cameo work for Tina Fey on SNL)  may not have to worry with the Obama win. One of the options for Energy Secretary is apparently Arnold Shwarzennegger as reported on Politico.com and News.com.  Of course The Terminator was nuclear powered so it all makes sense. But then Arnie is a Republican... 

Refer quotes section to the right...

... so bipartisan politics aside perhaps ex Democrat presidential candidate Al Gore could be an option - and he has links to Fey (30Rock cameo) as well...

Helen and Marilyn

Is it me, or is Helen Clark looking more like Marilyn Manson every day ! The BIG election of the week of course takes place in NZ this weekend...

 

[update: Helen lost]

iPod Appropriate

Rang my friend Graham the other Sunday and he was doing the 1000 step (Kokoda) walk in Ferntree Gully ...well apparently there is a longer route that isn't so steep but is maybe 5000 steps. He sms'd me back to comment on why people would be walking in such a beautiful place listening to an iPod. Anyways this made me think if iPods could be appropriate so long as you were listening to the right music ...so is it OK to listen to the Beach Boys at the beach ...or in the Dandenongs - Kate Bush, Deep Forest or the Vines ... Hilltop Hoods whilst climbing... of course the irony of talking your cell phone, answering a call, and sending an sms didn't escape me...