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1. 30 Days is a great show. I watched Spurlock’s “Supersize Me” about a year ago, but didn’t know about 30 Days until this season. So far I’ve seen about four episodes and each one has been pretty compelling. I actually liked the one about spending 30 days in a wheelchair the least. In most episodes the subject of the documentary fully invests themselves in the experience. While the football star gave it a good go, I feel like he cheated greatly by retrofitting his home and car to the degree that he did. As he himself pointed out, the vast majority of the disabled population wouldn’t be able to have had the budget to make those retrofits and adjustments. I think it would have been more compelling if he had lived in the home of the guy that ultimately wound up becoming a mentor-figure to him (the one that got paralyzed following the rope-swinging incident). I work with the disabled population, and I see far more homes that are outfitted like his than like the football star’s.

   Also, I know Jeff said that he saw the first episode of “Breaking Bad” and didn’t like it, but I’ve got to say that it is probably my favorite new show from last season. It really picks up steam quickly after that first episode and is very compelling. Great character interactions set against a dark, desperate, and sometimes quite gory backdrop, yet not without some black humor. It reminds me quite a bit of Dexter, actually, in that regard. If you ever feel like giving it another chance, I don’t think you’d be disappointed. Give it at least until the “bathtub” episode, which is early in the season (maybe the second or third episode?) and I think you’d be hooked. Or, turned off forever. Could go either way.

   Comment by danterner — June 24, 2008 @ 9:11 am

2. Rashida Jones is not hot.

   That is all.

   Comment by knigge — June 24, 2008 @ 1:34 pm

3. Who said she is?

   Comment by chrispiers — June 24, 2008 @ 2:04 pm

4. Rashida Jones is Karen on the Office. Really? I think she is really cute. Far too cute for Jim. I think she actually looks a lot like her mom, a classic beauty. :)

   Comment by tina — June 24, 2008 @ 2:27 pm

5. oh chris, i read that you asked who is she? haha. i said she was hot enough and we didn’t need amanda peet-moss

   Comment by tina — June 24, 2008 @ 2:28 pm

6. To me, she’s like Sarah Jessica Parker. The only time she looks good is when she has 30 pounds of make-up on and they don’t do a close-up. Trust me, I don’t have anything better to say about Amanda either (the only benefit she has is that I’ve seen her boobs in The Whole Nine Yards… and really… meh). Then again, no one was really attractive to me on The (American) Office when it first came on. It took a while for Pam to get cute and a lot of that has to do with the character and how the actress portrays her.

   Anyways, my point is as long as the acting and character development is good, I couldn’t care less about the superficial stuff. Karen was super annoying when she made the transition to the Scranton branch and my biggest fear is that she’s the same when they do this spin-off.

   Comment by knigge — June 24, 2008 @ 4:59 pm

7. chuck, this was sorta the point of my original comment. the office is full of people who look real. this is what i love about it. karen is almost not normal enough looking. and amanda peet is an actress who looks like an actress. anyway, my point is that we don’t need a bunch of “beautiful” people on the office. we need more dwights and pams. haha

   Comment by tina — June 25, 2008 @ 11:22 am

8. Word. And stuff. ;)

   Comment by knigge — June 25, 2008 @ 12:26 pm

9. and dude, my dwight crush is almost bigger than my ben crush. ok, that might not be possible.

   Comment by tina — June 25, 2008 @ 4:31 pm

10. MY Dwight crush is bigger than my Ben crush.

    Comment by knigge — June 26, 2008 @ 12:11 am

11. I went to Port Meirion(where they filmed The Prisoner) last year. Its really cool. Looks exactly the same apart from the giant Chess board is no longer there and no Rover…. ohhh and they let you leave.

    I can’t believe the Beep are saying that the Doctor is half human because of a stupid line in the rubbish ‘96 tv movie (Although Paul McGann was good in it. Just shame about the story).

    Comment by Prest — June 26, 2008 @ 5:32 am

12. I’d love to see Port Merion one day. And while the U.S. tv movie of Doctor Who did suck, at least that line added a tiny bit of mystery back to the Doctor. It’s what they tried to do with the 7th Doctor by saying he might have been “The Other” along with Rasillon and Omega, or with the current 10th Doctor by making it a big deal that he hides his real name.

    Comment by chrispiers — June 26, 2008 @ 9:36 am

13. I forgot about the “the other” thing….I wonder if they will explore that in New Who. Umm thats interesting.

    Comment by Prest — June 26, 2008 @ 11:34 am

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