Month: October 2005

Note to CBS: when showing repeats of a pilot episode, maybe you could drop the opening montage-voiceover that accompanies subsequent episodes. You know, the one that gives away pretty much the entire plot of the pilot? Yeah, thanks.

This wasn’t so much an issue for me. I’d see the pilot, and I only re-recorded it by accident. But still, if you’d been hoping to catch the first episode of Threshold unspoiled, you had your work cut out for you with CBS’ repeat last night.

The Friday Random 10, the “Because it’s More Fun to Make You Guess Again” Edition:

  1. He ain’t got no distractions, can’t hear no buzzers and bells [“Pinball Wizard” by The Who, guessed by John]
  2. And the flowers still grow, but they don’t smell as sweet as they did when you picked them for me [“Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” by Dolly Parton, guessed by Eric]
  3. And people tend to pass you over ’cause you’re not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water or stars in the sky [“Bein’ Green” by Kermit the Frog, guessed by Nyssa]
  4. He’s a kid from Colorado counting raindrops in the drain [“Waiter at the Station” by Willy Mason, guessed by Eric]
  5. Well, I’ve been lookin’ all over for a gal like you, I can’t find nobody so you’ll have to do [“Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance” by Bob Dylan, guessed by Eric]
  6. He can make it if he try, to the sky like a Coney Island ride [“What You Need Is Jesus” by Public Enemy, guessed by Eric]
  7. Beware the thrum of hearts in your presence and watch the breeze that snaps at you now [“Unsingable Name” by Mike Doughty, guessed by Eric]
  8. Are you so deaf that you cannot hear his plea? [“Free Nelson Mandela” by The Specials, guessed by Eric]
  9. Living in sin doesn’t move me either way [“Kick Him When He’s Down” by The Offspring, guessed by Eric]
  10. When all the world is a hopeless jumble and the raindrops tumble all around, heaven opens a magic lane [“Over the Rainbow” by Ella Fitzgerald, guessed by Eric]

Oh, and #4 from last week, the only song that wasn’t guessed, is “Llorando (Crying)” by Rebekah Del Rio.

A lot Some of this week’s songs, I think, are considerably easier to guess.

I’d like to think that if I was still at Penn State, I’d be finding a way to poke fun at the Octacube in the Monty Python Society’s weekly newsletter.

Maybe something along the lines of how it was constructed thanks to the generous funding of University professor Dr. Otto Octavius and family or something.

Maybe it’s for the best that I’m not still at Penn State, huh?

The Spam Reading Club returns today with a vengeance: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, plus The Outlaw of Torn and The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

It surprises me this isn’t an argument taken up by those crusading against the public domain and for indefinite extensions of copyright — that the more works there are in the public domain, the more readily available filler spammers will have at their disposal.