It just popped into my head, so this diary may seem hacky even by my own hackish standards; but let's not forget ABC's mega-budget bird flu movie, which, of course, I didn't watch, BTW. And why should I have? In fact, I feel that my life is slightly better by not watching such tripe, for which, ABC seems to have an inexhaustible pool to draw from.
Were I this guy, I would be slapping this guy right in the back of the head. "They must have backed a dump truck full of money" comment goes here.
Anyway, if recent history is of any value, here's what we thought of that bird flu piece of crap:
From Variety: 5/10/06
Fox flies by 'Bird Flu'
... According to Nielsen, "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" settled for a 1.8 rating/5 share in adults 18-49 and 5.28 million viewers overall from 8 to 10 o'clock -- merely on par with the net's tiny week-ago comedy scores in the time period and hardly the sweeps boost ABC was seeking.
[note that they seemed to be trying to scare a ratings boost out of the American People. Why do the networks think that that's a good idea? Perplexing, indeed.]
So,it seems that (besides people completely oblivious to ABC's `Tripe:Fear Sells in America' in the glow of American Idol) we had already dismissed this pig despite the lipstick; so much so, that we didn't even feel the need to watch it in order to call it what it was:
T.R.I.P.E.
Why would we in our right minds even expect ABC to have any objectivity when it comes to this new piece of crap (even if you put Harvey Keitel on top of a piece of crap, it's still a piece of crap.) Therefore, I would advise that you just plain old repeat the same thing you did back in May.
During the day, I shall likely tey to do something productive, charitable, and worthy as I have tried to do every year on this day; but for that night, if my wife lets me (probably not,) I'm going to go out and get a webcam for the sole purpose of holding a 2 part sock-puppet miniseries (with no commercial breaks!) If it all works out, I'll fill you in on the details later. Otherwise, I think that I'm going to charge up my flashlight and try to catch some of those enormous brown trout from the Unami Creek that I've heard so many legends of; But hopefully, it'll be puppets til' 11!
If anyone would like to send a sock puppet video (with sound) to me, please drop me a line (via my email in my profile.) I am hoping I get a big response. If so, I shall set up an upload center and we'll make a big thing out of it.
Just, please remember (I said this before) that watching this crap in disgust is the same to ABC as watching with excitement, laziness to find the remote, or anything else.
Mark my words, It's crap and you'll be slightly better off by taking pride in not participating.
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