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The First Honest Cable Company

My HD cable box died a couple of weeks ago after having been swapped out only a few months ago, and I’ve been having more than my fair share of problems with getting Comcast—or is it Xfinity?! I can never remember which one is the company and which one is the service these days—to send a technician to swap it out. I know, I know, I could take my box to my local support center and have them give me another box, but frankly, I just don’t think I should have to take time off from work to stand in line for the privilege to do so. I mean, that’s why I pay my freakin’ cable bill, right?! Aren’t there charges for this kind of stuff already built in?

Anyway, I wish Comcast would at least be as honest as this video when dealing with me rather than patronizing me by “thanking” me for being such a “loyal customer” and “caring” about my needs. Seriously, how much trouble is this company in when it takes almost a week to get someone to drive to my house to swap out a box?

I am happy to say that as we found ourselves in our 80s, we were not afraid to say, ‘I love you.’ That was the last thing George and I had to say to each other. ‘I love you.’
Andy Griffith, on his last conversation with George “Goober Pyle” Lindsey
George Lindsey (December 17, 1928 – May 6, 2012) Not sure how I missed this news, but George Lindsey, best known for his role as Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and the country music variety show Hee Haw, died yesterday at the age of 83. Click for high-res photo

George Lindsey (December 17, 1928 – May 6, 2012)

Not sure how I missed this news, but George Lindsey, best known for his role as Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and the country music variety show Hee Haw, died yesterday at the age of 83.

Sherlock: Why It's the Best Show on TV

I just watched “A Scandal in Belgravia,” the first episode of the new season, and I can’t say that I disagree with Paste reviewer Shane Ryan—too much. I’m finding that most of my “favorite shows on television” these days are coming from the BBC—Doctor Who, The IT Crowd, Sherlock, Torchwood. I have also recently discovered Merlin and am (slowly) working my way through the episodes on Netflix.

I was a little skeptical of a modern retelling of the Sherlock Holmes canon, but I have to say I was more than impressed by the three (?!) episodes of season one, and I was immediately hooked.

I Think We’re Too Prolific For Them

Hüsker Dü on Good Company in April 1986

Here’s a vintage clip of Hüsker Dü’s 1986 appearance on a Twin Cities daytime talk show called Good Company to promote Candy Apple Grey, courtesy of Slicing Up Eyeballs.

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?
Roy, The IT Crowd

We’re Like Ritalin Kids

Ginger and friends in studio at 96.3 Rock Radio

Ginger has teamed up with guitarist Jase Edwards of metal band Wolfsbane and former Cardiacs guitarist, one-time Wildhearts bassist, and long-time Ginger collaborator “Random” Jon Poole for a set of European acoustic shows in April and May during a break in the Michael Monroe tour. According to the man himself, the show is a mix of Wildhearts and Ginger solo material, with “a bit of tomfoolery, some goofing off, and a little bit of showing off as well.”

Ginger and friends stopped by Scotland’s 96.3 Rock Radio on May 4 for an appearance on the Tom Russell Show on their way to Glasgow for a gig later that evening. In addition to talking about the acoustic tour and Ginger’s experiences with the Michael Monroe band, the guys performed a song in the studio. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but if you are a fan of early-80’s American TV sticoms, you’ll get a kick out of it.

Enjoy!

Miracle Day

Torchwood is the other BBC property that I’m really anxious to see get going again. But I can’t help but fear that moving the setting from Cardiff, Wales to Los Angeles and adding American actors to the cast is going to end up being a bad, bad idea. But when you kill off nearly your entire cast in the short timespan of two seasons and one five-episode mini-series—31 episodes if you’re keeping count—what else are you going to do?

Let’s hope that Russell T. Davies—the man responsible for bringing Doctor Who back from the brink of extinction—can pull it off.

Lemmy and Motorhead perform a laid-back acoustic version of “Ace of Spades” for a Heineken Kronenbourg 1664 commercial

I’m just a guitar player, but I would have had a couple of contingency plans set up.
Ted Nugent on the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill on the Fox Business channel program Money Rocks with Eric Bolling

Robert McCall: “Who runs things in this city?”
Lt. Burnett: “We do.”
Robert McCall: “When your backs are turned, who runs things?”

Via Paste Magazine: The Equalizer Maybe Actually Happening, Starring Russell Crowe

Geez. Add another great memory of my teenage years to the list of things that Hollywood is going to screw up.

Sigh.

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Theme from The Equalizer by Stewart Copeland

In a few minutes when I gloat over the failure of this enterprise, how would you prefer I do it — the standard “I told you so” with a classic “Neener neener” or just my normal look of haughty derision?
Dr. Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory, “The Lunar Excitation”