"I've come for an argument!"

[batskeets]

Work was hectic tonight--our last pickup included a girl who was so "tired" (read: drunk) that she was laying down on the pavement while her friends stood around waiting for us. Her boyfriend asked us to back the van up closer, because they had to lift her into the van. At least we ended the night with some good tips, though. Woo!

On the plus side, I got to have a Slurpee this evening, and I got to run by Taco Hell and nab James a bunch of crunchy tacos for the 24-hour RP session that they are currently mired in. I think they're at ~8 hours right now? I wonder if he has any left... >:D

Anyway, I'm giving the MySQL install another shot--at least if it fails this time, I can copy down whatever error message it pukes out, and maybe give somebody who's more savvy something to go on. I might soon be accepting niro's incredibly awesome offer at least temporarily, depending on how this attempt goes. ^^;;;

And guh, somebody get me off of Gaia. I'm lounging around on their boards while I wait for stuff to compile. Man, some of these kids have *no* taste. :p I'm kind of feeling my years because, amazingly, my tastes have actually matured! ::laughs:: I did make a poll thread about voting on your favourite Smember, however, and now somebody's blabbing with me about Shingo Mama. SMASMA!!

Also: I simply cannot believe that they're going to start showing Iron Chef USA on Food Network! Have the execs been living under a rock? There's a reason why it didn't last on UPN--it was crap! Anyone and *everyone* who's a fan of the original Iron Chef thinks that the USA version was a steaming pile of dung. I'll watch all the Iron Chef repeats they want to show me, just don't foist this watered-down pap on me!

You'd think they'd learn not to "improve" Japanese programming in such a manner. Americanizing programs from Japan never seems to come out well--even dubbing over the voices can be painful enough by itself, and that's when they *don't* revise/chop up the story concept. Would it really kill us to be exposed to other cultures?

Bah, enough rambling from me. ::poof::

Comments

[wednesday]

I vaguely recall that rerun-rights to ICUSA reverted to Food Network after a couple of years (enough time that, if the show proved successful on UPN, it wouldn't seem like oversaturation), and that they were involved enough in the negotiations to Americanize it to begin with (enough so that UPN's web page for the show linked to Food Network -- this is almost unheard of). If this is the case, airing ICUSA could be seen as recouping investment through ad time or something.

But, yeah -- there's something very wrong when William Shatner is the best part of a show.

[drinkdrano.livejournal.com]

Stealing Japanese stuff and making it less cool is all the rage these days. I've heard in my web crawling of several(read:upwards of a dozen) Japanese horror type movies that various Hollywood folks and studios have bought up the remake rights to.