Turner Classic Movies has been running a tribute to Akira Kurosawa this month (i.e., showing a bunch of his stuff every week). This Tuesday, they will be showing Rashomon and Seven Samurai.
Tonight, they're showing The Outrage and The Magnificent Seven.
So, I've been watching the online feed of the MSU-Maryland game, because the CBS affiliate in the Chicago area has decided to focus on Ohio State instead.
My understanding of how local/regional commercials are supposed to work is that the national broadcaster sends everyone a continuous TV feed, along with some instructions on when the local advertisements may be inserted. The local affiliates cut to their own commercials during these spans of time, and then cut back to the national feed when time is up. The national feed usually fills this space with some extra commercials rather than just having dead air, which is why you will sometimes see brief slivers of national ads bookending local ones. I could very well be wrong — I don't work in the TV business — but that's what I've been told.
Twice, now, the online feed has spent about thirty seconds showing a pulled-back shot of the arena with some statistics overlaid. The announcers haven't been saying much during these breaks. In fact, they don't seem to realize that they're on the air at all. Instead, I've been listening to the bands play, along with occasional snippets of announcer audio like this:
I didn't realize TV was so hard.
Spent all day in the house, 'cause it snowed
Watched Alone in the Dark, even though
Time and time again, I'd seen it panned, on some web site
I think the last time I saw someone try to put back a missed dunk while hanging from the rim was in the mid-1990s. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened since then, but it does mean that most people are aware you shouldn't do it.
I moved into my condo/apartment 6 weeks ago. A few household items were left behind by the previous tenant and/or the landlord: a dish rack, a trash can, a shower curtain, etc.
Just now, while watching the MSU-Purdue basketball game, I glanced at my patio and said, "I have a grill?"
I need to stop getting home from work after dark.
You may have heard of this movie. It was on TNT tonight. Having noticed a definite downhill trend in the three Batman movies that preceded it, and having heard claims that this movie was responsible for the lack of any live-action Batman movies for eight years or so, I decided to see just how bad it could be. It lived up to its reputation quite well, I must say. It is not the worst movie I have ever seen, but it may be worst with a $140 million budget. That's a lot of money.
I chronicled my reactions to the movie as it unfolded, in case anyone is interested: