Real quick , before I forget ...

Let me first say that I really don't like CSI. I guess I'm not into cop dramas in general, which is unfortunate because they represent a large percentage of what's on television these days. I'm currently watching a montage of science on CSI: NY. What happened just ten minutes before that is what really struck me because it happens so often in movies and on television.

Two cops are investigating the crime scene. One, collecting evidence. The other, with an impossibly deep stare set upon a piece of seemingly meaningless debris (in this case, broken glass).

Cop one: Hey. What are you doing over there?

Cop two: Oh, nothing.

Cop one: Well, you've been staring at that same piece of glass for five minutes. What's up? Do you want me to put that in an evidence bag?

Cop two: No, but I have an idea.

Cop one: Oh, yeah? What's that?

This is when cop two storms off in some sort of determined fashion without even acknowledging the questions. What drama! It really builds the suspense of what's coming.

The thing is, this never happens in real life. You tell someone you have an idea; they ask what it is; you tell them your idea. Pretty standard, really. If you told me you had an idea, then i asked you what it was and you just stormed off, I'd throw a shoe at you. A dirty one that wear when I mow the lawn.

This just outlines exactly why these shows suck. They're so unrealistic they border on ridiculous.

Okay. I feel like writing these blogs makes me sound like someone who sits on their couch all evening staring at the television. It's not true! I just end up watching these odd bits and pieces of things while I'm checking email ... and this is what happens.

Forever ... old?

Star Trek: The Next Generation reruns are all over television lately. I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode of this show, and I was always a big fan of Captain Picard ... well, who wasn't. What strikes me at this hour of the night is that Patrick Stewart, who portrays the captain, has looked just about the same for the last 25 years or so. Check it out ...

1984

early 1990s

2009

I swear I can't tell the difference. There may have been a time that people thought he looked a little old beyond his years, but those years have caught up to him. The man is almost 70 and looks like he did in his forties ... oh, and he dates women less than half his age. What else can I really say ...

That's the money you could be saving with ...

Okay, so I've always been interested in advertising campaigns. In advertising, you're trying to take a product, service or maybe even a person and make it (them) accessible and/or attractive to others. The psychology of this and the creativity it would take sound like a lot of fun.

Especially after working at a studio that created music for advertisements, I can be picky about commercials. I sat around for a while today watching television - I don't call it TV because TV is a nickname, and nicknames are for friends, and television is no friend of mine. Anyway, these commercials for insurance companies like Geico, Allstate, et al seem kind of pointless to me.

They all say the same thing: people who switched from ___ to us saved an average of $__. Of course they did. They wouldn't have switched if they weren't going to save money (for the most part). There would be no point because all of these insurance companies are basically the same.

I know their point is that you should check them out and see if you'd save money, but the basis for their argument is kind of shoddy in my opinion.

That, and I didn't have anything more interesting to write here before I leave the house for the night. We can talk later about where the balance point is between churning out content on a deadline and churning out *good* content. At least there's a link to Mr. Show in there ...