The Pacific
Posted by Levi in Current Events on March 12, 2010
I am totally stoked that HBO is producing another miniseries based on World War II. This one is called The Pacific. I looked at some of the photos and other information posted at the HBO website. It looks just as cool as their last one Band of Brothers.
I love the fact that the producers capture the camaraderie of the era as well as some of the pure horror that those soldiers must have gone through. By studying and learning from history like this, maybe we can help keep ourselves from repeating it.
The sad part about this whole ordeal is that we dropped HBO about a year ago. We used to watch it religiously when they were running awesome series like The Sopranos, Deadwood and Rome. Those shows were all downright addicting. We would be glued to the television every Sunday night.
I am going to have to talk a friend into taping it for me so that I can watch it. It sucks having to wait for this stuff to come out on DVD. I don’t think this one series is reason enough to sign back up for HBO. If they were still producing great series like the ones I mentioned, we would never have dropped it.
I got really mad at them after they produced that absolutely horrible show called John from Cincinnati. We got totally sucked into the show only to realize that the writers had not really developed the story line. It seemed like the writers were building us up to some giant event only to realize that the writers themselves had no idea what that event was really going to be.
Pricks.
Ever since then I have been mad at HBO for wasting so much of my time building up an interesting story without ever finishing it. It is like when a friend tells you that he has a crazy secret to share but then he never tells you what the secret is.
USA had another great showing at the Olympics
Posted by Levi in Current Events on March 3, 2010
I thought the United States Olympic teams represented us pretty darn well at the Vancouver Olympics this year. I was surprised to see some of the outstanding performances in sports that are normally dominated by snow covered mountainous countries in Europe.
I was especially proud of the great job that the USA hockey team did. It would have been nice to beat Canada for the gold medal. But, I think that the American team ended up right where they should have.
I also learned a lot about some of these other sports as well. I think those ski jumpers are friggin nuts. So are the freestyle skiers who do flips without breaking their necks. You have got to have a screw loose to do some of those tricks. Who thinks this stuff up?
Canada was a great host for the Olympics also. I wish the weather had been a little more cooperative. It is disappointing that some of the outcomes were affected by the weather. I wonder how many Olympic records of the past were influenced to a great extent by the weather. That is a shame. It injects a variable of luck. Luck should not be involved in whether you are recorded in history as being the greatest athlete in your time frame.
All in all though the whole thing was a lot of fun to watch and very entertaining.