Sunday’s Forecast: Sixty Percent Chance of Rain, One Hundred Percent Chance of Bloodshed
Published January 12th, 2007 in 24, TelevisionAs some of you may know, this is the weekend where, once again, the nation will darken under the shadow of international terrorism. And who will save us? Who will come to our aid? Who will accomplish (read: kill; torture) more in one hour than I do in an entire month?
That’s right…IT’S THE JACK BAUER POWER HOUR!
This weekend, Fox is kicking off a four hour, two day premiere of 24. That’s a whole lot of posts for me, unless of course they start the show at 2 am and I spend the first four hours sleeping. Still, I could not be more excited. And to celebrate, I’ve got an article up on Cracked about Jack Bauer beta-testing his new cell phone.
Those of you who were part of the editing process will recognize that maybe half of the article was written by me. You’ll also see how improved the piece* is. Big thanks to the editors over at Cracked.
Have a good weekend; see you Monday with two parts of “What a Difference a Day Makes”.
*I’ve never known what to call a piece of comedy writing. ‘Article’ gets redundant, but they’re not exactly columns, and calling them ‘pieces’ sounds pretentious, like calling movies ‘films’.
I suggest you start calling your “articles” “things.” This is a very useful word, I have found.
Another useful application of the word “thing,” is to help people arrive at it, when they are searching for a more descriptive word. For example, the other day Thunder Lizard was strugling to remember some technical-medical-mumbo-jumbo. I helped her out by interjecting, not the word she was looking for, but “thing” the word she was most trying to stay away from. Everytime I do this, I think it is funny and other poeple don’t.
As Big Brother, I call on you to try out this technique when trying to annoy your friends. And you should call your articles, things.
BigBrother Out