EXtreme Sports, North Pole edition: Spam Shooting
We subscribe to The Week. It generally shows up on Mondays, when I am the only one home and so fetch the mail. Being one of the sort to read anything with words on it that finds its way in front of me, I read it!
It is largely political. (That is just a statement, not a complaint or something.)
But this week's The Week had two articles that really caught my attention. The first was about a short bit about "the world's first truly functional underwater car." Apparently built by a Swiss company. My immediate reaction was to hope that this somehow ends up on Top Gear.
I miss Top Gear! It should be new episodes time now. Or at least April. I'd settle for April.
Anyway, the magazine. Then on the last page, Top Gear actually showed up! Barely. The television page tells us it will be on Monday (so, er, yesterday) at 8 on BBC America (which, of course, I do not get, and anyway, they cut content, which is no fun. And it's just the most recent stuff, so it's not even anything I've not seen). It also reminds us that a "U.S. version is in the works."
It will not be as excellent. In a similar vein, the Life on Mars adaptation has supposedly been pushed back to autumn. I still don't think I'll watch it, because I am so worried they'll mess it up.
...
I SOUND LIKE SUCH AN ELITIST. I don't mean to! ACK! I just sincerely worry! Life on Mars is perfect as it is! I don't want them to feel they need to change things and make it less perfect because SPOILERY SPOILER SPOILY SPOIL SPOIL and all!
Though, after reflecting on it a bit, I wonder if my want of more Top Gear is part of why "GT" offshoot plot ideas keep attacking me.
Now I go to bed! But if my schedule holds, I will be able to catch up on everything by tomorrow night. That'll be a nice change. (How can I have time to update my journal, if I haven't time to properly read and comment on other entries, or keep up with websites I check? Well, I can type fairly quickly when I know what I'm typing, but I tend to reread entries five or six times before working myself up to actually leaving a comment. YES I AM AFRAID TO LEAVE COMMENTS I DO NOT WANT TO OFFEND OR MAKE A COMPLETE IDIOT OF MYSELF BY MISSING THE POINT COMPLETELY. I manage to do one or the other of those things most of the time I comment, anyway, though, don't I? LAAAAAME AND ALSO SHUT UP. No, er, I keep meaning to make some sort of announcement/entry thing about that. I SAID SHUT UP, SELF. GO TO BED NOW.)
Edit:
On the extremely off chance that anyone was looking for them, all three parts of "Depths" have been locked. I've never been happy with them, and I've finally hidden them away so I can work through them and hopefully make them at least passably decent. They'll be back, I'm just not sure when. And I am quite possibly lying through me teeth.
It is largely political. (That is just a statement, not a complaint or something.)
But this week's The Week had two articles that really caught my attention. The first was about a short bit about "the world's first truly functional underwater car." Apparently built by a Swiss company. My immediate reaction was to hope that this somehow ends up on Top Gear.
I miss Top Gear! It should be new episodes time now. Or at least April. I'd settle for April.
Anyway, the magazine. Then on the last page, Top Gear actually showed up! Barely. The television page tells us it will be on Monday (so, er, yesterday) at 8 on BBC America (which, of course, I do not get, and anyway, they cut content, which is no fun. And it's just the most recent stuff, so it's not even anything I've not seen). It also reminds us that a "U.S. version is in the works."
It will not be as excellent. In a similar vein, the Life on Mars adaptation has supposedly been pushed back to autumn. I still don't think I'll watch it, because I am so worried they'll mess it up.
...
I SOUND LIKE SUCH AN ELITIST. I don't mean to! ACK! I just sincerely worry! Life on Mars is perfect as it is! I don't want them to feel they need to change things and make it less perfect because SPOILERY SPOILER SPOILY SPOIL SPOIL and all!
Though, after reflecting on it a bit, I wonder if my want of more Top Gear is part of why "GT" offshoot plot ideas keep attacking me.
Now I go to bed! But if my schedule holds, I will be able to catch up on everything by tomorrow night. That'll be a nice change. (How can I have time to update my journal, if I haven't time to properly read and comment on other entries, or keep up with websites I check? Well, I can type fairly quickly when I know what I'm typing, but I tend to reread entries five or six times before working myself up to actually leaving a comment. YES I AM AFRAID TO LEAVE COMMENTS I DO NOT WANT TO OFFEND OR MAKE A COMPLETE IDIOT OF MYSELF BY MISSING THE POINT COMPLETELY. I manage to do one or the other of those things most of the time I comment, anyway, though, don't I? LAAAAAME AND ALSO SHUT UP. No, er, I keep meaning to make some sort of announcement/entry thing about that. I SAID SHUT UP, SELF. GO TO BED NOW.)
Edit:
On the extremely off chance that anyone was looking for them, all three parts of "Depths" have been locked. I've never been happy with them, and I've finally hidden them away so I can work through them and hopefully make them at least passably decent. They'll be back, I'm just not sure when. And I am quite possibly lying through me teeth.