(WARNING:Some rough language from FCC complaints included)

What would the world do without TheSmokingGun.com? Their newest info is on the 150 complaints the FCC received over the Prince half-time show as Super Bowl XXX and the Snicker’s advert. TSG reproduces 12 of the most entertaining ones and they are an interesting look inside the minds of the people who bother to sit down and write letters to the FCC.

My favorites are:

Letter #2 -

“…that was the backdrop seemed to be (stained?) with something (semen?) My children were watching and now I have to explain to them what a wet spot is on a cum covered sheet.”

Or you could remember it was down pouring rain, there was standing water on the stage, and the sheet got wet from rain? I know…I’m nutty with the logic.

Letter #4 -

“It was obscene to show Prince, a HOMOSEXUAL person through a sheet, as to show his siluette while his guitar showed a very phalic symbol coming from his below-midriff section. I am very offended and I would preffer not to have it showed to my 4 children who love football. One of them has hoped to be a quarterback and now he will turn out gay. I am actually considering to check him for HIV. Thanks CBS for turning my son GAY.”

Wow….really…first…the spelling and grammar come directly from the letter. Very…enlightening. And yes…Prince, the HOMOSEXUAL has the power to turn kids GAY through the TV AND give them HIV. His gayness is just THAT powerful!

So, now we have a better idea of the people who write in to the FCC with their complaints. People who believe the “magic box” can turn their children gay. Yes folks, these are the people whose complaints end up help censoring what YOU watch on YOUR TV.

- Woken up by an eyelash getting in my eye and hurting like all bejesus

- First email at work is someone filing a complaint against me on Pay Pal…for something I already refunded them for.

- Negative on my ebay feedback from some idiot who never paid me (removed later in the day)

- Septic system in my house is screwed…no bathrooms for us tonight! Thank goodness work is only 300 feet away

- Main traveling car needs $1600 in repairs

- Back-up car got a flat

- Got devastating news from a friend that’s not my place to share with the world….but it was heartbreaking and made me tear up for her and her family

This is one of those days that really didn’t pay to even wake up.

JJ Abrams, creator of Alias and LOST, is set to tackle a Star Trek prequel, set before the original series. It will cover Kirk and Spock at the academy and will include other classic characters meeting up.

Please, no.

Really….please, no.

This is such a bad idea, there aren’t even enough way to express it. You know it’s going to get messed up.

“Alex and Bob wrote an amazing script that embraces and respects Trek canon but charts its own course. Our goal is to make a picture for everyone—lifelong fans and the uninitiated. Needless to say, I am honored and excited to be part of this next chapter of Star Trek.”

I have a hard time believing they will be able to respect “canon” with doing this. Just let it rest awhile longer and then do a new TV series, but leave the original series alone. This just reeks of a bad idea to me.

(WARNING:there are inflammatory terms in this article, they are quotes and do not reflect my beliefs)

You know it’s going to be a good blogging day when the first thing you see upon logging in for the day is a picture of Ann Coulter. Oh Ann…what cooky, crazy thing did you say this time?

As I said last time I talked about her, I try to remain politically neutral, but, darn it, she just makes you go “Really…for the love of god…STOP TALKING!” This isn’t about politics when it comes to my feelings towards her, it comes down to common human decency. I don’t rank this latest thing quite as bad as attack the 9/11 widows the way she did, but it seems she is incapable of opening her mouth without something forehead smacking coming out.

This time she was speaking at the 34th Conservative Political Action Conference, where she said:

“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I’m – so, kind of at an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards, so I think I’ll just conclude here and take your questions,”

Really? School yard name calling? Is she next going to be calling candidates she doesn’t like “doody heads”? Do they have “cooties”? According to the Wikipedia entry on her, this isn’t the first instance of her doing this.

On the July 26, 2006 episode of CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch” Coulter made a statement that Clinton shows “some level of latent homosexuality.” On the July 27, 2006, edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews asked Coulter, “How do you know that Bill Clinton is gay?”, in reference to her comment the night before. Coulter responded, “I don’t know if he’s gay. But Al Gore — total fag.”

You know, there is an old notion that words you choose to describe someone else is really a reflection on yourself. I am by no means calling her gay, but her choice of words certainly reflects on her level of maturity. If the best she can offer up is adolescent taunts, she’s just not even really worth the time.

A friend of mine is on vacation for a week and she told me before departing that she’d love to here from me via email while gone. I told her I don’t have a lot to talk about, I had no clue what to write. She told me whatever crossed my mind… that was really a dangerous opening. She will now be receiving daily emails from soldiers involved in various wars.

June 25th, 1863

My Dearest Margaret,

I take quill in hand as my troop is headed towards what General Lee expects to be “a small skirmish” in Gettysburg. He feels we’ll only have light losses and will be able to continue our march North with no problem. I don’t know, I have a bad feeling about this one and felt it was time I told you how I felt.

I know I was but a poor share cropper in your father’s cotton fields, but I always admired you from afar. I always knew your were in the one in kitchen fixin the vittles as the smell would waft down to us, and they do say they way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

A small piece of me died though when I saw you taking late night trips to see Henry, the stable boy, but still I could not help but love you. And it did give me some hope you might leave Billy Ray, the son of the neighboring planation owner, for a common field boy.

Well, time for us to pack up and head back on the road to Gettysburg. If I should come back from the war, I am hopeful this letter will have touched your heart and you will pay my cabin one of those ‘late night visits”.

Yours eternally.
Jimmie Joe Ray Billy Bob, Esq.

(and to you my dear blog readers….no, I won’t be sharing them all with you…I’m not THAT moch a tight wad)

I have NO idea what happened to me this week, but if I got more than 4 hours of sleep, it was a red letter night.  I haven’t run on this little sleep in ages.  The one night I did get to sleep with a shot at getting 6 hours…2 hours in to it I got woken up by a series of text messages about something actually worth waking me up for.

*sigh*

I’m hoping to get some more sleep tonight, and in the morning I think I can sneak a nap in…I hope.  I thought the same last week.

Earlier this season I accidentally burned Luis with some 24 spoilers since he had not seen the episode yet. Ok, no problem. I’ve been careful since then. I was just over reading this TV Squad article about the uproar over torture scenes in the show, and they mentioned a scene shown in the teaser for next weeks episode. (I won’t repeat it here.)

Some of the commentors are up in arms saying that was a spoiler and they should have been warned. They claim they don’t watch the teasers so they can be totally spoiler free.

Um…ok, that’s a bit much. Do you also turn off the TV for all commercials? There might be spoilers in ‘em!