It's the first weekend of Thanksgiving break here in the US. I've spent much of it listening to sports (cricket--Ashes--Australian win for the first time in...oh ages! Felt great), watching sports (Liverpool-Everton and also Ireland *almost* making history) and watching other stuff on TV. Mainly the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode. About which I might get around to saying something soon(ish).
There's also this, which I almost enjoyed more. This was more of an "in" thing--for fans--while the actual episode was a bit too much flash and glamour.
For those of you interested in international development and aid, there's this. It's a parody (?)/spoof (?) of charity videos about Africa. I think the video works better in Europe where there *are* charity videos being played on TVs. Here, especially on public TV in Southwest Virginia, I've never seen any. Usually the adverts on TV here are about various kinds of medication "you should ask your doctor about" (turning the patient into a consumer who needs to know what medications they need before they even step into the doctor's office) or anti-drugs adverts in which some random band is playing and they suddenly stop to tell us they couldn't do it if they were smoking and/or on (vaguely defined) drugs. Of course, this is in between elections (the US is always in the process of having elections, it seems) in which case, the advertisements are about various local politicians and they good (evil) deeds.
No comments:
Post a Comment