Kanye to be on The Cleveland Show

the_cleveland_show_w_kanyeIf you hadn’t heard already, there is going to be a new Family Guy spin-off based on Peter’s neighbor Cleveland. If that didn’t sound exciting enough, it looks like Kanye West is going to be a part of the show. He is going to play a rapper namd Kenney West. What is not clear to me is whether it is a one show part or if it going to be an on going character. It would definitely be interesting if could do some reoccuring bits.

No Sixth Season for The Wire – Treme is coming!

bubblesWord on the street is that The Wire won’t have a sixth season because creator David Simon is working on a new series called Treme dealing with post Katrina New Orleans.

What is Treme? Treme is a neighborhood in New Orleans defined by Wikipedia as being bordered by Esplanade Avenue on the north, North Rampart on the east, St. Louis on the south and North Broad on the west. I’ve never been to New Orleans, so that gives me no context. I have been really enjoying The Wire and I am looking forward to a new series.

America’s Next Top Model Stampede

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Six people were injured, two were hospitalized and 3 went to jail at a New York City America’s Next Top Model Audition. You get a bunch of young women who want to be models and be on tv, add in a long line, and a beat up BMW and you have the recipe for a fight. I wonder if they caught it on video and they are going to show it next season. I bet they won’t because it would be “in bad taste” but a guy can dream.

Turtle Love

And for no reason what so ever, here is a turtle having sex with a shoe.

The Wire: Box Cutter to the Face!

I was watching HBO’s The Wire today and I was on the episode in season 4 where the show focuses on the school system. In this episode one of the girls slashes another girl’s face during homeroom. I have been watching this season and I’ve been really surprised about how things are in public schools. I went to public schools in the 80s and I don’t remember it being as bad as this. Maybe it is HBO playing it up, but if schools are actually like this then I feel sorry for the current generation of kids.

Check out the HBO’s The Wire on Amazon.com

Drobo Review

Drobo

About 6 months ago I bought a Drobo because I wanted to digitize all my media and I wanted something that would offer me the storage space I needed and was able to easily stream movies and audio to my AppleTV.

After alot of research on media solutions I choose the Drobo. The Drobo is a “storage robot” that allows me to slide in 3.5″ SATA hard drives and handles all the data back up redundancy efforts. It allows up to 4 hard drives to be in at once. I chose the Drobo for these 3 specific reasons.

  1. I didn’t have to buy all the drives at the same time. The niceness of the Drobo is that I can mix and match hard drive sizes. There is no need to have the same size hard drives. I originally bought the Drobo with 2 1TB Western Digital hard drives. This past weekend I bought a 1.5TB Wester Digital drive and added it to my Drobo. It was a simple operation, just sliding it in the bay.
  2. It supports up to 4TB hard drives. Yes that is right. It supports 4TB drives, which means my Drobo is expandable to 16TB. I know that 4TB drives are not generally available but this means that I am future protected.
  3. It is hot swappable. The drives can be hot swapped even while media is being streamed by it. So I can be streaming a movie from the Drobo to my AppleTV and take out one of the hard drives and the movie will not stop. It is a nice little feature.

I am really happy with my Drobo. I think that it is a necessary component for any home media setup. It is the perfect network/USB/Firewire external hard drive. I have had no problems streaming content. Everything streams easily. It was definitely worth the money.

Arrested Development

I just finished watching all of the episodes Arrested Development and I can’t believe that we let this show be canceled. It was one of the funniest, smartest sitcoms that I have seen in a long time. Not only did it talk about current issues, like the war in Iraq and Atkins but also gives some off the wall random stuff. My favorite of those random continuing jokes is the Chicken Dance.


Check out the Chicken Dance!

If you haven’t heard of Arrested Development then I highly suggest that you pick up the DVD. There are rumors that there is going to be an Arrested Development movie sometime in 2009. I don’t know how well it will transfer to a movie but we’ll have to wait and see if it actually happens.

World War Z

I just finished this book called World War Z by Max Brooks, which is an oral history of the Zombie Wars of the 2010s. I usually don’t read zombie books but this one caught my eye because of the way that it was written.  It is written from the survivors point of view. The context is that it is the stories that were collected by a United Nations operative in order to fully document what happend during the wars. Each chapter is a different person’s personal story told in their own words interview style.

It was a very interesting and quick read. I would definatly recomend this to anyone that is looking for something different and doesn’tmind a bit of blood and guts.

Doctor Who – New Earth

My favorite clip from Doctor Who – New Earth

I was watching a repeat Doctor Who on Sci-Fi channel tonight. It was the New Earth episode where they visit a future hospital and find Cassandra and some thousand zombie infected humans. I forgot how interesting the who story line was. In this episode it had the Face of Bose, which is a character that winds between all the seasons. I won’t pull a spoiler, but I will highly suggest that you check out Seasons 1 and Seasons 2 of the new Doctor Who. They have a Season 3, but I thought the first two were slightly better. Not to say they weren’t good. Why can’t they come up with some quality tv like this on this side of the pond?

Wa$ted on TLC

Yesterday I was digging through the Tivo and found that it had gotten a sneak peak of Wa$ted which is a show about ecological responsibility. I did a google search and found out that his is originally a show from New Zealand, which may explain something.

To start off the show has a good idea to put forth, which I believe is true. Recycle, reduce and reuse and you will save money. That is true, but the way that the show decided to portray people as “eco-criminals”, and their silly ways of showing people’s impact really detracted from the show. The first show focused around the Zeller family that had 4 people and 5 cars, 1 motorcycle and a paper towel addiction. It showed them how to reduce their carbon footprint and ended up giving them some money at the end of it all.

I am going to watch a few more before I decide to keep the season pass or not. Hopefully the show will get a bit more interesting.

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