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*tears hair out*
You know the rule that as soon as you're within a week of vacation, all hell breaks loose at work?
Yeah. It kind of is. Not in a bad way, we're just super busy today and it's all things I need to do. Lots and lots of emails to send. (3,000 in the first batch. I'm on to batch number two now.)
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Of Bike Riding
Standard bike seats are evil. They should be banned from even being sold. Dang thing managed to find the one vulnerable part of my ass to dig into.
Also, in 40 minutes of messing with the thing, I did one trip around the parking lot. And only came close to falling over two or three times.
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Of ABC and NASCAR
If you're a NASCAR fan and hadn't heard, ABC is running a short series called NASCAR in Primetime. Last night was episode one. They followed Johnny Sauter (and therefore, lots of Bootie), Juan Pablo Montoya and Mark Martin for the first ep and all appearances are that they followed them for ep 2 as well.
The reason this is monumental is because we have the first show that centers around NASCAR without NASCAR signing off on the final product. They gave ABC the freedom to do whatever they wanted. It's very Hollywood-ized (banjos, slick transitions, nothing really technical). The content isn't much that hasn't been seen before. Frankly, all I came away from the first ep knowing about the three followed? Connie Montoya is awesome and Bootie is dang sexy. (Oh, and that I had no clue how Mark Martin's dad died. That's sad.)
The best thing, though? The fans. If you have never had an urge to watch anything about NASCAR, but want to check this out, watch it for the fan interviews. We went from a guy older than the sport (by probably 100 years) to a kid of about 7 who's throwing out technical terms to beat the band. There are celebrities telling how much they love it. The truly technical information that was doled out during the ep was from the fans - they KNEW the stuff about getting loose better than ABC did (and may be why ABC used them to explain it). Every once in a while you get a person that you wonder why they were interviewed because obviously in their years of fannishness they never picked up anything ("When you get loose, well, that shows who the real talent is. The great drivers can save it. The poor drivers can't." All while showing Tony and Kurt Busch getting loose at Daytona and wiping out. Uh huh. Two champs could save that.)
The best part came at the end when, over the credits, they showed two biker guys they'd interviewed. One confidently declared that ABC wouldn't show footage of him being stupid. The other guy responded "Well, they're filming you right now" or something like that. To which the first guy said "Well, they have footage of me being stupid, but they won't show it." Comedy. Gold.
You know the rule that as soon as you're within a week of vacation, all hell breaks loose at work?
Yeah. It kind of is. Not in a bad way, we're just super busy today and it's all things I need to do. Lots and lots of emails to send. (3,000 in the first batch. I'm on to batch number two now.)
***
Of Bike Riding
Standard bike seats are evil. They should be banned from even being sold. Dang thing managed to find the one vulnerable part of my ass to dig into.
Also, in 40 minutes of messing with the thing, I did one trip around the parking lot. And only came close to falling over two or three times.
***
Of ABC and NASCAR
If you're a NASCAR fan and hadn't heard, ABC is running a short series called NASCAR in Primetime. Last night was episode one. They followed Johnny Sauter (and therefore, lots of Bootie), Juan Pablo Montoya and Mark Martin for the first ep and all appearances are that they followed them for ep 2 as well.
The reason this is monumental is because we have the first show that centers around NASCAR without NASCAR signing off on the final product. They gave ABC the freedom to do whatever they wanted. It's very Hollywood-ized (banjos, slick transitions, nothing really technical). The content isn't much that hasn't been seen before. Frankly, all I came away from the first ep knowing about the three followed? Connie Montoya is awesome and Bootie is dang sexy. (Oh, and that I had no clue how Mark Martin's dad died. That's sad.)
The best thing, though? The fans. If you have never had an urge to watch anything about NASCAR, but want to check this out, watch it for the fan interviews. We went from a guy older than the sport (by probably 100 years) to a kid of about 7 who's throwing out technical terms to beat the band. There are celebrities telling how much they love it. The truly technical information that was doled out during the ep was from the fans - they KNEW the stuff about getting loose better than ABC did (and may be why ABC used them to explain it). Every once in a while you get a person that you wonder why they were interviewed because obviously in their years of fannishness they never picked up anything ("When you get loose, well, that shows who the real talent is. The great drivers can save it. The poor drivers can't." All while showing Tony and Kurt Busch getting loose at Daytona and wiping out. Uh huh. Two champs could save that.)
The best part came at the end when, over the credits, they showed two biker guys they'd interviewed. One confidently declared that ABC wouldn't show footage of him being stupid. The other guy responded "Well, they're filming you right now" or something like that. To which the first guy said "Well, they have footage of me being stupid, but they won't show it." Comedy. Gold.
