Well, a lot of premiers.  Amazing Race for one.  Animation Domination on Faux.  America’s Next Great Restaurant Series Premier (though if you’re stealing ideas from basic cable it’s a sign of weakness).  PBS has Ken Burns on Mark Twain (some of you wonder why I use ek hornbeck, that other one is already taken).

What you lookin’ at? You all a bunch of fuckin’ assholes. You know why? You don’t have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin’ fingers and say, “That’s the bad guy.” So… what that make you? Good? You’re not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don’t have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There’s a bad guy comin’ through! Better get outta his way!

• ABC Family– Monsters, Inc. x 2
• AMC– Scarface x 2 (again and again)
• Bravo– Real Housewives marathon (with premier)
• Disney– Good Luck Charlie, Shake It Up (premiers)
• ESPN– Hoopies, Knicks @ Hawks, Celtics @ Bucks
• ESPN2– WCC Tournament, 2 Semi-Finals
• Food– Challenge, Iron Chef America (premiers), Chopped (All Stars Episode 1 premier)
• FX– Ghost Rider, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
• History– Ax Men (last week’s and new)
• National Geographic– Earth: Making of a Planet (World Premier)
• Nick– News (premier)
• Sci Fi– Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Dawn of the Dead (not the good 1978 version)
• Spike– Star Wars x 2
• Style– The Dish (premier)
• TBS– You’ve been Gumped x 2 (again and again)
• Turner Classic– The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (Sherlock Holmes night and both quite clever movies)
• TNT– Journey to the Center of the Earth x 2
• Toon– Young Justice League, Clone Wars (both this week’s), Baby Blues, Oblongs
• USA– Raiders of the Lost Ark x 2, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Vs.– Bullriding

I never guess: it is an appalling habit, destructive to the logical faculty. A private study is an ideal place for observing facets of a man’s character. That the study belongs to you exclusively is evident from the dust: not even the maid is permitted here, else she would scarcely have ventured to let matters come to this pass.

Later-

Your separation from various societies is indicated by these blank spaces surrounding your diploma, clearly used at one time to display additional certificates. Now, what can it be that forces a man to remove these testimonials to his success? Why, only that he has ceased to affiliate himself with these various societies and hospitals and so forth, and why do this, having once troubled to join them all? It is possible that he became disenchanted with one or two of them, but NOT likely that his disillusionment extended to all. Rather, I postulate it is THEY who became disenchanted with YOU, doctor, and asked you to resign, from all of them. Why, I’ve no idea. But some position you have taken, evidently a medical one, has discredited you in their eyes.

…

Have I omitted anything of importance?

My sense of honor.

Oh, it is implied by the fact that you have removed the plaques from the societies to which you no longer belong. In the privacy of your study, only you would know the difference.

• Sci Fi– Judge Dredd, Clive Barker’s Book of Blood
• Spike– The Longest Yard (the good by comparison 1974 version)
• TBS– Spanglish
• Turner Classic– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (shhhhh)
• TNT– 3000 Miles to Graceland
• Toon– Robot Chicken (premier)

The clue obviously lies in the word “cheddar.” Let’s see now. Seven letters. Rearranged, they come to, let me see: “Rachedd.” “Dechdar.” “Drechad.” “Chaderd” – hello, chaderd! Unless I’m very much mistaken, chaderd is the Egyptian word meaning “to eat fat.” Now we’re getting somewhere!

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1 Clashes as Libya rebels deny counter-offensive report

by Samer al-Atrush, AFP

25 mins ago

Starting on the 15th I’m going to be liveblogging the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments.

Not to get whiny on you, but events like that suck a lot of energy and I’m already quite busy as you can see.

Ideally I’d like someone, or several someones, to step forward and take over some of the easier but more time consuming tasks.

Prime Time in particular takes way too long.  It’s not so much the links (though it typically has just as many as any Evening Edition), it’s finding the quotes.  After making the list I look at the movies (or shows in some cases) for ones I’m familiar with and know have some quotable moments.  After that it’s Google |imdb (film here) quote| which usually turns up the Internet Movie Database quote page and then slugging through them to find something funny or appropriate (not always the same thing).

You can waste a lot of time doing that.

Back in the deep dark mists of 8 months ago when TheMomCat and I were setting up The Stars Hollow Gazette my concept was that we needed content in the overnight period that would remain kind of current and self updating, and provide something of depth and interest (if you click the damn links) for the reader.  I think it’s certainly served that purpose admirably.

Now, of course, I have the daily digests from DocuDharma and firefly dreaming to extend our broadcast day and it’s not quite as critical as it was.

On some levels it’s really instructive to do.  I’m not really a Nexflix type and what I like about cable is that sometimes it presents you with something fresh and interesting that you wouldn’t have thought that you’d like.  Reading the links as I harvested has informed me of things about old favorites I didn’t know.  Sometimes I wish I was able to devote even more time to it.

But it doesn’t have to be done the way I do it either.  Let’s say you were a big fan of (shudder) American Idol and you wanted to do a series of liveblogs.  Well, that’s an ok direction I guess.  So would the Magnifico less is more approach.  At the very least I’d expect you might consider more closely the networks you like and find reliable sources of mindless blogging background noise entertainment.

In any event now is the time to organize for the future and that future includes my customary June “vacation” where I take constant mudbaths at my spa and the Internet is mostly unavailable.  What I’d like to do is transition to a system of rotating responsibility like we used to have with Overnight News Digest and What’s for Dinner.

So, play in on the 15th, if you want alternative programming you’ll have to make your own fun or click the links.

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Featured Essays for March 5, 2011-

• Tax Revenues Are Falling by TheMomCat
• Economics is NOT a science by ek hornbeck
• Incalculable by xofferson
• Pollution by ek hornbeck
• In Memoriam: Chloe Dzubilo by Robyn
  

• Popular Culture (Music) 20110304. Deep Purple Mark I by Translator

DocuDharma

College Hoopies, Duke @ North Carolina.  Another miserable remake.  Austin City Limits has Aimee Mann and Iron & Wine.

Look, if you have a clumsy child, you make him wear a helmet. If you have death-prone children, you keep a few clones of them in your lab.

I guess he had it coming.

We all have it coming.

• ABC Family– A Bug’s Life, Ice Age
• AMC– Scarface x 2
• Animal Planet– Must Love Cats, Pit Boss x 2 (all premiers)
• Bravo– House marathon
• Discovery– Sr. v. Jr.
• E!– Something’s Gotta Give
• ESPN– College Hoopies, Texas @ Baylor
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Morehead State v. Murray State
• Food– Chopped marathon
• FX– The Incredible Hulk
• History– Ancient Aliens!
• Lifetime– Personal Effects, Love and Other Disasters
• Nick– Big Time Rush, Victorious, True Jackson (premiers)
• Oxygen– Juno, The Next Karate Kid
• Sci Fi– Underworld: Evolution, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
• Speed– Supercross
• Spike– Unforgiven
• TBS– What Women Want, Pretty Woman
• Turner Classic– Cool Hand Luke, The Defiant Ones
• TNT– The Mummy Returns, Deep Impact
• Toon– Monster House
• TV Guide– Some Kind of Wonderful (if it wasn’t good I wouldn’t list it)
• USA– Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Vs.– Bullriding

YOU HEARD ME. TURN OFF THAT GODDAMN…BLACK…AFRICAN…CONGO…JUNGLE…NOISE!

Later-

Mr. Wuncler, ya know, yesterday I thought this was cute, but, don’t you think you guys are taking this a little far?

Jazmine can leave whenever she wants, but Sammy Davis, Jr. the Pony will have to be put down.

What?!

He’s your pony now. Your percentage was supposed to pay for his food and upkeep. Now he’ll starve to death in a puddle of his own feces.

• ABC Family– Look Who’s Talking Too
• FX– The Strangers
• Oxygen– Loverboy
• Sci Fi– Rise: Blood Hunter, Dracula III: Legacy
• Spike– The Last Boy Scout
• TBS– Selena
• Turner Classic– I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Hell’s Highway
• TNT– GoldenEye (Brosnan)
• USA– The Bourne Ultimatum
• Vs.– D-League, Thunderbirds @ Flash
• VH1– The Temptations

SNL– Miley Cyrus (ugh) and The Strokes

Boondocks– The Block is Hot.  The Venture Brothers– Powerless in the Face of Death

But, sanity eventually returned, and when it does, you better have your coat.

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1 Kadhafi forces accused of ‘massacre’ as battles rage

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1 hr 19 mins ago

I’ll assume everyone who cares already knows that the March 13th Bahrain Grand Prix, the opening race of the 2011 season, and associated testing has been canceled because of domestic unrest right?

You might not have heard about this one-

Kickback Probe Tests CVC’s Ties With F-1’s Ecclestone

By Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, Karin Matussek and Alex Duff, Bloomberg BusinessWeek

February 15, 2011, 9:56 PM EST

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Banker Gerhard Gribkowsky may have taken a $50 million kickback for engineering the sale of Formula One, the world’s most-watched motor sport, German prosecutors say. Who paid that suspected bribe, they aren’t saying.

That mystery has thrown a spotlight on the partnership between 80-year-old Formula One Management Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Bernie Ecclestone, a fixture of London’s tabloids, and the company’s buyer, CVC Capital Partners Ltd., one of Europe’s largest and most-private buyout firms.

…

The investigation is focused on the 2005 sale of a 48 percent stake in London-based Formula One to CVC by Bayerische Landesbank in Munich, which received a 10 billion-euro ($13.5 billion) government bailout following losses on U.S. subprime mortgages. That investigation is adding to uncertainties about Formula One’s future, making an exit more difficult for CVC, which manages 31 billion euros, including Europe’s second- largest buyout fund.

…

“According to the current findings, the suspect, in turn, received $50 million in payments disguised via two consultancy agreements,” Munich prosecutors said in the statement. A spokesman for the prosecutors declined to say who may have made the payments. No charges have been filed against Gribkowsky, who is being held while the probe continues. Ecclestone hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing.

…

The kickback case “has been a ticking bomb for at least a year now,” said Klaus Fleischer, professor of banking and finance at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich. “BayernLB is a money sink and is under enormous political pressure to clean up the whole mess of subprime, Hypo Alpe-Adria and Formula One.”

Gribkowsky didn’t run a competitive auction when BayernLB sold its 48 percent stake, two people with knowledge of the deal said. Kirch’s lawyers say the sale undervalued Formula One, according to a letter sent to the bank on Jan. 6.

…

Since the CVC acquisition, Formula One has been plagued by a cheating scandal, and the global economic slump led Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Co. and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG to quit. The average race audience fell to 44 million in 2009 from 52 million in 2004 as younger people watch less TV, according to London-based Future Sport & Entertainment.

The sport is betting on growth in Asia and the Middle East after France was dropped from the schedule because it couldn’t meet the costs and Italy and Germany lost one of their two annual races. This year, the championship has 20 races, including one hosted by India for the first time.

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Featured Essays for March 4, 2011-

• Sunrise: A Global Moment Unlike Any In Memory by Edger
• Go to Wisconsin, President Obama by PaulLoeb
• Social Security: If You Can’t Kill The Program, Screw The People by fake consultant
• HILLARY GETS IT by Xanthe
• A Where’s Waldo? Presidency by Jacob Freeze
• We apologise for the fault in the subtitles by ek hornbeck
• To thine own self… by Robyn
• Original v. Cover — #68 in a Series by curmudgeon
• Random Japan by mishima

DocuDharma

Of course, what I’m really looking forward to is tomorrow’s Platypus Day marathon (starting at 5 pm on Disney).  Some premiers, am I the only one who detects any irony in Faux hosting the Image Awards?

Gentlemen!  Behold!

• AMC– The Walking Dead marathon
• Bravo– How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x 2
• CNN– Rodney King Special
• Disney– The Suite Life on Deck, Fish Hooks, Phineas and Ferb (premiers)
• Discovery– Flying Wild (last week’s and new), American Loggers (premier)
• E!– The Soup (premier)
• ESPN– Hoopies, Bulls @ Magic, Heat @ Spurs
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Akron at Kent State
• FX– Meet Dave x 2
• Oxygen– Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins x 2
• Sci Fi– Merlin x 2 (premier + Instapeat)
• Style– City of Angels
• TBS– The Bucket List x 2
• Turner Classic– Clambake, Latin Lovers
• TNT– Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Toon– Generator Rex (premier), Clone Wars (Part 2 of The Citadel Trilogy, premier)
• VH1– SNL marathon

Later-

• Comedy– Scary Movie 2
• Oxygen– Something New
• Sci Fi– Being Human (this week’s)
• TBS– A Walk in the Clouds
• Turner Classic– The Richest Girl in the World
• TNT– Deep Blue Sea
• Toon– ATHF, American Dad (Series Premier repeats)
• TV Land– Hot in Cleveland (this week’s)

Dave in repeats from 1/20.

Aquateen Hunger Force- Assemble!

Yep, a bad night for quotes.

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1 Kadhafi forces hit Libyan rebels east and west

AFP

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