Mouthy

UPDATE!!!!

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

 

    THE U-S SHOWTIME CHANNEL IS IN TALKS TO PICK UP ``ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT'' FROM FOX.

    SHOWTIME PRESIDENT ROBERT GREENBLATT CONFIRMS HE'S IN NEGOTIATIONS TO BRING THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED COMEDY TO THE PREMIUM CHANNEL. 

    BUT HE SAYS THERE'S NO DEAL YET.

    GREENBLATT SAYS HE'S ALWAYS THOUGHT ``ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT'' WOULD BE A BETTER FIT ON A CABLE NETWORK THAN A MAINSTREAM NETWORK.

    HE SAYS THE SERIES WOULD FIT IN WITH A LOT OF THE THINGS SHOWTIME IS DOING.

    GREENBLATT SAYS ``ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT'' IS AN INCREDIBLY BOLD AND ORIGINAL SHOW.

    HE SAYS IF ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF THE LOYAL AUDIENCE THE SERIES HAS ON FOX FOLLOWS IT TO SHOWTIME, IT WOULD BE ONE OF THEIR HIGHEST RATED SHOWS.

    MEANWHILE, A-B-C ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT STEPHEN MCPHERSON SAYS HE'D ALSO LOVE TO HAVE ``ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT'' ON HIS NETWORK -- BUT HE DOUBTS THAT WILL HAPPEN.

    HE SAYS HE LOVES THE SHOW AND THINKS A-B-C COULD MARKET IT REALLY WELL.

    MCPHERSON SAYS THEY HAVE SOME SPOTS ON THE SCHEDULE THAT WOULD BE A GOOD FIT -- BUT GETTING THE SERIES IS ``A LONGSHOT.'' (ABC)

(thanks, Ann!)
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Man alive, I can't believe this show is going to be cancelled soon. It has some of the best lines on TV. Take this Top Ten list, for example, compiled by someone at here:

10:GM "hey uncle GOB has aunt Lidsey ever been pregnent before"
GOB " Oh yeah dozens of times"

9: GOB: "Hello Monfrair, thats french for brother, i dont know why i know that, i took 4 years of spanish"

8: TOBIAS: We never got to experience child birth right Lidsey, nope, we had to make our little frankestein monster with science and money and.... Oh Maeby when do you come in
MAEBY: I just got in
TOBIAS: Oh... your just as funny now, as you were when you were bursting out of your mothers FERTILE WOMB!"

7: GOB: Illusion Michael!, i trick is a what a whore does for money.... or cocaine!

6:GM: Shes just so cute, sometimes she gets a egg, and some mayonaise and just squirts it in her mouth, and its so cute, she calls it a Mayonegg!

5: GM: I hope the new english remake keeps the same complex erotism like the oridginal french one...

Maeby looks confused
GM: nevermind

4: MICHAEL: whats can be better than spending time with your family
(phone rings)
oh F*** its my mother

3: TOBIAS: LET THE GREAT EXPERIEMENT BEGIN!!

2: GOB and FRANKLIN singing: IT AINT EASY BEING WHITE, IT AINT EASY BEING BROWN, TO MUCH PRESSURE BEING BRIGHT, I GOT CHILDREN ALL OVER TOWN

(i got 2 number ones)
a. TOBIAS: here he comes... here comes john wayne, im not gonna cry about my pa, im gonna build a airport put my name on it... why micheal, so you can run away from your feelings... you can keep them bottled up but eventually they will come u... HEY, WHO THE F*** ATE MY HARD BOILED EGGS!

b. MICHEAL: didnt get one of these gift packages when you paid for lidsey.
TOBIAS: Oh no, it seems i prematurley blew my wadd, leaving on me what was suppose to be a dry run... and now i have quite a mess on my hands

Today is the first anniversary of arrival in the US. A year ago, I moved from Toronto to San Francisco as part of a planned move with my wife and I. We were looking for a new start, change of scene, better job opportunities and better weather.

I can't believe it's already been a year here. Crazy. So much uncertainty when I arrived. But in the last year, I've managed to:

* get married (at long last!)
* become a US permanent resident
* obtain the right to work
* establish some great local work experience in mobile media
* generally define some kind of career direction for myself
* land a full time gig
* learn to drive (yep, waited until a few days before my 31st birthday to get on that one)
* make a lot of great new friends and business contacts
* train for (an aborted) marathon -- next time, Gadget, next time

Those are just about all the highlights of the last year. Sometime it seems like a lot, other times it seems like not much at all to have accomplished.

Life here is definitely a lot different than it was back home. I'm far from my family, who I used to see all the time, far from old friends, and have been forced as a result to become a lot more outgoing and friendly. All good stuff.

Have I become more "American," or less Canadian in my outlook? I dunno, it's kind of hard to say. I think going back home for the holidays may help clarify and contrasts. But definitely the willingness to pick up and move more readily is a new personality trait, and one that is rather un-Canadian.

In any event, I have a sneaking suspicion that the next year here holds a whole lot more change and surprise in store.

Last night the posse got G.A.M.E. at Gamespot's first inaugural video game convention/party. Sort of like a mini-E3. The usual terminals for trying out new games, live music and scantily clad women paid to walk around handing out stuff and look trashy. All good, wholesome fun.

And now, some pix:

Julie, face down on the toilet seat, as usual. Thought this time getting a freebie massage, which made me very jealous.


Ida, who's always looking for a rubdown of sorts.



And of course, the Gamespot car, complete with 37 inch flat panel TV and three game consoles. Cuz if the geekmobile is rockin', it's because no sex is taking place there.

I didn't take any pix of the games, because, really, who cares? The point was to hang out, people watch, and enjoy the music.

Nice!