1st, some clarifications are in order. The picture on yesterday's post is a blind musician smiling like a newly-minted millionaire.(I promised happy pictures , right).
2nd, on the same theme of free stuff. I caught the 4th Season of free-to-air (ie tv programmes where you do not need to pay $ to cable company to watch) Boston Legal.
Quite delicious to see John Larroquette take on the role of office disciplinarian in place of Rene Auberjois. Even more delicious that he's sleeping with Shirley Smitt (Candice Bergen) who (in case you don't follow the series) is the unattainable (wet)dreamgirl of office naughty-boy lawyers, Danny Crane (William Shatner) and Alan Shore (James Spader). The only let down is that James Spader's usually eloquent Alan Shore was not his usual self, because he went ga-ga over the opposing counsel's lady lawyer (who was having sexual trysts with Spader's character, Alan Shore) in the court lift (of all places). Mind you, he was arguing that his client should be excused from honouring a $2.3m pledge to fund Stamford University's research into climate change because she just discovered that an oil company just pledged $100m in the same program. The client's point is that the $100m corrupts the independence of research against the use of non-fossil fuel (used in petroleum) in the interest of the oil companies!
Us lawyers live for this stuff. Come on David E, you can do better than that.
Overall, considering the acting chops of this stellar cast, I saw better acting from the cast of this season-opening episode of CSI(Las Vegas).(Strange for a CSI eposide, the action is quite tame and acting quite good - as compared with, say, David Caruso's CSI Miami Horatio Caine with his melodramatic lines like "do it", "give me birds in the sky". Don't ask me why it's alright for Leo DiCaprio to say "I am the king of the world!") Anyway, please don't subscribe to cable just because I blogged that! Remember, in a few weeks, CSI will likely be aired on Mediacorp's free-to-air. Unless you're already hooked by SCV(Singapore's monopolistic cable network).
3rd, wouldn't it be more creative if politicians who found themselves victimised by nude pictures of them being circulated on the Net, do a Paris Hilton instead of quitting? That is to say, they might consider offering to give free videos of themselves to people who sign declarations that they voted for the victim? Ok, scratch that, silly thought. But hey, ideas are free, so long as they are not treasonous.......right?
Weather forecast - would you believe , in the midst of this job loss crisis, there are still people who say "this job sucks, I won't do it". Really.
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