I’m not a big fan of award shows in general since I’m not into watching the rich-and-famous sipping champagne in fancy clothing while slapping each other on the rears and high-fiving each other on their “accomplishments” for the year…but more importantly I’m not sure where they come up with the nominees and how they select the winners AND why there seem to be so many of these things. And which of the awards is “better” to receive?

But even the one hour, non-star-laced presentation this evening could not capture my attention as they lost me when they kept talking about shows and movies I’d never even heard of (apparently this is because I have no idea what’s on the “pay” cable channels).

Anyway, here’s the list of Golden Globe winners for this year. If it were up to me Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Pushing Daisies would have swept the awards, but at least Sweeney won a few. And of the short animation list, Ratatouille was the best of the bunch (even though I did like The Simpsons Movie).

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CompUSA is going out of business and it looks like stores will begin closing early next year. While I like CompUSA and it’s sad to see it go, the one in Indy just isn’t convenient for me to go to and shopping online or heading down the street to Best Buy is much easier (and often cheaper).

Related to the closing, I wonder how this will affect Chuck if NBC brings it back after the Writers Guild of America Strike is over.  (From what I’ve heard, parts of Chuck are shot inside of a CompUSA store outfitted to mock Best Buy.  Circuit City might be an option as long as their financial situation has gotten better.)

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I decided to check out NFL.com/Live again tonight since I don’t have the NFL Network.  The stream seemed a little better than last week, but that’s probably because the game wasn’t such a “must see”.  Also, I did spot a “full screen” option, that like most online full screen videos is a bit blocky (I’ll save you the tech reasons as to why), but OK from across the room.

I do find the video feed a bit annoying with them going to people talking instead of showing the whole game.  And the whole mess of other things going on is a bit much.  I think I’d rather listen to the game on the radio instead and then catch the video highlights afterward.

I am still a bit irritated with the whole Comcast/NFL Network dispute that’s going on.  Please grow up and act like adults and come to some sort of reasonable agreement.  Right now you both just look childish with your finger pointing.

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We’ve been reporting about the television show Jericho on the Trolley Dodgers Podcast and on Episode #38 we threw out the idea that after the brief 7 episode season 2 runs in mid-season 2007-2008, Jericho should then go into online only episodes for the rest of the storyline. From the sound of things it’s probably not too likely that the show will return to CBS beyond those 7 episodes (though they are officially still leaving the door open). With the way that the Internet is changing everything, why not give it a shot?  I’d check it out, especially if they had a decent downloadable version that I could watch full screen, or better yet, on my TV.

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Earlier this morning a friend of mine was on CNBC for a few seconds talking about a problem he (and apparently about 30% of owners) has had with his X-Box X-Sux 360.  (Yet another reason I don’t plan on buying one…what kind of “quality assessment” thinks 70% is acceptable?)

Anyway, to my point…

I think CNBC should be considered “Short Attention Span Theater”…I’m about to puke from information overload after watching all of those tickers go by AND the additional news alerts.  No wonder people “need” 65″+ televisions, as this is way too much to take on my “little” OR “big” TV.   And no wonder so many people are diagnosed* as having ADD or AD/HD.

Man am I glad that the kid programs grace my television during the day when it happens to be on.  And luckily the radio hasn’t gone to multi-tasking (yet).

* I’ll leave that rant for another time.

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For anyone interested in updates on the Writers Guild of America’s strike, and possibly the status of your favorite television shows, TVWeek is keeping an updated news list, complete with links.

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