Robot Monkeys

So Microsoft is colluding with General Electric (via NBC-Universal) to break television and to move us 30 years into the past. That’s right. Microsoft conspired to remove the ability to record television shows. Why? They probably got paid off. I suspect this is part of the .

Should anyone really be surprised that this happened? Of course not! Microsoft shoved their ironically named, “Play for Sure” digital restrictions management scheme overboard and screwed all the those dumb enough to exchange money for something they don’t control. (This goes for both the end users and the device “partners.”)

So just in case any of you still don’t understand how things like this work. You are not a customer. You are a commodity. You don’t even have a seat at the table. Microsoft, GE, none of the megacorps care about you. You’re a resource to be exploited, and are bought and sold like a jailhouse bitch.

I had no idea it returned this week. Wow. Cool. I like the fact they’re calling it “A Daily Show” instead of “The Daily Show.”

Kind of makes me wonder something though. Am I crossing the picket line by watching it? Am I in the clear from watching it because I’m not a Nielsen family?

Why do I have a feeling that same answer is the same as Bongo’s question about voting Republican. (Yes, Bongo. Yes, it does.)

Last night, at about 2am, the cable went out, taking the internet with it. This morning my roomate called comcast to complain, and they said, “We can’t fix it today, because it’s a holiday. You’ll have to wait until tomorrow.”

What? Since when do people not work on MLK day? It’s not a high holiday. It’s like fucking Presidents’ Day, only without the sales. Kids don’t go to school. Banks don’t take deposits. That’s it. Everyone else works.

Fuck James Earl Ray.

Now the word “xtreme” has never been cool; and anyone who yells “It’s XTREME!!!!!” without first saying, nay, yelling, “SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!” is asking to be hit up ’side the head. On second thought, scratch that. Hit them too.

We have xtreme wrestling, xtreme sports, the now defunct XFL (Actually, I don’t think the “X” was supposed to stand for anything, but given the hype, it’s xtremeness (xtremity?) was definitely implied), and countless other things. Now we have the Xtreme Shopping Network. XSN, as I like to call it, is a low budget home shopping network. (Think Shop at Home (You know, the one with the loudmouth that hawks baseball cards and knives.) rather than the home shopping OGs, HSN and QVC.) (Yes, let it be known throughout the land that the cooption of hip hop is complete. The Home Shopping Network has just been declared an “original gangsta”.) Apparently the xtreme take on home shopping is that they auction off the jewelery, rather than just say “We only have 10 left and you only have 45 seconds left to take advantage of these super low prices. Most sad of all, there are actual fans of this.

Catch it late nights on TVG.