{"id":101,"date":"2007-12-11T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/wordpress\/?p=101"},"modified":"2014-06-23T17:06:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T23:06:38","slug":"so-the-writers-are-striking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/so-the-writers-are-striking\/","title":{"rendered":"So the writers are striking&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s old news by now, really, and it&#8217;s not really what I wanted to write about, although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/foxtrot\/2007\/12\/09\/\">this week&#8217;s Foxtrot<\/a> made me laugh, mostly because Foxtrot is funny.<\/p>\n<p>I really have no strong opinions one way or the other on the matter of the WGA strike.  The only reason I mention it is because I have been watching my <em>House, M.D.<\/em> DVDs and I am sad that there will be no new House for a good while.  Other than that, I&#8217;m good as far as currently-airing shows go, because I have a semi-big backlog of DVDs to get to, several books to read, a few video games to play, and a family to attend to.  I reckon I should be able to fill my time rather easily without any new TV.  Besides, <em>Smallville<\/em> really just needs to get some Superman action going on.  I&#8217;m reeeeeeeeally tired of Lana, and have been for about four seasons now.  Perhaps the writers can take this time to reflect and finally find a way to kill her off, once and for all.  I watched the episode where she died and Clark went back in time to save her twice, in the vain hope that the second time she would somehow <em>stay dead<\/em>.  No such luck.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about putting a spoiler alert there, but who would I be spoiling?  The -1.3 readers of my blog?  Okay, then.<\/p>\n<p>So without further ado, I bring you a boring list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of TV shows to which I will admit to having seen every episode<\/strong><br \/>\nAlias<br \/>\nAliens in America<br \/>\nBatman: The Animated Series<br \/>\nBatman Beyond<br \/>\nBlind Justice<br \/>\nThe Closer<br \/>\nDilbert<br \/>\nFirefly<br \/>\nHeroes<br \/>\nHouse, M.D.<br \/>\nJustice League (+ Unlimited)<br \/>\nLife<br \/>\nMad About You<br \/>\nMy Name Is Earl<br \/>\nNYPD Blue<br \/>\nSmallville<br \/>\nSpider-Man: The New Animated Series<br \/>\nStar Wars: Clone Wars<br \/>\nStudio 60 on the Sunset Strip<br \/>\nSuperman: The Animated Series<br \/>\nThat &#8217;70s Show<\/p>\n<p>It is also possible that I have seen every episode of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> and <em>Friends<\/em>, but I&#8217;m not sure about those two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s old news by now, really, and it&#8217;s not really what I wanted to write about, although this week&#8217;s Foxtrot made me laugh, mostly because Foxtrot is funny. I really have no strong opinions one way or the other on the matter of the WGA strike. The only reason I mention it is because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}