For the next month or so I will be on a total blogging break. I have assembled a group of the best writers in the blogosphere. Some are showing different, sides of themselves.
Duke Dawg Doug taught me everything that I know about commenting and some other big blogosphere rules. He claims that I have taught him. This has of course sparked a serious debate between one of the blogosphere’s most loquacious people and its biggest advocate of two line posts.
Doug has two blogs Waking Ambrose and Prattle. He lives west of the Continental Divide.
Somebody asked me if he is a real person or a product of our collective conscience. Honestly, I don’t know.
This here site is Courting Destiny and among many diverse topics (see categories, left sidebar) we talk television. I always feel left out, though, because I don’t watch broadcast television but rarely and have never seen the shows Pia writes about. But it’s my turn here and I watch Deadwood. &*$% right, I do, @^$&!
Let me go boldly on record. Deadwood was the greatest TV show ever. The writers wove profanity into poetry and amorality into Nichomachean ethics. While I was disappointed that Ambrose Bierce, who spent six months in the area, never was cast and the last episode a necessary step back from the brink, I’ll credit the team behind it with a show that was engaging in iambic pentameter from the first episode to the last.
Now the rant: after watching The Sopranos for the last three seasons out of nothing but loyalty and Six Feet Under for two but under protest, I feel entitled to the superior show lasting it’s mere 4-seasons. I’ll try to be philosophical about it. It’s what Wild Bill Hickock would have done. That and call on aces and eights.
For the record, I’m a product of your collective whistling.
Oddly I’m whistling while I’m working. May I say that Pink becomes you? You know, I never got into Deadwood and I am a little sorry I did not what with your and Neva and Joel’s love of the show. I too am mostly an HBOnly Sunday night viewer – the rest of the week is touch and go so I hold my alliances to that.
Sorry I didn’t watch, but watch what you say about the Sopranos and Six Feet Under now. What did you think of Carnivale?
*whistles*
whoa… great rant… and i, for one, couldn’t agree with you more, you DO deserve the great show that lasts longer than 2, maybe 3, seasons. the cancellation of Deadwood was to see fine writing/producing/acting/did i say writing?/writing tossed by the wayside like so many empty bottles. a tragedy of epic proportions… created by a sitcom/mini-series mind set.
i’m impressed you wrote about this, sir. and *more* than a little glad. it shows even curmudgeons have the good sense to pick up a TV remote from time to time in pursuit of cheap entertainment. it almost makes you seem normal. almost. xo
Where is Doug and what have you done with him?
I don’t watch much TV. But I do love Monk. I’ve never seen Deadwood. Or The Sopranos. Or Six Feet Under. And yet, I live and I breathe. Amazing, huh?
The old adage – if it’s good it’s gone applies.
Never seen the %&$#&& show and don’t want to.
Besides, the best TV show ever was Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.
a real person or a product of our collective conscience
And here I thought you wuz a dawg. Or maybe a bear. If it’s whistling that got you here, be glad you’ve got a large audience ’cause I can’t whistle.
Better the show that dies while still fresh than the one that goes on well beyond its shelf life. Like the last five years of M*A*S*H… that just goes to show you about when it was that I went cold turkey on TV.
G, Carnivale I only watched but once or twice. Pretty.
Neva, I was pretty sure you’d back me up on this. Keep whistling and I might turn out right finally.
TLP, but do you rhyme? I think I’d like Monk. The main actor was in The Impostors, one of my favorite movies.
Thanks, Jaocob. Seems to be.
Brian, I’ll put my faith in you, but as a poet, I bet you’d like Deadwood.
O Ceallaigh, I’m a dogwhistle. My family didn’t have tv so I’m kind of trusting you on M*A*S*H but everyone seems to remember it as glorious. I still could have used one more season of Deadwood. A discriminating tv-viewer is like an independent voter. No respect, no chance.
I’ll look into it. Profane poetry is very much my thing
A note: Buffy the Vampire Slayer isn’t even Joss Whedon’s best work. But then again I’m probably the only Browncoat here.
I’ve never seen Deadwood or The Sopranos.
Did Doug write this post? It doesn’t sound like Doug, but that is because he is so COOL these days.
to anyone concerned, Tom made up Doug when Weirsdo said how lonely Pansi felt in the blogosphere.
Sopranos broadcast over here too, I am told it is pretty a hard series with little romantic illusions of the Maffia.
O’C, the “technical” term for what you’re describing is JUMPING THE SHARK, and it happened on M*A*S*H, Happy Days, and, i’m sad to say, The Simpsons. but Deadwood was a dream of a show, and one i suspect you’d have greatly enjoyed (if you’re not already familiar with it). Dead Like Me and Arrested Development are two others that are already missed ENORMOUSLY by the residents of this household…
now we are left with nothin’ but Dancing With the Stars, which starts tonight. sigh
Hey, Wombat! You can rent the first season. Lot’s of good cussing. The best, really.
Jamie Dawn, that’s what I’m talking about.
Ariel, Tom can’t whistle.
Neva, I’m back to renting movies and reading. I saw Topper the other day. 2nd-level hilarious. If you go to the link for TLM on my site or Sar’s you’ll find a fierce Arrested Development advocate. I have to say, though, if you’re going to name your tv show that way, you’re kind of setting yourself up for irony.
this is the age of irony. Oh no, that ended five years ago
But what’s life without irony?
I’m here to show solidarity … and because I like pink. Um, loved Six Feet Under because I have a death fetish, watched Sopranos with eyes wide open (waiting for Tony to implode … better that than acting out with a baseball bat), never saw Deadwood. Wish I knew the symbolism of Aces and Eights. Probably poker-ish. I think this site needs a perfume-mascot. I vote for Fifi Chachnil. Really. xoxo
I’m convinced there’s a conspiracy to keep good television off of the air.
Doug, you feel left out? Oh boo hoo you. You need a show to watch? Then stop yer moaning and start watching Boston Legal!
I know Pia’s got my back on this one.
Btw, Pia, hope the blog break’s treating you well.
Savage, you’re supposed to be on vacation. See you in October. OK, I guess it is your site and all. Life without irony isn’t death.
Mireille, I have no doubt that’s an elegant suggestion. Aces over Eights is the “Dead Man’s Hand” in poker. It’s what Wild Bill Hickock was holding when he was murdered, according to legend.
Squaregirl, I don’t mind not watching TV but for once it was fun. I’ll teach them. I’ll learn to read.
Sar, Waking Ambrose is a site for sarcasm. I expect you to act ladylike over here.
if someone ever asked me if I thought Willie would look good in pink, I would have been doubtful…but it really works for you Dawg!
I’m afraid I can’t join the discussion because I haven’t watched anything you mentioned but I’m happy in the corner with O’Ceallaigh reminiscing about M*A*S*H. We’ve got Pig’s ears over here if you need a treat.
p.s. Pia- I thought this line was hilarious:
This has of course sparked a serious debate between one of the blogosphere’s most loquacious people and its biggest advocate of two line posts.
Glad to see this is working out for you Pia–but take your break and get your work done!
*GASPETTY GASP* My brother cussed!
*GASPETY GASP* My brother ranted!
What is the world coming to? And hmph! There you go skeptics who believed us to not be related!
Although hermano, though Loverboy wholeheartedly agrees with you I shall admit to having tried Deadwood but I just could not understand what the hell anyone was saying and everything was so dirty it had me in OCD overload and I sat there, twitching on the sofa and screaming at the TV… needless to say Loverboy quit trying to watch it… *sigh* Oh well!
Need a TV show??? Were I to even write my list here let us just say it would be waaaaaay too long… plus Huff was cancelled… and I shall forever mourn… and so in that I understand your heartbreak over the cancelation of Deadwood and say, rant away hermano mio, rant away!!!
Thanks, Kyahgirl. I’d never have tried it on it”s own. Wasn’t that a great line?
Sage, I agree.
Gracias para tu promesa, hermana. ¡Dejan mes palabras flujon come sangre caliente! ¡Bailiste!
I thought this was gonna be a poker post.