Wow! Look at all that STUFF!

The Colbert Report - 8-21 - Wow, an AWESOME lightsaber green screen fight.  And Stephen issues the Green Screen challenge.  The Word is Side Effects - the government wants to loosen restrictions on testing medicine on prisoners.  Then a Threat Down.  Geoffery Nunberg is the special guest and he's a Linguist who wrote a book called "Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising,
Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading,
Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show."  That's a great great title for a book.

The Daily Show - 8/22 - Bush cuts his vacation short because the Middle East is in deep crisis.  Wait, haven't they been fighting for like 1000 years or something?  I always think that it's funny when Stewart starts talking to the audience.  Wow, Bush is really starting to feel pressure he's taking to arguing with news reporters in the White House.  Larry Wilmore is the Daily Show's new Senior Black Correspondent.  William Cohen, an Ex Secretary of Defense is the special guest.

The Colbert Report - 8/22 - Umm, yeah sorry.  I was only listening to this while programming so it was in one out the other (ear that is.)

The Daily Show - 8/23 - Yeah, so well, at least I paid attention when Back in Black is on :)  The special guest was a a guy who wrote a book called The Decency Wars which he claims that the war on Decency and the fight back from the right is a money making issue.  Interesting.

The Daily Show - 8/24 - It's sad to see Rob Cordry go.  I didn't really like him at first, but he really grew on my and I thought he was one of the best correspondents.  And who is going to do This Week in God now that Stephen has his own show and Rob is leaving?  Martin Short was the special guest and I guess he was funny.

Inked - The Hot Seat - Carey gets the guys together for a murderball sponsor and they play some murderball (wheelchair rugby) with some real players and get clobbered.  Carey also rides in a super-moto-cross race, his first race in 2 years and crashes, but feels okay about it.

Mythbusters - Crimes and Myth-demeanors 2 - The guys tackle a bunch of myths about security systems, can a thermal sensor be beat by a neoprene suit or mud (no) but it can by glass.  A motion sensor can be beat by a bedsheet.  And they blow up a safe "The Score" style.

Eureka - Invincible - The big problem this week is a guy that accidentally turned on the rest of his brain (using the theory that only 10% of a human brain is being used.)  He finds out that Nathan is hiding something in Section 5 as well.  This was an okay episode, and I liked  when the Sherif and the girl look like they spent the night together, something's going to happen there.

Eureka - Dr. Nobel - Fargo and Spencer accidentally set off a doomsday device while clearing an office.  They need to use Dr. IT to figure out how to shut it off, which they're not sure how to do.  Oh, the doomsday device bounces a radiated laser off a mirror on the moon to work, awesome.  Quite a funny episode actually.

Prison Break - Manhunt - The first episode of the new season in which we find out how a show called Prison Break will last in a second season with no prison.  One pretty shocking moment when someone who you weren't expecting to die gets killed.  Pretty good season opener.

Psych - Shawn vs. The Red Phantom - Shawn and Gus go to a comi-con to track down a missing person.  Also at this convention others go missing and Shawn again "proves" his powers, this time with the help of The Magic Head.  I like this show, it's quite funny.

Blade - The Evil Within - okay, in all honesty I was falling in and out of sleep on this episode.  It had nothing to do with the show, which is good or even this episode, which I saw of it was good.  It's just that I'm dead tired and need to go to bed.  It was a long weekend.


**** Beer Review ****

Dog Fish Head 120 min IPA - Oh, fricken, wow.  I've wanted to try this beer for a while now and Canals finally had some bottles.  It's really expensive so I only bought one (it's almost $9 a 12 oz bottle.)  The package says that it's one for the hop heads, does it live up to its claim?  It pours a deep golden color with a very very large, frothy head.  The beer is very very sweet, almost sickneingly so.  It's no surprise that this beer is between 20 and 22% alcohol.  There are quite a bit of hop aroma and flavor, but, honestly, I expected more hops.  Which is weird knowing how they make the beer, but still, I've had much much hoppier beers before.  It's almost too much, but honestly, I didn't pour it into the right glass, I drank out of a pint glass and I probably should have put it in a snifter.  If I ever buy another bottle of this, I'll probably share it with a friend, pouring half into a snifter or tulip glass which should let the hop aroma out even more.  If you're a "BIG" beer fan, you should give it a try, but don't get your hopes quite as high as mine were because you might be let down a bit.


Stone Brewing Company - Ruination IPA - They say that this beer will ruin your taste buds because it's so bitter and so hoppy.  Does it live up to it's claim?  YES - and my god is this a great beer if you're a hop-head.  Light Golden color with a very nice head on it and just great tastes of hoppiness and some alcohol.  Great beer, but you couldn't drink more than one or two a night.  22 oz bottle which is just about right for this beer.