8/31/2007

'THE HILLS HAVE EYES' IS REAL?!

whaattttt.....???



Full article here... with video!

If You Like 'To Catch A Predator'...

Then you'll love this:
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A 21-year-old Disney employee was taken away in handcuffs from his job at Disney-MGM Studios. The charges against him are even more disturbing because of where he works. Friday, Disney released a statement that the employee was on unpaid administrative leave.

Tony Guerra showed no emotion as he was arrested Thursday evening by agents from the FBI's 'Innocent Images' task force. Walt Disney World managers helped the agents track him down as he was leaving his food service job.

A federal search warrant quoted him saying "I love babies" in a chat room session on Hello Google. The search warrant said Guerra asked an undercover officer, posing as a mother, if she had molested her own children. Then he sent her 63 photos and four videos of child and baby pornography.
  1. Who doesn't love babies?
  2. Another reason to join the 'Down With Disney' group on facebook. (i.e. 'The Most Pedophilic Place on Earth!')
  3. Baby Porn... the deeply-underground sequel to Baby Geniuses.
You have to wonder what this guy was thinking. So he's in this chatroom on Hello Google (whatever the hell that is), and he sees a new user join the 'Child Talk for Moms Only' room. Here is a supposed transcript of Guerra's IMs (or PMs.. or GMs):
LittleKidLover: Hey 'baby'... get it?
HawtBabyMomma114: Ha Ha Yes I love that joke!
LittleKidLover: do u have kids?
HawtBabyMomma114: Yes I do. My oldest, Jamie, is just turning 4, and my newest bundle of joy, Harrietta, just graced this planet with her arrival last week.
LittleKidLover: ooooo... I love babies...that's hot
HawtBabyMomma114: Yes, you're right. It's 102 degrees here!!!!!!
LittleKidLover: ya bitch i like the way you play it
HawtBabyMomma114: Ha Ha you're funny. So you do have kids too?
LittleKidLover: fuck no. but more importantly, do you molest your kids?
HawtBabyMomma114: Oh my lord no! I can't even imagine doing that!
LittleKidLover: stfu and check this out... they might help your imagination

LittleKidLover wants to send '
63photosandfourvideosofchildandbaby pornography.zip'...
I imagine it went exactly like that. If only Chris Hanson were there. Dateline NBC Presents To Catch A Predator: Epcot.

8/20/2007

Whoops...

No commentary necessary:

BELGRADE, Serbia (Reuters) -- A 23-year old Serb was found dead and half-eaten in the bear cage of Belgrade Zoo at the weekend during the annual beer festival.

The man was found naked, with his clothes lying intact inside the cage. Two adult bears, Masha and Misha, had dragged the body to their feeding corner and reacted angrily when keepers tried to recover it.

"There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage," zoo director Vuk Bojovic told Reuters.

Local media reported that police found several mobile phones inside the cage, as well as bricks, stones and beer cans.

8/17/2007

As Promised, More Terrible Teases

I've been on vacation for a while, but I never take a break from hating promotions.

Here's a tease from today's 4 o'clock on ABC7:
THEN, JIMMY STEWART MADE HIS MARK IN HOLLYWHOOD HISTORY, NOW HE'S BEING HONORED IN ANOTHER WAY! SEE HOW HE'S BEING REMEMBERED BY THE U-S POSTAL SERVICE.
Hmmm... how many different ways does the USPS honor somebody? I was really hoping they were going to make a mailbox out of Jimmy Stewart, a la the R2D2-box. Alas, I was mistaken, and he just got a dumb stamp. Damn you teases, AGAIN.

8/04/2007

I Hate You, Promotions

One of my pet peeves, something that irks me on all levels, even so much that it forces me to use to the work 'irk': Teases.

They're tricky little bastards to do right, and most of the time writers just fuck 'em up. Given more time, I'd list some more examples. But on Wednesday, just mere hours after the bridge collapse, ABC7 was already teasing their 11:00 coverage:

'Misery on the Mississippi'

I hate you, promotions. Pure disgrace.

(More on teases later...)

8/02/2007

CBS Gets an F-

It goes without saying (but I will anyway): Yesterday's bridge collapse in Minneapolis is a huge story, and will be for weeks. "What went wrong?" will be the question that will probably never be answered, yet perpetually asked.

So yesterday, after the 6:00 local shows wrapped their wall-to-wall coverage of the collapse, it was the Networks' turn to take over. Now, the bridge collapsed around 4:00 PT. World News, Evening News, and Nightly all air from 6:30-7:00 for the east coast, or 3:30-4 for those slow in math (and I know you're out there). Here's a bit of inside baseball, "making the band" info about how the networks do their evening news shows. Generally, the show is live in all aspects for the east coast, like most things on TV. But the west coast feed (3 hours later) is usually different than the live version. After the live broadcast, Charlie, Katie, or Brian go back, re-shoot/update/edit/fix things from the live show. So by the time we see it here in L.A., the "West Coast Edition" (as Nightly calls it) is about as live as The Tonight Show.

There's two obvious reasons to reshooting the show:
  1. Making the anchors look better by eliminating flubs and screw ups; and more importantly,
  2. Being NEW (because the NEWS is supposed to be NEW) in case something happens between 4:00 and 6:30 Pacific Time.
Get to point right? Yesterday, while ABC and NBC went live with their respective anchors to cover the bridge collapse, CBS did not. For whatever reason, CBS and Katie Couric went with their canned East Coast feed, and had nothing on the bridge until about 6:45, with a live VOSOT.

There may be an excuse, and I really hope there is. Otherwise, the Evening News producers need to be fired, or flogged. Either will do.

Bad job, Katie.