In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Lest we forget.

It's strange...with all the things cascading to pieces around here today, I was tempted to dig out my DVD set from Outer Limits (original series) and watch it...somehow the control voice that opens each ep seems so appropriate somehow.

FYI, the subs are broke, vids are showing up weird and Recently added shows list shows nothing...oh, and I modded a Red Green sub last night where the system poofed part of it during the process.

I thought this stuff only happened on long weekends..

Tickets

It suprised the heck out of me to read this. I just got the editorship here out of curiousity about the show and such (seeing former NHL enforcers figure skating in Maple Leaf Gardens with guest judges like Don Cherry and Lanny McDonald is an odd mix.

I'll blog a bit more about Battle of the Blades this weekend and some other stuff...take care everybody!

I miss my friend.

Hi, everybody!....hope things are going ok where you are...starting to get those nippy temps in the air but still its glorious weather....they had the annual Windsor Pumpkin River race down in my neck of the woods where entrants paddle or motor giant pumpkin boats down a river. Sounds silly but when you think about it, its something that sounds a heckuva lot more interesting than a typical weekend in many ways...

- TV wise, I've been watching a fair bit of Survivor and Amazing Race this year and as far as Survivor goes, I'm getting a little irked at people recruited to that show who turn out to be nothing more than minor actress/actor wannabes who mug for the camera in hopes they get to launch a career out of it. Yasmin, who was just eliminated in this season, wore high heel shoes to Tribal Council for crying out loud!...and she's not the first in recent seasons. If anything kills reality shows in general, its the influx of actor/actress by producers looking to prop things up ratings wise. I want to see a real guy/gal from the US in a show, not a "model/bartender/hairstylist" looking to land more acting gigs.

- What else today?..hmmm..I've read where V might be shown in two blocks for the upcomng season with a break inbetween...oh, yeah, that'll work....go ask the folks behind the late Jericho or even Lost how that experiment went....

- Site wise, it's a little quiet though the forums themselves have looked a little squirrely at times. I've seen Dec. 31, 1969 as latest thread posting for all forums...strange but for here, its normal. Guide wise, I'll be finishing the recaps for Urban Legends this week and moving onto some other old shows I'm doing afterwards. I did assume editorship over some old Depatie/Freleng toon guides recently (same people who did the Pink Panther toons) and will work away on them.

- Real world wise, I see where RCMP across the country have been advised by the Taser manufacturers to avoid hitting a target in the chest with device as the voltage may lead to complications. Considering the incidents over the last twelve months in Canada, this isn't a surprise. Tasers need a bit more stricter guidelines for use in general, in my opin....

- That's bout all.....next season of Hawaii 5-0 comes out next week on DVD...always good to watch....

Have a good week, everybody!

Hello, everybody!....hope things are going well for ya....'round here, we're getting our final taste of hot weather before the slow descent to fall type weather. Personally, I really enjoy the fall more than any other season...cool weather, no stifling humidity, wind chill or the slushy junk of spring.

- Well, things on the site seem pretty quiet...the staff here have fully retreated from posting in the forums completely which is sorta like the days of Snide sadly. Oh, and if you think I'm overlooking the announcements about new vides/new HD vids, I'm not...just ignoring them like the Import Cast glitch has been ignored by the site techs.

- As for me, working away on the guides....finished recapping Season 1 of Urban Legends and have a handful of eps left for season 2. Besides that, working on the odd guide as well as moderating subs. I do wish people would realize that not everything mentioned at Wikipedia/Wikis needs to be in a guide here. There's a line between Trivia and junk when it comes to guides and items like the number of times a character is sick in an ep, for example, is usually in the latter.

- Entertainment wise, two things grabbed my attention recently. One is that Bryan Singer, director of the first two X-Men movies, has been approached to direct the big screen version of Battlestar Galactica (Glen A. Larson version, not Moore). It'll be interesting to see what Larson and Singer can do given that Singer was originally asked to do the re-imagining before dropping out to do the big screen X-Men movies.

The other thing that intrigues me is that Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile, will be doing a TV series based on the comic book series The Walking Dead, a zombie apocalypse series that is also character driven and the show will be on AMC. For any other director, I might say mehhh but Darabont has a habit of bringing out the best in source material. That being said, it'll be interesting to see how they get this kind of story on television without the censors going wild.

- Well, that's about all...hopefully, the new fall season will pop up a few gems this year though up in Canada, it's kinda scary when E! Canada just folds and all five of the stations they had were re-branded or are on the verge of going off the air completely.

Have a great week everybody!

I miss my friend.