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thefemmeapr — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:21:15 +0000

Dexter Hungry Man S04E09 (Showtime)

range — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:40:44 +0000

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

A lot has changed for Dexter this season. He’s married with a new house and he’s got a new baby in the world. It’s taking a toll on our favorite serial killer. He’s messing up at his job because of his lack of sleep.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

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Dex continues to insinuate himself into Trinity’s life and makes some startling discoveries. His family isn’t picture perfect. According to his son, he beats and terrorizes them. Even Dex finds this appalling. He sticks around for Thanksgiving to get the full skinny on Trinity, only to have his Dark Passenger wrench itself loose to stop Trinity from killing his son.

That’s not the only shocker in this episode. Elliott, the single neighbor, makes his move on Rita and kisses her. Deb starts piecing stuff together and figures out who shot her. There’s more to Christine than meets the eye. There is something wrong with her and now we find out what: she’s Trinity’s daughter and she shot Lundy and Deb.

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Dex is spying on Trinity again. He sees him breaking some of his son’s baseball trophies for being bad at baseball. Dexter goes after him. He sees him hitting some baseballs. He also sees him take a baseball bat at his father’s Mustang GT500. Jonah says that his father hits him. Jonah says that living with his father is like a tour of duty. He treats his father and his sister like shit. Jonah says that he could come by for Thanksgiving.

Deb tells Dex that she is lead detective on the Trinity case. Baptista informs the squad that the DNA sweeps are like Christmas for their cases. They are closing a lot of open cases. They’ve got 72 hours before the sweeps are stopped because the ACLU, which is filling suit. Deb says that she isn’t coming for Thanksgiving. Dex has his kids record a plaintive video message. Deb gets it and invites Matsuka to come.

Christine wants to spend Thanksgiving with Quinn, but it’s too much of a commitment initially for him.

Elliott is over again. He is helping prepare the turkey. He’s insinuating himself into Rita’s life. Dex doesn’t sense it yet.

It’s time for Thanksgiving. Deb arrives at Dexter’s. She surprised to find Elliott there. Matsuka arrives. Rita and Elliott leave to use both of his ovens.

Dex is at Trinity’s. It’s not a smart idea. Dex finds the wooden coffin that Trinity made. Jonah arrives. Trinity sees the GT500. It’s covered in dents and the windshield is broken. Since Dex is here, Trinity doesn’t go all mental. I wonder if Jonah was telling the truth.

Deb realizes that Trinity is on a school schedule. He’s in the education system. That’s why his kills happen on specific days.

Quinn decides that having a hot girlfriend isn’t a bad idea. She gives him head.

Dex finds out that Trinity locks his daughter in her room. The room isn’t really like a teenager’s. The cracks aren’t apparent. While Dex is outside with the daughter, Trinity breaks his son’s finger. The girl wants to get away from her family. She propositions him. Dex says that she’s 15. He refuses. Sally comes out. She apologizes for Rebecca. She begs him not to say anything to Arthur.

There is a family emergency with Cody and the kids. He needs to leave. Elliott had to break down the door to get Cody out. He fell through the skylight. He comes back inside and finds Jonah taping up his finger.

Angel tells Maria that he loves her. She returns the favor.

Elliott makes his move on Rita. He kisses her. She runs off. Matsuka sees this. He tries to leave, but Deb forces him to stay.

Things get ugly during Thanksgiving dinner at Trinity’s. Jonah says that he is a killer. Trinity hurls his daughter away. Trinity starts to strangle Jonah. Dex gets him off and he almost kills him. He doesn’t have the chance. The family is there. The Harry-in-Dexter says that he’s shown his monster to Trinity. He’ll see him coming. Dex comes home.

Deb realizes that Christine knows something about the Lundy shooting. She knew that Deb looked directly in Lundy’s eyes while he died. Christine mentioned this to her earlier that day. She’s the shooter. Deb calls Quinn to see if she saw the file. She didn’t. Deb is onto her. Deb realizes this after Cody was asking her questions about getting shot and looking at Lundy’s eyes while he was dying.

Trinity comes to see Christine. She’s his other daughter. OMG. That’s messed up. A happy serial killer family.

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Super 6: Ward takes Kessler's title with ease

18thletter — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:52:45 +0000

This ones for you Jesus

As of Saturday night we have a new WBA super middleweight champion and now possibly (in my opinion anyway) a new favourite to even win the whole tournament.

I’d never heard of Andre Ward before the Super 6 but this guy really impressed me in this fight he had Kessler’s number from the opening bell starting off with quick snappy jabs that set everything else up and occasionally switching to a south paw stance where he was landing straight lefts right through the center and this was all in the first round!

He also hit Kessler with some vicious right hands hurting Kessler early in the fight and backing him up constantly. He was holding alot but the referee didn’t put a stop to it so Ward kept doing it which is the kind of tactics you expect from a veteran fighter like Bernard Hopkins not a young guy relatively inexperienced only 25 years old.

Ward jabs Kessler as he's coming in

However Ward’s ring generalship was impressive and even more so his speed had Kessler baffled and cautious about coming in because every time he did he got tagged and after suffering two cuts over both eyes due to accidental headbutts the ring doctor called the fight in the 11th round handing Andre Ward his first major title and 3 points going into the next round.

It has to be said though I thought the referee was terrible he didn’t seem to know when to break the fighters up which Kessler complained about after the fight which I think he was well within his rights to do. I don’t recall Ward being warned for holding or telling the fighters to watch their heads he didn’t see the first clash of heads which caused a cut over Kessler’s left eye and he was generally moving around the ring way too slow for my liking thus missing key points in the fight.

Although to be fair I don’t think it would’ve made much difference Kessler looked off and Ward was very much in control of the fight from the opening bell. As the fight went on Ward’s confidence grew and he knew he could do anything he wanted to Kessler without much coming back at him.

A great performance by Ward probably the best in the tournament so far next to Abraham’s KO of Taylor who depending on whether he chooses to remain in the tournament will be Ward’s next opponent.

I think depending on Taylor’s mental state after his brutal back to back KO losses to Froch and Abraham I think it could be a tough fight for Ward though.

Taylor is a big super middleweight who can really drop a bomb on you with the right hand. He is much quicker than Kessler and he could match Andre Ward’s jab also. The question would be how confident does Jermain feel right now coming off the back of those two losses.

In the Froch fight I don’t know whether it was pure fatigue or a lack of concentration (maybe a bit of both) that made him lose that fight but he out boxed Froch for 12 rounds and even had him down in the 3rd the first time he has been down in his entire professional career had he of just stayed on his feet and finished the fight he would’ve won and become a champion again.

Abraham made Jermain look pretty average but I think Abraham is a very good solid fighter who is of course is still undefeated which adds a bit of the invincibility factor to him and was an extremely tough assignment for Jermain or any fighter for that matter but especially a guy coming off a KO loss. Abraham was a little more marked up then I expected though considering he had control of the fight I think Jermain caught him with some jabs early on that produced a little swelling on Abraham’s face so even with the tight guard Jermian was getting some shots through and Abraham did say after the fight that Taylor hits hard so again depending on Taylor’s metal state I give him a good shot of pulling off an upset against Ward.

That being said my favourite to win the tournament is still Abraham who looks very strong and he appears to have a warriors heart also which will make him a very tough fighter to beat although his next fight against Dirrell could present some problems how will he cope against Dirrell’s speed and reflexes?

In the wake of Manny Pacquiao’s demolition of Miguel Cotto the Super 6 has been somewhat overshadowed but with the possibility of a guy coming off a 2 fight losing streak becoming champion again, a guy who was robbed of a decision in his last fight coming back to beat an undefeated fighter for his belt and the prospect of a guy who just lost his belt beating another undefeated fighter for his title I say there is more than enough excitement in this tournament to keep us going untill a mega fight happens between Pacquiao and Mayweather.

Don’t sleep on the Super 6 tournament it’s just getting interesting.

Kessler's cuts over both eyes caused the fight to be stopped

Dexter Road Kill S04E08 (Showtime)

range — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:33:33 +0000

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

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Dex and Trinity go on a road trip. Trinity makes some startling revelations. Dex learns that there is a reason why he did this. Deb makes a discovery about who shot her. It’s not Trinity, so it gets her back onto the Trinity case. One of the kids’ friends dad hits heavily on Rita while Dex is away. She doesn’t know what to do with all of this male attention.

Deb’s colorful language is always a highlight in any Dexter episode. It was particularly noticeable in this episode. I jotted down the best ones. It would have been simpler for Dex just to let Trinity die. That would have solved his problems and gotten rid of Trinity. It was a bad move for him.

This was a good, yet frustrating episode. Now that Trinity no longer has any ash, will his killings stop, or will he just evolve?

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The squad is investigating Farrow’s disappearance. It’s been turned into a homicide, much to Dex’s chagrin, who killed him by mistake. During the meeting, Deb presents her serial bludgeoning case. During the case presentation, she mistakenly shows one of the bathtub murders. LaGuerta is quick and notices the smudge present there too. She wants Morgan to tell them the whole story. Deb obliges. She tells them about Trinity. LaGuerta buys it, but she isn’t happy with the way that Deb went about it.

Dex pops by Trinity’s place. Trinity is starting to crack. Dex thinks that it makes him look normal. Trinity is going to Tampa alone. Dex needs to go to so that he can take care of Trinity.

Deb tells Dex that LaGuerta took her off the case because she was the victim of Trinity. Dex finds some weather conference to go to. Trinity is also packing his killing tools. He’s running out of his sister’s ashes. What will he do when he runs out? Instead of following him around, Dex convinces him to give him a lift to Tampa. Dex is treading dangerously. He is annoying a very successful serial killer. He tells Trinity that he killed a man during a hunting accident. Trinity says that the remorse and guilt is eating away at him.

Deb tells Quinn to try for DNA sweeps on tall, blue-eyed Caucasians. Dex wants to go out shopping when Trinity asks him out. He says that he’s got a surprise for him in store.

While Maria and Angel are trying to find money in the budget for the DNA sweeps, a tipsy Quinn walks in to inform them that a bunch of guys will donate their vacation days. Angel and Maria get busy in the conference room.

Quinn is woken up by Christine desperately looking for a lead. While they get busy, she sees his paperwork and sees that he’s going to do some DNA sweeps.

Trinity takes Dex away with him. He’s got his tools with him. Dex doesn’t suspect a thing.

Matsuka tells Quinn about Leila. Dex was seeing a crazy Leila while he was dating Rita.

Trinity takes Dex to his old house. He grew up here. Trinity just barges in. He goes to the bathroom and recounts how his sister died while he was peeping on her taking a shower. He tells how his parents blamed him. His mother committed suicide. His father beat him relentlessly. He was mean drunk. Trinity killed him. He doesn’t say this. Trinity says that he never told anyone about this.

Christine comes to bug Deb. In order to stop her from reporting about this, Deb capitulates and offers her the hero interview.

While Dex goes to check in at the conference and create his alibi, he comes back and finds Trinity pontificating to some random family about his sister dying. Dex takes him away. It looks like the walls in Trinity’s psyche are breaking down.

Fuck me. Mother shit fuck.
Deb in the bathroom

Deb notices something about her wound. The trajectory doesn’t match Trinity’s height. From their evidence, they know that Trinity is 6’4”. From the trajectory, the shooter is Matsuka’s height. Considerably lower. It wasn’t Trinity who shot Lundy and Deb.

Rita’s neighbor took Astor and Cody out for fishing. They have a family dinner after they come back when he offers to gut the fish.

Dex finds Trinity gone from his room. He’s on foot with his killing tools. Dex finds him at the building site. Trinity is about to jump off the building. Dex saves him. He’s about to let go when workers come to help him out. That was a stupid move by Dex. He should have just let him jump. Dex is an idiot. He wanted to kill him himself. Before trying to jump off, Trinity dropped the bottle containing the last of his sister’s ashes.

LaGuerta tells Deb that since there is no longer a conflict of interest, she can work the Trinity case.

-Nobody know this case better than you. You’re taking lead.
-Motherfucker, really?
LaGuerta to Deb

When Dex and Trinity drive home, they face the random DNA sweeps. Dex lets Trinity know what the roadblock is so that he drives the other way.

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Dexter Slack Tide S04E07 (Showtime)

range — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:23:15 +0000

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

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Dex has a new target and delays taking on Trinity to study him further. He doesn’t know that he’s arousing Trinity’s suspicion. Trinity has been a serial killer for decades. Dexter’s appearance won’t strike him as coincidence once he starts putting two and two together. Meanwhile, Quinn is following Dexter. He thinks that something is up with him. This doesn’t look good for Dex. Luckily, Dex spots him quickly enough.

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Dex is relaxing with his family on his boat when he gets a call for another body. A man shot a gator. The gator had the arm of a woman inside of it. Dex is overwhelmed by the kids after coming home. It’s like he has two jobs. Being a father is hard work. For some reason, Dexter asks Trinity’s advice. He tells him that his kids have outside interests.

Deb comes back to the station. Dex warns Christine off from pursuing her article. He makes it clear to Quinn that he doesn’t want Christine around Deb.

Let’s all welcome back Detective Fucking Morgan!
LaGuerta to her crew

They’ve identified the arm. It’s from Estrella Carazo, a Nicaraguan student that was here on an expired visa. She had a fashion shoot with Jonathan Farrow. He was accused of rape, but the charges were dropped. The detective on that case said that the witness was bought off.

Dex starts getting focused on Farrow, who says something completely inappropriate to her during the interview. Harry-in-Dexter wonders why he isn’t getting ready to kill Trinity. Dex tells himself that Harry didn’t teach him everything. He taught him to be alone and that he couldn’t be with anyone.

Dex decides to try and find stuff for the kids to do. Cody likes the Sailing Club that Dex found for him. Astor isn’t impressed with Dex’s choices for her.

Dex meets up with Trinity to cut down a tree. It’s just getting creepy and dangerous. Trinity tells Dex not to suggest things to Astor, but impose them. Trinity is getting worrisome. Dex is pushing his buttons. On the way back, they hit a deer. Trinity can’t kill it, so Dex has to do it.

Angel has found 3 other models from South America that have mysteriously disappeared. They were all models for Farrow. Dex investigates Farrow’s studio. He finds splatter evidence and a fingernail, which matches Estrella’s arm.

By interfering with Trinity, Dex might have changed the way he behaves. He’s getting quite worked up.

Deb meets Valerie. She says that she was one of his girlfriends. She says that he picked his CIs by how good he was in the sack. It’s too much. She tells Dex. Deb says that she should just leave it alone. Dex agrees. He finds his mother’s file on top of Deb’s pile. He starts to shred it. He keeps the photo.

Dex learns that he has to go with Cody to the sailing thing. She says that he can’t cancel. He has to go with Cody. This puts his plans with Farrow in jeopardy. Actually, he uses the excuse to prep his supplies for the trip to go examine Farrow. He’s got no idea that Quinn is following him. He spots Quinn in the bar. Dex uses a hot girl to ditch Quinn. Quinn knows that he’s been made.

Dex goes out with Cody the next morning. Deb presents her ideas on Trinity to LaGuerta. She gets the OK to start an investigation. It’s limited and Deb kept out her theory about Trinity shooting her and Lundy. Quinn looks like an ass in front of Angel and Deb does the same for LaGuerta.

Dex skips out while the kids are sleeping to deal with Farrow. He takes him out and dumps the body. Trinity used the lumber to create a coffin.

Dex comes back and finds out that Angel had Farrow’s assistant arrested for the murders. This means that Dex killed an innocent man.

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Dexter If I Had A Hammer S04E06 (Showtime)

range — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:19:21 +0000

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

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Rita finds out about Dex’s apartment and he’s in deep trouble. Meanwhile, Dex starts to study Trinity. He’s astounded at what he learns. He’s got a loving family, a career and fits in generally. Dex wants to learn more.

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Dexter is going to Trinity’s church. He’s a deacon and a teacher. Rita is still angry with Dex for keeping his apartment. Rita made an appointment for them with a therapist.

Deb needs a ride to the station. Dex is called to a bludgeoning. Deb knew where this would happen. Dex is trying to get the beat on Trinity, but Matsuka is fast.

Angel is getting a promotion and a desk job out of homicide. He isn’t disappointed. He tells Maria that she did the right thing telling Matthews.

Matsuka found out that the smudge that Dex found was DNA. The smudge is composed of saliva and human bone fragments. Angel sends Deb home.

Dex is in deep shit with Rita about the apartment. Dex is trying to study Trinity.

Deb asks Quinn about going on the record and saying that she saw Rhodes shooting her and Lundy. Quinn’s girlfriend also wants to interview Deb.

Matsuka learns that the killer is related to the remains. Dex decides to work with Trinity on some housing project that he’s involved in. Dex talks with the kids as well.

Instead of leaving it alone, Deb goes to question Nikki. She tells her that she will say that she saw her.

La Guerta tells Matthews that she wants to transfer out of homicide. Matthews isn’t too keen on the idea. He’ll let her know what he decides. She tells Angel. She doesn’t want him to leave homicide. She should have just kept quite. That would have solved their problems. They both tell Matthews that they broke up. They’ve got sworn affidavits. He tells them if they are lying, there will be severe consequences.

Dex is trying to learn to open up to others. Trinity can do this without problems. He needs to learn to do this as well. He’s used to keeping everything inside.

Matsuka finds out that the smudged DNA is female. Deb tells Quinn that she isn’t going to lie about seeing Nikki. She thinks that Nikki is right. Someone else killed Lundy. Deb is going over Lundy’s file. She says that some things are missing, including notebooks and audio tapes.

Dex finds out that Arthur Mitchell’s sister was found dead in a bathtub 1959. Marcia Mitchel jumped to her death in 1961. Henry Mitchell died in an alley of a fatal head wound in 1964. He’s recreating their deaths, decade after decade.

Dex cuts himself to find out where Trinity keeps his killing tools. Trinity’s trophies are hidden in plain sight. He doesn’t need to hide things. Dex provokes Trinity by touching the urn of her ashes. Arthur almost crushes his larynx, but is able to reign in his anger. Trinity says that he jumped in with both feet. His family saved him. Before leaving, Trinity gives him some tools. He gives him the murder weapon.

Dex has an epiphany about his family. He shares this in his next therapy session. He says that he wants space to store his stuff, physical and emotional.

-Have you told LaGuerta your theory?
-Not yet. Need to make sure that I have a case first, I don’t want to step on my dick.
Deb and Dex talking

Deb and Dex talk. She tells him that she believes that Trinity killed Lundy and shot her, after he stole some of the evidence that Lundy had amassed on him.

Dex and Rita build a shed for him to store his stuff. Much to his surprise, Rita gives him a padlock to lock it up and keep it away from the kids.

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Dexter Dirty Harry S04E05 (Showtime)

range — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:15:57 +0000

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

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LaGuerta tells the brass about her relationship with Angel. This won’t be pretty. Deb was shot in the last episode. She’s still alive, but Lundy was killed. Trinity outplayed Lundy easily, because he wasn’t astute enough.

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Dexter arrives on scene. Some idiot uniform tries to stop him from seeing Deb. Deb is still alive. Lundy is dead. The MO smells like the Vacation Murderer. LaGuerta and Angel send him to the hospital. Lundy was shot twice. Deb was left alive. It sounds like the MO.

Christine arrives to see Quinn. Dex checks Lundy’s hotel room. He made his life to search for Trinity. Dex takes his evidence.

Rita answers Dex’s phone and learns that Dex still has his apartment. Deb wakes up. She didn’t need surgery, just a couple of stitches. Anton arrives, as well as Rita. Rita tells him about the pipe bursting at his apartment. Rita wants to talk about it later. Deb tells Anton that she slept with Lundy. She wants to break up with him.

LaGuerta told the brass that she made disclosure about their relationship. The Deputy Chief is waiting and hovering around. Baptista planted a story about Johnny Rhodes in the papers, using Christine. It may pit Nikki against Johnny.

Dex is at his place. It’s no more his sanctuary. He needs it for his Dark Passenger. Deb calls him. She needs him to pick her up. She also needs a place to stay. Dex is starting to listen to Lundy’s tapes. Dex figures out that Lundy was killed by Trinity because he go too close. Lundy couldn’t put together the pieces.

Trinity is shopping for hammers. Dex is staking out Trinity’s next murder place. He realizes that he doesn’t have all of Lundy’s tapes. The last one must be in his recorder, which is locked into evidence.

Quinn is giving Christine some head. They start their relationship back up. Deb stays at Dex’s place. She senses some tension between Dex and Rita. Dex manages to stall her.

Angel and LaGuerta have made up. Dex manages to swipe the tape easily enough. Trinity gets the skinny on the office building. He gets a tour and a lot of info on how to get in.

Rita asks Deb if she knew about Dex’s apartment. Deb is punishing herself by not taking her pain pills. Dex listens to the tape. Lundy ID his encounter with Trinity. There is a shooting at a motel. It’s Johnny Rhodes. Matsuka works the scene. He was shot 3 times. Nikki is cornered behind a liquor store. Quinn tasers her.

Quinn phones Deb that they got Nikki and Rhodes. Deputy Chief Matthews wants a word with LaGuerta. Matthews says that Angel will have to be transferred out of homicide. He will get a promotion included in the transfer.

Deb talks with Dex. She’s freaking out. She tells him that she is broken. He replies that he is. He comes to his apartment and finds Rita waiting for him. She went through his stuff and didn’t find anything. He opens his trunk and there is a gun in there. He says that he wasn’t comfortable bringing it home. Rita says that she is seeing how good he is at lying. He should sleep here tonight. When he comes home, they’ll have a lot of work in order to make their marriage work.

Dex arrives at the building. He’s too late. Trinity is already killing the sandwich guy by bludgeoning him to death. The security guard is fine. Dex goes to the security desk and sees Trinity doing his dirty work. He follows him in his van. He leaves the city. He goes to a home in the suburbs. He’s got a wife and a family.

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Dexter Dex Takes A Holiday S04E04 (Showtime)

range — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:10:42 +0000

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

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Dex confronts a serious killer in this episode. Zoe is a cop gone bad and Dex has his sights set on her, but she’s wary of people poking in her life and Dex arouses her suspicion.

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Dex is taking some time off from his family. He’s staying home while they are going to a wedding. The kids left him a present. It’s an “I Love Dad” mug. He’s got 72 hours alone. Dex will be recharging with Zoe Kruger. Her family got killed while she survived. Zoe’s husband and daughter were shot and killed. She was shot twice. The blood swipe at the scene belongs to a drug dealer named Ray. The blood guy’s theory is that Zoe planted the evidence. Ray was killed in a drug related incident.

Dex comes to his lab and finds his sister and Lundy looking through some photos. Quinn’s reporter fuckbuddy put Lundy on the front page. They are hiding from LaGuerta, who tells Lundy that his visitor’s badge has expired.

Trinity is staking out his next murder. He sees Lundy on the cover of the paper. LaGuerta tells Angel that they should inform the brass about their relationship. Angel is against this. He messes it up.

Dex finds out that Zoe was still wearing gloves when she shot herself.

Anton isn’t happy that Deb is spending so much time with her ex Lundy. She tries to reassure her, but Anton knows her pretty well.

Trinity provokes a drunk to rough him up a bit. Dex visits Zoe’s house. Dex meets her. She offers to give him a tour. Her story is that she’s separated and her daughter is with him. That doesn’t make any sense. Usually, realtors have to make full disclosures about murders that happened in their houses. Dex thinks that the gloves that Zoe used are in the garbage disposal. He finds some trace evidence just in time before Zoe walks in.

Lundy and Deb figured out where Trinity will strike next. There is some obvious sexual tension. He tells her about his feelings and it makes Deb uncomfortable. She leaves.

Angel tells Dex about LaGuerta. Angel wants to keep their relationship private. He doesn’t want the brass to know. It’s kind of ridiculous.

Quinn tells his reporter buddy Christine that he doesn’t want to work it out with her. She messed it up by reporting their pillow talk. Dex finds some blood on the glove he found in Zoe’s garbage disposal.

Lundy is at the site of the bar, which isn’t a bar anymore. Trinity is there and spots him from a distance. Trinity runs into him to provoke a meeting. Lundy is suspicious and follows him to a bus.

Dex gets stopped by a cop. It must be Zoe. She found out about Dex being a blood spatter analyst. Zoe knows that he has her file. She threatens him. Dex wants to call it off. Harry doesn’t let him. He needs to take care of her. Dex comes up with a plan. He asks for Ray’s file. He’s batting the beehive. The record clerk tells Zoe.

LaGuerta talks with Dex. She knows that he knows about her relationship with Angel. He tells her that he never leaves anything to chance. Krueger comes snooping around again. She’s out of her jurisdiction. He tells her that he’s got proof that she killed her family. There was blood on her glove in her garbage disposal. Also, there was gun residue on it. He’s going to tell his superiors in the morning. She pulls a gun on him. She dares him to tell them.

Deb turns up at Lundy’s place and starts to kiss him. He called her earlier to tell her about Trinity.

Dex is waiting for Krueger. She comes to his house with the intention of killing him and making it look like a home invasion gone wrong. She’s no match for him. He gets her quickly enough. She wakes up in Dex’s kill position. He’s made is so that they will believe that she went to the Philippines. There is no extradition theory. The glove evidence is back in her place. He also packed her a suitcase. Her car will be left in the port.

While taunting her, Dex realizes that he’d rather have his family find out the truth than lose them. The house is a mess. Dex has to scramble to clean it up. Rita and the kids arrive. They are beat.

Deb says goodbye to Lundy and gets shot by Trinity. Lundy also gets shot. Trinity takes his valuables. We don’t see Trinity’s face, but it’s obvious that it’s him.

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Dexter Blinded By the Light S04E03 (Showtime)

range — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:06:23 +0000

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

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Quinn tries to bribe Dex, but it doesn’t work. Trinity is in full swing. Things just get worse for Dexter in this episode.

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Dex is at a backyard BBQ in his new neighborhood. Rita tells Dexter that she talked with his doctors. She says that she will be driving him around, as per his doctor’s orders. There is a neighborhood vandal.

Meanwhile, the Trinity killer is getting ready to kill another victim. He throws her down a building. He actually makes her jump.

Dexter’s door gets marked. Getting driven around by his wife is slowly driving Dexter insane. At the precinct, they’ve come up empty on Johnny Rhodes. Quinn bribes Dex with some tickets to the Dolphins. Dex gives them to Matsuka.

Dex and Deb takes the next victim of the Trinity killer. Lundy arrives on the scene. Her name is Tarla Grant. Lundy thinks that she is married with two kids. Maybe there were other murders that happened here.

Matsuka gives Dex a ride home. He arrives to a neighborhood watch meeting. He sees that Astor little friend has spray paint on his shoes. He takes his soda can to match with a spray can that he found on his property. They actually match up. That means that Jesse Brightman is the vandal.

There is a matching suicide 30 years ago at the same place. Anton arrives at the station to have lunch with foul-mouthed Deb. They join Dex, and Lundy pops in as well.

LaGuerta and Angel take the opportunity to go out on a case and play hookie. They check up on an old flame of Rhodes. She isn’t home. They find Nikki and Rhodes, who immediately starts firing at them. They both start shooting at them. They return fire and pursue. They get away in a car.

At his house, Dex is trying to catch Jesse in the act. Dex gets spotted by the neighbor hood watch and has to run off. The vandal struck again. It’s getting more dangerous.

Deb can’t believe the evidence that Matsuka has gathered. With the autopsy report, it means that it’s a suicide. LaGuerta wants her to work on another case. Quinn is in Dex’s face. Dex tells him that he doesn’t give a shit that Quinn is dirty.

Dex tells Deb that fear is a powerful motivator. Grant might have been compelled to jump.

Quinn is getting massaged by his topless girl. He makes the mistake of unloading on her, and she is recording this in her mind for a big story.

It turns out that the vandal is Jesse’s father. While he comes back, he breaks the security floodlights that his neighbor installed. Rita sees him.

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Dexter Remains to Be Seen S04E02 (Showtime)

range — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:02:06 +0000

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

* * * * *

Dex has an accident with body parts in his car. They are mysteriously gone. What happened? Meanwhile, Angel and LaGuerta are still sleeping together. Quinn is seen by Dex taking some money from a crime scene.

* * * * *

Dex wakes up with first responders getting him out of his car. The highway patrol officers give Dex the meds for Harrison. Dex wonders where his car will go. Dex sustains a concussion. The doc isn’t letting Dex leave. He has to be under observation for 12 hours. Dex leaves the hospital. He needs to stay awake and deal with Benny’s remains.

Angel has to leave before LaGuerta so that they don’t arouse suspicion. They are still sleeping together.

The Trinity Killer has spotted his next victim.

Dex has got to get to Benny’s body. It isn’t in his car. He finds his kill tools though. This means the body was thrown free of the car while it was tumbling. Angel calls him to go onto another murder scene. Another tourist caught a bullet.

If you smell me again, I’ll punch you in the throat.
Deb

LaGuerta tells Angel that she is going to take the lead on the Vacation Killer. She promised it to the mayor.

Dex hallucinates Harry while trying to find Benny’s body parts. Dex is dizzy. The bags aren’t at the accident site. He can’t remember what he did with the body because of his concussion.

Deb tells Lundy that the guy who killed Noonan in ’79 is out of jail. She had him picked up. Lundy wants to tag along.

Quinn opens the victim’s safe and palms a few hundred dollar bills that he found in there. Dex sees him. Dex also finds some blood on a cactus.

Noonan’s convicted killer is Noonan. He copped a plea because the jury was stacked against him. Florida is a death penalty state. Lundy thinks that Noonan didn’t kill his wife. He asks Deb out for dinner to talk about the case. Deb hesitates, because she is seeing Anton tonight, but agrees nonetheless.

Dex arrives at his crime scene and does some cleaning up. He can’t find the body. He goes to the pharmacy. Rita sees Dex’s car. She is shocked. Dex told her that it was a fender bender. Quinn apologizes to Dex for riding his ass about getting his testimony wrong.

The blood on the cactus doesn’t match anything in the database. LaGuerta warns Quinn to keep his mouth shut while he bangs the reporter. Deb asks LaGuerta for advice. She drops by to see Lundy to tell him that she doesn’t want to hook up with him. Lundy tells Deb that the bathtub murders are connected to a series of murders all over the country. He shows her some of the evidence he has amassed. Deb leaves. She feels very embarrassed. Rita and Harrison drop by the precinct. Dex makes a break in the case. He finds an STD in the cactus blood. He cross checks this with the health board and finds a perp, Johnny Rose. Quinn wants to weasel into Dex’s confidence, but Dex has got too much on

Angel didn’t like how LaGuerta took him off the case, so they decide to take a break, but then they don’t. Mastuka has been watching this.

Anton finally comes home.

Lundy calls Dex. He wants to talk about Trinity. Meanwhile, Dex has come back to the boxing ring. Dex says that he can’t tonight. Meanwhile, Trinity finds his next target.

Dex finally finds the body. He drops him in the water. Dex goes home to finally sleep. He immediately gets woken up by Harrison.

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Dexter Living The Dream S04E01 (Showtime)

range — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:54:39 +0000

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall, most known for his role as David in the HBO drama Six Feet Under. Michael C Hall plays Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter specialist working in Miami for the police.

Season 4 is pretty incredible. Dexter just keeps getting better. It’s been a while since I wrote this and I just didn’t have time to post these, so I decided to do so this week. Here you go!

Warning: Spoilers ahead and strong language.

Dexter is driving around. Harrison isn’t sleeping yet. Meanwhile, a new serial killer is in town. He just got into a girl’s place and stripped naked. When she comes to the bathroom, he chokes her and cuts the femoral artery in the bath. He looks at her dying face with a mirror. The water turns red.

Dexter wakes up very tired. Astor is getting into her teens. Dexter is going to court today. They are living in a new place. Carpools and swimming pools. In court, Dex messes up. He mixed up the names of two perps. This means that his analysis is inadmissible.

Anton and Deb are fooling around. Deb is still going around meeting her father’s old CIs. Quinn is in Dex’s face for messing up. Messing up makes Gomez a target.

They are called to the next case. It was the new killer. Miss Belle was just promoted to sous-chef. Quinn meets a hot reporter. He gives her his number.

Deb is up to her crude self swearing around. Dex is yawning in the lab. He plans on doing some recon on Gomez before going home. He takes photos of his son with his crime scene camera. Julie Benz is so hot that it’s scary. LaGuerta and Angel are hooking up.

At the Lisa Belle crime scene, Dex finds another blood stain. Special Agent Lundy arrives to see Dex. This means that it’s another serial killer. That would be the only reason why Lundy is in town. He wants to drop by the station.

Deb meets one of her dad’s CIs. She didn’t have an affair with her father. Angel gets a new case. He’s not happy with this because it’s going to be a hard one to solve. They’ve got no evidence and no witnesses. It’s just a tourist that was killed.

Dex has found a place to kill Gomez. It’s an abandoned boxing ring. He sets it up but falls asleep while waiting for Gomez. A cop wakes him up. Gomez gets away. Rita wants to have sex. They get woken up by Harrison.

The hot reporter asks Quinn out. Matsuka tells Dex that the blood they discovered doesn’t have any viable DNA. Dex looks up the address and they find that a girl named Vicki Noonan was killed in 1979 the same way that Lisa Belle was killed. At that moment, Lundy appears. He’s retired and needs Dex’s help. The killer is called the Trinity Killer and, as the name implies, he kills in threes. Trinity is back where he started out. He’s come full circle. He’s the most successful serial killer in history.

Dex can’t pick up Morgan at the bar, so he has to get him from his trailer park. He takes him to the boxing ring. Rita calls him to get some medicine for Harrison. Dex has got no time to enjoy this.

On the way home, he falls asleep on the wheel and has an accident with his murder kit in his trunk.

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Ayuda a los más necesitados adquiriendo objetos de la tercera temporada

Skavenger — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:19:39 +0000

Con el final de la cuarta temporada acercándose en un par de semanas, Showtime dio a conocer excelentes noticias para nosotros los fanáticos de la serie. Dexter ayudará a la organización Harlem Children’s Zone a llevar a cabo una subasta de objetos de la tercera temporada.

Parte de lo recaudado será para la organización que ha estado ofreciendo educación y servicios sociales a varias familias desde 1970. La idea es acabar con el ciclo de pobreza que pasa de generación en generación. Los servicios que ofrecen son gratuitos para los niños y familias de Harlem, gracias a las donaciones que realizan algunas compañías y gente allegada al tema.

Ahora Showtime les facilita la manera de recibir apoyo, y de paso deja conformes a los fans que tanto aman la serie dándoles la posibilidad de adquirir productos únicos de la serie.

¿Interesados? ¡Adentro pueden ver la lista de objetos!

Estos son algunos de los ítems que se están subastando:

El yeso que usó Dexter en la season finale
La caja de puros de Miguel Prado
El almohadón donde tenían los anillos de compromiso Rita y Dexter
Las invitaciones de la boda de Rita y Dexter
Fotografías de algunas escenas del crimen
La caja donde Dexter siempre lleva donas

Pueden ver la lista completa -con su respectiva descripción- y además subastar haciendo click acá. La subasta, por lo que veo en la página, estará abierta por 20 días más a partir de hoy. ¿Tienen pensado comprar algo o al menos hay algo que quisieran tener? A mí personalmente no me gusta ninguno, están dando los “peores” por así decirlo…

Galería

Mikkel Kessler vs. Andre Ward

agershon — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:48:03 +0000

Think you can score a round better than the “professionals”?

Case in point … Last Saturday’s embarassment for Mikkel Kessler at the hands of Andre Ward. Official scores were 97-93, 98-92 & 98-92. I would be hard-pressed to find two rounds for the Viking Warrior. Seriously hard-pressed. I can’t imagine giving him three. I had it 99-91.

How many rounds did you give Kessler? Any 10-8 rounds for Ward?

Taylor Swift Wins 5 American Music Awards, Jackson Wins 4

kellene23 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:54:14 +0000

Country’s teen queen Taylor Swift is the winner of five American Music Awards, including artist of the year.

Late king of pop Michael Jackson got four trophies during the 37th AMA show at downtown’s LA Live.

The 19-year-old Swift was in London for her Wembley Arena concert tonight and she accepted three of her awards via satellite.

Swift was also named favorite female pop/rock and country artist and favorite adult-contemporary artist. Her album, “Fearless,” won favorite country album.

Jackson’s trophies were accepted by his brother Jermaine, who paid tribute to his late brother by wearing a glittery white glove.

Jackson was voted favorite male artist in the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories. His 2003 greatest-hits album, “Number Ones,” also won favorite album in both categories, bringing his career AMA total to 23, making him the most honored artist in AMA history.

Meanwhile, Adam Lambert has no day-after regrets about his eye-popping performance on the American Music Awards last night.

Lambert writes on his Twitter page, “All hail freedom of expression and artistic integrity.” Lambert’s performance involved shoving a man’s head into his crotch and making out with a male keyboardist.

ABC says it’s gotten 1,500 complaints about Lambert.

His CD, “For Your Entertainment,” is out today.

"Hungry Man," Dexter: Satisfying.

Salome — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:22:15 +0000

How Will TV5 Counter?

nmcabangbang — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:12:57 +0000

N.M. Cabangbang

As I have said before, TV5 is slowly joining the network wars with its new shows and comedy format. One of their top rated show is “Talentadong Pinoy.” And because of this, GMA and ABS-CBN has countered with new shows that follow or innovate the “Talentadong Pinoy” format. GMA has “Extreme Pinoy Talent” and “Bitoy’s Showwwtime.” Then ABS-CBN has “Showtime” and the up and coming “Pinoy’s Got Talent.” Now, we all have seen GMA and ABS-CBN moves to counter the rise of TV5. Now the question is, how will TV5 react to such counter actions from these two huge stations?

Now TV5’s next move seems difficult, because we all know that these huge TV stations act like they are the only stations in the country. They do not even mention the names of other stations, and only call them as “ang kabila”. And by doing this, they will act like they are the only talent show in the country that has such a format and will absorb the audiences and contestants of TV5. And we all know these have stations have the capacity to do this.

But we also need to know what the capacity of TV5 is. The copying of show formats is nothing new to this country. ABS-CBN once copied the TV5’s “Shall We Dance ” format with “U can Dance” that had Iya Villania and Derek Ramsay as host. “U Can Dance” was cancelled, and ” Shall We Dance” continues to be strong today. Another example to this was ABS-CBN’s copying of “Nuts Entertainment”, this was “Yes, Yes Show!”. This endeavor was also another failure for ABS-CBN because this show got cancelled too.

Then ABS-CBN is not the only guilty party here, GMA does this too. The most present move for GMA is to be seen with their new show “BandaOke: Rock N’ Roll to Millions” which is a format that is followed from ABS-CBN’s ”The Singing Bee.” Though “The Singing Bee’s” format was a copy or an innovation to ”All-Star K” The 1 Million Videoke Challenge”. Then “Wow Mali’s” format has also been copied before too with GMA’s “Bitoy’s Funniest Videos” but still “Wow Mali continues to get its deserved ratings.

So all of these proves that TV5 with its top rating shows can survive against its station rivals. The question just remains for how long can it do this and what new shows will it come up next to gain closer to the high ratings of GMA and ABS-CBN.

By the way, I would just like to point out that Talentadong Pinoy’s format is a copy of “Britain’s Got Talent” and “Wow Mali” is a copy to a lot of foreign gag shows. So which only means that all of our television stations and the whole film industry are guilty of copying other show formats or simply innovating them. That is just the way it is.

This copying of foreign shows and making them Filipino will also give us clues to what can TV5 can do next. They may start looking for foreign shows past or present, that has still not been introduced to the Philippine audience and then convert it into a show that will suit the Filipino taste. Or they can also make a truly original show, which I doubt they will do. So if you are knowledgeable of such foreign shows then you may be able to know how TV5 will counter. Good luck to TV5 then.

Raptors come up short against Orlando

oddmanic — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:17:05 +0000

Toronto’s bench shows game but can’t seal the deal at the ACC

It was one of those games that could have gone either way…if the Magic were playing Cleveland or Boston. But against the Raptors on Sunday afternoon, Orlando kept up the pressure and proved the Raps are once again a predictable squad as the game winds down.

Orlando came back from a weak first quarter and traded momentum with Toronto until both teams let their second line players ultimately decide their fates. Jason Williams, starting for the injured Jameer Nelson, and J.J. Redick hit decisive threes in the fourth quarter to put Orlando up by 10 and an eventual victory, 104 – 96.

“I think that our bench is deep,” Redick said. “We missed Vince and Rashard for several games early in the year. We’ve played with that lineup before and we’ve been successful.”

Vince Carter, who was customarily booed all afternoon, finished with 24 points, twelve of them in the third quarter. The former Raptor started the game poorly but kicked it up a notch in the second half…literally.

“The first half was a rough one,” Carter said. “I was just trying to be aggressive, trying to get into the paint, just make plays. Make the referees decide what is what. I think I was a little overly aggressive, playing a little too fast. I was trying to get there but not really playing under control. The second half when I changed my shoes, it was OK.”

Andrea Bargnani struggled for the Raps, scoring just 11 points to go along with 9 boards and fouling out with 4 minutes left in the game. Chris Bosh scored 22 points but was contained well by the Magic who made him settle for jumpers most of the game. Hedo Turkoglu was a non factor, scoring twelve points on 3 of 11 shooting from the field, while Calderon scored 16 points but managed just 4 assists.

The bigger story may have been the disappearing act of DeMar DeRozan. The rookie failed to step up against Carter and was not a factor at all throughout the game. Once again, speculation on whether or not DeRozan will still have the starting job when either Wright or Evans returns is swirling around the ACC. Head Coach Jay Triano appears to be trying to instill confidence in the young guard, but what is it costing the Raptors in the interim? DeRozan scored 1 point and 1 rebound in just over 17 minutes of playing time.

Meanwhile, Jarret Jack continued his strong play of late, handing out 9 assists to go along with 8 points and 7 rebounds.

The Raptors fall to 6 – 8 on the season and will face the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday at the ACC.

L Word interrogation tapes- Shane

thefemmeapr — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:53:12 +0000

Ronco ST5000PLGEN Showtime Rotisserie Platinum Edition

hexdumbbell — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:11:42 +0000

Ronco ST5000PLGEN Showtime Rotisserie Platinum Edition Review

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This is the second time I have bought this item. Lost the first one in the flood of 2006, and after 6 months of getting new place I bought another one. Generally I use it 4 or 5 times a month. Love a half of a boneless pork loin
in it, nice crunch and juicy inside! Have deep basket, line with foil — take 5lbs hamburger,a couple of onions and green peppers and make a meatloaf! Not even Ron thought of this!

Ronco ST5000PLGEN Showtime Rotisserie Platinum Edition Feature

Rotisseries up to a 15-pound turkey, 10-pound ham, steaks, ribs, and roasts
Includes rotisserie baskets in two sizes, kabob rods, food ties, meat thermometer
Three heat/rotation settings
Countertop model measures 15 inches wide
Print and video manual

Ronco ST5000PLGEN Showtime Rotisserie Platinum Edition Overview

Meat and poultry cooked in a rotisserie are not only tender, moist, and flavorful, but also better for you! Fat drips off and the food is evenly exposed to moist heat so is less likely to be overcooked or undercooked. Our electrics buyer swears by this rotisserie for making fabulous, succulent chicken and duck. He’s in charge of clean up and says that after three years, this baby still looks good as new thanks to diligent scrubbing.

Ronco ST5000PLGEN Showtime Rotisserie Platinum Edition Specifications

Chefs know that the secret to great roast chicken is the rotisserie, which sears the outside and tenderizes the meat inside for a succulent and simple meal. And now, home cooks have the power of the rotisserie in an appliance that sits on the countertop. The wonderful video instructions demonstrate how to truss a chicken, place it on the spit rods, and connect the spit wheel. Set the timer for 15 minutes per pound of chicken and then watch it roast through the glass door. The heat isn’t adjustable, but three settings–normal rotation, pause and sear, and no heat rotation–are designed to cook meats to juicy perfection. All the accessories for preparing meats, fish, and vegetables, plus many extras and recipe ideas are included. The drip tray, heat reflector, and wheels remove for cleaning. –Lynne Sampson
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Ronco Rotisserie – D. Wilson – Illinios
The Ronco ST5000LGEN Platinum Edition Rotisserie is great. The food cooked in it has a wonderful flavor, is tender and still has its natural juices. We purchased it because I had open heart surgery and the food cooked in it does not have all the grease and is not cooked in grease or oil. I would highly recommend it.

Ronco Showtime Grill – The Best! – C. Meyer – West Coast, USA
Ronco makes a great product! Combine this purchase with a Popiel Pocket Fisherman and you have the two items we never leave behind for a camping trip. Highly Recommended!

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American Music Awards Will Highlight Jacksons, Idol

kellene23 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:45:16 +0000

The American Music Awards will be heavy on the Jacksons and heavy on “American Idol.”

Janet Jackson has a greatest-hits album out and will do an eight-minute medley of her hits to open the show.

Michael Jackson is up for five awards, including artist of the year. His biggest competition includes Taylor Swift, with six nominations, and Eminem, with four.

As for “American Idol,” the list of performers includes Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry and Adam Lambert.

Other performers include Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Green Day, The Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston and Rihanna.

The American Music Awards will be given out Sunday in Los Angeles and shown on ABC.

Oprah Picks Date for Final Show

kellene23 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:43:15 +0000

What are you doing September 9, 2011? A lot of people probably will be watching the final edition of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

Winfrey has chosen September 9, 2011 because it’s 25 years to the day she started.

It was a battle for her to hold back tears as she told her audience that “25 years feels right in my bones and feels right in my spirit.”

Winfrey says she could never have imagined “the yellow brick road of blessings” that she’s received over the years.

Winfrey’s early years in broadcasting were in Nashville and Baltimore. In 1984, she then moved to Chicago to host WLS-TV’s morning talk show “A.M. Chicago.” That show was renamed “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1985.

A year later, Winfrey established Harpo Productions by spelling her name backwards. 1986 also was the year her talk show went into syndication.

She’s done OK with this TV venture. Earlier this year, Forbes put Winfrey’s net worth at $2.7 billion

She plans to start up her own cable network and perhaps start another talk show.

I'm back....

mjw finally speaks — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:22:58 +0000

It’s been too long and I am sorry for keeping you all at bay. Well let’s catch up a bit. Had a new baby, husband then gets laid off from job two weeks after baby, fast forward ahead 4 months and here we are. I was scrolling around on others blogs and decided I missed mine.

So much has happened and yet at the same time nothing has happened. Does that make sense? I am sitting at my computer sipping on some Disaronno….man it is good to drink again. Speaking of drinking again, I had several glasses of Vampire wine last night before the movie New Moon.

I kept telling my friends I just wasn’t feeling the whole first 20 minutes. I wasn’t really feeling Edward and I have been one of those crazy Twihards they’ve talked about for the last year. I kept thinking it has to be the wine. Well, after reading a review from Aint it Cool News the wine wasn’t to blame. Go here if you want to ruin your movie experience.

Don’t get me wrong I enjoyed the movie, because it was better than the first, the soundtrack was great (music is my thing), action was good (well the whole ten minutes of it). I loved the books…. so I wanted to love the movie no matter what. I just think you can’t stick to a 600 pg book and get it all in 2 hours 20 min. AND get a great movie. But I did expect a little better flow from the script writer Melissa Rosenberg. She writes one of my all time favorite cable series on Showtime… Dexter. Whatever…I shouldn’t complain because I will fork over more money and go see it again just to give it a second chance. I am a lover of the vampire.

Speaking of vampires…my new craze is TRUE BLOOD. Anyway season 2 was CRAZY but it is the only reason for keeping HBO. Since having the baby…I am a tv junkie. I watched the whole season of United States of Tara on Showtime in 2 days.Went to moms and we watched a whole season of Nurse Jackie in 2 days. Must be why I can’t drop these last 15 baby pounds. I am going to run in the morning with a friend. I haven’t ran since before getting pregnant so this should be slow and crampy. Sucks getting old.

I am all over the place tonight. If this is your first time reading I normally stick to one subject. <sip of disaronno> Actually this is how I am in real life. Very random I am…I do not like green eggs and ham. Well my sweet muffins has swaggered into the room wants some quality time.

So long and thanks for reading. See you tomorrow. I promised to be a better friend and write more often…

Michael Moore's Documentary Eliminated From Oscar Competition

kellene23 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:57:21 +0000

A blow for Michael Moore. His documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” has been cut from Oscar competition.

It’s not one of the 15 on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ list of docs worthy of a nomination. “Capitalism: A Love Story” was one of 89 documentary features submitted for Oscar nominations.

Another high-profile film, the well-reviewed rock-documentary, “It Might Get Loud,” didn’t make the cut, either. Neither did the Mike Tyson documentary “Tyson,” or “The September Issue,” about Vogue magazine and its editor-in-chief.

Some of the 15 documentaries that made the list are: “The Cove,” “Food, Inc.” “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” and “Valentino The Last Emperor.”

This list of 15 will be narrowed again and 5 will be nominated for Oscars. Moore previously won an Oscar for “Bowling for Columbine.”

#SMWest09/Pathways to Get Your Content On Xbox, TiVo, Boxee, Roku, Vudu, Yahoo! Connected TV, ZillionTV, FLO TV

contentnow — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:39:08 +0000

Streaming Media West is in full swing. With 150 speakers and 40 sessions, it is a real treat that all the videos will soon be posted at StreamingMedia.com. The video to my Commonwealth Club Smarter TV event from earlier this week will also soon be available on FORA.tv. Between the two events, there was much discussion about the features (entertainment, social, commerce) of the connected devices and their ability to serve as monetization platforms for indie content, so this post is dedicated to providing a short synopsis of what was discussed and an overview of the market offerings.

Xbox 360
- 16mm consoles in North America, 33mm worldwide
- 1.5mm active before and after the Superbowl
- starting at $199 plus subscription to Xbox LIVE
- 25,000 pieces of content via Netflix (17,000) and Zune Marketplace
(Paramount, Lionsgate, Sony, MGM, Disney, ABC, CBS, NBCU, TBS, MTV, WB)
- Indie games get 70/30 split on XBLA via creators.xna.com/en-US
- Indie content best path to Xbox is via New Video, a Zune aggregator
- The Guild, Xbox chart-topping show, was a direct deal
- Magical friending features allow 8 Xbox LIVE living rooms linked to watch same shows, also integrating FB photos, Twitter, Last.fm
- Xbox is working toward a remoteless future with Project Natal
(per Marc Whitten, Xbox @ SMW talked about going from one to many to many to many, the channel of one, from audience to community, from programming guide to contextual search and social discovery with ratings and recommendations, tapping into the 300mm FB users, and 25mm Twitter users, and 1B+ mobile phones, PC was smart then got connected, phones were connected then got smart, TVs are now smart and connected, Xbox creating a world where it all just works – gaming, internet, tv, focused on content, community, curation, control; more details at: http://itvt.com/interview/6110/radio-microsoft-xbox-live-general-manager-marc-whitten)

Ps3*
- 8mm+ consoles in North America, 29mm consoles worldwide
- starting at $299 includes Blu-ray player, no charge for access to Net
- Sony launching Sony Online Service for movies, tv, music, books, games
- 10,000+ hours of download content, 14,400 TV shows, 2,300 movies
- 40 partners incl Netflix, Lucasfilm, Cinetic FilmBuff, ContentFilm Intl, Image Ent, MPI Media, New Video, Showtime, Starz, G4, E!, Summit Entertainment, Weinstein, HD Net, VIZ Media, FUNimation, Magnolia,
- Best path to PS3 is via New Video, aggregator for iTunes, Hulu, Zune..
- Social integration with Facebook games

Wii*
- 56mm consoles worldwide,
- Japan video service: original branded programming, CinemaNow
- no US movies or TV yet, Netflix maybe never

TiVo
- 1.6mm – 3.5mm subscribers, launched 10yrs ago
- $249 + $129/year (also bundled with cable/sat packages)
- DVR stores up to 1TB of TV, broadband features, integrated search
- 50,000+ VOD movies/tv via Netflix, Amazon, Blockbuster, CinemaNow, Disney, YouTube, Rhapsody, Music Choice, Live365
- Thousands of video podcasts which indie producers can add to at:
www.tivo.com/rssvideo
- Indie producers can also get on TiVo Amazon VOD via CreateSpace.com
- no FB integration, Twitter onscreen chat, can share lists w friends
- in-show purchasing with remote related to specific ad campaigns
(per Evan Young, TiVo @ Commonwealth Club Smarter TV)

Apple TV*
- 500,000-6mm units sold, now starting at $229
- 50,000 tv episodes,175,000 podcasts, 2500+ movies
- Fox, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, New Line, Paramount, Sony, Touchstone, Universal, Disney, WB, YouTube…
- Best path on to iTunes is via an aggregator like E1 or New Video

Boxee
- 700,000 free software downloads, expect to be at 1mm by CES
- Boxee box – partnering with TV, Blu-Ray, DVR, Game Console OEMs
- 180 partners incl Netflix, MLB, eGuiders, Pandora, Last.fm, Flickr, KidMango..
- Open SDK for indie producers to put up a channel: developer.boxee.tv
- Integrating payments platform for monetization of show content, merchandise
like having first two episodes ad-supported, buy now button for the rest of the season
- monetization should be available by summer 2009
- 2009 improve platform, grow user base, 12/7 Boxee Beta Unveiling w global search
- Cool friending feature to generate virality
(per Andrew Kippen, Boxee @ Commonwealth Club SmarterTV)

Roku
- 400,000 give or take a few hundred thousand units sold
- $79, $99, $129 wifi models sold on Roku.com and Amazon
- Netflix, Amazon, MLB, Revision3, Twit.tv, Blip.tv, Mediafly
- Open SDK enables any indie producer to launch own channel
- not about social interaction, no merchandising
(per Jim Funk, Roku @ Commonwealth Club SmarterTV)

Vudu
- 100,000 units sold starting at $150
- now licensing to LG, Mitsubishi, Vizio
- On-Demand TV/Movies, Pandora, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa..
- Select video podcasts, RSS Feed not accepting indie content yet
(per Rob Holmes, Vudu @ SMW)

Yahoo! Connected TV
- On Samsung, Sony, LG, soon Vizio (WiFi TV), Toshiba (DVD player)
in 13 different countries, remote with slider keyboard
- CBS, Y! Finance, eBay, Amazon, Blockbuster, Flickr, USA Today, Twitter
- Widget SDK: http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/developer
- Leverage 70mm US and 6000 existing widgets to bring best of the web into a TV friendly environment
- No app commerce, open surf or in-show merchandising yet
(per Russ Schafer, Yahoo! Connected TV @ Commonwealth Club SmarterTV)

ZillionTV
- Entertainment and marketing service, not selling boxes
- Going through ISPs/telcos, OEMs embedded software stack, direct to consumer
- 60+ content partners including major media players:
Fox, Sony, NBCU, Disney, WB, Lionsgate, Paramount + 60 indie producers
- Self-selectable advertising play, consumer choice ad categories
- VISA rewards to allow interactive in-show purchasing with remote
- Best path to get content onto ZillionTV is content@zilliontv.tv
- And there will be a social component, fan of Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital
(per Mitch Berman, ZillionTV @ Commonwealth Club SmarterTV)

Sezmi*
-Just landed $25mm, starting trial in LA
(For more: http://itvt.com/interview/6109/radio-sezmi-co-founder-chairman-and-president-phil-wiser)

FLO TV
- Bought Channel 55 spectrum in digital transition
- Now able to broadcast TV, no broadband capacity issues, no buffering
- 24/7 access to live sports, breaking news, hit shows, animation,
kids programming, soaps, game shows, reality, comedy, crime dramas
- CBS Mobile, (Y&R, CSI), Comedy Central (quick ht snacking)
- perishable content that offers social currency where live matters
- viewers watch on average 30min/day more than Hulu at 9min/day
- 900min/month more than the average voice minutes used per month
- Peaks at 1pm, stays relatively consistent 2-10pm
- 7/7/09 MJ Memorial 49minutes, most viewed in history of FLO TV
- most watch 150hrs/month, 120-180hrs range,
95% broadcast, 5% on demand
- In the top 100 cities in the US
- ATSCMH standard, DVR capability more of a rights issue
- FLO TV is standard in Japan, not using US technology
- Can’t disclose current subscriber #s, many millions split
between ATT and Verizon
- 99% subscription based, not ad supported model
- Projecting 43mm mobile tv users by 2013, 67mm by 2019
- Focusing on mobile, personal tvs and auto-entertainment
- 3″ PTV is $249, $10/month (first 6m free with purchase)
- working on monthly passes, day passes, event passes
- Established content delivers the comfort and safety of brands they know
- Original content like LXD, Amanda Congdon’s SometimesDaily
keeps them coming back for more
- Path for indie content on to FLO TV incl MyDamnChannel
- FLO TV might be integrated in nexgen iPhone
- No plans for a 20″ FLO TV but great alternative to cable
(per Bill Stone, FLO TV @ SMW)

*not present at SMW or Smarter TV

NATPE, 1/25-28
NATPE, beloved trade association that champions content deal flow, was onsite as well interesting new media companies in being showcased at the NATPE Market in Vegas in January. The show will have a featured section for the Connected Home, and qualified exhibitors are being offered face time with major media players, venerable press outlets, and possibly even brand sponsors. For more information, visit www.natpemarket.com, check out our NATPE LATV Fest coverage, or contact evie@natpe.org for exhbitor opportunities.

Back to the party
The party is still going strong tonight with the Reader’s Choice Awards and performance by VJ remixers Eclectic Method. You can watch it via live stream. And tomorrow, Epix kicks off the morning keynote which will be streamed live as well, then its another full day of programming. In addition, there is a sizable show floor with a demo stage and rows and rows of exhibitors. Check out Google’s little plush googlers. who won Content NOW’s Best of Schwag. And be sure to stop by Tandberg for their timeshifting keychain and remote mints and Microlink for their pocket frisbees. End of day, the remarks from Epix will be posted along with those from Revision3, MTV, Next New Networks, FUNimation, Tubemogul, and Electric Farm. And then when the SMW video posts I’ll circle back on yesterday’s sessions with Hot Topic and HBO Broadband. Many thanks to conference director Dan Rayburn who embraces his attendees, offering them his cell number, free industry analyses and business development introductions. He was an enormous help to me with my Smarter TV event and this post. He lives and breathes the stuff, and it shows. Check out his post on the market:
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2009/09/breakdown-on-the-number-of-broadband-enables-devices-sold-in-the-us.html

2010 Primetime Emmy Awards Set for August

kellene23 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:29:48 +0000

NBC has scheduled next year’s Emmy Awards for August, instead of September when they’re usually aired.

The network says the decision to slot the TV awards show for Sunday, Aug. 29, was made early to get a head start on planning.

The event is typically held in September, right before the start of the fall TV season. NBC airs NFL games on Sunday nights in September, so scheduling the Emmys in August avoids a conflict.

The network said its August 2006 airing of the awards show was the highest-rated Emmy broadcast of the past four years.

Nominations for the 62nd Prime-time Emmy Awards will be announced in July.