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Ninja Warrior has Left me, Comcast to Blame
written 15 Jul 2008 in the late evening dusk
So today I sit down in front of the TV after putting in an 11 hour shift, hoping to death that either my life will end and the eternal misery that is existence will finally come to a completion or, alternatively, that maybe Ninja Warrior will be on G4 and I can rest assured that calm, hilarious, obstacle course antics of a Japanese nature will provide me with some comfort when – bam!
No more G4 on basic cable with Comcast, at least not in Pittsburgh. Keep in mind that basic cable only has like 20 channels. Three or four of them are okay, you’ve got Sunday nights on Fox, one or two hours sometime in the middle of the week on NBC, Reno 911! on WGN and the occasional rare gem on PBS. So yeah, everything except for G4 is horrible. And now it’s gone.
Luckily, we’re leaving Pittsburgh and therefor Comcast. We only really had cable because for some strange reason having basic cable makes having Comcast’s Internet service cheaper. I’ve been waiting for this day, and now I can officially say it:
Comcast, you are now officially on the boycott list. Olivia agrees.
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Tristan Daviding, a Coming of Age
This site used to readily feature the wisdom of my young son, Tristan David. In his early youth, and we’re talking light-socket curious young through pre-school, he would oft have epiphanies, realizations that though his brain could process, would often come out in the cute kids-say-the-darndest things sort of way that only a bobble-headed youth’s language could muster.
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Without Completing Ninja Warrior, You Should have not Spoken to Me
G4 can be given credit for restoring my faith in television, perhaps largely because their version of TV is like the Internet with less jpeg compression and clicking. Star Trek: TNG, Arrested Development and now their latest crowning achievement: Ninja Warrior.
The show is basically an obstacle course where 100 people compete over five stages full of jumps to be jumped, beams to balanced and cliffs to be hanged. It’s pretty over the top, with the first stage closely resembling your average wacky Japanese game show and the other three something more out of American Gladiator. The obstacles all seem to be extremely hard, as typically only 5 or 6 of the 100 competitors ever make it passed Stage 1.
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