Daily Weird Quotes

You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne

I’m a Britcom nut. I watch it on PBS and I stream the new ones online. But sadly, those British comedies depress me. They only air a few episodes a year.

The IT Crowd is one of my new favourites and they air 6 episodes a year. Yea. 6. Six. A year. 365 days and 6 of those days airs a new IT Crowd. Maybe I’m just a spoiled American that I want more. A favourite 30-minute American comedy I watch is Big Bang Theory and they air around 20 episodes a year. That’s almost 3 times more. I feel that every episode is funny too.. they don’t strain for jokes (IMHO). But maybe it causes shows to jump shark earlier than usual if they play too many a year? Or maybe British writers don’t want to stress by having to produce too much during the year?

The Vicar of Dibley had a successful 13 year run, guess how many episodes they ran? 20. Twenty. And 4 short specials. My head would explode if I had to wait that long in between episodes! What do British people watch in between waiting for all this stuff?

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
- A. J. Liebling

Why is Gargamel always after the smurfs? Is he jealous? Does he want to eat them? Why does he always plan on putting them in kettles?

Thanks to the ever present source of Wikipedia, it says that Gargamel needed Smurfs to create gold. Garagamel is an alchemist (as if the potions didn’t give that one away) and apparently Smurfs are a key ingredient in the alchemy process. After the Smurfs freed the captive Smurf… Gargamel swore his revenge on them and has been chasing them ever since.

Did you know that? Did you want to? Well you do now. Feel free to bring it up in conversation to unsuspecting people.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You’re tired, you’ve had a headache since you arrived, but you can’t leave because then you’d miss the party.
- Simon Hoggart

You’d think the best time to watch TV would be during Primetime, right? I have something different to offer you.

The best time is on Sunday anytime after midnight. I don’t know what it is about programming during that time, but it is cheesetastic. I used to work late shift in tech support and would come home on Sunday night/morning and watch Cleopatra 2525, Mysterious Ways, and another one which I forgot the name of (bummer).

Currently on our late late night TV there’s Legend of the Seeker and DaVinci’s Inquest (which can get frustrating at times). During the day these shows are just of no use to me. At night when I can’t sleep… they’re pure gold.

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet – to use the toilet even – in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger
- Jonny Wilkinson

Kids in the Hall need no introduction. If you don’t know who they are, you should. If you know who they are, then you’ll remember this clip. It’s entitled “Sausages”

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
– Quentin Crisp

When my nephews were much younger a new show in America emerged, entitled The Power Rangers. I knew I was doomed to watch episodes of this show after I came home from school. We only had one TV.

After the 4th or 5th episode, I noticed they had a pattern. Group of kids chit chat, fight bad guy, go back to chit chat in that room with the floating head, fight bigger bad guy and shout “It’s Morphin Time!”, defeat bigger bad guy, go to cafe and have ice cream.

It went on like this day after day, month after month, the same formula. And the kids ate that crap up. Bought toys, wore clothes, pretended to be them, it was madness. And it made me think, if the Power Rangers are following a formula, who else is?

Primarily movies, TV, and books. They do it because it works. If it generates success once, follow that formula and you can repeat success. So I incorporate formulas into all areas of my life. Maybe I’m a creature of habit, but I’d like to think I’m sticking to a good thing.

I have a formula for this blog, can you tell? Why do I have one? Because it works the easiest for me. It requires me to focus on my writing without having to outline it and figure out where to put things. It feels like part of the work has already been done and I just fill in the middle.

You’ve read this entire thing, so I must be doing something right.