PLUNGE FOR DISTANCE, DENIED: Following up from our June 2015 post, IOC sportocrats have added for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games the sports of skateboarding, surfing, "climbing," karate, and baseball/softball. (Squash, bowling, and wushu: denied.)
I renew my request that the modern pentathlon be reformed to include the five disciplines essential to Back to the Future: skateboarding, running, boxing, guitar-playing, and auto racing.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE: It's apparently National Watermelon Day. Which pop cultural watermelon is more important: the one Baby carried or "watermelon to the face?"
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
REACTIVATE THE UNNECESSARY REBOOTS BOT: Steven Bochco wants to reboot L.A. Law. With Good Wife having ended, there's not a good network show set in a law firm (as opposed to a DA's office) running, and Suits is about it on the cable side, and I think there's potential here--kick it off with McKenzie dying (a la Chaney's death in the original pilot), and Brackman finding it uncomfortable as the firm's central figure.
Monday, August 1, 2016
ACTIVATE THE UNNECESSARY REMAKES BOT! Splash, but gender-swapped with Channing Tatum as the mermaid and Jillian Bell as the human