I appreciate the guest post, Kenneth Jefferson

I got a new satellite tv provider madisonwhen I moved here and thank goodness, is all I can say. I don’t know what in the world I would have done without my TV the last few months but you know, I’m just glad I’ve had some relief from how horribly boring it is here. Can you imagine being 28 years old and having to move to such a tiny town for a great job at a terribly small company? I’m still not sure if I made the right decision but I think I did – there’s something to be said for getting your productivity ducks in a row while you’re young and that’s what I’m trying to do now. I spend more time than I should watching TV and playing with the dog but you know, I guess it’s all about whatever gets you through the tough times. There’s something to be said for putting in your dues and that’s what I hope I’m doing right now – I don’t want to have to do this again!

I have discovered a show that I love to watch, The Ice Road Truckers comes on the History Channel and I love it we caught the marathon for last years shows before the new season started and we are hooked. It is a great show with enough color to keep my interest for an hour. The characters are very feisty and rough it makes for a really fun show to watch, it is the only show that we set in stone to watch. I am going to order the first season and watch all of it again while I am watching the second season.

Jimmy Kimmel did a montage of home videos where the parents of little kids were falsely told by their parents that there was no more Halloween candy left. Some of the parents said that the parents ate it while the kids were asleep. The reactions were predictable – the kids threw themselves into the floor in despair, crying out.

The audience laughed hysterically throughout the segment. I don’t think that was funny and I don’t think it was OK for the parents to lie to their kids, deliberately provoking or distressing them. Why is that funny?

If the TV is still on after the late night news, do you watch Jay Leno on NBC? Or do you watch David Letterman on CBS?

I have never been a fan of Jay Leno. I really miss the Johnny Carson show, R.I.P. Johnny and Ed. I don’t like Jay – I think he is weird and reminds me of a used car salesman.

Letterman is a womanizer and sleazeball, too. But he is funny and usually does a decent job interviewing the guests and getting them to reveal a little about themselves.

But if I want to watch a really good interview, I have turned to CNN and the Piers Morgan show. Piers is a much better interviewer and there are no distractions with a band and audience. He is really good at allowing the celebrities to reveal little nuggets of information about themselves, in a non theatening, pleasant way.

Cruising tte cable channels and I came up with a how starring his guy, Gunny. He has a show all about guns. He tells you about the gun, who designed and why, and ten he takes everyone out to a shooting range and shoots the gun at targets. It is a pretty cool show and I want to make sure I watch some more of them.

I watch David Letterman every night, I must admit that I fall asleep some time during the broadcast and I wish there was an easy way to get his show on during prime time. The Letterman show is so much better than the other late night shows. More professional in every way. Paul Allen Wood Shaffer is the very best band leader of our day and I have followed his career since the days of the Saturday Night Live music which I really loved. Bring Letterman to prime time!

Tonight was the finale of this seasons Amazing Race, we have been fans of this great show since it started and it is a show that I stop working to watch. This season the winners were a brother and sister, Tammy and Victor won the race and they played fair and honest the entire way. I was rooting for the deaf boy and his mother and they gave it a great try, I was very proud of they way they finished the Amazing Race. Someday I would love to be on that show, I think we would do well and we do make a great team and that is half the battle.

3 of the 4 football games played this weekend the underdogs won. The only favorites to win were the Pittsburgh Steelers all of the others including my team the Tennessee Titans lost. I have one dog left in the hunt my Arizona Cardinals won their game big against the Carolina Panthers yesterday and they will host their second playoff game this year on Sunday against the Eagles. Good thing I did not bet on the games I would of lost my butt. The only one I picked right was the Cardinals game and that was just because they are my team.

The Olympics start in 2 days and I fear I will miss a lot of the action this year due to work. I have watched every Olympics since 1968. I have not missed much in that time I used to video tape the days action and then watch it later on. I do not have a recorder at this time so that is not an option, I wish they had it on demand so I could watch it later on. I keep up with the results in the newspaper and online so I at least know who wins and what is going on while I am working. A lot of great performances will be missed by me this year and it makes me very sad.

On my favorite show the character of Gil Grissom is being written out of the show. I do not know if the show can go on with out him, he is such a critical part of the make up of the show.  When he took a few shows off to do some theater this last season it was a down swing at least for me. I will not be happy when he leaves and will wait to see if the producers make the show better with out Grissom or if the show just fades away like most do when the star leaves.

As the only show I watch on a weekly basis comes on my cable messes up again, Comcast is not doing a very good job with the cable in this area maybe it is time to invest in a satellite dish and tell Comcast where to stick their poor service. Every time I want to watch a show I have to deal with poor reception or no picture at all, add in that they do not carry Sports South and it is the death blow as far as I am concerned.

Is it not amazing that Tiger Woods keeps on winning the major golf tournaments, even when he is standing on one leg as he was this last weekend. I am not a huge Tiger fan but you can not help but admire the heart of the man. He is a winner and I love watching him work a course. Down the stretch he may be the finest golfer of all time and it has been a pleasure watching him work. Good job Tiger keep up the good work.

In what was hyped as the chance of a century for a horse to win the triple crown, Big Brown laid an egg in the Belmont Stakes race on Saturday, there is no easy or nice way to say it he laid as big of an egg as I have ever seen in a horse race, he did not even show up at all. I was so very disappointed in his performance as were 99% of the people who watched the race. Let us hope the next triple crown threat has more moxie than the last one.

If you caught the MMA fiasco on CBS last night you will of been as disappointed as I am. I had never watched the MMA and I thought it would be a good chance to check out a new sport. I was sorely disappointed in the program, not only did it run very late it was all pomp and no fighting. After 70 minutes of broadcast there had been about 2 minutes of fights, very disappointing. I hope if they do it again it will be more fights and less show, if I wanted all show and no fight I would watch professional wrestling.

Another Hollywood legend died this week, brilliant comedian Harvey Korman died this week at 88. I remember the role he had in the great movie Blazing Saddles as well as on the Carol Burnett Show in the sixties. I loved his work with Tim Conway and he will sorely be missed. There are not many with comedic talent of Harvey Korman.