Sunday, August 6, 2000
BigBlogger
In an excellent parody of the CBS-TV Big Brother website, that crazy Wendell guy from SwoopBlog insinuated BoyCaught into the mix. As the proxy for the brutha on the show, BoyCaught is certain to get booted, so before that happens, he's got to try and push up on one of the girl bloggas, right? (Hey, it's a joke, though admitting that much kinda takes the air out of the balloon, eh?) (Posted by BoyCaught)English Big Brother
Apparently, this is the real Big Brother; everything else is a substitute. (Posted by BoyCaught)Saturday, August 5, 2000
Celebrity bigots (Metro Times Detroit)
"Sex may sell, but in today's jaded climate, it's far more profitable to combine balling and bigotry ... your boss may be a woman, your sergeant African-American, your teacher gay, but when you put the earphones on, you rule. So why not think of celebrity bigots as lubricators of social change?." Well it's probably not worth doing unless there's a profit motive, right? But lubrication has many uses. (b/w net.Headlines, excellent!) (Posted by BoyCaught)Serious Hops (Yahoo!)
Cleveland's Kenny Lofton takes away a sure extra-base hit off the bat of Anaheim's Troy Glaus. That is some serious vertical lift. Who said baseball players were not athletes? The baseball season is heating up, and BoyCaught loves it! (Posted by BoyCaught)
Boom for Whom: Economic Apartheid in America
"Many people's current fortunes are largely based on personal debt, money borrowed upon the assumption of future growth and prosperity ... [but] the rising tide lifts only the yachts." BoyCaught doesn't assume, because he knows what it does to 'u' and 'me'. (Posted by BoyCaught)Friday, August 4, 2000
Godzilla Lives? (Yahoo!)
"Godzilla stomps the ground and spread around clouds of dust, being assisted by a Toho Company film production staff during the filming of Toho's 24th Godzilla movie at its studio in Tokyo." BoyCaught thinks that Godzilla doesn't look so big now, eh? (Posted by BoyCaught)gaijin a go-go
"Welcome to the Gaijin a go-go cafe. The cafe serves up western ingredients with a Japanese flair." Well, with a description like that, how can you lose? BoyCaught would like to note that no animals were harmed during the creation of this entry. (Posted by BoyCaught)Thursday, August 3, 2000
American High is outstanding
... if you're into that kinda stuff, you know: TV. Finally, a reality-based show with just the right mix of human drama, compelling narrative, and clever editing that reels the viewer in like a big fat fish. It's realer than Real World, it will outlast Survivor, and it outsizes Big Brother in the most important facet: the characters are natural, genuine, and truly interesting, yes, really interesting.In one segment, a mother tells her talented, guitar-playing daughter, who's a junior and just a so-so student at the High, 'You shouldn't go to college ...' What?! Worth the price of admission, whatever that may be. This show's here for only six more weeks, so it will be gone fast. Almost makes BoyCaught want to go out and buy a Replay TV. This time Rupert's people done good. (Posted by BoyCaught)
C-SPAN
Both online and off, C-SPAN is doing a stellar job covering the 2000 Republican Convention. Their on-air segments, and post-event interviews have been amazing; the real convention is revealed when the delegates speak as normal, everyday people like you and BoyCaught. This is a example of TV being valuable to the non-apathetic members of the public, a real minority. (Posted by BoyCaught)Wednesday, August 2, 2000
Eminem Wannabes.COMpton
Aiiight, some of it was funny ...in a David Schwimmer kinda way ... ya know, wut da dilly o? (Posted by BoyCaught)Rock, hard Dick and, uh, Bush ...
... Cheney and, duh, Georgy Dubya. Meet the 2000 Republican ticket. Monday Night Nitro couldn't have done a better job. The Rock kicks things off, and that was appropriate: this show is scripted tighter than anything WWF has ever done, well, almost. Cheney talks the political equivalent of smack, in what was ultimately a weak acceptance speech. Then they bring out a smooth lounge singer, who belts out an overly patriotic song, an anthem almost, in this installment of RePubCon. And telegenic token minorities speckle the backdrop in almost every shot. BoyCaught just loves a good political machine; they can crank out the entertainment just as good as any Hollywood studio, but in the end, it will cost you more than the price of a matinee. And speaking of token presences, what the hell happened to JC Watts? He used to be a great option QB down at Oklahoma. (BTW, C-SPAN) is large. (Posted by BoyCaught)
QOTD: “There is a lot invested in evolution, and we put a little crack in that.”
-- former English teacherBoyCaught likes taking things out of context, but Darwinism and drugs just don't mix ... oops, never mind. (Posted by BoyCaught)
America is a nation of voyeurs.
(Posted by BoyCaught)Welcome to American High (Fox.com)
"This past year, two camera crews followed 14 students at a high school located just outside of Chicago. The students were also given cameras and kept video diaries of their lives. These are their stories." Cool, televised riothero. More cheez, pleez ... just kidding, BoyCaught will take less. (Posted by BoyCaught)
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Tuesday, August 1, 2000
Powell Says Bush Can Help Bridge Racial Divide (Yahoo!)
"Capping a day when Republicans, heeding Bush's call for a more inclusive party, highlighted a series of black and Hispanic speakers, Powell told the convention, 'We have much work to do and a long way to go to bring the promise of America to every American.'" You go, Colin. (Posted by BoyCaught)Strange Bedfellows
Surely, BoyCaught is not the only one to who thinks that Day One of the Republican Convention has been really strange. Colin Powell talking about racial divides? Brian McKnight singing R&B while dancers gyrate in the background? Rapping high-school students doing multiplication to the beat? Laura Bush telling us that, indeed, reading is fundamental? On Wednesday, we'll get The Rock (from WWF) and Dick Cheney. How do all of these things connect? Oh yeah, this is the all-inclusive Republican Party. (Posted by BoyCaught)Sunday, July 30, 2000
Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs' (BBC)
"Dinosaurs were not wiped out by a meteorite or a planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to a Chinese news report." Ooh, man, Rex, what did you eat? (Posted by BoyCaught)United Against Hate
"A Hate-crimes forum." A very nice site, on a very sad topic. (Posted by BoyCaught)A Diverse, Inclusive Miniseries (LA Times)
"When the lights hit the stage at the Republican Party's convention here Monday night, television cameras will focus on a class of mostly Latino students chanting a rap-like routine borrowed from their Houston classroom." These are the so-called little brown ones the older Bush talked about when he ran for, and lost, the presidency. Those Republicans are so inclusive. (Posted by BoyCaught)Real World Startup (Denver Post)
"This is the story of one such start-up in Colorado, named Ereo. It represents a new generation of companies driven by the power of venture capitalists." (Posted by BoyCaught)QOTD: “We are not doing this to find racial differences. We are doing it because we want to understand what makes a good runner.”
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