{"id":211,"date":"2003-10-07T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/i_for_one_welcome_our_new_republican_overlords"},"modified":"2003-10-07T21:52:11","modified_gmt":"2003-10-08T01:52:11","slug":"i_for_one_welcome_our_new_republican_overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2003\/10\/i_for_one_welcome_our_new_republican_overlords.html","title":{"rendered":"I, For One, Welcome Our New Republican Overlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since absolutely nothing of importance happened today, it&#8217;s clearly time for&#8230; <em>more <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0165961\/\">Sports Night<\/a> than you can shake a stick at!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>From <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/home.us.net\/~zapatos\/sn.htm\">Angela&#8217;s No-Frills Sports Night Page<\/a><\/cite>: the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.us.net\/~zapatos\/dg.htm\">Sports Night Drinking Game<\/a>. Good stuff, although I would add &#8220;Jeremy berates himself (out loud) for talking to himself (out loud) &#8212; 1 drink&#8221; at the very least.  Also see the superb <a href=\"http:\/\/home.us.net\/~zapatos\/faq.htm\">FAQ section<\/a>, which answers the eternal question, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/home.us.net\/~zapatos\/faq2.htm#4.8a\">How is it that Dan forgot he was ever in Spain<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/Graecia13\/origscripts.html\">Sports Night scripts<\/a>.  Includes the original script for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/Graecia13\/eli.html\">Eli&#8217;s Coming<\/a>&#8220;, which answers the aforementioned Dan-in-Spain question, and the original script for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/graecia13\/glocca.html\">How Are Things in Glocca Morra<\/a>?&#8221;, before it was re-written to account for <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0347039\/\">Robert Guillame<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0165961\/trivia\">real-life stroke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whowouldyoukill.com\/sportsnight.html\">Who Would You Kill On Sports Night<\/a>?  To my astonishment, Isaac beats out everyone.  Even <em>Gordon<\/em>.  It is a sick, sick world we live in.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/isabella.m\/icant.htm\">I Can&#8217;t Believe It&#8217;s Not Sports Night<\/a>!<\/cite> Ladies and gentlemen, I have scoured the Internet to provide you with only the finest of Sports Night Fan Fiction. And here it is, on a silver platter:  behold <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/isabella.m\/episode1.htm\">Episode One of &#8220;Season Three&#8221;<\/a>. I hereby grant this fan-written episode the highest possible rating: &#8220;Actually Pretty Good.&#8221;  Yes, really. The rest of the episodes in &#8220;Season Three&#8221; are a little more uneven,  but you take what you can get.  (I should note that when I said, &#8220;scoured the Internet&#8221;, I specifically excluded the wonder that is <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/CoriLannam\/snfic.html\">Sports Night Slash Fiction<\/a>. I love you all, but not quite <em>that<\/em> much.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/televisionwithoutpity.com\/show.cgi?show=45\">Television Without Pity: Sports Night<\/a>. Able staff member <a href=\"http:\/\/televisionwithoutpity.com\/staff.cgi?show=45\">Daniel MacEachern<\/a> handles his Sports Night recaps in typical Television Without Pity style.  Pick one character on the show that you &#8220;like&#8221; just to prove that you don&#8217;t hate the show with <em>every<\/em> fiber of your being, and proceed to tear into everyone and everything else on the show with a clear conscience.  Actually, Daniel goes one better &#8212; not only does he like Isaac, but he <em>also<\/em> likes (minor character) Kim.  (Although I think Daniel&#8217;s appreciation for Kim comes from a <a href=\"http:\/\/televisionwithoutpity.com\/story.cgi?show=45&amp;story=1729&amp;page=6&amp;sort=&amp;limit=all\">less-than-pure place<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the problem with Television Without Pity &#8212; can you really trust the recappers?  For example, take <a href=\"http:\/\/televisionwithoutpity.com\/show.cgi?show=118\">Jake 2.0<\/a>. From the recap ratings (a nearly consistent string of As and A-pluses) it <em>seems<\/em> like it would be a good show. On the other hand, the recapper seems <a href=\"http:\/\/televisionwithoutpity.com\/story.cgi?show=118&amp;story=5410\">completely in lust<\/a> with Jake 2.0&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upn.com\/shows\/jake\/cast_01.shtml\">nanotechnology-powered nerd superhero<\/a>, so maybe she&#8217;s not the most reliable source of information.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Finally&#8230; a Reliable Source indicates that not only do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0539651\/\">Josh Malina<\/a>&#8216;s parents (Mr. and Mrs. Malina) attend a Conservative <dfn>shul<\/dfn> in the Los Angeles area, but Joshua Malina himself showed up for Yom Kippur services.  It&#8217;s a good thing I wasn&#8217;t there &#8212; I probably would have been tripping over myself to run over and say, &#8220;Dude!  I loved you in Sports Night, man!&#8221; or something similarly asinine. Fortunately, our Reliable Source has much better manners than I do.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since absolutely nothing of importance happened today, it&#8217;s clearly time for&#8230; <em>more <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0165961\/\">Sports Night<\/a> than you can shake a stick at!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}