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Yeah, sometimes I might have a teensy weensy little anger issue. I try to be good and contain my loathing for the insipid, pathetic piece of rancid pre-chewed bubble gum that is American Idol. I know millions of folks love it, and this is a free country, so as long as the show stays to itself and doesn’t bother me, I can coexist with it. But when Fox lets the show run long and push back first new episode of Fringe, a wonderful show that I now find myself addicted to, thereby causing my DVR to miss the last few minutes of the episode, well that’s when this geek looses it! I know it’s a deliberate punishment perpetrated by Fox on those of us who dare watch television programs when we want instead of when our wise and mighty Fox overlords decree we should. How dare us lowly peons skip past the advertisements that fill Rupert Murdoch’s pockets with piles of dirty money! It’s a little move like this that causes all that repressed anger at Fox for all the offenses against the geek community to boil to the surface. So, Fox, for canceling Firefly,you get THE FINGER! Canceling Drive? THE FINGER! Ben Affleck as Daredevil? THE FINGER! Brett Ratner directing X3? Big Ole FINGER! Getting your greedy little mitts on whatever Watchmen money there is even though you did nothing to make the film? GIANT BLUE FINGER! Dumbing down and neutering most of your action movies for the last decade? THE FINGER! For FOX NEWS, A Real American FINGER! And lastly, but not leastly, for running your vapid cheerleader/ golden child of a television “talent” show long and causing me to miss the last few minutes of Fringe on my DVR, you all get a huge double barreled helping of THE FINGER! F-U Fox!
an incredibly accurate portryal of the FINGER as we’ve been privy to
+ I completely agree a giant FU FOX….I miss Cpt. tightpants
I hate Fox for many reasons, some of them the same as yours. Actually don’t watch their network at all anymore.
But when it comes to your DVR, maybe you should focus on the people you’re paying to make your DVR record what you want instead of the people who make the stuff you want to record and let you watch it for free in exchange for watching a few ads.
Until you take all the ads off Boxcar Astronaut, pissing at Rupert Murdoch for his ad-driven revenues rings a little hollow. Anyway, if you watch the show, your pissing and moaning have no effect.
Newspaper editors may lose their minds when one lady in Pacoima threatens to cancel her subscription because a comic strip used a potty word, but businessmen actually run the numbers. The moaning doesn’t matter so long as the needles keep moving in the right direction.
@ Greg – Boy, way to kill my knee jerk reaction/ fanboy rage with a dose of common sense reality!
As a businessman, I can understand a lot of what Fox does. As an artist, I find a lot of their decisions questionable. All in all, whatever they do, it has virtually no effect on my day to day life.
I really wrote this piece to give voice to the angry fanboy inside, allowing that character to stomp around unchecked by sense or reason for just a little while. Sometimes it feels good to “Hulk out” on the keyboard!
Doesn’t *any* artist find a lot of Fox’s decisions questionable?
Sorry to apply a can of Raid Buzzkill to your fanboy rage.