New Zero Dark Thirty trailer

This movie looks so good.

 

It's pretty dumb to accuse this movie of being a pro-Obama flick. It's coming out in the third quarter of the year so it can win Oscars. That's what producers do: they hold their best stuff until right before the Oscars. If Zero Dark Thirty was meant to help Obama win reelection, it wouldn't have been moved until after the election.

Saturday was a good night if you're the Tigers

If your team is named the Tigers, Saturday night had a happy ending. LSU beat South Carolina by turning the game around with about 5 minutes left on the clock, ending the game 23 -21.

And then the Tigers almost lost game 1 of the ALCS to the Yankees but came back in extra innings, 6-4. I'm rooting for any team against the Tigers right now so these days baseball is a source of endless frustration for me. And Jeter is out for three months with a fractured ankle!

At least Michigan totally destroyed Illinois, 45-0.

No really, NBC wants to kill Community

Okay so you know how NBC moved Community to Friday? And fired Dan Harmon? Yeah, that wasn't quite enough for them. Now they've moved the season 4 premiere to some future date that hasn't been decided yet which is exactly what you do if you want to kill a show:

Given the success we’ve had for the past four weeks – including winning the first week of the season in A18-49 – we’ve decided to continue to concentrate our promotional strength on our new NBC shows that are scheduled Monday through Wednesday and have therefore decided to hold Community and Whitney from their previously announced premieres of October 19th. Without having to launch these comedies on Friday at this time, we can keep our promotion focused on earlier in the week —  plus we will have both comedies in our back pocket if we need to make any schedule changes on those nights.  When we have a better idea of viewing patterns in the next few weeks,  we will announce new season premieres of Whitney and Community. 

Not good, not good at all.

And judging from this Q & A with the new writers, there's no reason to think things'll get any better:

Q. Were there any initial conversations with Sony or NBC about what they expected from you on the show?

A. Guarascio A little bit. Mostly, it was thank you for doing this. When we started to pitch our stories, they had that first [reaction]: Well, maybe now that we’re in a new place, it could it be more like this instead of that. So we did have to dig in a little bit and say, look, we didn’t come on to make that into this. We came on to keep doing this. We did have to draw a couple lines in the sand.

That's more like it

The Big 10 is so strange this year. Yeah I'm happy that Michigan comfortably beat Purdue 44-13 but I'd also have liked for Indiana to beat Michigan State which would have been embarrassing as hell (final score 31-27 MSU) and for Nebraska to beat Ohio State (final score 63-38). Weren't the Buckeyes supposed to be bad?

Anyway, Arkansas beat Auburn yesterday which should be obvious but since Arkansas is inexplicably terrible this year, it's actually kind of surprising. Deadspin's headline had it best: "Auburn Wrests Title Of “Team Everyone Wants To Play” From Arkansas." So now Arkansas (2-4, 1-2 in the SEC) isn't quite as sad a team as it was...but still pretty damn sad.

This'll sell some whiskey

Christina Hendricks now advertising for Johnnie Walker. 

 

What I'm watching this fall

T.V. season is here!

The Walking Dead - season 3 - Oct. 14 (hat tip: The K-Line):

Community - season 4 - Fridays Oct. 19. I'm not as worried as some people are that this season is going to suck because Dan Harmon is gone. But I do have a conspiracy theory: NBC fired Harmon and moved the show to Friday so it won't get a lot of shit for canceling the show after the season. Friday tends to be the chopping board for lots of shows.

Homeland - season 2 - premiered Sept. 30 and airs every Sunday.

There's also Chicago Fire. Season premiere is Oct. 10. Could be good (Dick Wolf produced) or could be awful.

Jake Peavy wouldn't tweet out his new swank headphones if he were leaving...right?

Check out my new #WhiteSox headphones from @bigraudio twitter.com/JakePeavy_44/s…
— Jake Peavy (@JakePeavy_44) October 4, 2012

You'd only do that if you planned to play for the White Sox for a bit right? This is a sign that he doesn't plan to use his free agency to move to a different team...right?