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kleinbl00  ·  2921 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 20, 2016

I'm embracing the schadenfreude.

The Horrible Show got murdered in its premiere last Thursday. Absolutely slaughtered. It was the one premiere that day and Fox notched a 4th out of 4 for the night. It got clobbered by the 2nd hour of a 2-hour Gray's Anatomy. I shall be watching eagerly as the critics ignore it, as do the audiences. With a 2.4m premiere it'll be lucky to make it six episodes. I only regret that it won't generate such spectacularly ascerbic prose as this:

Honestly, it's the best news I've gotten in weeks. At the same time, I realized that I'm stacking up a laundry list of White People Problems. Shit like:

So really, I'm a terrible person. Finished a book about the Holocaust yesterday and for my platelet donation today I'm hoping to make some real progress on Ken Alibek's Biohazard. "Q: What kind of sick fuck has two thumbs and reads about biological warfare for fun?"