Tag: Linda McMahon

Is Unstoppable One Of “Those” Movies?

When this movie hits cable guys will watch it enough times to memorize the dialog (and I expect there really won’t be much of that anyway).

I seldom fish for comments in the blog. I will today. “Unstoppable,” the new runaway train movie that’s had nearly as many commercials as Linda McMahon (remember her?) is now in theaters.

This is a guy movie, right? Women will have little desire to attend.

Seriously, there are guy movies and there are… oh, hell I can’t think of a good non-sexist euphemism for chick flick.

The opposite sex attends the other’s movie to be social. How many guys saw “Sex And The City II” willingly?

When this movie hits cable guys will watch it enough times to memorize the dialog (and I expect there really won’t be much of that anyway).

I see “Unstoppable” in the “Under Siege,” “Die Hard” genre, no? No matter where the movie is when you tune in it’s perfectly OK to just pick it up. Not much is lost if you’re not there for the opening credits.

Give it a few years. This will be on TNT every twenty minutes.

What Twitter Told Me About Tonight’s Debate

For the whole time I watched there were no debate oriented tweets in this area!

I watched most of the senatorial debate between Linda McMahon and Dick Blumenthal. Because I work in the studio part of the time I had to have the volume turned down. I opened up two Twitter windows to help keep up and was surprised at what I saw.

In one window I had my standard ‘every tweet within 15 miles of the TV station’ search.&#185 In the other I filtered for a few words that would surely bring debate comments.

Both columns scrolled rapidly as the debate wore on, but only the ‘filtered word search’ window had debate action. For the whole time I watched there were no debate oriented tweets in this area!

I am surprised… maybe a little disappointed too.

&#185 – Not everyone lets Twitter know where they are so this isn’t the total view of every tweet near New Haven. It’s the best I could do with what’s available.