MarkMcgwire-related stories
Posted Nov 16th 2007 2:02AM by Jay Black
Filed under: The Office, Episode Reviews
(S04E08) Tonight, I felt like I was R. Lee Ermey and
The Office was Vincent D'Onofrio and this review was the first half of
Full Metal Jacket.See, I feel like I've been yelling at
The Office now for quite a few weeks, trying to get it into marine-ready shape. Like D'Onofrio's hapless character, the show kept disappointing me with
Survivorman parodies and surreal kidnappings. Tonight, though, everything snapped into place and, like Private Pyle, the show started acting like a perfect marine.
Tonight's episode was so good, in fact, I'm actually worried that I'm going to walk in on a homicidal Steve Carell screaming at me: "This is my rifle! There are many like it, but this one is mine!!" More strained analogies (and a glowing review) after the jump...
Continue reading The Office: The Deposition
Posted May 25th 2007 12:55AM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Episode Reviews
(S01E17) In the spring of 1998 my buddies and I took a trip to Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia to watch Mark McGwire and the St. Louis Cardinals play the Philadelphia Phillies. He was red-hot that spring, with like four thousand homeruns in April alone, and I figured seeing him would give me a "I got to watch him play live" story to bore my grandchildren with. Parking problems made us miss the first inning and, as it turned out, the only plate appearance by McGwire that night. He was pulled after one at bat to get a
shot of horse steriods into his eyeball rest. Though I had some small consolation watching a few typical Philly fans throw batteries at J.D. Drew, the evening, on the whole, was a disappointment.
Watching tonight's
Studio 60, I couldn't help but be reminded about my McGwire experience nine years ago...
Continue reading Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: The Disaster Show