The Lee Word Side

While summer has never been the best time for television, with all the reruns and such, this summer has seen it hit a new low. It’s the Television doldrums. The one program that I’ve looked forward to, and religiously watched is Big Brother. But it has managed to put out a program this season that is actually worse than last season’s. I managed to get through two episodes this time before I deleted it from my TIVO to-do-list. If the producers would get people on there that I could care about, someone that I wanted to watch, then I might consider watching it again. However, I seriously doubt that’s going to happen. They seem hellbent on having vapid, ignorant, emotionally immature, and mean spirited kids as house-guests. Season six was the last Big Brother that I liked. I think CBS needs to get Arnold Shapiro back as producer. Moving on to BRAVO and Project Runway. This is another program that I’ve loved and never fail to watch. However, since Project Runway’s announcement that it’s leaving BRAVO and moving to Lifetime TV next season, it seems that BRAVO is treating it like the ugly stepsister. They’re not promoting the show as much as they have in the past, and there is a feeling of “whatever, they’re gone anyway,” floating in the air. I had hoped that the program would get a proper send off from BRAVO, but there is too much bitterness and animosity for that to happen. I wish Project Runway well in their move to Lifetime. I haven’t decided if I’ll follow them. I’ve never cared for the kind of programing that Lifetime provides. Depressing and self-loathing shows that drive me batty and make me want to kill myself. Not a fun place.
So what does that leave to watch this summer. Not much, but I’m taking advantage of that and doing a lot of reading. “And that,” as Martha Stewart would say, “is a good thing.”

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Here it is, the third week in July, the summer is half over and my skin is still as white as a freshly laundered sheet. I’m afraid to wear shorts out of fear that my bare legs will blind people, not to mention the roar of laughter they would bring. For a million different reasons I just haven’t had the time to get outside and enjoy the sunshine. I may have to resort to using a tanning salon because I’ve been invited to go to Ocean City (Maryland) next weekend and I don’t think there’s enough time to get a little color naturally. If I don’t have some degree of a tan before I hit the beach I’m going to be in big trouble. Talk about a lobster, I’ll burn faster than you can say “SPF-50.” Besides, red isn’t a good color on me. I guess an alternative to the tanning salon and all that sun cancer mess would be to cover every inch of skin with clothing. A burka would do nicely, not a black one though, a bit too warm. Do they come in white? Better yet, a rainbow colored one would really stand out.

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Woke up this morning, forgot I was gay. That was until I found this picture in an email. I can’t tell you how glad I am that that’s all cleared up..phew!

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Day three and I’m still resisting the new iPhone. I’m doing quite well actually. I’m not twitching as much, and the headaches have almost stopped. I may be able to pull this off. What really helped was hearing about the meltdown that happened on Friday when AT&T ran out of phones, and both Apple and AT&T’s server couldn’t keep up with all the activations. I can just imagine Steve Jobs cursing the day he partnered with AT&T. So unlike Apple to have a product release event that goes so fucking bad. It will be interesting to see how they clean this mess up.
If I can make it through next week I think I’ll be okay.

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With the new iPhone coming out tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. I’ll be facing a tough question. Do I replace my first generation iPhone with the new 3G iPhone, or do I keep the old reliable one? Funny how I was in this same dilemma last year at this time when the iPhones were first introduced - do I get it, do I not? Not a lot has changed. If the reasons to get the new 3G iPhone were compelling enough I wouldn’t be having these doubts, but from everything I have read the big selling point is the upgrade from AT&T’s old Edge network to their 3G network. It’s faster, but is it $10.00 a month more faster? The old iPhones will get the 2.0 upgraded software and will also be able to load-up on all the new third-party applications that are now available. So why am I even entertaining the idea of getting a new iPhone? The old one is still good. Maybe it’s because its a new toy and I do love new toys.

What will tomorrow bring?

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Nadal did it. Not since 1980 has someone won the French Open Tennis Tournament and then followed it by winning Wimbledon. The last person to achieve this goal was Bjorn Borg from Sweden. Rafael Nadal won Wimbledon after a long (four plus hours), hard fought battle with Roger Federer. Federer, as well, was trying to beat another of Borg’s records by winning his sixth consecutive Wimbledon title. Borg’s record was five.
The match between Federer and Nadal was one of the best, if not the best, tennis matches I have ever seen. Both players came to win, and their play reflected that fact. Each game was fought for and none were give up easily. In the end Nadal was the winner, but Federer was in no way the looser. Federer played some excellent tennis and at several points during the match it looked like he was going to win, but Nadal always answered back with a winning ball.
The next big tournament is the U.S. Open which is held in New York (Queens) next month (August). My hopes are on Andy Roddick. He always does well with the “home-team” crowds.

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