Arnold Schwarzneggar is the new Trump,
They canceled Under The Dome, NBC Cannibalized Hannibal and other
Crazy stuff that happened this summer Season #SummerRoundUp
I’m back! For the... two or three of
you readers out there, no, I haven’t died. Like most TV shows over
the summer, I took a hiatus. Why, you ask? Many reasons. First, I had
to get some work done. Pretty much the entire summer was eaten by the
first season of The Writer (#TheWriter) out now, season finale this
Friday.
That project took a lot out of me as I had forgotten how hard
deadline writing can be. I had half the season done and suddenly,
bam! A month and a half dissipated and I had only added three
episodes. At one point, I even had to shut down my other social
networking to finish. Thankfully, I had a good outline and a few
scripts remaining from the original TV pitch. Again, if you haven’t
checked it out, please do. It is slow-building, but I would say it is
comparable to TV shows and books like Game of Thrones and Breaking
Bad.
I also was quite busy with my garden
this summer and maybe I’ll get around to posting a few pics of my
veg garden if I have time (currently I’m in the middle of the final
edit of my comedy novel “Yep, I’m Totally Stalking My
Ex-Boyfriend” due out in early October, #AhStalking). You’ll get
to see all of my insect and furry friends that visited and pestered
me in my garden.
Also, later on this year, I’ll be
releasing my first full-on mystery novel The Knowledge of Fear
(#KnowFear) about the annual slaying of three young girls in a small
town in northern Ohio and the detective thrown into the melee of
paranoia and danger. Currently re-tooling it as I initially sent it
to publishers and they said it started too slow (you readers can be
the judge of that).
And finally, I’ve made contact on the
twittas. No, not alien contact but followers and cool people contact. One
such contact I’ve made was with a friendly woman named S. M.
Dahman. An author in her own right, (her first book Twisted Greens is
out here:
http://amzn.to/1YvAfG5
) she just recently interviewed me for an author spotlight on her
blog here:
http://wp.me/p6D8TG-54
. As I don’t tend to blog too often about writing and rarely talk
about myself because of my overwhelming humility, I would highly
recommend you visit there if you are an aspiring writer or looking
for good blogs and other ways to connect, and you currently want to
know a little more about me.
Now, to the topic at hand. So much
stuff happened this summer. The hottest recorded summer in history
happened. There were fewer comic book movies this summer than we’ll
ever see for the next five summers. AMC premiered a new spin-off show
from the Walking Dead called Fear The Walking Dead. And... and...
and... Oh, all the excitement is making me want to break into song
with my own rendition of The Sound Of Music’s “Favorite Things.”
Republicans started their run for high
office,
Stock Market traders took really big
losses,
Avengers was so-so, and Ant-man was,
meh!
That doesn’t stop me from loving
Marvel.
Hank Baskett got high and touched some
girl’s penis,
Picture courtesy of WETV's Marriage Boot Camp
Kermit dumped Piggy and proved she’s
the greenest,
Picture courtesy of ABC's The Muppets
Drake went back-to-back, Meek wan-ted
to know,
And sweet Kylie Jenner turned into a
h—uh... a, uh... very respectable young lady. Yep. That’s what
she turned into. Role models, those Kardashians. Back to the song!
There were fires,
Huge ass earthquakes,
Droughts along the coast,
All these things that happened in
2015, and also Aquarius.
Picture courtesy of NBC's Aquarius
Spielberg used Brad-bury to give us The
Whispers,
Tom Cruise did plane stunts and this
chick wore flippers,
Picture courtesy of Bravo's Below Deck
Nene was re-placed by the lat-est trend,
Man, I ne-ver wan-ted sum-mer to end.
Trump proved great TV and Tinder proved
sexist,
Dinosaurs sent Universal to excess,
Some Mex-i-can guy had a 19 inch
schlong,
Picture courtesy of Lifetime's Atlanta Plastic
Astronaut’s Wives,
Both made good TV,
This was a recap of the season we had,
in summer twen-tyyyy, fif-teeeennnn!
Woo! Good, right? And you kept up with
the beat? What? You didn’t like the song? It was too short for you?
Oh, so I didn’t cover enough events, huh? Now you’re gonna
complain that I didn’t actually sing it, and that if I sung it and
recorded it, then put it on here that would have made for a better
blog post? Teh! You know, you people are so difficult to please some
times. Sometimes, I wish I could just build some sorta structure to
keep you less desired readers from reading my blog, but I don’t
know how I would do that. Maybe I could get you to build it. It would
be really tall, and long and it would be a... what’s the word I’m
looking for? Right, a dome. It would be a dome.
Speaking of domes, CBS took theirs
down, canceling Stephen King’s Under The Dome after three seasons.
While I enjoyed the first two seasons (even though they veered from
the book wildly) I can’t say I liked the third as much. Things got
too crazy with the baby and Barbie acting all doting father. It just
got weird.
James Patterson’s Zoo didn’t do
much better, taking a good concept but never really doing much with
it in my opinion. Those animals should have been eating more people.
And what about the wolf guy? They set him up as this mysterious dude
that knows stuff and then killed him off-screen, so you think his
killer will be this big baddie, and then they kill him next
commercial break! They had the big black guy whose been in everything
lately and is the TV version of Michael Clarke Duncan, yet we never
see him fighting a bear or some other massive animal—though I am
behind two episodes.
I enjoyed Astronaut’s Wives Club for
what it was as did I enjoy Wayward Pines which was right up M.
Night’s alley, steeped in that creepy The Village vibe. At least
this time they had real monsters.
Jurassic World was good but a box
office bigger than the first? Whoa! Slow it down, world. Slow it
down. Even with inflation and all that stuff, I didn’t think it was
the all-time classic that the first one was. At least it was no
Terminator Genisys which felt like it diminished the star quality of
everyone involved, including Arnold. It makes me wonder how the hell
he got the job for the next host of The Apprentice when Diddy and
Russell Simmons were both available New York candidates and
minorities, if the rumors about NBC were true.
A slew of movies came and went without
a peep but Straight Outta Compton was a crazy little movie about Dre
and Ice Cube, following the group called N**** With Attitude. It made
a ton of money and is even being talked about for a sequel.
What’s not being talked about for a
sequel is NBC’s Hannibal, another big cancellation of the season.
They had finally caught up to Thomas Harris’ first book and covered
the Red Dragon only to see the two Murder Husbands jump off a cliff
together and old Bedelia jealous and stood up for dinner—or, I
mean, not stood up. Sorry, that’s insensitive. I meant Hannibal
always stayed a step ahead. No, that was a tasteless joke. I can’t
seem to stop putting my foot in my mouth and—oh! I’ll just move
on.
The weather has been a complete mess
everywhere. It got up to 165 degrees in Iran, wildfires and dust
storms swept across Cali and Arizona, and the crazies both here and
abroad brought the violence and sadism.
Still, plenty of good stuff came from
the summer. Serena got back with Drake (though, she promptly lost
what would have been a history-making match), the Braxtons finally
started working on an album together, Uptown Funk really gave it to
us, and we finally cured the world of Iggy Azalea. So, as we head
into the fall, we leave summer 2015 with a few lingering questions:
How long will this charade with Trump and the Republican party last?
When will that Lexus hoverboard actually hit markets? Why does the
Weeknd sound so much like Michael Jackson on certain songs and then
nothing like him on others? When will Kanye West start preparations
for his presidential run? What in the hell really are
those?
Was Girl on The Train that good of a book? And why in the hell won’t
The View just die already?
Hopefully we’ll have these answers soon.
Until then, as always, check out my books on Amazon (if you’re
looking for Halloween scares check
#AFuriousWind,
#DARKER,
#ThePowerOfTEN or
#BrandNewHome). For those interested in something a little more
dramatic, check out
#TheWriter. The final episode of season one of
The Writer is coming this Friday. All other 14 episodes are out now,
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Until next time, “Jumpman, Jumpman,
they gave me my own collection, woo!”
P.S. OK, I may have been listening to
the new Drake and Future mixtape while typing this. Still working on
my sign off! I’ll get it eventually.
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