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Tim Babb’s March Blog Madness: Day 21
Dear conservatives,

There was something I wanted to say on this week’s TANcast but we were having too much fun to get serious…

I want you to know, I don’t dismiss what you say in the health care debate out of hand. You raise valid concerns about tort reform, the debt, etc. I’m willing to acknowledge that the bill that passed isn’t perfect. A constructive debate that improved it would have been a great thing for the past year.

But could you please get someone from your party to publicly denounce shit like this…?

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Tim Babb’s March Blog Madness: Day 20

Today, I went to see the Star Trek Exhibit at the Tech Museum in San Jose with my friends Stephanie and (friend of TANcast) Geoff. While the exhibit was fun, it leaves you a bit under whelmed if you’ve been to Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas (Still waiting for that to re-open, by the way…WTF Vegas?)

But while there, Geoff and I got to talking about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine..specifically the “acting style” of Captain Sisko, played by Avery Brooks. He was over the top in a way that might even make Shatner jealous. And that reminded me of the following mash up I’d seen on YouTube some time ago: (you will be tempted to fast forward…don’t…experience it in full, as it was intended)

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Tim Babb’s March Blog Madness: Day 19

I got the impression that a few people thought my previous blog about Back to the Future indicated that I didn’t like the movie or that I thought the temporal paradox made the movie less enjoyable…far from it. The Back to the Future series is one of my all time favorites and so as a show of support, I shall defend this beloved movie from the criticisms leveled at it by the Now Playing Podcast. These criticisms are numbered but not in any special order. They’re just in the order I scribbled them down while re-listening to the episode and washing dishes. Also, there are 3 guys on the show Brock, Arnie, and Stuart…I didn’t keep track of who said what. So when I don’t name names below, it’s not to be insulting or anything. It’s just bad note taking. And now, you’ve gotta come back with me…

Criticism #1: Bad/Crammed Writing
One of the guys on the show contends that there is no joy in the way everything is set up and then ultimately pays off. I couldn’t disagree more. That is one of the major joys of this film. From Loraine’s story of the dance, to Doc’s story of the Flux Capacitor, even to Old Man Peabody’s pine trees…everything that comes into play finds a way to come in to play again to service the story. The guy says that he though every line “felt like homework,” I say this is a movie that rewards you for paying attention and doesn’t waste your time with an interminably long pod race. Read the rest of this entry »

Tim Babb’s March Blog Madness: Day 18

So one of my Facebook “friends” posted the following picture with the caption “Irony defined” attached to it:

Really, chuckles? You’re gonna go with “irony” on that one? I’m no Grammar Girl, but I’m pretty sure I can define Irony:
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Tim Babb’s March Blog Madness: Day 17
You might expect this to be St. Patrick’s Day themed…you would be wrong. It is a blog that is equal parts hating others and myself.

I was getting my wife’s car smog checked today (Aw yeah) and I was listening to TANcast’s new nemesis the Now Playing Podcast in the unused garage/waiting room. Then two old ladies drive up and ask me something (I couldn’t here over Arnie mocking Friday the 13th Part 3). Since the way the garage/waiting room was set up made it look like I was a grease monkey on a break, I pull off my ear buds and say, “I’m sorry. I don’t work here.”

Then the lady asks me where a certain hospital is. I had heard of it but didn’t know where it was. I asked her for the address and she gives me the directions from her house. (As we were not at her house, this was decidedly unhelpful). So she tells me a street name that I know but I’m not sure where it is in relation to where we were so I say, “I don’t know.”

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Tim Babb’s March Blog Madness: Day 16

Back to the Future is a classic piece of 80’s cinema. The sequels aren’t bad either, despite what those hammer heads at the Now Playing Podcast say. But the sequels don’t actually exist, because there is a sequel that we never saw…because it would be too depressing…I’m talking about “Back to the Future Part 1.5.” To set this up, we have to go back to the first movie…

Not as much Huey Lewis and antics this time

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Tim Babb’s March Blog Madness: Day 15
Ok…I’m an idiot. I will admit that. I leave my hat behind when I go places, I forget to charge batteries when filming videos…I am generally not one to be trusted with…anything.

So it’s no surprise that when I was giving my address out to get something shipped to me, I gave the wrong address. Not the COMPLETELY wrong address, I just hit the wrong number for my apartment so that my package got shipped to my neighbor’s apartment. Fortunately I figured this out after the package didn’t come for a few days. So I left my neighbors a note thinking I would never hear back and the package was lost forever.

Much to my surprise, my neighbor just came by, gave me the package (unopened or even tampered with, I must add), and was super, super nice about it. Not once did she say, “Hey idiot! Don’t send shit to our place!” …not even ONCE!

So thank you neighbor. In a world of douches you are the anti-douche…and you might just save us all!

Andy faces a job dilemma, Tim visits Santa Cruz, Andy makes his wife cry, the boys talk TV (24, Nip/Tuck, Numb3rs, House, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother), the boys bust Blockbusters new late policy, Noah ponders the runaway Prius, Josh From The Mickey Mouse Club (MMC) turns 33, the boys return to Chatroulette, and the mysteries of Lent.

[CONTENT WARNING] TANcast features mature language and immature hosts but is NOT a representation of the stand up act of Tim Babb. Listener discretion is advised.
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Tim Babb’s March Blog Madness: Day 14
The more astute of you (or the ones who check the site every day) may have noticed that I went a whole day without blogging yesterday. (Sure there’s a blog up NOW, but someone’s bound to call me on it)

I blame daylight savings time. I was all set to go and the n BLOOP it was tomorrow. Nothing I could do. I was a victim of a vanishing hour.

…ok in all honesty I was hanging with the wife yesterday and in a contest of wife vs blog, wife wins every time.

Tim Babb’s March Blog Madness: Day 13
We just finished recording TANcast 91 and this was something we didn’t get to until the mics were off. SModcast is now more than just one podcast, it’s a whole “podcast network.” With the addition of two new podcasts. One of them is “Tell ‘Em Steve Dave.” I put forth that this podcast is as good as SModcast once was.

Tell ‘Em Steve Dave is a podcast featuring Brian Johnson and Walt Flanagan, tow friends of Kevin Smith who have been recurring guests on SModcast. Walt, in particular has been there for two of the funniest SModcsat moments. And now they have a podcast where they do what Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier used to do.

You see before SModcast started being all about how great weed is and the wonders of Wayne Gretzky, it used to just be two guys telling stories. While there are still glimmers of that showing through on SModcast, it feels much different these days. Especially since it seems like Scott Mosier has been absent a lot lately. But based on the first few episodes of Tell ‘Em Steve Dave, it seems like this is a podcast that brings the random humor and comradery that inspired TANcast back.

So I have to say, I’m looking more forward to Tell ‘Em Steve Dave than the next SModcast.