Hi guys,
I rarely use this blog for matters of this sort, but trying to get my cable television to work is rapidly becoming my full-time job. My HDTV box doesn't work. I call Time Warner, and they're like, "Well, clearly there's a problem with your box." (Insert my friend Shannon, who, when presented with this problem, responds, "You need your box to work if you wanna get some play. Get it? Play?" She's funny.) My box was just installed a couple weeks ago, and I haven't done anything like drop it off my balcony in the meantime, so this is obviously their fault. "What can I do about this?" I ask. "Well," responds the helpful lady, "you need to bring it in and exchange it for a new one." This seems doable enough. "Except," she says, "we don't accept HDTV boxes in our centers. So you'll have to set up an appointment to have someone come in and replace it." This, of course, requires that I take time off work -- which I already did several weeks ago to have the first one installed. "Are you serious?" I ask. "Very," she responds.
So here's the question I pose to you, dear readers: What are my options? It seems very unfair that, in the year 2007, my one and only option for acquiring MTV is Time Warner Cable. I hear murmurings about IPTV, DirectTV, etc. I live on the Westside in LA. What else is available here? Has anyone had any positive experiences with a cable company around here? Help would be much appreciated. Leave it in the comments or shoot me an email at evilbeet@gmail.com.
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I rarely use this blog for matters of this sort, but trying to get my cable television to work is rapidly becoming my full-time job. My HDTV box doesn't work. I call Time Warner, and they're like, "Well, clearly there's a problem with your box." (Insert my friend Shannon, who, when presented with this problem, responds, "You need your box to work if you wanna get some play. Get it? Play?" She's funny.) My box was just installed a couple weeks ago, and I haven't done anything like drop...
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Alec Baldwin's rep has made a statement to Extra! about the angry message he left on his daughter's voicemail.
Via TMZ:
We've learned that on Wednesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner Maren Nelson heard the tape and temporarily suspended Baldwin's visitation rights. A hearing is set for May 4, where the judge could permanently deny Baldwin visitation or contact with Ireland [Alec's daughter].
Calls to Basinger's attorneys, celebrity lawyers Neal Hersh and Judy Bogen, were not returned.
Baldwin's lawyer, Vicki Greene, told TMZ, "Whatever happened yesterday was sealed and confidential. What you're telling me you've got you shouldn't have."
Alec Baldwin's spokesperson released the following statement to the TV show "EXTRA": "In the best interest of the child, Alec will do what the mother is pathologically incapable of doing ... keeping his mouth shut and obeying the court order. The mother and her lawyer leaked this sealed material in violation of a court order. Although Alec acknowledges that he should have used different language in parenting his child, everyone who knows him privately knows what he has been put through for the past six years."
Um, okay, Mr. Spokesperson? You do not rock at your job. It would be one thing if Alec himself had referred to Kim Basinger as "pathologically incapable" of something, but you, my dear, are supposed to be the one responsible for issuing mature-sounding statements to the press in the midst of what appear to be some very immature family court proceedings. Stop and think it through next time. />Alec Baldwin's rep has made a statement to Extra! about the angry message he left on his daughter's voicemail.
Via TMZ:
We've learned that on Wednesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner Maren Nelson heard the tape and temporarily suspended Baldwin's visitation rights. A hearing is set for May 4, where the judge could permanently deny Baldwin visitation or contact with Ireland [Alec's daughter].
Calls to Basinger's attorneys, celebrity lawyers Neal Hersh and Judy Bogen, were ...
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Reads the Publisher's Weekly review:
As the youngest son of six children, at the tail end of the (in)famous Baldwin brothers acting family, Stephen Baldwin has never done anything by ...
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