Farewell Inspector Thorne. You Will Never Be Up To Something Nefarious Ever Again. Jan 26 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey Twenty six half hour episodes, thirteen viewing days... why does it feel like I have been watching K9 forever? As of today I am done forever, although with some minor regret. For such an awful show, it sure ended well. Read more ...
All I Got From It Was Déjà Vu, And All I Got From It Was Déjà Vu Jan 24 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey We had a heck of a storm this morning, let me tell you. I mean, it was not a hurricane or anything, but it was the heaviest rainfall I can remember in quite a while. I almost used it as an excuse to skip the treadmill, but then I reminded myself that the sooner I got it done the sooner I would never have to watch K9 again. You know what's really tragic, though? Here in the penultimate episodes the series is finally stringing together some good stories. Read more ...
K9 Hits the Trifecta Jan 23 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey After hitting a pinnacle with Taphony and the Time Loop there was really only one direction K9 could go. And hoo boy did it go there. Read more ...
You Should Know Better Than to Work with Children and Animals Jan 22 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey Is it bad that I am counting the days until I am done with K9? Because I will totally be done with K9 in three more days... Read more ...
Bye Bye Birdie Jan 21 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey Nothing awfully exciting to report today. Had a good day at work. Did a hundred push-ups. Walked four miles on the treadmill while watching K9. Not a single one of those things is profound, it's just that kind of day. Read more ...
It Really Couldn't Be Any Worse than This Jan 20 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey I usually title these posts with a line of dialog from the episode I watched that day. Today's episode did not disappoint. By which I mean, of course both episodes were extremely disappointing, but at least they gave me a perfectly accurate title to use. Read more ...
Ten Thousand Push-Ups Jan 19 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey This ridiculous project has had a fair amount of ups and downs. The first year was pretty much a consistent free-fall in weight, and then I added strength training. I can't with a straight face look at that graph over there to the right and claim the entire bounce-back has been from building muscle mass, but at the same time I don't feel at all bad about finding a balance between how much I want to work out and how much and what I want to eat. I am not training to be an athlete, I just want to feel better than I used to. I have accomplished that in spades. Case in point: as of this morning I have now done a cumulative ten thousand push-ups. When I started I could barely do three. Now pretty much at any time I could drop and do twenty without breaking a sweat, and I consistently do a hundred (in five sets of twenty) during every other workout. I am damn proud of that, especially as a middle-aged guy over fifty with no sports experience. I got me some guns! Read more ...
Something Stinks, So You Blame the Dog Jan 18 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey I have been at this ridiculous project for nearly two years now, and K9 just might be the show that breaks me. I missed a workout yesterday explicitly because I just couldn't work up the will to get on the treadmill and watch two more episodes. I am not even halfway through it. The other day I contemplated other shows targeted to the same age group that I enjoyed better, and frankly Big Bad Beetleborgs came out ahead of K9. Sure, Beetleborgs is childish and cartoonish (as you might expect from a show that features bad knock-offs of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers teamed up with bad knock-offs of classic Universal monsters plus a ghost that is supposed to be inspired by Elvis but comes across as more of a Jay Leno riff). But at least Beetleborgs was entertaining. Here, just watch the opening credits, that will tell you everything you need to know about the show. Ok, so getting back to K9... Read more ...
I Dreamed a Dream Jan 16 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey Oh good lord, this series. I took Monday off because I was buried in work. I took yesterday off because it was my birthday, and my present to myself was to not watch K9. Today I was back at it. You want to take any guesses at what I thought of today's two stories? Read more ...
I ain't afraid of no ghost Jan 13 2019 Alistair Gryffen Darius Pike Jorjie Turner K9 K9 Mark 2 Starkey Four days of K9 down and nine days to go. Not that I am counting or anything. But this time around I actually have something to say about at least one of the episodes I watched today. Read more ...