Monday, March 19, 2007
Short TV Post
Rome is down to one last episode, Battlestar Galactica has been a little weak for abut 8 episodes and will soon end until next season, but another decent show started on FX called The Riches with executive transvestite comedian Eddie Izzard and slimmed down but slightly off putting Minnie Driver as Irish-American Gypsies (Travelers) who, with their children (one of them a young Eddie) assume the identity of a road dead couple and 'steal' the American Dream. Izzard is a wonder and Driver is superb as a woman with a severe drug habit and a loving but not quite trustworthy husband, trying to keep it together. I'm not buying it for a second, even with our bowling alone society, but it's a fun ride just for Izzard.
Today he and his new boss shot a short barrel Colt Python and a Smith & Wesson J frame, both in .357, into the photos of the faces of neighbors etc. as paper targets, and grouped three inches at about 30 yards (nice shootin', Tex) but it was all fake, of course, as the gun didn't even move a millimeter in recoil when he fired it (a sure sign of blanks--it's not really the insubstantial gas jet leaving the barrel which sends the gun back, it's the substantial bullet at speed which, leaving one way, drives the gun the other way. Something to do with Newton's third law). And the bullets came out the targets from behind, per usual.
Check it out, even if you hate films that glorify Travelers, like I do.
Today he and his new boss shot a short barrel Colt Python and a Smith & Wesson J frame, both in .357, into the photos of the faces of neighbors etc. as paper targets, and grouped three inches at about 30 yards (nice shootin', Tex) but it was all fake, of course, as the gun didn't even move a millimeter in recoil when he fired it (a sure sign of blanks--it's not really the insubstantial gas jet leaving the barrel which sends the gun back, it's the substantial bullet at speed which, leaving one way, drives the gun the other way. Something to do with Newton's third law). And the bullets came out the targets from behind, per usual.
Check it out, even if you hate films that glorify Travelers, like I do.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 10:05 PM 
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Thanks for the review. I will advise karen who is a big Eddie Izzard fan.
You didn't like "Into the West?"
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You didn't like "Into the West?"
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