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Well That's Cool Classics - Ep. 1 "Buford Plaza"
This is from the very first ever Well That's Cool. In this, the pilot episode, Eric takes us to the beautiful Buford Plaza to eat at Mr. Bills Family Restaurant.
Taped 1-22-08
Kip: 16 seconds that will change your life
Last night I saw local celebrity, city councilman and host of TV's Great Day Tuscaloosa at Publix (the one campus). It got me thinking. A lot of people from Tuscaloosa know Kip as more than the man on Comcast Ch. 20 with the wicker set in the McFarland Mall.
To people who grew up in Tuscaloosa, Kip is their James Spann. Kip was the man in Tuscaloosa TV. He was THE weatherman at WCFT Channel 33. In the early 1980s, WCFT had the leading local newscast in western Alabama (with newscasts called "Eyewitness News")
The first 16 seconds will change your life...don't watch the rest of this video.
Scalia, The F word, Well That's Cool
Not only are we not ready for prime time, we are not ready for any tv broadcast. If you have watched any number of the podcasts from the Well That's Cool family of podcast you may have heard a four letter word or two or three. Thats because, we are not afraid to use the words. That is one of the main ways we are different from Suprem Court justice Antonin Scalia. In a recent 5-4 rulling the court "upheld the government’s power under existing law to ban the use on radio and TV of even a single four-letter word that is considered indecent"
In Justice Scalia's written opinion he "referred to the banned words as the “F-word” and the “S-word” but not go on to fill out their actual spelling. Justice Scalia also did not spell them out in his oral announcement of the decision." His written opinion, in a case dealing with uses of those four-letter words during performance awards broadcasts involving celebrities, took a swipe at “foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood.”
Wanted: Changes unwarranted
The would-have-been blockbuster, Wanted, starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie, came and went without too much of a to-do , at least amongst our bloggers and movie buffs locally, and I can’t really say I’m too surprised. While it was a decent action flick, it did borrow heavily from movies like the Matrix, the oft-forgotten gem, Equilibrium, and even Fight Club to an extent. But I’m


