Quick Thoughts 7/26

• Morgan Spurlock’s TV series, 30 Days starts up again tonight on FX.  This season he tackles the issues of immigration, outsourcing, and abortion, among others.  For the season finale, Morgan himself spends thirty days in jail.  It should be interesting.
• Training camp for the Bears opens up tomorrow.  Finally I’ll have something to blog about!
• Yesterday I was reading a blog that mentioned The Great Space Coaster.  Holly had never heard of this show, but it was one that I watched a lot of as a kid.  The theme song often pops into my head, and thanks to youtube, now I can watch the opening and closing credits whenever I want.  I remembered Gary Gnu quite well, and Baxter looks a little freakier than I remember, but I totally forgot about Speed Reader, who looks a lot like Adam Carolla.
• I recently watched both Saw and Saw II, after borrowing them from a friend.  I don’t watch many scary, suspenseful movies like these because Holly refuses to watch them.  While I was watching them, she kept telling me to turn the sound down because she could hear the screaming upstairs.  Anyway, I really liked the first one, and thoroughly enjoyed the twist at the end.  Saw II, on the other hand, I found very irritating.  The characters trapped in the room were just idiots and I was getting mad at them for being so stupid.  The twist at the end of this movie wasn’t as good as the twist in the first movie, but it did salvage the movie enough to make it not a total waste of my time.