Last week's 4-2 not top 8 performance at PPF with Amazons was kind of a bummer, so I've started gathering the cards for a Gravekeeper deck. I haven't played to the meta since Glad Beasts so this should be interesting. Also, Pojo is full of cheapskates.
The image that comes to mind when I consider my summer to this point is somewhat blurry. As the days run together everything melds into an distinguishable blob of Wendy's, Netflix, and bike rides, with two freeze frames in the form of visits with Brianna.
Family Guy is a ripoff of the Simpsons, this much is understood. The only real difference between the two is that it took the Simpsons fifteen years to stop being funny, whereas Family Guy only really had about three good years. As King of the Hill ends, my incessant need to watch an animated TV family has caused me to turn to American Dad. While most viewers know this show as "Seth Mcfarlanes other show," American Dad is clearly superior. Unlike Family Guy, cutaway humor is extremely minimal, and pop culture references are actually clever rather than scattered carelessly as a way of disguising the fact that there are no actual jokes at any point in the episode. In fact, the vast majority of pop culture references come from a single character: Roger The Alien. This is a brilliant move on the writer's part. In Family Guy, every family member, and even the supporting cast, constantly make the kind of remarks that only a TV junkie who does nothing all day but sit on the couch and flip back and forth between Nick at Nite and TMC would make. Roger the Alien is exactly this kind of person, and that's his whole shtick.
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