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To smoke or not to smoke

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Swift Terror

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Ohio has followed in the "progressive" footsteps of other parts of the country and has completely banned indoor smoking. This includes such niche establishments as cigar bars. That's right, a place that is deliberating catering to smokers now has to ban it and put up a silly little sign that says No Smoking and has a hotline phone number on the sign to call to report violators. Yes, the narcissistic ninnies have made sure that whiners and tattle-tales can call a number to tell on smokers. Like running to mommy to tell on your classmate for doing something wrong. There was a case where a useless ninny called to complain about "Anthony's", a local cigar bar. This person, when queried, had never been to Anthony's and has no intention of ever going, she just heard that people were still smoking cigars there even though the ban had just gone into affect (or effect?) that day.

 

Thankfully, the ban so far does not include plays being performed at the Aronoff Center, plays which include the character's smoking on stage. They did have signs at every entrance explaining that there will be lit cigarettes used during the production. But fear not, I do not doubt for one second that this too will eventually be banned, as it is in New York City for Broadway plays.

 

 

I've noticed that the FOX show "Drive" hasn't been on in a few weeks. Maybe it's been cancelled or just put a hiatus. It's not that great, but I mark out for a 1970 Dodge Challenger with a Hemi 426 being featured in a primetime network show.

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I'm not a smoker, and I think cigs are a tax on the stupid. However, if a businesses wants to allow smoking they should be allowed. The only exception to this would be if they rent their establishment and the owner of the property doesn't want smoking. Also, if the stench is so bad that it affects other businesses, then I'd give a listen, too. Oh well, you people voted for this commie shit.

 

Better get your recorder ready.

 

FOX is bringing back the short-lived car-race drama "Drive," albeit for one night only.

 

The abruptly cancelled Tim Minear-produced series will return on Wednesday, July 4 for two consecutive hours, running from 8-10 p.m. ET. Those two hours will represent the end of the show's initial six-hour run, as well as the last two produced hours for "Drive" (i.e. don't expect an extensive DVD set featuring 13 episodes, because they don't exist).

 

FOX pulled "Drive" from its schedule on April 25, after only three airings and four programming hours. The series averaged only 5.6 million viewers overall and a 2.3 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. With the all-important May sweeps period approaching, FOX determined that repeats of "House" would likely attract a larger audience in the Monday 8 p.m. time period.

 

For the record, this past week's "House" repeat did, indeed, average a 2.7 demo rating and brought in 7.35 million viewers.

 

The 4th of July is typically one of the lowest rated nights of television of the year, somewhat mirroring FOX's decision to burn off the final episodes of "Arrested Development" opposite the opening of the Winter Olympics on NBC.

 

Additional "Drive" scripts have been posted on Minear's personal website.

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Wow, so it was cancelled. And now we get to see a half-assed conclusion, great. Oh well, not a big loss at all.

 

That reminds me of the show on last year about the 1980s teenagers and one of them was murdered by one of their own and the show played out in a timeline starting in the 1980s. They cancelled it abruptly, without anything being resolved. The show's creator tried to put the conclusion on the web so that viewers could find out who the murderer was, but the network banned him from doing so, pulling rank on him because they owned the rights, etc. Hopefully with Drive, they'll at least show who fucking wins the race.

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