Comments on: Holograms, fancy maps, Anderson Cooper

By: TV Blog Coalition: Nov 7-9 : RTVW Online

TV Blog Coalition: Nov 7-9 : RTVW Online — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:30:09 +0000

[...] How was your election night? Dan mainly focused on Anderson Cooper, the fancy electronic maps on CNN and those crazy holograms that Wolf Blitzer was talking to. (TiFaux) [...]

By: TV Blog Coalition - November 7-9 | Daemon's TV

TV Blog Coalition - November 7-9 | Daemon's TV — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:33:52 +0000

[...] How was your election night? Dan mainly focused on Anderson Cooper, the fancy electronic maps on CNN and those crazy holograms that Wolf Blitzer was talking to. (TiFaux) [...]

By: TV Talk From Fellow TV Addicts » the TV addict

TV Talk From Fellow TV Addicts » the TV addict — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:34:15 +0000

[...] How was your election night? Dan mainly focused on Anderson Cooper, the fancy electronic maps on CNN and those crazy holograms that Wolf Blitzer was talking to. (TiFaux) [...]

By: sara

sara — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:46:31 +0000

I realized after leaving Whole Foods that I should have bought arugula to throw from the balcony like confetti. Elitist, liberal confetti.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:20:46 +0000

I love being a predictable urban-dwelling white female 18-29, as evidenced by the fact that I bought hummus and a blueberry pie from Trader Joe's for our gathering. (We didn't warm up the pie until the electoral count was solid.) Our party also watched that SNL bit where Fred Armisen plays with the giant board. "I can make Michigan bounce!"

By: sara

sara — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:05:46 +0000

I think the Tribe shoutout was a subtle acknowledgment that Obama's Harvard mentor, Laurence Tribe, may be his first Supreme Court appointee. Also, he spoke at my MS graduation.

By: mizzouglen

mizzouglen — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:56:52 +0000

I am totally down with the fancy maps. I just watched a wrap-up of the technology used on newsy.com and it went through all of the different maps used… it was like I had died and Galileo met me at the gate.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:37:01 +0000

I, of course, threw a party. However, Whole Foods has some secret agreement with some group and therefore has kept all Trader Joes out of Texas … so no Trader Joes.

Anyways, while watching MSNBC, one of my party goers said, “That column can’t be real. It’s too perfect.”

Also, you see the Jon Stewart shout out too William and Mary? “Go Tribe!”
http://www.hulu.com/watch/42491/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indecision-2008-americas-choice#s-p1-so-i0 at 34:10 And I agree with Sara about the daily show coverage – pretty boring. Luckily we were all a bit too drunk to care.

By: Marisa

Marisa — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:22:17 +0000

I’m with you on those holograms and Will.I.am. In fact, I’d rather see the reverse technology, where some kind of machine sucks Will.I.am OUT of television broadcasts. Fergie, too.

By: sara

sara — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:22:04 +0000

Ha! The Yellowtail wine at the party I attended was from Trader Joe’s. And drunk out of Solo cups. How did you know? We also had white chocolate–covered Oreos with the Obama logo painstakingly drawn on them in icing.

We started making bad Star Wars jokes as soon as the hologramming started up on CNN. I mean, that was just gratuitous. And as much as I like MSNBC for analysis and people who agree with me, I found the design of their coverage really cluttered and overdone and obnoxious. Seriously, why were there Greek columns? WHYYYY?

I went back and watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s show yesterday and I have to say I was disappointed. In the midst of a really hectic, important, heart-pounding evening, it seemed very odd to take a minute out to do their standard man-on-the-street-is-an-idiot sketches. We gave up on it during the party and went back to Obi-Wan Cooper.