ESTABLISH YOUR PERIMETER NOW, DAMMIT

The 24 season premiere. Starting Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern Thigh Wound Time. Two nights, four hours. God knows how much senseless violence. A lot, we hope.

This blog will be blogging it. Be here, or be a sphere.

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[Hammond Rye]

*Drinks*

[Meanie the Blue]

Can I be a cone? My mom always said I was different.

[ArcticAl]

I can't wait. I have to go shoot someone in the thigh. Or drink a shooter as Dave did say the maguc word, Perimeter.

[Erb's Point]

Apparently in this season, Jack Bauer feels remorse for his senseless acts of violence. I am surprised the writers can't help him thwart the enemy of guilt. I am for moral relativism for this season of 24.

[queensbee]

sorry. this is where we parts company. hope you enjoy watching it, i'll probly be watching cspan or home garden....

[Danny]

Is Jack about to shoot the Washington Monument?

[Steve (The 24 Guy)]

And, Tony will be back from the dead (as we've seen in the commercials)!

This gives me great hope for Edgar.

[Allen at Division]

Don't worry, at Division we control the FBI also, and are ready to send many mindless, stick-in-the-butt, plot-slowing bureaucrats to replace the inevitable moles and soon-to-be-casualties that normally supervise Jack...

[wiredog]

24? Is that one of those TV shows on TheCW or MustSeeNBC? Or one of the quality channels like BBCAmerica?

I only watch BSG. The final part of the 4th (and last) season of which kicks off next Friday.

[Steve Haller]

I like Jack Bauer for Postmaster General, if only because no one goes postal better than our Jack. (Gregory House for Surgeon General as per the in-text link is good too.) But c'mon people, send all your friends a 24-style Sommeecard from this site; scroll down, there are 4 groups of cards in all. Let's get everyone on board the new season!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Eastern Time.

phooey.

[Cat R]

queensbee, c'mon and blog along! Not a 24 fan, but I live-blogged for the first time recently when the preview thingie aired and it was a blast. I plan to have my laptop plugged in with an extension cord in the TV room so I don't have a battery emergency like last time.

God, I am a geek.

And Dave, thank you for not posting any more toilet articles today. Roto-Rooter™ is here in my house today, clearing out tree roots from the main sewer line that caused a nice backup in the basement when my husband took his shower this morning.

To summarize: I am trapped in the house with the plumber, I have not gone to the bathroom since 6am this morning, and the nice man downstairs just told me that when he is finished, and he puts the magical root-killing foam in the pipes, that I will not be able to run any water for 4 (that's FOUR) more hours. Starting at exactly: not yet, 'cause he still has a little more rooting to do.

I am seriously thinking that one of those gadgets in a previous thread would come in awfully handy right about now.

o_O

[Steve Haller]

Cat, you just make sure the nice plumber can find everything OK...

[pogo]

Cat - Remember, flushing can be postponed, IYGMD.

[Cat R]

*takes notes*

[Cat R]

Funny thing is, as he's working, he has me running the bathtub water, the sink faucet, and occasionally flushing the toilet.

I'm in hell.

[marfie]

Oh Cat, I've so been there. Our sewer line backed up into our shower a couple years ago (twice) and it was utter h3ll. Hang in there and remember that a nice bloody mary makes anything bearable.

QB - I pass on the 24 live blogging myself, but it is worth reading it the next morning as the comments are truly hysterical. Dave has hissy fits in capital letters all over the place. Last year, I did join in on the Academy Awards live blog, which was a blast until the bloody b@stard 'bot threw me out.

[tw]

I'm so glad the new season is finally here. I've been on the edge of my seat for many, many months waiting to see how they resolve the ongoing Chinese subplot. I sure hope they take the time to explain it all the way through this season!

Oh, and that they resolve the Jack and Audrey subplot, too!

Sincerely,

Edgar's Mother (I somehow survived the bomb blast and spend all of my days watching quality daytime TV and, of course, '24')

[Tori Lennox]

I can hardly wait! I wonder if my brother Tom will make any appearances this season since he's back pretending to be a physics professor on Numb3rs....?

[tropichunt.com guy™]

I'll be here.

[Siouxie]

Andy, I'm establishing a perimeter around Mianus too.

*DRINK*

[Layzeeboy]

Things to do Sunday.

1. Watch the Iggles kick some Giant @ss
2. Live blog 24

Check.

[Not My Usual Alias]

Cat R --
Once he's done, there's a lot to do at the public library iykwim. The most frequent question at the reference desk is "Where's the bathroom?"

[jon]

And with the new toilet diaper, none of use will have to get up during the show.

[Trixie in TX]

Ms. Cat, I'm sure if you go behind a tree, noone will mind, and heck, when you gotta go, you gotta go!
I know my cat doesn't care who looks at her when she goes.......

Anyway, back to feeding on 24 input......

[Meanie the Blue]

Iggles will be quite Edgar-esque by 4pm Eastern Thigh Wound time, Layz.

Better stick with 2.

[ron]

Since my one channel is going away into nether world at 1630 hrs Sunday,I won't be joining you.

[Braniff]

ron, Maybe Jack bauer's mission this season is to stop the demise of analog TV.

[CJrun]

Thanks for the PERIMETER, Dave; I really need some dog hair after staying up late to watch my NATIONAL CHAMPION FLORIDA GATORS!

*dodges thigh shots and thrown chairs*

[Margaritaville]

I am more than ready for a little gratuitous violence, myself.

[NotSoShyJan]

Oh yeah. Congrats, CJ. It was quite easy to watch it on the Left Coast.

[CJrun]

He' ya go, ron; sumpin' y'all can watch when the tv goes kaput.

(mebbe; iffn I got that link right)

[Annie Where-but-here]

Loved it, CJ. Thanks. They're quite good pickers.

[silver]

My tv already went pbbbbbtttt... I ain't watchin' nuthin'. And, since it is also my computer screen (this being the significant other's, who cannot SURVIVE without gaming, I have been told) I will be not blogging too. Whee!

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

Keifer was on the local station this morning for about 1/2 hour talking about the premier. I am so ready for this!!!

[pogo]

CJ - I think I'm in deep fertilizer. I could take about a week of that life.

[CJrun]

pogo, I hear ya.

That is my goal, in life. I have been lucky enough in life to find a gal that allows me to pursue that dream, with enthusiasm. Except for cold, I am informed. I asked crossgirl if we were again going to an event she dragged me to last year, that I really enjoyed, and she explained in many paragraphs: No. No cold. Not now, not ever.

That just means I have to be smarter at providing the heat and comfort thang, not that we can't go. Basically, she'd be happy as a clam as long as she wasn't cold, or unreasonably uncomfortable. Heck! I can handle that!

There are certain spaces in the world in which you can freely swap lies; this is one of them. Being in a swamp (that river is actually a swamp) or a tropical lagoon is another. Being in the High Plains out where Wyo lives is another example, but I have my marching orders: no cold is allowed.

(without adequate preparations)

[oneblankspace]

This was comment 24:

And with the new toilet diaper, none of use will have to get up during the show.

Posted by: jon | January 09, 2009 at 03:15 PM

(finally, they are not displaying the eMail address with the comment!)

[Margaritaville]

Okay, something really freaky is going on with the blog on my computer. No names are linked, only the dates by the name and the dates are in bold blue and when you click on them somethin' weird happens!

[CJrun]

And this, I only post because I hope people find it a bit uplifting.

There is no situation, today, in which ordinary folk ain't going to get up and cover yo' @ss. Not any more. We have stopped, stopping ourselves, and not getting involved. In California, even my First Aid certificate can now get me sued. That's just fine, California, you can take my floating river shack, right where it sits. Come get it!

[CJrun]

Not quite true,obs and Marg; Annie is still linked to her Typepad account, so we could spam her (or other Typepad people, butt I would recommend her).

[Margaritaville]

That is a good story CJ. Anyone who would sue someone for trying to come to their aid will surely have some Karma coming their way too.

[Cheryl Howard]

Update--we can no spam Marg and the time she posted.

[Cheryl Howard]

no= now

[Steve (The 24 Guy)]

One thing I wonder about that picture in The Blog's posting... How are they going to deal with a Jack Bauer that's as tall as the Washington Monument?

[Annie Where-but-here]

Yeah, Steve - Jack's compensating for something in that picture.
"I was in the reflecting pool!"

CJ - 1st aid cert won't get you sued - improper aid should. I got my chin sliced wide open by a 'good samaritan' who was freaking out after I had a car accident. She grabbed my parka hood and zipped it up, catching my chin in the process. It was, btw, my only injury.

OT - just saw 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood's new flick. I highly recommend it. Best Eastwood ever. Really.

[Annie Where-but-here]

While CJ's on the subject, that 'not helping no more' attitude is classic, grumpy-old-man, right-wing mierda. My dog and I were attacked by two pit bulls. Yuppie neighbors and a Hispanic landscaping guy driving by saved us by beating the dogs with shovels. I've stopped at accidents and given first aid. That 'good-ol-days' whining is basura.

There are still many 'Eastwoods' in the world. Their stories just aren't as media-friendly as the spineless types.

[CJrun]

Warning, CJ rant coming\

'ville, I'm a first responder. That means I'm supposed to be covered, as a Good Samaritan. Long before an EMT ever gets to a situation, I'm supposed to help people, and be protected from suit.

Trust me, nobody is beneath collapsing buildings with me, or sinking boats, or fires, when I'm trying to drag somebody else out. I'm supposed to be covered, butt not anymore. The brilliant people of California have now made me liable. What a horrible State is California. California should just go ahead and secede. The day I get sued by somebody, as little as I earn, for trying to help somebody, is the day before I stop going into fires, or water, or whatever, trying to save somebody.

I have been a Lifeguard since I was a teenager and I am now almost 50. I am skinny and strong, and sometimes the only person that can wiggle into a crawl space, or a fire, and pull somebody else out; there's only one other person in the company I work for that is nearly as strong and skinny, and fearless, and his shoulders are broader; he can't wiggle into spaces I can. No EMT (for the most part) can, and we are among the last resort, in things like collapsing buildings, buildings on fire, or sinking vessels. I will dive into anything, if I can save somebody, but I never dive for recreation.

The new reality is that I am no longer protected under the old rules, because of California.

Nobody, that I know of, dives into what I dive into, commercially. No Dive Instructors, no former Navy SEAls, nobody. I've had a former SEAL raise his price to $200/hour, just to stay with me on a bad job, while I earn $20/hour, when I'm charging for commercial work. I don't work for profit, except for the profit of the company I work for, not for me.

If I can't help somebody and be protected from a lawsuit, as a government employee would be, then I don't have much to be sued for, butt I won't be allowed to work. Under the new rules, based upon the lawsuit in California, even if I wanted to help somebody I would never be allowed near an emergency.

Of course, I would just flip everybody off and do it anyway, because I don't believe in any of that nonsense and wouldn't even show up in court. My understanding is that I would need socks. They don't let you keep your socks, in jail, butt people could send you socks that you're allowed to wear, and jails are kept very cold.

I fight the machine every day, which makes me an annoying biologist. Somedays, I think the only biologist in the Country that fights the machine.

However, ask yourself: should you not go in that building because the rule says so? Should you stop what you are doing to try to track down an animal and save it, because the rule says so?

In 20 years (now, officially, in 2009) of being my crazy self, never, ever have I been killed or an employee of mine been killed (knock wood). In those same 20 years, I have been repeatedly pulled in on other people's projects when they had killed people, and asked to figure them out and what had gone wrong. It's always simple: you f@cked up.

I am never allowed to f@ up, because I am a biologist. An Engineer or an Architect can always fall back on standard practice, even if it may be wrong, but there is no standard practice amongst life scientists; that's why physicians get sued so often.

In 20 years, nobody has ever, even just a little bit, been killed on one of my projects. Nobody has ever even been seriously hurt.

When I was just a kid, in 1984, a friend was killed when a heavy steel cable parted and did bad things to his head, but he was a Soviet and the Captain wouldn't even let me call the States. It wouldn't have mattered, either way.

Apart from that, California can kiss my toukas, as long as they don't strain their neck and sue.

BOOGER!

Thanks, California.

(OK, I'm in a mood, after wrangling all week over something that should have been simple)

[CJrun]

Annie, I don't buy it. I see the camel's nose under the tent and lawsuits coming.

Let's put it this way: How do you think corporations are instructing their employees on the new interpretation of the Good Samaritan Act?

Easy answer? Stay out of it.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Yawn, CJ. I was injured by a 'good samaritan' blatantly in the wrong and there was nothing I could do about it. Law goes both ways. They don't stop you from helping. They just want you to know what you're doing. You're misinterpreting the law by using an extreme case, just as you want Cali to secede. Balance your judgment as well as you balance your beer, you silly peninsula-head, you.

Now, get off my lawn!

[CJrun]

I'm not misinterpreting anything; I'm trying to explain how corporate attorneys are changing the normal rules, based upon risk management. Plus, I'm in a pissy mood, having fought all week long on some minor rules changes on a biology issue...as being enforced by kids that are biologists that I trained.

I want to be in the "Hey, look at that!" phase of my career, but I have to go thump some dumbasses and be unpleasant, instead.

They're not dumbasses, really, they just need to be edjumacated, and I really thought I was past that part. I quit that job, last December (2007) and I keep getting called back to try to straighten things out. Complete changes have been made in protected species' law, since then and I suppose I had hoped they would work it out, amongst themselves. They have not.

I'm grouchy. I'm trying to finish up a project from 2007, that dragged into 2008 and 2009, so now I'm having to iron out stuff with new sets of rules that the kids should really work out, amongst themselves. I'm tired of fighting; I really make no money from that stuff, I left that company over a year ago and...see how boring this is?

This is not biology, this is Dr. Phil. Someday, I will actually be freed from all of my old projects. I used to not mind being called back in on old projects, butt now, I know they never go away; there is no finish line. The kids never step up and say, "I'll take this," not any youngster I have ever trained.

So, I'm grouchy. Plus I really wish I had some Pillsbury cookie dough, so I could bake it and the cookies were ready to chew on.

[insomniac]

pssst,...kiefer is on letterman, now (in the east)...

[PirateBoy]

You *bake* cookie dough? No wonder you're grouchy! Baking removes most of the taste. And will all the germs killed from the raw egg whites, there's no risk involved. How boring are cooked cookies? :)

[Siouxie]

CJ? are you, by any chance grouchy??

Just askin'

*sends CJ some beer*

Also...CJ said "I will dive into anything". hehe

[Siouxie]

psssssst...thanks, insom!

[PirateBoy]

Is it too early to start a topic called >Giants Return to Play in SuperBowl?

[pirateBoy]

That should have read Giants Return to Play in 2nd Straight SuperBowl, and Win by Defeating (insert any team name here, except UCLA) 27 to 2.

(If they played UCLA, the Giants would have won 24E08 (Integer Overflow/Stack Halted) to nothing.)

[Cat R]

Slinks in®

I've got nothing to add, except that I love plumbers.

I promise not to take working indoor plumbing for granted ever again.

*gathers scented body wash, fluffy towel and pricey hair conditioner and heads for the shower*

Aaahhhh....

[ron]

Dear CJrun-----I think the Moron Brothers have it all figured out.I could eat that catfish for supper,but they can keep the carp.

[marfie]

*packs up a box of gumballs to send to CJ*

[largebill]

"We don't have enough time. Damn-it."

[Renee (the First)]

People are always asking me if I watch "24," and then I have to explain, "No, but the bloggers on Dave Barry's blog always liveblog it, and it's really funny, so I follow along, so I've read all about it, but I've never actually WATCHED it . . ."

And by then they're looking at me funny. I have no idea why.

[bluecat]

Now what about the enhanced finale next week....

[Annie Where-but-here]

Renee, I say the same thing, but people look at me funny before I even say that. Could be one of a million reasons.

[PirateBoy]

24 - minutes of actual commercials, 36 minutes of actual drama, 6 minutes of an actual plot. No, I'd rather have "Junkyard Wars" or "Prototype This".

[Hugh Ken Knott Bea Sirius]

Check out these videos I made in honor of tonight's return of 24:

The Best Moments from 24:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frWYbVic6fA

The Top 10 Reasons Why Jack Bauer is on trial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiUz6z3WvWk

[jesme]

At last! Let the savagery begin!

[jesme]

Can we get Jack to torture that guy Dan Hesse who does the Sprint commercials? I can't stand the sight of them. Please, Jack, make it stop!

[kdiggity]

Instead of liveblogging episodes, why not live-tweet on Twitter?

[Raoul]

The Thigh's the limit!

[Steve (The 24 Guy)]

kdiggity, no record of the blogging... people like to read about it, after the fact.

[The Dead Henchman]

Ready to rock! And, of course, die...

[ccaputo24]

T -30 :)

[Raoul]

It's RED!

[Courter Caputo]

He's aged well! Looks like he did in the 70's

[Raoul]

And let the record show Jack Bauer stuck he size 12 foot up the good Senator's ASS

[Shelly Volante]

Isn't she "The Bowler" ?

[fulldroolcup]

Janeane Garofalo as the new Chloe!!!!

Nooooooo!!!