Day: May 11, 2010

“Catch It and Keep It”: Coming to your ABC station…

Posted onAuthorcahwyguy

Back when I was in high school, the National Lampoon had a routine we loved to listen to: “Catch It and Keep It”. In this routine, large appliances were tossed off a tall building… you catch it, you keep it.

Guess what? ABC has a new idea for a reality show. Quoting from Curbed LA:

“ABC is casting this weekend for a new primetime game show called Downfall. The show will be shot on the roof of a skyscraper somewhere in Los Angeles, and gameplay will involve throwing shit off of that roof. There will be a huge cash prize, and the game format adds the excitement of watching much-hoped-for prizes head for the side of a skyscraper as contestants work against the clock to answer the trivia questions. If they fail at the game contestants will see what they’re playing for drop off the side of the building!”

Yup. Both cash and prizes will be tossed off the building. Catch it, and you keep it!

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Pasadena Playhouse: And Yet Again, The Subscribers Learn It In The Times

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Yet again the Pasadena Playhouse demonstrates their commitment to their subscribers by informing them of major news before it hits the paper. Oh, right they didn’t.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Pasadena Playhouse is filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. They are reorganizing, which leaves us subscribers as creditors. Will we get something for our subscription dollars? Will we even get a donation letter? Stay tuned to this station to find out.

(One wonders how much of their subscriber base will stay with them after this. We won’t. We’ve already moved our subscription dollars to the Colony Theatre in Burbank!)

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What To Do With Hawaii?

Posted onAuthorcahwyguy

As you probably know by now, we own a timeshare in Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii. We can’t use it this year, and no relatives or friends have expressed interest in renting the interval (8/22-9/5). So we’re narrowing in on our options. As always, I’m looking for opinions:

  • We can join Interval International ($89), and deposit our two weeks. We could then exchange those weeks for two weeks at a different resort (($139/week exchanged in the US). Alas, II does not provide a lot of information about how the service works online, so I’m still determining if it is worth the cost (***: please, if you’ve used II, let me know your thoughts). Lastly, if someone uses our weeks, we may have additional costs for cleaning our unit mid-interval.
  • We can attempt to rent out the unit, with no guarantee for success. There appear to be two Realtors that do this: Whalers Realty and Monte D. Fitts. Neither has responded to my inquiry about how that process works or what their success rate is.

So, what do you think we should do? LJ friends—please let me know in the poll below. FB friends—please comment with your opinion (no obnoxious poll applications here):

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