28 April 2004  

Law & Order: More Cowbells

:: It is another late night. I am very restless. Just finished a lovely phone call with a good friend in Florida; it's nice to visit on the phone, with someone who lives far away and talk about whatever. Tomorrow I am driving to Jasper to attend the ALC, where I am co-presenting a session on blogs with Geoff.

:: This is hilarious: Cindi posted a link to The Cowbell Project, a growing database of songs that feature a cowbell. Inspiration for this idea seems to have come from the infamous and brilliant SNL parody of Behind The Music, about the recording of Blue Öyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper, which featured Christopher Walken as a high-powered record producer encouraging Will Farrell Will Farrell to play with more passion, advising him that "I need more cowbell"

:: Last night's episode of Law & Order: SVU starred Marlee Matlin as a researcher who is put on trial for helping someone commit suicide. While being interrogated, she tells Detective Munch that she "has a blog". What fascinated me was no further explanation is offered in this scene, i.e., neither Munch nor Tutuola asks, "what's a blog?"

It's another small piece of evidence that blogs have entered the mainstream of pop culture, and the term "blog" has entered the vernacular. The episode authors decided that spending airtime having Matlin's character explain blogs to the detectives wasn't warranted - fans of the show would understand, or ignore the reference.

Speaking of Law & Order and blogs, The Ledger is a blog devoted primarily to the flagship series at the moment. The site's creator is working on writing "detailed summaries for each of the 320 (and counting) episodes of the original series." When this is completed, he'll turn his "the 170 episodes of SVU and Criminal Intent I haven't written about yet." He's written summaries of at least 170 episodes from the original series so far. Having started in December 2003, that's a lot of work in a short period of time.

Jerry Orbach is leaving the original series :-(, but he will be appearing in the third spinoff, Law & Order: Trial by Jury., hopefully as Lenny Briscoe. The Gothamist was there when he filmed his final L&O scenes. Also referenced is this amusing article on being addicted to All Things Law & Order.

Posted by Randy at April 28, 2004 11:43 PM | TrackBack
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Hey! You wrote about me! I'm flattered....

Thanks for the conversation and the music. I will return the favour when you get back.

Now go have fun in Jasper.

d

Posted by: darcy at April 29, 2004 09:44 AM

hi randy have fun in jasper. I am trying to use your blog with my wireless palm treo. we.ll see hi do? cheers, Stepheb

Posted by: stephen abram at April 29, 2004 02:09 PM

A DJ friend of mine sampled Walken's "more cowbell" and made it into a track. It's pretty awesome.

Posted by: kelly at May 2, 2004 01:31 PM

Kelly, if you can get me a copy of that, I'd love to hear it. - R

Posted by: randy at May 2, 2004 03:24 PM

I think Jerry leaving is the 7th sign. And "more cow bell" made me snort!

Posted by: JenB at May 3, 2004 12:25 AM
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