Live Blogging the Miner Show! 7:00 – 8:00

Another episode of The Miner Show. Or, in this case, the Miner Miniseries.

6:59- Sanjay Gupta is talking about “miner concerns.” It was only when he countered that with “major concerns” that I understood how he was spelling it.

6:59 – TiVo wants to change to Glee. I’m still watching Glee? I don’t think so. The promos seemed to say it would be a Very Special Glee About Death. Wasn’t this show a comedy last year?

7:00 – Yes! Anderson Cooper will be hosting the Miner Show. This is what I want to know: Have these miners been buried deeper than any other miners? Is that what took so long? Is that why Chile is being so careful about giving them oxygen and medical care? Because in America this would have taken a week to drill and then the miners would have ridden up in a wire cage, not a NASA-built capsule.

7:08 – I’d like to see a graph comparing the depth of this mine to Sago and Queecreek. Come on. You have to fill in two hours.

7:10 – I can’t wait for you, Anderson. Going to research relative mine depths on Wikipedia.

7:15 – Oh. It really doesn’t compare. Queecreek: 240 feet. Sago: 280 feet. Chile: 2,300 feet. That wouldn’t make a good graph at all.

7:18 – A phone call from Brother Dave. I answer with “MINERS.” He is calling to alert me that miner rescue will be in two hours. I argue that the CNN screen text formerly said “two hours” but they revised it to “shortly.”

7:30 – You know, listening to CNN report on all the care and concern these miners are getting, you’d never guess they could have escaped if the mine company had installed the required ladder up to the ventilation system. Thus quoth Wikipedia.

7:52 – Oh, no. Is Larry King going to take over for Anderson? I hope not. What if Rick Sanchez hadn’t been fired? He’d be translating everything.

7:55 – Sometimes, when I’m bored during the Breaking News, I picture Worst Case Scenarios. So let’s say all five rescuers get down there, and then as they bring the first miner up, the capsule gets stuck. I don’t want to think these thoughts; they just come to me.

7:59 – Wait, what? Weeds is coming to TV Guide network? Will they show MJP’s naked ass like they did last night?

8:00 – Mph. Larry King. It’s October. Isn’t he supposed to be retired by now?

8:01 – They have a NASA capsule attached to a “winch-and pulley system.”

8:03 – Larry King is annoyed! This was supposed to begin an hour ago! Reporter explains we’ve got 38 hours of miner show ahead. Oh, well, that isn’t really “Breaking” is it? It’s more like Seeping News.

Hm. Well, then. Time to play my guitar and watch Mad Men (with occasional check-ups on the miners).