At least in Hollywood. The 61st Golden Globes nominations were announced this morning and Lost in Translation napped the nominations that it deserves.

• Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical – Bill Murray
• Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical – Scarlet Johansson
• Best Screenplay – Sofia Coppola
• Best Director – Sofia Coppola
• Best Comedy or Musical

I will be very disappointed if none or any of them win.

There never have been a Chinese contestant in Fear Factor (at least none that I know of).
1. Most Chinese women do not have large breast. Fear Factor seems to have a minimum breast size of D cup!
2. Most Chinese men are not morons, which most Fear Factor male contestants seem to be.
3. But most importantly the gruesome, nasty animal food challenge will not work for most Chinese!

Cow’s heart? Pig’s lung? Chicken feet? Cow’s intestines? Been there done that, got the t-shirt! A Chinese seeing those food will just think, “Yummy!”

From my previous entry, I talked about the problem I had with the second DVD of the season 2 “24” box set. And how quickly Amazon’s customer service response.

Well, the replacement box set has just been delivered to my apartment! All I need to do now is mail the old box set back and the postage is paid for by Amazon. This is what I call customer satisfaction! And if Amazon does not continue to make a profit then that is another injustice in the world.

Leah and I were just really getting into the 24 season 2 DVD box set when disc 2 failed to play around 6 minutes into the first episode. On inspection, there are 5 deep pits on the disc and no wonder my TiBook couldn’t play it!

I’ve emailed Amazon about it and probably need to return the whole box set in exchange for another one. The frustrating thing is that we can’t just jump ahead and watch the next episode like most TV series. So now we are stuck until we get the new disc.

I have faith in the Amazon return process because Leah had a recent run-in with a Amazon package went AWOL. After doing her due diligence (check with USPS, the neighbor, etc.) Amazon was very quick in re-sending the whole order with no cost and 2nd day shipping! Now, that’s customer service!

Anyway, at least this will give us a chance to finish off the Star Trek: TNG season 4 box set. Our plan is not to get the DS9 box set until we’ve watched the whole TNG series. Or at least season 6 like in real life TV schedule.

Update: Talk about fast response. I got a reply from Amazon’s customer service this morning when I woke up and they have already send out a new replacement box set on 2 day delivery, free of charge. Hopefully, we will receive it before the next weekend so we can take it on our vacation in Florida.

I blog about my dislike of the new Enterprise theme song but this, Enterprise Theme Song Must Go! Petition, I think is taking it a little bit too serious.