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Now relegated to Blogblivion...Saturday, January 21, 2006
Serenity Finally
Which isn’t same as Serenity Now.
We finally watched Serenity last night. It was indeed good, if not precisely what we expected, even with my spoiler knowledge. It was sufficient to make us want to watch Firefly. At the time I boycotted it because Fox first moved Dark Angel into the Death Slot, then cancelled it specifically to make the slot - the death slot, of all things! - available for this new ohmygodjossmadeitsoitmustbeamazing show that sounded more silly than intriguing to me. By all accounts, it was great, but Fox made the decision to kill it ahead of time and started it off in the Death Slot to cut to the chase.
The Dark Angel betrayal is electrons under the bridge, and the buzz and commercials and trailers for Serenity weakened me. Plus I sympathized with fox so summarily betraying Firefly in turn. It’s a wonder it took this long.
Even though I already knew the secret of the Reavers, and much of the plotline, I expected something different enough that talk of a sequel made me think “how can they make a sequel when they defeated the evil empire and tied things up already?” The answer is they didn’t. They merely managed to destroy the Death Star, while leaving Imperial Destroyers intact. It was kind of different seeing Obi-Wan get killed when the Storm Troopers attacked the moisture farm. All they did was get word out for those who would listen that the empire is indeed an empire, heinously evil in its attempt to force good and make terrestrial angels of humans. Sometimes when all they are saying is give peace a chance, they are become death, destroyer of minds, reason, lives…
So. Serenity ended with a “that was good” and plenty of food for thought and appreciation of Joss Whedon’s libertarian - or should I say “human” - tendencies, but not worshiping the ground he treads up. It ended with needing to see it again to catch all the vernacular, speaking too softly, and rapid-fire dialog. I must say I liked the one about nethers getting twisted. Plus we like “Heidi ho” better than we did. Well, Jewel Staite, anyway, and yet Deb note that Heidi from Wonderfalls and Kaylee are clearly distant relations, or perhaps reflections.
Recommended. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth the bucks for the DVD. We found it didn’t hurt to have not watched Firefly, but as noted, it sold us on the idea of getting to know them better - there’s the vernacular again, and the characters and settings - by watching Firefly when we can.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Gilmore Girls
Another post before I head out to spend too much at Wal-Mart on the rest of the restocking the house project.
We’ve been watching a lot of Gilmore Girls lately, going through the DVD sets of the first two seasons that I got so insanely cheap a while back. It has resulted in things like dreams featuring GG characters and/or settings. It has also increased our native tendency to sound like them when we talk. Meaning the types of banter, references and such.
I’ve been thinking that Gilmore Girls has an element in common with Wonderfalls.
Wonderfalls was a perfect 13 episodes of the longest romantic comedy you’ve ever seen.
The Luke and Lorelai thread that runs throughout the series, starting earlier and more vehemently than I’d remembered, reminds me of that, even though it’s not exactly the same because it will have taken years to tie up and, presumably on that happy note, end the series. Which is why I am kind of glad Wonderfalls didn’t get to go beyond the season they’d filmed.
Speaking of that, in watching them on DVD, I find myself saying “that was the first season?” and “that was the second season?” There are things that, if I were to recount events from memory as best I could, I would have placed a season or two later than they actually happened. That also tells me I saw more of the first season than I realized. All this time I thought I’d missed big chunks I didn’t miss, at least not at the beginning.
For instance, Jess showed up in the second season. I would have sworn up and down he showed up in the third season. I still don’t like him, though I warmed to him some, and his recent guest appearance this season was a Good Thing. Not that I have to like the character or the actor to appreciate the monkey wrench he represented, delaying the inevitable Luke and Lorelai lurve match.
Anyway, my big question about the series is this: Where are the books?
We hear about what a voracious reader and buyer of books Rory is, and sometimes we see her reading or carrying them. Based on the bookish buildup of her character, their house should resemble our apartment in the many overflowing bookcases department. At least Max’s place actually looked the part, or close to it.
Since that really hit me, I haven’t made a special effort to examine every room they show as backdrop to be sure I haven’t missed anything, so I could simply need to look closer. Somehow I doubt they’re under the floorboards like Lane’s CD collection, neatly out of sight.
It’s very weird.
Even Sadie already has most of a shelf full of books. If she stays as interested, her room could be lined with them by the time she’s at Chilton in high school. Even with all the ones of ours she’ll also be able to read.
Finally, I am jealous of Rory’s Compact Oxford English Dictionary. (Hmmm… On Amazon the full OED is only $600 more than the Compact. I’d have expected it to be more.)
Saturday, January 07, 2006
The Book of Daniel
It probably won’t last a full season, because we liked it. Very amusing.
Friday, December 16, 2005
Rest In Peace John Spencer
Via Ith I’ve learned that John Spencer died today. It’s eerie that it was a heart attack, just as he suffered and nearly died of as Leo McGarry on The West Wing last season, and as it has been speculated he might suffer fictionally on the show to remove him as VP candidate, or perhaps later as VP, to create a twist and throw someone else the role.
He would have turned 59 in a few days, which is far younger than I’d assumed he was, and way too young to leave us.
It will be interesting to see how they handle this on the show, which typically doesn’t film as far ahead as some series do.
This site should have info, as soon as it’s available, on where memorial contributions ought to be sent.
Monday, December 12, 2005
It’s a Good Thing.
Martha Stewart’s daytime show has been picked up for another season. Yay!
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Ah, Christmas. Specials, that is.
This is funny, and not in the least because we were just talking about this the other night. We had Rudolph on (you know you’re pregnant when you can’t stop crying for the poor misfit toys) and afterward we got to talking about how different it is now that you can just pop a tape in. No waiting impatiently for the day it’s on, and no freaking out that we might miss something. Now if you miss it, you just skip back.
Sometimes it feels like we’re raising this kid in an entirely separate universe from the one we grew up in.
By the way, I have no idea why the site is so nightmarishly slow today. It’s on our list of things-to-try-to-figure-out, since it’s been dragging since the upgrade. Hopefully one of us will get a chance soon…
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Wonderfalls
In response to the update on this post, I just e-mailed Glenn Reynolds the following:
Tim Minear is right. We were hooked on Wonderfalls from the first episode, and it was too good for Fox not to summarily execute. It’s a wonder it ever made it to air in the first place.
I immediately described it as a twisted Joan of Arcadia.
We ordered the full season after it became available, sat and watched the whole thing in three sittings, in the intended broadcast order (Fox screwed things up by flipping a couple of the episodes, one of which was in some ways a continuation of the other), and it was great.
Yet I am not sure I’d want to see it go past a season. Why?
It amounts to the worlds longest romantic comedy. Warped and twisted and amazingly funny, but still at heart a romantic comedy. You can view the season and end it with a mental note of “and they lived happily ever after”
without ever needing to know more. Perfection.
Then I remarked how odd it was I’d meant to post about it after we watched the series, but instead I was saying what I thought in an e-mail to him. So hey, why not post it!
Wonderfalls. One of the best, funniest shows ever made. Buy the DVD set. It’s cheap for a 13 episode long romantic comedy.
Friday, November 18, 2005
Where No Sam Has Gone Before (Updated)
Hey, did anyone else look closely and notice an amusing touch in the third panel of today’s Day By Day?
Of course, it’s not real. It’s just a holodeck simulation.
Update:
Doh. Okay, what I thought I was seeing was a surreptitious, rather obscure Enterprise hanging in space, low on the Moon’s horizon, gone back in time to record the historical event.
What it actually is, there in white on black this time, but in other colors and varying locations on other days, is Chris Muir’s signature.
Hey, it was an amusing illusion. It’s just… that’s all it was.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Gilmore Girls
Whoa!
Who saw that coming? And I don’t mean anything to do with Emily, or the Rory situation being settled (yay).
If you watched, you know what I mean. If not, I’m not going to spoil it here, and we never did make our extended entries work. It’s like the plot twist to end all Gilmore plot twists.
Later, during House, I pointed out that in 11 years Sadie will probably be a lot like that kid on Gilmore Girls, but probably more so.
Speaking of Sadie, she startled me tonight by knowing what I meant when I told Deb “or she dropped it down beside her” in reference to some of her food in the high chair. In response, Sadie looked down beside her, reached down and lifted up some of the food she’d dropped on the seat. You’d think I’d stop being surprised.
At least it wasn’t quite as surprising this evening when she selected The Muppet Movie off the shelf, took the tape out of the package, went to the VCR and tried to put it in. She knows exactly what the VCR is for. One of the things we’d never have anticipated is the problem with remote controls. The TV remote is long gone. We have no idea what she did with it, so for the TV we have to use the universal remote we got in order to operate the DVD that lost its remote in the move from California. Not only is she fascinated with them, but she can open the covers and remove the batteries, making it all the more important to keep them on the highest shelf of the bookcase. I had no idea that “out of reach” was going to be so high and inconvenient for us.
But this was supposed to be about Gilmore Girls, not Sadie. Inescapable, I guess, with a future-Sadie-like character involved.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
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Sunday, November 06, 2005
Weather Guessers Guess the Weather
I’m pretty sure you all know this by now, but I have to say it again: I adore the Channel 7 weather people. (Pete most of all, for he puns the most painfully, but they’re all pretty good.) Anyway, lots of guessing about the upcoming winter going around, and their head guy says this:
What kind of winter will it be? Still too early to tell, but a couple of hints:
1. Big hurricane seasons usually lead to snowy winters
2. Warm October/Novembers usually lead to less than average snowfall winters.
3. Snow in October usually leads to LESS than average snowfall witners.Overall.. it looks at or below normal this winter, or certainly less snow than last year which had plenty (near 70” Boston)
Todd Gross
Which sounds a lot better than most of what I’ve been hearing, so I’m going to believe him, ok?
Saturday, November 05, 2005
Not Just ANY Happy Birthday…
This is the extra special birthday announcement… Deb’s!
Yep, it’s her big day. We’d probably go to Carmen’s, which we haven’t done since just before Sadie was born, but I was practical and bought groceries with the cash I had left pending my client’s check clearing and my being able to get more.
I got her a “birthday present” a few weeks ago, but I had something else in mind that has also been delayed by cash flow. Sheesh. Her requested present is that I catch up the dishes, which I don’t mind. It used to be easy to get a lot of them done while hanging with Sadie as she ate. Now she eats so fast!
And so much. Last night I got a pound of ground sirloin and made it all into three burgers. Sadie got her own, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 the size of Deb’s, which was about 80% the size of mine. Call it a couple inches or so in diameter and half an inch thick, covered with cheese. Served it with ketchup and half a bulkie roll. She devoured it. And a mess of homemade fries, which I made again because the potatoes had to be used. Perhaps a traditional “large fries” worth of them or a tad less. Heck; put that way, the burger Sadie ate was probably the overall amount in a McDonald’s burger, just thicker and less big around.
Was that enough? No. She also had a large glug of apple sauce and two good sized spoonfuls of pumpkin ice cream. She knows both those words; apple sauce and ice cream. But this wasn’t supposed to be a Sadie post, and there’s more, like the fact that she insisted on ceasing her play time in the bath, getting out and getting a diaper on because she knew she was about to poop, and like her knowing what “the remote” is and her fetching it for you if asked, and like her obsession with my hairbrush and wanting to brush her hair, and like her insistence last night on attempting to eat ice cream and apple sauce with a spoon, which in a first she treated as a tool rather than a toy.
The unexpected fresh burger - on a roll no less - and fries were kind of an unexpected birthday surprise for Deb, and she loved the Edy’s pumpkin ice cream. I noticed Peaceful Meadows had pumpkin ice cream now available on their sign by the road, so I thought I’d have to get some one day, even just a pint, so she could try it. I love that and egg nog flavors, both seasonal. Then in Wal-Mart I noticed Edy’s had pumkin. Turns out it’s spicier than I remember Peaceful Meadows being, but still fantastic.
This seems like a good time to mention Deb’s recent observation that there seems to be a generational demarcation in the form of being born before and after the first Star Wars came out. Interesting theory, no? That’s puts both of us in the pre-SW camp, if not in the same traditional generations.
But then, sometimes the traditional demarcations aren’t completely telling. At least, being a baby boomer isn’t. I am technically one, but am worlds apart from someone born in, say, 1948. You would expect that 13 year gap to put Deb and I worlds apart, yet somehow it doesn’t. Which could simply be an indication of choosing well.
Anyway, happy birthday to Deb, the Accidental Jedi, great blogger, Sadie’s cool if sometimes overwhelmed mom (Sadie’ll do that to you), my lovely wife. May there be so many more that we lose count.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
No Barrel Required
Sadie’s rubber ducky now has a name.
Bob.
Because it does.
House MD
I pause my work to observe… great episode last night!
One of the things I love about the show is their willingness to observe aloud what people are usually shy about saying, even if they recognize the truth, about various things. The celebrity charity ego doctor was only the latest example.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Greetings Gilmore Googlers and Fellow Fans
Rory Gilmore sex boat
Kind of cool to have them mentioning the blogosphere on the show, eh?
While you’re here, feel free to have a look around. Click the top title for the current main page, or click a category on the left. I recommend clicking baby pictures, personally, but your mileage may vary.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Rest In Peace Don Adams
I’m sad to see the news that Don Adams has died. I loved Get Smart when I was a kid.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
House
The premiere of House was good, in a “different” sort of way. They were trying harder than usual to make it a think piece.
Should I have recognized the girl with lung cancer? (Hey, easier to mention it here than to go look at an episode guide and then IMDB.) She looked familiar.
I was sure they would go for the angle of absolving death row guy. It’s cool they avoid simplistic.
The thing that really grabbed me was the mention of pheochromocytoma. Long time readers may recall that I had an MRI to rule out that as the cause of my insane blood pressure. I have pretty kidneys. I was surprised there was no mention of his blood pressure (that I heard anyway) being out of control, as that would be a more likely symptom than anything else. Especially if it’s extreme enough to provoke fits of unexplained rage and strength, far beyond mere inexplicable nervousness and anxiety.
So did you enjoy the episode?
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Absolutely Must Have
Not. Negotiable.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Serenity
There is a new Serenity trailer. I never watched Firefly, but I can’t wait to see this movie!
And speaking of Serenity, can you imagine Peter F. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn trilogy on film?
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Missing Ken
Re Jeopardy: Is it just me, or is it not nearly as much fun to watch some guy win 13 days in a row now?
I’m ready for this guy to hurry up and lose already. Sheesh.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Rest In Peace James Doohan
Via Laughing Wolf, it is with great sadness I relay the news that James Doohan has left us, joining DeForest Kelley on that most final frontier of all. I’d say Scotty was my favorite of the original crew.
Don’t miss Blake’s open letter to James Doohan, written in response to the news of his alzheimer’s diagnosis last year.
Monday, July 18, 2005
Hell’s Kitchen *spoilers*
So sad to see Elsie go, though I suppose it was inevitable. I think she probably had the most natural cooking talent of anyone in the thing, but she lacked the cutthroat attitude to contend with the competition and also, I think, the edge she would have needed to make it as the owner of her own place. I really hated to see her run out by the others like that, though. She took it a lot better than I did.
The good thing about this is that I don’t like any of the remaining contestants, so I can fully enjoy watching them try to destroy each other. My money is on Ralph to win it.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Hell’s Kitchen (Spoilers if you didn’t see it last night)
I missed most of the first hour of Hell’s Kitchen last night, between my “diplomatic mission” and cooking supper (which itself wouldn’t have been so bad, but I was also turning almost 5 lbs of excellent 93% ground beef, from BJ’s, into freezer fodder). However, it was an interesting couple of episodes. Poor Jimmy. As soon as he won the challenge, making the flambé, I figured he was a goner. Especially after he made the political choice of that weasel Michael to join him in the reward, rather than making the correct choice of Elsie.
The blind taste challenge was a great idea. At least they didn’t get their noses blocked too. Some of the food items were just bizarre. Ox tongue? Ugh.
It was interesting when one of them said parsnip for radish. Radishes are one of those rare things I dislike, though they were fun to grow when I was a kid, going from seed to product faster than any vegetable I know. I don’t know as I have ever had white radish. Maybe that tastes more like parsnip, but otherwise it strikes me funny to confuse the two.
I thought spinach leaf was a no brainer. No idea how Ralph confused it with romaine lettuce. In terms of texture, I’d think it would be easier to confuse with bibb or Boston lettuce, and romaine would be more like mature swiss chard (something I don’t like, even though I love spinach, and beet greens).
In the first episode, Ralph seriously dodged a bullet when Andrew talked his way from being safe into being the one selected. I missed a lot of it, but it seemed that a big part of the challenge for the episode was menu planning, and Ralph was the one who blew it and made the team’s work harder. However, you don’t say you did a lousy job cooking something because it was someone else’s idea. In a restaurant, you’re going to cook things you never chose to have on the menu, or that are not from your own secret recipe. Ralph seemed to have been humbled by the near miss.
The customers were funny in the second episode. “I don’t think she ever made a salad before. Yummy.” Despite her disappointment, I think Elsie dodged the mess that was the kitchen by making salads and flambés in the dining room. Once she got into the swing of it, she cruised along nicely, and she handled Mr. I-Can’t-Cut-My-Own-Lettuce nicely.
We’re rooting for Elsie to win.
We’re hoping Michael won’t. At least he didn’t manage to cause Jessica to get thrown off. Feel bad for him or not, it was time for Jimmy to go.
Monday, July 11, 2005
Yes!!!
Thanks, Jen, for reminding me that Hell’s Kitchen is on tonight! I’ll have to make sure we make it home by eight…
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Battlestar Galactica
Last night, Sadie insisted we had to hang out in the living room, away from computers. As I was suggesting we could watch a movie if nothing was on, Deb realized what she was seeing on NBC was Battlestar Galactica. Naturally we hadn’t seen it, except the one episode I’d watched ("33") because the makers released it online to intrigue potential viewers, because it is on cable. I figured it’d be a “someday on DVD” thing for us. All it took for me to see it was one of the best SF programs ever made was the one episode viewed on my computer.
So we got to see the last of the first season. Yay! Except it sucks because it was so compellingly cliff hangerish. Now we can look forward to seeing what happens next… someday when we get the DVDs of seasons one and two?
Good promotional ploy by the Skiffy Channel, putting these on mainstream TV and promoting the hell out of the new season beginning on Skiffy next week. If we had cable, or were willing and able to rush out and get cable, they’d have snagged us as never-miss-it viewers.
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Cooking Under Fire (spoilers, in a sense)
If you haven’t seen the past week’s Cooking Under Fire, this will give away who got 86’d, as well as perhaps other details you might not want to know. Then again, if you missed the episode, I am not sure there will be a chance to see it in the future, so who cares.
Before the episode even aired, I correctly predicted that Katsuji would be the next to go. Turned out there wasn’t even that much of a contest. The big surprise of the night was Sarah’s stellar performance, as I had her pegged as the alternative possibility if he somehow squeaked through.
At this point I think the judges want Katie to win, and she can get away with more than she might because she’s that good overall. They considered her slow speed to be extremely bad this episode, but that can be overcome in an actual work environment, making the same dishes regularly, knowing them by heart, flowing into a routine.
Autumn surprised me that she fell apart so much and let her nervousness distract her. I’d been more impressed with her to date. She and Sarah will have to step up in a huge way to have a chance.
But then, that is why the challenges vary. This week was cooking a specific three dishes, on a live restaurant line, called out as if they were normal orders, with minimal instructiions and no previous experience making each dish. In particular, I found Todd’s instructions how to make the most complext dish impossibly slurred and rushed to follow. Maybe you had to be there and what we saw was also the result of editing the footage. I found the calamari preparation fascinating. I had no idea you’d tell it was done frying by sound.
It appears next week is a creativity challenge. They each get the same, limited set of ingredients and have to create a dish of their choice. That’s tough too. I predict that unless she is completely heinous, Katie will not be eliminated, and it’ll be between Autumn and Sarah. Sarah, most likely, but it could easily go either way.
What do you think?
Sunday, July 03, 2005
I’d Like To Teach The World
Show of hands, or discuss if you will, how many people dislike, or find it impossible to listen to, the original I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing song by the Seekers, due to the association with the famous Coke commercial?
Do you have any other songs you react to negatively because they, or a variant, were used commercially?
I created a new playlist earlier this evening, with a selection of 289 songs that I thought would be good to listen to while I worked. I included that one, as well as I’ll Never Find Another You and A World of Our Own by the same artist (which is neither here nor there).
The list was playing randomly and I had gone out to the kitchen. After that song came on, Deb remarked how she hates it, because of the commercial. I was amused, but can also understand it. I think I was exposed to the song in the original form, before it was adapted, but I could be misremembering. At any rate, they at least were concurrent, so I have both associations. Yep, there I go dating myself again.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Cooking Under Fire *SPOILERS*
We usually watch Cooking Under Fire on Thursday night, but the timing and TV reception worked out, so we saw it tonight right after we all got home from the office. If you don’t want to know what happens until after you’ve seen it tomorrow night, stop reading and avert your gaze.
We’re increasingly convinced that Katie will win and deserves to. She seemed obnoxious at first, but has bloomed and become more personable, while also standing out as especially capable, versatile, and teachable. I still have a soft spot for Autumn, and she certainly stands a chance, but she doesn’t stand out the way Katie does.
So it was that Katie being one of the two weakest ones this week was nerve wracking. In the end, the judges made the right decision. They took the best food and a bold violation of the rules over lousy food and really a weaker-willed contestant in Matt. I’m sure he didn’t help himself last week, when he was blown away as supervising chef versus Katie. Katsuji’s dishes looked and sounded especially good this week, with only Katie’s really sounding better. I know nothing about bamboo steamers, except that such a thing exists. I could kind of see what Matt was trying to accomplish, presentation-wise, by serving his crisped fish in them. Presumably he should have known better.
The scenes from next week looks more like Hell’s Kitchen than Cooking Under Fire has to date. Apparently they will actually be on a line in a New York restaurant, making food for customers. Ouch.
If you’ve not been watching this, you’ve been missing out.
Monday, June 27, 2005
HK! *Spoiler Alert*
Anybody watch Hell’s Kitchen tonight? I’m not sure whether I want to punch Michael or hail him as a genius. I was totally unsurprised by Chef Ramsay’s decision. Chis thinks he’s way more brilliant than he actually is. Michael had better watch himself, though, because if he thinks his game-playing is going unnoticed, he’s wrong.
You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if Elsie wins this thing just because she seems to be the only level-headed one in the group. Jessica sees things in terms of friends or not, Michael is a schemer, Jimmy’s a mess, Andrew’s going to blow a fuse sooner or later, and Ralph is, well...Ralph. He’s not as on-the-ball as he thinks he is, either.
You notice how many of these guys smoke? Has to be a personality-type thing. (Which is why I think that businesses who won’t hire smokers are shorting themselves by the sort of type-A people you need a few of, but I digress.) Seems to be a correlation between the love of a high-pressure environment and the tendency to use tobacco. Not that I somewhat recognize myself in that description or anything. Heh.
Rest In Peace John Fiedler
In one of those crazy coincidences, John Fiedler, best known as the voice of Piglet, has also died. What a sad weekend in the Hundred Acre Woods (which I always related to, growing up in one myself).