Stops in the Vast Wasteland Part II
Sometimes posting can be hard work, but the joy of writing often returns once the first few letters appear on the screen. The big trick is being consistant in the process.
So I'm just going to hit a few shows that have been on the docket as well as a smattering of other quick hits. Look at this as the scattershot thought.
This past weekend was a Halloween & Project time. That drywall kitchen project is finally nearing completion as I was able to get the paint down and most of the molding up. Just a few more nails and we will have our kitchen back after nearly 5 months of various states of disrepair. The morel of this story - drywall is not difficult in general, but a pain to execute properly and time consuming in an annoying fashion.
On the fun side, we actually got our pumpkins carved and some photos are up on the Picasa picture album. Holly and Sasha did the good ones, mine is the tenticle mouth. No suprise there.
Oh and the kids haven't gone trick or treating yet, although they did help in carving smaller pumpkins. Alya really got into the cleaning and cutting. Marcus just gnawed on the top of the pumpkin after pulling down most of the DVDs. Pictures will be up tonight in the same folder.
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In the realm of television, I finally got around to watching the new Christian Slater show "My Own Worst Enemy" (NBC - Mondays). While deleting the pilot from the DVR, I was a little torn about the show. The best description might be "24" meets "Chuck" with no charm and much lighter intensity. This is a show to let pass simply because it takes itself too seriously when the concept is so rediculous. Rent a Bond flick for better spy action, or Me, Myself & Irene for lowbrow (extremely lowbrow) split personality hijinks.
"House" (Fox - Tuesday) remains an extremely enjoyable show to watch. However, it seems to have broken a bit away from the medical mystery side of things to move into character study mode. The events arounds the patient are not as important as the events with the doctors and their lives. This makes the show not as much fun as last season, but perhaps that is just me. Still a fun watch.
The new show "Fringe" (Fox - Tuesday) follows "House" schedule-wise, but misses the mark a tad execution-wise. The show is basically the producers of "Lost" take on the "X-Files". An FBI agent gets caught up with mysterious happenings that revolve around something called "the Pattern" and a company by the name of Massive Dynamics. Each episode revolves around some sort of fringe-science - a telepathic cellphone network, cloning, shared memories accessed through regression, weird stuff in general. Fun show, but not outstanding.
"Bones" (Fox - Wednesday) is a show that brings back memories of the classic era of "Moonlighting" with the two leads having that same chemistry that Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd held in their show 20(!) years ago. Each show seems to be based on a body being found and the FBI bring the Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan and her team to figure out the crime. David Boreanaz (Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) plays the FBI agent who brings in the bodies and does the field agent work as Seeley Booth, while Emily Deschanel plays the title character. Boreanaz and Deschanel's interaction really make the show, but the supporting characters are put together quite well. If you've got room on the viewing plate, give it a shot.
Okay, that's enough tv for now. Then again, we probably all have too much tv already.
Be seeing you,
Jon
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