Today I had oatmeal for the first time. It was not as bad as I expected, though that's probably the maple and brown sugar talking. I feel so...fibrous.

( Dexter )

( Friday Night Lights )

( FlashForward )

( Fringe )

( The Office )

( 30 Rock )

( Dollhouse )

La la la, writing LJ post while waiting for White Collar...

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Dollhouse, 'The Public Eye' and whatever the second ep was called: ( Five things. )

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Speaking of unlikeable: oh God, General Hospital.

To quote one of the commenters at this link, who really put it best: "I weep. In between the vomiting."

( The sarcasm is strong in this one. )

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My current pre-bedtime viewing now consists of Star Trek: TNG and Frasier. It has been oh so long since I've seen any s1 TNG, and oh, flist, I had forgotten the hilarity. The painful, earnest, 1980s hilarity. (Robert Knepper was the guy Deanna was supposed to marry who instead went to live with the woman he'd been ~*~dreaming of~*~ since he was a child! Data used contractions like they were going out of style! Worf and Geordi had nothing to do! Wesley deserved every "SHUT UP, WESLEY!" he ever got--onscreen or from the viewing audience--and more!)

And then there's Frasier, which was appointment viewing for my whole family in its first few seasons. I've never really been able to stand Frasier or Kelsey Grammer, but I have always loved David Hyde Pierce (on account of his awesomeness), so that's been fun to revisit.

( FNL 4.5 - The Son )

Man, I think I"ve forgiven them for Season 2 entirely! Just this single episode made this show worth renewing for three more seasons!

So a friend of mine got me the new box set of Farscape for my Birthday. I've never seen the series but have seen SG1 so I know who Claudia and Ben are. I started watching it last night. I was tired and promptly fell asleep in the premiere episode but stayed conscious for the remaining episodes on the disk.

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The insurance info for my car finally arrived in the mail today, so I was finally able to go over to the DMV and register the damn thing.

No more borrowing other cars! I can finally drive my new car that's just been sitting in the driveway for the last week.

Here we go with another episode of HD Screencaps loaded from season 6 - edited Erika-style w/ only the best parts! All are from Blu-Ray & 100% logo free!




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Tomorrow morning, I'm leaving the white-sanded, dark-watered shores of California behind for some Kauai gold and turquoise. I'll be back on the 12th! Will be toting my MacBook overseas as a receptacle for the gazillion photos I plan to take, but don't plan on hopping online except to check up on weather reports - I will, however, do some tweeting from my phone. :)

2009 has flown - we booked this trip back in February or March, and now WE'RE LEAVING. I feel like Mulder in the X-Files pilot, except I lost ONE YEAR instead of 9 minutes. D:

It's hard enough for kids to learn how to find their way in this world, to navigate, as it were, the rapids of life.

Parents can not, must not, turn their unsupervised children over to cable television for guidance.

A recent episode of South Park, intended for adults, was apparently watched by middle schoolers, who didn't get the message that persecuting someone for some arbitrary physical characteristic is unjustified and stupid. "Kick A Ginger Day" resulted in middle school bullying of kids with red hair. Where the *frak* were the parents in this equation? How did these kids get to middle school thinking *any* kind of bullying is cool?

He's going to be in the South in late February. I'd like to see this man in person.

Yooooo!

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I'm sure I'm not the only Terminator geek out here who reserved the Blu-Ray at Blockbuster for the first day of its release. It was more entertaining than I remembered from the big screen.

I'm a sucker for the extras... (added the cut for courtesy).

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One of the doors on the main floor here at work has developed a creak.

Well, not so much a creak as a whistle. The door whistles at me whenever I go through it.

It sounds exactly like the aimless whistle of a serial killer meandering his way through the night, eyes fixed on his prey half a block ahead.

Tonight I interviewed a high school girl for admission to Rice. She came here from China last year, so her English was a little broken, but passable.

As we were leaving, I told her to feel free to e-mail me with any questions she had about Rice and such.

In a complete non sequitur, she said, "I don't know if this is appropriate...but you're a good-looking guy."

...I said, "Thank you." It was not appropriate! But it was amusing! Especially since, from my name, she had been expecting a woman.

So I'm attractive to underage Chinese girls. That's...something, I guess.

glasseseater: I could go for a high school girlfriend

spectralbovine: Oh my God.

I just met Knives Chau (17 Years Old).

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This past Saturday, I watched all of V and V: The Final Battle, which SyFy helpfully aired a while back. They were quite enjoyable! I was amused at how truly heavy-handed the Nazi allegory was...in that they fucking came right out and said it. Of course, it wasn't until then that I noticed that the Visitors' logo looked like a swastika.

It took me a while to identify all the characters because for the first hour, it was like, "Ah, it's the handsome white dude and his Asian sidekick. And the woman with big hair! And the other woman with big hair! And...the other woman with big hair! And the other handsome white dude! And the old lady! And the other old lady! And the old dude! And the other old dude! And the black guy! The other black guy! CHARACTER OVERLOAD OMG." I don't even know how long it took me to remember anyone's name. I have forgotten most of their names already. But I liked the heroine a lot; she was pretty cool. And the Korean sidekick. And Diana was pretty great, especially in the second miniseries, which was more action-packed and full of explosions.

I must say, though, that the infamous guinea pig scene was disappointing. The special effects editing was so bad! I know it was the eighties, but still. It took me out of the moment. Not that it isn't still a memorable image. What wasn't disappointing was the lizard baby. Oh my God!

I liked watching the rebel group form and grow and develop, this scrappy team of regular people who band together to defeat their alien oppressors. It was good stuff! I kind of want to watch the TV series.

But I am already watching a TV series! I am really digging the new V. I can see that they've changed a lot, but they've kept most of the basic elements (while introducing new ones that offer more storytelling potential). The med student became an FBI agent, and the journalist became a priest. I'm amused that even in the original miniseries, the Hitler Youth character was the douchiest douche in Douchelandia, except he was seduced by a hot guy instead of Supergirl. Anna is a very different sort of villain from Diana, and I like how the new series has been very coy about showing the Visitors really being eeeeeevil. The idea that they are of peace, always, is pushed much more heavily, whereas in the miniseries, it quickly seems to get to the point where you can't see the Visitors as anything but villains. You can take it slower in a TV series, so right now, they get to fuck with your head a bit.

The series will have a new showrunner when it comes back in March, so I wonder how the show will change. I haven't really had the issues with it that others apparently have. I think it's more solid and sure of itself than FlashForward. It's exciting and intriguing and has neat plot twists. The new showrunner wants to have an OMG moment in every episode, though, so I am all for it! What is television without OMG moments, after all.

Basically, thumbs up for alien oppressors masquerading as bringers of peace! Good story, however you do it.

Just because I need my Hot Tommy Fix....These are thanks to my friend Suzette who loves to feed my unhealthy cracktastic obsessions.