Saturday, I managed to drag my slightly hungover self out of the house for the US vs. Ghana match. Such a bummer. They really did outplay us, but I feel like if we could have held to that draw a little longer, Landon Donovan would have won a shoot out ( Read more... )

Sunday, drove to Charlotte, lunch at a Sonic off the highway, dinner at Waffle House, which has really gone down hill: fake butter, fake syrup, limp waffles. Monday, woke up just outside of Charlotte. On the way South, we stopped at a town called Belmont, NC where we visited a fantastic hardware store and an excellent Botanical Garden. The ( Read more... )

Well, we're back from the trip, which was great, and I'll talk about that soon, but first I've got to talk about the final episode of Lost ( Read more... )

Well, that was a poor episode of Lost this week. No real plot advancement, no real revelations. And it sure was a bad time to not be white on that show. Poor little Kate can have a gun to her head, get shot in a fight, almost bleed to death and almost drown, but of course she's totally fine at the end. Our two Koreans and our Iraqi on the other ( Read more... )

Watched the premier of Happy Town last night. It's the guys who ran the American version of Life On Mars (which was actually a pretty good show) and October Road (which I never saw) doing a sort of Stephen King TV movie / Twin Peaks mash-up. It takes place in a supposedly small Minnesota town, although it seemed like a pretty damn big town to me ( Read more... )

So, K. and I have been loving HBO's Treme from The Wire creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer. It's an excellent character-driven show with some amazing actors. It takes place in New Orleans three months after Katrina and follows individuals living in or somehow connected to Treme, which is one of the city's oldest neighborhoods and a center of ( Read more... )

Well, that was a busier than average episode of Lost this week, eh ( Read more... )

Forgot to write about Lost this week ( Read more... )

So, as part of my newly-forged dedication to writing every day, I've been watching less and less and television, which of course can only be a good thing. But unexpectedly, I find that the less television I watch, the lower my tolerance for mediocre television gets. I used to be able to happily watch almost anything that was on, but now more and ( Read more... )

Well, the new Doctor Who was everything I'd hoped for and more. If you're looking for criticism, read elsewhere for I'm just going to rave ( Read more... )