Old School CSI and Other Stuff
Now that it's hockey season CSI gets bumped in favor of Caps' games. Thursday night I kind of wish I'd watched CSI over the Caps because they choked against Boston. Luckily, they found their game last night against Atlanta.
I watch the hoarding shows on TLC and A&E. They are kind of like a train wreck to me so I can definitely see how there could be a dead body in a house. However, hoarders know their stuff. I can see the body being buried under stuff but lying on top? I can't quite buy that. I can however buy them coming into the house and finding a very tidily dressed Mrs. Santiago because I've seen episodes where the person living in the house has a very neat and tidy appearance but their house is a disaster. I remember one episode where a woman was dating a hoarder (she didn't know he was one) and was shocked when she finally went to his house because he'd always been so well dressed. I do have to say that like Nick, after I watched these shows, I would go and empty out a closet or drawer or box in the house. However, on CSI it seems like they combined two types of hoarders: the type that can't get rid of anything and lets it pile up in mounds all over the place and the type that can't let go of memories or items of their past but neatly stack them all over until there's no place to move. My great aunt was like that. She had neatly stacked rows of items all over her house so that there was just a path to get by. I remember hearing that when she died, they couldn't get the stretcher back to where she was because the path wasn't wide enough. Anyway, enough about hoarding.
This really was a good episode from an old school CSI stand point and while it's a little sad, I did kind of like seeing the new trifecta (Nick, Sara, Greg) that has replaced the old (Grissom, Brass, Catherine). Ray was tolerable in this and I didn't remotely miss Catherine. If this is the kind of episode they can turn out without her, bye-bye Marg.
I liked Sara in this too. I liked that she and Nick bickered and that they made up at the end without saying I'm sorry. They both had their view and while I did think Nick was getting ahead of the evidence and was being kind of an ass, I thought it made him more likable. I hate when he acts like Mr. Perfect CSI. Or maybe I hate that the Nick fans think he's Mr. Perfect CSI so it was nice to see them have to come to grips with Nick being an ass. At least we got to see Nick and Sara make up, so to speak. We're either to assume Brass and Catherine made up or they are still mad at each other. Who knows.
One thing about this episode that kind of confused me at first was that the actor playing the son and the daughter's name were from the episode, "Harvest". For a second there I wondered if this was supposed to be the same family but I quickly figured it out.
On to Brass. The hand they show putting down a picture in front of the son wasn't PG's. That always bugs me. Is his hand not camera worthy? Was his hand not available that day? WTF?
Brass really only had two scenes in this episode and he didn't do anything noteworthy so I will now rant about the one thing that continues to bug the crap out of me: his hair. Or lack of hair. Who in their right mind thinks this practically-shaved-head look is good on him? I get that he's got a receding hair line. Judging from what I've seen of him in his early roles, he's probably had it since he was ten. But he still has hair and he desperately needs that hair to balance out the rest of his face. There's a close up of Brass where he's talking to the brother and he really does look pretty good (older, yes, but good) and it's because you can't see his hair. Please, please, please, bring back his hair. At this point, I would welcome the comb forward of S1. It's become that desperate.
Then again, I was telling spottedhorse that I believe the length of PG's hair is equal to his screen time.
One positive un-hair related thing that I will say: Brass looked good in the suit. I really liked that shirt and tie and the jacket itself looked to be expensive. Very nice!
Now onto something completely different.
I have three new favorite shows. One is Raising Hope. Seriously, this show is hilarious, mostly thanks to Cloris Leachman. One is Modern Family. This show is laugh out loud funny and all the characters are great but I have to say that it's Cam I love the most (Manny is a close second). Eric Stonestreet (formerly, Ronnie Litre, QD on CSI) won an Emmy this year and deservedly so. The last one is Parenthood. I love, love, love the 1989 movie with Steve Martin. It's a movie I can watch every time it's on. I knew that I wanted to watch the TV the minute I saw the previews. I can't say what it is exactly that makes me love the TV show so much but I do. Sure, there are characters on there who bug the hell out of me but that's to be expected with an ensemble cast. But there are some I just love to pieces. I think it's actually sets of characters that I love: Crosby, Jasmine and Jabbar, and now Sarah and Billy Baldwin's character, Gordon. I've never thought much about any of the Baldwin brothers but I could have a thing for Gordon. I hope he sticks around.
Tucker update: he's on new medicine for the spasms. It took me a couple of tries to get it mixed so that it goes into a syringe but I finally got it right and he's been doing great over the last couple of weeks. This is good because a few weeks ago he wasn't doing so good and I'd reached my stress limit and I'd decided that if he couldn't get better, I was going to have to put him down. I don't know that I would have gone through with it but his quality of life wasn't very good at the time and I couldn't see him constantly suffering through this. He was miserable and I was miserable for him. Thankfully, we seem to have found the right meds and for the last couple of weeks, he's been acting like a completely different cat. Honestly, the change is pretty amazing and it tells me just how miserable he's been. The vet also gave Tucker a prescription for Xanax so the next time I have workmen in, I can give him one of those and hopefully, it won't stress him out and cause this whole cycle to begin again.
Speaking of workmen, trying to get someone in to do work on my house is a huge pain in the ass! I have the money to do the upgrades and I have the name of another contractor who is supposed to be good. Unfortunately, this whole process is moving about as fast as slugs screwing. My other contractor was good but trying to get his time was next to impossible and I don't want to wait until 6 months for him to find the time again. The new contractor finally called me but now we are playing phone tag. It sucks because my house really needs to be painted but I can't paint until I get this other work done. Unfortunately, I live in an area where good contractors are in constant demand.
Oh, and can I just say that watching football isn't nearly as fun when you're not betting in a pool of some kind?
I watch the hoarding shows on TLC and A&E. They are kind of like a train wreck to me so I can definitely see how there could be a dead body in a house. However, hoarders know their stuff. I can see the body being buried under stuff but lying on top? I can't quite buy that. I can however buy them coming into the house and finding a very tidily dressed Mrs. Santiago because I've seen episodes where the person living in the house has a very neat and tidy appearance but their house is a disaster. I remember one episode where a woman was dating a hoarder (she didn't know he was one) and was shocked when she finally went to his house because he'd always been so well dressed. I do have to say that like Nick, after I watched these shows, I would go and empty out a closet or drawer or box in the house. However, on CSI it seems like they combined two types of hoarders: the type that can't get rid of anything and lets it pile up in mounds all over the place and the type that can't let go of memories or items of their past but neatly stack them all over until there's no place to move. My great aunt was like that. She had neatly stacked rows of items all over her house so that there was just a path to get by. I remember hearing that when she died, they couldn't get the stretcher back to where she was because the path wasn't wide enough. Anyway, enough about hoarding.
This really was a good episode from an old school CSI stand point and while it's a little sad, I did kind of like seeing the new trifecta (Nick, Sara, Greg) that has replaced the old (Grissom, Brass, Catherine). Ray was tolerable in this and I didn't remotely miss Catherine. If this is the kind of episode they can turn out without her, bye-bye Marg.
I liked Sara in this too. I liked that she and Nick bickered and that they made up at the end without saying I'm sorry. They both had their view and while I did think Nick was getting ahead of the evidence and was being kind of an ass, I thought it made him more likable. I hate when he acts like Mr. Perfect CSI. Or maybe I hate that the Nick fans think he's Mr. Perfect CSI so it was nice to see them have to come to grips with Nick being an ass. At least we got to see Nick and Sara make up, so to speak. We're either to assume Brass and Catherine made up or they are still mad at each other. Who knows.
One thing about this episode that kind of confused me at first was that the actor playing the son and the daughter's name were from the episode, "Harvest". For a second there I wondered if this was supposed to be the same family but I quickly figured it out.
On to Brass. The hand they show putting down a picture in front of the son wasn't PG's. That always bugs me. Is his hand not camera worthy? Was his hand not available that day? WTF?
Brass really only had two scenes in this episode and he didn't do anything noteworthy so I will now rant about the one thing that continues to bug the crap out of me: his hair. Or lack of hair. Who in their right mind thinks this practically-shaved-head look is good on him? I get that he's got a receding hair line. Judging from what I've seen of him in his early roles, he's probably had it since he was ten. But he still has hair and he desperately needs that hair to balance out the rest of his face. There's a close up of Brass where he's talking to the brother and he really does look pretty good (older, yes, but good) and it's because you can't see his hair. Please, please, please, bring back his hair. At this point, I would welcome the comb forward of S1. It's become that desperate.
Then again, I was telling spottedhorse that I believe the length of PG's hair is equal to his screen time.
One positive un-hair related thing that I will say: Brass looked good in the suit. I really liked that shirt and tie and the jacket itself looked to be expensive. Very nice!
Now onto something completely different.
I have three new favorite shows. One is Raising Hope. Seriously, this show is hilarious, mostly thanks to Cloris Leachman. One is Modern Family. This show is laugh out loud funny and all the characters are great but I have to say that it's Cam I love the most (Manny is a close second). Eric Stonestreet (formerly, Ronnie Litre, QD on CSI) won an Emmy this year and deservedly so. The last one is Parenthood. I love, love, love the 1989 movie with Steve Martin. It's a movie I can watch every time it's on. I knew that I wanted to watch the TV the minute I saw the previews. I can't say what it is exactly that makes me love the TV show so much but I do. Sure, there are characters on there who bug the hell out of me but that's to be expected with an ensemble cast. But there are some I just love to pieces. I think it's actually sets of characters that I love: Crosby, Jasmine and Jabbar, and now Sarah and Billy Baldwin's character, Gordon. I've never thought much about any of the Baldwin brothers but I could have a thing for Gordon. I hope he sticks around.
Tucker update: he's on new medicine for the spasms. It took me a couple of tries to get it mixed so that it goes into a syringe but I finally got it right and he's been doing great over the last couple of weeks. This is good because a few weeks ago he wasn't doing so good and I'd reached my stress limit and I'd decided that if he couldn't get better, I was going to have to put him down. I don't know that I would have gone through with it but his quality of life wasn't very good at the time and I couldn't see him constantly suffering through this. He was miserable and I was miserable for him. Thankfully, we seem to have found the right meds and for the last couple of weeks, he's been acting like a completely different cat. Honestly, the change is pretty amazing and it tells me just how miserable he's been. The vet also gave Tucker a prescription for Xanax so the next time I have workmen in, I can give him one of those and hopefully, it won't stress him out and cause this whole cycle to begin again.
Speaking of workmen, trying to get someone in to do work on my house is a huge pain in the ass! I have the money to do the upgrades and I have the name of another contractor who is supposed to be good. Unfortunately, this whole process is moving about as fast as slugs screwing. My other contractor was good but trying to get his time was next to impossible and I don't want to wait until 6 months for him to find the time again. The new contractor finally called me but now we are playing phone tag. It sucks because my house really needs to be painted but I can't paint until I get this other work done. Unfortunately, I live in an area where good contractors are in constant demand.
Oh, and can I just say that watching football isn't nearly as fun when you're not betting in a pool of some kind?