I'd like to see an episode of Midsomer Murders where they acknowledge what kind of place Midsomer really is.

"Look, Sir! The Midsomer Spudston Potato & Yam Fair is this week. Isn't your wife goi..."

"She BLOODY WELL isn't! I'll tell you who's going1 The Causton Riot Squad, that's who! I wanna curfew on Midsomer Wotsit. I want anyone competing in ( Read more... )

A historical program comes on TV, and my mother exclaims "The American Revolution... but where's Hitler in all this?"

I've got an idea for the TV show to end them all: Two teams compete to make the best version of top nazis's favorite dishes. The working title is "Gastronomy of Evil".

I'm shamefully addicted to the TV show Pretty Little Liars. A convoluted conspiracy which makes the Syndicate in The X-Files look like so many bunglers. Its purpose? To make life hell for four high school girls. It's almost all-powerful, and anybody can 'get got', yet it's also petty and vindictive.

It's got the cheap charm of a never-ending soap, ( Read more... )

Saw a guy on TV whose name was, I kid you not, Aristotle Beretta. 

"If they did it, you catch them. If an angel did it you get cuffs for the hands and a rope for the wings"
Lt. Columbo

This is is our minister of foreign affairs.

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"A denim jacket's not an opera jacket!"

I haven't been writing lately. Fiction I mean. I've got plenty of ideas (that part's easy, like everyone says), I just haven't felt the need or the energy. Just the occasional twinge of guilt.

I've been reading a good deal though. Right now I'm in the middle of three books:

Peter Straub (ed.) AMERICAN FANTASTIC ( Read more... )

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I'm drinking sangria from a plastic cup. Keeping a certain standard costs nothing, provided that standard is sufficiently low. I'm also watching the first episode of American Horror Story. So far it's promising. Also Jessica Lange. Man, I had a crush on her in my youth ( Read more... )

First day at the café was today. I was pretty much given an introduction to the work (pricing, ordering, inventory and so forth). The hard part's not the work, it's being around people. Still, it's a sheltered work environment, and that's good ( Read more... )