I started watching MI-5 because the first four seasons steam free from Netflix. The show is reasonably good, it stars Matthew Mcfadyen, and it has random cameo appearances by actors like Hugh Laurie (Apparently before his career as an asinine doctor at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital he had a career as an asinine spy for MI-6 ( Read more... )

Forget raining men ( or investment bankers), it's raining shoes!

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The song is "Nothing Sweet as You" by Emy Reynolds

This weekend was Laura’s graduation, so I took Friday off and drove out to beautiful Beaumont, Texas on Thursday. We spent Thursday night and Friday hanging out and I discovered that what passes for entertainment among the TAHL kiddos is going to Sonic, and that Lamar University doesn’t seem to understand that some form of food should be located ( Read more... )

Now that I have a job I have found myself with an excess of time. At first I couldn’t imagine what to do with my surplus of time. There is television, but in classic television style, despite having some two hundred channels, there is never anything on when you can watch TV. I tried puzzling, but that’s never been my favorite pastime. I thought ( Read more... )

Yesterday for Valentines Day my roommates and I sat down to watch the TV Chick-flick marathon. It was going pretty well until AMC played "Father of the Bride" for a second time. At this point we searched for something else to watch, and I stumbled upon an Encore presentation on "Warriors of Virtue."

It was great, in that totally awful ninety's ( Read more... )

Anthony Bourdian says the food in Uzbekistan is not so good. That makes it more acceptable that the term "feminism" means next to nothing and women's rights are unheard of. I'd be really depressed if I couldn't go there and the food was spectacular.

The Super Bowl was depressing. I'm not just saying that because last year I watch the Super Bowl at 7am in an ex-pat bar in Chaoyang district, or because I didn't even go to a party this year. The Super Bowl was depressing because the "two best teams in America" ended up playing like high school students. They fumbled, they threw wide, they let the ( Read more... )

The plus side to the writer's strike is that now that my normal shows are in re-runs I get to watch the re-runs of other shows. "Bones" is quite good. A forensic anthropologist working with the FBI to solve murders is great fun, especially when you add in sexual tension and a bunch of nerdy lab techs.

I have really started to enjoy Anthony Bourdain’s new Travel Channel show, “No Reservations.” The show takes two of my favorite things, food and travel, and puts them together. The emphasis on food is great, because everyone knows that one of the best things about going new places is trying new food. Also, the show tends to avoid the typical ( Read more... )

At work there is this computer that is possessed by demons, I swear ( Read more... )