Some time ago I saw the pilot episode of Pushing Daisies, the new Bryan Fuller series that combines fantasy, crime solving, and pie-making in a goofy fairy-tale confection that's wrapped in genial narration by Jim Dale. Watching the aired version was no less amusing and engaging -- I like the majority of the characters and think the show is ( Read more... )

NCIS. So the season-ending two parter basically sets up a great big cliffhanger for the next season. The second part was a great big floppy dog of a story, spending way too much time on the junkie couple and seeming to switch tracks at random.

Saw the first two parts of Sanctuary, with Stargate SG-1 alum Amanda Tapping playing a mysterious ( Read more... )

My sleeping patterns have been gently adjusting themselves of late, so I've been finding myself going to sleep earlier and earlier and awakening earlier and earlier. Monday night I was solidly out well before midnight, having recorded the first scenes of Robot With A Human Brain and sent them off to the director, and as a consequence was awake ( Read more... )

It was a remarkably quiet night in the neighborhood, which suits me just fine. I've been fairly underpowered all day, which is probably due to waking up so early in the morning.

The quiet, underpowered day extended to not watching much of anything today. I tried watching an 8th season episode of The X-Files but it didn't click for me. I did get ( Read more... )

Sleepy again...spent the day sort of vague, which is perhaps not so good. Tribs came by and picked up her retweaked computer; the current plan involves acquiring a new DSL modem, as the older one seems to have driver conflicts -- XP SP2 is twitchy in some respects. The Bearcub, meanwhile, has been running smoothly but for disagreements with a ( Read more... )