First - MAD MEN IS BACK! I always kind of forget, because it's off the air for so long, how much I love this show. I mean, obviously I'm always like, "Oh, Mad Men, I love that show." But I never really get it until it comes back and I realize it's filled a void, you know?

I also apparently forgot which channel number AMC was, lol, because I missed ( Read more... )

As I mentioned, my parents were here this weekend. My mother, of course, brought with her cheeseburgers, broccoli salad, and corn on the cob, which is pretty much a trifecta if she were trying to kill me. :-P If she'd included bran flakes and strawberries, she'd have had Crohn's bingo. On the plus side, I'm almost at eight weeks without my symptoms ( Read more... )

Just a few blog posts I spotted this week that I thought were interesting and/or helpful.

Finding Tips on Self-Editing at The Blood-Red Pencil: This is a round-up of many posts from the blog with lots of good editing advice, some of which you've probably heard before (adjective/adverb use, dialogue tags, habit words). I particularly liked the one ( Read more... )

Has anyone been watching Huge? I wasn't planning to watch it - no, that's not really strong enough. When I heard about it, I'm pretty sure my reaction was, "Oh, HELL NO." The concept - overweight kids at fat camp - seemed like a veritable TV landmine of cliches and fat jokes and watching fat people suffer in the vein of The Biggest Loser.

But I ( Read more... )

Now that I've finished Dexter and Dead Like Me I figured it was time to pick another TV show to watch. (I'm working my way through Rome, and Six Feet Under after that, but the DVD-by-mail list is obviously moving slower than the Instant Play list.) The next on the Netflix Instant list was 30 Rock, but I've added a TON of new shows to the queue (I'm ( Read more... )

I was warned. But I thought, "How bad can it be, really?"

"It's probably just vegemite," I thought. So I did it. I watched Dead Like Me: Life After Death.

Holy shit, was I wrong.

( Whiskey Tango Foxtrot )

Or should it be Dead(er) Like Me? Either way, I finished season 2 and liked it more than season 1. More spoilery thoughts under the cut.

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Well, this is quite a landmark weekend for me. First, July 3rd was the one-year anniversary of my move to DC. Yay! Second, obviously, was the 4th of July. I celebrated by going to the pool, then heading to a friend's house for a barbecue and watching fireworks on the Mall, which was pretty awesome.

And today marks the 60th day of my posting streak. ( Read more... )

Snagged from flake_sake. The original rules were TV or books only, but I ended up sticking just to TV, and still had a hell of a time narrowing down the first two categories.

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I've finished season 1 of Dead Like Me. I liked it, but don't have too terribly much to say about it. Thoughts are under the cut, though, for spoilers.

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