intelligent life

when seth mcfarlane and neil degrasse tyson got together with ann druyan and brannon braga to continue the cosmos stories of carl sagan in their own new cosmos, brilliant minds produced an audio visual presentation that offered enlightenment to other intelligent beings... i wonder how many people have seen either series... i wonder how many people truly understand... space and time lose meaning for most people beyond a certain limit in their minds, a limit to their imagination and/or perception that sadly, threatens the survival of the species... will the alternative someday then be to eliminate those who refuse to accept the education offered or will we find a way to restrict their capacity for destruction... if we could see millions of years into the future, we might know the answer... thing is, we might need the answer much sooner than we are ready...

our lifetimes are so brief when compared the the changes in the universe (or on the earth or stars, for that matter) we can be as insignificant as the smallest bacteria in our bodies and yet, those bacteria could destroy us and ultimately, we could destroy the planet or even the universe... our bodies create ways to fight and stop and kill the bacteria, so would it be no surprise if the planet or universe found ways to kill us if we become too big a threat... when bacteria become too strong, produce too much destructive energy, the body reacts... can a species produce enough destructive energy to get the planet (or universe) to react?...

never know what might slip into the mind from background tv, aye?...

classical distraction

in hundreds of years, or more, students of classical literature will be analyzing (and watching and reading) i dream of jeanne and bewitched and other cultural creativities of the twentieth century and seriously, with lines like it's the most comfortable drawer i ever slept in and ..., how can it have not become a literary classic... or is that a cult classic... hey, ever heard of a guy named shakespeare?... ovid?... god?... the world was once flat, you know?... nobody understands me, really, but we can fake it if you are adorably wanting to and at least passable for public display according to my quite narrow libido or have an irresistible personality without too many stupid suicidal tendencies... hey, at least i'm not this guy who doesn't joke about insulting everyone and pushing the world away... you really don't this (e)thereal blog is all about the actual daily happenings in the real world physical life, do you?... naturally there is a great deal of distraction during the long nights spent alone at home saving pennies for retirement, you know?...

wait, this is not that blog, is it?... well, nevermind then...

narf :)

another science geek (with a twist?)

yes, and while sex shows can be quite amusing when there isn't too much cuteness, judgment, or pretentious casualness, it's still and doctor carin bondar panders so typically to the expected social morees that the initial attraction kind of wore off after a few videos... i still laugh and like her a lot, as i like laci, who tries to help people understand their sexuality (while carin is exploiting animal sex with a whole lot more stereotypical teasing and titillation... she puts on a little too forced casualness and mock seriousness for my tastes... gotta pander to the human ego to sell i suppose... she does do it well though... of course i am being judgmental and probably reading way too much into a few videos, but since i am doing that i'll suggest that she is displacing her own personal sexuality by always having some animal sex to talk about when she is stimulated cuz she is so very shy down deep (and a product of our prudish culture in the west using words like dirty, perverted, and disgusting right on cue... randomly, she seems to prefer smaller penises...

ok, so maybe a little too much cuteness and standard judgment (oh for the shock value of an original open mind, aye?), but a sexy little body for a mom of four (i know, i'm terrible by standard human judgments... what's that about shock value?)...

meanwhile, the website organizer uses the titillation to promote some very good environmental and animal rights causes, so it's not all meaningless pandering... she can be serious too... so hopefully she enjoys being added to my imaginary friends with whom i'd like to gather and converse and play and learn and share serious fin...

science channel depression

so the king crabs are invading the eastern north atlantic and crab lovers have mixed feeling about that because crab lovers who love crabs for their taste are thrilled because the price of king crabs ought to come down but crab lovers who love crabs because they love crabs as in nature lovers as in vegans and vegetarians are sad because they don't want to kill crabs or have crabs killed... being kind of in the middle, a former vegan who loves the taste of crabs, i hope the flood of crabs brings the price of crabs down in the western atlantic (fill the big boats and ship 'em over, aye mate?) and the sensitive environmentalist in me sees things from both sides (it is the science and eco-balance that brought me back to being an omnivore, the taste buds cheered but did not drive that bus) and realizes that over-population of any animal (four hundred thousand larvae in a single birth is a bit amazingly over-doing it), including humans, is destructive to all life on the planet... so fill the big boats is the ultimate balance from my perspective...

i mean, do you know about the lionfish? (hundreds of thousands of eggs each time, over 2 millions eggs a year from each female)... some dumb human with a home fish tank may have destroyed the eco-system of the south western atlantic... fish lovers, yeah... anyway, the show doesn't have it's own website yet, but it's a fairly raw balance of pro and con environmentalism as it focuses on how human intervention allows other predators to dominate huge areas of the world... ultimately, if you watch enough of the science channel, it is quite easy to become depressed... humans are so carelessly self-destructive almost all the time (and deliberately self destructive the rest of the time)...

sigh, it's enough to drive a rational being to depression...

wanna be greatness

i thought about putting it in the bored and the caring or who cares but those are too serious for it... then i thought about putting it in random pop news, but that is mostly video... and then i thought about putting it in for no apparent reason but i have more respect for that blog than to put it there... then i thought about putting it where it belongs, in the daily poop, but that too is not a place for such babbling as this... and it's not really a meaningless complaint cuz as meaningless as it may be, it's not really a complaint, at least not this time... it could be in nobody likes just the tip, but it's not irreverent enough... so it ended up in background tv, and here it is:

lol... a big win for the cavs a big win for the internet, so says espn... ultimately, it's a big win for cleveland, akron, ohio, and the midwest... when you consider the bigger picture, it's a pathetic drama that only a small fraction of the human race takes seriously, at least for the moment... he's grown, for sure... he's got great advisers and writers now, that's for sure... is he as really as big and important and and the man his ego wants him to be?... maybe... that depends on his ego... a few years ago his ego wanted him to be god, a mocking god at that... he settled for king, which is way short of true greatness because greatness does not ned to be crowned, it just is... will he rise to the level of greatness in his life, that will depend on whether he can let go of his ego-battle with michael and rise above the egocentric immaturity that has him whining and bitching to referees while playing a game and stepping into the world spotlight as a leader on issues that matter... mohammed ali, there is an athlete using his sports spotlight for greatness... martin luther king, there is greatness... ghandhi... and a million people nobody's ever heard of... it takes laying your freedom on the line, your life on the line, not just risking losing a game or winning a game to be great in this world... championships are great, but greatness?... greatness is a whole lot more...

so is the sacrifice of returning to his home town a step toward greatness, perhaps, if he becomes a leader in his home town, changing lives with humility and generosity and a passion for doing good for people, not for the spotlight... so far, he's 98% hype and 2% greatness... we shall see what he does away from the game over the next few years and beyond...

and yet, as tired as i am of the hype, i still write this because he still has the potential to turn his life around and realize that greatness is not whining or grandstanding or pouting or arrogantly mocking others, greatness is leading by giving...

i still switched channels because i'd rather watch anything other than the hype... family guy, even...

narf :)

there now, wasn't that worth the waddle through the introduction?... sarcastically speaking, i mean... hey, i could have linked every one of those blogs referred to in italics in the introduction (yes, there is a blog for every one of those titles, in fact, sometimes two or more), after all... or even before it all...

greatness, yes, background tv, that is what it's this is all about... driven to distraction and the vehicle is the tv, the tv on in the background, the background tv...

so what are you watching?...

narf :)

extra crap

there are many shows that are representative of the shameless extravagance of the current american culture (human nature?), but extra may take the cake (and eat it too)... wait, another cake analogy may be just around the corner... yes, marie antoinette, the epitome of let them eat cake" is the obscene pleasure extra portrays in pretentious drama and gleeful bliss (ignorance) as that ridiculous enigma of fame and fortune summed up in the ultimate single word oxymoron (yes, it takes the mind of god to understand it all), celebrity, all dressed up and nowhere to go...

the height of eye candy and over-stating the obvious, the only thing missing is the hype that extra is must see tv, but wait, trademarks, copyrights, and all that jazz keeps is all tied up in court paying lawyers to continue giving us reasons to believe our lives are ever so important, i mean, we must be important, just look at all the money they are spending...

cynical much?... ah, it's beyond all that and commercials too, it's unreal passing as the reality that everybody is told they want so often that they believe it and must have it and long for it and sell their soul, if they could, just for a taste of the cake (what, you thought the cake was all gone?)...

hey, eye candy is fun, but waiting a half hour for craig ferguson to come on and get real (wink wink) can get annoying, ya know? (what's that, who's sleeping on the job?)... lol lam lal laa...

narf :)

spoiled, to some extant

on the tv as david letterman yells at passers-by to pick up the trash (maybe he doesn't know it's called litter in nyc, silly mid-westerner... it's nyc, stuff on the street is litter, stuff in the cans is garbage, trash is anyone you don't respect, aye?) or maybe it was an advertisement for the the new york city hot dog cart vendor parked in front of his studios, but anyway, i just happened to scroll through the tv guide and found halle berry was going to be and halle berry just showed up to plug her new tv show extant which i want to watch and yet, i am hoping it is not a cross between contact and rosemary's baby (oh, the gravity of the situation, aye?)... halle is full of spoilers so i don't think i should listen any more cuz not i am getting a terminator and ai vibe... so how much god and how much aliens and how much mystery shall we find in this new show... obviously dave and halle don't care cuz they are talking up a storm about the plot... no reason to watch it now that they've told us to skip the first season and maybe there will be an answer in the last episode... still looking for intelligent life in the universe (on tv?)...

sad, no respect for the mystery... spielberg could not have coached her for this interview... still gonna watch though cuz, well, it's spielberg and there's always hope...

wormholes and what not

watching through the wormhole one could start romanticizing about pairs of gluons partnering up to keep the universe from falling apart like true love and hopefully there is enough of these perfect partners to compensate for all the solo quarks and gravity particles (what's all this about gluon-gluon bonding, anyway?) and entropic stuff happening everywhere so it all doesn't just get lost in strangeness and who knows what else... alas, anything's possible, after all... what-knot, aye?...

dominion

the ridiculous obsession human beings have with war and the delusional good verses evil mythologies (and so many other common delusions) is so sad that it renders humanity pathetic and superficial and redundant and ultimately meaningless... so the newest twist (not that anything is original) is the angels are egomaniacal spoiled frightened orphaned children because their father, aka god, disappeared and left them to fend for themselves and naturally (at least natural for human conflict story lines), they blame humans who are as always, ignorant slaves lead by a few corrupt power-mad male individuals who drink alcohol for strength and dress women in skimpy clothing because, after all, that is what grown ups do in the movies, right?... amazing that every variation of the same old song comes with the same old weaknesses and pretentious drama... above all else, insecurity rules...

so the commonly accepted god father is gone and the commonly accepted angels are not so good and perfect as commonly thought and humans are as stupid and corrupt as ever and, of course, there is a reluctant rebellious chosen one (is there a culture that hasn't had that one?) with a confused multi-dimensional love interest (love triangles are such triangles, after all) and... the same old song...

yeah, insecurity... anyway, i avoided the first showings and did not dvr because i seek creativity and originality and am so tired of the god and religion based good verses evil stories... but there may be some eye candy worth watching though... not high on my list, but perhaps i shall check it out now and then...

halt and catch fire

sure, the master genius coder was a cute young girl and the real push behind the pc clone was a pretty boy bisexual salesman who will sell his soul for his idea (the pc clone)... wonder if the devil is in the wings... and so where does bill gates and steve jobs come in?... was i redundant there?... or is this gonna be much more fiction than history, maybe... anyway, i'd like to meet a cute genius...

the show, halt and catch fire is based in the 80s start-up computer business with the main characters trying to figure out how to make the first home computer pc clone to beat ibm to the market and we know someone did, so i'm wondering if these are the guys... and cute girl genius coder...

no, she's not really my type if you know my type (have i mentioned mila lately?... i mean, is that guy obsessed much?... but i'm gonna just for the record mention that i am available and have an insatiable sex drive and a libido that is very particular just in case, i mean, hey, what can i say, the one {you know, all i ever needed?} might stumble across this entry, fit me like a glove, and fall madly in love with my serious irreverence... or simply someone who wants great sex who looks like my libido fantasy might get lucky tonight cuz she stopped by here and checked me out... mila?... mila?.. bueler?... yeah, i'm too cool and all that, and fun too)...

oh yeah, the tv is still on... so halt and catch fire... an odd one with enough appeal to be dvred and on in the background during sex, or whatever you may be doing...

what?... you don't come here for actual tv show reviews, do you?...

narf :)

believe

the tv series would have made a decent lifetime channel movie with a tidy and noble almost happily ever after ending, but stretched into a season series of episodes, it was fun as long as i overlooked the pretentiousness, contradictions, predictability, and stereotypes... not much more can be expected from a tv show with a pre-teen girl as the main character... she may go places, but then i thought the same thing of anna chumsky from my girl fame and i'm not sure what happened to her (apparently she is finding success on tv in shows i do not watch)... she could probably do a my girl 3 if they wanted to chance another remake... i know one old friend who might love that... anyway, the show was cancelled most likely because it was on a station that didn't believe in it (pun not intended, but i'll stand behind it now)...

it's been done before, imagining telekenetic powers... sci-fi has explored and imagined the mysterious powers of the mind in many ways (firestarter comes to mind, for one) and there was very little originality or creativity in this one... it held out hope for the underdog and for second chances big time, which appeals to many, including me... also, the unconditional belief in the goodness of people is a primary story line and while i've got a lot more cynicism and jaded edges these days, it is still the core of why i keep trying to share and help and live this life... most of the time (self-mockery... see, you can learn a lot about me reading this background tv blog, i mean, if you want to)...

anyway (nonchalance, right?), i would have dvred and watched another season of believe if it returned and i would have liked it to return and hope someone gives it (and maybe some added writers) a chance on another network, but i understand why it did not return on the prime time line-up... prime time channels are reflective of the culture, instant satisfaction, superficial, snap judgments, no depth... simply, fads... most shows that last do not really get beyond the surface until a few years go by when the writers are tested for their talents and they get those extra years mostly through luck of placement in the weekly lineup and being in the right place with the right message at the right time in every other way... often a theme follows a hit movie... usually it has a known star, or few, and a cast that finds great chemistry... but like every other fad, it makes it through the first season on being a unique idea presented cleverly with a lot of luck of the draw...

believe, alas, did not do well on any of those counts... still, it was fun for a season...

without the referees

yeah, just one more opinion piece about the basketball that was on tv this year... without the referees miami had no chance to win or even keep it close... they knew that after the second game where the refs helped them... and that is why they quit... a sad reflection on the state of the game, even sadder since lebron is supposed to be the face of the game and the one kids are supposed to want to be like... remember "i wanna be like mike?"...

there is no heart of champions in a team that gives up with half a quarter to go... that is pathetic and no example for kids or anyone to follow... follow the loyalty and perseverance and never quite attitude and actions of san antonio or michel jordon if you really want to be successful in what you do... the big three for miami sat down with almost 4 minutes left in the game that would decide it all... lebron sat down with more than 6 minutes left in the game... true champions do not give up before the game is over... they quit because they were beaten down by a much better team, but they sold out the nba by not trying right to the end... that is the nba today... garbage... san antonio represents what the nba should be, a team playing a team game with class and heart... lebron wanted an easy way to the top so he sold out his home town and fans and team to join a crafted-to-win franchise (that only went 50% so far, by the way)... without the referees controlling the games like they did the last two years, the heat had no chance... street ballers need the refs to help them win in a team sport... game two showed that because it was the only game where the refs were calling crap early (though they called crap early in the first have of game five, but wisely for the nba, they stopped)... without the refs, four blow outs...

and then there are the comparisons between michael jordan and lebron james are over for anyone who knows the game of basketball... michael did not sit down and accept a loss with more than 6 minutes in a game... michael scored 50 or 60 points when his team needed it... there was no quit... athletically, michael's body held up much better than Lebrons, no injuries, no cramping, no fatigue in the 4th quarter, in fact michael only got better and was the best finisher to ever play the game hands down... michael did not need to bully his way to the basket (which is why lebron can't keep it up for a whole game), michael dazzled his way around opponents... michael did not jump from team to team looking for a winner, michael was a winner and created a winning team around him with his heart, his attitude, his leadership, and his talent - none of which Lebron has at the level Michael had it... Micheal didn't whine to referees and flop like lebron and miami does so often for help from referees, Michael relied on his talents and his teammates...

even the stats show lebron is no michael... 6 wins, no losses in championship games... and that was with taking two years off... michael had two three-peats, few players even have one... michael and the bulls won three in a row, then michael took two years off from basketball... then he came back to win three more championships in a row... and michael didn't start right out of high school yet still played 15 years even with two years off... michael lead the league in scoring for 10 years and was still defensive player of the year... lebron lead the league in scoring once... michael lead the league in steals for 3 years, lebron - none... lebron has to win the next four chamionships and make the all-defensive team the next four years to match michel in those categories... not likely... but it's so much more than stats... that's not even looking at the competition michael faced every year - way above the competition lebron walks through to get to the finals... lebron breezes through an eastern conference that offers no real competition... michael had to beat other legends of the game to win every year... even if lebron got near these records, he fails to be like mike in so many other ways that it's wishful thinking to compare them... the biggest different between Michael and Lebron is heart and maturity... Lebron is a talented bully who whines and gives up on the court when compared to Michael... any objective and honest person with knowledge of how the game is played who watched both of them play knows that...

without the referees, there is no contest... without the referees help, bullies and ballers will lose every time... it was good to see the team sport of basketball played with class and finesse once again this year... we can thank the referees for allowing that... and we can thank the san antonion spurs for believing in the game and themselves and for not quitting when so many were calling them done...

sing your face off

i didn't watch the series, but if the last two shows were anything like the series, it was way to obviously staged to be a platform for china... she is wonderful, an amazing talent, and maybe that is why she won (the final vote was not in when i wrote that)... unfortunately, calling the celebrity judges "experts" added to the farcical feeling the show presented... the lip synching may have been denied, but it was way too obvious in the finale with landry smith's little richard and briefly for china doing whitney houston... my guess is disney put this show together specifically to showcase their foourteen year old phenomenal talent, china ann mclain, who actually deserves it, but the pretense sours the whole experience... i am very glad i did not watch the series and only catch the finale... maybe they will apologize (craig ferguson was a pleasant surprise, even if it distracts us from the point of this entry, but then, when was that ever discouraged around here?... what?... i mean, it's background tv, it's supposed to be a distraction, didntcha know?)...

anyway, i dvr'd the finale after reading about it tonight and so i did a bit of and after watching in fast forward, i did a little internet search and i see it is as obvious as it appeared to me... the very strange minds at common sense media (misnomer, anyone?) don't help the show, but their very narrow view is included her mostly out of shock that they exist and someone might actually take them seriously... back to the show, ummmm, then again, it's over, i'm done...

lthank you san antonio

for bringing back basketball... it is very likely that if miami loses, there will be many excuses and the leading one will be some excuse for lebron, some injury or malady that kept him from being the greatest player of all time... really, just accept that was michael and let it go... six championships, no losses, and when needed, michael would score 60 points if that was the only way to win... let lebron four championships against better competition than lebron has ever seen, then let him retire to play another sport for two years, then let's see him come back and win two more championships without skipping a beat... without ezcuses or whining or pleading to the refs for foul calls... then start the comparisons... anyway, the best thing about the 2014 nba championships is the referees let the teams play for the first time in many championship series and that allowed everyone to play...

the primary difference in the 2014 championship series is the referees are calling it more fairly and letting the teams actually play the game... and that allowed proof that a great team, a group of players who play team basketball well, can beat any street-player superstars... and it is not as astounding team performance as some announcers want to claim, it's not 76% shooting every game, they are averaging 52% shooting for the series... 52% is not the greatest shooting, but the team defense against the street ballers have shut down the street ballers... the street ballers do not have the skill or stamina to keep up with a team playing great team ball...

at least for a few days, basketball is a team sport again, as it should be, as it always was until recent years when the nba seemed to want to crown kings and raise individual plays over executing the games of basketball well... keep the individual plays for the dunk contests, let the great team sport come back to what it was meant to be, a great team executing passes and plays that dazzle the opponents and true basketball fans who understand the game...

the nba script remains the same

lebron can do no wrong, miami must win... lebron can bully physically and verbally, no problem... just ignore the blatant violation of rules because lebron brings the money in... miami cheats... miami bullies... tony parker was taken out of the game by a deliberate elbow to the gut, the wind up and blow was clear on replay... sacrifice a player and a flagrant foul to take out the other teams better player... hockey sucks because of that... basketball sucks because of that... sad the usa culture has come to that... lebron hits tony parker in the face then hits his hand, but because he screams at the refs there is no foul called and they give them a free time out to review the play... obvious foul, no call... just before that parker was about to start a fast break and the refs stop play because they 24 second clock ran out on miami... but parket already had the ball, so why stop play?... to stop the san antonio fast break... less than a minute later ginobli is hit in the face, no foul... then lebron falls down and a foul is called... cheaters prosper in the nba... the announcers ignore it in the last minute, the refs decide the game in the last minute, that is the nba script... pathetic and the miami greatness is tainted beyond repair... three years in a row the refs decide the key games... other players would be thrown out of games for yelling ar refs, for cursing like lebron does... he gets rewarded at the end of the game... there is no doubt lebron has amazing talent, but his talent is worthless as long as the refs are not holding him to the same rules as every other player...

and the class of the spurs... the coach puts the responsibility squarely on the the spurs lack of passing and that is definitely why they lost the game... whenever ginobli tries to go one on one and shoot stupid shots from outside in the last few minutes, the spurs lose... sure, the refs took leonard out of the game with cheap and bogus fouls... and definitely the refs gave miami extra points, without which miami would have lost... but the refs would have had to make even more flagrant bias calls for miami to win if san antonio did not have ginobli on the floor in the last few minutes... just like last year... he has his place and he is a great player, but he is not the one you want handling the ball in the last few minutes, not if you want to win... the announcers are such kiss ass ridiculous wastes - leonard is oh for two?... the same announcing team said before the game leonard was the difference in game one and that miami was in trouble,,, not miami can do no wrong... what a waste of time...

before game two i wondered if the nba would let san antonio have a fair shot at winning... they didn't... every year, the nba leaves a bad taste in the mouths of anyone who really knows basketball... their popularity is losing the mainstream, whether they see it or not...

making excuses for lebron

that seems to be an important part of the job description for no matter what happens, it's never lebron james fault... kudos to the miami coach for not using the temperature as an excuse... that is why he has won so much, he opposes excuses most of the time... but the excuses and favoritism and special treatment that amounts to breaking of rules that lebron gets is a stain on every win miami has had since he got there... tonight the air conditioning in the arena broke down and thousands of fans and every single player had to endure 90+ degree heat and lebron james was the only player who could not complete the game... the king, the greatest athlete, the leader of the nba, he was the only one who could not deal with the heat... irony?... the heat come from the hottest city in the country and are the much younger team with supposedly much better athletes and their best player could not take the heat... and nobody is pointing out that every other player made it through the game... so was every other athlete's body was in better shape than lebron james, the king?... just another farce in the nba soap opera... how about questioning how performance enhancing drugs lead to more muscle cramping?... yeah, whatever, drama is easy... playing the game is what matters... street ballers everywhere are wondering why the nba players and lebron especially get so much respect when they are over-paid pampered prima donnas who simply, can't take the heat...

losing shows is like losing friends, sort of

so two of the shows i sort of got into, believe and revolution (the latter after it was on a while once i saw it had something of a sci-fi tech background theme) as ending before they really got going... the latter was kind of wandering aimlessly, but it had a certain appeal (or is that mid-drift) at times when it tempted the explanation of how intelligent machines might perceive and interact, but it was losing any originality it might have had as it turned to the same old enslave humanity in order to save humanity from itself theme while the front story was the same old greed and war and struggle for power complete with a secret plot to take over the north american continent written in an arabic script, though that story line has yet to be developed...

meanwhile, believe sort kinda started me wanting to believe, but the story had a lot of stale spots and was becoming quite annoyingly predictable, even with a touch of the folly of foolish choices... cute kid with a face to watch, hopefully not as precocious and at times just play stupid (naivety only goes so far, after all)... anyway, farewell new friends i hardly got to know, maybe you'll get picked up by sci-fi, the public broadcast networks don't really know how to do it well...

looking back (a bit)

working full time again (since october) after being away from the rat race madness for over a year (ah, those sweet long vacations {or premature retirements} have been so sweet through this life) leaves me much less time for writing and even less time for tv, though i have been watching the dvr in what spare time i have at home and i will likely catch up with those shows one of these days, but for the moment i am looking back... way back when i was looking ahead at the then future tv schedules i told myself to try to remember to check out some shows... so looking back at that looking ahead let's see what i remembered to watch and what i think about what i remembered to watch...

Believe (NBC)... after the first few shows i am not fascinated, but may watch to see how they develop a very old and somewhat tired story line partly cuz the kid is cute and i like watching talented kids who might be future stars... otherwise, at least so far, it's the same old innocent alien (way too stupidly 'innocent' at times) chased by the government story, kind of like a mixture of et, the fugitive, and lots of others...

In The Flesh (BBC)... either missed it or it has not begun yet...

Intelligence (CBS)... semi-interesting take on the robocop theme with a cyber crime motif... the casting and characters are a little more interesting than believe but it is still not very original...

Mind Games (ABC)... stretching psychological theories toward (and sometimes beyond) their limits makes for a bit of interesting amusement at times, but mostly this is another trick the mark mix of the sting, mission impossible, and psych adding the hero with psychiatric issues theme that seems to be popular lately...

Resurrection (ABC)... people coming back after being dead for a long long time, like under the dome, a log-running mystery as to why and how it is happening (the question is... will this fall back on the age-old tired religious explanations or will the writers be bold and creative enough to explore something original for a rare change?)...

The Crazy Ones (CBS)... robin williams, what can i say?... ok, he's not at his best, but the casting is very good and the script is not horrible, but it is still a tv sit-com so many grains of salt and love of robin keeps us coming back to it...

The Hundred (CW)... have not caught up with this one...

The Tomorrow People (CW)... same as above, maybe i don't know where the cw is...

Under the Dome (CBS)... and finally, this one i watched and mentioned in entries here and there... much weakness and predictability in the storyline and characters, but the curiosity about the dome will have me returning to the dvr'ed shows when it comes back on for it's second season...

anything new on tv that attracts your interest?...

the craig

sometimes i sit here doing my best to find craig ferguson a waste of time and i get close only to find some brilliant off hand comment or a look in his eye after making some ridiculous statement or reference to life or the news that inspires the laughter (i mean, it's not just the socks after all, i mean, i'm not that easy, he seriously said, or said seriously, written, even) of why so serious? not too unlike the pink song (as opposed to the ginger song... guess you had to be there)...

no, there is just no finding craig as offish and stupid as he tries to be sometimes, he's just too deep for that...

narf :)