Chicken Butt

Russel T. Davies is a Genius

It's quite possible I'm watching too much British television. I've been re-watching Doctor Who again, commentary, extras, the whole tamale. While I adore Doctors nine and ten and honestly can't pick a favorite, I think I may be in love with Russel T. Davies, writer and Exec Producer. He is brilliant like Aaron Sorkin, but geekier and Welsh. I've started using "Hooray" in conversation. Davies and his co-exec producers use it all the time in the commentaries and it has stuck in my brain. The thing is, I can't get any sort of fantasy from Davies because he is gay. It's not like that is anymore of a deterrent than living in the UK or being a famous television writer. It's not like I have a better shot with Eccelston or Tennant because they are straight (probably straight). It's just that adoring someone's mind isn't enough. A good fantasy requires a possibility, however minuscule, that if the person met you they just might find you attractive (and, because it is after all a fantasy, utterly irresistible). Gaa. Too much time spent in my head.

This weekend I will watch the first three DVDs of MI-5 series two. I'm finding all sorts of Anglo phrases and speech patterns in my self-dialog. I really do like the word flat instead of condo to describe my home. Condo feels so awkward and hard. Home is weird. House is incorrect. Apartment is also incorrect, but often slips out. Flat sounds right to me. I don't want to start getting all Anglophile though. I already have a MINI with a boot and bonnet. I must not get pretentious or silly. Maybe I should switch over to Buffy again, or Gilmore Girls. I could always try to rekindle my obsession with Vin Diesel or Andrew Lauer. (You probably know Lauer as Charlie from Caroline in the City, but I obsessed over him as Charlie in the short-live series, Going to Extremes.) Okay, enough exposing my crazy.

Is it spring yet?

Timey-whimy

I want a "The angels have the phone box" t-shirt. I also want some friends who love Doctor Who (Doctors 9 & 10).

I am currently watching season 3 for the second time. As much as I loved Christopher, find myself adoring David.

I other news I'm now a size 6.25 ring size. Last time I was properly measured I was 7.5. I got my ears re-pierced last week in anticipation of diamond earrings. I've decided to buy them now rather that wait until losing 150 pounds. That was an old milestone diet reward. Now I feel that I'm as worthy of diamonds now as I will be when I've lost 49 more pounds.

I've gotten out of the habit of writing regularly. Now that I'm back to work after 18 days off in a row, I want to return to more regular sharing here and on WIT. I think my work laptop had more trouble waking up than I did this morning.

Bigger *is* better

I just took delivery of my new 40" LCD Widescreen HDTV. It's beautiful.

There is a long story behind this delivery, but I'll spare my gentle readers and summarize thus:

• I finally decided to buy a flat panel TV, so I researched and decided what I was willing to spend for top quality.
• I purchased the 32" model Saturday night and carried it home (bruising my wrists carrying it up the stairs).
• I was underwhelmed by the size but quality is fine.
• Monday afternoon I obsessing over the tiny size.
• Monday night I went to the store, and after much deliberation exchanged it for the 40".
• They delivered it a few minutes ago.

It is verging on obscenely large. Just as it should be.

P.S. Crap! I realized about an hour after the TV arrived that I forgot to tip the delivery guys. I suck! They were really nice too. I was so dazzled I forgot. Now I feel guilty as hell.

Love the people, hate the plot

I know I'm over a show when two weeks in a row I am relieved that it isn't on because there are other things I'd rather do. West Wing isn't on again tonight and I'm relieved. I intended to catalog some more books and shelve them, but LibraryThing is having a surge of traffic and I can't enter any books. I want LT to be successful, but tonight, I'd rather get my books cataloged. Bummer. I'll have to keep checking back.

West Wing hasn't been the same since Aaron Sorkin left the show. I miss all the character-driven plots. Now it's all crisis and drama, but some of my favorite characters are hardly ever on. I'm stuck watching it because I'm invested in the characters, but I kind of hope this is the last season. Kind of like Elizabeth George novels, I am frustrated with the lengthy and not always interesting or well-written books, but I am invested in the characters of the Inspector Lynley series.

Well, LT looks like it's up again, so I'm going to try to get through my hardcover books tonight.

Thank god for baseball

The problem with becoming more involved in my life is that it doesn't leave enough time for television. I haven't had time to watch all the shows I taped last week and now this week's shows are joining them. At least Veronica Mars was bumped by baseball tonight.

Last night I was more interested in finishing a CB post and visiting my internet friends/stalking targets than watching Prison Break. This is a good thing. I watch way too much TV but I want to keep up with my favorites. So instead of babbling more I'm going to go watch some of last week's shows. Or maybe tonight's Gilmore Girls.

My life is getting more interesting, but I'm not ready to give up my TV "family."

Surrendering to the man

I did it. I gave in. I called Comcast and ordered the most basic cable package they have. $15.99 + tax a month. Sometime between 1-5pm on Wednesday I should be hooked up.

My antenna works fine as long as I don't want to watch a channel above 11. If I do, I have to switch to an amplified antenna. But then I can't surf to the lower channels. And channel 2 is always iffy reception. And I can't tape anything on 2, too much static. But thing that pushed me over the edge is Gilmore Girls on 9 followed by House on 32. I have a meeting at 7:30 every week. It is impossible for me to tape both Gilmore Girls and House. I'm forced to choose. And I'm sick of crappy reception.

I never realized before that I actually felt some kind of moral superiority about not having cable. How weird. I won't get any premium channels and I don't see myself becoming attached to cable access. But I will now have access to all three PBS stations in the area. Yeah!

I haven't had cable since college when ksl and I didn't pay a single cable bill and didn't return the box for 4 years. We stayed up way too late watching before they cut us off. I remember us discussing that we shouldn't get involved when Dangerous Liasons started at like 3am. I think we watched it to the end. Good times.