Image by: catdancing on Flickr Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Wow, December first already. A side benefit of this "Just for Today Challenge" is that one day a week, I know what the date is. But no, knowing what the date is was not my own challenge for this week. This week, I was going [...]
Posts under ‘TV’
Flash Forward
Always a sucker for both science fiction and anything vaguely related to time travel, this season I've started watching ABC's new series, Flash Forward. The premise of the show is that everyone on Earth simultaneously loses consciousness for approximately two minutes and sees visions of a few minutes of their lives six months in the [...]
Al-Anon: The Made-for-TV Movie
A few days ago, The Junky's Wife sent me an e-mail with the subject line "Lois Movie!" (Yes, I am shamelessly piggybacking on JW's superior recovery research skills and pop culture knowledge.) Now for most people, that might imply that a new Superman film is coming out. After all, in spite of the fact that [...]
God Bless America
Image credit: Photo by 4NUM4N on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons There are times when I am so proud to be an American, it literally brings tears to my eyes. Sometimes that even happens late at night during the commercial breaks when I'm watching reruns on some obscure local channel. Since the advent of the [...]
Respect Jack’s Boundaries!
Ok, so I'm a little behind on my Lost watching. Somewhere in the middle of the season my husband and I just couldn't find time to watch TV together, so we are only now getting back to those episodes we so faithfully recorded. Last night we were watching the episode "Whatever Happened, Happened" in which [...]
Farewell Farrah Haikus
Image credit: Photo by Roadsidepictures on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I strut down the hall, pull a mint green plastic comb from my jeans pocket. Comb whips through hair and... I fail (completely!) to look like Farrah Fawcett. More Haiku Friday haikus can be found at A Mommy Story.
This Isn’t About Jon and Kate
At some point in the last year, a friend's Facebook status referred to something called "Jon and Kate Plus 8." Disconnected as I am from pop culture, I had to google the term to figure out what she was talking about. (And then I had to google "Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek" when another friend [...]
A&E’s Intervention
Image credit: Photo by emdot on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I've heard a lot about the A&E series Intervention, but since I've never wanted to spring for the cost of satellite or an extended cable package, I'd never actually watched it myself until this week: I followed The Discovering Alcoholic's link to streaming video [...]
The Leisurely Life of a Stay-at-Home Mom
Image credit: Art by georgia.g on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When my son was first born, I actually spent some time doing that thing that we stay-at-home moms supposedly spend our lazy, bon-bon eating days doing: I watched television. Now, I know, folks who haven't actually been stay-at-home parents to a colicky infant -- [...]
What Is your Deal with Serial Killers?
Image credit: Photo by pareeerica on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Yesterday I wrote about the possibility that Karen Maezen Miller could be a serial killer. (In case you're wondering, the chances are small.) To be honest, I was much more concerned with the more real and terrifying possibility that she or Shawn somehow knew [...]
