It's been hard keeping up with the news lately because I've been working a lot of overtime hours at my job. It's not like the TV news covered much international news, either. So I didn't hear about the Tunisia overthrow until we were well into the Egyptian protests already.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Arizona shootings
I wasn't home to watch the memorial service live on TV, and didn't even know it would be on, but my Tivo caught snatches of it since it took the place of (or delayed) the regular shows I was recording. So I saw it out of order, and only just finished it today.
I'm glad I saw it, especially the opening blessing by Dr. Carlos Gonzales of the Yaqui tribe. I've never before seen a non-Christian opening for a service or any other event on TV before. It was very refreshing to see a Native American blessing instead, and that Gonzales expressed the diversity of the nation as well as the Arizona region. It almost made up for the later officials who kept reading from the Bible. Overall it was a good service, especially getting to hear the stories of the victims, survivors, and also the heroes. I'm glad I saw it.
We can only hope for the best, but it was a very sad way to start the year. This Monday will be Martin Luther King, Jr. day, and of course he was the victim of an assassination. Makes you grateful that some were able to survive this most recent tragedy.
I'm glad I saw it, especially the opening blessing by Dr. Carlos Gonzales of the Yaqui tribe. I've never before seen a non-Christian opening for a service or any other event on TV before. It was very refreshing to see a Native American blessing instead, and that Gonzales expressed the diversity of the nation as well as the Arizona region. It almost made up for the later officials who kept reading from the Bible. Overall it was a good service, especially getting to hear the stories of the victims, survivors, and also the heroes. I'm glad I saw it.
We can only hope for the best, but it was a very sad way to start the year. This Monday will be Martin Luther King, Jr. day, and of course he was the victim of an assassination. Makes you grateful that some were able to survive this most recent tragedy.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Merry Christmas
What a great Christmas present! Don't Ask Don't Tell finally got repealed! I hope it gets implemented soon.
Anyway, on to more frivolous things. I got a new job and bought myself a Tivo to keep up with my TV shows when I'm working. (I didn't want to have to sign up for a cable or satellite service, and I'm satisfied with free antenna TV.) The Tivo has helped me discover some new shows as well, though its suggestions are not always perfect. I've been watching Burn Notice lately. (Not new episodes, but stuff from season 2 I think.)
Burn Notice is like what I used to love about The A-Team in the 1980s. There's an interesting job every week, often helping people who are defenceless or in trouble, and the team creatively solves the problem without involving the police. But like the A-Team always had to escape the military police who pursued them, there's an ongoing plot about Michael having to pursue the people who "burned" him, (blacklisted him from the spy agencies). I'm not sure I'm following the show's arc that well, but I'm getting into it. It's almost as engrossing as The Good Wife.
Anyway, on to more frivolous things. I got a new job and bought myself a Tivo to keep up with my TV shows when I'm working. (I didn't want to have to sign up for a cable or satellite service, and I'm satisfied with free antenna TV.) The Tivo has helped me discover some new shows as well, though its suggestions are not always perfect. I've been watching Burn Notice lately. (Not new episodes, but stuff from season 2 I think.)
Burn Notice is like what I used to love about The A-Team in the 1980s. There's an interesting job every week, often helping people who are defenceless or in trouble, and the team creatively solves the problem without involving the police. But like the A-Team always had to escape the military police who pursued them, there's an ongoing plot about Michael having to pursue the people who "burned" him, (blacklisted him from the spy agencies). I'm not sure I'm following the show's arc that well, but I'm getting into it. It's almost as engrossing as The Good Wife.
Crazy
I just saw a TV commercial for something called "Medi-Share", a healthcare/insurance thingy "for Christians." What the fuck is that? I'm aware that some Christians feel the need to do business with other Christians, but what the fuck kind of company will discriminate against customers based on religion? And if that weren't enough, the spokeswoman then went into a spiel about how joining the Medi-Share will exempt customers from the costs of the new healthcare reform laws. Stupid idiots serving up right-wing politics with your medical coverage. God, it's so disgusting. I find the world very irrational and scary lately.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Wilmer's RETI and LADY
These are the last two episodes in the series starring Douglas Wilmer as Holmes, which makes for 11 episodes in total. It should be noted that neither this series, nor the following year starring Peter Cushing, felt any need to adapt SCAN. See, TV shows based on the Holmes canon are in no way obligated to feature Irene Adler, no matter how much her character has been inflated out of proportion to her story.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Mark Gatiss loves PLoSH
Well I knew that Gatiss & Moffat based their version of Mycroft on Christopher Lee in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, but to hear Gatiss say that the film changed his life, is heartwarming. He too thinks Holmes was in love with Watson, with all that latent slashiness. Obviously I do too. Will have to find time to continue their honeymoon in my PLoSH fic.
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