Well, it’s finally got cold enough outside for me to pull out my winter bedding and my big comfy pillows, which are generally too hot to use during the warmer months in our climate.
I haven’t slept at all well for a very long time, but with my window open a bit, 5-7 layers of blankets, and my big foam-core with chipped foam pillows, I have slept like a rock for several hours more than a few times over the last few weeks.
¡Qué raro!
I freakin’ love this Discovery Canada commercial. It’s based on an American version but ours is better.
I find myself humming the tune at odd moments, and even ones too.
I sing along with it and laugh and clap, then prowl the airwaves searching for it just to hear it again. Now though, I’ve downloaded it to hear as often as I like until I am sick to freakin’ death of it.
Boom-di-yada!
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Go to YouTube and enter ‘Planet of the Apes’ in the search box. Browse.
Enter ‘Terminator’ in the search box. Browse.
Type in ‘Land of the Lost’. Larf.
Go to retrojunk.com and waste time.
Go to Google and type in something like ‘24.5 kilometres in miles’ or ‘1 hogshead in litres’.
I was always a big Inspector Morse fan, both the books and the series, and was sad when all ended as all human things must end.
Now, Kevin Whateley, who played Endeavour Morse’s faithful sidekick, Sergeant Lewis, has returned to PBS’ Masterpiece as Inspector Lewis, and is welcome. There was one episode (as far as I know) a few years ago, but with last night’s episode and next week’s promised one, there are least two more. The ads for DVDs during the show suggest there’s an entire series; whether PBS will carry it all, I don’t know yet.
Seven words you won’t be able to say on TV anymore.
I will always laugh about Cardinal Glick.
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I’m just sayin’.
I just discovered that Buffalo’s PBS station, WNED, broadcast 17, cable 61 (Rogers, downtown) is rerunning The Vicar of Dibley and the exquisite mid-1980s Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett in the title role.
Dawn French is almost flawless in The V of D, (en passant, closing credits include “Dawn French supplied by: Saunders and French Productions”) and Jeremy Brett is the best Sherlock Holmes ever. Ever.
The A&E Andromeda Strain Remake
If nothing else, it’s got a good cast. Updated, it nevertheless follows the general storyline of the original movie and book (which I think stands up better than a lot of science adventures from the same era), and of course, there’s iPhones and cellphones and references to WMDs, North Korea and Homeland Security (how 1984 / Brave New World / THX1138 / Sleeper is that name anyway?).
You probably know that the action starts in the isolated Utah town of Piedmont, where townspeople find a recently fallen satellite and take it to the firehall, where they open it, exposing the entire town to an immediately deadly pathogen, killing almost everyone. Soon there are vultures.
What got me was a Ford commercial about 20 minutes in during the first episode. A couple is driving a Ford vehicle through a town identified on-screen as Piedmont. They see a vulture right beside them and they hightail it outa Dodge (Piedmont). Struck me as real tasteless.
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There’s this Cialis commercial with a bathtub overflowing, a turkey burning in the oven, a dog scratching to be let out and a lawn sprinkler flooding the front yard. There’s a nice little Spanish ditty playing as we see all this.
The husband and wife run around and turn off water and save the turkey, but don’t let the dog out.
Since they’ve been off carpe dieming thanks to Cialis, shouldn’t they have first turned off the sprinkler and the bath, and turned the oven down? Or is Cialis just that compelling?
And it’s just plain irresponsible not to have let the dog out first.
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Egad! CBC will be carrying Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune in the fall. Rest easy, all, though. Coronation Street is safe.
Thanks to nuts, the once canceled Jericho returns with the first of several new episodes tonight.
I know none of you will be watching (and since we’re Canadian, it wouldn’t matter if you did) but after some ups and downs last season, it turned out to be a good show.
I’ll let you know how it is.