Glasses!
New ones! The 3 year old I babysat tonight noticed, which was very impressive. And her dad thinks I look like Dr Who – David Tennant, that is… not entirely sure whether this is good or bad.
But I do like my new glasses.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Well, I tuned in half way through and I wish I had seen it from the start. Favourite line? “He no eat meat? What you mean, he no eat meat?? … Is OK; I make lamb.” Mahahaha.
It was so clever! And I was impressed that our Aussie Carides (Zoe or Gia… how bad that I can’t remember… I think Gia. Anthony La’Plaglia’s wife, anyhow) was in it. Reckon they must just about have hired the entirety of the Greek-American actors to play their family. And hurrah! that the dude from … that Alaskan show, with the moose (and if there were two, they’d be meese…)… ack, I can’t remember. Too late at night. Anyway, he was in it.
House
Not a place, the series. We got the four discs of season 1 out tonight – it is Friday, after all. Interestingly, we have actually seen the pilot and first episode. The third episode was, however, very good. I’m lookin forward to filling in the gaps – we only started watching it regularly in season 2.
There are few soapie aspects to it, but not too many, thankfully. And House could basically be the archetype anti-hero.
The Grand Beat-Up
You know, call me cynical if you must, but the ads for “Path to 9/11” are really bugging me.
Yes, I know it truly was a tragedy. However, maybe we could move on a little? Put things a bit in perspective maybe? Stop talking about it so much?
And definitely, can we please not go on about why we didn’t “wipe bin Laden out” (truly, a quote) before it happened? I can’t even begin to express how inappropriate that is.
Stargate and Doctor Who
I think it’s only just occurred to me that Stargate is a lot like Doctor Who. Everybody speaks English.
Even the Russians.
I wonder…
… whether there would be a mysterious van outside my house if I were to post that sometimes I hate Americans? Probably, if I didn’t clarify it (am I being paranoid? Senselessly overstating any possible importance anyone could attach to my words??) So let me clarify: Not all of them; just some of the decisions they’ve made over the years. This, admittedly from Wikipedia:
“August 21, 1998: The United States employs with cruise missiles to destroy a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant (and with it, half of the country’s medicine supply) based on faulty evidence that the plant is involved in chemical weapons manufacture: and tries to kill bin Laden in a cruise missile attack on his camp in Afghanistan, during a meeting of terrorist leaders (Operation Infinite Reach). Only twenty-four people were killed because of outstanding precision, but the leaders had dispersed by the time the missiles struck, and bin Laden was unharmed. The United States blocks a United Nations investigation into the Sudan attack. Sudan was allowed to import pharmaceuticals from the U.S. to replace the destroyed ones.”
Argh!!
Nice weather for ducks
That was today… it barely stopped raining all day. Which I know is a good thing. During the day, though, when I was going between rooms? Thank goodness for the new rooves on the walkways, is all I can say. Pity about all the free dirt around the place… now dirt no longer.
House
House is one of the weirder anti-heroes out there. Truly – a sociopathic doctor, addicted to pain killers, who likes bossing people around and being truly, brutally honest.
I like it.
Deaths
Bit of a morbid title there, I realise… the reaction of people to Steve Irwin’s death has been a bit over the top, I think. Particularly twinned with Colin Thiele’s death on the same day, and the distinct lack of matching grief or accolades from the public or politicians. Beattie’s “oh, we could have a national park or award named after him…” thing is great, but seriously – millions of books sold, Storm Boy for heaven’s sake, and nothing for Thiele??
Political correctness
Baa baa WOOLY sheep, have you any wool?
… One for the JUMPER, one for [something else, not dame], and one for the little girl with holes in her socks…
OK, but as Media Watch (HURRAH for Media Watch), about 30 seconds later they sang the original. Hmm… not sure what I think about it, actually… eh. Whatever.
Randomly Yours, Alex 