apropos of anything

The writers’ strike may be over by Wednesday. The back nine may be saved on some shows.
Longer post later, late for lunch!

I can’t stop fretting. I won’t be able to stop fretting until the polls close in New Hampshire tomorrow night and we find out who takes that state. There are so many stories to read right now, stories about Clinton crying at a rally, stories about Clinton running out of money, stories about Obama [...]

The cast of Pushing Daisies. Because of them, every Wednesday I want to make pie.
I missed a lot of TV last week — Bones, House, Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy. I didn’t think they would show new episodes on Thanksgiving day, and I had taping malfunctions for the other four.
(Yes, Alicia. I [...]

I was going to write this post a week ago, but I’ve been going through a kind of writer’s block which, mixed with my work and family schedule of late, has resulted in me writing a dozen posts in my head and none on my computer.
But anyway. Baseball owners approved Liberty Media’s purchase of the [...]

I didn’t see the writing credit for this week’s Grey’s. Truly, I didn’t. And yet, I still blamed Marti Noxon for it without the slightest twinge of guilt because even if she didn’t write it, she obviously had something to do with it.
AND SHE DID.
Why, Shonda, why? Don’t you love your show? If thousands of [...]

No beautiful things today because it has been one of those days where nothing is beautiful, so even though I had this post all written out in my head yesterday (I could tell you what the three things were, but that would be CHEATING), I can’t post it today because it’s not a beautiful Thursday. [...]

1. Pitchers and catchers reported today. You know what that means: Baseball is back! Pitchers and catchers reporting is only a short step away from everybody reporting, which is only a short step away from spring training, and then, before you know it, we’re in April, looking at Opening Day. I can’t wait.
2. Believing in [...]

Saturday morning I pulled privet in Oakhurst with Trees Atlanta, which meant that I finally acquainted myself with the parasitic British plant after knowing for years that the Dursleys live on Privet Drive. It was the dirtiest I’ve ever gotten doing a volunteer project; even when I shoveled mulch for three hours during last year’s [...]

I think Grey’s Anatomy has lost it.
I don’t know if it was the pressure of pumping out 27 episodes this season (even though some of those episodes carried over from the abbreviated first season). I don’t know if it was the increasingly high expectations, or the pressure, or if the magic of the earlier episodes [...]

I do. I love her. And if/when the Meredith/McDreamy/Addison triangle resolves itself on Grey’s Anatomy, I’m going to be very disappointed if they find a way to dispose of Addison despite the hospital contract she signed early in the season.
It’s not fashionable to like Addison. The anti-Addison fanbase is rabid, and even Shonda Rhimes is [...]