So I’m sitting in my room, with my Snuggie, on my computer, and for the first time all day I feel…safe. Safe from piercing eyes of peers, reckless drivers, robbers, my mom, the light, the darkness…everything. Just me and my Snuggie.

First off, I’d like to thank all those who read my blog everyday, it really means alot to me.

So, is anyone else excited for the Princess and the Frog movie? I AM!! Disney’s first black princess will be introduced to the world on November25th! Her name is Tiana! Kinda like my name…hmm. I wish I was Tiana, and turned into a frog, then I could just sit on my lily pad, and be…safe. I could stare into the water and look at my reflection, and say…what’s wrong with you? I could dive into the water, and push and push and push and end up in waters in another city, state, i country. Oh, to be a frog, wouldn’t that be nice.

I broke my vow to myself last night, and I feel like shit. I called him…I went 24 hours, 36, easy…..40….42…couldn’t do it. It didn’t go so well, as you can imagine… I still love him. This is a matter or love, not self control. I deleted his number from my phone but everytime I reach for my phone it happened. 1…7…0..7. What bothers be the most I guess is the answering part. I am so happy when he does answer then I hear a stern “Hello”, and my heart drops to the pits of my tummy. For some reason I was half expecting to hear “Hi honey”…but that’s not how break-up’s work, i guess. I always lose my train of thought when that registers, and I say I have to call him back…and I gather myself and call him back. Idk, he told me not to contact him until he contacts me. Is it just me….or….well you know in movies when people don’t like people so their like “don’t call me, I’ll call you” and they really have no intentions of calling, ever? Welp. I guess I’ll see, the waiting isn’t the hard part, I’ll wait as long as it takes, the restraint to call is the issue here.

So I got a new car today, Nissan 350z, looks interesting since the top hood is a different color then the rest of the car, but I guess it’ll get fixed. I also bought a motorcycle today. Kind of out of false hope, that “GUY” will eventually forgive me. He said he wanted a motorcycle and my friends dad was selling his CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP, so i invested. For now it will wait as long as I have to for him…Is that creepy of me…idk, maybe it is.

I’m tired and I haven’t been online all day, so I’m gonna check all my online stuff email facebook myspace etc.

I’ll probably blog it up later….

São inúmeras as recordações que este número me traz à cabeça, mas nos últimos tempos tem-me feito recordar Robert Enke, o grande sucessor de Michel Preud’homme, e que teve um fim de vida trágico. A primeira camisola oficial que tive, de guarda-redes entenda-se, do Benfica era o número 24, a referência era Enke. A sua inteligência sempre me impressionou, e ao que parece tinha uma participação cívica activa, o que reforça hoje aquilo que sentia desde infância. Teria também muitos defeitos, como é de prever, mas não teve a vida fácil nos últimos dois anos, e refugiou-se na saída mais fácil para os seus problemas.

Era, e continuará a ser uma referência para mim. Tenho pena que não tivesse mostrado o seu valor no próximo mundial, onde Joachim Löw já tinha um lugar reservado para ele.

Vou sempre guardar na memória a sua camisola 24, na época 1999/2000, de águia ao peito.

Die Zahl vierundzwanzig sich bewährt!

17/11/09

Leftover chocolate ‘pleasure dome’* cake.

A third cup of Jason’s coffee to accompany said cake.

The sight of an overturned car livening up my morning commute.

The ‘crack fox’ episode of The Mighty Boosh.

Bordering my first ever granny blanket.

* I’m not even making that up.

Well.

“24 Week” concludes a day late as we examine the Five Craziest Things Jack Bauer Has Ever Done.

This subject matter could have been an entire week in itself – but I’m going to attempt to condense it down to five glorious moments.

Enjoy, and as always, beware of spoilers.

Five: Jack goes all “Lost Boys” on some dude’s neck. (Season Six.)

As much as I hate to repeat myself, I must reiterate – Season Six sucked. It was just flat-out not very good, save for a few key moments.

This, was one of them.

Jack Bauer had gotten himself into another hairy situation, as only Jack Bauer can seem to do. Tied to a chair, with no weapons or even the use of his hands, Jack found himself at the mercy of some terrorist scum with no chance of getting the upper hand, leaving us all waiting breathlessly to see how he was going to weasel himself out of -

HE JUST BIT THE DUDE’S NECK.

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing Jack Bauer take a literal “bite out of crime” and then angrily spit out a bloody chunk of neck.

Jack Bauer is awesome.

Four: Jack goes all “Matrix” on some other dude’s neck. (Season Two.)

For those of you who are unfamiliar with “24″ and the character of Jack Bauer, allow me to let you in on a little secret: Jack Bauer hates necks. Passionately. And, more often than not, violently. His weapon of choice seems to be his deadly thighs, which he uses to gleefully snap terrorist vertebrae on a daily basis. This time, though, he took it up a notch, allowing his destructive upper legs a bit of a breather, and opted for a more straight-forwardly awesome neck-crunching super move.

By the end of Day Two, Jack had had enough. He was a tired, broken man, who’s sanity was being slowly depleted, which was of course pushing his violent streak to the max – because that’s how this shit works. It’s science.

Faced with another in a long line of terrorist douchebags, Jack executed a stunning moment of “wtf just happened,” by launching himself at the dude’s neck, running “Matrix-style” up a wall, and breaking said neck in one fluid move of beauty, grace and bloodlust.

It. Was…..killer? *snicker.*

Three: “Get me a hacksaw.” (Season Two.)

Jack was a broken man at the beginning of Season Two as well. After the events of Season One – the murder of his wife, and all – he had kind of given up on, well, everything. The only thing that seemed to matter to him anymore was his job – which on paper was “to protect the country from international terrorists,” but in Jack’s head was something more along the lines of “let’s mess these dicks up hardcore.”

And with that thought in mind, the only realistic evolution from killing an unarmed drug dealer, was to than proceed to cut off that drug dealers head with a hacksaw, to use it as a message or a warning or something towards other drug dealers.

It wasn’t the last time we’d all start to worry about Jack, but it may have been the first.

Two: Jack Bauer almost crashes a plane with his bare hands. (Season Five.)

Not content with the usual collateral damage he’s capable of, Jack Bauer decided to step it up a bit by endangering the lives of an entire plane full of innocent people. Never mind what he was doing on the plane (I can’t remember) or why he decided it was imperative to take matters into his own ands and crash a damn plane (I don’t care) the fact remains – Jack Bauer almost crashed a plane. With his bare hands.

Had he been on the upper deck when the urge to terrify the shit out of 200+ strangers hit him, I’m sure he would have blasted his way into the cockpit and tortured orderd the pilots to bring that bitch down. But he wasn’t; instead, he was locked in the cargo area, and had to get creative with his destructive tendancies.

So he opened up some panels, grabbed a few handfuls of wires or something, and started crashing the plane from there – with his bare hands.

Whatever, though. It worked, and they eventually let him out of there, to continue terrorizing terrorists and civilians alike, because he’s Jack Bauer, and that’s what he does, and besides it’s a little late to get that Creative Writing degree now.

One: “I’m sorry we let you down, Ryan. God forgive me.” (Season Three.)

In Jack’s defense, the terrifying pain and death he doles out on a daily hourly basis, is usually reserved soley for terrorists, criminals and generally bad people. Then came Ryan Chappelle, and we didn’t know what the hell to think about Jack anymore.

Chappelle was alwasy kind of a douche, but he was s douche who meant well, so I guess that’s okay. He certainly didn’t deserve to be shot in the back of the head executioner style by some dude who worked for him on the side of good, is all I’m saying.

But that’s exactly what happened, at the behest of some terrorist mastermind who wanted Ryan dead for some reason. The president assigned Jack to the task, because Jack gets shit done, and off they went to the trainyards to engage in some light bonding and murder.

In all seriousness, it really is one of the show’s best scenes. We realize that Chappelle, despite being a tight-ass and constantly at odds with the other agents, is a good man who was just trying to do his job correctly. He had no friends; just a brother he barely spoke to. He had no one to talk to before the bullet entered his brain, and that somehow made it more difficult to watch. He didn’t deserve this ignoble death, and Jack didn’t deserve to be the one to administer it.

But that’s how it went down anyway.

Well.

That’s it for “24 Week.” Join us this week as we…I dunno. Do something different.

BEEP-BOOP-BEEP-BOOP.

Oh, and as an added bonus…here’s a sweet montage of Bauer related carnage for you.

En el episodio ‘New History’ de la semana pasada, una nueva doctora cardiotoraxica arriva al hospital Seattle Grace-Mercy West, algo diferente a sus antecesores “Dioses de Cardio” (o diosas).

La Dra. Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) tiene un pasado con Owen (Kevin McKidd), el cual indudablemente creará futuros problemas para Owen y Cristina (Sandra Oh).

En una entrevista con TV Guide, Kim Raver analiza al nuevo triangulo amoroso, cuenta cuanto tiempo estará y sobre la posibilidad de su regreso a 24 para reunirse con Jack Bauer.

P: Cuentanos sobre la Dra. Teddy Altman

Kim Raver: Ella es excelente en lo que hace. Viene llegando de Irak. Ella y Owen estuvieron en Irak juntos. Yo llegó al Seatle Grace y hay algunos intereses de por medio.

P: ¿Teddy es una doctora cruel o una amable?

Kim Raver: [La productora Ejecutiva] Shonda Rhimes dice que ella es mala, pero diferente a los otros doctores de Cardio que han estado en el Seattle Grace. Ella se acerca de manera muy, realmente diferente. Ella además no es cálida ni adorable.

P: ¿Cuál es su relación con Owen?

Kim Raver: Todo lo que puedo decirles es que estuvieron en Irak juntos y eso se desenvolverá para que puedan ver que tipo de relación es. Eso es lo divertido. Puedo decir que es una especie de triangulo, pero es muy diferente a lo que ustedes esperan. Creo que Shonda y su equipo han hecho un excelente trabajo en la manera en la que introducieron a mi personaje. Me sorprendí y me pregunté como podrían hacerlo, porque sé que hay personas a las cuales les importa realmente Cristina y Owen.

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P: ¿Los fans deben estar preocupados de que Teddy llegue y se interponga entre Cristina y Owen?

Kim Raver: Es complicado. Creo que los fans estarán interesados en como la relación lidiará con eso. Ese es el por qué Shonda es tan inteligente en la forma en que agrega a Teddy a sus vidas. Es un triangulo fantastido, que se pone complicado e interesante.

P: El triangulo amoroso, actualmente contempla a un curto, Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams). Las relaciones en el hospital están peligrando

Kim Raver: Pero esa es la emoción que se viene. No saber quién está con quién, ni qué está pasando con quién. No estoy segura de cuales son los planes para eso. Nosotros definitivamente tenemos escenas, pero no estoy segura de que sus pensamientos vayan a donde esto va.

P: Owen no ha podido hablar con Cristina aún sobre su tiempo en Irak. ¿Él se abrirá más con Teddy, ya que ambos comparte ese lazo?

Kim Raver: Ya veremos. Ellos pasaron definitivamente tiempo juntos en Irak, así que ese es el hilo en común que tienen.

P: ¿Por cuánto tiempo Teddy estará en Grey’s Anatomy?

Kim Raver: Los productores y yo hemos hablado, pero estamos viendo como se desarrolla la historia. Ya veremos.

P: ¿Con quién te ha tocado trabajar más?

Kim Raver: He trabajado mucho con Eric Dane y Jessica Capshaw. Este grupo es genial. Tienen algo especial. Me reía mucho en Lipstick Jungle, pero me he reído mucho más aquí.

P: Los fans siguen enojados por la cancelación de Lipstick Jungle.

Kim Raver: Es una locura porque repentinamente hemos podido obtener numeros del DVR, y es loco porque son buenos numeros. Fui muy afortunada al estar en ese programa. Las personas siguen preguntando qué pasó, hasta el día de hoy. Es bueno en el sentido de que ahora estoy conociendo otro grupo de personas y estoy muy feliz de explorar este personaje.

P: Hay rumores sobre una posible temporada más de 24, la última. ¿Hay alguna posibilidad de que puedas regresar?

Kim Raver: Yo definitivamente tengo una debilidad romantica por Audrey y Jack. Si este es el último año, esperaría que hubiera una especie de reunion. Ese además es un programa en que que nunca sabes hasta que sabes que no sabes, ¿Sabes? Crees que es una cosa y luego es una cosa completamente diferente. Pero que si ¿he filmado algo aún? No.

No han terminado de grabar aún, asi que tendremos que esperar y ver que pasa.

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It’s official, I have made it 24 hours without calling him. I am proud of myself. It may not seem like much, but the smallest steps result in big payoff. Now, I’ll just take it one day at a time, and its hard…but I’m gonna do it. I think that getting over anything whether it be a person, a failure, or anything takes perseverance and patience. Which are both things that I do not have. But I’m trying, I really am.

Today, I woke up and went to get my car washed, now it’s all clean! I have kind of alot of things to do today. Vacuum, dust, clean in general. I wanted to get my nails done, but remember how I told you about my picking thing… Over the past week, since the whole break-up I’ve been gnawing at my nails how their cracked and gross and I don’t know how I feel about the nail people putting chemicals and stuff on them, I don’t want it to burn.

Now about Precious, I think it was a good movie. Really, really, I mean really sad though. It’s like everytime you think that she might succeed or be happy something else comes crashing down. What it did make me think about is that there’s so many other people who’s lives are more fucked up than mine, and I should just shake it off. Shake it off…speaking of that, Mariah Carey was in it, she was a social worker and she looked really different, not glammed up, she has murky brown hair…but she looks pretty. Paula Patton was really good in it. I think if any one deserves to win a Oscar for this movie it should be Mo’Nique or Gabourey, the girl who plays precious. GREAT performances by both of them. Also previews for Why Did I Get Married Too, Tyler Perry movie, April 2010. It has Janet Jackson in it, she was really good in Why Did I Get Married, the first one. Anyways, I’d advise you all to go see Precious, the movie shows alot about human capacity.

I think I shall go continue my chores, I will blog later. Oh and if you live in SoCal, time to bundle up, its getting cold out there.

Thanks for reading guys.

Witam wszystkich odwiedzających stronę. Jako Rzecznik, mam przyjemność przedstawić Państwu gabinet, czyli sztab ludzi współpracujących z Panią Prezydent.

Szef Gabinetu Prezydenta, Pentacy Łycha.

Sekretarz Stanu ds. Finansów, Rudolfa Węgorzewska,

Sekretarz Stanu ds. Gospodarki, Michał Kowalewski

Sekretarz Stanu ds. Polityki Zagranicznej, Agrypina Sikorska,

Sekretarz Stanu ds. Polityki Wewnętrznej i Administracji, Cyprian Cyprys Kalinicz.

Rzecznik Prezydenta, Matt Golis.

Pani Prezydent zaprasza do odwiedzania strony i komentowania wpisów. Wszystkie uwagi mile widziane ; ). Zaktualizowano wiele odnośników, w tym ten o gabinecie. Oto link: http://presidentsimone.wordpress.com/gabinet/

Tak więc zapraszam do pracy, dla dobra Politiki

Matt Golis

Rzecznik Prezydenta

Aproveitando o clima de superação, creio que os ares estejam melhorando, eu e vanessa completamos dez meses de namoro nesta última sexta-feira 13, a data um pouco diferente mas, serviu pra um cultivo do sentimento da melhora contínua, estamos dando algumas risadas a mais e eu acho que ela está sendo mais paciente comigo e minhas implicações assim como eu aos poucos retomo a vontade de tocar o barco, eu estou sorrindo novamente e tentando curtir a companhia. As vezes pode parecer que isso está sendo um sacrifício, uma dor já que eu tanto falo de problemas, mais não, está sendo apenas diferente e, penso que temos que nos esforçar pra valer a pena, assim como dinheiro vai e vem, relações também tem altos e baixos e creio que, passaremos por muitos destes embora o importante seja sempre batalharmos juntos.

Mesmo sendo uma sexta 13, comemoramos duas coisas importantes, a primeira é a saúde de nossa pequena, está tudo em ordem com Sara e a danadinha vem chutando forte, neste último mês a mamãe vanessa ganhou um pouco mais de 4kgs, recebeu uma chamadinha de canto do médico, mas eu acho que ela está linda, pela primeira vez na vida ela pesa 54,1kgs, engraçado que, eu não peso isso desde os meus 11 anos acho… (risos)

Completamos 24 semanas de gestação o que nos dá 5 meses e meio de muita saúde. Uma novidade é que de tempos pra cá vem brotando a quantidade de amigos que estão tornando-se papais e mamães, da faculdade são dois, Paula e Thais, e do grupo Fotochoop a Veri, sem falar que a Suzi, gestando que fotografei já deu a luz a sua linda filha.

Mais bem, a outra comemoração é no trabalho, o lançamento do Clipe da Banda Voltz aconteceu e nossa festinha de comemoração também foi nessa sexta 13, o clipe já está nas mãos da Mtv e da Som Livre, dia 25/11 irá ao ar pela primeira vez na Mtv, o que pra mim é emocionante por ter participado da direção de fotografia e produção. Eu ainda irei falar mais sobre ele já que, um dos programas que irá exibi-lo pode-se votar e pedir pra que suba de posições.

Bom, acho que o apagão serviu pra reeniciar os pensamentos e votos, torço pra que os bons ventos continuem soprando na minha janela!

E pra nós todo o mundo.

Otro más…

Series:

• Life – 2×20: pues… se salva por el final, porque si no el capítulo sería más bien flojillo. Ainss, qué gran malvado Roman, si es que cuando se tiene a un buen malo… ¿para qué hacen falta los buenos? De cualquier fórmula, el capítulo era bastante previsible en cuanto a quién era el criminal y demás, por ese lado… bastante mal, la verdad.

• Los Soprano – 1×11: vaya mal bicho es la madre de Tony Soprano. Pero vaya mal bicho.

• Prison Break – 4×06: un buen capítulo en general, aunque lo de que iban a ir a liberar a Mahone estaba bastante claro – y es que Scofield tiene el complejo del Capitán América -, cuyo punto más alto es el final… ¿he dicho que me encanta la “novia” de Lincoln?

• 24 – 1×01: venga… ¡Round Two! Puedo prometer y prometo que, si en esta ocasión no consigo pasar del capítulo 8, no volveré a intentar ver esta serie… En fin, un capítulo entretenidillo en el que se ven cosas que no había visto la primera vez que lo ví y que, bueno, no me ha desagradado, pero la primera vez que lo ví tampoco lo había hecho, así que…

• Doctor Mateo – 2×10: pues… un gay, un padre que no lo es, un perro con garrapatas, padre e hijo infectados y… un poco breve el papel del propio Mateo, ¿no? O sea, es un buen capítulo y tal, pero le pasa como a House, pueden permitirse que salga poco en un capítulo, pero que tampoco se acostumbren, que las series corales están bien pero acaban perdiendo el norte. Lo de Metro y los Politanos tiene su coña, pero que no abusen demasiado de ello no vaya a ser que la caguen y mucho.

• Smallville – 9×07: buen capítulo en el que un joven Jor-El llega a la Tierra y en el que se repasa su relación con Zod y se muestran cosillas de por qué Zod tiene tan mala baba… Aunque si hubiesen dicho que Doomsday era su hijo ya podría haber sido para nota. Clark se revela como kryptoniano ante Tess y Lois… ha salido por patas después del beso (XD). Muy buen capítulo.

• The Mentalist – 2×06: Jane es encarcelado porque descubren que ha estado espiando a Bosco – el agente que se encarga del caso de Red John – y se las apaña para resolver un caso desde la cárcel… en realidad lo hace cuando se fuga de la misma, pero… Capítulo entretenido, pero creo que va siendo hora de que revelen algo sobre Cho… no puede seguir siendo el personaje misterioso de la serie.

• Fringe – 2×06: anda, ¡si siguen emitiendo Fringe! Y yo que pensaba que habría desaparecido de la parrilla… En fin, un capítulo centrado en el jefazo, Broyles, y en el caso que le fastidió su vida marital cuatro años antes… El capítulo no es que sea demasiado bueno, pero… me gusta que le den importancia a los secundarios, así que por ese lado, bastante bien. Pero podría ser mejor.

• The Forgotten – 1×07: un cadáver encontrado en las vías del tren llevan a una mujer en coma y a un maltratador… Otro capítulo entretenidillo, pero bastante increíble… aunque, gracias al productor, han quitado el final en el que van todos juntos al lugar en el que encuentran el cadáver… esta vez sólo van dos… la parejita en ciernes.

• The Vampire Diaries – 1×09: y una “vieja” amiga llega para celebrar el cumpleaños de Stefan y Damon la usa para librarse de la gente que les persigue… Es un buen capítulo, han encontrado el ritmo desde el principio de la serie y salvo algún desajuste perdonable la están llevando de una manera bastante sólida… Me gusta.

• Naruto Shippuuden – 134: la previa a la lucha entre Itachi y Sasuke, los de Konoha se entretienen con Tobi y los de Sasuke se entretienen con Kisame… De los más flojos de los últimos tiempos. Tengo curiosidad por ver cómo desarrollarán la lucha entre los hermanos, pero el dibujo es francamente pésimo.

• Bleach – 244: seguimos con la saga de las zampatokous (como sea) y lo mejor del capítulo es la aparición de Zaraki… Grandiosa la explicación de por qué llega tarde a la lucha y comienza a pelear con Byakuya… en una pelea que promete y mucho. Si el dibujo en Naruto es malo, aquí es incluso peor… Una verdadera lástima.

• Life – 2×21: tengo que reconocerlo, es el final que más me ha gustado en los últimos tiempos. No porque Crews se haya dado cuenta de algo que resultaba más o menos evidente desde mitad de temporada hacia aquí, si no porque es un final que, sin cerrar del todo la serie – porque seamos serios, la serie podría continuar perfectamente después de esto -, es adecuado. Incluso un poco salvaje cuando Crews se encarga de Roman… Lo malo es que las tramas secundarias – es decir, el caso de cada capítulo – de esta segunda temporada han sido un poco flojas y eso les perjudicó tanto que tuvieron que cerrar la serie… al menos la cerraron. Gran serie.

• Los Soprano – 1×12: Tony está deprimido, tiene alucinaciones (espectaculares, sí, pero alucinaciones ;-D) y su tío intenta matarle por algo que dijo su madre… No es un buen momento para ser Tony Soprano. O quizás sí.

• Prison Break – 4×07: la nueva (y extraña) pareja de la serie… ¡la “novia” de Lincoln y T-Bag! Seguro que darán mucho juego… mientras sigan vivos, claro. ¿Qué harán ahora que no tienen el lector de cacharros? ¿Habrá un capítulo en plan Ocean’s Eleven?

• 24 – 1×02: y seguimos… la hija raptada, la madre vigilada – aunque aún no se hayan dado cuenta -, una traidora, un muerto, un asesino a sueldo y un candidato a presidente fugado… pues sí que pasan cosas, sí. ¿Sabéis por qué me gustan las imágenes partidas del final de cada capítulo? Porque me recuerdan a la saga de los viajes en el tiempo de los Nuevos Vengadores… XD

• The Big Bang Theory – 3×07: a Sheldon no le gusta que sus “padres” (en lugar de padres podéis sustituirlo por Leonard y Penny) – o nadie, en realidad – discutan… Un capítulo que fácilmente podría haberse convertido en pésimo tiene algún toque genial que lo salva completamente.

• How I Meet Your Mother – 5×07: ¡Por fin! ¡Se han deshecho del lastre que estaba frenando a la serie desde el final de la temporada pasada! Barney’s Back!!!!

• House – 6×06: y seguimos con las cosas sorprendentes de esta temporada… una pareja se consolida (House y Wilson); y otras dos se separan… una ¿definitivamente? (House y Cuddy, ahh qué traidor el detective, espero que no aparezca demasiado porque podría ser muy malo para la serie) y la otra comienza a distanciarse ¿definitivamente? (Chase y Cameron, es lo malo de decir la verdad, tiene consecuencias). Foreman, por otra parte, ni está ni se le espera… ¿Volverá 13? Buen capítulo.

• Lie To Me – 2×06: siguen investigando las relaciones entre los personajes (por cierto, un consejo, lo de Foster y Lightman no deberían alargarlo demasiado, de cualquier forma, un cambio en su relación sólo añadiría que pudiesen meter alguna escena casera, así que no debería crear muchos problemas a los guionistas) y en este Lightman le devuelve el favor al agente del FBI que trabaja con ellos… Se deja ver, aunque no es de los mejores de la serie.

• Heroes – 4×09: capítulo extraño el de esta semana… A Claire le deja su “novia”; Peter se echa novia – aunque aún no lo saben ninguno de los dos, pero todo se andará -; T-Bag sigue con su plan para reclutar a la gente con poderes; reaparece el haitiano; Nathan recupera el control de su cuerpo; y Parkman se suicida – aunque no sé si será permanente – para deshacerse del Sylar con el que comparte cuerpo… Anda que no ha sido extraño, interesante, pero extraño.

• Los Soprano – 1×13: la última escena de esta primera temporada me hace pensar que los guionistas tenían bastante claro cómo terminar la serie desde el primer momento… Gran capítulo e insisto otra vez, pero qué gran personaje es la madre de Tony Soprano, qué gran personaje. La segunda la empezaré la semana que viene, que tampoco hay que pasarse.

• Prison Break – 4×08: la “novia” de Lincoln y T-Bag se unen al grupo… ¿cómo se lo tomará Sarah? A fin de cuentas, la “novia” sólo la torturó y le “cortó” la cabeza. Aún no hemos llegado a la mitad de la tempora y se me está haciendo un poquito larga… Esperemos que merezca la pena.

• 24 – 1×03: pues… en este capítulo vuelven a comenzar mis dudas. Es un poco más relajado que los anteriores y mi atención se desvía bastante del mismo para centrarme en cualquier otra cosa… y es que al final de este capítulo nos encontramos, más o menos, en el mismo punto que en el anterior. Sí pasan cosas, pero me resultaron menos interesantes.

• V (2009) – 1×02: ¿Se puede criticar una serie que tiene una escena de ducha? Si la respuesta es sí, sólo tengo que decir que se están tomando su tiempo para empezar la acción – lo cual, ojo, no veo mal, es más, me gusta bastante el ritmo al que están desarrollando la serie -; si la respuesta es no, debería decir que es una serie maravillosa, impresionante, la mejor que he visto nunca… o casi. Es una buena serie, se toman su tiempo para contar cómo pasan las cosas y hasta tiene una escena de ducha de la protagonista… ¿qué más se puede pedir para los dos primeros capítulos de una serie?

• Castle – 2×08: una familia muy rica, un criminal que confiesa un asesinato del que no era culpable, bromas con Facebook y la cara de Beckett cuando escucha la respuesta de Castle a la pregunta de si están liados… Un capítulo normalillo, la verdad.

• NCIS – 7×07: ahh, el placer de las series hermanas cuyas tramas se continuan de unas a otras… ¿Recordáis la koreana a la que perseguía el director Vance en NCIS Los Angeles la semana pasada? Pues continúa en esta serie esta semana… Pobre McGee, nunca tiene suerte, aunque… ¿se ha mostrado Abby algo celosa? DiNozzo sin ninguna duda, pero… ¿y Abby?

• NCIS Los Angeles – 1×07: capítulo centrado en el pasado de Callen… bastante mejor que el de su serie hermana esta semana. No quería decir nada por respeto pero… los tres últimos capítulos o así han sido bastante mejores que la de la NCIS original. Se explican las tramas que habían quedado abiertas desde que se había presentado a los personajes en la NCIS original. La química entre Callen y su jefa es más grande que la que existe actualmente entre los personajes de la otra (o quizás es que es más novedosa).

• 24 – 1×04: y seguimos con esta movida serie… No sé qué sería peor, ser Jack Bauer, su hija o cualquiera que les rodea… Porque los Bauer sufrir, lo que se dice sufrir… sufren, ¡pero es que quienes les rodean palman directamente! Entretenido y tal.

• Prison Break – 4×09: vaya… la verdad es que se veía venir la muerte de Bellick, llevaban varios capítulos haciendo que cayese simpático y bueno… su asociación con Sucre era bastante divertida. Pero también hay que reconocer que su papel había ido disminuyendo según pasaban los capítulos y tampoco se le echará excesivamente de menos. Mi duda es si ahora Mahone va a tener más papel o si se va a suicidar en poco tiempo…

• Bones – 5×07: me tengo que quitar el sombreo, metafóricamente ya sabéis, ante los guionistas… Es evidente que ellos sí son profesionales de esto y son capaces de darle a la serie el ritmo que debe tener y las cosas pasan en el momento en el que deben pasar… Al menos uno de los dos ya lo tiene claro. Stephen Fry como Gordon Gordon simplemente genial, vamos como en todas sus anteriores apariciones.

• Flash Forward – 1×08: esta, en cambio, poco a poco me va pareciendo cada vez menos interesante. Y es una lástima porque el primer capítulo estuvo muy bien, pero es que después de pasarse los seis siguientes capítulos para demostrar lo inevitable que era el destino, en el siguiente le dieron una vuelta de tuerca brutal al tema y en este siguen dando la matraca con lo mismo… No me creo al personaje de Joseph Fiennes, me resulta totalmente increíble. Y los demás tampoco es que sean mucho mejores, pero bueno… por el momento seguiré con ella.

• The Mentalist – 2×07: por fin esta serie ha tenido algo que no había tenido hasta el momento, el grupo de Lisbon interactuando con otros compañeros policías del CBI… Tiene momentos graciosos – eso de que llamen Epi y Blas a Cho y a Rigsby – y alguna que otra cosa entretenida… pero tiene que mejorar mucho.

Películas:

• G.I. Joe – Resolute: ¿habéis tenido alguna vez la sensación de que la historia ya había empezado cuando llegáis a un sitio? Pues eso me ha pasado con esta película… No sé si es que dan por supuesto de que todo el mundo conoce a los G.I. Joe y sus historias o es que, quizás, haya una película anterior a esta y yo no lo sabía… o que comienza después de la serie de animación… cualquier posibilidad es posible, pero… como que faltan cosas. Vamos, que no es un Año 1 para enganchar a la gente, para meterte aquí tienes que conocer cosas de los personajes… excepto de Ojos de Serpiente que lo repiten (y explican) todo… En fin, flojilla… y que me den las gracias por no pasarme con ella.

• Iron Man: cada vez que la veo me gusta más… Es una muy buenaa película. Francamente buena, como ya he hablado en varias de la misma, no voy a añadir nada nuevo, así que… Si no la habéis visto aún, sois tontos. Así de claro. Me gusta Gwyneth Paltrow haciendo de Pepper… se adapta bien.

• El Increíble Hulk: otra que tal. ¿Os podéis creer que no recordaba que Tim Roth aparecía en la película? Sí lo sabía, pero no lo recordaba… me ha hecho mucha gracia encontrármelo en este tipo de papel después de verlo en Lie To Me. Otra que me gusta más cada vez que la veo y de la que voy pillando más y más detalles y guiños. El mayor pego que le puedo poner es que los movimientos de Hulk son exactamente iguales a los del juego Hulk Ultimate Destruction, más allá de eso… nada.

Inquietante, ¿verdad?

In an effort to further qualify and look back with nostalgia ten years in the future, I am going to try to post blogs more often from now on.

Starting with some general updates –> My camp Kesem interview was last week, and that I would say, went quite well. Hopefully the ends won’t result in rejection, because I don’t know if I can cope with anymore of that this year!

Anywayyyyyyy, here’s a mini update:

Monday (11/09): I finished my HIstory essay this day!

Tuesday (11/10): Phil’s BBQ. Yummmm to Ribs. And then Mario Party for the first time. Might I point out that I beat John Torres? haha.

Wednesday (11/11). Paw Retreat. This was fun! There was a scavenger hunt, free food… etc. It was Veterans’ Day so we go the entire day off. Also, me and Jennifer Klage bonded over 24, the best damn show on television! I became known as the “glee” guy within the organization… we played lots of games that involved bananas, hot lava, etc… We got to draw pictures to describe ourselves… And we found out what kind of people we were (orange, blue, gold, green). I’m apparently blue, which makes sense considering my predicament. bahah. I almost lost my jacket too, thank goodness I didn’t though! And then I went to eat Pho! AND THEN Glee was on After. Hoorah!

Thursday (11/12): Howard’s Birthday was that day so went to BJ’s and I got a Calzone. They were small and tiny, unlike….

Friday (11/13): I stayed up quite late playing some video games and working on a project.

Saturday (11/14): Um. Everything from Friday the 13th to this day lasted overnight –> Mario Party, Mario Cart, Bang, & Monopoly. Oh, what a night. Oh, and I went to Geisel.

Sunday (11/15): Church Tomorrow? Who knows. Oh, and I have to start practicing for open-mic night potentially with Tyler.

& That’s a wrap! I register for classes on Tuesday, Glee on Wednesday, and then 24 returns with a 2-night 4-hour season premiere Sunday January 17th, and Monday January 18th (MLK Day) only on FOX.

Ooops, I didn’t get round to writing last week’s update so this is a special double edition – twice the list fun for your money!

It’s been a fortnight of almosts; I almost managed to give blood but they didn’t have any spare appointments (honestly! That’s not just an excuse!), I almost wore a poppy for Remembrance Sunday but it fell off my coat last Saturday night and I almost wore another pair of shoes but the near-constant rain meant they weren’t a practical choice.

To make sure I manage to complete more things and don’t get stuck with almosts I’ve been working through my list to work out which things I can get on with and which ones are meant for later in the year.

I have managed to tick off a few things from the list, watch out for more updates coming this week (don’t forget you can subscribe so you don’t miss anything) and I’ve added an ‘about me‘ page to my blog so you can find out, er, about me.

It’s been a bit quiet around here over the last week or so as I’ve been super busy and feeling a bit under the weather so no graph this week (sorry graph fans). Instead, take a look at this cool pic I made at wordle.com that shows the most common words I’ve used here recently, dominated by my recent flurry of National Trust posts …

Jo x

Como en estados Unidos son muy aficionados a hacer listas con todo tipo de cuestiones, ahora no llega una en la que nos revelan los “10 mejores episodios pilotos” que ha habido en la historia de la pequeña pantalla. La fuente de dicho análisis es AOL (AOL televisión), una web bastante visitada en el continente americano.

El caso es que muchas han sido las series que se merecen estar en ese ranking y que lamentablemente se han olvidado de ellas. ¿Qué os parecen las candidaturas? ¿son justas o injustas la inclusión de algún piloto en esa lista? ¿echáis de menos a alguna serie que debería presentarse en este ranking?

1. Lost (Perdidos).
2. The Sopranos (Los Soprano).
3. ER (Urgencias).
4. Dallas.
5. Desperate Housewives (Mujeres desesperadas)
6. The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
7. The Cosby Show (El show de Billy Cosby).
8. Glee.
9. 24
10. The O.C.

A favor de la lista: que evidentemente hay series que merecen estar ahí como “24”, “Urgencias”, “Mujeres desesperadas”, “Los Soprano” o indudablemente “Perdidos”.

En contra de la lista: se han dejado grandes episodios piloto de series tan buenas como “Héroes”, “Anatomía de Grey”, “Sobrenatural”, “Veronica Mars”, “Embrujadas”, “Dexter”, “V”, “Castle”, “The Vampire Diaries”… y una infinidad más… A parte que por ejemplo “Dallas”, “Glee” o “The O.C.” no creo que tengan un episodio piloto demasiado bueno para pertenecer a este ranking tan distinguido.

¿Qué pensáis vosotros? ¿falta alguna serie? ¿cuál?

Tenkte jeg skulle vise dere noe. Her er en liste på hva jeg ser / har sett ferdig:

Bones

CSI

One Tree Hill

The O.C

Boston Legal – Tidenes beste dramakomedie med tidenes bromance (Varte i 5 og en halv sessong )

Heroes

Smallville

24

The Unit

Alias

Scrubs – Tidenes beste Sit-com. Fant opp meningen bak Bromance

Måtte bare ta med denne å

Californication

Prison Break

Top Gear

Family Guy

Dawsons Creek

Hvis du har sett halvparten av disse seriene så ser du kanskje et mønster. Jeg ser på det jeg finner appelerende for min smak. Humor messig må det for eksempel være ekstraordinært samt “smart” humor. Kan innrømme at Family Guy humoren er en dum humor, men den er “dumsmart” hvis du skjønner. Men ta foreksempel Alan Shore i Boston Legal, alltid vittige meninger;

You know I’m not about to go to Texas and not ride the mechanical bull, Chelina. That would be like going to Los Angeles and not sleeping with Paris Hilton.

Ellers så ser dere kanskje at jeg er en stor sucker for drama og parforhold. Dramaserien jeg mener er best den dag i dag er nok The OC. Anbefaller alle som har litt tid til overs å kjøpe evt laste ned Sessong 1. Du vil ikke bli skuffet. For å få meg til å se en serie må det være noe jeg finner intressant, evt noe jeg kan relatere meg til. Hvis jeg kan relatere meg så er jeg hekta. Men det trenger ikke å være personer, det kan godt være en bi handling i serien, sånn som “will they, wont they”.

Jeg er utrolig feig selv på den fronten. Hyklersk som jeg er går jeg rundt å irriterer meg når skuespillerene bare går rundt grøten? (mulig den ble feil, men jeg skylder på mine vietnamesiske gener de).

Men for meg har det aldri vært lett å stole på folk. Det er nok min egen feil. Jeg setter alt for høye krav, og ofte må jeg motsi meg selv da jeg realiserer at jeg kan ikke forvente så mye av folk. MEN, det er faktisk noen som klarer å fylle mine forventninger og vell så det. Det er personer jeg aldri vil gi slipp på. Utrolige mennesker. Men uansett om folk, kall det “skuffer”, så bryter jeg ikke kontakt eller no. Bare stoler ikke på de med de “viktige” tingene.

Ble kanskje litt alvorlig slutt, men jaja… til info lissom

Rick Wright Leaves £24 Million Details of the late Rick Wright’s will have been revealed to show that Rick left around £24 Million, the majority going to his children, James, 42, Gala, 39, and Ben, 17. None of Rick’s three former wives (Juliette, Franka and Millie) were mentioned in the will. Rick also made arrangements in the will for ‘a really good party’ to be held for his friends – putting aside £20,000 with a guest list to be drawn up by James and Gala. They were also left their father’s house in Le Rouret, in south east France. Gala also inherited Rick’s prized Aston Martin DB5, and he left his cherished Bosendorfer piano to his son-in-law bassist Guy Pratt. The moral rights to his musical, literary and performance work were left to his children. (Pictured, Rick with former wife Millie & son Ben in happier times).

David Gilmour In Recording Studio? Alex Paterson from electronic music group The Orb, in a statement to The List said ‘I’ve just started work on an album with David Gilmore from Pink Floyd which I think every Orb and Pink Floyd fan will want to hear.’ Our investigations continue! UPDATE: David’s official site has announced that David has done some recording with The Orb and producer Youth, inspired initially by the plight of Gary McKinnon. They say that nothing is finalised, and nothing has been confirmed with regards to any structure for the recordings or firm details regarding any release plans.

Alrighty then, here are my list of ideas for episodes of 24. I got the idea for this post while I was lining up in McDonalds and it took me 20 minutes before I got to order. I thought “Gee this would make a great episode of 24″ so the rest writes itself.

Here is my list of ideas:

1. They spend the whole episode stuck in a cue in McDonald’s because they decide to get a quick snack

2. They go on a mystery tour, we spend the whole episode wondering where they will end up

3. One of the cast members goes on Big Brother, and we spend the whole episode in the house

4. Someones car runs out of fuel in the middle of the Australian Outback, and spends the whole episode trying to get to civilization

5. They spend the whole episode going on a football trip and sing “1,000,000 bottles of beer on the wall” there and back

6. Someone decides they need a holiday so they spend the whole episode taking their mother-in-law to the airport

7. They go on the search for Osama Bin Laden

8. They phone for pizza and spend the whole episode waiting for it

9. The call some company on the phone as they were overcharged on phone bill and spend the whole episode on hold

10. They spend the whole episode reading “War and Peace” or “Moby Dick”

11. Someone could go on a spending spree and spend the whole episode buying useless merchandise

12. They spend the whole episode playing Monopoly

13. They spend the whole episode at the doctors and when consulted they are told its all in their head and they should go home

14. The spend the whole episode at the dentists because of the McDonald’s they ate (See #1)

15. They spend the episode playing chess, but the both players think that its their opponents turn so they wait

16. They spend the whole episode waiting for a bus except they realise that the bus doesn’t go past on that particular day because its a public holiday

17. They spend the whole episode drinking a cup of coffee… Hey if it works for soap operas it should work for the show!

18. They decide to go running for no apparent reason across the U.S (if it works for Forest Gump, it should work for them)

19. They turn into mimes and spend the whole episode getting out of a glass box

20. They decide to go around trying to sell 200,000 boxes of girl scout cookies for their camping trip

21. They get lost trying to find their way to Wally World when they decide to take a ’short cut’

22. They spend the whole episode trying to track down Santa because they didn’t get what they wanted for Christmas

23. They spend the whole episode stuck on a ride at a carnival

24. They spend the whole episode looking for their friends because they are playing hide and seek

25. They spend the whole episode trying to find out ‘Who Killed Kenny’

26. They spend the whole episode trying to find out who shot Mr Burns

27. The spend the whole episode trying to find out who shot J.R (Note: if # 25, #26, #27 was actually aired on TV then they could release it as a pack on DVD or VHS and call it the “Trigger Happy 24 pack” or something to that effect!)

28. Someone gets abducted by aliens and they spend the episode bringing them back! (Could star Men In Black or the X-Files. Maybe even the cast from CSI if they do an autopsy, and then Law & Order to prosicute the aliens)

29. One of the cast members spends the whole time creating a blog about themselves  (Hey, wait a minute – That sounds like me!)

Ok, it’s your turn….

In no particular order I will reveal to all of you five television shows that I believe are GREAT! I have thought diligently about this for a few days and I believe I have devised a list of shows that I could watch on loop the rest of my life and be totally content. Now this list might be skewed a bit because I didn’t take into account older shows. This is not meaning I am not a fan of older shows. I love older shows! The Andy Griffith Show, Murder She Wrote, and Momma’s Family are shows that tickle my tummy every time I see them on TV, but for this list I wanted recent shows that were BOMB! So read and learn your role!

1. Seinfeld – This show was a constant in my life for years. I remember begging my parents to let me stay up just a little bit past nine so I could catch the rerun of that nights Seinfeld. The story lines were so absurd, but yet you thought your life was the model for the show. “The show about nothing” was the whole concept of Seinfeld and it really was. When I think about it now I realize how genius the show actually was. You can buy all seasons on DVD and I promise it would be worth it.
2. 24 – Two words, one man, Jack Bauer! If you ever pondered what can one man do to help save the world? Well use Jack Bauer as your model. I have seen Jack Bauer bite a Chinese man’s jugular out to escape from a prison camp. I have seen Jack Bauer die and come back to life. He is not human, he is my model American citizen. When I’m in a hairy situation I will honestly sit and think to myself, “What would Jack Bauer do?”, I really do that! If I could either have any superpower or be Jack Bauer I would chose to be Jack Bauer. The new season will be on FOX next year… I’m pumped!
3. Arrested Development – If there were ever a show that was ahead of its time it was this show. I watched the pilot episode on my 13 inch TV in my room when I was in middle school, and I never missed an episode for the three seasons it was out. Back then I didn’t get all the innuendos and jokes, but now that I am older I catch it all, and hilarious. Micheal Cera is in it, and I know some of you out there are just in love with his awkwardness. Season 2 is my favorite FYI.
4. The Office – The show is just a snapshot of our generation. This show will probably define us when vh1 puts out I love 2000.  
5. Curb your Enthusiasm – I started with a show created by Larry David and I will end with a show created by Larry David. Curb your Enthusiasm is the R-rated version of Seinfeld. It airs on HBO Sunday nights. Have you ever watched HBO’s Sunday night line up? It is amazing. The show is about nothing just like Seinfeld, Larry David plays a producer and just runs into a whole mess of problems that would never happen to you and I.

So when you have a free moment go rent or buy a season of one of these shows. I promise you that you will be left wanting more. Hope everyone is having a zippity-do-da week and I lurve you all!

OHHHH and beard update.

Well.

Two more days to endure of “24″ week!

DEAL WITH IT.

Today we examine the individual seasons of “24,” ranked from of course worst to best. There have been seven seasons of the show so far, but as I already ranted about my displeasure at Season Six yesterday, I’ve decided to move on and leave it off today’s list.

Rest assured though, that if it was on here…it would be last.

Dead last.

Six: Season Four.

Despite the rampant awesomeness of having the mummy as the main villain, Season Four couldn’t really live up to any of it’s expectations. Ridiculous terrorist plot after ridiculous terrorist plot kept elevating the threat to mammothly outlandish proportions. By the end, I wasn’t really sure what the hell was going on. Marwan (the mummy) while a pretty badass villain had way to many contingency/escape plans. It was just poor writing. Everytime the authorities would close in on him, ready to foil whatever act of terror he was planning to unleash, he would conveniantly escape through a back exit/staircase/trick ladder, ready to start a new, bigger, better plan.

It just got to be a bit too much.

Oh…and, also…I may be wrong on this, but I think this may be the only season of the show where a major character isn’t killed off.

Highlights: Jack’s videogame-like assault on a terrorist headquarters; the surprise re-emergence of Tony; the mummy.

Five: Season Three.

Season Three started off pretty well. In an effort to infiltrate a drug cartel, Jack got himself addicted to heroin. He also got himself a new partner, in the form of hunky Chase Edmunds. It’s usually a bad sign when a series adds a young partner like that, but Chase was surprisingly solid. He was an adequate foil for Jack, and I genuinely would have liked to see more of him.

The villains this season were an interesting affair, beginning with the delightfully charming Salazar brothers and ending with the delightfully British Stephen Saunders – who had amazing potential but was, naturally, pretty much wasted.

The season revolved around some virus with the capacity to kill the whole world or something, and CTU’s efforts to stop it. It also featured the emergence of fan favorite Chloe O’Brien, an interesting (and first of many) twist on the tired mole cliche, and Jack, as always, confronting his personal demons.

At some point Tony also got shot in the neck, but was on his feet glowering and barking orders a few hours later. He’s a trooper, that guy!

Highlights: Michelle gets tough in a hotel; Sherry dies (finally.); Chloe makes her first appearance; Jack plays a game of Russian Roulette; Jack kills Chappelle; Jack kills Nina; Jack doesn’t kill the main villain. (Actually, that was kind of lame.)

Four: Season One.

This is where it all began, seven or so odd years ago. (Which is like nineteen in the “24″ world.) We’re introduced to the greatest hero of all time, his annoying family, and the Counter Terrorist Unit – all tropes that would become, more or less, series staples until the Seventh Season.

It was at times meandering, at times inane (especially whilst covering whatever shenanigans Kim and Teri had gotten themselves into) and at times overstayed it’s welcome.

Still, it had it’s moments – including a scenery-chewing, bizarrely accented Dennis Hopper as the main villain, and the final scene.

Also, Lou Diamond Phillips showed up near the end for some reason – and that alone puts it higher on this list.

Highlights: We meet JACK BAUER; Nina was weirdly attractive; Dennis Hopper’s accent; Lou Diamond Phillips.

Three: Season Seven.

This should have been it. From the outset, Season Seven sounded like it might just be the be-all-end-all of “24″ seasons. And while it didn’t quite make it that far, it came damn close.

This is what we knew initially: for one thing, Season Seven would be the first season of “24″ to leave Los Angeles, the city that had endured terrorists wrath for six years. That was pretty big. Then, we found out that CTU was being done away with as well – in favour of the Effa Bee Eye, in Washington, D.C.

Then we got wind of the sexy new partner for Jack – the beautiful (but deadly!) Agent Renee Walker, played by the talented (but deadly!) Annie Wershing. Add to that a villain played by acadamy award winner Jon Voight, and another bad guy played by the always dependable B-movie star Tony Todd, and brotha, you got a stew going.

Then came the biggest news of all – Tony Almeida would be returning from the dead somehow as Jack’s newest adversary. Saint’s alive!

And, for good measure, it was coming off the heels of the worst season in the shows history. Not a tough act to follow.

While this all sounds epic to the max on paper, it faltered a bit in execution. It was still one of the strongest seasons of the show, with some great thrills, scenes, acting, characters and guest stars. Plus, it pretty much completely did away with the core “24″ cast (or what was left of it) and gave us dozens of new characters – the strongest of which may have been the new president in the “24″ universe, Allison Taylor played by Cherry Jones. (Jones would win an Emmy that year for her portrayal of the strong-willed Taylor.)

Good, maybe even great, but it could have been better…nitpicking, sure, but too many twists and some truly insipid character motivations didn’t help, either – like the amazing flip-flopping Almeida. Even by the end, I don’t really know if he was good, or evil, or what.

Janene Garafalo showed up this season for some reason as well. That didn’t help, either.

Highlights: Jon Voight; Jack’s fight with henchman Quinn; Senator Red Foreman; Bill’s sacrifice; Aaron Pierce and Ethan Kanin’s Hardy Boys Mysteries subplot; Renee Walker.

Two: Season Two.

Jack Bauer was a pretty broken man coming into the show’s second season. After the death of his wife, he kind of went off the rails a bit – which turned out to be entertaining as hell for the viewer.

Season Two revolved around an impending nuclear attack on Los Angeles, organized by a Middle Eastern terrorist cell – manipulated by wealthy American businessmen led by Peter Kingsley (the dude from “Saw.”)

It was one of the more intense seasons of the show, with very few useless subplots (though there may have been something with a cougar…dammit, Kim!) and some great action – including a bombing at CTU.

It also featured a heroic and dramatic sendoff for George Mason, Jack’s boss for the first few seasons. Although kind of a douche, George redeemed himself this season and became a fan favorite because of it.

Highlights: Kate Warner; Jack’s infamous running-wall-neck-snap; Michelle and Tony start getting it on; the  cougar dude from “Saw.”

One: Season Five.

Jack Bauer takes on the President of the United States of America.

Also RoboCop. And the dude from “Warlock.” And C. Thomas Howell.

It’s pretty damn awesome.

This season had it all – one of the best sets of villains I’ve ever seen on the show; some great acting from Gregory Itzin and Jean Smart as the President and his first lady; and super-human secret service agent Aaron Pierce blew up a dude wearing a flame-thrower.

SOLD.

Highlights: The shocking first episode deaths; that fat hobbit’s sacrifice; Aaron Pierce’s expanded role; Edgar’s death; Jack deploying another famous neck snap; Jack’s final shoot-out with Henderson; the Logans.

Well.

Tomorrow we close out “24 Week” with the five best moments in the show’s history.

And then I will return you to your regularly scheduled blog!

13/11/09

The cast of NCIS.

Gnocchi with gorgonzola.

The cool change.

The city on a balmy evening.

My breezy open window.

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It occurs to me that the popularity of the show 24 and the fictional character President Palmer may have something to do with the popularity of a black president as being voted into the most powerful position currently available on our planet.  What are your thoughts on this.  Type in President Palmer to google and get over 5,900,000 hits! Wow.  Anyhows he was damn good in the show, in my opinion, whilst drifting off last night  this was my last thought.  I like Obama and feel very happy that he is in power…….but as said, how much of this was down to the 24 Show and the wonderful Palmer President that stood for all that is good and great in this TV Success? Any thoughts……….

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Matt left early Monday morning. I’m back to cooking for one for a while.

My Tax Pro classes are going well. I’m surprised that I’m understanding and retaining things so well. I took my second quiz today and I was really scared that I wouldn’t know the answers, but I did just fine. I have to keep telling myself to take my time reading the questions. It’s always been a problem of mine to not fully read questions on tests and miss a critical word. I’ve really connected with one of the girls in the class. Her name is Bridget. She is my age, married and has two young kids. We found that we are very similar. Today we even found that our husbands are very alike. Her husband works on power lines. They travel all over the country for his job sometimes living in a hotel for a month and sometimes (like now) being able to settle in for a whole year. I’m really enjoying the class. I just hope that the actual job is as satisfying.

Bravo is almost adjusted to Matt being gone. The first day he cried. He searched high and low for Matt when I got home. He thought every little noise was Matt pulling in the driveway. Later when he realized it was past the time that Matt usually comes home he lay by the front door and whined. It made me really sad. He had to do one more search through the house before he would come to bed and then slept on Matt’s side almost the whole night. Today he still looked for Matt when I got home, but he settled down a lot faster and I think he’s stopped expecting him to come home. I know he still misses his daddy though. Matt gives him so much energy. That’s a nice way of saying that I’m out of shape and get totally winded when I try chasing him around the house.

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