I have never really understood what "speaking in tongues" means until this afternoon when my husband started doing so. After a trip to Costco to purchase a TV for my bedroom, we found when we got it home that it is really too big for the room. That caused Dan to collapse in a puddle and start blathering. It was a good ten minutes before he started to use English again. Teddy and I both hid under the bed while this was going on. However, I must say Dan never articulated so well how he felt about something before.
So that started a frenzy of musical TVs in our house. The new TV went to Dan's bedroom, that TV came out to the family room, the family room TV, which was just resurrected from storage yesterday, is probably going back. We will be back to Costco tomorrow to get a new TV for me, but in the meantime, the tiny little TV from the kitchen counter was moved to my bedroom.
I know, for only two people, we are way over the legal limit for TVs per household. We probably should join a group for addicted TV watchers. Yeah, sure, right after I watch CSI Miami, Saving Grace, Drop Dead Diva, old Maverick reruns...
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Saving Grace
WTF!!?? Earl's an angel! Why couldn't he find Grace last night? As in Grace Hanadarko, played by Holly Hunter on "Saving Grace." Grace is an Oklahoma City police detective who is totally fearless, but always just a bit afraid. She sees an angel named Earl, played by Leon Rippy, a good ole southern boy, who is doing his best to help Grace along in life. God appears to Earl as huge dog, an English bulldog, I think, Anyway, last night, when Grace was taken hostage by a childhood friend, off his meds, who proceeds to tattoo a pair of wings on her back, Earl couldn't find where Grace was being held. OK, I know, you have to suspend disbelief while watching this kind of show, but I just can't suspend the need for consistency. Earl has taken Grace to the Grand Canyon where they stood on top of one of the inaccessible rock formations. He has performed miracles for her before. So, he couldn't find her!!?? He rallied a team of angels to help him, but in the end, it was Grace's fellow cops who figured out where she was and rescued her.
I love all the cop shows, NCIS, CSI Miami, Law and Order-SVU, etc., but there is one thing that bugs me in all of them. The women cops, detectives, medical examiners, all wear high heels, skin tight silk pants, and skimpy little tank tops to crime scenes with their long hair streaming all lose. I couldn't believe it on one episode when Calleigh (on CSI Miami) wore spike heeled boots as she searched for evidence at a crime scene in the Everglades. Out in the bug infested swamp, in the scorching sun, she had on a teensy white (white?!) short sleeved frilly little blouse. Seriously? Yeah, I know, sex sells, but it is really annoying women are portrayed that way.
Another thing that all the characters do on crime shows is pick up the most horrible, grisly piece of evidence, something dripping slime and blood and hold it a half inch from their face, at or above eye level, and peer at it with their mouths open. Holy crap! That's just stupid!
Back to the skimpy clothing women characters wear on TV, it was always so inconsistent that the witches on "Charmed," which takes place in San Francisco, also always wore skimpy little outfits—short skirts, frilly sleeveless tops, huge high heels. If you have ever been to SF, you know you have to bundle up! It's cold there! Even in the summer time. Especially in the summer time. Like Mark Twain said, the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Also, on the show, SF is always sunny and windless. Ha! the wind in SF will knock you off your feet at times. And, you cannot wear high heels in SF and be able to walk around the hilly streets. Hmmm, yeah, maybe they had cast a spell to ward off the cold and make their shoes comfy.
OK, have to go. I need to get my cat his own cup of coffee since he just dipped his paw into my cup to get swig of it.
I love all the cop shows, NCIS, CSI Miami, Law and Order-SVU, etc., but there is one thing that bugs me in all of them. The women cops, detectives, medical examiners, all wear high heels, skin tight silk pants, and skimpy little tank tops to crime scenes with their long hair streaming all lose. I couldn't believe it on one episode when Calleigh (on CSI Miami) wore spike heeled boots as she searched for evidence at a crime scene in the Everglades. Out in the bug infested swamp, in the scorching sun, she had on a teensy white (white?!) short sleeved frilly little blouse. Seriously? Yeah, I know, sex sells, but it is really annoying women are portrayed that way.
Another thing that all the characters do on crime shows is pick up the most horrible, grisly piece of evidence, something dripping slime and blood and hold it a half inch from their face, at or above eye level, and peer at it with their mouths open. Holy crap! That's just stupid!
Back to the skimpy clothing women characters wear on TV, it was always so inconsistent that the witches on "Charmed," which takes place in San Francisco, also always wore skimpy little outfits—short skirts, frilly sleeveless tops, huge high heels. If you have ever been to SF, you know you have to bundle up! It's cold there! Even in the summer time. Especially in the summer time. Like Mark Twain said, the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Also, on the show, SF is always sunny and windless. Ha! the wind in SF will knock you off your feet at times. And, you cannot wear high heels in SF and be able to walk around the hilly streets. Hmmm, yeah, maybe they had cast a spell to ward off the cold and make their shoes comfy.
OK, have to go. I need to get my cat his own cup of coffee since he just dipped his paw into my cup to get swig of it.
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