It's been a good time for comedy

A couple months ago, I came across reruns of Roseanne in the afternoon. I watched a few times, and it reminded me that I used to love that show. My mother didn't like it of course, and she liked it even less when people would occasionally say I reminded them of Darlene. Sometimes she wouldn't let me watch it. But now I'm 28, and I can watch whatever the hell I want. I bought seasons 4 and 5 from Amazon.

I watched a couple episodes the other night, and thoroughly enjoyed them. The characters are funny, even if their clothes are dated, and more real than sitcom characters on TV now. There have been way too many shows with the tubby comedian and his unrealistically hot wife. Some of them have kids, but hardly any of the kids are actual characters. So I sat on my couch and enjoyed watching the Conners bicker, wear slouchy clothes, eat generic food, play jokes on each other, and generally amuse me.

Other funnies: Last night Donald and I watched the first new SNL after the strike. Tina Fey hosted, and large parts of the show were actually funny! Then we caught a bit of a Chappelle's Show rerun, which is also hilarious. I've been reading Wil Wheaton's Just a Geek, which if you are a nerd, you should read. His writing style is very agreeable, and he just tells a good story. Check out his blog: http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/ He's recovering from sinus surgery, so isn't very funny at the moment, but dig into the archives for some good stuff.

Heroes

Tonight's episode only confirmed that I hate that Molly kid. I hope the boogeyman guy comes and eats her face. I don't know why, she just gets on my damn nerves. Aside from that, I enjoyed the Micah in LA story. I also enjoyed the Claire gets a boyfriend story, although it's damn certain she's going to get caught. I like the addition of Flying Man Jr., and that he's added some doubt into Claire's mind about HRG. Donald thinks junior is up to no good, but I'm not sure.

Our VCR is getting a good workout so far this TV season. We've been taping Heroes because 8:00 on Monday is an awfully good time to go get coffee, being my only night off currently. Wednesday I tape Bionic Woman. The lead actress is alright, but a little annoying in the same way Jennifer Garner was at the beginning of Alias. I will continue to watch though, because I just love Katee Sackhoff. Thursdays we tape Grey's Anatomy because we love that show, even though Meredith continues to be annoying and whiny. Good supporting cast = we keep watching.

Not quite Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs

I sat down in my desk chair this morning and wrapped myself up in a blanket because it's kind of chilly. A couple minutes later Anna dashed in, hopped onto my lap and gave me a dirty look- as if to say, you got out the blanket and didn't tell me?? Then she turned in circles a few times and settled down, purring furiously. I love having a cat.

Monday I finished up Aida. It took about an hour, then I spent a couple more finishing up my gel file cabinet organization project. I'm pretty damn pleased with the outcome. There are a few more things to organize, and it's not perfect, but it's sooo much better than before. All it took was a bit of time. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's probably because I started the file cabinet project many moons ago, and just now got around to finishing it up. Monday evening we watched Heroes. It was a good start to the new season. Lots of questions to answer!

Tuesday I went in to work and started my dimmer check as usual, to find that the entire first rack of dimmers wasn't working. That meant zero lights were working front of house. I had no idea how to fix that, so I called SMJ, who came over to save the day. After poking at several things, they came back to life. We didn't really figure out what was wrong, and that's never good. If it happens again and we can't get them up at all, there are several backup plans. First plan was to turn on the Studio Spots and use them to frontlight wash the whole stage. (The set is small. This would have worked.) Plan 2 was to turn on the followspot and have SMJ followspot the whole show. (It's a one woman show. This also would have worked.) Comedy option three was to give the audience free booze so they'd be so drunk they wouldn't care what it looked like. This led people to suggest that we should have had free booze all through tech. Yeah, and if wishes were horses we'd all be eatin' steak.

Wednesday Donald stayed home sick, and spent most of the day sleeping on the couch and feeling crappy. We got Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from Netflix, and tried to watch it in the afternoon. I say tried because it was a really crappy movie. I dozed off once, and then gave up entirely and got ready for work. I sure hate it when a good book is turned into a bad movie. That night was opening night, and it went just fine. All dimmers kindly performed their dimming, the audience clapped, then we ate nibbles at the opening night party.

Thursday I went for a walk in the morning, washed some dishes in the afternoon, did the show in the evening, and watched the tape of the Grey's Anatomy season premiere that Donald kindly remembered to record. We're so hooked on that show.

I have the ForecastFox extension installed. It puts today's weather in the bottom of my browser. I just glanced over and saw a curly looking symbol I'd never seen before. I moused over it and saw that it was predicting wind, but not until after I thought to myself, "Ah, sunny with a chance of squigglies." Now I'm picturing squigglies falling from the sky.
It'd be different!

what I watched on Sunday

We watched Pan's Labyrinth yesterday with Mike. I enjoyed it, but not so much that I understand all the rave reviews. I liked the look of the whole thing, and I thought the story was very interesting and original. But it was kinda slow moving, and the Captain character was really hateful. (I know, that's the point, but still.) The ending was pretty depressing too. I'm glad I watched it though.

I watched the Tonys last night too. You'd think being in theatre, that this would be an important broadcast for me to watch. You'd be incorrect. I don't know who 90% of the people on the stage were, and didn't see any of the plays. I fast forwarded through a lot, because I just didn't care what they were saying. At least when you watch the Oscars, you had a chance to see the nominated movies. (Even though I rarely see any of the Best Picture nominees.) You'd have to spend a LOT of money and effort to see even a few of the Tony nominated plays. It's a weird thing that Broadway shows, the supposed center of the theatre universe, are COMPLETELY inaccessible to the majority of Americans. Why even bother watching the Tonys?