Month: September 2004

P- and her friend A-, who have the same birthday, celebrated together on Saturday. Mooncake Foods — good, cheap food. Just it’s in the middle of nowhere. Bar party at Apple Restaurant , an old standby — so many people! Beforehand, saw Shawn of the Dead — very funny if you appreciate British wit. Before that, we drove my mom back to the hospital and got my brother to Court Street’s Barnes and Noble. Found him still there 3 hours later.

Chip and Kim win the Amazing Race! Best Outcome Ever! But Colin and Cristie steal the show the next day by getting engaged on the CBS morning show. Amazing Race wins the Emmy; round 6 begins sometime in late October.

This is also the one year anniversary of starting the blog. What were you doing last summer? I’m quite happy about how it has come out so far. What do you think?

I’m trying out this mobile blogging software that works on my phone. On the good side, I can accumulate stuff and send it all at once. The bad thing is that it limits me to 1000 characters.

In other news, my dad’s out of icu and in a regular room. However, he’ll probably be in for another week at least.

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I watched most of “Amazing Race” last night – quite a finish. Quite glad that the Christian Modeling couple didn’t win it (they got on my nerves). Don’t know what exactly the adventure says about their relationship, or that of the other young white couple; the middle age-ish black couple certainly defied age and they had great drive and adaptability. I can see why this is an Emmy-winning reality show. Nicely done.

I watched pieces of the “Smallville” season premiere – the first appearance of Lois Lane, in the life of Clark Kent. Cool. Looks interesting.

In that same time slot, I was mostly watching “Lost” on ABC – the new show about a group of plane crash survivors and dealing with what’s with them on this island. This ain’t “Fantasy Island,” and so far seems like an engrossing watch (and I didn’t intend to watch it; it was on and I more-or-less stayed watching, but for commercials). It’s created by the man who made “Alias” and “Felicity,” so I worry about the weirdness that’s more than likely to ensue (and I haven’t even seen Part 2 of “Lost”‘s series premiere yet). Slate.com’s Dana Steven’s has her own take on it.

I also watched the series premiere of “CSI: New York.” I like Gary Sinise as the lead, Mac Taylor; he has an aura of tragedy about him. And, he honestly looks and acts like a nice guy, as opposed to Slightly-Eccentric-But-Strong Gil Grissom of “CSI” original and “I’m the Ex-NYPD Blue Man” Horatio Crane on “CSI: Miami” (a show I haven’t watched since its own pilot crossover episode on “CSI”). The 9/11 aspects are a little grating, but it depends on how heavy handed the writers want to make it – which remains to be seen. Melina Kanakaredes as the main female lead (Stella) still has her touch of “Providence” about her, but hopefully the character will develop (well, yeah, I know shows like these don’t really focus all that much on character, but I’m a character-focused person when I watch tv; I can’t help that). Could be watchable of the CSI spinoffs.

During channel-changing moments, I watched some of “Law & Order” – goodbye Jerry Orbach (Det. Lenny Briscoe) and hello Dennis Farina as Det. Joe Fontana. Umm, well, it looked weird. Years of Orbach and so it’s hard to adjust. (and Farina isn’t exactly like a memorable character actor for me; but that’s just me).

And, then there’s the stuff about Dan Rather. I’m not a big CBS person, and definitely not big on CBS News anyway, and ultimately, the whole CBS-using-dubious-sources storyline mainly reveals to me that the media really tries too hard to get the exclusive and Dan Rather… well, he has his history in eccentricity. So, I’m not suspecting a left-wing conspiracy, not really; just Dan-and-CBS trying to get something thing. (just an opinion, mind you.)

Hmm… first day of fall indeed.