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Help Wanted: NaNoWriMo Now

As some of you know, November is National Novel Writing Month. I'm going to once again give it a try, and attempt to write 50,000 words in the month. Last year, I wrote an entire 112 words before giving up. This year, I'm going to try and cover at least 200 words. I'd like some help for you guys, I've got four ideas for this year's novel, take a look and vote on which one you'd like to see. You guys know my writing style, whatever I write will have my kind of humor. Vote for one of these theoretical novels, and I'll post whatever I write, which will hopefully be something closer to a novel and not a post-it note.

"The Final 48, or The Five People I'm Going To Meet In Hell" Jimmy Nova knows where he's going. He'll be paroled tomorrow, and then he'll be dead. The accidental murder of a mob boss's son in prison has made sure of that, but he's got a secret stash worth millions he's going to try and use to buy 48 hours of freedom. All he needs is two days to make his family safe, and settle every score he's ever accumulated in his life.

A black comedy with a body count and a time limit.

"A Shade Against The Darkness" Los Angeles is a city with a dark side, and in-between the city of angels and the nightmares we pretend go away when we wake up, walks Detective John Shade. With friends like the modern day Frankenstein and a Norse God of War, Shade handles the side of the city the LAPD officially denies exists. Now, a simple missing persons case leads Shade to uncover a plot to use the legends of horror to unleash literal Hell on Earth.

"Do you know why God wins the final battle with Satan, Shade? Because it's his book. In our book, we kick his ass."

"Time And Tape" It's not a bad life for Nathan Crier. It's just not a good life, not the one he wanted. Wasted potential haunts him, and memories of bad decisions and lost love still make him wish his life had turned out differently. While reliving his past glory listening to old tapes from the 80's, Nathan finds himself transported back to the biggest moments of his life, and his biggest regrets. But he only has until the end of the album to fix things, and after that he has to come back and deal with the changes he's made in his life. Can he fix what he's always thought he screwed up, or will that just make it worse?

Think "Butterfly Effect" with better music, less Kutcher, and more of the funny.

"Lives Of Quiet Desperation" Little stories, woven together, just like life. A proposal. A murder. A wedding, and a suicide. A new career, a resignation, a first day and a last chance. No man is an island, and whether we understand it or not, we directly affect each other every day. One moment blurs into the next like a human
mosaic, dozens of short stories told against the larger picture.

It's a Robert Altman movie, but funnier, and without being so damn long.




Which
story would you like to see Reid try
for NaNoWriMo?



The Final 48, or The Five People I'm Going To Meet In Hell

A Shade Against The Darkness

Lives Of Quiet Desperation

Time and Tape



blogified by Reid @ 10/31/2006 11:59:00 PM  8 comments links to this post


Hankless

Two people have been arrested for stealing a notebook originally belonging to Hank Williams. The country music legend's notebook was full of notes and unpublished song lyrics, and was valued at $250,000.

In a related story, a notebook belonging to Hank Williams Jr. was also stolen. It contains drink recipes and unpublished lyrics to songs about Monday Night Football, and is valued at $2.39.

blogified by Reid @ 10/31/2006 02:01:00 PM  0 comments links to this post


Desperate Housewives: Naughty Nurses

Bree meets Roseanne's sister, who recants her accusations about Orson. The plotline continues to turn, and she might just be the crazy one when it all comes out.

Gaby and Carlos' divorce gets ugly, and he gives her what she wants. Which, based on the way things are going, is taken the opposite of the way it normally would be.

Tom and Lynette go to his new pizza place, which of course she knew nothing about. They fight, and so Tom decides to stay in his new rat-infested empty pizza joint rather than go home. That means something, in relationship terms.

Bree is being socially snubbed at the tennis club, which is the DH equivalent of telling "Your Momma's So Fat" jokes.

Babymomma is using her daughter to spy on Lynette, which would be awful if Lynette were still a sympathetic character at this point.

Gaby finds out Carlos, a convicted felon, is sitting on a multi-million dollar job offer, and that's why he wants to get divorced so quickly. She makes plans to be more devious than him.

Susan walks in on Mike and Edie reenacting my favorite scene from "Naughty Nurses XIV".

Lynette and Susan relax by drinking themselves stinky in the middle of the afternoon.

Mike is interrogated by the Black Ghostbuster. Another woman's been murdered in the area, and he's got a connection. Amnesia is a handy way to get out of those situations.

Babymomma shows up with food and drinks for Tom, who's crashing in the pizza tenement. She tries to seduce him, and he rejects her.

With Gaby joining them on the porch, 3/4 of the cast is drunk. Lynette realizes, correctly, that she's a bitch. Susan decides to do something impetuous, so she drunkenly steals a cab from an octagenarian. She shows up at Great Brit's party, vomits, and passes out, and doesn't see an agent Great Brit wants her to meet.

This is a good time to ask a question. Lynette works, Bree has inheritance, and Gaby has Carlos. How does Susan earn a living? She's a writer who never writes, or even discusses her career. She fired her long-time agent at least a year ago, and hasn't mentioned getting a new one. How does she afford to put food on the table for her and her teenage daughter? Who, by the way, isn't even in this episode with the tired subplot with the shirtless soaphunk.

Bree is at dinner with Roseanne's sister, and she shows Bree a picture of Orson's first wife, badly beaten. Meanwhile, Orson talks with her husband about a missing girl named Monique, which is the name he called the dead woman at the morgue he claimed he didn't know. Nice twist.

Tom goes home, and he and Lynette work it out. See? All it takes to win an argument with Lynette is to get her good and soused. Lynette finds out about what happened and kicks in Babymomma's door, and hopefully brings this plot thread to a screeching halt.

Susan wakes up, with Great Brit waiting on her in her own house. She's badly hug over, and makes out with him at the kitchen table. Again, doesn't she have a daughter she should be taking care of?

The Black Ghostbuster gets a phone call from Orson, who drops the dime on his dinner guest and the identity of the body in the morgue. Now if Orson could explain Ernie Hudson's bizarre haircut, we'd have it all wrapped up.

Gaby seduces Carlos, just in case we forgot who the sexy one was on the show. Remember when Gaby would wear underwear a lot, when she was sleeping with the gardener? Remember when she smoked after sex? Yeah, me either. Carlos does the old Scooby-Doo swerve on Gaby, and she throws him out a window.

Edie dresses up for Mike, and he flashes on a memory of the dead woman in the morgue in lingerie. So Mike has slept with every woman who's a part of a murder mystery in the area for several years? I guess it's nice to have a theme.

blogified by Reid @ 10/29/2006 08:50:00 PM  0 comments links to this post


Nip/Tuck: Irony

Mrs. Grubman is back, and her plastic surgery addiction appears to be continuing even though she's going to die.

Julia and Sean discuss Connor's upcoming operation, and she gets upset. Sean gets so upset a Public Service Announcement takes place in his head.

Sean takes the kids to dinner at what seems to be an IHOP, and we get a rare daylight fistfight at a pancake place. I didn't even know that IHOP's were open at anytime other than the middle of the night.

Afterwards, Sean tracks down the family he had the fistfight with. Not sure how, they don't specify. He didn't have the name of the guy, and bolted after punching him, but somehow is able to find him in a city of five million people. That kind of magic tracking you normally associate with Wolverine or Dog the Bounty Hunter.

Julia is not pleased with the surgeon's plans for Connor, and storms out of the meeting.

Mrs. Grubman refers to Bo-Tox as "the elixer of life," then drops dead. I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

Julia midget housekeeper quits. Then they make out. At this point, there is no possible sexual plotline that could surprise me. So far this season, we've seen Sean bang the babysitter, Christian pork the psychiatrist, Sean and Christian make out in a dream, Christian having sex as Larry Hagman's proxy. With Mrs. Grubman's corpse still on the table, I'm quite afraid of what happens next.

Burt Bacharach shows up. I halfway expect him to climb up on his piano and have a three-way with Kimber and the midget.

Sean reveals that he had a cleft pallet as a kid, and the incident drove his parents apart. Not sure which is stranger, that he's never mentioned it, or that the writers would take a shortcut like having a child with a deformity becoming a plastic surgeon.

No one comes to Mrs. Grubman's funeral. To make matters even shallower, she leaves all of her money to plastic surgery. That's even worse than leaving it to her cat.

They go ahead and do the surgery on Connor. Sean wants to do it so his child will turn out normal and loved like his other kids, whatshername and the crazy bowl-headed one who only shows up every few episodes.

blogified by Reid @ 10/24/2006 10:37:00 PM  1 comments links to this post


Desperate Housewives: Sabotage

Tom wants to open a pizza place. Lynette is having trouble dealing with it, because it's obviously stupid.

Gaby comes home, and Carlos has a friend over to sleep with. The divorce continues to disintegrate with the house rapidly turning into Passion Cove.

Julie is completely fooled by Hot Guy, and tricked into doing his homework. "Smart Girls, Stupid Choices...today on Montel."

Gaby brings in an old enemy of Carlos to show him, but for some reason the formerly-easy Gaby isn't going to sleep with him. It blows up in her face, and she and Carlos seem to make up.

Julie goes out to the street for some reason, and finds her friend making out with Hot Guy.

Gaby lets Carlos bring her breakfast in bed and when he arrives, she's slept with somebody she picked up in a bar. She sure learned her lesson about not sleeping with the last guy, eh? While sex seems hard to come by for the main characters on the show, it sure seems like the extras are getting some action.

Edie and Susan continue their fun game of playing with the guy who's barely out of a coma. Susan continues to think that she's a better person than Edie, even though Susan's slept with two other people since getting serious with Mike a year ago. Susan tried to tip the moral scales in her favor by paying a guy to kidnap Mike in his wheelchair.

Bree turns up the crazy on Horny Science Teacher. He agrees to back off, rather than have Bree ruin his life.

Susan can't make Mike remember her, until she trips over something. Then he remembers her, and her ever-narrowing character.

Julie has it out with Hot Guy, and he storms off after spilling a tiny bit of "Shakespeare For Dummies" to make himself seem deeper.

Bree's daughter goes ahead and ruins Horny Science Teacher's life anyway. Bree slowly realizes that she's dealing with a hornier version of herself.

blogified by Reid @ 10/22/2006 08:44:00 PM  3 comments links to this post


SNL In The Coffin

Gave Saturday Night Live another chance this past weekend, with host John C. Reilly. When you have to do an opening skit about how no one knows who your host is, it sets a bad precedent. Will Farrell came back for the only laughs of the night. Pack it in.

Being asked to host Saturday Night Live is like sleeping with Farrah Fawcett. It was really cool about thirty years ago, but now it's just sad.

blogified by Reid @ 10/22/2006 03:38:00 AM  0 comments links to this post


Nip/Tuck: Kidney Quest

Liz collapses, and has lack-of-kidney troubles. Christian volunteers his kidney, and also Sean's. Liz is sixty-thousand people away from a kidney. Are we going to see a quest for the kidney she lost in the first episode?

We get more uninspired sex from Christian and Michelle. Is there a new FCC rule against showing any kind of movement during sex this season?

Rosie O'Donnell is back, and she's had her ear ripped off, Reservoir Dogs style. Is there a big future in that kind of slash-and-grab robbery? It doesn't seem to make any sense to me.

Kimber is getting a massage from Matt, and becomes upset with him for getting excited at her orgasm noises. Well, it should be a bit understandable, since she's slept with everyone in his family except Julia, and that's probably coming for a ratings stunt.

Sean is a match for the kidney Liz needs. Before he can get too deep into that, Larry Hagman shows up, post-stroke. Michelle apparently screwed him to death.

Rosie shows up at the med clinic, and sees a mouse with a human ear sticking out of his back. They seem to keep finding new ways to creep us out this season. I guess next they'll show us a baboon with a human vagina sewn on to his head.

Sean denies he's a match for Liz. I guess there's a fine line between helping a friend and life-long dialysis.

Christian discovers what Larry Hagman was on the night he had the stroke. Other than Michelle, I mean.

Christian goes to Kimber's house. She looks at him through the door peephole which is no longer too tall for her, as I pointed out weeks ago. Christian proves to be stronger than Scientology, then reminds us again that he's not a knight in shining armor come to save the princess. He's a dirty rogue who's come to molest the princess while she waits.

Sean finds out Matt is a match for Liz's kidney and realizes his nutcase son who's been into transsexuals, hate-mongers, and Scientology, is actually a better person than Sean is.

Kimber is angry, which will keep her from attaining a higher level as a Thetan, or a Cleric, or an Alderman, or whatever the Hell Scientologists believe they evolve into. Matt comes over and she runs her hand down his pants, or in Scientologist terms, gives him the "Full Travolta."

Rosie and Liz are in recovery. Rosie gives her scene to be considered for Emmy consideration.

Larry Hagman goes home, and Michelle sets up to take care of him for the rest of his life. Because even though they have enough money to buy the McNamara/Troy company, they can't spring for more than one nurse to live in the house.

Sean offers Liz his kidney, but Rosie's kidney is a better match. We get a rare happy ending for the show.

blogified by Reid @ 10/19/2006 11:12:00 PM  0 comments links to this post


Threat Level: Silver & Black

The Feds have downplayed a reported threat against NFL Stadiums this week, when a website gave a report that dirty bombs would be used against seven stadiums on Sunday. Skeptics say this just gives the NFL an excuse in case home games don't sell out.

News flash: People aren't staying home because they're afraid of a terorist attack. They're staying home because they're afraid they'll have to watch a Raiders game.

blogified by Reid @ 10/19/2006 05:14:00 PM  0 comments links to this post


Trivial 80's Friday Revealed!

One winner this week got all five right, Tim in Austin, Texas. See? Austin is good for more than just college football and shirtless-Matthew McConaughey sightings. Here's your answers.

#1 -- Martin Briley "The Salt In My Tears"
#2 -- Bobby McFerrin "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
#3 -- Sheena Easton "Morning Train"
#4 -- Los Lobos "La Bamba"
#5 -- Stray Cats "Stray Cat Strut"

More coming up on Friday!

blogified by Reid @ 10/19/2006 12:17:00 PM  0 comments links to this post


Always Bet On Black, And Declare Your Winnings

Wesley Snipes has been indicted for tax fraud. He apparently didn't file taxes for the last six years, and also filed fraudulent returns for two years. He fraudulently filed them by listing his profession as "actor."

blogified by Reid @ 10/17/2006 02:58:00 PM  2 comments links to this post


Desperate Housewives: The Olde Ball Game

We recap last week's show, in a way that makes Susan really trampy.

Gaby is having a garage sale with all of Carlos's things. Man, she seems hard to deal with.

Mike is awake, but with amnesia. Lucky Mike can't remember that whole crappy second season of the show. The doctor tells Edie to take care of him. Sounds like a good idea, last time she gave him an erection that woke him from a coma. Maybe this time, she'll sit on his face and give him full recall.

Bree goes to the science fair, and we see the fairly obvious beginnings of a subplot with her daughter and her science teacher. Andrew sees a old client from his time on the streets. Nice that we can see homosexuality used as a plot device, eh?

Great Brit invites Susan to come to Paris with him. Why not? She hasn't held a job since her agent went nuts. Julie finally calls her, and the return of Mike to consciousness makes Susan suddenly very ashamed.

Lynette has become the Pete Rose of the kids' baseball league. Lynette continues her string of questionable decisions, purchasing her son's way back onto the team.

Carlos comes home, "Body Heat" style. The cops arrest him, then realize he's not a bad guy and arrest Gaby.

Bree tries to do good in a Holier-than-thou way, and it backfires to show her she's not that Holy. The Danielle/Science Teacher angle has been hotshotted, it seems, and it's taking place right now.

Carlos makes bail for Gaby, then she reminds us that she's really not a good person at heart. He leaves her on the side of the road, leading to a hot-hitchhiker-dream-come-true for truckers.

Susan comes back to Mike, but he doesn't remember her. She's heartbroken and can't understand why he doesn't care about her. After all, she waiting on Mike for a whole six months before sleeping with some other guy she barely knew. What more could she do?

blogified by Reid @ 10/15/2006 10:09:00 PM  1 comments links to this post


Trivial 80's Friday: You Said No Hookers

80's Trivia returns this week, five small snippets from songs from the 80's, can you name them?

#1 -- #2 -- #3 -- #4 -- #5

I'll post the winners next Tuesday. Make me proud, you guys. Have a good weekend.

blogified by Reid @ 10/13/2006 12:47:00 AM  0 comments links to this post


30 Rock

Okay, it's easy to see that Tina Fey meant a lot more to Saturday Night Live than anybody realized. There were more laughs in the first segment of "30 Rock" than in the first two 90 minute "Saturday Night Lives" of the year.

Tina Fey leaves SNL and it becomes unwatchable. Tina Fey starts 30 Rock and it's really funny. I think there's a pretty clear lesson to be learned here.

blogified by Reid @ 10/11/2006 10:07:00 PM  2 comments links to this post


Nip/Tuck: Crazy

Christian is obviously dreaming about Sean. It's one of those dreams within a dream reserved for horror movies, and gay fantasies.

Sean and Julia's nanny gets drunk, and throws up all over the bottom part of their house. She calls crazy Monica, and this plotline continues.

Brooke Shields is a sex addict, and a submissive tattooed with her ex-lover's name on her back. Larry Hagman has a penis pump stuck on himself. You have to assume both of them must have spent all of that money they earned in the 80's very very poorly.

Sean goes to see Monica, who apparently lives in a motel. She tricks him into piercing her navel, then turns down his offer of severance pay. That's how you can tell she's crazy.

Brooke Shields is upset she doesn't get to show Christian her Calvins.

Sean comes home and finds Monica having a "Hand That Rocks The Cradle" moment.

Larry Hagman can smell the sex on Michelle and Christian, and he wants to watch. For some reason, Christian decides not to do it. For four years, Christian has had every kind and brand of sex imaginable, but now he's calling the moral high ground.

We find out that Brooke Shields is insane, and orchestrating the whole thing. Both Sean and Christian started the season by boinking crazy women they weren't in love with, and now are paying the price.

Sean gets confronted yet again by Monica, who threatens him. Sean can't bring himself to kill her, but she wanders out into the street screaming at him, and gets taken care of "Final Destination" style. Yikes. A chunky, meaty death.

Christian and Michelle have sex for Larry Hagman. Unpassionate, boring, Amish-style sex. Again, it's like the producers of the show are trying to punish us for ever being interested in sex.

Sean and Julia have a nice, quiet dinner alone with every bad guy he's ever known, including a bloody Monica and Manny from General Hospital. Apparently, the ghost of Megan O'Hare was busy.

Final thought: Why do the previews of next week's show always look better than this week's show?

blogified by Reid @ 10/11/2006 12:25:00 AM  4 comments links to this post


Chick-Fil-Eh?

I was driving through Chick-Fil-A yesterday, and this is what greeted me.

Reid: "Yeah, lemme have a grilled chicken sandwich, hold the vegetables."

Her: "What about the pickles?"

Reid: (confusion)


Yeah, that one bothered me for several hours. Apparently, pickles count as condiments at Chick-Fil-A.

blogified by Reid @ 10/10/2006 12:13:00 AM  1 comments links to this post


Desperate Housewives: Return Of The Lawnboy

Bree is leaving on her honeymoon with Orson, when she sees the son she abandoned on television living on the street. She freaks out and goes off to find Andrew. I like the way we're seeing this, where the guy who probably murdered his wife is not quite as crazy as Bree.

Lynette gets away from her family for the weekend with Gaby. Tom pulls the old "my back went out" bit, and he needs help with the crazy kids. Lynette buys it, and winds up driving up with Babymomma.

Susan goes away with the Great Brit. She opens his suitcase, and pulls out a roll of condoms. I mean, like a few dozen condoms, right there at the top of the suitcase.

Susan finds out that Great Brit has only slept with one woman. She tells him she's slept with nine or eleven men, whichever comes last. If he's such a near-virgin and a prude, why did he pack so many condoms?

Gaby is left alone, and winds up meeting John, the former lawn boy. He's become a successful businessman, and is in talks to do a show for the Gardening Network. Since two years ago he couldn't even drive, shouldn't he be a bit young for that? Eh, she sleeps with him anyway.

Babymomma goes crazy again in front of Lynette, and winds up getting out and hitchhiking. Lynette keeps driving, to go help her crazy kids.

Julie finally gets her own storyline, and it's the stereotypical shirtless-bad-boy-next-door-love-affair. Sometimes it's easier to just pick up a check and stay in the background.

Gaby and John wake up in be, and he's bailing her out because his fiance is coming up. The lawn boy is dating the DH equivalent of Paris Hilton. Gaby gets stuck in a suitcase in a clear gimmick infrigement of Susan's schtick.

Susan is very very angry at Great Brit. However, his piano playing makes her quite trampy.

Orson goes to find Andrew, and gives him fifty dollars to eat a meal with him. He tells Andrew not to do anything on the streets he'll regret, then tells him that if he wants to come home, Andrew knows where to go. Great. He lives on the street with no money. What's he going to have to do to get home? "Hi mom, I'm back to stay. I missed you. I had to go down on a long haul trucker to get here, but it feels great to be home. Got any S'mores?"

Tom and Lynette talk in the car, strangely with no crazy kids anywhere.

Edie goes to get her CD player from Mike's hospital room, and gives him a magic erection that wakes him from his coma. You never saw that one on "St. Elsewhere," did you?

blogified by Reid @ 10/08/2006 10:03:00 PM  2 comments links to this post


SNL: The Worst Of Times

Okay, now we're two weeks into the new TV season, and I think I can come to a conclusion. Saturday Night Live is as horrible as its ever been. From the unfunny opening skit all the way through to the painful finish, it's just not worth watching anymore.

SNL made its mark by being edgy. This past week's "Bigwigs" skit was something that seemed to have been ripped off from "You Can't Do That On Television," or some other kids' show on Nickelodeon. It's not only unfunny, it's insulting.

I figured that the timely dropping of Horatio Sanz would result in less on-stage laughter, apparently that's extended into the crowd as well. Also, it seems that three months just wasn't enough time to have something funny lined up for a season premiere. I kept hoping during last week's atrocious "Alien Living In The Guy's Stomach" skit that Judd Hirsch would come out, admit it's not working, and apologize. Maybe that's what they're setting up, then they could just rerun "Studio 60" followed by "30 Rock" Saturday nights.

As hosts, Dane Cook wasn't funny. Jaime Pressly wasn't very funny, and next up is John C. Reilly, who's funny but not a big ratings draw either. The odds don't look good.

As a side note, what's happened to the Killers? The singer has grown out a "Mr. Slave" mustache, and was dressing like either a bullfighter, or a southern gentleman who was trying to sell me chicken.

blogified by Reid @ 10/08/2006 12:16:00 PM  2 comments links to this post


Nip/Tuck: Rosie's Revenge

We start with Christian facing down the pimp. Christian somehow feels that sleeping with Michelle under his boss's nose gives him some kind of moral superiority over Michelle's pimp. This probably won't end well.

Christian and Sean drive past Matt picking up trash with his cult. Just to remind us that Matt makes horrible decision, Sean brings up the Nazi and the transsexual Matt's dated, then Matt spends a while ogling Kimber. Yeah, adding the porn star to the hit list will help. How he doesn't have a raging case of the "Burning Members" by now, I'll never know.

For the first and hopefully last time, I hear Rosie O'Donnell talking about penis enlargement. I'm sure there was more said, but my brain shut off at that point, and I woke up on the floor in the fetal position.

Now, the pimp is blackmailing the guy who's sleeping with the prostitute, who's the gold-digging wife of the boss who's only married to her for the sex. The moral high ground on this show is only about shin high this week.

Julia thinks Sean is cheating on her because he's called a phone sex place. She offers to get him dirty movies, and he gives her an engagement ring. Coincidentally, I have that Norman Rockwell print on my wall, "Husband Banging Babysitter Gives Diamonds For Dirty Talk."

Rosie O'Donnell gets her hoohah waxed. I wake up passed out, facedown in a puddle of my own sick.

Sean and Christian give Matt a Porsche, and Kimber gets onto him for letting material things come between him and the church. How can you say that seriously in a church where you have to pay to achieve enlightenment? Although I understand having Tom Cruise's baby, or sleeping with Travolta will enable you to move up the ladder quicker.

After she pays for them, Rosie O'Donnell's daughter uses her new boobs to seduce her husband and his new penis. It's not exactly an O. Henry story.

We have a rumble between the Deprogrammers and the Scientologists. If these three guys can't outfight Matt, who's about a buck-oh-five soaking wet, perhaps the money would have been better spent on a couple of wrestlers.

Rosie and Christian have sex on the rug. I exhibit hysterical blindness, and spend the rest of the show flailing about searching for a glass of Drano.

Is anybody ever happy on this show? Except for the Scientologists, I mean?

blogified by Reid @ 10/03/2006 11:48:00 PM  1 comments links to this post


Reid's Day Job

For those of you who are wondering just what it is that pays the bills at Ye Olde Reid About It, I work as a radio play-by-play man for The University of Texas at Tyler. We've got a volleyball game tonight, you can hear my work at our website. Click on the
link for tonight's game to listen.

blogified by Reid @ 10/03/2006 06:46:00 PM  0 comments links to this post


Trivial 80's Friday Revealed!

A very happy birthday to Lisa in Washington today. Her and Jen came closest to getting all five right this week, getting all five bands right. Let me just say if you didn't recognize some of these songs, pick up an 80's compilation and start listening to them immediately. Here are your answers.

#1 -- The English Beat "Save It For Later"
#2 -- Missing Persons "Walking In LA"
#3 -- Haircut 100 "Love Plus One"
#4 -- 'Til Tuesday "Voices Carry"
#5 -- DeBarge "Rhythm Of The Night"


More trivia coming up Friday!

blogified by Reid @ 10/03/2006 12:30:00 PM  0 comments links to this post


Desperate Housewives: It Takes Two

We start with the preps for Bree's wedding. She's making the bridesmaids wear a shade of pistachio green. The girls can complain about the dresses, but not the bride's choice of grooms.

Carlos is amazed that Gaby wants a lot of stuff in the divorce. At this point, that's being surprised that Susan tripped over something.

Babymomma is dating a tattooed biker guy. Can Tom express his concern about his daughter's mom's boyfriend without Lynette being upset? I'm going to say a great big "no" on that one.

Susan is out with the Great Brit. He spoils her with an expensive meal, and then meets the parents of his coma wife. He introduces Susan as a brain surgeon, so you know this won't end well.

Bree and Orson dance, a subtle dance of danger. Then Ernie "The Black GhostBuster" Hudson unearths Orson's dead wife, without her teeth. Well, that suddenly looks obviously bad.

Lynette bonds with Babymomma, over Babymomma's horrible choice of men. Perhaps they could hook her up with Bree, since they both ain't too good at picking partners.

Edie finds a guy breaking into her house, luckily an underage relative. This guy is such an obvious attempt to make a new heartthrob, I consider him an homage to Aaron Spelling. Julie drools over him, then tells him he's not hot. Since his lines in the script are simply marked "Hot Guy," I think she's bluffing.

Susan sees Orson upset at tin cans, and tracks down his old neighbor to ask about him. Her proof is that his house was clean after his wife died. That either makes him a murderer, or perfect for Bree. Or both.

The girls try and keep Bree from marrying Orson. To convince here, perhaps they should show her slides of her last two year's worth of mates. At the altar, Bree takes a time out and asks her fiance if he killed his first wife. Whatever the answer is, I think bringing up the question should be sufficient to pause the festivities.

Bree gets married anyway. Lynette's Babymomma can't get laid at the reception. Carlos can't get laid from his wife. They wind up together in a rare romantic pentagon. The Great Brit shows up, indicating again to Susan what a horrible liar he is. He stands up to make a toast, letting Bree and Orson make a joke that's at least 200 years old.

Everybody's happy, until The Black GhostBuster shows up to come get the groom.

Xiao-Mei gives birth to a child that is obviously not Gaby and Carlos'. Nice swerve.

Orson shows up at the morgue to identify a body, still dressed in a tuxedo. If I had a dollar for every time that happened to me, I could just blog for a living. The body isn't his first wife, so the heat appears to be off of him. Until he does something stupid on the way out, that is.

The moral to our story tonight is that no one is ever happy, and there is no perfect marriage. Lynette is upset Tom has another child, Gaby and Carlos are getting divorced after their mutual infidelities, Bree and Orson had to identify a dead body in their wedding reception, and Susan is only happy when she's dancing with somebody else's husband. Many more of these uplifting messages and we may all kill ourselves.

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