Categorically Insane

Hello again. Today I've decided that instead of one lengthy blog about one topic I will instead write several small blog-lettes to cover a wide range of things that have been on my mind. Here they are.

Fox moves from the Henhouse to the Penthouse
I watched the fifth season finale of The Shield on Tuesday night. WOW! If you're not watching this show (Tuesday nights on FX when in season...and now airing on Fridays on Spike!) you're truly missing out on the single greatest cop drama (or drama of any kind) on television. Say what you will about NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, or the others...they pale in comparison to the gritty, edge of your seat drama that The Shield delivers 13 or so weeks a year. You can also pick up seasons 1-4 on DVD if you need to catch up.


FX is one of the Fox network's cable channels. In case you haven't noticed, Fox is creating some of the best TV of all time...right now as we live and breathe! The one time so-called "fourth network" has led the way with innovating new ideas and risks previously never even considered. The Simpsons has just been picked up for another two seasons, which will bring it to 18 seasons. EIGHTEEN! Keifer Sutherland's 24 is the first successful "real time" series on a major network, and that show is amazing! PrisonBreak...a little farfetched, but if the show takes a turn in it's next episode like I suspect it will, they will have taken a huge risk by...well, I won't ruin it. American Idol is an amazing reality show that has turned out two legitimate hitmakers of its four winners so far (and a few from its trash bin as well). And that's just naming a few. There are other shows that are "Hot Now" and some that have worked their way to pop icon status: Family Guy, X-Files, the recently departed Arrested Development. Not to mention the Fox News Channel which has become the most watched cable news network in the country.

Congratulations, Fox. You have arrived!

They Used to Make Students Pound Erasers...
Debra LaFave. You know her. She's that extremely hot teacher who was arrested for having sex and repeatedly molesting a fourteen year-old male student. What fourteen year old boy wouldn't love to have sex with a teacher who looked like that? Hell, I'd have written a damn song about it! But that doesn't make it right. It. Is. Wrong. She should've known better and moreso, she should've done better. She's received no jailtime after openly admitting her actions but is restricted to house arrest. Is that enough? If this was an attractive male teacher having sex with a fourteen year old girl, I think the perception would be much clearer. Some argue that her sentence was more harsh than what would've been doled out to a man. I say, then, that the penalties for child molesters aren't steep enough ACROSS THE BOARD!

Unbelievable Balls
My brackets are busted. My Colts are in shambles. Baseball season is just about a week away and the Cubs have not yet determined that they have to win in spite of their pitching. That's just the way it has to be. I can't wait for baseball season to start, but I am not terribly excited about our prospects (though we should be better than we were last year). Also, Tiger Woods...you still 'da man!

The Father of Invention
Necessity is the mother of invention, they say, but who's the baby's daddy? I "invented" a new drink at the Hershey Store yesterday which received immediate approval and which we will begin selling probably by next week. It's really a variation on a popular Starbucks drink, the Caramel Macchiato, only it's not a latte. No, it's brewed coffee (using espresso beans, though). I call it the Caramel Kiss Coffee. This almost guarantees that I'll be passed over for a raise! Yea!!!

The Boast of the Town
You may have noticed a comment on my last blog entry from someone named Carin. You may have then noticed that I then replied to Carin in Swedish (though quite grammatically incorrect, I'm told.) I have to explain this to the rest of you. Carin was an exchange student (from, you guessed it, Sweden) at my high school when I was a sophomore. (That was twelve years ago!) This kind and caring, intelligent, sweet, tall, and gorgeous Swede was Stage Manager of the school play and we became pretty good friends. (She may regret that I remember this, but she did occasionally--though usually I say "frequently"--asked me to marry her. The sticking point for me was not that we lived on different continents but that I was only fifteen.) When you're fifteen, you let special people just walk in and out of your life and you never think twice. I had her Swedish mailing address as I had the addresses of other exchange students, as well as people who lived just across the state, but I never wrote. I later regretted that I haven't kept in touch with a lot of people who really meant a lot to me growing up. Then I discovered the internet. I don't know why (it was probably the proposals), but Carin was one of those people I was constantly trying to "find". I did find her once and we emailed a couple of times and then we stopped. A few years later, I found her again and the results were the same. Now it's been nearly twelve years since I've seen her and, I don't know, about six since I'd last heard from her. Then, out of the blue she leaves that comment on my last blog. I mean, of the millions and millions of blogs out there, she found mine! Gotta love the 'net. Carin and I have, so far, kept up with our correspondence this time around. I told her I've been bragging about it ever since and she told me to keep bragging, so...here it is! Nyah nyah.

Bad for Me, Good for Her
She's engaged. Don't go getting your hopes up, people.

That's a Wrap
No, I'm not going to tell you about my recent penchant for making my own chicken wraps for lunch...mmmm. I mean that's it for this entry. Goodbye! Adjö, fåravel!

P.S.
Strange but true: A website, this website, blogger.com does not recognize the word "blog" in its SpellCheck. Ha!