the oracle of lo - fi

Here's 10 years of Friends in 90 Seconds, courtesy of Nobody's Watching. (And the embedding thing/script whatever isn't working, so eat me, Netscape.)

America, did we waste 10 years of our lives? Yes.

And...Happy Birthday to lelak. Hope you fared better with Nano than I did, poppet! (Yes, well, more on that later.)

I was lame and missed part of the Commander in Chief premiere last night. For weeks, I have been fixated on the ads with Geena Davis: suddenly, she seemed HOT to me. It's inexplicable. (I tried to remind myself that she was married to Jeff Goldblum, for Christ's sake, in order to temper my passion, but it failed.) Of couse, I blame SVU for this too. If Mariska still looked hot (and possessed normally colored hair), I would not feel the need to stray, to seek out hot brunettes on TV. ::sniff::

I got home late, felt tired, wanted to kick back a bit, but for a while battled with the part of my mind that wanted me to do intellectual-type things like read or write.

I tried to distract Brain with a brownie. Ha, dumbass. Who do you think I am? Stomach? it taunted me.

Instead, we compromised. Okay, I said. I'll read the TV. Closed captioning. How's that?

Alrighty! said Brain. (Oh, and I was flipping back & forth between Geena and the old SATC episode where Charlotte proposes to Trey, who gives the infamous "Alrighty!" respone.)

Sometimes Brain is notsoquick on the uptake.

So I "read" part of Commander in Chief. I think I have some "woman in power" lust thing going on, because between this and Helen Stewart in Bad Girls I'm on the verge of asking the missus to dress up in power suits all the time. Anyway, I still think Geena is hot even though her lips looked hella huge. Like Angelina Jolie kinda huge. Might want to tone done the lipstick a tad.

The dialogue was bad. At least it read badly; maybe it sounded better...oh, who are we kidding, people? Nobody sounds good when they say things like, "A female President. Can you smell the history?" To which I respond, "Yes, and history needs a good douche bag!" Of course, one can argue that's what we have Bush for: History's douche bag. (Bush, douche bag, there's a clever joke in there somewhere but Baby's coffee is not kicking in yet. Bueller?) Moving on.

Donald Sutherland seems to be reveling in playing conservative bad guy. Although you had to feel sorry for him. There's a scene between him & Geena that takes place after the fictional President has died; one of the last things the Pres. asks of Geeeeena is that she resign, since she does not share his political "vision" for the country--he's a Republican, she's an Independent, and she was picked to be his running mate largely to get the female vote. She agrees to honor the Pres.'s wishes. But later, as she sits with resignation letter in hand, Donald is chatting with her and basically saying blahblah it's a good thing because you're just a chick anywaycakes...of course, she changes her mind. While predictable, it was fun to see the old bastard shoot himself in the foot. You know if he had kept his piehole shut, he would've had become President, the show would be over, and I wouldn't be presented with the dilemma of To Watch or Not to Watch this damn show every week.

And I crapped out on SVU last night even though Wonder Woman was on.

ER did not suck last night! Wow. Here's our recap:

Me: You know why that episode was good?

GF: Because Ray Liotta died?

Me: 'CAUSE THERE WAS NO CARTER IN IT!

Both: Yaaaaaay!

[5 minutes later...preview of next week: Carter + tinybaby + the word "miracle" which should have been banned from every episode of the show since, like, season 1]

Both: Oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.