food and tv

Halloumi, the grillable cheese. It's yummy, especially grilled. It's too salty by itself, but Mark tells me you generally eat it with other stuff anyway, like with tomato and pita bread, which soaks up some of the saltiness.

I am still sick and was diagnosed with bronchitis. Yuck. Anyway, I hate our health care system, but what else is new?

I have been busy sleeping and watching tv and re-reading Bloom County, which despite its goodness really, really depresses me based on its all-too-familiar relevance. I mean, the last cartoons I just read were going on about Falwell and homophobia! (Did we even get anywhere?)

Anyway, this is what I have been watching these past few days:

Rome, Season Two: HBO rules. Sex, violence, corruption, and the Republic! What's not to love? The writers take a lot of freedom with historical accuracy, but the important points - Caesar's death, Octavian's rise are all done pretty well.

Heroes, episode before the finale: Ando better not die. That is all. I find Jessica/Niki's split personality plot too stupid for words, and if Tim Kring says that her superpower is being "superstrong", why not just let her be superstrong without being crazy? That would make so much more sense than the stupid changes in personality.

Bill Moyers Journal: Everyone's probably forgotten about the "Buying the War" episode by now, but the ones after it are also equally good, if not better than the first episode. This last one I watched interviewed a female black Princeton professor about race, in which she also pointedly made the case that she can converse on other topics besides race, a gay Christian man who goes to Europe only to be confronted with Islamic fundamentalism (I didn't like this segment that much because I think his assumptions were flawed), and an interview with Harpers' magazine president on the Free Trade agreement.