toastykitten

We sort of gave up watching after the second or third episode.

For a Joss Whedon product, it was surprisingly boring. I couldn't stand the ads which had Eliza Dushku all naked fading into lines of code or whatever it was. The Helo plot, though pretty, was beyond stupid and felt like somebody decided to mash all TV stereotypes of detectives together.

And then now I hear that it's the sixth or seventh episode where the good stuff is.

I'm sorry: it shouldn't take six episodes to get good. 30 Rock was a laugh riot from the first episode. Battlestar Galactica intrigued from the beginning. And Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, while not having a strong few episodes, was at the very least, compelling. (And so far, remains brilliant.)

The movie was awesome. Do NOT read any reviews if you don't want to be spoiled. It'll be less fun.

Damn Mark. He just keeps sucking me back into the scifi stuff. First it was Firefly, now Battlestar Galactica. He may suck me into Lost, too.

(Just wondering - what is up with the whole "spoiler" thing anyway? Did this exist before the Internet? I now avoid reading any reviews before I see a movie.)

Bill Bennett - wow, what an ass.

At any rate, since Mr. Bennett had been Secretary of Education I asked him to support the bill in the crucial stage when we needed Republican allies. He told me he would not help, because he did not want public schools to obtain new funding, new capability, new tools for success. He wanted them, he said, to fail so that they could be replaced with vouchers,charter schools, religious schools, and other forms of private education.

I am waiting for my futon to get delivered, and hoping they're going to come soon instead of at 5. I've got a lot of cleaning to do.

While waiting, I got lunch at the Chinese restaurant down the street. I don't know if we eat too fast or what, but lately, Mark and I have been cursed with really slow service. Maybe everyone here is super chill or something, but dude, one time at the Italian restaurant, both the busgirl and our waiter decided to take a smoke and beer break as soon as we asked for our checks. (They were the only two waitstaff in the restaurant. We live in a very, very slow area.) We waited for nearly half an hour and they still didn't come back with our check, so Mark went to the back and flagged one of them down. I also waited half an hour for my lunch, which was beef chow fun. Bleh on that. They weren't even busy at all.

I think this Chinese restaurant may be decent, judging by the chow fun. The menu is standard Chinese-restaurant-in-white-area fare, but I think I'll have to try the other things on the menu to see. The staff speaks Mandarin, so I can't cozy up to them in Cantonese. I really liked the fact that my food had FLAVOR. I have been missing flavor so much - every other place I've tried here, no matter what cuisine, is bland, bland, bland. It's as if they think the aging population here have lost all their tastebuds anyway, so why bother?

Other than the diner, which is standard greasy. Most of the time, I don't feel like greasy, though. I wish someone would open a Vietnamese restaurant here so I can buy $2 sandwiches from them. *sigh*

I am trying to decide whether or not to subscribe to GiantRobot or not. Somehow it doesn't feel the same. They're a little empire now, with another store opening in New York and they opened a restaurant on Sawtelle a few months ago, right near their LA store and their gallery. I think they are about to take over the world.