Snowy day ramblings - MLK and tv shows (Battlestar Galatica)

Frigid today in my opinion. My fingers are cold typing. Soon I will retreat to my couch for lunch or maybe a heated cinnamin role. Yes, I have today off from work - thanks to Martin Luther King - one of the few holidays I'm happy is a Federal one. MLK deserves a holiday methinks. He was the US's version of Gandi.
A man who believed in non-violence and was opposed to the old eye for an eye.
And honestly thought if we could just see past surface differences such as race, creed, heritage, size of a nose, color of skin, or eyes, we'd notice how much we had in common. How are differences made us more interesting. And how tolerating others differences in taste, size, shape, etc made life more worthwhile. He had a dream - a world without violence filled with love and tolerance. That in my humble opinion is worth taking a day off to think about.

Spent last hour and a half - reading flist and email. Nice thing about lj being down is gave me time to get caught up on my flist. I did miss it on Sat though.

If you get a chance - read, atpotch poem on Loneliness...which I strongly identified with. Also, I appear to be one of the few people on my flist who isn't overly impressed with Desperate Housewives. It reminds me a great deal of Peyton Place (rent the movie sometime - you'll be shocked how similar the two are.)There's something about the show that I find kinda of insulting and grating. Can't quite put my finger on it. I watch occassionally -because I adore Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross, and well the mystery intrigues me. But it's not a show I'll ever love.

Battlestar Galatica on the other hand - may become my next "can't miss" TV show. I will tape this baby if I'm out or try to schedule around it, which could be dicey since people like to get together on Friday nights. The first two episodes of the series - were the best thing I've seen in weeks. Character driven. Unpredictable. Twisty. Dark. With emotion. Also a nice balance of strong male and female leads. The cinematography is excellent - and precise.
Much better than Firefly. Sort of in the same line as Farscape the PeaceKeeper Wars, actually. And unlike Star Trek, X-Files or Star Gate - it's not all military based. Several of the characters are civilians.

( Spoilers on 33; Water, the first two episodes )

Childhood TV Meme...

(Oh another wonderful thing about having a day off? I can write! Heh.)

Was thinking about this late last night, while in bed. The tv shows I obsessed over as a small child. What was it about them? And how much have I changed in my interests and obsessions since then?

This meme really only works if your childhood was more than 15 years ago. Because, you have to pick the shows you remember. If it was only 15 or 10 or 5 years back? Not going to be that hard to remember a whole slew of television shows, now is it?

I'm 37, almost 38 now - so the shows I obsessed over as a child, were on TV approximately 30 years ago. Or from 1970-1981. And since it was so long ago, I can't remember that many. Which, by the way, is a good thing.

Here's what I jotted down last night:

( Childhood TV Meme )

Quickly....

Lovely sunset tonight - last I'll get to see this week, probably. Then again maybe not - since it's at 5:20 and not 4:30 for a change. Streaks of orange, pink and lavender.

Just finished reading the S6 Virtual ATPO writers - "Chimera", interesting
piece of work guys. I enjoyed the character development in this one. Also
liked the Spike/Lorne interplay. And the chimera creature? Clever. Nice allusions to the mythology and the poem which Spike recites...how man is in a way a chimera himself - with dueling identities and contradictions. I think
that's true of us all - a mass of dueling contradictions. Wondering which one will break free. Illyria fighting with the Fred persona. Spike with William.
Angel with Angelus/Liam. Gunn with Alonna and his own murky heroic past.

Also enjoyed bits of Resistence - Spike thinking he was saving a demon child, only to have her turn on him and believe he was betraying her. His catatonia shock at the realization that he could not help and by attempting to, only made the situation worse.

Finished Princess Bride more or less, now working on Fortress of Solitude.
Back to work tomorrow.