This week's tv roundup

Not getting much of anything done today. It's raining and has been off and on most of the day, which explains the crankiness yesterday - I'm a human weathervane. Have been basically vegging - watching tv, surfing the internet, sporadically eating, sketching, and browbeating myself for not writing or working on revisions, queries, and synopsis. Also taking the mental stink off the work week. It wasn't bad necessarily, but it was stinky in some respects. In a way that writing about it just makes it feel stinkier. Really needed a break from the stinkness of human relations today. So today, I took a mental head rest and the equivalent of a cereberal shower.

On TV front:

1. Vampire Diaries reminds me more of Dark Shadows (the old 1960s Dark Shadows complete with cheesy dialogue and bad acting, not the cheesy remake which had somewhat better dialogue and better acting) than it does Buffy,Forever Knight, Moonlight, Blood Ties or Angel for that matter. Actually the plot is right out of Dark Shadows, except they decided to make Barnabas young and pretty, and give him an evil brother. I did like the bit of dialogue about Twilight, but that's only because I abhor the existence of the Twilight books and cannot speak of them without snarking on the abdomiable writing. (Since I know quite a few people online and off (notably off) that adored them (shrugs), I have learned to try to stay silent about them generally speaking even though it is really really hard.)

2. Project Runway -( cut for spoilers )

(Ah the sun has poked its head out. Granted there's only about two hours left of sunlight in the day, but better late than never, I suppose.)

3. Supernatural - ( Supernatural Spoilers )

4. Dollhouse - ( spoilers for Dollhouse )

5. Glee - ( cut for spoilers )

6. House...I adore House. Each season in my opinion is better than the last. House this week who figured out that being compulsive about something staves off the pain. It provides us with a distraction. If we think about it, we are all to a degree like House.

I've given up on Grey's Anatomy finally. It's just gotten silly. Even I have my limits.
Still loving Gossip Girl, but feel no need to write about it. Just loving it. Also still watching HIMYM, which continues to entertain, all though not so much this week. Haven't watched SGU yet. I may like the set-up of SGU better than SG1 and SGA. We shall see.

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We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet and every other species including the earth itself has cause to fear our power to exterminate, we are also the only species that when it chooses to do so will go to great effort to save what it chooses to destroy.

- Wallace Steigner

From Ken Burns, The National Parks - America's Best Idea.

True. very true. In regards to one another and to the world around us.

Another lovely quote:

Be guardians as opposed to gardeners.

This is a lovely documentary. And the cinematography and photos are breathtaking. If you ever get the chance to rent this - I highly recommend. I did not see all of it, but have seen enough.