John's Blog

Last night the wife and I were just hanging out. There was nothing on TV that I wanted to watch except The Apprentice, so she started to flip around the channels while I was surfing away on the net. She stopped when she came upon her favorite movie The Joy Luck Club. It's not like we haven't seen this movie a ton of times, and I'm surprised that our copy isn't worn out from frequent viewing. That doesn't stop her from watching it again and again (and reciting the dialog verbatim) every time a cable outlet replays it.

But last night, I noticed that the 2nd husband of the woman with "the crooked house" was one of the new characters on Deadwood. At this point I launched into my best Mr. Wu..."San Francisco "CS", San Francisco "CS"!!" She thought I was a mental patient, and even after my explanation, she was not amused.

And speaking of head cases, last nights' firing of Chris was less satisfying than I had expected. Although I've thought he was a twit since the first time he opened his mouth, and felt he should have been fired along time ago, it was impossible not to feel bad for him when he had the meltdown at the end. But once again, the misleading teasers had me expecting a far more explosive ending.