Gone to that big white board in the sky...

Ah, Tim Russert, how I will miss you. You made watching presidential elections bearable and this one's going to be a doozy. How I will miss you and your little white board in the wee hours of the night, giving us all the possible outcomes. How I will miss your objectivity on Meet the Press and your awaited second book. You'll be missed...

Book Order Posters

Remember when you were in elementary school and they would do those Troll book orders? I LOVED those. In 5th grade we would order all those creepy R.L. Stine books and trade them around. The best part about the book orders is when you ordered a certain amount, you got a free poster. It was usually of kittens or puppies. When I was in high school K. found a whole stack of old book order posters and she put them up all over the building. Sadly students, teachers and custodians alike thought they were real decor and they were left up for many months until the eventual demolition of the old East High School. There was one particular poster of kittens as Romeo & Juliet that I particularly miss (I think it was by Jenny Shaw's locker). 

Human Tetris

So this is the next import from Japan? I don't know how they'll top Most Extreme Challange.

Brideshead Revisited Trailer

Emma Thompson + period drama  = fabulous movies (i.e. Sense and Sensibility, Howard's End and Remains of the Day.) Plus, it has Matthew Goode (who you will remember as the tasty Secret Service agent in Chasing Liberty). It looks like they've taken some artistic license and deviated from the book, but I'm still hoping it will be good. Emma rarely lets me down.

For Your Summer Viewing Pleasure

So, I know you're looking for something to watch this summer. If you're going to watch TV, steer clear of the reality drivel and watch The Closer on TNT or Army Wives on Lifetime or Psych on USA. If you're looking for good TV on DVD to watch I have some suggestions. First of all make sure you've seen Alias and 24. If you've watched those then here are some Must-See shows in no particular order:

1.  Arrested Development (you can borrow them from me)

2. Brothers & Sisters 

3. Veronica Mars 

4. Mary Tyler Moore (still classic 30 years later)

5. 30 Rock

If you're online a lot I recommend watching shows on Hulu www.hulu.com . They have tons of great shows both old and new. If you need to catch up on The Office or want to watch old eps of News Radio this is an awesome site. 

My Mr. Knightley...

Why isn't Jeremy Northam a bigger star? I watched the Kate Beckinsale-version of Emma last week and that Mr. Knightley is neither as good nor as hot as Jeremy Northam's Mr. Knightley. He'll always be my Mr. Knightley. 

I got The Tudors from Netflix last week. It's received great reviews and I love historical "fiction" so I thought I would probably enjoy it. It's well acted and staged if not historically accurate. I didn't really buy Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII, he's too small (at least Eric Bana is so smokin' hot as Henry VIII in The Other Bolelyn Girl that I didn't care that they completely deviated from the book).  I digress, the standout performance in the show is Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More. He is awesome. Oscars should be lining this man's mantle. I hope he is nominated for and wins an Emmy. I also hope that he finally is catapulted into that upper echelon of stardom that he deserves. He's great in Gosford Park, Happy, Texas, Possession, and of course Emma, if you're looking for a fix. 

FYI - Sam Neill is also stellar in The Tudors as Cardinal Wolsey (just incase Tina-Marie is reading this).

Magnum, is that you?

So a few months ago J. was shaving his beard to prepare for a job interview. He knows how I feel about mustaches and had his fiancee A. take a photo of his cheesy mustache just for me. Thanks a lot! I don't think it'll help him land a job, unless he wants to be a Utah Highway Patrolman. Leave the mustaches to Magnum P.I., buddy...