The simple joys of life

[pbray]

In a fit of genius or madness I put together a spreadsheet for the fall television season, listing the shows I want to watch/record for each night of the week. I almost always watch the first episode of any sci-fi show, and in years past when there were only one or two offerings it was easy to remember. This year there are five new shows I want to check out (Journeyman, Reaper, Pushing Daisies, Bionic Woman and Moonlight), plus returning favorites (Heroes, Stargate Atlantis, and non-genre shows Criminal Minds, CSI and Dexter). All things considered it's impossible that I'll find time to watch 10 television shows on a regular basis, so it's perhaps for the best that some of them will undoubtedly turn out to be crap.

Because of my schedule, most of the shows will wind up being taped and then watched later, which has the added advantage of letting me fast foward through the commercials.

In other news, on Wednesday friends and I went down to New York city where we scored half-price tickets for a Broadway matinee (Curtains, with David Hyde Pierce). Unlike most tourists in Manhattan, though we window-shopped extensively, our only purchases were books. At Barnes & Noble's textbook store I scored the latest editions of "Criminology: The Core" by Larry J.J. Siegel and "The Casebook of Forensic Detection" by Colin Evans, and was persuaded to pick up "Forensics, A Quiz Deck from Court TV." jennifer_dunne insisted on quizzing me from the deck during the trip home--my recent studies have paid off since I answered nearly all of them correctly, and even spotted at least two answers that were either misleading or flat out wrong, as in the question on hair analysis which was clearly out of date.

We found a new Irish place for lunch (The Perfect Pint), and after the show went to St. Andrews to admire their selection of single-malts before grabbing dinner and catching a train to Beacon where we'd left the car.

Comments

[gryphart.livejournal.com]

This probably doesn't help you thin the herd any, but if you like Criminal Minds, you would probably enjoy Wire in the Blood - I think a lot of the cases on there are actually much more interesting than the ones on Criminal Minds.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip--I'll have to keep an eye out for it. Looks like BBC America isn't currently airing episodes, but it's likely to return.