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I'll be posting 100 TV Shows and my feelings about them. No particular order.

1-Miami Vice
2-Hollywood Squares
3-Twin Peaks
4-Barney Miller
5-Ground Force
6-Changing Rooms
7-Alias
8-Hill Street Blues
9-Hodge Podge Lodge
10-CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
11-CSI: NY
12-CSI: Miami
13-Sherlock
14-The Edge of Night
15-Hawaii 5-0
16-The Sopranos
17-Booknotes
18-Later With Bob Costas
19-One Day at at Time
20-Hot L Baltimore
21-House MD

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First a quick, sentimental thank-you to everyone who has read and commented on these posts over the last six years. I realize a lot of you haven't always agreed with me and some may have been out and out offended, but most of you stuck with me anyway. (Including those who kept telling me I should just stop watching the show for my own good.)

The show was already going down-hill when I started posting these screeds on a weekly basis, but while I've come to loathe so much of what the show has become, I'll never regret getting into the fandom and meeting so many awesome people. I'm happy about the fic I read and wrote and the number of you who I now consider genuine friends.

And now back to our regular vitriol in progress.

IF you actually bought into that ending and are currently nothing but a big moist puddle of squishy, shippy, slashy squeeeee, you may want to skip this. I intend to do my best to inject a dollop of reality into the conversation and harsh your squeeeeee to the best of my ability. It's for your own good.

( SERIOUSLY---you have been warned! )
It'll be nice having my Monday nights back, although I honestly it was all over by the time they moved to Mondays, especially once they'd already done an in-joke referencing Tuesday nights.

Title: The Price of Love
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Gibbs, Dinozzo, Ziva
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 100
Notes: Written for MMOM 2012, Day 21. Prompt from ncis_drabble. Challenge #291-Television. Beta'd by michelleann68. Comments and concrit ready.
Summary: The piper must be paid.

( Caught up again! )

Friday night-Columbo episodes, including episodes featuring Laurence Harvey and Martin Landau. Both playing smug snake type killers, but I love Laurence so I was kind of rooting for him. To no avail, of course. The Martin Landau episode also had the fabulous Julie Newmar, playing a sort of hippy dippy 70's LA type who appeared to be stoned in most of her scenes.


Saturday

Brunch at Mozzeria. I really need to give up the Eggs Benedict although it is the most insidious thing ever.

Movie-Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
Awesome documentary in Japanese with subtitles and score including Phillip Glass pieces. Basically 90 minutes of Sushi Porn! 30,000 yen sushi porn.

Movie-Dark Shadows. A lame, stupid, badly written, poorly acted piece of crap. Do NOT waste your time or money.

Dinner at Mels Diner.
They do a good tuna melt.

Came home and watched British Panel Shows.

Sunday

Sleeping in/snuggles

I made breakfast.

Karaoke. Very small crowd so I got to sing A LOT:

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square-Bobby Darin
Manana-Peggy Lee (for which I felt it necessary to apologize to the one Latino in the bar)
Satisfy Me-Frank Sinatra
Let's Live for Today-Grass Roots
Wondrous Place-Billy Fury
Don't Rain On My Parade-Bobby Darin

At about 630PM, I went outside to see the eclipse. Daddy Dave had brought the special glasses to make it safe to look. Very impressive.

Why Does it Always Rain on Me?-Travis (Because you're from Scotland?)

Went home and cooked dinner. Watched episodes of Top Gear and then a few QI's.

Today-since I had the day off.

Doctor's appointment. Girl stuff and to talk about the floaters in my eyes that won't go away.

Clothes shopping. I HATE to do it, but I bought some stuff in my current size rather than the one I' m convinced I will magically revert to any day now.

Lunch at Chow.
You gotta love a tuna melt with avocado and their fries are MUCH better than Mels.

Goddess Nails:



Finished reading Reach for the Top: The Turbulent Life of Laurence Harvey

In a few hours, the pain of watching a once-great show will be over and I can return to my love affair with the characters as they were actually written rather than the hideously distorted caricatures that they were forced into becoming by David 'n' Katie and their flying crack monkeys.

( Casting spoiler below the cut )

Title: That Old Feeling
Fandom/Genre: Song fic-Copacabana/Lola
Pairing: Tony/Lola
Rating: R
Wordcount: 1400
Notes: Written for MMOM 2012, Day 19. Inspired by a IM chat with my co-worker. Full Metal Beta by cookielaura. Comments and concrit welcome.
Summary: Tony's looking for his girl.

( Music and passion were always the fashion )

In honor of tomorrow's broadcast of the last episode ever of a show that used to be amazing, now completely sucks and has helped define my life for the last six years.


House MD



( Read more... )

Title: Two of a Kind
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Rex/Gwen, Jack/Gwen
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 100
Notes: Written for MMOM 2012, Day 19. Prompt from Torchwood100. Challenge #239-Monkey See, Monkey Do. Unbeta'd. Comments and concrit welcom.
Summary: The perils of partnership.

( Like two pomegranates from off the same tree )

Title: Chasing Time
Fandom: Ashes to Ashes
Pairing: Alex/Gene
Rating: R
Wordcount: 400
Notes: Written for MMOM 2012, Day 18. Prompt from photo_prompt. Challenge #15. Unbeta'd. Comments, concrit and Britchecking welcome.
Summary: What has Alex done to deserve this?

( I pour the drinks and crush the flowers )

 

Keep in mind this was sent from the NY office to the ENTIRE COMPANY, and therefore to agents throughout the country.

Subject: Missing Fork.


Good Afternoon,

I am wondering if anyone borrowed a Silver fork left in the 10th floor kitchen. I left my fork in the sink yesterday because there was no soap to wash it. I am hoping someone returns it so I can eat my lunch.

Thank you much.

Kind Regards,

Title: Cheers and Laughter
Fandom: RPF
Characters: Bobby Darin (includes references to Sandra Dee and Andrea Yaeger)
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 610
Warnings: RPF, including references to signifcant others.
Notes: Written for MMOM 2012, Day 17. Written for joanne_c. Unbeta'd. Comments and concrit welcome.
Summary: Bobby has a special relationship with the audience.

( Off comes the make up. Off comes the clown's disguise. )

SERIOUSLY!

Since I seem to be producing mostly dark fic for the Merry Month...thanks so much to evila_elf for digging up this clip. For years, I'd been telling everyone there was a Barrowman reference on a QI episode and I couldn't find it. I was starting to think I'd hallucinated it. I had a few details wrong, such as thinking it was Jimmy Carr who first invoked Barrowman and that a bird was involved rather than a sea creature, but I had the general idea right.

Here it is folks. Today's installment in WHEN FANDOMS COLLIDE!

Title: Teacher's Pet
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: Parker/Archie
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 100
Notes: Written for MMOM 2012, Day 16. Prompt from photoash who wanted something about Parker. Unbeta'd. Comments and concrit welcome. Please note, I'm posting with low blood sugar which may not be the best idea, so don't be afraid to point out typos.
Warnings: Possible under-age and definite age discrepancy.
Summary: Archie taught Parker some things; others she learned on her own.

( Caught up and at the half-way mark )